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Opioid-related deaths soaring in Australia
By Margaret Rees
New research points to a rising number of accidental opioid overdose deaths in Australia, echoing the opioid epidemic ravaging the United States, particularly among low-income and unemployed people.
The study, “Accidental drug-induced deaths due to opioids in Australia, 2013,” published by the National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre (NDARC), is based on Australian Bureau of Statistics data.
A key finding was that accidental opioid deaths are trending upward. There were 398 deaths in 2007, soaring to 639 deaths in 2012—a terrible 60 percent increase that points to a deepening social crisis.
Prescription painkillers (pharmaceutical opioids) are now primarily responsible for more overdose deaths than heroin. Prescription painkillers caused 70 percent of the 668 opioid overdose deaths in 2013, more than double the other 30 percent due to heroin overdoses.
The largest proportion of deaths—40 percent—occurred in the 35–44 year age group, followed by the 25–34 age group and the 45–54 group, both with 27 percent. These are adults in their prime years, not adolescents.
During 2013, there were 432 male victims aged 15 to 54, about two-and-a-half times the 165 females in the same age group, suggesting that male workers are particularly being affected.
The trends are thought to have worsened since 2013. “We expect further increases once the deaths data for 2014 and 2015 are finalised,” report co-author Amanda Roxburgh told the Sydney Morning Herald.
“We’re seeing a real shift from illicit to pharmaceutical opioids implicated in these deaths, affecting a broader range of people who want to manage their pain. There’s good research showing there’s been a four-fold increase in the prescribing of these drugs between 1990 and 2014, particularly for Oxycontin, Tramadol and Fentanyl.”
Roxburgh suggested changes to medical prescription practices. She commented: “I think doctors need to prescribe for a shorter time and have the patient come in again for a review before they prescribe more.”
Once prescribed mainly for cancer patients, such opioids are now prescribed for acute pain after an operation and even chronic pain (lasting more than three months), such as lower back pain and osteoarthritis.
It is estimated that at least 20 percent of the population suffers chronic pain. This rising occurrence of pain, often work-related, has been the subject of aggressive marketing by pharmaceutical giants to persuade time-poor general practitioners to prescribe the powerful drugs.
Another paper: “Is there a pill for that? The increasing harms from opioid and benzodiazepine medication,” published last November by the Alcohol and Drug Foundation. It showed that between 1992 and 2012, the number of opioids dispensed through the Australian Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme (PBS) actually increased 15-fold to 7.5 million.
The paper said the drugs were “over-promoted and highly prescribed” and “an increasing public health risk.” It noted that nearly half of Australia’s general practitioner prescriptions for opioids are to treat chronic pain.
A PBS Opioids Roundtable Report stated that 3 million people were prescribed at least one opioid under the PBS in 2014. The most common prescriptions were for paracetamol, combined with codeine, dispensed to 1.7 million patients, followed by Oxycodone, dispensed to one million patients. The use was highest in older age groups.
The PBS reported a high variation in prescribing among medical practitioners, with a small number of prescribers making a large number of authority requests. This highlights the fact that prescriptions for drugs like Oxycontin (Oxycodone) can be abused, by being diverted to non-prescribed users. The Australian Needle and Syringe Program found that the number of people injecting (misusing) these drugs has nearly doubled since 2001.
Around 50,000 people are undergoing treatment for opioid addiction, the majority of whom started using the drugs for a pain condition. There are higher rates of treatment for dependence on pharmaceutical opioids in rural and regional areas, where jobs and treatment services are scarcer.
Unfortunately, these studies do not examine the socio-economic causes of the developing epidemic. Research from the United States, however, points to the rise in opioid addictions and deaths being related to the deepening social crisis produced by the destruction of full-time jobs, mounting under-employment, poverty, social inequality and decimation of public health services.
A recent US study by the National Institute on Drug Abuse noted that reported abuse of opioids rose significantly among people with lower family incomes and those who were unemployed.
Uninsured people also were twice as likely as those with health insurance to report prescription opioid misuse and had higher rates of use disorders. There also was a link between mental health and opioid use. Respondents with a major depressive disorder and those with suicidal thoughts had higher rates of prescription opioid misuse and use disorders.
No such data has yet been produced in Australia, but indications exist of similar patterns. One badly de-industrialised region, in Victoria’s Latrobe Valley, reportedly has one of the highest opioid dispensing rates in Australia. One unnamed Latrobe Valley doctor told Fairfax Media that half his practice caseload related to chronic pain.
Former workers suffering from job injuries such as back injuries, aggravated by poor living conditions, can become addicted to prescription drugs and face extremely limited treatment options.
In the Latrobe Valley, for example, there are outreach day rehabilitation services, but no residential and withdrawal centres. People with substance addiction must travel several hours to the state capital Melbourne, about 150 kilometres away, for such treatment, an expensive option.
People who rely on prescription opioids often have no access to alternative measures, such as physiotherapy, nutrition advice or counselling. “They don’t have the money and they don’t live in a central location that has these services,” Briony Larance, senior researcher at NDARC, told the Monthly earlier this year.
As a result of all these social, economic and health service factors, the most devastating consequences of drug addiction are felt by the poor in economically-depressed areas. The impact is magnified by the profit-driven pharmaceutical companies adopting predatory practices in order to exploit a growing demand for pain relief from an increasingly pain-ridden population.
This human catastrophe is not accidental. It is part of the immense social crisis created by the ruling capitalist class and its political servants over the past four decades through job destruction, the gutting of social services and a huge transfer of wealth from the working class and poor to the rich.
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Pseudoknot-generating operation
Da Jung Cho, Yo Sub Han, Timothy Ng, Kai Salomaa
A pseudoknot is an intra-molecular structure formed primarily in RNA strands and much research has been done to predict efficiently pseudoknot structures in RNA. We define an operation that generates all pseudoknots from a given sequence and consider algorithmic and language theoretic properties of the operation.We give an efficient algorithm to decide whether a given string is a pseudoknot of a regular language L—the runtime is linear if L is given by a deterministic finite automaton. We consider closure and decision properties of the pseudoknot-generating operation. For DNA encoding applications, pseudoknot structures are undesirable. We give polynomial-time algorithms to decide whether a regular language L contains a pseudoknot or a pseudoknot generated by some string of L. Furthermore, we show that the corresponding questions for context-free languages are undecidable.
Theory and Practice of Computer Science - 42nd International Conference on Current Trends in Theory and Practice of Computer Science, Proceedings
Rūsiņš Mārtiņš Freivalds, Gregor Engels, Barbara Catania
Springer Verlag
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-49192-8_20
42nd International Conference on Current Trends in Theory and Practice of Computer Science, SOFSEM 2016 - Harrachov, Czech Republic
Duration: 2016 Jan 23 → 2016 Jan 28
Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
42nd International Conference on Current Trends in Theory and Practice of Computer Science, SOFSEM 2016
Formal languages
Regular Languages
Context free languages
Finite automata
Deterministic Finite Automata
Context-free Languages
Polynomial-time Algorithm
Efficient Algorithms
Computer Science(all)
Cho, D. J., Han, Y. S., Ng, T., & Salomaa, K. (2016). Pseudoknot-generating operation. In R. M. Freivalds, G. Engels, & B. Catania (Eds.), SOFSEM 2016: Theory and Practice of Computer Science - 42nd International Conference on Current Trends in Theory and Practice of Computer Science, Proceedings (pp. 241-252). (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics); Vol. 9587). Springer Verlag. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-49192-8_20
Cho, Da Jung ; Han, Yo Sub ; Ng, Timothy ; Salomaa, Kai. / Pseudoknot-generating operation. SOFSEM 2016: Theory and Practice of Computer Science - 42nd International Conference on Current Trends in Theory and Practice of Computer Science, Proceedings. editor / Rūsiņš Mārtiņš Freivalds ; Gregor Engels ; Barbara Catania. Springer Verlag, 2016. pp. 241-252 (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)).
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Life in the School of Engineering
Transitioning to UBC and finding a community on the Okanagan campus.
Name Joses Akampurira
From Kabale, Uganda
Program Civil Engineering
Coming to UBC from a different country is made easier when you have a welcoming community ready to receive you. Third-year engineering student Joses Akampurira found that getting involved was the best path to success and happiness at UBC.
Joses Akampurira was driven to study civil engineering so that he could use his education to help developing countries on his home continent, Africa. After receiving multiple offers from other universities, he decided on the School of Engineering at UBC’s Okanagan campus. “The intimate campus, the diverse international community, and the phenomenal School of Engineering were an irresistible package,” says Joses.
Since beginning his studies at UBC, Joses has found a welcoming community on campus by participating in clubs, taking part in the JumpStart Orientation, and seizing academic opportunities such as co-operative education. Read on to see what Joses says about his time so far in the School of Engineering and what it’s like to study on the Okanagan campus.
What made you choose UBC?
I was accepted to other universities, but UBC was my dream education institution. I learned about UBC from my high school career guidance counsellor. She had toured Canadian universities and was awed by the resemblance between the Okanagan and Kabale. That, plus the intimate campus, the diverse international community, and the phenomenal School of Engineering were an irresistible package.
How did you choose your campus and program?
My interest in civil engineering emanated from the need to provide affordable solutions to the infrastructural constraints in developing African countries, particularly the less privileged members of society. With a prestigious civil engineering program, UBC Okanagan is the best fit to achieve this dream.
“I am proud to belong to UBC – the institution and the community. UBC is like family.” – Joses Akampurira, 3rd year, Civil Engineering
Did you have a career in mind when you chose your program?
When I joined the School of Engineering, I was unaware of the several branches affiliated with the Civil Engineering discipline. Now, I am aiming at acquainting myself with as many skills from the entire package. Like Terry Goodkind said, “Knowledge is a weapon. I intend to be formidably armed.”
What’s the best part about your program?
The School of Engineering is fantastic! The two foundation years are a perfect opportunity to learn about the numerous disciplines. The professors are down-to-earth and extremely friendly, and their open-door policy makes them available at any time of day. The laboratories possess the latest state-of-the-art technology and equipment. Each academic year has a team-based project that enables students to practise what they learn in lectures. The amazing co-op program presents students with an opportunity to work with professionals, developing technical skills and fostering pertinent connections.
What’s the best part about the Okanagan campus?
The campus’s small size and vibrant international community make it very easy to connect with people not only from other programs, but also different parts of the world. There are innumerable ways to get involved with an abundance of student-run clubs and extracurricular activities. The spectacular atrium and cozy collegia are my favourite places.
You completed a co-op with the City of Surrey. Tell us about your experience.
Working with the City of Surrey’s engineering department has exposed me to the vast world of transportation and urban city planning. The staff is very amicable and the engineers see to it that co-op students get involved in all the technical projects right from their commencement. I have been able to develop more practical skills than one can ever get from a classroom environment. With this acquired knowledge, I believe that my classroom experience is going to be even more exciting. It will be much easier to correlate the theory to the practice.
What other opportunities have you pursued outside the classroom?
I was an orientation leader for the international student JumpStart Orientation. We coordinated a weeklong series of orientation programs for 180 new incoming international students from 47 different countries, which involved information sessions and workshops to enable them adjust to university life. I also provided mentorship by sharing my positive university experience with them.
I volunteered to organize the Student Leadership Conference and collaborated with the organizers by performing event logistics, including checking in student delegates from other universities and local high schools.
I also participated in Destination UBC, a program for prospective undergraduate students organized by the International Student Initiative. My role was a student engineering assistant and tutor. I helped with organizing and implementing the various educative programs that the School of Engineering conducted. These included mechatronics projects, concrete labs, 3D printing, and formal presentation workshops.
What groups or clubs do you belong to on campus?
I set up and headed the UBC Okanagan Global Engineering Community (GEC), a professional community that was specifically established to support international engineering students. We meet bi-weekly in the International Collegium so that international engineering students and faculty can interact freely.
I am also involved with the African Caribbean Students Club, International Student Club, Canadian Society for Civil Engineers’ UBCO branch, Canadian Institute of Transportation Engineers’ UBCO branch, and Golden Key International Honour Society. I hope to join the Latin Dance Club in the Fall.
How did the JumpStart Orientation help you ease into UBC life?
As an international student who was new to Canada, JumpStart helped me adjust to the new environment. I was able to amply prepare for the BC winters, adjust to the food, and, better still, make friends with people from all corners of the world.
The weeklong program involves tours of the Okanagan picturesque scenery, and fun games and activities. The International Programs and Services staff are most easygoing and coolest people on campus!
What are your favourite things to do on campus and in Kelowna?
On campus, when it is nice and sunny, I hang out in the courtyard or the Commons with friends playing frisbee. When it is cold, I can be found in the International Programs and Services lounge, Aboriginal Collegium, or International Collegium.
In Kelowna, I enjoy the sun at any of the many sandy beaches, play basketball at City Park, and catch movies at Grand 10 Cinema. There are countless hiking trails and irresistible mountain bike routes. In the winter, skiing has become another hobby, with the amazing student deals at the local ski resorts.
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Kerobokan is a resort area in Bali’s southwest that borders east of Canggu and west of the upscale Seminyak area. Despite having a more urban scene compared to its neighbours,...
Kuta Beach is one of Bali's busiest beach resort destinations. It’s about 6 km north of Ngurah Rai International Airport and the beaches of Tuban, Legian and Seminyak are all...
Legian Beach is one of the most popular areas to visit in Bali. It's the easy-going life on the white sandy beach that brings so many people to this west-facing...
Nusa Lembongan is a small holiday island destination 20 km off the southeast coast of Bali. You can reach it with a 45-minute boat ride from Sanur Beach or Benoa...
Nusa Dua is Bali’s ‘all-inclusive’ type of beach resort. It has an incredible collection of world-class, international-chain hotels facing a pristine beachfront. Thanks to the well-planned layout of the Nusa...
Sanur Beach is a former fishing village that still has a relaxed coastal ambience. It’s on the eastern side of the island's isthmus and is the opposite of Kuta, both...
Seminyak is Bali's most stylish and upscale beach resort area. It's home to some of the island's most luxurious resorts and the streets are lined with fine-dining restaurants and fashion...
Tanjung Benoa very quickly went from being a sleepy fishing village to a major tourism destination and Bali’s main water sports hub. What was once a tiny local dock is...
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Cape Town and Joburg own SA’s Got Talent
Cape Town and Johannesburg each bagged a spot in the SA’s Got Talent finale when the first two SA’s Got Talent finalists were announced in the results show on Wednesday, 9 October at 9:35PM.
On Tuesday we witnessed all SA”s Got Talent contestants stepping up their game in pursuit of getting that semi-final spot set to take place on Thursday, 17 October.
However like any other talent competition it is up to the public to vote for who they see fit to be the next SA’s Got Talent winner. Through this process Glamipulator, Olwethu Dyantyi from Khayelistha in Cape Town and the Justin Leigh Band from Fairlands in Johannesburg are winners of the first semi-finals leg of the competition and thus go through to the live finale taking place next week Thursday.
Congratulations to both cities lets see who will walk away with the crown come Thursday.
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Editor: anggianst97, om
Chapter 2: Beauties bring Calamities
“Sigh, our entire Su Family was originally so respected by the masses, but now, once someone brings up the Su Family, they will only remember that a perverted jinx came from this family.”
The man sighed. all these years that jinx has only caused the family’s position in the city to become lower and lower.
“The few of you, watch your words!!! No matter what happens, that person is still the Young Master of the Su Family, and he is also the most loved grandson of the Old Master. When the Young Master created that mess, the Old Master has punished him accordingly. Now that we are outside, do not disgrace the Su Family! From here onwards, if there’s anyone who talks without thinking, do not blame me for being ruthless!”
Su Bai Han turned around and stared at the men behind him, his face stern.
“Yes, Mr. Han, understood!”
At that moment, each man changed their attitude and their expressions became serious.
Outside the main gate of the Su Family, Su Yi was watching from a distance. Observing the figures lying in the shadows, his gaze sweeping over them casually.
Afterward, he looked at that familiar main gate of the Su. The corner of his mouth swung upwards, three years of inhumane treatment had finally ended. He stretched his body and said, “M**********r, I, the Young Master has returned! Once I tidy up and clean myself later, I will once again be a handsome young man!”
“Little girl, all I did was just kiss and hug you once, and both were even my firsts. You have not suffered any losses, and even gained from it! You didn’t have to blow up the matter! In a few years time I’ll have you taken as my wife, and then I shall show you what I am truly made of!”
[T.N Note: To all readers that are thinking that the mc tried to rape the girl, it is not what you think. Please read the later chapters where the mc shall clarify what he exactly did. 🙂 ]
Reminiscing the past 3 years of hell, Su Yi was enraged and fiercely spat on the ground beside his feet.
Swallowing his saliva, Su Yi thought to himself that if he knew the matter would blow out of proportions, he would have stuck his tongue into her mouth, that would be a real first kiss, what a pity.
“Just dismiss your thoughts about taking her as your wife. Just by being able to come back alive, your Su Family would already have to thank the gods.”
Unexpectedly, a crisp young voice came from behind Su Yi.
Su Yi’s face immediately changed, just now he was in a daze and actually allowed someone to come so close to him from behind his back, this was a big taboo.
In an instant, Su Yi’s body lunged forward and at the same time without any visible movements from his feet, he spun around, exuding a presence like a predator which has just awakened, swift and sharp. From his wide sleeves appeared the tip of a dagger.
But once he saw a chubby face as if the baby fats on the face had not been shed, Su Yi’s cautious face immediately changed into a smile, and simultaneously, the dagger also vanished into thin air.
The changes happened in a blink of an eye, which the fat youth did not seem to notice. Looking at Su Yi, those small eyes which looked like the same whether they were tightly closed or wide open, was completely squeezed into a thin line. One could see a bright smile on his face.
The youth punched Su Yi’s shoulder hard, ecstatic beyond measure, and said, “I knew that you wouldn’t die. Mo Bu Fan and those few jerks weren’t a match for you back then, they still wouldn’t be your match now. With just their skills, how could they prevent you from entering the city? Ouch, are you wearing a steel plate on your body? Why is it so painful when I slapped it?”
Without finishing his words, the fatty retracted his hand which has just landed on Su Yi’s shoulder like he got shocked by electricity. He swung his hand side to side, his fist numb, pained as if he just punched steel.
“Hehe, Fatty Wang, how did you know I have returned?”
Su Yi was really happy. With a hand on the shoulder of the fatty in front of him, his oversized robe seemed to dance like a skirt. His actions filled with warmth.
The fatty’s name was Wang Shang Wu. He was Su Yi’s companion from when he was young, and also his buddy.
The Wang Family, even though was not as large as the 5 Big Families, but it was still considered as one of the larger powers in the city.
From the day Wang Shang Wu was born, his father hoped that Wang would become a strong martial arts practitioner when he grew up, hence his name Wang Shang Wu.
Unfortunately, Wang Shang Wu did not grow up to fit his name. He only had average talent from young, and the fact that he was bestie with Su Yi only caused the Wang Family to worry further.
“I knew that you wouldn’t die and would surely return alive!”
Fatty Wang was beaming, but when he looked carefully at Su Yi and saw his current appearance, it gave him quite a surprise. He said, “Looks like in the Forest of Demons, you also had a rather hard time.”
“But I finally managed to weather the storm.”
Su Yi smiled slightly, speaking no more. He carefully looked at the fatty, for a fleeting moment, surprise could be seen in his eyes, and said, “You have improved quite a bit over the past 3 years.”
“For these 3 years, I was in a situation no better than you. I have not stepped out of the house for 3 years. My father was personally overseeing my martial arts practice, but sadly I have not improved enough to reach the Foundation Building Stage,” Fatty Wang was depressed as he had lived no better than Su Yi for the past 3 years.
“That isn’t like you.”
Su Yi knew Fatty Wang very well. How could he have resisted the temptation to go out of the house for the past 3 years?
“Mo Bu Fan, He San and the rest of the bunch wanted me to swear that I would sever my ties with you from that moment forth. What a joke, how could I ever do that and follow the orders of those second-rates?”
Fatty Wang opened his mouth, his face relaxed, and continued speaking, “Well, it is good that you are able to return alive. Mo Bu Fan, Song Wu Qiu and the rest have gone to the city gate to stop you, but I could even think with my feet and know that it would not be possible for those second-rates to stop you.”
Wang Shang Wu was brimming with self-confidence. He knew Su Yi way too well. With the skills of those Young Masters, there was no way they would be able to stop him.
“Why do Mo Bu Fan and the rest want to stop me from returning?”
Su Yi’s face turned black. He knew that those Young Masters did not treat Fatty Wang as an equal and would have surely stepped all over him. That must be the reason why Fatty Wang stayed at home for the past 3 years, and he was also curious how did the Young Masters get the courage to go to the city gate to stop him from entering.
“Isn’t this all your fault, because of Liu Ruoxi.”
Fatty Wang rolled his eyes. In the entire city, only the person in front of him would have the gall to do such a thing to her.
“What has this got to do with Liu Ruoxi?” Su Yi raised his eyebrows, slightly suspicious.
“After you were exiled, Liu Ruoxi announced on the second day, that after 3 years if you were able to return alive, she would marry the person who kills you. Hence the reason why all those Young Masters want to try and kill you.”
Fatty Wang glanced at Su Yi and said casually. Speaking honestly, he was really impressed with what Su Yi did 3 years ago. In the entire city, no one else other than the person in front of him would have the courage to do such a thing.
“F**k, why is that girl so ruthless!”
Su Yi was dazed for a moment, afterward, his eyebrow raised slightly: “After I take her as my wife, then I shall show her who she has offended!”
“Stop daydreaming. Firstly, back then Old Master Su promised you that only if you have reached Foundation Building Stage, then the engagement would be valid. If you did not reach Foundation Building Stage after 3 years, you would not only be exiled out of the Su Family but also the City of Man as well.
Wang Shang Wu looked at Su Yi and said, “But really hats off to you, you still had the gall to return.”
On the other hand, Su Yi silently gulped. He did not expect that Liu Ruoxi, that little girl, was actually so ruthless, although all which happened was because of her.
Fatty Wang continued saying, “Also, I am afraid that even if you are at Foundation Building Stage, it will still be impossible for you to take her as your wife.”
Su Yi asked. If it wasn’t for that girl, he would not have to suffer so much. If he does not take her as his wife and slowly show her what he is made off, then he would be letting down the fact that he had reincarnated as a human being.
Wang Shang Wu looked at Su Yi, took a deep breath, with his eyes slightly shaking, he said, “Not long after you were kicked out of the city, Liu Ruoxi went to the Sacred Mountain, I have heard that she has Emperor Grade talent.
“Emperor Grade talent!”
Hearing what Fatty Wang said, Su Yi was also stunned, his body shaking slightly.
This world has been ruled by the strong, and the path of martial arts flourished.
But not everyone has the ability to cultivate.
For those who cultivated, there was the difference in the level of talent. The greater your talent, the further you would walk down the path of cultivation.
“Liu Ruoxi has already become the personal disciple of the Master of the Sacred Mountain. It seems that it is because of her that the Sacred Mountain would come to this city and choose other disciples,” Fatty Wang continued saying, his eyes filled with yearning.
Sacred Mountain, that was a paradise for all martial arts practitioners and it was also the paradise for all cultivators.
Fatty Wang was very clear about his own talent. Unfortunately, he will have almost no hope of ever being able to enter the Sacred Mountain, he could only be envious of others and yearn for it.
“So, it is only Emperor Grade talent.”
Su Yi’s mouth curved upwards, he looked very relaxed.
Suddenly, Su Yi’s eyebrows raised, his forehead slightly wrinkled. He seemed to have detected something and his face immediately fell. He jumped swiftly to the side without any hesitation.
Following behind Su Yi, there was a palm which struck straightforward, bringing with it sounds of the air breaking.
“Yuan Soul Realm!”
Su Yi’s face immediately changed. After a cultivator has completed the Foundation Building Stage and stepped into the Soul Yuan Realm, only then that person would have such an aura.
As Su Yi leaped away, the person behind him slid forward and displayed his martial art techniques. His palms striking swiftly in an instant. As he clenched his fingers into a fist, layers of bright light came from the fist and struck with the momentum seemingly enough to shatter a mountain.
“Mountain Shattering Fist!”
With the sound of an explosion, followed by a slight yell, the fist shattered the air and flew towards Su Yi.
Once one had arrived at the Yuan Soul Realm, he was already considered as a real cultivator. Even if he used a flower or a stalk of grass as a blade, it was enough to pierce huge boulders.
Not to mention that the person right now was even using martial arts.
“Su Yi, watch out!”
Fatty Wang’s expression changed drastically. The person who ambushed Su Yi was far stronger than the rest who came. He did not even have a chance to intervene, and could only yell to remind Su Yi.
The fist arrived instantaneously. Its presence like a tempest, letting out a low sound and making the air around it tremble.
Su Yi’s feet left the ground, his body flew through the air, in an instant, he somersaulted to a place in front of him. Though his posture wasn’t really a work of art, it was effective and he had actually managed to dodge that attack.
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AJC Features Emory Transplant Center Patients Freed of Type 1 Diabetes
October 8th, 2014 By Emory Transplant Center
The Emory Transplant Center is one of just a handful of institutions around the world performing islet transplants as a type 1 diabetes treatment. Emory is currently the only islet cell transplant program in Georgia, with 19 patients receiving islet transplants to date.
Islet cell transplant is still in the research phase awaiting Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval so the surgery will no longer be experimental. Read a story in the Atlanta Journal Constitution featuring two Emory patients who have been diabetes free for a decade now thanks to islet transplant at Emory.
Learn About Islet Transplants
What Are Islets?
Islets are insulin-producing cell clusters found in the pancreas, which is a six- to ten-inch organ that lies behind the stomach. Each islet cluster is about the size of a grain of salt and contains a few thousand cells. A healthy pancreas has approximately a million islet clusters.
Glucose is the fuel that provides energy to cells. Insulin allows glucose from the bloodstream to enter cells. Without insulin, cells are deprived of fuel, and they begin to starve. As the cells starve, the level of glucose in the bloodstream rises to dangerous levels.
In type 1 diabetes, islets in the pancreas are destroyed by the body’s immune system. Without islets, the body cannot produce insulin. People with type 1 diabetes require several injections of insulin each day. They must follow a strict diet and monitor their blood glucose carefully. Sometimes, even the most diligent patients cannot completely control their blood sugar levels. Diabetes that is very difficult to control is called brittle diabetes.
Why Islet Transplantation?
Islet transplantation can restore insulin production by replacing the islets that have been destroyed. When insulin production is restored, blood glucose levels stabilize, and the health risks associated with low and high blood sugars are greatly reduced.
What Is an Islet Transplant?
The islet cell transplant process begins when islets for transplantation from a donated pancreas become available. During the islet transplantation procedure, the islets are infused into a blood vessel that leads to the liver. The islets from the pancreas are also separated from other cells through a highly complex process called “islet isolation.” The islets are then infused and lodged into the liver of the recipient, where they are able to detect the level of glucose in the blood and produce the correct amount of insulin. Recent advances in islet isolation have resulted in sustained insulin independence in people with type 1 diabetes, which may make islet transplantation more common in the foreseeable future.
10 Years and Still Diabetes Free – Islet Cell Transplant Patients Celebrate Anniversary of Life-Changing Procedure
March 21st, 2014 By Emory Transplant Center
“I feel free. I feel normal.” That’s what Emory Transplant Center patient Laura Cochran says of her life since having a pancreatic islet cell transplant to treat her brittle Type 1 diabetes.
Last week, Cochran, along with the Emory Transplant Center team and fellow patient Rob Allen, gathered to celebrate the 10-year anniversary of their participation in a clinical trial for their severe Type 1 diabetes. Type 1 diabetes is an autoimmune disease in which the pancreas ceases to produce insulin, a hormone that allows people to get energy from food. Type 1 diabetics must take insulin every day to live.
Both Cochran and Allen were diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes as young adults. Allen’s diabetes was controlled with insulin injections for about 10 years until his episodes of low blood sugar became more frequent and more severe. As for Cochran, as her diabetes progressed, she developed hypoglycemia unawareness, where her blood sugar would drop so low so quickly, that she didn’t recognize how low her sugars were. She often became dazed during these episodes and had to be watched at all times. While both benefitted some from insulin pumps, they still needed more relief. Fortunately, they were candidates for a clinical trial at Emory where donor pancreatic islet cells were transplanted to restore insulin production in people with Type 1 diabetes.
Cochran and Allen each received two islet cell transplants from two different organ donors, several months apart. After the first transplant, they both still needed small amounts of insulin injections. After the second transplant, neither Cochran nor Allen needed insulin injections. Both have been insulin free since 2004.
“We transplanted just two teaspoons of islet cells into these patients 10 years ago, and they no longer need insulin injections,” says Christian Larsen, MD, DPhil, professor of surgery in the Division of Transplantation at Emory, and dean of Emory University School of Medicine. “This has been a miraculous transformation.”
Researchers are awaiting FDA approval of islet cell transplants so that the surgery will no longer be experimental. Once approval is obtained, surgeons can perform these transplants on patients who meet the criteria.
“The best part about the islet cell transplants is not having to worry daily about my blood glucose levels getting out of control,” says Allen. “It has been an amazing thing.”
Emory Islet Transplant Program
Islet Transplant For Type 1 Diabetes? Julie Allred’s Story
Islet Cell Transplant for Type 1 Diabetes? Julie Allred’s Story (Part II)
August 10th, 2012 By Emory Transplant Center
In November, we shared with you part I of Julie Allred’s story. Of the nearly three million Americans living with type 1 diabetes, many of them will be able to successfully control their disease with insulin injections or pumps. But like Julie Allred, some patients will develop brittle type 1 diabetes, a condition in which even insulin injections and pumps cannot fully control the dangerous and often unpredictable swings in blood sugar that can lead to loss of consciousness and coma.
Throughout her life, Julie’s low blood sugar has been a constant source of concern, affecting her moods, relationships, career and ability to think clearly. A type 1 diabetic since age 10, Julie has always had to have someone, whether it be her father, husband or daughter, be on the lookout for the highs and lows of her blood sugar because she could not recognize them herself.
“I could never go anywhere alone,” says Julie. “And, I got to the point where I couldn’t even be in my home alone. Looking back, I realize now that my husband and daughter were always coordinating their schedules so that one of them could make sure that I was ok. It wasn’t just me who had diabetes. My whole family was dealing with it, too.”
But thanks to two islet cell transplants — one in July 2011 and another in February 2012 — at the hands of Emory transplant surgeon Dr. Nicole Turgeon and interventional radiologist Dr. Kevin Kim –– Julie has experienced relief in ways she never knew possible. Soon after the first islet transplant, the episodes of life-threatening low blood sugar levels stopped for Allred, helping her get back to the things she enjoys.
“The transplant has allowed my blood sugar to stay even throughout the day,” says Allred. “I have never felt this way in my life. I have more energy, and I am able to do things without constant worry and without someone always having to watch me.”
As part of a multi-year national research study on the islet cell transplant procedure, Allred is one of just 18 patients who has had the procedure at Emory, the only transplant center offering islet cell transplants in Georgia. Insulin-producing cells (islets) are harvested from an organ donor’s pancreas and inserted into the recipient’s liver. The fragile islets implanted in Julie’s liver serve to take over the job of making insulin, reducing the need for insulin shots, at least temporarily, and helping her body regain the ability to maintain steady, healthy blood sugar levels. Julie has been able to reduce her insulin from 65 units a day received through a 24-hour insulin pump to just a once daily injection of four units at bedtime.
“I’m so lucky to be one of those few people to have that little bit of normalcy for my life and family,” Allred says. “My family and I finally have freedom.”
Julie’s father, who was her primary caregiver, passed away shortly before Julie’s first transplant.
“My dad always said there would be a day when this would happen, that I would feel better,” says Julie. “Though he’s not here to experience it with me, I know he’s watching me and is so happy that he was right.”
Transplant for Type 1 Diabetes? Julie Allred’s Story (Part I)
Transplant for Type 1 Diabetes? Julie Allred’s Story
November 22nd, 2011 By Emory Transplant Center
Julie Allred
When Julie Allred heard that Emory was exploring alternate treatment options for patients with “brittle” or unstable type 1 diabetes, she didn’t realize that she would be the first to receive her transplant via a minimally invasive transplant technique in the interventional radiology suite at Emory Hospital, instead of the operating room.
Julie was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes at age 10. She got her first insulin pump in 1992 and has used several different types of pumps over the years. Despite her efforts to carefully watch her diet and test regularly, she developed many problems over the past couple of years with unstable hypoglycemia (low blood sugar).
Living with hypoglycemia affected Julie’s ability to do many of things she enjoyed. She was constantly worried about how she could or would be affected by the unpredictable changes in her blood sugar, including being caught unaware at night while asleep. Julie was never free—day or night—from the worry of a condition called hypoglycemic unawareness, which unpredictably causes unconsciousness.
“I wanted to have the transplant because I’ve seen so many changes in the treatment of diabetic patients over the years, from the first glucometers to new medications,” Julie says. She was placed on Emory’s islet transplant wait list in early July and received the call eight days later while at her dentist’s office on July 19, which was “a record for the shortest wait,” she notes.
Julie lives several hours from Atlanta in the Charlotte, NC, suburb of Concord, where she has worked as a nurse for the past 20 years in obstetrics and pediatrics. Julie made the trip to Atlanta for her islet transplant at Emory, which was performed by Dr. Kevin Kim, director of interventional radiology and image guided medicine, and Dr. Nicole Turgeon, kidney, pancreas and islet transplant surgeon.
“Our protocol is designed to treat patients who have had type 1 diabetes for at least five years and have experienced severe hypoglycemic unawareness,” reports Dr. Turgeon. She is principal investigator of the study and collaborated with Dr. Kim for more than a year to develop Emory’s protocol.
“We’re able to perform this type of transplant because of Dr. Kim’s expertise in image guided treatment of liver tumors in the interventional radiology suite and Emory’s experience in islet transplantation and the development of new treatment regimens to protect transplant grafts from rejection,” she says.
According to Dr. Kim, “The interventional radiology procedure involves a small access. We thread guidewires and catheters and a central line through the patient’s right side into the portal vein, which leads into the liver. The entire system is through a less than a quarter inch skin access, and there are no stitches required—only a bandage on her skin. There is no general anesthesia required, and the entire procedure is performed under moderate sedation. In fact, we were talking to Julie during the entire procedure.” The fragile islets implanted in Julie’s liver serve to take over the job of making insulin.
Julie with her daughter at Disneyland.
The conventional islet transplant involves a two- or three-inch incision in the abdomen. This open surgical approach can be painful, whereas, Julie experienced no side effects and took only one pain pill following her less invasive transplant.
Julie has been able to gradually taper her insulin from about 50 units a day pre-transplant to 8 to 11 units a day four weeks post-transplant. She is now free from the unpredictable changes in her blood sugar and has had no hypoglycemia.
“My doctor told my mother when I was first diagnosed that I wouldn’t live to age 30 or be able to have children. But because of these advances, I’ve been able to prove him wrong twice,” Julie chuckles. Thanks to the procedure, Julie was able to happily celebrate her daughter Meredith’s 16th birthday at Disney World in January of this year, and turned 43 years old on July 23rd, two days after her transplant.
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HONEY TRAP; DENIS DONALDSON; KINCORA; MOSSAD; CIA...
In Long Kesh prison, Northern Ireland, in the 70's, four I.R.A. men, from left: Tomboy Loudon, Gerard Rooney, Denis Donaldson and Bobby Sands. www.nytimes.com
In 2005, it was revealed that Denis Donaldson was working for the British security service MI5.
According to the Sunday World, 3 February 2013:
Donaldson was recruited by MI5 in the mid-1980s as the result of a 'honey trap'.
Denis Donaldson was an important figure in the IRA.
Belfast. By DanUneken
Donaldson joined the IRA in the mid-1960s while still in his teens.
He represented Sinn Féin in the USA.
In 2006, Donaldson was found shot dead.
In 2005, Irish Minister for Justice Michael McDowell advised a US Special Envoy to Northern Ireland that he believed the outing of Donaldson as an informant was a clear message from the British Government that it had another, more valuable, asset within the republican leadership.[8]
MI5 is reported to have run Belfast's Kincora Boy's Home as a paedophile honey trap.
The security services apparently run brothels.
"MI5 ran a brothel in Church Street in Kensington throughout much of the 1950's and early 1960's for the use of visiting dignitaries, diplomats and intelligence officers.
"While for those too important to visit such an establishment certain discreet gentlemen were called upon to provide young female or male company directly to the VIP hotel bedroom."
(http://66.102.9.104/search?q=cache:hr0jRE7eyewJ:www.spyschool.com/)
Jimmy Savile in Belfast, the location of the Kincora children's home.
The British security services have been determined to keep Northern Ireland as part of the United Kingdom and reportedly have been prepared to use dirty tricks to control the political leaders.
Reportedly the security services were prepared to allow child abuse to take place at the Kincora boys' home in Northern Ireland.
Kincora was a boys' home in East Belfast, run by Joseph Mains, Raymond Semple and William McGrath, who were reportedly fond of young boys.
(Kincora Boys' Home - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia)
Christian right leader George Rekers takes vacation with "rent boy. Photo by Brandon K. Thorp
McGrath was also the leader of an extremist Protestant paramilitary organization.
Allegedly, "Kincora was run as a virtual gay brothel by loyalist leaders and MI5 .
"Its clientele who preyed for years on vulnerable young boys... included loyalist paramilitary leaders , unionist politicians , judges and public figures .
"MI5... used it as a blackmailers lever."
UK Prime Minister Edward Heath (left). Reportedly, UK Liberal Party leader Jeremy Thorpe and UK Conservative Party leader Edward Heath both used rent boys. POLITICIANS
(Michael stone, MI5 and Kincora - Irish Nationalism)
Allegedly, "Loyalists have long had links with Zionist gangsters and have received Israeli weapons.
"In at least one incident weapons were exchanged for intelligence material on British missile systems, and loyalists rely on Israeli-'Russian' mafiosi for supplies of ecstasy pills.
"Loyalists have also engaged in the smuggling of non-Whites into Eire in alliance with the 'Russian' mafia.
"...William McGrath, a leading loyalist, was imprisoned after sexually molesting children for years with the knowledge of British intelligence – to whom he was giving information – in the Kincora Boy’s Home. John McKeague, founder of the Red Hand Commando, was also a feared pederast".
Reportedly, in the 1970s, several newspapers claimed that the former UK Prime Minister Ted Heath, who was reported to be gay, was a regular visitor to Kincora Boys Home.
However, references to this have been disappearing from the internet. (cached text )
In the book Who Framed Colin Wallace? (Who Framed Colin Wallace) by Paul Foot (Macmillan, London 1989), we learn about the Kincora boys' home scandal.
Allegedly:
1. Colin Wallace served in a special Ministry of Defence press unit in Northern Ireland which dealt in "psychological operations."
2. Wallace tried to alert the authorities about what was going on at Kincora.
3. McGrath was working for MI5; the Security Service ignored the plight of the boys at Kincora.
4. In 1973 MI5 set up a propaganda campaign named Clockwork Orange.
The purpose of Clockwork Orange was to blackmail and control top political figures in Northern Ireland and Great Britain, including Harold Wilson and Edward Heath.
5. In October 1974, Wallace refused to take any further part in the Clockwork Orange operation. He was sacked and he moved to England.
The husband of a friend and colleague was found dead.
Wallace was accused of murder and sentenced to ten years' imprisonment.
On 30 January 1990, UK Armed Forces Minister, Archie Hamilton admitted that several key allegations made by Colin Wallace were true.
Ian Hurst, former spook.
Most terrorists work for the security services.
Lord Stevens, a former UK police chief, is quoted as saying that only three out of 210 terrorist suspects he arrested in a probe in Northern Ireland were not working for either the police, the security service MI5 or the UK Army.
On 21 December 2011, we learn that the IRA was run by the UK security services.
Half of all the top IRA men 'worked for security services'
Belfast by DanUneken
According to a 24-page document, written by UK intelligence officer Ian Hurst:
1. Half of all the senior IRA members were working for the UK intelligence services
2. Freddie Scappaticci, the IRA's head of internal security, the agent known as Stakeknife, worked for British intelligence.
3. Lord Stevens told Hurst that of 210 terrorist suspects he arrested, only three were not security force agents.
4. MI5 had a network of agents within the Garda, the Irish police force.
From 1982-1990, Ian Hurst (aka Martin Ingram) was in Londonderry handling agents like Frank Hegarty, an IRA quartermaster later murdered for betraying a cache of Libyan weapons.
Ian Hurst has claimed that the Martin McGuinness reported to MI6.
http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/half-of-all-top-ira-men-worked-for-security-services
Northern Ireland by niknkimnollie
Richard M Bennett, in Asia Times, June 2003, made the following points about the UK security services and assassinations:
1. In the early 1970s Rafael Eitan, head of the Mossad hit-squad known as the 'Kidon', toured Northern Ireland and the Special Air Services (SAS) base in Hereford, England.
Shortly after his visit there were big changes in UK security policy, including the setting up of what was to become the Force Reconnaissance Unit (FRU) .
The FRU was involved in the targeting of Irish Republicans for assassination by death squads.
The FRU may have been involved in the de Menezes killing.
2. In 1988, three Irish Republican Army (IRA) members were killed in Gibraltar by the SAS (UK special forces).
Reportedly, it was Mossad who had tracked the IRA men.
3. In 1972, John Wyman of MI6 recruited the Littlejohn brothers to carry out bank robberies and bomb attacks in the Republic of Ireland.
Wyman said to them that there was "going to be a policy of political assassination" for which they were to make themselvesavailable.
Wyman gave the Littlejohns a list of IRA leaders to assassinate; these included Seamus Costello, Sean Qarland and Sean McStiofain.
Northern Ireland by Hotpix UK Tony Smith
In the USA, in November 1982, five men were acquitted of smuggling arms to the IRA after they revealed that the CIA had approved the shipment.[98]
There is a theory that many of the Irish terror groups were Mafias run by elements of the CIA and MI6.
It was all about making money from drugs and guns, and discrediting the Republican movement.
Northern Ireland by Slainte
Kevin Fulton, a former British soldier claimed that he had flown to New York, met FBI and MI5 agents and was given money to buy an infra-red device to be used to set off IRA bombs. (Congress probes 'IoS' revelations on IRA link.)
According to one source: "the Real IRA has in the past been exposed as being run by MI5 agents, as was the case in the Omagh bombing, and it appears that the British officials are keen to continue keeping people in fear through this same control mechanism." (statism watch - Real IRA plot.)
Former British spy Kevin Fulton reported that "the real reason why the Real IRA murderers who planted the bomb at Omagh, have never been taken to court or their cases investigated - it is because the actual bomber, Sean Hoey, was also working for the RUC (the police)". (MI5 & the IRA!)
Gerry Adams by Slainte
"In 2006, the Guardian reported that, two British agents were central to the bombings of three army border installations in 1990, the claims included tactics known as the human bomb, which involved forcing civilians to drive vehicles laden with explosives into army checkpoints, this tactic was the brainchild of British intelligence.
"In 2006, it was also revealed that, a former British Army mole in the IRA has claimed that MI5 arranged a weapons buying trip to America in which he obtained detonators, later used by terrorists to murder soldiers and police officers, and British intelligence co-operated with the FBI, to ensure his trip to New York in the 1990s went ahead without incident, so that his cover would not be blown." (MI5 & the IRA!)
The UK's General Frank Kitson refers to the 'pseudo gang'. (General Frank Kitson: Trail Blazing Fake Terrorism)
Belfast bomb by Slainte
The pseudo gang works for the military but pretends to be a bunch of terrorists.
The idea of the 'pseudo gang' is to carry out acts of violence which can then be blamed on the people that the military wants to discredit.
Pseudo gangs have been used in Vietnam, Italy, Turkey, Belgium, the Philippines, Kenya, Malaya, Northern Ireland, Iraq, New York and many other places.
Reportedly, the white Rhodesians used pseudo gangs to bomb churches (and murder missionaries) and blame the violence on black guerrillas.
GERRY ADAMS OF MI6? / Martin McGuinness of MI6
UK Prime Minister Edward Heath. Illustration by John Kent in “Private Eye” 11 September 1970. Website for this image
Tonymusings blog looks at some of the evidence concerning former UK Prime Minister Edward Heath.
http://tonymusings.blogspot.co.uk/2012/10/sifting-saville-part-2.html
Among the points made:
1. "Savile regularly visited the notorious abuse-ridden children's home Haute de la Garenne" (on the island of Jersey).
"Savile initially denied ever visiting the home, despite photographic evidence to the contrary."
2. It has been alleged that "One of those who stood most to lose was Sir Edward Heath, the former prime minister from 1970-74, who was known to visit the Jersey care home the Haute Garenne among others to take young boys on boating weekends on his yacht called 'Morning Cloud'...
"The person bringing children for him to abuse is Sir Jimmy Saville.
"He was seen by the witness, victim, taking young boys on board Heaths yacht the morning cloud when they were at party conference.
"Allegedly Saville is known for supplying a number of high profile MP's with children for them to sexually abuse."
[2011 Sept] The Wheel of Fortune By T Stokes
Brad Lane with Reggie Kray at Gartree prison. (Yorkshire Post) PEDOPHILE RINGS...
3. Reportedly, Heath was warned on 4 occasions by the head of the Metropolitan police not to loiter in London's lavatories and not to try to pick up young boys.
Ted Heath 'stopped cottaging for gay sex to protect his career'. /
Heath warned about gay sex trysts - Telegraph
4. Heath is also linked to the sexual abuse scandal at the Kincora boys' home in Belfast, in Northern Ireland.
One of the abusers Kincora, William McGrath, worked for MI5.
Reportedly, boys from Kincora were "being taken to big country houses to be used by public figures, including Lord Mountbatten, the former head of MI6 Maurice Oldfield, and Edward Heath."
Lobster's Ramsay on Paedophile Panics - Rigorous Intuition
Colin Wallace, a former MI5 officer, has suggested that Kincora was used by MI5 to manipulate the careers of certain top figures.
London boys playing with the police.
"Late one night on the Thames embankment by the House of Commons a British prime minister approached a rent boy."
Reportedly, almost all the rent boys worked for the spooks - CIA, Mossad, MI5 and the KGB.
"The details of the encounter on the Thames embankment quickly ended up on the London KGB station chief’s desk."
Quite naturally, the KGB man handed the file to MI6, which had close links to Lord Victor Rothschild.
Website for this image. BBC News - Heath Caper: A Czech blackmail plot against Ted Heath?
'Going "up the Heath" is a bit of a rite of passage for many gay men." - 'I go with gay strangers.
London Cruising Grounds
We once saw Edward Heath's Rolls Royce parked outside a large hall where Heath was making a speech.
Sitting alone in the back of the Rolls Royce was a handsome young boy.
"The evidence for a massive paedophile ring infesting the royal palaces, Downing Street and the Westminster Parliament is overwhelming and mounting by the week. The implications of the full truth being revealed can hardly be overstated - the devastating discrediting of the major political parties and the end of the monarchy.
... PAEDOPHILES EVERYWHERE
"It would bring about a total public re-evaluation of everything they have believed about the country they live in and the forces that dictate its laws, direction and methods of operation. The knock-on effect would be the same for much of the rest of the world because what I am about to describe is happening in every country to a larger or lesser extent - not least in the United States."
Labels: CIA, Denis Donaldson, Heath, Honey Trap, IRA, Jersey, Jimmy Savile, Kincora, Mossad, pseudo gangs
http://www.presstv.ir/detail/2013/02/03/287096/uk-arms-chief-caught-in-secret-deal/
http://uruknet.info/?p=m94876&hd=&size=1&l=e
P2P said...
http://www.disinfo.com/2012/09/on-the-huxleys-gordon-wasson-terence-mckenna-esalen-psychedelics-2012-mind-control/
http://hat4uk.wordpress.com/2013/02/03/paedophiles-in-politics-a-beechers-brook-of-a-scandal-which-may-yet-unseat-david-cameron/
Unmasking Jesse Jackson
http://www.wnd.com/2002/03/13339/#SlCmZi1rrG5z7ksQ.99
pfg powell said...
The real problem with this and other such blogs is credibility. For example, this entry ends with a link to David Icke's blog which doesn't gain it much credibility.
Then there are the claims that MI5, Special Branch and the RUC 'colluded' in terrorist bombings. The claim, unfortunately, has several interpretations:
1) the simplest - MI5 etc allowed these bombings to go ahead because by intervening they risked having a highly valuable mole unmasked. Admittedly, if true, that would be awful - more or less sanctioning the deaths of innocent people for political ends. Yet it could well be true if they sincerely did feel such a sacrifice was necessary for the 'greater good'.
2)rather more tenuous - that terrorist bombings were sanctioned and possibly even organised by MI5 etc because at heart they wanted (and want) Northern Ireland to remain part of the UK and thus such bombings would strengthen the resolve of Loyalist support. Iffy.
This entry is also rather compromised in that one link takes you to an unashamedly 'anti-Zionist' website. Now you can take a great many different stances on Israel and its policies, wholly opposing them even, but the leap from that position to accepting the claim of a 'world-wide Zionist' conspiracy to 'control the world' or some such is undertaken only by lunatics and idiots.
MASSIVE OCCULT RITUAL AT SUPERBOWL, THE YAHOO ARTICLE IS MEANT TO DISCREDIT US
http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/nfl-shutdown-corner/did-beyonce-flash-illuminati-sign-why-did-superdome-064347471--nfl.html
Dutroux applying for early release.
How come Charles Manson will die in prison but this man will walk free.
I really think we have reached a point where we all need to become vigilantes.
pfg powell,
1) Never heard of Gladio then
2) Thanks for the label you slap on me because you prefer to be blind.
the well documented evidence, that secret services of seemingly opposing political systems are working together and in cohorts with criminal gangs can also be read in in german on Scribid "Im Namen des Staates" from Adreas von Bülow. Von Bülow is mainly describing the situation on the European continent some twenty years ago, but his findings fully correspond to the stories Aang is reporting in this blog..
Imagine that, a Zionist conspiracy! What will people come up with next! Elite pedophile rings? Police corruption? Soon they'll be claiming Lance Armstrong was involved in a doping conspiracy! I mean, the media would have exposed these things if they were really happening, wouldn't they! Idiots and lunatics the lot of you!
Genie said...
pfg powell said: "The leap from that position to accepting the claim of a 'world-wide Zionist' conspiracy to 'control the world' or some such is undertaken only by lunatics and idiots."
Zionism is not a small word... it is representing Satanism in the world today. All the big powers are serving Zionism, they admit it everyday. Zionists DO control the world.
Remember the film The Matrix, now look at the street sign.
Mr Anderson, the name by which Neo was know when in 'The Matrix'.
Hidden in plain site ;)
Genie, I beg to differ, albiet only slightly: Zionists DO NOT control the world. Rather, the forces that control the world control Zionism. It is but one of their tools and guises and Jews are just another of their many pawns. The majority of Zionists, poor misguided fools that they are, are being manipulated. Those that have chosen to commit the ultimate blasphemy by defying the word of their own god to return 'home' to Palestine before the anointed hour will be foremost among the victims of what is soon to play out. And that game is reaching an all too obvious climax as the demented behaviour of Israel and their neo-con enablers hits a scale of such disgracefulness that it is now nothing short of a parody of itself, an afront that will inevitably be confronted. Despite popular sentiment across the planet towards Jews becoming quite obviously more and more hostile, Israel's leaders keep ratcheting up the belligerence - and atrocities. It is impossible to accept this is through ignorance or arrogance. The goal, I believe, is to ensure cataclysmic blowback against the Jews as that masterful work of cognitive dissonance known to us as 'anti-semitism' bursts its own banks with such force that the Nazis will be remembered thereafter as a regime of religious moderates. It will be hard to sympathise, but I suspect the ferociousness of what could be unleashed will shock even the most hardened of today's 'jew haters' into a degree of sympathy. We are quite deliberately being poked and prodded into reacting against an artificial paradigm, driven by our disgust at their crimes but blocked from reacting by the mind-control road block the 'Anti-Semitism' paradox provides. Something's gotta give. Of course, the Muslims will lead the charge. And, as Al Queda provided an all-too convenient excuse to enact the war on terror, which in turn enabled the pre-planned reconquest of resource-rich Arab nations, so too will this inevitable Muslim assault on our 'key ally' provide an excuse to enact a plan. That plan, if my suspicions are correct, will see the destruction of the Temple Mount, setting off a chain reaction that will lead to the decimation of both the Jewish and Muslim realms. And most disturbing of all, it will involve a nuclear response. Because 'The Plan' is nothing less than the initiation of what some might term 'Armageddon'. I don't won't to sound too alarmist, but I suspect the TPTB's goal is to spark the 'Final Showdown' and the Rapture that follows. Yep, these twisted fucks want nothing less than conquest of Heaven', such is their arrogance and delusion. They want it all and they want it now. They are not going to let the unpredictability of God stand their way. And they sure as hell aren't worried if the entire Jewish race is wiped out in the process. We can only hope enough honest Jews, Muslims and Christians wake up in time.
Good comment ChrisB.
Agree with your current assessment and for your predictions......very plausible.
To what ever extent the TPTB seem to enjoy repetition, rituals acted out time and time again.......the idea of cultivating a hatred of Jews resulting in an ugly outcome is one that repeats.
The poor Jews are fodder, no more important to the rich Jews than poor Catholics are to the Vatican or Palestinians to the Sheiks of the great Arab states.
All the wealthy rulers have more in common with each other than with the little people of their flock. They are quite willing to pit us all against each other, to sacrifice their 'own' and to serve whatever power really runs the show.
Satanic, alien, were 'they' here before us, were we bred to serve them, are we being used to steal their planet.......whatever is going on, the big lie that the Jews run the world is one that suits the secretive power that rules us all. As you said, wealthy Jews in places of power do control lots of things, but ultimately they are pawns and servants.
F Giant.
I feel sick. Can anyone see the exit? Let me out please!!
Precisely Mr Giant. I mean really. 'It was the Jews wot dunnit' is wearing a bit thin after 3000 years. Kinda like, it was "the butler, in the drawing room, with the canldestick" mentality. Observe the way multinational businesses operate and you'll get a far better understanding of how any "global conspiracy" might manifest. Even the most fleeting study of which would fairly quickly clear up any delusion that the business elite in the US/China/Japan/Russia/Brazil/India/Pakistan/ or any other 'notional nation' pretending to play the game are actual 'rivals'. No, we are the enemy. And 'they' laugh their asses when we start buying into the their religious/racial conflict fallacy.
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11.6 Religion and Spiritual Experience
One point is very remarkable — I don’t remember whether Sri Aurobindo speaks about it in what follows — but among the four activities or realisations he mentions — religion, occultism, spiritual philosophy and spiritual experience — which are necessary for the development and transformation of man, all are not equally accessible to humanity.
The one which can be practised and, one might say, “understood” — although it is certainly not an “understanding” — by the greatest number of human beings — those who live almost exclusively in the physical consciousness — is the religious method, precisely because it is based on fixed creeds and practices. Simply by an act of faith or a collective suggestion — above all a collective suggestion — many human beings who have not yet reached any considerable inner development can take up the path of religion.
For occultism we must already have come to a second stage of development and be more conscious in the vital world to be able to come into contact with the play of forces, which is indispensable in order to manipulate them.
As for spiritual philosophy, only the few who have a fairly complete mental development and are fully conscious on the intellectual plane, can usefully adopt this method; otherwise it is a dead letter for all those who don’t have an ability for mental gymnastics and so cannot follow all the acrobatics of the mind.
And finally, Sri Aurobindo has told us somewhere in The Life Divine that to follow the path of spiritual experience, one must have within oneself a “spiritual being”, one must be “twice born” as it is said, for if one doesn’t have a spiritual being within, which is at least on the point of becoming self-aware, one may try to imitate these experiences but it will only be crude imitation or hypocrisy, it won’t be a reality.
Therefore, in order to follow these four paths simultaneously and to practise them with an integral benefit for the being, one must already be a complete individual, capable of having a conscious life in the four principal elements of human and spiritual nature.
Of course, this inner development is not always apparent and we may meet someone who has within him a conscious spiritual entity, ready for the most beautiful experiences, though externally he seems quite crude and incomplete.
Nor is it necessary to follow this development in the order in which it has been mentioned, but if we want our realisation to be integral and to arrive at a total transformation of our being, we must be able to use the essence of what each of these methods can bring.
The psychic or spiritual consciousness gives you the deep inner realisation, contact with the Divine, liberation from external fetters; but for this liberation to be effective, for it to have an action on the rest of the being, the mind must be open enough to be able to hold the spiritual light of Knowledge, the vital must be powerful enough to handle the forces behind appearances and dominate them, and the physical should be disciplined, organised enough to be able to express the deep experience, in the movements of each day and each moment, and live it integrally.
If one of these things is lacking, the result is not complete. One can make light of this thing or that under the pretext that it is not the most important, the central Thing — and to neglect outer things certainly cannot prevent you from entering into spiritual communion with the Supreme, but that is good only for a flight from life.
If we are to be total, complete beings, to have an integral realisation, we should be able to express our spiritual experience mentally, vitally and physically. And the more our expression is perfect, executed by a complete and perfect being, the more integral and perfect will our realisation be.
For someone who wants to follow the integral yoga nothing is useless and nothing must be neglected…. The main thing is to know how to put each thing in its place and to hand over the government to what truly has the right to govern.
“Our thinking mind is concerned mainly with the statement of general spiritual truth, the logic of its absolute and the logic of its relativities, how they stand to each other or lead to each other, and what are the mental consequences of the spiritual theorem of existence…” (Sri Aurobindo)
I have a question here, but it is a verbal question, which means that it is not very interesting. It is a phrase from the beginning of the passage: What is the meaning of “the mental consequences of the spiritual theorem of existence”?
It is probably from someone who doesn’t know what “theorem” means!
A theorem is the statement of a truth which has been arrived at through reasoning. The word is used quite concretely in mathematics and all the external sciences. From the philosophical point of view it is the same thing. In the present instance, the spiritual theorem of existence may be stated in this way: the Absolute in the relativities or Oneness in multiplicity. But to explain “the mental consequences”, we must go into philosophy and I believe you are rather unprepared for that. And to really understand what it means, one feels that philosophy is always skirting the truth, like a tangent that draws closer and closer but never touches — that there is something that escapes. And this something is in truth everything.
To understand these things… there is only experience — to live this truth, not to feel it in the way the ordinary senses do but to realise within oneself the truth, the concrete existence of both states, simultaneously, existing together even while they are opposite conditions. All words can lead only to confusion; only experience gives the tangible reality of the thing: the simultaneous existence of the Absolute and the relativities, of Oneness and multiplicity, not as two states following each other and one resulting from the other, but as a state which can be perceived in two opposite ways depending on… the position one takes in relation to the Reality.
Words in themselves falsify the experience. To speak in words one must take not a step backwards but a step downwards, and the essential truth escapes. One must use them simply as a more or less accessible path to reach the thing itself which cannot be formulated. And from this point of view no formulation is better than any other; the best of all is the one that helps each one to remember, that is, the way in which the intervention of the Grace has crystallised in the thought.
Probably no two ways are identical, everyone must find his own. But one must not be mistaken, it is not “finding” by reasoning, it is “finding” by aspiration; it is not by study and analysis, but by the intensity of the aspiration and the sincerity of the inner opening.
When one is truly and exclusively turned to the spiritual Truth, whatever name may be given to it, when all the rest becomes secondary, when that alone is imperative and inevitable, then, one single moment of intense, absolute, total concentration is enough to receive the answer.
The experience comes first, in this case, and it is only later, as a consequence and a memory that the formulation becomes clear. In this way one is sure not to make a mistake. The formulation may be more or less exact, that is of no importance, so long as one doesn’t make a dogma out of it.
It is good for you, that is all that is needed. If you want to impose it on others, whatever it may be, even if it is perfect in itself, it becomes false.
That is why religions are always mistaken — always — because they want to standardise the expression of an experience and impose it on everyone as an irrefutable truth. The experience was true, complete in itself, convincing — for the one who had it. The formulation he made of it was excellent — for himself. But to want to impose it on others is a fundamental error which has altogether disastrous consequences, always, which always leads far, very far from the Truth.
That is why all the religions, however beautiful they may be, have always led man to the worst excesses. All the crimes, the horrors perpetrated in the name of religion are among the darkest stains on human history, and simply because of this little initial error: wanting what is true for one individual to be true for the mass or collectivity.
(Silence)
The path must be shown and the doors opened but everyone must follow the path, pass through the doors and go towards his personal realisation.
The only help one can and should receive is that of the Grace which formulates itself in everyone according to his own need.
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The Birth of Evil, pp. 222-223
World Transformation in Savitri
Explorations in Savitri 150, pp. 360-362
Savitri — “All is Explained Well”
Answering My Own Questions
The Extraordinary Power of Savitri
Higher Knowledge and Mental Knowledge
Savitri Satsang 120, pp. 207-210
The Womb of Night, pp. 221-222
The Mystery of 5th December 1950
Savitri – A Revelation
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A Selective Insular Perfusion Deficit Contributes to Compromised Salience Network Connectivity in Recovering Alcoholic Men
Alcoholism can disrupt neural synchrony between nodes of in
trinsic functional networks that are maximally active when resting relative to engaging in a task, the default mode network (DMN) pattern. Untested, however, are whether the DMN in alcoholics can rebound normally from the relatively depressed task state to the active resting state and whether local perfusion deficits could disrupt network synchrony when switching from conditions of rest to task to rest, thereby indicating a physiological mechanism of neural network adaptation capability.
Whole-brain, three-dimensional pulsed-continuous arterial spin labeling provided measurements of regional cerebral blood flow (CBF) in 12 alcoholics and 12 control subjects under three conditions: pretask rest, spatial working-memory task, and posttask rest.
With practice, alcoholics and control subjects achieved similar task accuracy and reaction times. Both groups exhibited a high-low-high pattern of perfusion levels in DMN regions during the rest-task-rest runs and the opposite pattern in posterior and cerebellar regions known to be associated with spatial working memory. Alcoholics showed selective differences from control subjects in the rest-task-rest CBF pattern in the anterior precuneus and CBF level in the insula, a hub of the salience network. Connectivity analysis identified activation synchrony from an insula seed to salience nodes (parietal, medial frontal, anterior cingulate cortices) in control subjects only.
We propose that attenuated insular CBF is a mechanism underlying compromised connectivity among salience network nodes. This local perfusion deficit in alcoholics has the potential to impair ability to switch from cognitive states of interoceptive cravings to cognitive control for curbing internal urges.
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Effect of neuromuscular electrical stimulation in glycogen muscle reserves because of ingestion of ethanol: a study in rats.
To evaluate the effects of alcoholic ingestion and neurostimulation on the muscle glycogen reserve, body weight, blood sugar, and weight of the soleus muscle.
Twenty male rats were distributed into four experimental groups (n=5), namely, Control, Ethanol, Electrostimulated, and Ethanol+Electrostimulated. The study lasted for 22 days. The groups submitted to the use of ethanol received the substance diluted in water, which was consumed during the entire experimental period. The groups that received electrostimulation, undersedationfor the procedure, had their left hind leg shaved, and the current was applied daily for 7 days, in 20-minute sessions. Next, after induced alcoholism and electrical stimulation in the corresponding groups, the animals were euthanized so that their muscles could be sent for glycogen analysis.
The Ethanol group displayed a lower body weight when compared to the Control and Electrostimulated groups; the Ethanol+Electrostimulated groups had a lower body weight compared to the Control and Electrostimulated groups, but were in a better situation when compared to the Ethanol group. As to glycogen capture, it was noted that the Ethanol group demonstrated resistance to blood glucose capture, whereas the Ethanol Electrostimulated group showed better capture than the other groups. As to muscle weight, it was observed that the Ethanol group had a lower weight than did the Controls, and that the Electrostimulated group weight greater when compared to the Control and Ethanol groups, respectively. On the other hand, the Ethanol+Electrostimulated groups showed no significant difference relative to the Controls, but had better results when compared to the Ethanol group.
Chronic exposure to alcohol showed a direct relationship with reduced muscle and body weight, and in glycogen capture and muscle reserves, besides favoring innumerous organic disorders, thus interfering in rehabilitation processes.
Hyposensitivity to Gamma-Aminobutyric Acid in the Ventral Tegmental Area During Alcohol Withdrawal: Reversal by Histone Deacetylase Inhibitors
Putative dopaminergic (pDAergic) ventral tegmental area (VTA) neurons have an important role in alcohol addiction. Acute ethanol increases the activity of pDAergic neurons, and withdrawal from repeated ethanol administration produces a decreased sensitivity of pDAergic VTA neurons to GABA. Recent studies show that behavioral changes induced by chronic alcohol are reversed by inhibitors of histone deacetylases (HDACs). Whether HDAC-induced histone modifications regulate changes in GABA sensitivity of VTA pDAergic neurons during withdrawal is unknown.
Here, we investigated modulation of withdrawal-induced changes in GABA sensitivity of pDAergic VTA neurons by HDAC inhibitors (HDACi), and also measured the levels of HDAC2, histone (H3-K9) acetylation, and GABA-Aα1 receptor (GABA (A-α1) R) subunit in VTA during ethanol withdrawal.
Mice were injected intraperitoneally (ip) with either ethanol (3.5 g/kg) or saline twice daily for 3 weeks. In recordings from pDAergic VTA neurons in brain slices from ethanol-withdrawn mice, sensitivity to GABA (50–500 μM) was reduced. In brain slices from ethanol-withdrawn mice incubated with the HDACi SAHA (vorinostat) or trichostatin A (TSA) for 2 h, the hyposensitivity of pDAergic VTA neurons to GABA was significantly attenuated.
There was no effect of TSA or SAHA on GABA sensitivity of pDAergic VTA neurons from saline-treated mice. In addition, ethanol withdrawal was associated with an increase in levels of HDAC2 and a decrease in histone (H3-K9) acetylation and levels of GABA (A-α1) R subunits in the VTA.
Therefore, blockade of upregulation of HDAC2 by HDACi normalizes GABA hyposensitivity of pDAergic neurons developed during withdrawal after chronic ethanol treatment, which suggests the possibility that inhibition of HDACs can reverse ethanol-induced neuroadaptational changes in reward circuitry.
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A Longitudinal Study of Drinking and Depression as Predictors of Insomnia in Alcohol-Dependent Individuals.
Insomnia and depressive symptoms are common symptoms among alcohol-dependent (AD) patients.
AD individuals (N = 364) were assessed during 2004–2009 in the Midwestern United States at baseline and 6-month intervals with the Sleep Problems Questionnaire, Time-Line Follow-Back interview, and the depression subscale of the Brief Symptom Inventory. Hierarchical Linear Modeling was used to analyze the data in this longitudinal study.
When modeled separately, both quantity of drinking (p < .01) and depression (p < .001) predicted insomnia severity, controlling for time, age, and gender. Drinking also predicted depressive symptoms (p < .001), and its effect on insomnia was mediated by depression severity (p < .001).
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Effects of alcohol on cardiovascular disease
Originally thought to be cardioprotective, the pendulum is now swinging against alcohol, with more deaths due to drinking than lives saved
Evidence for an increased risk of cardiovascular disease in heavy drinkers goes back to the mid-1970s. Later studies focused on whether moderate consumption was cardioprotective. In 1984 Michael Marmot summarized the evidence as showing moderate drinkers to be at lower risk, but said this could be due to the ‘sick quitter’ effect.1 JL Richard coined the term ‘French paradox’ in 1987 when he proposed that French wine drinking habits might explain their low coronary mortality rate despite a diet rich in saturated fat.2
Subsequent epidemiological studies support the observation that as far as cardiovascular disease is concerned, and ischaemic heart disease in particular, non-drinkers at baseline have higher mortality and event rates than those who drink moderate amounts.
But there is controversy over whether alcohol has a causal protective effect. ‘Many studies don't differentiate between lifelong abstainers and those who have quit’, says epidemiologist Prof. David Leon (London, UK). ‘Quitting is often associated with health problems, [the argument being] that those people stopped drinking because of their health, not that their health is poor because they don't drink’. > > > Read More
A Comparison of Maternal Outcomes From an Alcohol, Tobacco, and Other Drug Prevention Program for Mothers Choosing an Intervention Versus Being Randomized
Self-determination theory and substantial r
research findings suggest that more desirable outcomes may occur when participants are able to choose their prevention or treatment interventions, as having a choice may lead to greater motivation and feelings of self-efficacy.
The present study examined the influence of having a choice of family-based prevention programs for youth alcohol, tobacco, and other drug use on mothers’ communication outcomes. Families (N = 496) were those with an 11- to 12-year-old enrolled in Kaiser Permanente medical centers at one of four locations.
Results from multivariate repeated measures analyses supported the importance of having a choice for improved communication outcomes. As compared with families who were randomly assigned to a program, those allowed to choose showed improved tobacco-specific and peer pressure communication, with marginally improved alcohol communication. No differences were found between the groups for general communication.
Results suggest that allowing mothers to participate in decisions about health-related interventions for their teens may lead to better outcomes.
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Frequency of Alcohol Use in Adolescence as a Marker for Subsequent Sexual Risk Behavior in Adulthood
Although a number of studies have demonstrated an association between alcohol use frequency and sexual risk behavior, few have used longitudinal data. This study examined alcohol use frequency in adolescence as a predictor of HIV sexual risk behavior in adulthood.
We collected data among 1,368 participants in Colorado. During adolescence (time 1), respondents were asked about the frequency of using alcohol during the previous 12 months. In adulthood (time 2), the same respondents were asked about their sexual risk behavior during the previous 12 months. Sexual risk behavior items were used to construct an index, which was categorized to indicate low-, medium-, and high-risk study participants. The relationship between alcohol use patterns and risky sexual behavior was modeled using ordinal regression.
Compared with individuals who drank no alcohol in the past 12 months at time 1, the odds of being in a higher risk group of sexual behavior as opposed to a lower one at time 2 were 1.56 (95% CI, 1.04–2.35) among those who drank 6–19 times. Similarly, the odds of being in a higher risk group relative to a lower one among those who drank ≥20 times or were 1.78 (95% CI, 1.05–3.02).
Alcohol use patterns in adolescence may be useful markers for programs that aim to prevent risky sexual behavior. Based on alcohol intake patterns, it may be possible to identify frequent alcohol users that need to be targeted with appropriate alcohol use and HIV risk reduction messages.
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Xinhua - Alcohol, drugs cause low birth weight: Australian study
Women with drug or alcohol related mental disorders are up to four times more likely to have a low- birth weight baby, an Australian study revealed.
YLE.fi (Helsinki) - Yle: Government planning outright ban on public alcohol advertising
Government is considering an outright ban on public alcohol advertising, Yle reports. The ban would also affect advertisements in media such as radio and the social networking site Facebook . However ads would still be permitted in sports sponsorships and will remain visible in stadia and on sports gear.
Marketingblog.fi (Finland) - Finnish government says NO to alcohol advertising
According to a recent news from Helsingin Sanomat, a Finnish government is planning to ban all alcohol outdoor advertising. While this would sound a good and educational solution for any modern nation who has already took steps towards more healthier world, especially in Finland where excess alcohol usage is a common health problem, plans do not fit for everyone.
The Local (Sweden) - Alcohol seizures down despite tough new law
Despite the introduction of a new law strengthening the powers of customs officials, the number of seizures of alcohol ordered online has declined dramatically in 2013.
Daily Nation (Kenya) - Governors urged to curb alcohol abuse, insecurity
County governments in Central region have an uphill task of curbing insecurity and alcoholism. “Alcoholism is expected to pose a great challenge to the new leaders,” said outgoing Central Provincial Commissioner Japhter Rugut.
News-Medical.net (USA) - Report outlines role of health departments, community coalitions in regulating alcohol outlet density
Regulating alcohol outlet density, or the number of physical locations in which alcoholic beverages are available for purchase in a geographic area, is an effective strategy for reducing excessive alcohol consumption and associated harms.
Vibe Ghana (Ghana) - Check excessive alcohol ads on TV and radio
Reverend Joseph Bosomah, Acting Chairman of the Central Presbytery of the Presbyterian Church of Ghana, has expressed concern about the excessive alcohol ads on television and radio.
Telegraph.co.uk (UK) - Pubs demand minimum alcohol price
The heads of pubs, nightclubs and breweries are pleading with David Cameron to stick to his plans to introduce a mininum alcohol price.
Irish Times (Ireland) - Gastroenterologists call for action on cheap alcohol
The Irish Society of Gastroenterology has called on the Government to introduce a 1 per cent levy on alcohol advertising and sponsorship expenditure.
EPHA (EU) - Evening reception - alcohol & cancer: a report from the Royal College of Physicians & the Alcohol Health Alliance UK
The current EU framework in the area of alcohol - the EU Strategy to support Member States in reducing alcohol related harm - came to an end in 2012 but Europe still remains the world heaviest drinker.
Thanh Nien Daily (Vietnam) - HCMC gov’t rejects police proposal to limit alcohol trade
The Ho Chi Minh City municipal administration has rejected a suggestion made by its police to place limits on the trade of alcoholic drinks after 10 p.m. as an attempt to reduce traffic accidents.
News-Medical.net - Baylor University study shows acute dose of alcohol may cause greater impairment in elderly
An acute dose of alcohol may cause greater impairment in coordination, learning and memory in the elderly than in young people, according to a study by Baylor University.
Guardian (Russia) - The Last Man in Russia, and the Struggle to Save a Dying Nation by Oliver Bullough – review
If Russia is dying, Bullough suggests one doesn't have to look far to find the cause. Russians are literally drinking themselves to death. If Bullough is right, then the staggering figure of Boris Yeltsin is a more accurate symbol for the nation that Putin's gung-ho, karate black-belt.
Haringey Independent (UK) - Annual Health Report ‘Is Haringey over the limit?’ sets out Haringey Borough Council plans to tackle alcohol
A senior doctor says harm from alcohol is one of the biggest challenges facing the borough. This year’s Annual Health Report, entitled ‘Is Haringey over the limit?’, sets out how Haringey Borough Council plans to tackle drink-related harm in the borough.
Legalbrief (South Africa) - Alcohol adverts Bill will curb misuse, says Minister
Anti-alcohol organisations argue Health Minister Aaron Motsoaledi's announcement that a Bill restricting alcohol advertising is likely to be presented to the Cabinet this week is a step in the right direction to curb alcohol misuse, says a report in The Mercury.
Stuff.co.nz (New Zealand) - Teens avoid harm from relaxed booze laws
Lowering the drinking age to 18 has not led to more binge-drinking or alcohol-related road accidents among young people, researchers have found.
Times of India - Reduced alcohol intake cuts dependency
A potential new treatment for alcoholism called nalmefene has been found to be effective and safe for reducing alcohol consumption in alcohol dependent individuals.
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Dr. Chan will protect alcohol policy from industry
In a comment to an article in the British Medical Journal on 11 April 2013, Dr. Chan stated that the WHO global alcohol strategy stipulates that “member states have a primary responsibility for formulating, implementing, monitoring and evaluating public policies to reduce the harmful use of alcohol. The development of alcohol policies is the sole prerogative of national authorities. In the view of WHO, the alcohol industry has no role in the formulation of alcohol policies, which must be protected from distortion by commercial or vested interests.” > > > > Read More
Underage drinking: Prevalence and risk factors associated with drinking experiences among Argentinean children
The aim of this study was to describe the prevalence and predictors of alcohol drinking behavior in children.
Data were obtained from 367 children, aged 8–12 years (M = 10.44 years, SD = 1.21 years; 61.9% female) from the city of Córdoba, Argentina. Several scales were used to assess risk factors, including personality traits, alcohol expectancy (i.e., beliefs about the consequences of using alcohol), and perceived peer alcohol use, for alcohol drinking and alcohol drinking experiences. Hierarchical regression analysis was used to determine the contribution of multiple risk factors to the quantity of alcohol consumed.
The results showed that 58% of the children had tasted alcohol, and approximately one-third drank alcohol again after the first drinking experience. Twelve-year-old children had a significantly higher prevalence of tasting and drinking alcohol and a significantly greater frequency and quantity of alcohol consumed than younger children. Eighty percent of the children who liked alcohol during their first drinking experience reported that they drank alcohol again. Among the children who did not like alcohol during their first drinking experience, only 31% drank alcohol again.
Underage drinking usually occurred under adult supervision in family settings when parents or other relatives allowed them to drink or were aware of their children's drinking.
The hierarchical regression analysis showed that being older and male, having more peers that drink alcohol, having higher levels of extroversion, and having alcohol expectancy for social facilitation increased the risk for greater alcohol use. The final model explained 33% of the total variance.
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Beer Flavor Provokes Striatal Dopamine Release in Male Drinkers: Mediation by Family History of Alcoholism
Striatal dopamine (DA) is increased by virtually all drugs of abuse, including alcohol. However, drug-associated cues are also known to provoke striatal DA transmission- a phenomenon linked to the motivated behaviors associated with addiction. To our knowledge, no one has tested if alcohol’s classically-conditioned flavor cues, in the absence of a significant pharmacologic effect, are capable of eliciting striatal dopamine release in humans.
Employing positron emission tomography (PET), we hypothesized that beer’s flavor alone can reduce the binding potential of [11C]raclopride (a reflection of striatal DA release) in the ventral striatum, relative to an appetitive flavor control.
Forty-nine men, ranging from social to heavy drinking, mean age 25, with a varied family history of alcoholism underwent two [11C]raclopride PET scans: one while tasting beer, and one while tasting Gatorade®.
Relative to the control flavor of Gatorade, beer flavor significantly increased self-reported desire to drink, and reduced [11C]raclopride binding potential, indicating that the alcohol-associated flavor cues induced dopamine release.
Binding potential reductions were strongest in subjects with first-degree alcoholic relatives. These results demonstrate that alcohol-conditioned flavor cues can provoke ventral striatal dopamine release absent significant pharmacologic effects, and that the response is strongest in subjects with a greater genetic risk for alcoholism.
Striatal DA responses to salient alcohol cues may thus be an inherited risk factor for alcoholism.
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Latest Findings alcohol bulletins: Public Health framework reviewed; alcohol counsellor skills; text advice can work & more
Recent bulletins from the drug and alcohol bank:
Public health objectives for England including drugs and alcohol
Sets out the structure and objectives of the public health system for England effective from April 2013 and how progress against these objectives will be measured, including addiction treatment completions, alcohol-related hospital admissions, and prisoners identified as needing treatment for alcohol/drug problems.
Seminal studies of the impact of alcohol counsellor skills and support
In the alcohol treatment world, arguably studies don’t get more important than these landmarks in the relatively scarce literature about what makes some alcohol counsellors, therapists and treatment services more effective than others
'Treatment-resistant' skid-row alcoholics react to organised empathy
Later to become founding director of the US National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, in the late 1950s Dr Morris Chafetz of Massachusetts General Hospital conducted a remarkable series of studies which proved that an alcohol clinic's intake and performance can be transformed by the simple application of empathy and organisation.
Post-emergency visit text message advice moderates drinking
For the first time this US study tried mobile phone text messaging as a way to monitor and moderate the hazardous drinking of young adults screened at emergency departments. Compared to merely monitoring, text-based advice did cut drinking – but why did monitoring-only patients actually start to drink more?
Nurse-led hepatitis education cost-effective way to curb drinking in methadone patients
At Californian methadone clinics, group education sessions led by a nurse and focused on the risks of aggravating hepatitis infection led to the same substantial reductions in drinking as one-to-one or group motivational interviewing conducted by highly trained counsellors, offering a cost-effective means to reduce alcohol-related risks.
Commentary on Maclennan et al. (2013): Evolution of local alcohol policy research. What's next?
Alcohol control advocates, policymakers and researchers in several countries have discovered—or, perhaps, rediscovered—local policy. For example, in the United States, the Community Preventive Services Task Force’s Guide to Community Preventive Services (the ‘Community Guide’) recommends a number of interventions that, in at least some jurisdictions, can be put into place by enacting—or preventing the reversal of—local policy.
These include maintaining limits on days and hours of sale, regulation of alcohol outlet density and preventing privatization of retail alcohol sales [1]. Other local policies, such as social host ordinances, have diffused widely in the United States, although there is not yet a scientific evidence base supporting their effectiveness [2]. Maclennan and colleagues offer an important contribution towards establishing a better understanding of local
alcohol policy development by presenting case studies from the experiences in three New Zealand communities [3]. > > > > Read More
Vested Interests in Addiction Research and Policy. Alliance between tobacco and alcohol industries to shape public policy
The tobacco and alcohol industries share common policy goals when facing regulation, opposing policies such as tax increases and advertising restrictions. The collaboration between these two industries in the tobacco policy arena is unknown. This study explored if tobacco and alcohol companies built alliances to influence tobacco legislation and, if so, how those alliances worked.
Analysis of previously secret tobacco industry documents.
In the early 1980s, tobacco companies started efforts to build coalitions with alcohol and other industries to oppose cigarette excise taxes, clean indoor air policies and tobacco advertising and promotion constraints. Alcohol companies were often identified as a key partner and source of financial support for the coalitions. These coalitions had variable success interfering with tobacco control policy-making.
The combined resources of tobacco and alcohol companies may have affected tobacco control legislation. These alliances helped to create the perception that there is a broader base of opposition to tobacco control. Advocates should be aware of the covert alliances between tobacco, alcohol and other industries and expose them to correct this misperception.
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Population-Based Input Function Modeling for [(18)F]FMPEP-d 2, an Inverse Agonist Radioligand for Cannabinoid CB1 Receptors: Validation in Clinical Studies.
Population-based input function (PBIF) may be a valid alternative to full blood sampling for quantitative PET imaging. PBIF is typically validated by comparing its quantification results with those obtained via arterial sampling. However, for PBIF to be employed in actual clinical research studies, its ability to faithfully capture the whole spectrum of results must be assessed. The present study validated a PBIF for [18F]FMPEP-d2, a cannabinoid CB1 receptor radioligand, in healthy volunteers, and also attempted to utilize PBIF to replicate three previously published clinical studies in which the input function was acquired with arterial sampling.
The PBIF was first created and validated with data from 42 healthy volunteers. This PBIF was used to assess the retest variability of [18F]FMPEP-d2, and then to quantify CB1 receptors in alcoholic patients (n = 18) and chronic daily cannabis smokers (n = 29). Both groups were scanned at baseline and after 2–4 weeks of monitored drug abstinence.
PBIF yielded accurate results in the 42 healthy subjects (average Logan-distribution volume (VT) was 13.3±3.8 mL/cm3 for full sampling and 13.2±3.8 mL/cm3 for PBIF; R2 = 0.8765,) and test-retest results were comparable to those obtained with full sampling (variability: 16%; intraclass correlation coefficient: 0.89). PBIF accurately replicated the alcoholism study, showing a widespread ~20% reduction of CB1 receptors in alcoholic subjects, without significant change after abstinence. However, a small PBIF-VT bias of −9% was unexpectedly observed in cannabis smokers. This bias led to substantial errors, including a VT decrease in regions that had shown no downregulation in the full input function. Simulated data showed that the original findings could only have been replicated with a PBIF bias between −6% and +4%.
Despite being initially well validated in healthy subjects, PBIF may misrepresent clinical protocol results and be a source of variability between different studies and institutions.
Long lasting alterations to DNA methylation and ncRNAs may underlie the effects of fetal alcohol exposure
Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders (FASD) are characterized by life long changes in gene expression, neurodevelopment, and behavior. What mechanisms initiate and maintain these changes are not known, but current research suggests a role for alcohol induced epigenetic changes.
In this report we assessed alterations to adult mouse brain tissue by assaying DNA cytosine methylation and small noncoding RNA (ncRNA) expression, specifically the microRNA (miRNA) and small nucleolar RNA (snoRNA) subtypes.
We found long lasting alterations in DNA methylation as a result of fetal alcohol exposure, specifically in the imprinted regions of the genome harboring ncRNAs and sequences interacting with regulatory proteins. A large number of major nodes from the identified networks, such as Pten signaling, contained CTCF binding sites in their promoters, illustrating the functional consequences of alcohol induced changes to DNA methylation.
Next, we assessed ncRNA expression using two independent array platforms and qPCR. The results identified 34 genes that are targeted by the deregulated miRNAs. Of these, four (Pten, Nmnat1, Slitrk2, and Otx2) were viewed critical in the context of FASD given their roles in the brain.
Furthermore, ~20% of the altered ncRNAs mapped to three imprinted regions: Snrpn-Ube3a, Dlk1-Dio3, and Sfmbt2, which showed differential methylation and have been previously implicated in neurodevelopmental disorders.
The findings of this report help to expand on the mechanisms behind the long lasting changes in the brain transcriptome of FASD individuals. The observed changes may contribute to the initiation and maintenance of the long lasting effect of alcohol.
Medicaid care management: Description of high-cost addictions treatment clients
High utilizers of alcohol and other drug treatment (AODTx) services are a priority for healthcare cost control.
We examine characteristics of Medicaid-funded AODTx clients, comparing three groups: individuals < 90th percentile of AODTx expenditures (n = 41,054); high-cost clients in the top decile of AODTx expenditures (HC; n = 5,718); and 1760 enrollees in a chronic care management (CM) program for HC clients implemented in 22 counties in New York State. Medicaid and state AODTx registry databases were combined to draw demographic, clinical, social needs and treatment history data.
HC clients accounted for 49% of AODTx costs funded by Medicaid. As expected, HC clients had significant social welfare needs, comorbid medical and psychiatric conditions, and use of inpatient services. The CM program was successful in enrolling some high-needs, high-cost clients but faced barriers to reaching the most costly and disengaged individuals.
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CBC Toronto (Canada) - Alcohol And Pregnancy
Matt Galloway spoke about an ad campaign on downtown streets, with Gal Koren. He is the president of FASworld Toronto . The ad campaign is spreading awareness of Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder.
Standard Digital (Kenya) - Pregnancy and alcohol don’t mix
Have you ever seen a pregnant woman drinking a certain brand of alcohol. Not in the hidden but openly? I have. And the person who was proudly refilling her glass was her husband.
Nanaimo Daily News (Canada) - Signs warn of risk in mixing booze, pregnancy
Nanaimo's liquor-service sector will soon be required to warn patrons about the dangers of mixing alcohol with pregnancy. Nanaimo city council is set to approve a new bylaw mandating liquor-licensed establishments to post warning signs about drinking while pregnant. Restaurants, pubs and liquor stores will have until January to put up the new signage or owners could the risk of facing a $100 fine.
Brandon Sun (USA) - Campaign targets drinking, pregnancy
THE North Point Douglas Women's Centre is trying to get the message out to expectant mothers about the dangers of FASD, one poster at a time.
Adelaide Now (Australia) - Foetal alcohol syndrome linked to binge drinking by mums
YOUNG women who binge drink while pregnant are producing a new wave of school children with learning difficulties, experts say.
Deccan Chronicle (India) - Booze turns A womb killer
Here is a case which should make parents who consume alcohol unmindful of the effects it would have on their yet to be born progeny sit up and take note. Fetal Alcohol Syndrome is not something to be taken casually, say docs.
West Virginia Public Broadcasting (USA) - Substance Abuse Prevention Partnership focuses on addicted babies
The Cabell County Substance Abuse Partnership hosted its seventh annual summit recently as it educates the public on the growing issues of substance abuse in pregnant moms.
CBC.ca (Canada) - Peer support reinforces breast-feeding benefits
While the percentage of women breastfeeding their babies continues to increase across the country, a Lakehead University researcher says that's not the case with Aboriginal women.
Oregon.gov (USA) - Alcohol Use by Pregnant Women
Fetal alcohol syndrome usually results from alcohol exposure at 3-8 weeks gestation. Because of this many women may be drinking while they are unaware that they are pregnant. As a result, reported alcohol use just before pregnancy may be the most accurate measure of use in early pregnancy.
First International Conference on Prevention of FASD - September 23 - 25, 2013
This is the first international conference to address the primary, secondary and tertiary prevention of FASD.
FASD: Best Practices in the Last Frontier – May 22-24 2013
The Arctic FASD Regional Training Center and the UAA Center for Behavioral Health Research and Services invites you to attend the 2013 conference on FASDs – FASD: Best Practices in the Last Frontier.
MATERIALS and VIDEOS
Human Relations Media - DRUGS, ALCOHOL & PREGNANCY
One out of ten babies in the U.S. has been exposed to drugs like cocaine and alcohol in the womb. The results are often tragic: undersized, unresponsive babies with nerve damage, seizures, deformities, impaired motor skills and (as they grow older) behavior and learning disabilities.
VancouverSunOnline - What are the Effects of Alcohol on Pregnancy?
Alcohol is a toxin and its effects on your baby if you drink to excess are well documented. Dr. Karen Buhler, family physician, discusses the effects of alcohol on pregnancy.
docstoc - Read the history of FASD - Alcohol and Pregnancy and Fetal
Gov.ma – Girls, Women and Alcohol: Making informed Choices
This resource was written by women for women to give you useful information about alcohol and help you make healthy and well-informed choices about your alcohol use. It is not designed to make women stop drinking alcohol.
New website – KnowFASD
SAMSHA - Addressing Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders (FASD) In Women’s Residential Substance Abuse Treatment
SAMSHA - Integrating Sustainable Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders (FASD) Services in Your Existing Service Setting
PLOS - Cost of Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder Diagnosis in Canada
As a result of using the most conservative approach, the cost of FASD diagnostic services presented in the current study is most likely underestimated. The reasons for this likelihood and the limitations of the study are discussed.
PubMed - Alcohol use in pregnancy: insights in screening and intervention for the clinician
Alcohol consumption during pregnancy remains a common occurrence and is associated with a multitude of adverse birth and long-term outcomes. Binge drinking in particular is shown to be particularly harmful to the developing fetus. Effects include full fetal alcohol syndrome, with characteristic facial dysmorphology, growth restriction, and developmental to delays.
Alcoholism - Diffusion Tensor Imaging Correlates of Saccadic Reaction Time in Children with Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder
Eye movement tasks provide a simple method for inferring structural or functional brain deficits in neurodevelopmental disorders. Oculomotor control is impaired in children with fetal alcohol spectrum disorder (FASD), yet the neuroanatomical substrates underlying this are not known.
Alcoholism - Comments and Reflections on Ethics in Screening for Biomarkers of Prenatal Alcohol Exposure
Early identification of and intervention for fetal alcohol spectrum disorder (FASD) has been shown to optimize outcomes for affected individuals. Detecting biomarkers of prenatal alcohol exposure (PAE) in neonates may assist in the identification of children at risk of FASD enabling targeted early interventions.
PNAS - Understanding variability in ethanol teratogenicity
Ethanol is the most widely used psychoactive drug and, when used inappropriately, can have deleterious effects. The developing fetus is particularly sensitive to the deleterious effects of ethanol.
Tribuna (Romania) - Consecinţele consumului de droguri asupra fătului şi nou–născutului
Abuzul de droguri reprezintă o problemă de sănătate publică şi nu una legală şi este, în conformitate cu afirmaţiile American Committee of Obstetrics and Gynaecology (ACOG, 1984) unul din riscurile majore ale obstetricii contemporane atât pentru mamă cât şi pentru făt.
Modafinil Modulates Resting-State Functional Network Connectivity and Cognitive Control in Alcohol-Dependent Patients
Chronic alcohol abuse is associated with deficits in cognitive control functions. Cognitive control is likely to be mediated through the interaction between intrinsic large-scale brain networks involved in externally oriented executive functioning and internally focused thought processing. Improving the interaction between these functional brain networks could be an important target for treatment.
Therefore, the current study aimed to investigate the effects of the cognitive enhancer modafinil on within-network and between-network resting-state functional connectivity and cognitive control functions in alcohol-dependent patients.
In a double-blind, placebo-controlled cross-over design, resting-state functional magnetic resonance imaging and a Stroop task were employed in alcohol-dependent patients (n = 15) and healthy control subjects (n = 16). Within-network and between-network functional connectivity was calculated using a combination of independent component analysis and functional network connectivity analysis.
Modafinil significantly increased the negative coupling between executive networks and the default mode network, which was associated with modafinil-induced improvement in cognitive control in alcohol-dependent patients.
These findings demonstrate that modafinil at least partly exerts its effects by targeting intrinsic functional relationships between large-scale brain systems underlying cognitive control. The current study therefore provides a neurobiological rationale for implementing modafinil as an adjunct in the treatment of alcohol dependence, although clinical studies are needed to substantiate this promise.
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Today Newspaper: Lancaster
Allen Provides Intermodal Site Details at Special City Reception
We are for real and still coming here was the message April 6.
Lancaster residents and civic leaders got a little more information about a planned 6,000-acre intermodal transportation business park at a special reception that date.
The reception was for the Allen Group and its CEO, Richard Allen. He was at the reception along with Director of Community Relations Leslie Jutzi.
The Allen Group has bought 4,500 acres of the land it plans to acquire. Its facility will generally be located north and northeast of Lancaster Airport and will include land in Lancaster, Wilmer, Hutchins and Dallas.
“It will be close to 6,000 acres by the time we get done,” Allen said.
Of course, people want to know when get done might be, and when the first construction work, the next visible sign of getting done, might start. Allen said his company expected to buy the final 1,000-1,500 acres in 60-90 days.
Jutzi and Allen answered the timeline questions.
“In the next year to year and a half, we should start construction,” Jutzi said.
This is a 35- to 40-year buildout, Allen added. This isn’t of regional or state significance, it’s of international significance.
Allen dropped one business tidbit to reinforce that fact.
“BNSF (railroad Burlington Northern Santa Fe) is interested in putting another intermodal terminal here,” he said.
Intermodal terminals are for coordinating railroad shipment of semi trailers, a business that has exploded in recent years with the rapid rise of Chinese exports. Allen added that Union Pacific, which already has an intermodal terminal on I-45, was expected to double the number of its lifts for trailers.
“The location next to three interstate highways and the UP terminal is what made the area so valuable to the Allen Group,” he said.
But the Allen Group site will be more than an intermodal port, or even more than a general business park.
“This will also have retail and residential components,” Allen said.
He told the reception it took 27 partnerships and a year and a half to purchase the first 500 acres at the site.
Lancaster city officials, meanwhile, hope the major development boosts expansion plans at the airport.
Development of an airport like Lancaster’s as a cargo airport is a goal of the NAFTA Trade Corridor. And Lancaster is on its way toward that goal.
The airport has received a $333,334 grant from the Texas Department of Transportation’s Aviation Division, out of that agency’s Federal Aviation Administration state-level funds. The money would fund the lengthening of the current 5,000-foot runway to 6,500 feet, with an eventual goal of 8,000 feet.
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17/01/2013 | Doc. 13092 | Report Gender equality in the countries of the former Yugoslavia.
14/09/2012 | Doc. 13021 | Report For more democratic elections.
26/06/2012 | Doc. 12981 | Report Crisis of transition to democracy in Egypt.
08/06/2012 | Doc. 12952 | Report The honouring of obligations and commitments by Montenegro.
24/05/2012 | Doc. 12938 | Election observation report Observation of the parliamentary elections and the early presidential election in Serbia (6 May 2012).
04/11/2011 | Doc. 12699 | Addendum to the report Co-operation between the Council of Europe and the emerging democracies in the Arab world.
05/09/2011 | Doc. 12699 | Report Co-operation between the Council of Europe and the emerging democracies in the Arab world.
20/06/2011 | Doc. 12643 | Election observation report Observation of the early parliamentary elections in “the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia” (5 June 2011).
24/03/2011 | Doc. 12551 | Report Strengthening torture prevention mechanisms in Europe.
29/11/2010 | Doc. 12440 | Report The protection of witnesses as a cornerstone for justice and reconciliation in the Balkans.
31/03/2010 | Doc. 12192 | Report Honouring of obligations and commitments by Montenegro.
29/05/2008 | Doc. 11618 | Election observation report Observation of the Parliamentary elections in Serbia (11 May 2008).
17/09/2007 | Doc. 11376 | Report Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights – stock-taking and perspectives.
18/04/2007 | Doc. 11256 | Report Draft convention on the protection of children against sexual exploitation and sexual abuse.
12/03/2007 | Doc. 11204 | Report Accession of the Republic of Montenegro to the Council of Europe.
21/12/2006 | Doc. 11118 | Report Child victims: stamping out all forms of violence, exploitation and abuse.
02/10/2006 | Doc. 11037 | Election observation report Observation of the Parliamentary elections in the Republic of Montenegro (10 September 2006).
27/06/2006 | Doc. 10989 | Committee Opinion Consequences of the referendum in Montenegro.
23/06/2006 | Doc. 10969 | Report Observation of the conduct of the referendum on state status of the Republic of Montenegro (Serbia and Montenegro) on 21 may 2006.
Motions, Written Declarations or Questions
07/02/2013 | Doc. 13051 | Written declaration The Ukrainian Parliament vote to ban freedom of expression in support of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender persons
01/02/2013 | Doc. 13129 | Motion for a resolution Functioning of democratic institutions in "The former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia"
22/01/2013 | Doc. 13104 | Motion for a resolution The implementation of Resolution 1625 (2008) on the Turkish islands Gökçeada (Imbros) and Bozcaada (Tenedos)
22/01/2013 | Doc. 13105 | Motion for a recommendation European Forum about the future
22/10/2012 | Doc. 12988 | Written declaration Syrian aggression is a threat to Europe
03/10/2012 | Doc. 13046 | Motion for a resolution Equality and non-discrimination in the access to justice
10/07/2012 | Doc. 12912 | Written declaration Freedom of expression of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) persons in Ukraine threatened
10/07/2012 | Doc. 12910 | Written declaration Exploitation of homophobia for political ends by Moldova's Communist Party
06/07/2012 | Doc. 12994 | Motion for a resolution The situation and rights of traditional national minorities in Europe
06/07/2012 | Doc. 12998 | Motion for a resolution Administrative detention
27/06/2012 | Doc. 12984 | Written declaration Disturbing violations of the rights of LGBT people in Russia in recent weeks
27/06/2012 | Doc. 12990 | Written declaration Homophobic violence openly condoned by certain Armenian members of Parliament
25/05/2012 | Doc. 12940 | Motion for a resolution Need to reinforce the independence of the European Court of Human Rights
25/05/2012 | Doc. 12941 | Motion for a resolution Fathers and their influence on children’s well-being
09/05/2012 | Doc. 12928 | Motion for a recommendation Earthquakes and nuclear safety
09/05/2012 | Doc. 12932 | Motion for a resolution Tackling intolerance and discrimination in Europe with a special focus on Christianity
26/04/2012 | Doc. 12910 | Written declaration Exploitation of homophobia for political ends by Moldova’s Communist Party
26/04/2012 | Doc. 12918 | Written declaration Degrading treatment applied to gay men by excluding them from service in the Turkish Armed Forces
26/04/2012 | Doc. 12922 | Written declaration The expropriation of the YPF Oil Company by the Argentine Government
24/04/2012 | Doc. 12909 | Motion for a resolution Refusing impunity for the killers of Sergei Magnitsky
09/02/2012 | Doc. 12744 | Written declaration The Sergei Magnitsky case
01/02/2012 | Doc. 12866 | Motion for a resolution The political transition in Egypt
31/01/2012 | Doc. 12859 | Motion for a resolution The impact of global financial power on democracies
31/01/2012 | Doc. 12858 | Motion for a resolution Violence on television and its consequences on children
31/01/2012 | Doc. 12860 | Motion for a resolution The idea of Big Society, development of subsidiarity and common good
25/01/2012 | Doc. 12848 | Written declaration Threats to the freedom of expression of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender persons in Russia, Ukraine and Lithuania
25/01/2012 | Doc. 12851 | Written declaration A call for the international civil peacekeeping mission in the Transnistrian secessionist region
25/01/2012 | Doc. 12847 | Written declaration Condemnation of the man-made ecological disaster project of Teghut
23/01/2012 | Doc. 12841 | Motion for a resolution Witness protection as an indispensable tool in the fight against organised crime and terrorism in Europe
23/01/2012 | Doc. 12844 | Motion for a resolution Abuse of pre-trial detention in States Parties to the European Convention on Human Rights
13/10/2011 | Doc. 12648 | Written declaration The banning of the Moscow Pride March in 2011
12/10/2011 | Doc. 12770 | Motion for a resolution Vukovar 1991 – 2011
07/10/2011 | Doc. 12766 | Written declaration 50th anniversary of the United Nations 1961 Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness
06/10/2011 | Doc. 12759 | Motion for a resolution Restoring social justice through a tax on financial transactions
06/10/2011 | Doc. 12765 | Written declaration Protection of Camp Ashraf
06/10/2011 | Doc. 12762 | Written declaration Turkey’s threats against the sovereign right of the Republic of Cyprus to explore its oil and natural gas resources within its Exclusive Economic Zone
06/10/2011 | Doc. 12761 | Written declaration Violations of religious freedom in the Republic of Iran
06/10/2011 | Doc. 12760 | Written declaration In support of Ales Bialiatski, Belarus Human Rights Defender
04/10/2011 | Doc. 12749 | Motion for a resolution Keeping political and criminal responsibility separate
04/10/2011 | Doc. 12742 | Written declaration Justice for Dawit Isaak in Eritrea
27/06/2011 | Doc. 12672 | Motion for a resolution Child friendly justice
23/06/2011 | Doc. 12667 | Motion for a resolution The accession of non-member States to Council of Europe conventions
22/06/2011 | Doc. 12659 | Motion for a resolution Promoting alternatives to imprisonment
22/06/2011 | Doc. 12661 | Motion for a resolution Counteraction to manifestations of neo-Nazism and xenophobia
22/06/2011 | Doc. 12657 | Motion for a resolution The promotion of active citizenship in Europe
22/06/2011 | Doc. 12663 | Written declaration Homophobic speech by members of Moldova's Parliament
22/06/2011 | Doc. 12660 | Written declaration Guantánamo prisoner Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri
21/06/2011 | Doc. 12652 | Motion for a recommendation Gender equality and the status of women in the Council of Europe southern neighbourhood
21/06/2011 | Doc. 12656 | Motion for a resolution Promoting the Council of Europe Convention on Preventing and Combating Violence against Women and Domestic Violence
21/06/2011 | Doc. 12654 | Motion for a resolution Parental leave as a way to foster gender equality
19/04/2011 | Doc. 12603 | Motion for a resolution Parliamentary contribution to solving the Western Sahara conflict
18/04/2011 | Doc. 12596 | Motion for a resolution Impact of the economic crisis on the media: dangers to the fundamental human rights
13/04/2011 | Doc. 12586 | Motion for a resolution Reinforcing the selection processes of experts of the monitoring mechanisms of the Council of Europe
13/04/2011 | Doc. 12588 | Written declaration Camp Ashraf massacre
30/03/2011 | Doc. 12557 | Motion for a resolution The arrival of large numbers of irregular migrants to Italian coastal areas as a result of tensions in the southern Mediterranean countries
21/02/2011 | Doc. 12525 | Motion for a recommendation Controlling irregular migration and asylum claims beyond the European Union’s Eastern Border
02/02/2011 | Doc. 12515 | Motion for a resolution The disastrous ecological impact of Armenia’s mining industry, resulting from the currently exploited and planned mines
02/02/2011 | Doc. 12514 | Motion for a resolution Energy diversification, a common European economic interest
27/01/2011 | Doc. 12505 | Written declaration Interruption of the Christmas mass in the northern occupied part of Cyprus by Turkish troops and restrictions to the right to freedom of religion and worship
26/01/2011 | Doc. 12499 | Motion for a resolution Asylum seekers and refugees: sharing responsibilities in Europe
25/01/2011 | Doc. 12492 | Motion for a recommendation Towards a Council of Europe Convention to combat trafficking in organs, tissues and cells of human origin
14/10/2010 | Doc. 12321 | Written declaration Call for unity on a democratic candidate in the Belarus presidential elections
07/07/2010 | Doc. 12336 | Motion for a resolution Good governance and sport ethics
23/06/2010 | Doc. 12314 | Motion for a resolution The need for the creation of a better measure of national well-being than Gross Domestic Product (GDP)
22/06/2010 | Doc. 12309 | Written declaration Better economic and political co-operation between San Marino and Italy
22/06/2010 | Doc. 12306 | Motion for a resolution Accession of the European Union to the European Convention on Human Rights: Election of judges
09/06/2010 | Doc. 12286 | Written declaration The necessity to intensify the activities of the Ad hoc Committee on the conflict over the Naghorno-Karabakh region
09/06/2010 | Doc. 12289 | Motion for a recommendation The extension of the European Higher Education Area (EHEA) to all countries
09/06/2010 | Doc. 12288 | Motion for a resolution Halting the sharp decline in youth employment
11/05/2010 | Doc. 12251 | Motion for a resolution National sovereignty and statehood in contemporary international law: the need for clarification
29/04/2010 | Doc. 12239 | Written declaration We should protect interpreters in conflict zones!
29/04/2010 | Doc. 12237 | Written declaration The 65th anniversary of the end of World War II
14/03/2010 | Doc. 12287 | Motion for a resolution Fundamental Rights and fundamental duties and responsibilities
26/02/2010 | Doc. 12177 | Motion for a recommendation Over-indebtedness of States: a danger for democracy and human rights
04/02/2010 | Doc. 12163 | Motion for a resolution Follow-up to the reform of the Council of Europe
03/02/2010 | Doc. 12157 | Motion for a resolution The involvement of the army in the events of March 2008 in Armenia
02/02/2010 | Doc. 12154 | Motion for a resolution Increasing drug traffic from Afghanistan as a threat to European security
10/12/2009 | Doc. 12095 | Motion for a resolution An obligatory criterion for the selection procedure of Parliamentary Assembly's presidential candidates
13/10/2009 | Doc. 12064 | Motion for a resolution Promoting the development of microcredit
13/10/2009 | Doc. 12062 | Motion for a resolution Measures to be taken to ensure the preservation of the fundamental values of sport
30/09/2009 | Doc. 12052 | Written declaration Lithuanian Parliament moves to criminalise the freedom of expression of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) persons
16/09/2009 | Doc. 12022 | Motion for a resolution The Declaration of Principles on Equality and activities of the Council of Europe
11/09/2009 | Doc. 12014 | Motion for a resolution Reconsideration on substantive grounds of previously ratified credentials of the Russian delegation (Rule 9 of the Rules of Procedure of the Assembly)
23/06/2009 | Doc. 11969 | Written declaration Lithuanian Law on the protection of minors restricts publication of information on homosexual and bisexual relations
10/06/2009 | Doc. 11945 | Motion for a resolution Improving the procedure for drafting documents of the Assembly
06/05/2009 | Doc. 11906 | Motion for a resolution 20th anniversary of the European Committee against Torture: time to take stock
05/05/2009 | Doc. 11901 | Motion for a recommendation Co-ordination of the Council of Europe's Cultural Routes programme with the European Union's "European Heritage" label and encouragement of their application in Eastern Europe
05/05/2009 | Doc. 11900 | Motion for a resolution Conferment of the Council of Europe Cultural Route label on the Cistercian sites route across Greater Europe
05/05/2009 | Doc. 11897 | Motion for a recommendation Drafting an additional protocol to the European Convention for Human Rights: basic standards for national minorities
04/05/2009 | Doc. 11892 | Motion for a resolution The need for independent and credible environmental assessments
30/04/2009 | Doc. 11889 | Motion for a recommendation Education against violence at school
27/04/2009 | Doc. 11874 | Motion for a resolution The need to establish effective, independent national mechanisms for monitoring places of detention
04/02/2009 | Doc. 11830 | Motion for a recommendation International Convention for the Protection of all Persons from Enforced Disappearances
04/02/2009 | Doc. 11832 | Motion for a resolution New human rights: regulatory frameworks on ethically sensitive issues and implementation thereof
04/02/2009 | Doc. 11831 | Motion for a resolution Lack of appropriate follow-up, by the Committee of Ministers, to the work of the Parliamentary Assembly
02/02/2009 | Doc. 11825 | Motion for a recommendation Framing a proactive policy for public authorities in Europe aimed at preventing overweight and achieving regulation
29/01/2009 | Doc. 11820 | Motion for a resolution Preserve the Monastery of Mor Gabriel in Turkey
29/01/2009 | Doc. 11818 | Motion for a resolution Reconciliation and political dialogue between the countries of the former Yugoslavia
27/01/2009 | Doc. 11804 | Motion for a recommendation Protecting the human rights of long-term displaced persons in Europe
14/10/2008 | Doc. 11754 | Motion for a resolution Discriminatory laws against Macedonian political refugees from Greece
13/10/2008 | Doc. 11751 | Motion for a resolution Term of office of co-rapporteurs of the Monitoring Committee
13/10/2008 | Doc. 11749 | Motion for a resolution End the travel ban for Chernobyl children
02/10/2008 | Doc. 11735 | Written declaration Protection of Camp Ashraf residents
01/10/2008 | Doc. 11734 | Motion for a resolution Curbing the threats of war in Europe
01/10/2008 | Doc. 11733 | Written declaration For a democratic Zimbabwe
01/07/2008 | Doc. 11675 | Motion for a resolution The death penalty in Council of Europe member and observer countries – an unacceptable violation of human rights
27/06/2008 | Doc. 11672 | Motion for a resolution Prevention of obesity and type 2 diabetes and promotion of healthy nutritional habits among children and the young
25/06/2008 | Doc. 11667 | Motion for a resolution Promoting a prevention policy against gambling addiction and combating cybercrime related to on-line betting and gambling
25/06/2008 | Doc. 11661 | Written declaration Appeal on behalf of the Burmese population
02/05/2008 | Doc. 11606 | Motion for a resolution On the compliance of the International Court of Justice decision in the Avena case
25/04/2008 | Doc. 11603 | Motion for a resolution On non-recognition by Romania of the Moldovans’ right to national identity
24/04/2008 | Doc. 11595 | Motion for a resolution Difficult cultural situation of the Istro-Romanian minority particularly threatened
24/04/2008 | Doc. 11590 | Motion for a recommendation Protecting financial aid granted by Council of Europe member countries to poor countries against the financial funds known as “vulture funds”
18/04/2008 | Doc. 11589 | Written declaration Judicial proceedings against the Justice and Development Party in Turkey
17/04/2008 | Doc. 11584 | Written declaration Declaration on the unilateral decision by the Russian Federation to legalise ties with the Georgian regions of Abkhazia and South Ossetia
15/04/2008 | Doc. 11578 | Motion for a resolution Protecting innovation and consumers in Europe
11/03/2008 | Doc. 11532 | Motion for a resolution Candidates for the European Court of Human Rights
31/01/2008 | Doc. 11522 | Motion for a resolution The protection of witnesses as a cornerstone for justice and reconciliation in the Balkans
31/01/2008 | Doc. 11521 | Motion for a resolution The need to avoid duplication of the work of the Council of Europe by the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights
24/01/2008 | Doc. 11509 | Written declaration For realistic, credible intercultural dialogue
23/01/2008 | Doc. 11508 | Written declaration Case of Varnava and others v/Turkey (ECHR)
23/01/2006 | Doc. 10795 | Letter Peril of using energy supply as an instrument of political pressure
19/09/2005 | Doc. 10674 | Motion for a recommendation The fight against harm to the environment in the Mediterranean and the Black Sea
19/09/2005 | Doc. 10675 | Motion for a recommendation Equal rights and opportunities for the disabled and their integration in society
08/09/2005 | Doc. 10660 | Motion for a recommendation The implementation of legal and other tools useful for fighting against violence and other forms of child exploitation and abuse
Votes (from electronic voting system)
25/01/2013 | Resolution 1921 | Gender equality, reconciliation of private and working life and co-responsibility
24/01/2013 | Resolution 1918 | Migration and asylum: mounting tensions in the eastern Mediterranean
24/01/2013 | Recommendation 2010 | Migration and asylum: mounting tensions in the eastern Mediterranean
23/01/2013 | Recommendation 2009 | Towards a Council of Europe convention to combat trafficking in organs, tissues and cells of human origin
03/10/2012 | Resolution 1897 | Ensuring greater democracy in elections
03/10/2012 | Resolution 1898 | Political parties and women’s political representation
02/10/2012 | Resolution 1896 | The honouring of obligations and commitments by the Russian Federation
28/06/2012 | Resolution 1892 | Crisis of transition to democracy in Egypt
27/06/2012 | Resolution 1890 | The honouring of obligations and commitments by Montenegro
27/04/2012 | Resolution 1881 | Promoting an appropriate policy on tax havens
26/04/2012 | Resolution 1878 | The situation in Syria
25/04/2012 | Resolution 1875 | Good governance and ethics in sport
25/04/2012 | Resolution 1876 | The need to combat match-fixing
25/04/2012 | Recommendation 1997 | The need to combat match-fixing
24/04/2012 | Resolution 1872 | Lives lost in the Mediterranean Sea: Who is responsible?
25/01/2012 | Resolution 1858 | The honouring of obligations and commitments by Serbia
25/01/2012 | Resolution 1857 | The situation in Belarus
25/01/2012 | Recommendation 1992 | The situation in Belarus
24/01/2012 | Resolution 1855 | The functioning of democratic institutions in Bosnia and Herzegovina
05/10/2011 | Resolution 1837 | The functioning of democratic institutions in Armenia
05/10/2011 | Resolution 1836 | The impact of the Lisbon Treaty on the Council of Europe
05/10/2011 | Recommendation 1982 | The impact of the Lisbon Treaty on the Council of Europe
04/10/2011 | Resolution 1831 | Co-operation between the Council of Europe and the emerging democracies in the Arab world
04/10/2011 | Resolution 1830 | Request for partner for democracy status with the Parliamentary Assembly submitted by the Palestinian National Council
23/06/2011 | Resolution 1824 | The role of parliaments in the consolidation and development of social rights in Europe
23/06/2011 | Recommendation 1976 | The role of parliaments in the consolidation and development of social rights in Europe
23/06/2011 | Resolution 1823 | National parliaments: guarantors of human rights in Europe
22/06/2011 | Resolution 1822 | Reform of the Parliamentary Assembly
21/06/2011 | Resolution 1819 | The situation in Tunisia
21/06/2011 | Recommendation 1972 | The situation in Tunisia
21/06/2011 | Resolution 1818 | Request for Partner for Democracy status with the Parliamentary Assembly submitted by the Parliament of Morocco
14/04/2011 | Resolution 1807 | The death penalty in Council of Europe member and observer states: a violation of human rights
14/04/2011 | Resolution 1808 | Strengthening torture prevention mechanisms in Europe
14/04/2011 | Recommendation 1968 | Strengthening torture prevention mechanisms in Europe
12/04/2011 | Recommendation 1962 | The religious dimension of intercultural dialogue
26/01/2011 | Resolution 1784 | Protection of witnesses as a cornerstone for justice and reconciliation in the Balkans
26/01/2011 | Recommendation 1952 | The protection of witnesses as a cornerstone for justice and reconciliation in the Balkans
26/01/2011 | Resolution 1785 | The obligation of member and observer states of the Council of Europe to co-operate in the prosecution of war crimes
26/01/2011 | Recommendation 1953 | The obligation of member and observer states of the Council of Europe to co-operate in the prosecution of war crimes
26/01/2011 | Resolution 1786 | Reconciliation and political dialogue between the countries of the former Yugoslavia
26/01/2011 | Recommendation 1954 | Reconciliation and political dialogue between the countries of the former Yugoslavia
25/01/2011 | Resolution 1782 | Investigation of allegations of inhuman treatment of people and illicit trafficking in human organs in Kosovo
06/10/2010 | Resolution 1757 | Human rights and business
06/10/2010 | Recommendation 1936 | Human rights and business
05/10/2010 | Recommendation 1934 | Child abuse in institutions: ensuring full protection of the victims
23/06/2010 | Resolution 1743 | Islam, Islamism and Islamophobia in Europe
23/06/2010 | Recommendation 1927 | Islam, Islamism and Islamophobia in Europe
23/06/2010 | Resolution 1744 | Extra-institutional actors in the democratic system
23/06/2010 | Resolution 1746 | Democracy in Europe: crisis and perspectives
23/06/2010 | Recommendation 1928 | Democracy in Europe: crisis and perspectives
23/06/2010 | Resolution 1745 | The political consequences of the economic crisis
22/06/2010 | Recommendation 1922 | Legal remedies for human rights violations in the North Caucasus region
22/06/2010 | Resolution 1739 | The situation in Kosovo* and the role of the Council of Europe
22/06/2010 | Recommendation 1923 | The situation in Kosovo* and the role of the Council of Europe
29/04/2010 | Resolution 1728 | Discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity
29/04/2010 | Recommendation 1915 | Discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity
29/04/2010 | Resolution 1726 | Effective implementation of the European Convention on Human Rights: the Interlaken process
29/04/2010 | Resolution 1725 | Urgent need for constitutional reform in Bosnia and Herzegovina
29/04/2010 | Recommendation 1914 | Urgent need for constitutional reform in Bosnia and Herzegovina
29/04/2010 | Resolution 1727 | Situation in Belarus: recent developments
28/04/2010 | Resolution 1723 | Commemorating the victims of the Great Famine (Holodomor) in the former USSR
28/04/2010 | Resolution 1724 | Honouring of obligations and commitments by Montenegro
28/04/2010 | Resolution 1722 | Piracy – A crime and a challenge for democracies
28/04/2010 | Recommendation 1913 | Necessity to take additional international legal steps to deal with sea piracy
26/04/2010 | Recommendation 1908 | Lobbying in a democratic society (European code of good conduct on lobbying)
27/01/2010 | Resolution 1706 | Increasing women’s representation in politics through the electoral system
27/01/2010 | Recommendation 1899 | Increasing women’s representation in politics through the electoral system
27/01/2010 | Resolution 1705 | Thresholds and other features of electoral systems which have an impact on representativity of parliaments in Council of Europe member states
27/01/2010 | Recommendation 1898 | Thresholds and other features of electoral systems which have an impact on representativity of parliaments in Council of Europe member states
26/01/2010 | Resolution 1702 | Action against trafficking in human beings: promoting the Council of Europe convention
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APRA AMCOS NZ > Feedback Centre > Alternative Dispute Resolution
Licensee Disputes
APRA AMCOS provide an Alternative Dispute Resolution facility for faster and less expensive resolution of certain disputes with licensees or potential licensees.
Disputes may relate to the terms of the licence, whether a licence is required at all, or how much music is being played at the licensee's premises or by the licensee's service. These disputes can nearly always be referred to the Copyright Tribunal or to the courts to be resolved. However, APRA AMCOS realise that the Copyright Tribunal and the court system can be expensive and time consuming dispute resolution forums.
APRA AMCOS' Alternative Dispute resolution facility involves a procedure known as Expert Determination. APRA AMCOS have established the Expert Determination procedure to attempt to resolve disputes with licensees or potential licensees, more efficiently and cost effectively.
Expert Determination Procedure:
If during your negotiations with a licensing officer from APRA AMCOS a dispute arises, either you or the licensing officer may suggest that the dispute be referred to Expert Determination. This should only occur if it seems unlikely that the dispute can be resolved by negotiation. If you are not already a licensee of APRA AMCOS and you ask to have the dispute determined by an expert, APRA AMCOS must agree. If you already have an APRA AMCOS licence, you may be required to have the dispute referred to Expert Determination, under the terms of your licence.
Once you have agreed that the dispute should be referred to Expert Determination, the APRA AMCOS licensing officer will refer the matter to the APRA AMCOS ADR liaison officer. The liaison officer will take a detailed note of the matters in dispute, and will contact you to make arrangements for the Expert Determination.
Disputes will be determined by one of a panel of three independent experts. All members of the panel will be barristers with expertise in intellectual property matters, who have not been retained to advise APRA AMCOS or to represent APRA AMCOS in legal proceedings. APRA AMCOS will ask you to choose from three such barristers.
A date which is convenient to you, APRA AMCOS and the independent expert will be appointed. The dispute will be dealt with at a venue which is as close to your place of business as possible (usually a main city).
Before the date which has been set down for dealing with the dispute, you and APRA AMCOS may submit any written statements or other documents which support your arguments relating to the dispute. These should be forwarded to the ADR liaison officer.
At the Expert Determination, you will be given an opportunity to present your arguments to the independent expert. APRA AMCOS will also be given an opportunity to present its arguments. If both parties wish, they may have their solicitors present to assist them. If you agree to have a representative body appear on your behalf, you may.
The expert will then make a determination of the dispute. If either you or APRA AMCOS are dissatisfied with the determination, the dispute may be referred to the Copyright Tribunal or the courts (whichever is the appropriate body).
Depending on the nature of the dispute and the circumstances of the licensee, APRA AMCOS may pay for the costs of the independent expert, including professional fees and travel expenses. The cost of the venue for the Expert Determination must be shared equally between the parties. You must pay your own costs associated with the determination. If your dispute is with APRA only, please refer to APRA’s policy on paying for expert determination [see below].
Nothing in this procedure prevents you from negotiating with APRA AMCOS a different method of dispute resolution, such as mediation.
APRA's Policy on paying for Expert Determination
In most cases (including all casual licences), APRA will pay for the costs of the independent expert, including professional fees and travel expenses. Other than under casual licences, if your annual APRA licence fees are more than $100,000, you and APRA will share the costs of the independent expert equally or as directed by the independent expert. The cost of the venue for the Expert Determination must be shared equally between the parties. You must pay your own costs associated with the determination.
If you negotiate with APRA a different method of dispute resolution, such as mediation, APRA is not bound to pay the costs of any such procedure.
If you would like any details about the process, please contact APRA AMCOS Licensing Services.
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CHRIST OUR PASCHA - NEW CATECHISM OF THE UKRAINIAN CATHOLIC CHURCH PRESENTED AT DAUPHIN
On November 13, 2016, the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church of the Resurrection in Dauphin welcomed Bishop Peter Stasiuk of Melborne, Australia. Bishop Peter co- celebrated the Divine Liturgy with our pastor, the Very Reverend Father Oleg Bodnarski. In his Homily the Bishop emphasized the importance of the new Catechism of our church that is now available for purchase. He stressed the importance of this Catechism to be in every home of our Parish so that all can become knowledgeable about our Catholic faith and our Divine Liturgy. In the second part of his homily, Bishop Peter talked about the theme in the Sunday's Gospel (Luke 18:18-27) where many feel the need to accumulate wealth and material things but fail to realize that saving their soul and staying close to Jesus is what will matter most in the end.
Submitted by Mary Procyshyn.
Luke 18:18-27…. (rsv)
The Rich Official.
And a ruler asked him, "Good Teacher, what shall I do to inherit eternal life?" And Jesus said to him, "Why do you call me good? No one is good but God alone. You know the commandments: `Do not commit adultery, Do not kill, Do not steal, Do not bear false witness, Honor your father and mother.'" And he said, "All these I have observed from my youth." And when Jesus heard it, he said to him, "One thing you still lack. Sell all that you have and distribute to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven; and come, follow me." But when he heard this he became sad, for he was very rich.
On Riches and Renunciation.
Jesus looking at him said, "How hard it is for those who have riches to enter the kingdom of God! For it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God." Those who heard it said, "Then who can be saved?" But he said, "What is impossible with men is possible with God."
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Don Carlo {100} Metropolitan Opera House: 02/13/1979.
(Debut: Atarah Hazzan
Change of Performance
Change of Performance)
DON CARLO {100}
Giuseppe Verdi--François Joseph Méry/Camille du Locle
Don Carlo...............Vasile Moldoveanu
Elizabeth of Valois.....Atarah Hazzan [Debut]
Rodrigo.................Garbis Boyagian [Last performance]
Princess Eboli..........Marilyn Horne
Philip II...............Paul Plishka
Grand Inquisitor........James Morris
Celestial Voice.........Leona Mitchell
Friar...................John Cheek
Tebaldo.................Betsy Norden
Forester................Robert Manno
Count of Lerma..........Dana Talley
Countess of Aremberg....Barbara Greene
Herald..................Charles Anthony
Conductor...............James Levine
A scheduled performance of Ariadne auf Naxos on this date was changed to Don Carlo.
Review and account of John Rockwell in The New York Times
The best thing about Tuesday evening's performance of "Don Carlo" at the Metropolitan Opera was the performance itself, not the dramatic circumstances of its scheduling.
The original opera for Tuesday was to have been the first performance of the new and glamorously cast revival of "Ariadne auf Naxos." But Leontyne Price called in ill Tuesday morning; her "cover," Teresa Kubiak, was likewise indisposed; and the second cover, Leonie Rysanek had flown back to Germany, and no other Ariadnes were available. After considering their options, Met officials decided to go with their new production of "Don Carlo," but that entailed massive problems of its own.
First, about 450 phone calls had to be made to round up all those needed to perform the work. Second, "Don Carlo" had been done on Monday, and most of the principals were unwilling to sing again the next night. Third, the opera had to begin at 8 P.M., instead of the 7:15 P.M. at which the Met's generous new version of "Don Carlo" normally gets under way, which meant that the performance would run well into overtime (it eventually ended at 12:30 A.M.). And fourth, provisions had to be made for disappointed ticket-holders to exchange their seats for later performances. All in all, the company estimates the change in opera will cost $40,000.
The result was the performance before a half-empty house with four of the principal roles taken by stand-by performers. Atarah Hazzan, a soprano born in Israel and raised in New York who has sung with the New York City Opera, made her company debut as Elizabeth; Vasile Moldoveanu, who is singing Pinkerton at the Met just now, was the Carlo; Garbis Boyagian, who made his debut recently as Amonasro, was the Rodrigo, and Paul Plishka - who was actually scheduled to sing in the opera later on in the season - was the Philip. Otherwise, all was as before.
This was still a fine performance of the opera, however, as well as a tribute to the effectiveness of the new Met's "cover" system (at least for "Don Carlo" if not for "Ariadne"). All the newcomers fit smoothly into the production (a couple of minor lapses in stage business aside), and into James Levine's passionately convincing musical confection, as well.
The least successful of the four was the debutante, Miss Hazzan, and even she was good enough. Her soprano is simultaneously a bit pinched and swallowed, and a little small in scale for a part this prominent. Furthermore, she acted with excessive constraint. But her voice has its beauties, too, and she was never less than serviceable; she may well shine in other parts in other circumstances.
Most impressive was Mr. Moldoveanu --- if Giuseppe Giacomini of the first cast was this good, the Met is fortunate indeed. Mr. Moldoveanu seemed a bit nervous. But he has a fine, forthright spinto tenor with a most sympathetic timbre, he phrased with real authority and sensitivity - and he's a fine-looking man, to boot.
Almost as good was Mr. Boyagian who was far more comfortable with Rodrigo's music than he had been with Amonasro's. His baritone lacks the manly swagger of Sherrill Milnes's. But he has an appealing sensitivity and lyricism, and the actual sound is warm and attractive; his scenes with Carlo, and especially with the penultimate scene of the opera, were absolutely first-class.
Mr. Plishka lacks the ideal low notes for Philip, and his voice isn't the sonorous instrument of Nicolai Ghiaurov. But he sang and acted the part with a strong, fierce passion, and delivered his big aria with real conviction.
Don Carlo: Conductor [Levine, James]
Don Carlo: Don Carlo [Moldoveanu, Vasile]
Don Carlo: Elizabeth of Valois [Hazzan, Atarah]
Don Carlo: Rodrigo [Boyagian, Garbis]
Don Carlo: Princess Eboli [Horne, Marilyn]
Don Carlo: Philip II [Plishka, Paul]
Don Carlo: Grand Inquisitor [Morris, James]
Don Carlo: Celestial Voice [Mitchell, Leona]
Don Carlo: Friar [Cheek, John]
Don Carlo: Tebaldo [Norden, Betsy]
Don Carlo: Forester [Manno, Robert]
Don Carlo: Count of Lerma [Talley, Dana]
Don Carlo: Countess of Aremberg [Greene, Barbara]
Don Carlo: Herald [Anthony, Charles]
Boyagian, Garbis [Baritone]
Cheek, John [Bass]
Greene, Barbara [Actor]
Hazzan, Atarah [Soprano]
Horne, Marilyn [Mezzo Soprano]
Levine, James [Conductor]
Manno, Robert [Bass]
Mitchell, Leona [Soprano]
Moldoveanu, Vasile [Tenor]
Morris, James [Bass]
Norden, Betsy [Soprano]
Plishka, Paul [Bass]
Talley, Dana [Tenor]
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Washington, DC – August 19, 2009 – (RealEstateRama) — Emphasizing the vast potential of solar energy in California’s 45th District, Congresswoman Mary Bono Mack (CA-45) today praised an agreement between First Solar and Southern California Edison that will bring new solar energy projects to the region. The two large-scale installations, among the biggest of their kind, will be built in Riverside and San Bernardino Counties and will produce enough energy to power approximately 170,000 homes.
“Our region has outstanding potential as a leader in developing clean, renewable energy,” said Bono Mack. “I am pleased that this agreement will result in a new solar energy project in our District, create jobs and bring us closer to realizing our clean energy goals. This is good news for our community and the future of solar energy.”
Bono Mack noted that the new installations are a 250 megawatt Desert Sunlight project near Desert Center, CA, and a 300 megawatt Stateline project in northeastern San Bernardino County. The solar facilities, which are expected to generate several hundred jobs at each site, will be constructed using industry leading thin-film photovoltaic solar modules by First Solar.
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Malaria Prevention in Africa – Harry van der Zee
Keywords: Malaria, Infectious disease, Prophylaxis, Genus Epidemicus, Africa, World Health, Organization, Peter Chappell, Source Medicine, PC240m, Evolution, Resonance, Shamanic Journey, War Trauma, Collective Coherence, Helplessness, Malaria Prevention Project.
When in this article I use the term ‘we’, ‘us’ or ‘our’ I am referring to all the wonderful people that make ‘our’ work in Africa possible, starting with Peter Chappell who initiated it all, the volunteers of ARHF (Amma Resonance Healing Foundation)1 and the many partners, colleagues and friends in Africa that joined us in our goal to treat and prevent disease and relieve trauma in Africa. Without them and without our sponsors this work could not be done and this article could not have been written.
Malaria is caused by Plasmodium parasites that are transmitted to people through the bites of infected female Anopheles mosquitoes. Five species of Plasmodium can infect and be spread by humans. Most deaths are caused by P. falciparum because P. vivax, P. ovale, and P. malariae generally cause a milder form of malaria. The species P. knowlesi rarely causes disease in humans.
Approximately 80% of all malaria cases and 86% of all malaria deaths occur in the African Region. High-risk groups include children, pregnant women, people living with HIV/AIDS, as well as non-immune migrants, mobile populations and travellers.
Symptoms of malaria include fever, headache and vomiting. They usually appear between 10 to 15 days after the mosquito bite. If left untreated, malaria can quickly become life-threatening by disrupting the blood supply to vital organs such as the liver and kidneys.
Malaria can cause the accumulation of fluid in the lungs and can cause the spleen to rupture. Severe forms of malaria can also cause life-threatening low blood sugar. Cerebral malaria is a severe complication that causes swelling of the brain and can result in coma or death.
Pregnant women are at the highest risk of malaria complications. Malaria can cause spontaneous abortion, premature delivery, stillbirth and severe maternal anaemia. It is also responsible for about one third of preventable low birth weight babies.
The primary interventions for malaria control in high-risk populations include the use of insecticide-treated nets (ITNs) and indoor residual sprays (IRS).
The vast majority of malaria deaths occur in children under five years of age. Today in Africa, despite all efforts by WHO, NGOs and governments, every minute a child dies from malaria.
As people living with HIV/AIDS have a higher risk of recurrent malaria episodes and severe malaria, as also a higher incidence of TB, we find the following combination in sub-Saharan Africa: poverty–malaria–HIV–TB. Add war, political instability, corruption, malnutrition and under-education and the problem seems unsolvable.
In 2010 Africa had 110-245 million clinical cases of malaria of which 596.000 ended fatally.
Worldwide, in 2013, malaria led to 584.000 deaths of which 78 per cent were children under five years of age. This translates into a daily toll of more than 1.200 children under age 5—a total of over 456.000 children a year. Most of these deaths occurred in sub-Saharan Africa.
One out of six African children die of malaria and in schools 10-30% of children can be absent from school every day due to malaria.
[1] Amma Resonance Healing Foundation is a non-profit organisation registered in the Netherlands – www.arhf.nl – [email protected].
Homeopathy and malaria
Regarding malaria homeopathy seemed to start on the right foot, as it was Hahnemann’s observation on Cinchona bark that led him to the discovery of the rule of similars. If we look though, at what homeopathy has meant to the largest epidemic disease on the planet, the outcome is rather disappointing. There is sufficient evidence of homeopathy’s effectiveness in treating malaria, but I’m not aware of any major attempt to significantly reduce the impact of malaria on humanity as a whole, not even in India, which has more homeopaths than all other countries together, and where malaria is endemic in large areas. It is even more remarkable as a historical review shows that homeopathy’s greatest asset appears to be in the treatment of epidemic diseases. There are impressive examples of such broad applications of homeopathy in the 19th and 20th centuries.
In giving an historical overview of the use of homeopathy in epidemic diseases Bedayn writes that the curative results of homeopathy “… were so positive during the epidemics in the ensuing decades that they not only cured the majority of those affected where nothing else had worked, but they also drew international acclaim towards homeopathy, the new, the rational, medicine. There is something intrinsically powerful about the success of homeopathy in curing large populations that is undeniably attractive to anyone gifted with the power of observation, and it was through these early cures with epidemics that Hahnemann was able to quickly and widely spread the word: Homeopathy.”
In 1994 in an interview André Saine stated: “Homeopathy had become very popular in North America during its early years due to its amazing successes obtained by the ‘old guard’ during the epidemics – epidemics of diphtheria, scarlet fever, cholera, malaria, yellow fever.”
If we look at homeopathy today, the use of the homeopathic approach for epidemic diseases is marginal. In part, this is because epidemic diseases like those mentioned above hardly play a role anymore in the West. Homeopaths that went to developing countries to help those for whom often no medical care is available at all were strongly confronted with epidemic diseases. They once again started to treat epidemic diseases and experienced how successful homeopathy still is for these conditions.
In 1996 van Erp and Brands published a pilot study performed in Ghana, Africa. In a randomised double blind trial with limited numbers of subjects, homeopathic treatment was compared to treatment by Chloroquine. The group using homoeopathic medicines experienced an 83.3% improvement, while the group using Chloroquine experienced a 72% improvement within the same time period.
A Genus Epidemicus remedy for malaria
My personal experience with malaria started in 2004 when I visited Malawi. I was there together with Corrie Hiwat to do a retrospective epidemiological study of Peter Chappell’s treatment of AIDS with PC1 – a remedy based on the genus epidemicus of HIV/AIDS. The results with PC1 were very convincing then and still are. I’ve been to Africa a dozen times now and have treated AIDS in some ten countries, and can remember only one case that didn’t seem to respond. As Peter had found a new way of making a genus epidemicus remedy , he soon made more for other diseases, like malaria.2 Although at that time our focus was not on malaria we did make some interesting observations already, which have been confirmed by more extensive experience later:
1. Treatment prevents: Patients that have chronic or regular malaria have no more attacks when they are treated with PC240m for malaria during an acute episode.
2. Treatment of underlying causes prevents: HIV-positive patients that had malaria regularly, stopped having malaria once they were treated with PC1 for HIV/AIDS. I’ve also observed several cases in which there is a relationship between malaria and gonorrhoea. In areas where malaria is endemic the immune system of healthy people is strong enough to prevent them from getting malaria. Gonorrhoea, and probably also the treatment/suppression of it with antibiotics, possibly weakens the immune system, and several cases have been observed where people reported that they never had malaria until they got infected with gonorrhoea. If the patients are seen in between malaria attacks then treating them for gonorrhoea or the history of it with PC180g alone is often enough to prevent further malaria attacks. I’ve seen similar results in patients with chronic hepatitis – treating the hepatitis alone is often enough to stop malaria. In principle, any chronic infection or severe form of trauma undermines immunity and makes a person more vulnerable to malaria. In practice this means that malaria can also be prevented if an underlying condition that undermines immunity is treated.
[2] PC Remedies are made without the use of any substance but imprinted into water directly by contacting what Peter calls Source. After establishing the genus epidemicus of a disease, a request is made to Source to prepare a simillimum for that disease totality. Stock bottles of these PC Remedies are with several pharmacies. See the book ‘Homeopathy for Diseases’ and www.vitalremedies.com for more details.
Treating causes (or miasms) has become more and more our focus in dealing with diseases in Africa, and my estimate is that about 80% of the conditions people suffer from in Africa can be treated by identifying and treating the cause(s). This means that individualizing a case is not needed in the majority of cases. It would be great if the manpower and skills were available in Africa to individualize each and every case, but even then starting with remedies that address the underlying cause(s) is best practice.
Why homeopathy for malaria treatment and prevention?
Therapy resistance is an increasing problem, making conventional medicine inactive and alternative approaches dearly needed. For the major epidemics in Africa – malaria, TB and HIV – this is a serious problem. The reality is that in the short-term antibiotics and ARVs save lives but that in the long term they may induce more dangerous strains of the infective agent and patients may become therapy resistant. Dual infections, as with HIV and TB, only increase this problem. WHO is aware of this problem and was, some ten years ago, on the brink of publishing a positive recommendation about the use of homeopathy for epidemic diseases, but counter forces assembled and the report was never published.
Homeopathy for malaria has the following general advantages:
• No side-effects
• Safe for pregnant women, babies and elderly people
• Inexpensive
• Production, storage and distribution is simple
• No therapy resistance – no suppression, so no creation of more dangerous strains
• The genus epidemicus principle (as if one person – prescribing for the disease) applies
• Only a short training course is required for a medically trained person to be taught how to treat and prevent malaria with homeopathy
Why PC Remedies?
My choice for PC Remedies in discussing treatment and prevention of malaria is based on more than ten years experience in Africa. Of course epidemic diseases can be treated and prevented with remedies from our conventional materia medica and, most if not all of what I’m sharing with you in this article could also be accomplished using substance-based remedies by a properly educated, skilled and experienced homeopath. Even then, having PC240m in a kit is recommended. For instance, a homeopath active in Africa had good results with homeopathy for acute and chronic malaria. Those cases that did not respond to the selected remedies she gave PC240m to which they all responded.
PC240m for malaria has the following particular advantages on top of the general advantages summed up above:
• One remedy for one disease instead of a number of remedies
• No safety issues like with nosodes
• Highly effective
• Same remedy for treatment, chronic effects and prevention
• Low skill: treatment and prevention can be taught to any person in one hour
It is important to realise that it is not a matter of principle that a genus epidemicus should consist of several remedies from which a skilled person needs to choose. It is a purely practical matter in that usually it is difficult to find one single remedy that covers the disease totality. And therefore a group of remedies is selected that together covers the genus epidemicus. By receiving PC240m for malaria directly from Source, case-taking, treatment and prevention become very straightforward, easy and also more effective.
Another reason why I feel that these Source Remedies should be seriously considered is their very origin. We use the term Source as other names would create all sorts of discussions in a world divided along religious lines. As humans our ability to truly perceive the genus epidemicus of malaria, including its role and purpose in the evolution of mankind, is limited. To significantly reduce malaria or even remove malaria from the face of the earth, its deeper meaning needs to be addressed, as without that we would only be suppressing the disease. In my understanding and to my experience the Source of PC Remedies has included the role and purpose of malaria in PC240m, and that is why it is so extremely reliable in treatment and prevention.
Should PC Remedies be considered homeopathy? I get that question at times and the answer depends on what is being understood under the term homeopathy. From a spiritual point of view the answer is very simple. The basic principle of homeopathy is the Law of Similars. To cure we use a simillimum. How that simillimum is made is a technical matter and not a matter of principle. If we define homeopathy as the application of the Law of Similars then PC Remedies are simply a new advance within homeopathy. If substance is used to make a remedy, a process of potentisation is required to free the healing energy from the mineral, plant or animal source. And next a proving is needed to get an image of the healing potential of the remedy. The Source of PC Remedies lies beyond the material realm and can provide the healing essence for an epidemic disease directly by imprinting it into water. So, the process of potentisation is not needed, and as the remedy is made based on the genus epidemicus of the disease also a proving is not needed. Chetna Shukla did a few provings in the past to see whether the remedy pictures of PC Remedies would indeed fit the targeted diagnoses, and her conclusion was they do. To answer the question in a different way: If it looks like a duck, swims like a duck, and quacks like a duck, then it probably is a duck. From my experience in treating and preventing epidemic diseases, I think it’s even the best duck around!
Role and purpose of malaria
From research we know that malaria accompanies humanity from as far as we can look back and it is estimated that in the total history of mankind 50% of all humans that ever lived died from malaria. At present 50% of the world population lives in areas where malaria is endemic.
Considering the magnitude of the impact of malaria it is not only interesting that Hahnemann started the homeopathic adventure with China, but possibly also very meaningful. From the figures above we may conclude that the malaria miasm is probably (one of) the most basic miasm(s) guiding the development of mankind.
The core remedy belonging to the malaria miasm is China officinalis. Typical of the remedy is a combination of a mind full of plans and ideas contrasted by feeling unfortunate:
• Abundant ideas at night
• Reflects upon execution of many plans
• Delusion he is hindered at work
• Delusion he is unfortunate
The fact that the ideas enter the mind at night while during the day he feels hindered at work means that the manifestation of plans does not occur. They remain ideas in the dark that do not see their realization in daylight.
Because we are dealing with a serious epidemic disease that is killing millions of people we decided to further try understand the intelligence of malaria. We found a way to do this by using shamanic journeys conducted by Eileen Nauman, a skilled shaman homeopath. From her journeys to malaria and other infectious diseases and through our own analysis, we’ve come to understand them. They offer us instruction and education. Epidemic diseases are trying to inform and wake up the human race and to make it more conscious, to make us aware that we are consciousness itself. So the diseases are working on evolving our conscious mind.
In treating or preventing malaria, which most people in Africa tend to get at least once or twice a year, the homeopathic approach must generate the intelligent shifts in human consciousness that malaria has to bring, in a permanent way, so that there is no further need to have the disease. Then its purpose has been fully accomplished if the cure is to remain.
Malaria induces a sort of helplessness; a way of thinking that whatever you do you cannot succeed. That undermining aspect is the homeopathically understood psychology of malaria.
A part of the teaching of malaria is that success is possible. And if the homeopathic approach to malaria is to work profoundly and properly and to replace the disease, it has then to bring out in the people the feeling that they can succeed. This is why malaria is so critical to Africa. Its role and purpose is to awaken individual abilities. African tribal culture frustrates individual initiative. Malaria, seen as an intelligent evolutionary force, has already taken thousands of years to bring about this change, involving a lot of suffering. Any truly effective treatment and prevention has to bring out the success that is inherent in every African. If malaria were effectively treated and prevented across Africa, and this is incredibly easy to do technically with PC240m, Africa would more than happily look after itself and become a thriving part of the world community.
Including the conscious intelligence of a specific epidemic disease in the appropriate PC Remedy is luckily not dependent on our limited understanding of it, but is provided by the same intelligent Source that at our request creates the resonance.
Therapy resistance
Therapy resistance for malaria is huge and if indeed epidemic diseases carry messages for the human race we can see why the parasite is so persistent in bringing its message home. Until recently only one drug was still free from therapy resistance, artemisinin, but also this safe haven is becoming less reliable: “ … the spread of a resistant parasite … will have devastating consequences for malaria control ….” We can only hope and pray that WHO will seriously consider and test alternative approaches. Homeopathy seems to be the most promising.
Malaria and trauma
Trauma lowers immunity so it is obvious that a traumatised person is more likely to attract malaria. Personally I have observed several times that a person went down with malaria shortly after a frustrating experience. A typical example is the westerner who gets frustrated by all the different hindrances encountered in trying to achieve a project. All clearly in line with the picture of China and what we have learned about malaria.
Malaria is also a major cause of trauma. Every minute of every day there are parents losing a child. For many Africans a day unable to work means a day of no food for the family. Malaria maintains poverty, which is a form of trauma by itself. Besides birth trauma, cerebral malaria is the main cause of epilepsy in Africa and on average you find one epileptic child in every classroom. Medication is often not available, too expensive or badly monitored. As a result these children injure themselves regularly, and serious burns caused by falling in the fire during a seizure is not uncommon. Through repeated seizures they also slowly lose their mental capacities and the opportunity to be a well-functioning member of their community.
Because of the impact of trauma we have included the PC Remedy for the trauma of war and genocide in the malaria prevention protocols used in war-torn areas, like Kivu province in DR Congo. First we treat for Post Traumatic Stress Disorder and then we start malaria prevention (see appendix 1).
Malaria Prevention: proven to be effective
The first time I tested malaria prevention with PC240m out was in DR Congo (2009). At the Land of Hope School in Kiliba (South Kivu) 600 children, of which the majority had lost their parents due to the war or AIDS, were first treated for current conditions: mainly war trauma, orphan trauma, chronic malaria and HIV/AIDS. Following that, all children were given regular doses of PC Malaria. Within a few months the school reported there were no cases of malaria any more at the school. In Uvira, just south of Kiliba, PC Malaria was dispensed in the community by a church dispensary. A few months later the local Red Cross Hospital complained that they were seeing 95% less malaria cases and had difficulty paying their nurses, as malaria was their main source of income.
In Mzuzu (Malawi 2012) a nursery that took care of 300 children lost five children each year because of malaria. The year that they started giving PC Malaria to all children they did not lose a single child. Based on the reported results one of our volunteers, Ruthe Schoder-Ehri (nurse and homeopath from the US) started our AFRICA MALARIA PREVENTION PROJECT (AMPP) in Malawi in 2013. ARHF appointed Joseph Msumba to manage the project. In the malaria season of 2013/2014 the AMPP team of volunteers reached more than 6.000 children and adults, and in the season of 2014/2015, when Kathleen Taylor from Canada assisted Joseph’s team, more than 27.000. Schools report reduced absenteeism while the director of the local hospital in Chintheche reported reduced hospitalisation and reduced deaths from malaria.
In 2014/2015 5.000 Kenyan school children received PC Malaria as prevention. The results are beyond anything we dreamed to be possible. In all participating schools absenteeism went down by 70-80%. Where normally four or five children would be absent in each class because of illness, this was reduced to none or one. One school decided to check whether the small number that still was reported sick had malaria. What they found out was that these children had typhoid or another sickness, but not malaria. We know that treating malaria with PC240m is effective in 90-100% of the cases. To establish that prevention with PC240m is similarly effective is very good news. It indicates that AMPP can also significantly reduce the death rate due to malaria and improve the quality of life of all Africans and help Africa prosper.
A Community Health Worker formed a team of volunteers and made PC240m available to all 20.000 people living in and around Chemelil (Kenya). Chemelil used to have about three funerals per week because of malaria. A local clinic confirmed that for more than six months, nobody has died from malaria in Chemelil!
To create the kind of impact necessary to bring about real and lasting change many more people will need to receive treatment and prevention for malaria. In my experience the PC Resonances are ideal for that as their efficacy for epidemic diseases like AIDS and malaria is, I believe, unparalleled.
Creating Collective Coherence
To free Africa from its malaria shackles it may not be needed to give PC Malaria as prophylaxis to each and every individual. As malaria is mainly a disease of the collective it could be enough to reach a certain percentage of that collective that signifies a tipping point or critical mass.
There is a growing body of evidence that individual human consciousness is connected to collective human consciousness and that the two do not only influence each other but affect life on this planet in many other ways.
Many diseases and conditions may be expressed in an individual but are actually manifestations of a collective derangement of the state of health.
In homeopathy we are used to treating with an individualized approach, one person at a time. With epidemics and collective trauma my experience is that a collective approach, with one genus epidemicus remedy for all suffering from the same condition, is effective. Ideally everyone suffering from the condition would receive that treatment. Although at an individual level that may be desirable or even needed, the question is, whether for the fulfilment of the role and purpose of the collective condition treating all parts that make up the sum is required, or whether the interconnectedness of human consciousness would cause the collective derangement to change much earlier.
My hypothesis is that when we cure and prevent (and not suppress or contain) a disease like malaria, the purpose of the disease, which is to wake the human race up to some aspect of its own consciousness, is fulfilled. I postulate that to do this only a relatively low percentage of the population is required. Once limited numbers of people have experienced the conscious shift that results from curing or preventing malaria, it is available to the whole of humanity, because consciousness is universal and available instantly to everybody. The numbers required for this collective shift to occur may be lower than one would expect. This is similar to what is known as the ‘hundredth monkey effect’.3 Disease is chaos and health is harmony. In many fields of science it has been shown that a chaotic system can be brought to harmony as soon as only a small part of it becomes coherent. Once that critical mass has been reached the whole system transforms rapidly.
In studies about the effect of group meditation on society we find possible support for this hypothesis and possible indicators as to the numbers needed to reach a tipping point.
By tapping into pure consciousness — the Unified Field in the language of modern physics — it has been demonstrated that meditation of a group of people can reduce societal stress and tensions, causing associated reductions in crime and social violence, and an upsurge of peace and positivity throughout the population. “This phenomenon of increased coherence and peace throughout society was first reported in research published in 1976, which found that when 1% of a community practiced the Transcendental Meditation programme, the crime rate dropped by an average of 16%. This phenomenon was named the “Maharishi Effect” in honour of Maharishi, who first predicted it in 1960.”
The use of advanced meditation programmes (TM-Sidhi programme) showed that even the square root of 1% of a community would be sufficient to create measurable changes in social trends.
[3] The story of the hundredth monkey effect was published in the foreword to Lawrence Blair’s Rhythms of Vision in 1975. The claim spread with the appearance of Lifetide, a 1979 book by Lyall Watson. Rupert Sheldrake has cited that a phenomenon like the hundredth monkey effect would be an evidence of Morphic fields bringing about non-local effects in consciousness and learning.
This phenomenon has been repeatedly proven in several studies. It is fascinating and opens huge possibilities, also for homeopathy.
In homeopathic provings it has regularly been reported that people not participating in the proving nevertheless showed proving symptoms. This suggests that the effect of a homeopathic substance taken by a group has effects beyond the members of the group. There is no research that shows how far those effects reach. Does it involve just a few others and is it almost to be neglected, or would it come near the effects of meditation? Would this explain the synchronicities observed in the world during several provings? If the effect would come anywhere near the percentages that came up in the TM-studies the implications can be huge.
The implications for the treatment and prevention of malaria would be enormous.
For instance, Malawi has a population of about 17.500.000 (2015). To reach 1% of the population of Malawi with our Africa Malaria Prevention Project (AMPP) we would need to reach 175.000 people. Ruthe and Joseph made a significant step in this direction by including over 26.000 people in the malaria season of 2014/2015.
Kenya has a population of 47.000.000 people (2015), so according to the 1% rule 470.000 people would have to participate in AMPP. Our main activities are in Nyanza province with an estimated population of 6.000.000. With the aim of including 50.000 people in Nyanza in AMPP by 2016 our Amma4Africa team there is well on its way to reach 1% of the population of Nyanza.
If the square root of 1% rule would apply the aim to reach all of Africa could even be reached much earlier. Then 500 people would be sufficient for Malawi, 700 for Kenya and 33.000 for all of sub-Saharan Africa.
It is likely that there will be a tipping point for malaria prevention that, once reached, makes it available to all of sub-Saharan Africa, but it is not very likely that the square-root-of-1% rule or even the 1% rule will apply. These rules are based on creating coherence through a group of people that meditate at the same time, and often even the same place. This kind of circumstance is not created with AMPP. Making AMPP available at schools at the beginning of the day does create a similar situation though.
The first time that this simultaneous prevention was done in a large group was in the aforementioned group of 600 children in DR Congo in 2009. The prophylaxis was intended for the children only and a collective effect was at the time not something I considered. But when I heard that the number of cases of malaria dropped dramatically in the whole region I started to consider the possibility that treating 600 children simultaneously during a year could change the incidence of malaria in a much larger population – perhaps 60.000 (1% of which would be 600) or 36 million (of which the square root of 1% would be 600).
In Malawi and Kenya the use of PC Malaria increased significantly since 2012. WHO World Malaria statistics show that the number of malaria-attributed deaths in all of Africa increased in 2013 in comparison to 2012 by 12%. In the same period in Kenya the number of malaria-attributed deaths dropped by 54% and in Malawi by 32%. Neighbouring countries like Mozambique (+4%) and Tanzania (+9%) were more in line with the general trend.
If using PC RESONANCES would address the epidemic at a deeper collective level it may then be expected that all other activities undertaken to control malaria (mosquito nets, spraying, etcetera) would suddenly become a lot more effective too. In individual cases we’ve observed that suppression of a disease can be very effective provided it’s real cause has been taken care of, and we see no reasons why that wouldn’t apply to a collective disease. Suppression then can be a quick way of getting a result that would come naturally anyway.
Fig. 1: Malaria lifts off the Lake – Ruthe Schoder-Ehri spring 2014
Clearly, what I’m suggesting here is still highly speculative. None of it can be taken as a fact and I’m totally happy to be called a dreamer.
“You may say I’m a dreamer. But I’m not the only one. I hope some day you’ll join us. And the world will live as one.” – John Lennon
Impossible? ‘Impossible’ is a word that has been used a lot in the history of mankind, and as history shows, the impossible has often turned into its opposite – possible, reality.
“If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.” – Henry David Thoreau
We are building and offering that foundation with AMPP. If only those we give it to are helped that is already a wonderful achievement as it saves hundreds of lives and creates a better future for thousands. If we reach more through resonance with the collective, this would be a support by nature that would increase our joy and be something to be very grateful for.
Ruthe Schoder-Ehri spent five months in rural lakeside Malawi when she initiated AMPP. During her stay she expressed a vision, which she allowed me to share with you (Fig. 1). She saw malaria lifting from Lake Malawi, a deep clear 570 km long body of water bordering Malawi on the east side.
Rolling out Africa Malaria Prevention Project (AMPP) all over Africa
ARHF is working hard at expanding AMPP and gathering all data on above-mentioned projects from schools and hospitals and to publish the results. In the meantime we have informed all reliable partner organizations in Africa about AMPP and have invited them to write proposals on how to implement AMPP in their region.
So far we have received 40 proposals and we are now working at improving and completing them while some partners have already started to implement the AMPP protocol. Once we conclude that a proposal is sound, has realistic goals and accountability is secured, we will support it as much as we can.
Based on the proposals received some 250-500.000 people could benefit from AMPP in the coming year. As a result that could save the lives of 1-2.000 children.
To be able to use the momentum and properly support all projects we urgently need money. With the budget below we can train and supply all partners and collect and analyse all data we ask them to provide and visit the projects before they start to make sure everything is in place, and also after they have finished, for evaluation. The data we intend to collect are crucial, as they are needed to inform Ministries of Health, local authorities and other aid organisations. With convincing data we hope they will adopt AMPP so we can continue to fund the already running projects and further expand and ultimately reach the whole population in a district, province and country.
Our protocol is so cost-effective that we can make malaria prevention available for 10-20 cents per person per year. With a budget of $100.000 per year we can reach 500.000 children and adults, collect data and monitor projects. We urgently need sponsors to make this possible.
In cooperation with local partners we have started AMPP now in DR Congo, Kenya, Malawi and Tanzania and by the end of 2015 expect to reach 100.000 children and adults. In 2015 we at least intend to double that amount and with sufficient support will reach 500.000.
Thinking about what to write in conclusion of this article a phrase comes to mind that Ruthe expressed by the end of her five months stay in Malawi to implement the first year of AMPP there. Despite having worked extremely hard under difficult circumstances, she said: “This is the most rewarding thing I have done in my whole career of being a nurse and homeopath. I am so grateful for ARHF and Amma4Africa. AMPP is my path of service.”
More information, newsletters and videos are available at www.arhf.nl where you can also subscribe to the newsletter. The book ‘Homeopathy for Diseases – Vital Remedies for Epidemics, Trauma and Chronic Diseases’ by Peter Chappell and myself can be ordered at www.homeolinks.nl or amazon.com.
Anyone wishing to make malaria prevention available is free to use the attached protocol or ask for one adjusted to the area where you wish to use it. Contact ARHF at [email protected] For a list of available PC Remedies and pharmacies providing them, see www.vitalremedies.com.
Harry van der Zee, MD
Africa Malaria Prevention Project (AMPP) Protocol for DR Congo
PC240m is an immune booster that increases the body’s immunity against malaria and has proven to be very effective in treatment and prevention of malaria. The importance of malaria prevention is evident: every 30 seconds, a child dies of malaria, while 10-30% of children are absent at school due to malaria. AMPP makes it possible for local African organisations to stop malaria, save many lives and significantly reduce absenteeism from schools.
How can you do this?
• Inform school directors, teachers and community leaders about AMPP
• Make malaria prevention available to schools, nurseries, orphanages and communities
• Select and train community health workers and volunteers to reach the entire community
• The protocol for malaria prevention you find below
• Collect data to measure the impact of your project: absenteeism rates in schools, changes in school performance, number of children hospitalised for or dying from malaria etc
War trauma
In DR Congo many people have been traumatised by the war. Because trauma also reduces immunity against diseases, the AMPP Protocol starts with a remedy to reduce war trauma.
The schedule follows the trimesters of schools. Also adults can and should follow the same protocol. It is therefore recommended to start the protocol at the beginning of a trimester. AMPP involves a cycle of twelve weeks that should be repeated three times per year.
• Week 1: once daily one dose of PC304x for war trauma – 5 doses on Monday to Friday
• Week 2: once daily one dose of PC240m for malaria – 5 doses on Monday to Friday
• Week 4-12: once weekly one dose of PC240m for malaria – 1 dose on Monday
With each trimester start the same cycle.
Preparing for AMPP
If you include all schools, nurseries and orphanages and mobilise volunteers and community health workers you can reach the entire population in your region. Those that will dispense the remedy to children and households will need to be trained so they know exactly how to prepare a dispenser bottle and how to give a dose to a person. They also need to know how often the remedy should be repeated. You can dramatically reduce the incidence and impact of malaria if you follow this protocol and repeat it every year.
Ask all participating schools to provide data on absenteeism and mean school performance of the last trimester before AMPP was introduced, and after that from each trimester they use AMPP. Two special forms are attached (also available in excel – contact [email protected]).
You need a project leader who stays in touch with all facilitators, answers their questions, stocks them with new master bottles, keeps track of their activities and collects data.
How to prevent malaria in groups of children (& adults) using PC240m
Every school, orphanage, nursery or community health worker needs to be given a PC Malaria Master Bottle, while every class, group, community or household needs PC Malaria Dispenser Bottles so each person can receive a dose according to the schedule above. This needs proper planning by the project leader and all facilitators and volunteers. The better the schedule is followed that ensures that each individual gets a regular dose, the better the results will be.
Preparation of a PC Malaria Master Bottle
• Fill a dropper bottle with clean mineral water and at least 20% ethanol [Use a local strong liquor (40%), either pure or mixed with 50% still mineral water (mix then has 20% ethanol)]
• Add 1 granule of PC240m
• Close the bottle and let it stand for 15 minutes
• Put a label with PC240m written on it on the bottle
• Bang the bottle 5 times on a wooden surface and it is ready to be used
Preparation of a PC Malaria Dispenser Bottle for a group
• Take a 500 ml plastic bottle of still mineral water (or fill a clean bottle with clean water that has been boiled and then cooled down)
• Bang the PC Malaria Master Bottle 5 times on a wooden surface and put 5 drops into the Dispenser Bottle for the group
• Put a label with PC240m written on it on the Dispenser Bottle
• Then bang the bottle 5 times and that’s then prepared for use
How to give a dose of a PC malaria to the group
• 515: bang the group bottle 5 times on wooden surface, fill 1 teaspoon, pour in the mouth of the child and tell it to count to 5 and then swallow. Either have a clean spoon for every child or make sure the spoon does not touch the mouth.
• 555: By puncturing the lid with a hot needle, the bottle can be used as dropper bottle. Bang the bottle 5 times and then give each person 5 drops.
• Prepare a fresh PC Malaria Dispenser Bottle if the water is no longer clear
• If a master bottle is empty only prepare the same remedy in it as above
• Keep all bottles in a cool place out of extreme heat and direct sunlight
• If a person has acute malaria, prepare a bottle for that person, and let it take a teaspoon every 30 minutes until well. Before each dose bang the bottle 5 times
If you have any questions, you can contact the ARHF office at any time: [email protected]
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and Workplace Violence
Types of
Some Trends in
ADA, ADEA, OSHA:
Acronyms and
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Tips on Preventing
Violence in the Workplace: "A Loaded Gun at the Head of the Employer" - Page 2
Types of Workplace Violence
Statistically certain occupations and positions are exposed to an increased risk of violence:
Jobs involving the exchange of money (banks, retail etc.)
Guarding or maintaining property or possessions
Working alone or in small numbers
Working in public settings (law enforcement, teachers, taxicab drivers, hotel clerks, bartenders etc.)
Working very late or early hours
Working in high crime areas
Overall there are three main categories of workplace violence:
1. Violence inflicted by unknown third persons or strangers who enter the workplace to commit a crime, such as sexual assault, robbery or murder.
2. Violence that is committed by individuals who have a business relationship with the employer, such as current or former customers, suppliers, patients or clients.
3. Violence committed by someone the employee knows personally, such as a coworker, disgruntled former or current employee or a domestic abuser.
Some Trends in Prevention Measures
Two areas we will examine are
(1.) Washington State health care employees and a new House Bill (5312) to protect them from workplace violence, and
(2.) the United States Postal Workers actions to stem workplace violence.
1. New Law Protects Health Care Employees
In Washington State Chapter 377 (House bill 5312) protects health care employees from violence by requiring employers to size up the potential for violence in their workplaces, develop plans to prevent it, and offer annual worker training.
Employers affected are: hospitals, mental health evaluation and treatment facilities, community mental health programs, and home health, hospice and home care agencies. Employers who are not affected are long-term care facilities, nursing homes and psychiatric hospitals.
Requirements of the new law are as follows. By July 1, 2000, affected employers must assess their existing or potential hazards for violence by looking back at the frequency, causes, and results of violent acts over the past five years. They are also required to develop plans to prevent and protect employees from violence. And finally, by July 1, 2001, and regularly thereafter, employers must provide violence prevention training to all their employees within 90 days of hire, unless the employee is temporary, in which case the training should be fitted to the situation.
The penalty for violations will be citations from the Department of Labor and Industries, under the state Industrial Safety and Health Act.
The trend to require employers into accepting responsibility in this area will continue. Watch for further expansion of OSHA/WSHA proposed regulation.
2. USPS fights back against the trend of "going postal".
The United States Postal Service is addressing violence on several fronts, and their efforts have led to a decline in threats and assaults of 28 percent and 35 percent, respectively, from highs in 1995.
Here are some of the areas they have taken action in:
Selection. The selection process at the USPS includes background checks, drug testing, and a 90-day probationary period for new hires.
Security. A hotline now allows employees to report problematic or threatening situations.
Policy. The USPS's zero-tolerance policy features reporting and recording of all potentially violent incidents.
Environment and culture. USPS has introduced a workplace violence awareness program. It includes an interactive video that teaches employees how to recognize the warning signs of violence and a training plan for managers.
The Postal Service has also implemented a "soft exit program" to provide managers with a support system when they have to fire an employee, as well as a threat assessment team, which includes HR managers, labor relations representatives, and district managers.
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PLYMOUTH POST OFFICE (1957)
5 St Andrews Cross
Photograph © Derek Tait via Flickr
Architect: Cyril Pinfold
Architectural Review Jan 1954, p. 43-44
Pearson, F. E. Plymouth's great day Post Office Magazine Nov 1957, p. 328-329
Post Office Magazine Oct 1957, p. 17
Western Morning News 20 Feb 1946, p. 2; 6 Sep 1948, p. 6
Opened: 10 Sep 1957
Closed: 19 Sep 2016
Current use: Restaurant
From: The Architectural Review January 1954, p. 53-54
The site is in the heavily blitzed part of the town, and forms part of an area of redevelopment. It is situated at the junction of two major roads converging on to a new roundabout ... The planning has been largely determined by the peculiar shape of the site, and the most suitable disposition of the public office to meet operation requirements. The accommodation is arranged on four floors, the upper floors being "single banked" only in order to meet the height requirements of the planning authority. Future expansion will be catered for by "double banking" the side wings of the building. The public office has been kept back from the frontage to provide the requisite length of counter under full supervision and to permit of additional height. The writing room and entrance lobbies maintain the reduced height of the side wings which accommodate requirements directly related to the operations of the public office. The upper floors accommodate general offices, a large telegraph instrument room,dining and welfare rooms, lavatories and locker rooms ... The building will be of reinforced concrete frame construction, with hollow block floors and roof. The walls will be of cavity construction with brick outer skin and block inner skin between the frame. It is a condition of the local authority that the building should be faced in stone. This will be in the form of thin stone slabs in two colours, textural interest being gained by change in the pattern of the joints. Polished black granite slabs will be used on the flank walls in the entrance lobbies, with thin sawn slate slabbing to the curtain wall below the cills on the ground floor. The columns will be faced with polished terrazzo ... In the public office certain of the wall surfaces will be in flush panelling, the counter being hardwood. The floor finish will be terrazzo. It will be top lighted, the laylight also housing the general artificial lighting required, lighting of a higher intensity being provided over the counter. Other internal finishes will be largely painted plaster walls. Heating generally will be by low pressure hot water; with panel heating in the public office.
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By Satrajit Duttagupta on June 10, 2018 · 0 Uncategorized
By definition, a geofenced or geo-targeted ad is one that is served to users within a specific area (or areas) of a city. However, a geo-targeted ad campaign needs to go beyond defining the geographical boundaries and reaching user devices in real time. Here are other factors and ideas to keep in mind if you’re planning for these types of campaigns.
Timing can make it or break it
For geo-targeting, timing is absolutely key, so day parting is essential to maximize performance. This consists of scheduling the ads within defined times of the day/ days of the week. In many occasions, timing can define the intent of a user towards a specific brand/vertical. Ads should be mental triggers and some products might be more appealing on specific moments.
Let’s say that you have a campaign for a quick service restaurant launching pancakes as a new product, which will be geo-targeted to office areas. As people don’t usually have pancakes for lunch (at least not during working days) it’s imperative to schedule the ads for breakfast mongers and snackers. For users on the lookout for test drives it’s a whole different story, and a late weekend morning will fit the bill so serving them an ad when they are in the vicinity of a showroom would make perfect sense. If you are showcasing a movie launch geo-fenced around cinemas, it’s critical that the ad is served well before the movie starts.
All in for relevance
Studies state that people prefer geo-relevant time-targeted creatives as opposed to generic ads with little or no relevance. A recently concluded geo-fenced push ads campaign for a female fashion and beauty brand, targeted Chinese women in the UAE (visitors and expats) on weekday afternoons (extending until later hours on Thursdays), resulted in a strong 4% CTR (around 0.8-1% regional industry benchmark). This was accomplished by targeting arriving Chinese flights by geofencing the airport terminals during the times of arrival and layering the language parameter while purely focussing on catching them on their popular apps such as Weibo, WeChat to name a few.
For football enthusiasts that follow their teams on popular apps such as 365scores and Forza, and watch at their friend’s or in a bar, serving them a subscription package deal for beIN right before, during half time and right after the game would be very effective. This would be day parting to understand when the games are on. We can also analyse their historical behaviour with regards to time spent on the app, which sections are the most popular ones, and layer that with the targeting technology of geo fencing POIs such as bars, Ramadan tents, cafes etc.
On a separate note, running ads for auto brands with Ramadan related offers, geo-fenced to Ramadan tents, and served only during Suhoor and Iftar may result in a higher volume of leads. The setting is right, the timing is apt, the users are with their friends and families and the mood is of contentment.
Qualcomm iZat location services
Through our partner networks, we now have access to Qualcomm® IZat™ location services’ technology which allows us to understand the co-ordinates of a device ID through the Qualcomm chipset processors of the smartphones themselves thus making it even more accurate. The Qualcomm Snapdragon processors comes equipped with iZat location technology, and our partner network allows us to target our audience personas at geo-fenced locations accurately.
Retargeting and geo-targeting
Geo-targeting can also be used in combination with retargeting. Auto brands can geofence their showrooms and “geo-conquest” competitor showrooms, and by identifying the device IDs it is possible to create a heatmap of the user journey as they visit or pass by our defined points of interest. Simultaneously, a city-wide campaign could be set up to retarget users with ads specific to the offers available in the showrooms that they visited, but while they are comfortably sitting on their couch or during their office break.
Winning ad formats
Quick munchable ad formats work best for geofenced time targeted campaigns. Based on our experience, some of the best performing formats are: MPUs, interstitials, native ads, and snackable 10 second in-read or pre-roll vertical videos.
Tactical video campaigns with TV sync targeting need to ensure that the timing is right for the ad unit to be served on the user’s device. Similarly, for any new product launch promo video campaign, the time of day it is served makes a difference between brand resonance, impulsive purchase and complete ignorance to the content or the product shown.
Strong strategies required
Having a strong tactical strategy is crucial when it comes to geofencing. We need to understand the campaign objectives, the target audience set, and the message it intends to deliver. The objective is reaching users when their attention span can be leveraged to maximize on brand resonance and message delivery. Bear in mind that whenever a user is online, they are constantly consuming content so timing is the key to serve an ad relevant enough to draw their attention.
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Satrajit is the Technical Digital Manager within OMD's C&E team, and has over 13 years of digital marketing experience across various disciplines and verticals. He consults on all mobile media strategies for OMD. He is passionate about technology, innovation and all things mobile and that’s certainly evident in the regional first mobile media experiences & development projects he has brought to the table for OMD.
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A Post for My Sister, Nefeterius Akeli McPherson
I've been off my blogging game for awhile, but that's for good reason.
As many of you who'll read this know, my big sister passed away from cancer on March 19th.
I'm doing alright, and am so very thankful for the prayers, love & support that's come my way.
It's all been so needed.
Anyhoo, I've widdled down the lessons at work considerably recently.
One important lesson I learned over the course of losing Nappy (my sister) is that it's important to do what you want to do and only what you truly have to do.
For me, creating--the entire creative process--is vital.
I've worked through my sister's death and continue to do so by channeling what would otherwise be overwhelming grief into something manageable and beautiful-art.
I'm no painter, but I am an artist.
My preferred medium is language.
I write good books.
I wrote one for my sister on the 26th.
It's interesting and not at all surprising to me that one of the first people I needed, not wanted, needed to read the book I wrote for my sister is 8 years old. I've been her teacher since she was around 5. We have a connection and are kindred spirits. Her opinion, her true opinion, matters to me.
It is at this point that I will give what I believe is both a shameless plug for my school as well as the absolute truth. This is more than just a job or a career for me. Teaching, I believe, is one of my gifts and a calling. You just can't teach everyone all the time, and with what's happened to my family and me recently I certainly have so much to learn. Rebecca, as I call this 8 year old whom I love dearly...Rebecca. It would be a gift and an honor to teach her for as long as she wants to be taught, one-on-one, like we do now. Because it's such a beautiful and sincere place, where we go when it's just the two of us and we have our poems and our thoughts and our book and our agenda and there's this...exchange. This exchange that only happens when two people are on the same plane and level and are both there to teach and learn. But I can't teach her forever, at least not in the way I do now, which has her mom panicky and has me pensive.
Maybe that's why I write. And read. So much.
Three important quotes from the lesson that moved me in unspeakable ways...
-After Rebecca read that my sister had been to Brazil she pouted and folded her arms.
"I want to go to Brazil!" she shrieked.
"You just say it then. You just say it and want it bad enough and you can. You will." I said.
"No you don't understand," she continued, "I won't ever go to Brazil with your sister."
-Rebecca stared at a picture of my sister winning a beauty pageant around age 8 or 9, around her age, and she couldn't quite grasp the concept of a pageant.
"Well," I began hesitantly, "it's a competition based on looks mostly. They throw some talent in there for good measure, but it's mostly about the looks."
She got quiet.
I continued, "I don't really agree with them, but I'm happy she liked to do these and that she was happy when she won."
"But why would someone want to compete for something like that?" she asked.
I answered in my honest opinion, "Some people like the attention, and that's ok."
"Like Livia," she began, who is her extroverted little sister.
I smiled and nodded. "Yup. Everybody's different. Everyone has their gifts, and that's ok."
-When we finished the story, she stared at me and whispered, "Very nice." Twice.
And I told her, "I love to write. Just like you."
And then we painted.
Well, I should say she painted. We normally paint together. I wanted to make a memory box. Rebecca saw an opportunity to make a bank.
So I sat there and watched her paint, and pondered the importance of perspective.
And memory banks.
And the art that Nappy inspires.
Sofia Con Filo May 1, 2014 at 1:21 PM
Your writing and stories run so smooth that when they are over I feel like I wake up off a placid and meaningful dream. Love you Tam.
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December 30, 2006 Bonus Blog
Yesterday afternoon, I drove down to Aaron Bros. in Desert Ridge and bought two new sketchbooks ($13.49 each), expensive artboard (300 lb. watercolor paper and Bainbridge 2000 Ruling Mechanical Board, $13.49 and $15.49 each) , mixing tray ($6.99) and gouache tints (Spanish Orange, Payne’s Gray, Burnt Sienna at $3.10 each), five Prismacolor felt-tip-pens ($3.49 each). All for the Top Secret Project Prototype ($153.32, biz account). Came home and perused my completed sketchbooks (I thought there were only three but there are seven!). It was instructive to me to look at them with some distance, as certain sketches really jumped, while most sagged and looked gaggier than a Def-con gobbling greyhound. Of course when I was doing them they all had a certain equanimity, but some were beyond bad and more than a few were decent, and one or two were spectacular and I couldn’t believe I even did them. The trick is to find that place I was in when I did the decent and spectacular ones, and go back there. Easily said. Hard to do. I’ll post some of the winners and losers this next week so you can judge for yourself.
Towards evening last night, I built a fire in the house fireplace utilizing leftover wood from the chicken house. It was wet from all the rain so it took about three tries to get it going. I wanted the house to be snugly for Kathy when she got home. I also washed the dishes (and like most men, I would like a medal, thankyou very much). Kathy got home about six and I got the big, wet kiss and a squeeze in the money pouch area. This made it all worth while. We snuggled in and watched the second Preston Sturges film from the DVD collection I got for my birthday. “Christmas In July” starring Dick Powell was the film. It was better than “The Great McGinty” but still seemed horribly dated and goofy.
I ran into Gregg Clancy at the grocery store and yelled across the meat counter, “Hey, Gregg, did you leave that T-Shirt, ‘Don’t Trust Anyone Over 70’ on my desk last week?” He laughed and admitted he had, adding that his 60th was the day before mine so he and Susan gotme the shirt. Actually Gregg is a T-shirt manufacturer (Strawberry Fields) so it makes some sense. Also, Gregg and I share another common experience. We both worked at Chess King, a hipster clothing chain, at Christown Mall in 1970. As we both stood there, he with a gray beard and ponytail and me with my gray mustache, he told me he didn’t feel sixty. I told him I felt every day of it.
”Anything you're good at contributes to happiness.”
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Nice day at home. Lots to report, but will try to catch up after the first. Meanwhile, here's the next two pages of my Mexico Sojourn Sketchbook.
We landed at Creel, on the train at sundown on Wednesday (December 21). It is a high mountain town at over 7,000 feet. It was quite cold as we detrained and we were immediately besieged by aggressive kids trying to get us to stay at the Margarita Hotel. We ended up there but it wasn't because of the kids. We were tired and didn't feel like walking around in the cold dark trying to see where to stay, so when an adult approached us with a ride in a shuttle we accepted. He also was an advance man for the Margarita Hotel. All our reservations about the place vanished as we entered a dorm like dining room-office area with wooden tables and chairs and the pungent smells of homemade chile rellenos being prepared in the kitchen from two Mexican women who could have jumped right out of casting for Viva Zapata. Our room was nice ($40) but had a faulty gas heater and the young man who showed it to us said he would fix it. He also became known as "The Mexican John Lennon" because of his wire glasses and shaggy shoulder length hair.
Dinner was at seven and there were tourists from Australia, England, France and Northern California in the intimate dining room. The windows were steamed and the Mexican server brought hot plates of the best chile rellenos I've ever had in my life (and it came with the room!).
Thomas was thrilled because a pretty French girl named Alex, who we had all met at the Guerrero Hotel in El Fuerte, was also staying at the Margarita and they soon became an item and went off into the night to find "the scene." The next day T. Bell told me they were chatting, over drinks, and she said, "Do you know what we hear about American women?" and T. said no, and she said, "We hear that they drink Coke all day and get fat." And Tommy said, "That's funny, because we hear French women don't bathe and they all have hairy armpits."
"But no!" she protested. "That is not true!" T. smiled and said, "Well, neither is the other one, so be careful what you believe.""
The heater went out three times during the night and we all had visions of being gassed to death. I woke up several times and thought, "Am I dead? I should check on that pilot light, but, perhaps that smell of bean farts with negate the propane."
Yes, it was a ridiculous rationalization, but we lived.
The next day we got a new hotel at Cabana Berte's complete with a classic fireplace for $40 and it included breakfast in the owner's kitchen (my favorite part of the trip, eating in the dining rooms and kitchens of the owner's houses!). I sketched the fireplace in the morning as it crackled and popped cedar logs (lower, left-hand page).
On the right are several scenes we saw outside of Creel, and a bumper sticker on the driver's side door of a Custom F-150 pickup parked by the bus we rode in (Jesus Te Ama). Also, I sketched the church we saw on our Vespa motorcycle adventure, and two kids who were standing on the bus we rode to Chihuahua. We also found real coffee at the Combate Cafe in downtown Creel and that was fun, eating fresh made quesadillas with steaming hot coffee and watching Mexican soap operas. We were the only ones in the cafe and that was a treat as well. We also had many of the other sites all to ourselves, like the hot springs and the river trip. It was like we were the only ones allowed to visit and that was sweet.
"If you're scared, just hollar and you'll find it ain't so lonesome out there."
—Joe Sugden
Rained most of the night. Very soggy and cool out this morning. Went into the office about nine. Only Carole, Sue, Sylvia and Bethany in. Everyone else either off or out. We're only working half a day today.
Just completed the last page of my fourth sketchbook last night. This makes 2,829 sketches (six a day) without missing. Need to go down to Aaron Brothers at Desert Ridge this afternoon and get two more sketchbooks. Meanwhile, here's two more pages from our Mexico sojourn. The first page is a continuation from yesterday's posting, this one illustrating the deep chasms in the Barranca Del Cobre (Copper Canyon), drawn from the train window. It really is breathtaking scenery. In our 1996 trip we only went from Chihuahua to Divisidero (The Divide, or top of the canyon) and then back, so we didn't traverse the west side of the mountain, so this was all new to me.
Thomas Charles was The Designated Decider on the trip, and he looked at a map and wanted to check out a side town, Cerocahui, which is about fifteen miles south of the railroad and accessible by dirt road from the train station at Bauchivo. We got off at Bauchivo at about two in the afternoon and found out the next bus for Cerocahui was in two hours but the bus driver pointed to a loaded down F-150 pick-up and said we might hitch a ride with them. Tomas ran to the truck and the driver told us to climb in. The four of us ran and jumped in and survived a bumpy, cold ride up the mountain and down the pass, into the beautiful little valley where Cerocahui lies nestled beside a classic red-rocked, ancient Spanish Church. We tipped the driver $10 (he didn't want to take it but we insisted), then checked out the fancy, anglo run hotel (Inn By The Mission I think it was), but they wanted $250, so The Decider walked down to the plaza and found a little hotel tucked behind a small store, where Maria sold us a clean little room with two Queen sized beds for $76, which included breakfast in her dining room (the bottom two illustrations, on right, were done in that dining room. The left view is of the fireplace and the second is looking into her kitchen and the store beyond).
In the morning we hired a local vaquero, Juan, to guide us, via horseback, up to a nearby waterfall ($60 for four horses, Kathy walked and ran beside us, except for a short stretch where I let her ride my horse, on the steepest part of the trail. She quickly gave me back "my" horse). That was fun and scary (the horses traversed steep switchbacks, jumping over rocks and sliding down rocky slopes). After we checked out we waited for the bus to take us back to the Bauchivo train station. As we sat waiting on the sunny square, I sketched the store across the street from us (right, top).
The "bus" was actually a mini-Nissan van that held eight seats and we felt lucky to get the last four seats. But we were in for Mexican Economy Lesson Numero Quatro . As we barely cleared the square, the driver stopped for more passengers! Where were they going to sit? The driver got out, and started whistling as he walked around and opened up the rear baggage compartment and shoved in the bags of the newcomers, who got in and doubled up in the forward seats, with one guy lying along the door space. We drove another half mile and he stopped again. "No Way!" I thought to myself. Way. As he whistled and walked around the back, the next four people doubled up in the front area (two captain chairs now had five people sitting in them). I think we made three more stops and I stopped counting at 21 passengers. We were packed in like cord wood and by the time we arrived in Bauchivo it was Sardine City and I must say I got to know several citizens of Mexico really, really well. All the way in, I couldn't help thinking of the politically incorrect joke: "Why were there only 5,000 Mexicans at the Alamo? They only had three cars."
Next stop, Creel at 7,000 feet. Those sketches tomorrow.
"Donald Rumsfeld Makes Surprise Visit to Wife's Vagina."
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Sprinkling out, snow up on Skull Mesa. It got very cloudy late yesterday and has been drizzling ever since. We got Tomas to the airport last night at 9. He had a 10:30 flight with a stopover in Detroit and he is expected to land in Philly this morning at 8:30.
We all met at Taco Villa for dinner last night. Jose and Lucy met and hugged us. They have a framed article of me near the door, where I raved about their restaurant (I think it ran in the Arizona Business Gazette last year). I celebrated my fortieth birthday party in the room where we sat and it was somewhat amazing to think that was twenty years ago. Last night I had the Pepe Special, Tomas had the mole, Kathy a bean burro enchilada style and Deena just had beans and flour tortillas. Frank (Deena’s boyfriend) had a machaca burro enchilada style. Oh, and two margaritas and two beers ($68, includes tip, house account).
Afterwards Tomas, Kathy and I drove over to 40th Street and Thomas to see Mel Gibson’s Apocalypto. ($21.50 for three tickets). Kath and Tomas liked it better than I did (Kathy gave it an 8, but I noticed she covered her eyes during several of the scenes). Quite gruesome and gory and it’s basically a chase movie with hints of Predator and True Grit (the falling down the well part) thrown in. I also noticed that some of the action scenes had a video tape quality which was jarring (as opposed to film stock). I assume they were saving money and spliced in video? It was co-written by Mel so I must admit having a prejudice against actors writing anything worthwhile (for example I believe it’s not jews, but Australian actors who start all the wars).
Here's two more pages from my sketchbook. The first page (below, left) was drawn in El Fuerte on December 18 and shows the courtyard of the room we stayed in at the Posada Don Porfirio Hotel (bottom, right) and the top, left illustration is of the covered courtyard at the Guerrera Hotel where we stayed the next night ($30 for four!). The next page was drawn on my birthday and shows the train station 10 kilometers east of El Fuerte where we caught the Copper Canyon Express and below are some of the dramatic foothills of the Sierra Madre Mountains. I don't know if you can read it or not, but each of these pages has our daily expenses, for example, the train tickets were $80 for four to Bauchivio, our next stop. Those sketches tomorrow.
Shirley You Jest
“Interesting item in the newest WOLA newsletter. The National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum has picked up the Glenn Shirley collection—6400 books, 2900 pulps, nearly 17,000 photos and negatives, and much more. Also included 30 file cabinets worth of Shirley's research papers. According to the piece, museum supporters raised $800,000 to acquire the collection. Hell, if Glenn had known it was that valuable, he might have stuck around for awhile longer.”
—Mark Boardman
Back in 1998, I joined the Renegades, a loose group of Old West history enthusiasts, which included Marshall Trimble, John Boessenecker and Bob McCubbin and we did a tour of numerous Oklahoma outlaw sites. We stopped in Stillwater where Glenn lived (and where the True West headquarters were at the time) and got to see firsthand Glenn’s massive collection. He had basically ran out of room in his longtime residence, and he and his wife bought another house across the street, so he could fill the old house with all of his stuff. I remember walking down the halls of the modest tract home and there were boxes and boxes everywhere. The master bedroom was all Oklahoma outlaws, one room was dedicated to the 101 Ranch, and the closed in carport was all movie posters and stills. Even the kitchen was a designated storeroom, and of course there were classic, collectable gems everywhere you looked. Glenn also took us on a personal tour of nearby Ingalls (the Outlaw Town) and showed us where everyone was situated in that amazing battle. The town was long gone and only a trailer house, and a couple wrecked cars remained, but Glenn knew where the streets were and who fired from where. It was a total treat to have the Master walk us through it. (the fight is detailed in Classic Gunfights, Volume I and Gus Walker did a great map of the whole fight, extrapolating from Glenn’s walking tour that day). I’m not surprised at the price his collection realized and only hope his family received the lion’s share.
“Pain nourishes courage. You can’t be brave if you’ve only had wonderful things happen to you.”
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Thomas Charles flies home to Philly tonight. We're taking him to the airport at four, but not before we eat dinner at Taco Villa and see "Apocalypto." Speaking of Tom, he took along "The Conquest of Don Pedro" to read and several times commented he couldn't think of a better book to read in Mexico. Deena is reading it now. Meanwhile, I just got this from the Distinguished Top Secret Writer:
"Forgot to tell you that our Billy the Kid author Harvey Fergusson is also the author of Life of Riley—which was his biggest commercial success and the source of the 1950s William Bendix TV show. Go figure."
I actually remember watching that show. When we got our first Television set in Swea City, Iowa in 1954, that was one of the first shows I think I saw. Amazing. Harvey Fergusson from the Life of Riley to The Conquest of Don Pedro to Who Remembers Billy the Kid. Now that's a stretch!
Came home for lunch and worked on a couple little sunset riders for the Top Secret Project, inspired by the Mexican vistas I witnessed South of the Border. Here they are:
"If you were given a nickname descriptive of your character, would you be proud of it?"
—Jackass McGill
Watched an excellent classic movie last night from Netflix. "Le Grande Illusion" from 1938 and directed by Jean Renoir. It's the first prison break movie and you could see mucho influence on every prison break film since, especially "The Great Escape." I was tuned in to this film from Time magazine's five classics you need to see (or some such list). I also made a note to get the six or seven film DVD of director Preston Sturges, and the night before we watched "The Great McGinty", 1940, and it was totally donkey doo doo. Hard to believe he got an academy award for best screenplay. Story was goofy and unrealistic.
Meanwhile, back in Mexico, our friends south of the border often take to certain English words in a big way, and one of those words is "super." As we trained and motored our way across Sonora and Chihuahua I noticed many stores utilizing this word, including Al-super (a grocery store chain), Mini-super, Super Six, Supermax, Super Stop, Mini Super La Esquina and Super Rapidito's Bip Bip (which is a rip-off of Wiley Coyote: in Spanish the letter i is pronounced ee, so it's "Beep Beep." Get it?). Here's a photo of a "super" store which I took on our 1996 trip (artist Ed Mell and his son Carson joined T.Bell and I)
When we got to Creel I thought everything was exactly as I remembered it from the last trip a decade earlier, but by the time we got ready to leave the next day, I finally realized we had not seen any horse drawn carts. Nope. Not a one. When we got home I dug out my photos from the last trip and here they are. Evidently, the locals have all graduated to pick-ups. Notice that all the wagons have rubber tires (which was probably a short-lived innovation).
As we started the trip and got on the shuttle to take us to the terminal in Phoenix, I realized I had forgotten my trusty little digital camera in our car, parked back at the lot. At first I was bummed, but then I made a vow to record as much as I could in my sketchbook. Here are my first attempts, drawing hands as we waited for our plane last Saturday. The next page was sketched on the plane as we flew over Nogales and Magdelena on our way to Los Mochis.
The next day we motored to Playa El Mauri, near the Gulf of California beach town of Topolobampo, with Jesus as our driver. That's a sketch of him in a Tommy Hilfiger T-shirt (below, left). The next day's sketches include these hombres I got as we boarded the bus to El Fuerte and I caught all these vaqueros and paisanos out the window. It was a perfect place to draw. This was in the Los Mochis bus station:
More sketch pages tomorrow.
"Writing is like digging a well with a needle."
—Old Vaquero Writing Saying
We have a new poll up: Are you going to attend the celebration for the Centennial of Oklahoma?
And speaking of history, part of the reason I wanted to go to Mexico and especially the Sierra Madre Mountains is because it’s the setting for a good part of the Top Secret Project. I wasn’t disappointed with the scenery, and I learned a ton about the geography and local fauna. For example, the west side of the Sierra Madres is covered with organ pipe saguaros. Tons of them. I tried to find out what the Mexicans call them (it’s hard for me to believe that they call them “organ pipes” because that is so New England sounding), but all I got was “cactus” and “saguaro” from my river runner hosts in El Fuerte.
And speaking of our host, Jose Luis Pina Acuna, he also has a ranch so I immediately asked him about the tradition of mounting, in other words, which side do they mount from? And he looked at me like I was crazy and said, in Spanish, “the left, of course.” And then he added a funny caveat: “Women mount from the right.” So, I think it’s safe to say that in Mexico, the vaqueros mount from the left, just like the gringo cowboys. I'll have more to say on this later.
Last Thursday (December 21) we hired a guide from Creel named Oscar to take us to Recowata Hot Springs. Oscar loves basketball and baseball so we had much fun talking about sports. Oscar claims the reason Mexico does so poorly in basketball is because the coaches invariably play their relatives and no one else. That was his take on it, which I thought was odd, but Tomas tells me that Mexican family is El Supremo to any and all authority, although we noticed they don't let that get in their way for, say, world cup soccer.
Anyway, on the way back to Creel from the hot springs, I was sitting in the front of Oscar's late model Jeep and as we came into town we met a big F-250 full of borachos (drunks) who pulled out to pass and came right at us. Oscar swerved onto the shoulder of the road and as he did I said, loudly, “Aiy Chihuahua!” And, as Oscar pulled back onto the road he laughed and added, “Aiy Chihuahua, cuantos Apaches, cuantos Indios sin huaraches!”
I couldn’t believe it. Did he really say “Apaches”? And is this a common saying? Or did he just make it up? Oscar assured me that it is a very common saying in this part of Mexico. A day later in the city of Chihuahua I confirmed it when we were on our taxi ride to the bus station and I said “Aiy Chihuahua, cuantos Apaches,” and the cab driver looked in the mirror and finished the saying, “Cuantos Indios sin huaraches?!”
What they’re more or less saying is: “Yikes, how many Apaches, how many Indians without sandals?” Since there are no more Apaches in Mexico to speak of, this saying obviously is a holdover from the 1880s (and several hundred years prior) when Apache raids by Geronimo, Cochise, Juh and Victorio, to name just a few, terrorized the states of Sonora and Chihuahua. Apaches wore calf-high deerskin moccasins, as opposed to the sandals of the locals, thus the play on words and the rhyming (Apaches-huaraches) has carried over to the present day. How thrilling to run across this little known saying and discover it comes from the exact period we are writing about in the Top Secret Project. That alone, was worth the trip.
”If it’s going to be two against one, make sure you are not the one.”
—Old Vaquero Saying
I need to knuckle down for the remainder of the year (only half-joking). Big goals looming for next year. I have set a self-imposed deadline for The Top Secret Project prototype to be finished by February one. Backing in my deadlines, I need to have the 10-page-prototype roughed in by this weekend.
“Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines, practiced every day; while failure is simply a few errors in judgment, repeated every day. It is the accumulative weight of our disciplines and our judgments that leads us to either fortune or failure.”
I received a couple great gag gifts for my 60th birthday. On my desk in the office was a T-shirt that has these words emblazened on the front: “Never trust anyone over 70.” And the card, from my friends Gregg and Susan Clancy said, “Welcome to the new sixties!”
“Police Sketch Artist Likes How Portrait of Serial Rapist Turned Out.”
—Onion 2007 Day-By-Day Calendar (Christmas gift from Deena)
“The angel of inspiration favors the hopeful and the confident.”
“The writer’s secret is not inspiration, but stubbornness and endurance.”
Of course I worry about being too cocky at my age, because. . .
”However decrepit a man may be, he thinks he has another 20 years.”
—Old Montaigne Saying
Last night we met at Grandma Radina’s house for Christmas Eve. Lots of fun. Ate too much. Got home at eleven. Big pancake brunch out here at our house this afternoon, or as Tommy calls my breakfast specialty: “Bobbie Cakes”.
Season’s Greetings From Around The World
“$1000 in your penis secret pack???!! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha!”
—Red Dawg, Scourge of the West
“There is no one else in the world who would appreciate this. I am in my Naples hotel room watching MY NAME IS NOBODY on TV and in Italian. It still works. Fly home in the morning.”
—ALAN C. HUFFINES, LTC (P), GS, ChOps/OIC
“Glad to see that you can still outrebound 8th graders, and that your shooting hasn't improved a bit.”
—Charlie Waters
“Is that Ford a Mexican model or did you mix up Ford and Mercury to end up with a Grand Marquis? Here in' the states' a Grand Marquis is a Mercury. Just curious because I know that in Canada many of the names are different or mixed of what we are used to here.
—Kip Coryea
No, you are correct. It must have been an old Crown Victoria, or as my father called them, “Crown Vickies.”
“Showoff Pallbearer Carries Casket By Himself.”
We all arrived home last night at about six, tired but happy.
The Muy Muy Tour
On our family trips we typically stumble onto a saying that sort of sums up the entire experience. For this trip it happened on my birthday (Dec. 19). After a hectic and fun day in historic El Fuerte, Tomas, Deena and I were sitting on the edge of the plaza sharing a flan (pudding meets cake signature dessert of Mexico) watching the local parade of humanity. In the Spanish tradition, the locals congregates in the center of town in the evening, walking around the small park in packs, while the trucks and cars do the same on the surrounding roadway.
As we were sitting and chatting at a sidewalk table, we noticed an old beat-up Ford Grand Marquis rattling and edging out of a parking space along the curb. Some kids had double-parked in the lane next to the Ford, and the driver and his teenage friends were leaning on the driver’s side of the car, checking out the chiquitas lapping the square. Behind them, the ancient Marquis edged out and backed around the right bumper, coming so close the Ford turned the front wheel of the kid’s car. The kids were oblivious to the bump and somehow the Marquis just managed to squeak out, rumbling off down the street in a cloud of Bardahl. Tommy said, “Holy Gyza, did you see that?” And I said, shaking my head, “Yes, es muy Mexicana.”
We all laughed at the absurdity of it, the kids oblivious to the coughing wreck of a Detroit dinosaur pushing out into traffic, and leaving paint on the tires and the curb. It was somehow a moving metaphor for the entire country and for the rest of the trip we had numerous chances to employ our new phrase. When cars would come out of side streets and literally challenge the taxi or bus we were riding in we would look at each other and shrug, saying in unison, “Muy Mexicano.”
On our last full day in Chihuahua we jumped in a cab and told the driver to take us to the bus station so we could buy our tickets for the next day’s journey to Juarez. The mega-terminal was way out on the outskirts of town and after we bought our tickets, the taxi driver shot out into rush hour traffic and angled around cars to get onto the expressway and return us to our hotel. As he headed up the onramp there was a stop sign (alto!) at the foot of the ramp to insure a steady flow of traffic, and our cabbie never slowed down, but simply drove up on the shoulder of the freeway to the left of the stopped car in front of us, and careened onto the crowded freeway, prompting Deena to gasp, “Muy! Muy!” which was, of course, shorthand for our earlier saying.
As we flew home last night, we all laughed and agreed that this was the “Muy Muy Tour.” We had several close calls but we all got out alive with a smile on our faces. What a country! What a trip!
“Nothing dulls faster than the cutting edge.”
—Andrew Weed
Tomas and I rented Vespa motorscooters today in downtown Creel, and scooted out across the Tarahamara Indian country. Of course I had on my penis secret pack and it worked like a charm. Before we left, I heeded the warnings of my compadres back in the states about bandidos in the Sierra Madres, so I had Kathy buy me a special waistband pouch shaped like the Bell family name in which I could store my passport, driver´s license and ten $100 crisp bills. My regular wallet contains about $500 pesos at any given time and is only for muggers, buggers and bees. I have figured, so far successfully, that any Mexican bandit worth his salt is not going to want to frisk me in that spot.
So far so good. The Vespa tour was exhilirating, as we visited the Valley of the Hongas (mushrooms, rocks shaped like big, fat mushrooms). We had to wear matching blue helmets so we looked rather gay, but I was counting on that factor as well with the penis pouch.
Two days ago at Cerocahui, we rented horses and I haven't been on a horse since 1995. We visited a distant waterfall up in the mountains (Barranca del Cobre) and it was a hoot to be horseback on great Spanish ponies, with Mexican saddles and long tapaderos (stirrup guards with long pointed corners).
The food we have been having is just the best. On the Copper Canyon train we stopped in a small town, and ran up a hill to the town, situated on a small bluff. In a small hotel, with a dog in the courtyard, we walked in and said, "We've got 30 minutes before the train pulls out, what have you got?" This was in Spanish, of course, with Deena talking, and the next thing you know we are eating Chile Colorado with homemade tortillas. Just the best. We actually ate at a taco stand in El Fuerte and I had the best tacos I've ever had for one buck. Four of us ate for $11! I could grab off fresh radishes off the bunch, and eat as many as I wanted (4), and everything was so fresh and perfect. Now I know why when you ask a Mexican if he likes the tacos at your favorite restaurant he invariably says, "They are very good, but. . ."
Last night at the Margarita Hotel in Creel, they served us homemade chile rellenos and they were the best I´ve ever had. Truly exceptional.
Our only complaint is they all drink instant coffee! Even the best restaurants, bring out the Nestles jar with hot water. Today we finally found a cafe that serves Comate Mexican brewed coffee and it too was great, because we were so tired of instant.
Tomorrow we head for Chihuahua.
"Hunger makes the best sauce."
-Old Vaquero Saying
This could be weird. I'm in Creel, Mexico on a Mexican computer with a Spanish keyboard and it's taking me minutes to type the above.
Mexico on $300 a day with Jesus as our driver
We flew into Los Mochis on Saturday night and took a $35 taxi ride into the town <(the travel brochure said the taxi would be $5, so that was a nice start. Fortunately, the kids can speak fluent Spanish, so they knew the cuss words to tell everybody off.
We went to the Toplobampo beach on Sunday with a taxi driver named Jesus. He had a dilapidated Nissan junker which he drove at about 35 mph and drove Kathy crazy, but he was such a hoot and I enjoyed calling him Jesus (as opposed to the Spanish pronunciation, "Hay-Suez"). He, in turn, called me "Pancho Villa," so I don't think he suffered any insults.
The beach was fantastico, what Mission Beach in San Diego must have looked like in about 1910. All white sand, three cantinas and maybe 12 people on the sand and in the water.
Travelled to El Fuerte on the bus the next day and got a cheap hotel for 500 pesos ($50), ate excellent tampiquena at Cafe Suprema right off the square. Got into a pick-up basketball game with the local kids at an outdoor, but covered basketball court. Deena got video of it and I'll post it next week. Learned how to say nice shot in Spanish ("Shot Tiro!") and "Bueno passe!" (good pass). El Fuerte is very historical and goes all the way back to 1540. I turned 60 there and only feel half as old as the town, especially after playing full court pick-up basketball. Scored two points, had four assists and 12 rebounds (they were eighth graders), and five unassisted hobbles off the court to catch my breath.
I had to come down on the family. Our budget is $300 dollars a day. We almost made it the first day ($255), but then we slipped back the next day to $197. I told them, Hey, we,re Americans, we can do this! Get out there and spend! Hopefully we,ll do better tomorrow.
Last night’s party at the Brink’s was a hoot and a half. Great food, good wine and lots of laughs. Marshall Trimble joined us and he kept it lively. Dan and Darlene Harshberger came out also, and brought photos of the Tongan wedding. I’m still waiting for the reception photos to post. Kathy ranked it as one of the top events of her life and “most amazing wedding.”
This morning we got up at seven and I made birthday pancakes for the T-Boy. It is actually my birthday (I turn 60 in two days). Got the song and the candle and a DVD collector’s edition of Preston Sturges films.
Tomas and I are making plans for the trip. The girls want to relax and I made Kathy a $100 bet she couldn’t do it, so here we go. Tomas and I are making makeshift, oversized name tags which we will wear across our chests when we drive down to meet Deena. They say: “I am the Decider,” and “I’m with the Decider.” I’ll wear the latter.
This is a backpacking trip so we are going light. One pair of pants, five changes of underwear, no computers, etc. Never done this. We also have no reservations at any of the hotels or even on the train. Goiing totally "res free". Our kids have done this all ove the world, so we are trusting their experience.
In terms of reading material, Tommy is making room for The Conquest of Don Pedro to read on the trip and I asked him to bring my copy of Blood Meridian to reread since it takes place in the area where we’re headed. Speaking of Conquest:
“I just received my 54 cent, hardback, copy of THE CONQUEST OF DON PEDRO that I purchased via Amazon.com---and it has to be the best bargain I have come across in a very long time! It is a 1954 Literary Guild Club edition, complete with semi-pulpish artwork on the dust jacket, and--better yet--it contains the original Literary Guild "Wings" pamphlet for July 1954 which is totally devoted to Fergusson's novel (also complete with pulpish artwork), I am attaching some poorly done photos of my bargain purchase for you to check out. Haven't had the chance to start reading the book, yet--but am anxiously looking forward to the opportunity. I will let you know what I think of that ending as soon as I get to it!”
—Chris Casey, Maniac #946, Sierra Vista, AZ
More from the road when I can. Hasta.
”Ah’ll Be Back.”
—Ahnuld Schwartz-en-negro
Worked almost all day on this month's Honkytonk Sue cartoon. Ended up doing three little gouaches, decent gag (Jackasses and pre-nups) and since I've been doing so many mule studies, the jackass part was a breeze. Getting Sue to look beautiful is harder. She is, of course, a cutie and strains my skills sometimes. I don't know why, but this version of Sue resembles Jessica Alba, to me. Which is not a bad thing:
Went by the Black Mountain Feed Store and bougtht chicken scratch for our eight chickens (we lost one last week, $11 something, paid cash). Hadn't been in there in a year or so. J.D. is going to feed the chickens while we're gone this week. Kelly Augherton is coming up the hill to feed the dogs. Her father Tom, has threatened to buy Peaches a couple sheep for Christmas so she can finally realize her life dream to herd something. Unfortunately for Buddy, he's the designated herdee, or as they used to say on John Ford films, "Buddy, it's still your turn in the barrel."
Tom Bell got stranded in Philly because of fog, missed his connection, so instead of coming in at noon, he's scheduled to arrive at 7:30 tonight.
Tonight is our annual True West Christmas Party at the Brink's home. We're bringing a case of Coronas, and a case of Charles Schwabb (no, wait, that's the financial guy!), well Charles somebody. Not sure what everybody else is going to drink.
The ex-mayor of Cave Creek, Jackie Davis, called me about speaking to the Desert Land Trust in January. She asked me what I wanted to talk about and I said, "Motorcycle Noise, The O.K. Corral & Preservation." Carefree put in a noise ordinance because some of the motorcycles coming up from Phoenix (Cave Creek is a major destination on the weekend) don't have mufflers, and I can hear them at my house (three miles north of Cave Creek Road!). Anyway, it's a big issue out here and I thought it might intrigue some of the Land Trust types.
Packing tonight. We take off in the morning. I'll post one more blog and then it's going to be touch and go for a week. The last time we were in Mexico (2000) there were internet cafes in some of the beach towns, but I'm assuming there are muy more connections, however, as Charlie Waters put it as he wished us a safe trip:
"After all, it's still Mexico."
Working hard on finishing all of my March issue work before tomorrow when T. Charles flies in from Philly. We're going to Taco Villa, then to Mother Radina's, then Saturday morning we're flying to Mexico for a week. We've decided this is a backpack trip, so we are not taking our computers. If I post it will be in The Casa de Puta, or some such Mexican place of pleasure.
Sorry, rather Borat-ish of me.
We've got a New Poll up: Are you planning to participate in next year's celebrations of the 125th anniversary of Jesse James' death?
Oh, and here's a pretty cool mule missive I got last week, but forgot to run:
In the Worthless Information department, on mules.
I once stumbled onto a horse & mule show at a county fair in Colorado. The highlight of the night was a mule costume class. Among the entries:
1. A tall lean native looking fella, in jeans, boots, big black hat but NO shirt, driving a big sorrel mule hitched to a mold board plow. Very authentic looking.
2. A Electric Cowboy take-off, only with sombrero and serape on a nice paint mule, all lit up with twinkly lights.
3. My pick, but not the top prize winner, probably not pc? Big burly fella with a big bushy beard riding his big mule side saddle on his regular western saddle. Attired in big old well-worn hat and everyday boots, but wearing a red evening gown with appropriately stuffed bosom, skirt hiked to show off his hairy leg. Leading a donkey with a placard over its back that read "Everybody needs a little ass sometimes."
The other entries, several pretty girls riding their "niceer" mules were interesting and entertaining but not as much so as these three.
—Sharon Tally
Robert Ray jammed and slammed with me on the Dalton Gang Classic Gunfight. I finished four more small gouaches, including this one, "Bob Dalton Shoots" which I mentioned yesterday about Bob taking out eight train guards all by his lonesome, firing through a coal shed and hitting three of them. Pretty amazing shooting.
Speaking of playing with guns, I read a great interview with Jimmy Kimmel and Amy Silverman in the new Esquire. Jimmy's mama is a hippie and she raised Jimmy not to play with guns and she wouldn't allow him to have one when he asked for it. So Jimmy went out and bought his son the biggest toy gun he could find. See, this is how the world works. My grandfather, Carl Marvin Bell, had an Indian belt-drive motorcyle in about 1911, and he terrorized the farmers all over Winnebago County, Iowa, scaring and stampeding teams of horses and impressing those big-boned Norweigan gals. But he didn't hear a train coming near Lakota and as he tried to go across the tracks he finally saw the train, laid that Indian down and just missed dying. Messed up his leg. So, Carl swore off "sickles" and when his son, Allen P. wanted a motorcylce, Carl refused, saying they are too dangerous and predicting young Allen would someday thank him.
Instead, Allen P. had a son, and he bought this spoiled kid a Mo-ped when he turned 14 and a Honda 50, the next year. The kid graduated to a Triumph Tiger 500 and even raced them for a short period until a nasty spill on the sweeper of Eastside Cycle Park near Wilmot and Davis Monthan Air Base. The shaken kid walked away with one nasty "strawberry" on his butt and the belief that sickles are too dangerous. So the kid sold his Tiger and grew up (recently) and had a son, Thomas Charles and when T. turned fourteen he asked his dad for a motorcycle and the dad said, "No way! Too dangerous! Some day you'll thank me!"
And the last time I talked to Tomas he told me that as soon as he gets a son, he's buying him the biggest motorcyle he can find.
Amen. Repeat til' hell freezes over.
"I've got yer two-stroke, right here!"
—Old Iron Hog Saying
December 13 Bonus Blog, 2006
With the funerals I have attended in the past month I have been feeling somewhat agitated about our mortality. I started making a concerted effort the last two weeks to contact the people I love and tell them just that. My father’s older sister, Doris (Bell) Jones, 85, is in an assisted living facility in Osage, Iowa and when Minnesota Mike and I drove through there several years ago I stopped and brought her some flowers. Her son Michael and I were always pretty close (we made 8mm movies together on Grandpa Bell's farm, most famously, at least in family circles: "The V2 Rocket Farm."). Recently Mike forwarded me a joke and I sent back an Email asking about his mother and for him to send me his mother’s Email address at the Lutheran Home. He did and I sent my Aunt Doris the following Email last week:
Dear Aunt Doris,
Mike contacted me this week and we are going to try and get together over Christmas out here in Arizona. It was fun hearing from him.
He tells me you are as sharp as ever and that doesn't surprise me. Hope you have a nice Christmas season. Our family is going to Mexico from Dec. 16 thru the 23rd. Our kids are bi-lingual and we all love Mexico. We're taking the train from Chihuahua up to Divisidero and Copper Canyon then down the Pacific slope to Los Mochis and the Gulf of California.
On Monday I received this Email from Mike:
“Bob, my mom died last night. She received your recent e-mail, which we discussed about 2 hours before she died. She finished her Christmas cards, and went to bed. She was dead about 20 minutes later. The funeral is Thursday 11 am. I am trying to get in touch with Glen and Claudia."
—Mike Richards
Let's see, who else do I need to contact, and more importantly, who should you be contacting?
“Life is a short ride, so don’t dilly on the dally.”
Got up early and finished a gouache painting of "Dead Men Riding," which is how I perceive the Dalton Gang as they rode gamely towards Adair, Oklahoma for their last successful raid. Riding some eight strong virtually everyone in the horseback group had one thing in common: they all stopped bullets in the coming months. Only one of them survived into old age, and he himself stopped 23 bullets at Coffeyville. I'm tempted to say, "Those poor Bastards," but it's a life they chose and it was a poor choice. Mother Dalton, on the other hand, had some fifteen kids and some say, considering the odds, only four of her sons became outlaws and the rest of the family turned out rather fine. Now, if you ask me, that is the definition of a "Poor Bastard."
Robert Ray is laying out the piece. Gus Walker did a sweet map of the Dalton's Oklahoma raids and I've got three more small illustrations to complete tonight. One of Bob Dalton shooting the lights out on the nine man train guards who holed up in a coal shed and Bob clipped three of them (through the walls!) in no time, completely taking the fight out of them. Bob tried the same thing at Coffeyville, killing three townsmen, but he ran into Death Alley and got caught in a shooting gallery and took one in the chest from Isham's Hardware Store, where Coffeyville citizens were handed free rifles and told to have fun. Bob "died game", then told his younger brother, Emmett, to do the same, but although the young Dalton took a shotgun blast to the lower back, he not only survived but lived out his life, game, in California, where he "advised" the movies and became a celebrity. Kind of turns karma on its pointy head, no?
In the staff meeting Monday Trish Brink raved about Jolyn Gagnon, who manned (or should that be personned?) our booth at Cowboy Christmas in Vegas last week, handing out some 6,000 source books, sold subscriptions, got flyers out and did us all proud. Good help is hard to find and we're trying to find a job for Mrs. Gagnon. She really impressed us with her attitude and pro-active efforts. It's so rare these days.
Spent an hour this afternoon and wrote notes of thanks to some of our top contributors and enclosed a bonus check for each of them. We aim to be a good company and one of the things that's essential is to thank the people who make it happen day in and day out.
I had lunch with Wonderful Russ and Mad Coyote Joe down at the Keg Steakhouse yesterday ($59, Russ bought). Lots of laughs and I told Russ that Charlie Waters thought yesterday's post about his antics at the Excaliber Hotel was one of the funniest blogs he's ever read, and Charlie went on to say that Russ is funnier than many of today's highest paid comedians and we had a long talk about how Russ doesn't regret his choice to go into real estate instead of stand-up. I actually agree with Charlie, and at one time I told Russ he could have his cake and eat it too. I suggested he be "The Angriest Real Estate Agent In The World," and although Russ agreed it was a funny concept, he didn't have the energy to put into it. Unfortunately, Lewis Black has usurped that angle, and done quite well with it, but it's still interesting to wonder what would have happened if Russ had run with it. Still, funny is funny and it's hard to top Great Big Wonderful.
Just as a follow-up to the episode I shared yesterday, after we left the jousting arena, Russ walked through the casino holding the photo (posted in yesterday's blog) and would stop people (mostly from Iowa) and say, pointing at the photo and me, "This is a photo of Bob Boze Bell," and the people would look at the photo and then at me, and kind of go "So?", and then Russ would put his hand up under the photo and let his forefinger dangle down and he'd add, "You can't see his penis in the photo but it would be about right here," indicating his wagging finger. One guy in a fisherman's hat, looked at Russ in complete horror, and scrinched his neck back like a turtle and attempted to wiggle behind his wife (the casino was very crowded). Another zane moment and another new friend for Russ.
Later at the Mirage, we were given a tour of the shark tanks but they were all empty and it was in the middle of the night, but as the tour guide walked us by giving his usual speech, Wendy, Russ's wife said, "Look Russ, a microphone." Russ jumped up on a small amphitheatre stage and turned on the mike (we couldn't believe it was on!) and started in, "You're dazed, confused, trapped in a world without time. . ." He did almost the entire Twilight Zone intro, booming out into the night. I say almost because security came and suggested he stop, and he eventually did. One of things that makes this so funny to me, is that there is so little humor in Vegas. All those dealers, bouncers and pit bosses must have had humor bypasses to work there, and of course, that makes it even funniier when Russ messes with them. There's more, but I'll save you the stitches.
"Cheney Urged Not To Work Blue During Convention
—Onion headline
Coldest day yet. Met Joe Yaeger on the road and he's from Kansas and when he says, "Kind of nippy out here," you know it's cold.
Dan Harshberger's sister Charlene, found another photo of Dan and me in their mother's belongings. This one is dated 1961 and shows Dan and me on my brand new Montgomery Ward Mo-ped. That's Dan on the back and yes, he's either goosing me, or hanging on to the crappy seat I'm sitting on. As Dan mentioned in his accompanying Email, "check out those Chuy shaped New York flattops!" Chuy was the haircutter everyone wanted in Kingman and it cost $2 to get the bitchin' flattop style. Amazing
Speaking of old friends, if you've ever wondered what my friends really say behind my back, check out the following link:
http://www.bloodhoundrealty.com/BloodhoundBlog/?p=740
Wonderful Russ wrote it, and gives me a ribbing for always trying to get him to, as he puts it, to visit "dirt clod" sites. That's his term for anything Old West. Ha.
One of my favorite memories of Great Big Wonderful, as we call him, happened in Vegas back in the late eighties. Reid Reeker, our general manager at KSLX radio station, treated the whole staff to a Christmas party in Vegas. The station paid for our flights on Southwest and got us rooms at the brand new Excaliber Hotel. If I remember correctly, Russ was in a tough spot at that time. He hadn't started his mega-successful real estate business, or it wasn't off the ground yet, so I gave him $15 and told him to go play blackjack. He went over to a $5 table, played a hand and won, then the dealer blackjacked and got 21 the hard way and as they scooped up Russ's last chip, he stood up and yelled, "What is this, some kind of Mafia deal, where you let us win, then you suck us in and take all our money?!" Pit bosses from a mile away descended on the table and we just managed to explain ourselves ("we do a morning radio show and it's about humor!") get him clear.
Later we were treated to a big dinner downstairs in the big jousting arena. While we were fed Rennaissance fair fare, different knights and magicians came into the arena and entertained us with fighting and jousting and cool stunts. Our waitress made the mistake of encouraging Russ to root for "our knight" who was wearing purple to match the section we were sittting in, which was also purple. No sooner had the waitress left, than our knight got into it with a red knight and the purple knight got unhorsed and was fighting for his life right in front of us. Russ stood up and boomed out, " You f#@king A#*hole, stop that! You are going to hurt someone!" The waitress ran over to us with a panicked look. "Not like that! Not like that! It's just pretend," she kept pleading at the same time pushing her hands downward to convey lowering his voice. But the cat was out of the bag and Russ continued to implore all the knights to "get along" and stop all this "needless fighting." It was classic Russ and we all laughed until we cried.
Believe it or not, a photographer came over and asked us if we wanted to commemorate this momentous event and we said yes, and here is a photo of Kathy, me, Russ and Wendy taken only moments after the big outburst. Russ later admitted he doesn't remember much of the dinner, but it is a Zane Moment I will never forget.
"When we realize we're all mad, then the whole world suddenly makes sense."
Got downright chilly yesterday afternoon, windy with clouds coming in. Welcome to Arizona! If you don't like the weather, stick around for fifteen minutes.
Decorated the Christmas tree at about six. Had fun finding all the kid's ornaments. T. Bell's footprint at age one. Considering he wears a size 13 today, it's lucky we got the little clay piece then, becaue if we did the current size it would topple the tree. Ha.
Rashomon And Another Take On The "Truth"
“Speaking of portraying on film multiple versions of an event, wonder what Kurosawa would have done if he had made a movie of the OK gunfight . . . including the ghosts of Tom, Frank and Billy testifying through a medium at the Spicer hearing? oooweee!"
—Gus Walker, The Mapinator
Yes, believe it or not, Jeff Morey, Allen Barra and I had that exact same idea back in about 1995 and we were going to apply Rashomon to the aftermath of the O.K. Corral. Like many good ideas it never materialized, but I still think it could make an excellent drama. And speaking of good drama. . .
A Surprisingly Sexy Side to Mr Fergusson’s Writing—In 1956!—Proving Explicitly McCubbin's Point About Harvey's Excellent Portrayals of Spanish Women
“The better he came to understand these people the more clearly he saw that he must address himself to the men and leave the women alone. For these were a highly erotic people with a strict morality, which was always violated, a pious people who sinned with passion and confessed and repented with passionate sincerity. Unmarried girls were guarded with firearms and sometimes locked up for safekeeping with ferocious dogs, but the boys and girls of a village nevertheless contrived to explore the wonders of love at an early age. . .Men were always ready to fight for the purity and fidelity of their wives, yet adultery had almost the status of an institution. Husbands had to be much away from home and wives were sly and cunning. . .Desire was not to be denied, and without sin how could there be repentance and divine forgiveness? To these people sin and repentance were the drama that kept faith alive and life exciting.”
“In Santa Fe on summer nights he used to sit in the plaza. Every Saturday evening a Negro band belonging to the American Army gave a concert, and this event was perhaps more appreciated by the populace than anything else the conquerors had done. The whole town turned out to hear the music. The rich and exclusive came in fiacres and coaches, the old crowded the benches, and the young promenaded around and around the square, the men going one way, the girls the other, as is customary in all Mexican towns. If a man turned and walked with a girl and she permitted him, it meant they were affianced. But challenging glances and even quick words could be exchanged in passing without hazard of matrimony. Saturday night in the plaza was a mass flirtation. All the town’s most gorgeous prostitutes were there, as well as its finest ladies. The air was filled with the squeal and giggle of feminine excitement, with the perfume of feminine presence.”
“. . .one woman did repeatedly capture his eye. She was a large handsome woman of indeterminate age, with a fine brown skin, heavy black hair and a deep bosom. She had the gliding walk of an Indian and also the perfect bearing. She might have carried a cup of water on her head without spilling a drop. She wore always a blue cotton dress, very clean and starched, a black silk shawl and her costly earrings set her apart. So, even more, did her strange manner, for she never looked right or left, never smiled and never greeted anyone. Proud and self-contained, she moved through the crowd as though it had not been there. . .then one evening she turned her head and looked him full in the eyes. She did not smile or nod, just gave him a long cool stare and went her way, but she nevertheless gave him the feeling that he had been chosen, for he had never seen her look at another human.”
“Almost all of the old families had Navajo slaves and Navajos caught as young children became good Mexicans, but those past puberty were often untamable. This girl fought her captor like a wildcat, and he had great sport subduing her to his desire. So the girl Dolores was born of rape and nursed on hatred. That was her legend.”
“It was a moonless night and the narrow dusty Acequia Road was dark and wholly deserted. It ran beside the great ditch that irrigated the gardens and orchards of the town and he could hear the swift current gurgling along behind its covert of willows. He found the footbridge she had crossed and saw the apple trees beyond and that was all. There was no light! He stopped, feeling at first as simply disappointed as a child denied his candy, and then a righteous anger against this woman who had fooled him. Obviously, she was not even there. He was about to turn away, but on second thought he decided to go and knock on her door, just to make sure. The door, to his surprise, stood slightly ajar. He knocked on it and stood listening, but heard no sound except a faint breeze in the apple trees. Something strongly impelled him to push the door open and enter. He stepped into solid darkness and a silence in which he could hear his own quick breathing. Then, after she had enjoyed his suspense for a full minute, he heard her laugh softly. He did not say anything but went groping toward the sound with slightly tremulous hands. She had made down her pallet and lay there naked, and when he put his hands upon her she did not laugh any more or say a word, but when he had stripped and mounted her she made a continuous guttural sound deep in her throat. It seemed to have in it nothing of her usual voice or of any human voice but to be a subhuman music of desire, of the pure and innocent lust that is common to man and beast. Between their embraces she lay silent, and when finally she spoke it was in her usual crisp and positive way, as though she had come out of a trance or up from some abysmal depth of abandon to resume her personality.
“‘Put on your clothes,” she told him firmly. ‘I may commit carnal sin, for the flesh is weak and God will forgive me, but no man has ever seen me naked and none ever will.’
“‘I admire your principals,’ Leo said.
“When she it her candles she was dressed from neck to ankle, but her hair, heavy and black as a mustang’s mane, hung loose and wild to her waist. She looked remarkably pretty, Leo thought, and more than ever like a witch. She sat down and began deftly combing and braiding her hair, putting it all in perfect order, serenely repairing the damage of her fall from grace. She smiled at him broadly.”
—page 66-67
“Don’t you know? That is Dolores Pino. She is a witch!”
—Eusebio Velarde, a character in The Conquest of Don Pedro
Still cool out, but afternoons are sunny and warm. Very patented Arizona weather and delightful I might add.
Kathy and I spent most of the morning going over the Bisbee Budget. Here's our problem in a nutshell: no matter how much money we make, the debit part of the tracking manages to be more than the income side. And this is where our different philosophies come into play. I say, "Well, I need to sell more paintings," and Kathy says, "No, you need to stop buying $650 custom-made boots and taking boo-koo trips to New Mexico to play with your friends!" I hate that logical side of women. What is their problem? Can't they see that bitchin' boots and essential fact-finding trips to New Mexico are essential to the mental well-being of a selfish only-child who refuses to listen to reason? Oh yes, she gets that loud and clear. Just to appease her I sent back one of the boots.
We switched to Directv a couple weeks ago (saving $12!) and I finally got to see the Akira Kurosawa classic film Rashomon on the Independent Film Channel yesterday afternoon. Of course, I’ve heard about this famous film for years and years so it was a treat to finally see for myself what all the hub-bub is about. The tracking shots and black and white cinematography seemed quite advanced for 1950 and the multiple versions of the crime told from the different points of view (even the dead husband is channeled through a wacked-out medium!) still worked. Of course, some of it was goofy, and didn’t hold up, but all in all a visual treat. And yes, it was Chris Casey who informed me he didn’t think it was filmed at Old Tucson (it’s listed as being filmed there in the Film In Arizona catalogue we have at the office), and Chris is absolutely right. Nothing even hinted at being filmed at Old Tucson. And speaking of Chris. . .
“I had heard about the book, THE CONQUEST OF DON PEDRO, from the late Glenn Shirley when I lived in Stillwater, OK a few years ago. I had always meant to track down a copy; but, to be honest, the book sort of slipped my mind until I read about it on your blog. So, I immediately jumped over to Amazon.com to see if I could locate a copy....and would you believe it? I found one for a mere 54 cents....hardback!! Can't wait to get it and read it!
“And, oh yes...Your Mule sketches are, indeed, outstanding, amigo!”
And For You Chris, A Little Taste
“Santa Fe was then a boom town. . .and the air was full of dust, bilingual profanity and the deadly crack of bullwhips. At night the town was a flower of sin and passion. . .there were bailes every night where soldiers and Mexicans danced with brown-skinned girls on the sanded floors. . .every soldier seemed to have a Mexcian girl. It was the common joke of the post that to learn the language you had to sleep with your dictionary. Coming home one night Leo saw a soldier and a Mexican girl grappling on the ground in the dark plaza, and the gutteral fury of their desire left him shaken and disturbed. The place seemed overcharged with youth and energy, with passions endgendered by the sudden conjunction of two races, erupting into lust and battle, as though conquerer and conquered struggled violently to become one.”
—Harvey Fergusson, The Conquest of Don Pedro
How do I tell Kathy that I need to make another research trip to New Mexico to see if I can find the soldier and chiquita in the above paragraph? And speaking of stubborn mules, I’ve got several mule oriented set pieces going in the studio with my mule reference spread out everywhere. I’ll post some of those in the next few days.
“He who reigns within himself and rules his passions, desires, and fears is more than a king.”
About a month ago (Nov. 15) I made a list of my weakest drawing skills as it relates to The Top Secret Project. My logic being one cannot improve if one doesn’t know where to put effort. Here’s the list of my weaknesses in terms of rendering:
• hands There are some forty bones in each hand, and they are extremely hard to draw, especially in action, or in foreshortened situations, like holding a pistol which is pointed at the viewer (Where do all those knuckles go?!). When I was a freshman at the University of Arizona (1965) we had a Fine Arts teacher, Mr. Scott, who would come around behind us as we drew and sometimes yell out, “Platypus Hands!” which is unfortunately what most artist’s attempts look like. Pudgy, cartoon-like goofiness. More than one girl student ran crying from the room. He was definitely Old School, and was subsequently pushed out of the college for being such a Brute, but I learned more from him than any other teacher I had. However, in spite of his excellent instruction, hands are still a definite challenge, and I need to work on it if our story is going to be convincing. The new Lone Ranger comic has a scene of the Ranger pointing a pistol out at us and I took one look at it and yelled out, “Platypus Hand!” Several employees walking by my office shook their heads in dismay, but I knew what I was talking about.
• eyes The liquid pool around the pupil is not white! In fact it’s everything but white! The Old Masters tended to put strong grays in there and it certainly helps when you add the glistening highlights. In fact, I've been studying and copying them to some good efffect (thanks for the great poster references Fred Nolan!)
• ears An extremely complicated terrain with bumps and rippling plains of pinkish skin that picks up light in extraordinary ways (it gets bright pink and translucent when sunlight hits it), and is maddeningly different on every person! One of my cartoon heroes, Gus Arriola (Gordo) eventually eliminated the inner ear squiggles that most cartoonists put in, because he believed it subtracted from the visual shorthand needed to convey emotion. I tend to believe him, although in realistic rendering one needs to find a happy medium. I’m currently looking hard at everyone's ears, so if you find me staring at you in traffic or at the office party, it's not a gay fetish thing (honest!)..
• holsters Very few artists get this unique and complicated piece of equipment correct—of course, Remington and Russell being the exceptions. The Mexican loop holster is an intricate booger and reflects light in very specific ways, and seen at a distance, the shine of the belt, with bullets on top is confusing (to me) and kicks my ass every time. I need to take the time to study the effects and get it right, rather than continue to muddle through and fake it.
• horse legs Horses have very unique veins and knobby protrusions running down their hind legs and when they are moving in a trot or lope, it’s extremely difficult to position them correctly, especially when a horse is coming straight on. Most artists tend to hide the fourth leg (I know I do) because it gets too crowded in there and muddies up the effect of the run. This is also why most cartoonists from Disney to the Simpsons only use four fingers on a hand (it's too hard to draw five and viewers don't seem to notice or mind the exclusion).
So, that said, I added a new item to my morning regimen today. I carried my sketchbook under my arm on my bike ride, and stopped on the way back at Barro’s horse farm and sketched the legs of every reddish horse in the joint. Got some good stuff which I’ll post later.
Harvey Fergusson Excerpt De Jour
“Lying quiet he became aware of the voice of the valley, which was mostly a hum of bees, a droning of locusts and a soft chuckle of water over a sandy bed. It was like a lullaby sent to soothe him. He was full fed, supremely relaxed and comfortable. In moments such as this he always felt at home on earth, even though he was a homeless man, and at peace with himself, however difficult his fellow beings might become. What more could a man ask of life? But he knew he was now asking something more, and something other than peace. Otherwise he would not be here, camped on the edge of a settlement like an invader waiting the moment to strike.”
”You could trust him with anything but a woman.”
December 8, 2006 Bonus Bonus Blog
Went home for lunch and worked some more on salvaging images from my morgue. Here's a very dynamic image of La Gata (below, left) I created back in 1987. This is before I discovered scratchboard and it's strictly black ink on white board. It's the story of a post-apocalyptic hispanic biker chick who likes to kick radioactive-suited patootie. My radio compadre Jeanne Sedillo (radio consultants forced her to change her handle to "Sedello," lest someone actually think she was hispanic! This was long before she joined our show) posed for this at Ed Mell's studio. The destroyed freeway background was copped from the I-10 stack that was just being built at that time and I got some great photos of it. I still think she'd make a great movie. On the right is a Texas Rangers Riding The River painting that also has some decent potential. "Mister Unstoppable" Dave Daiss rode his horse around his yard for this image. Nice glow on the badge. May need to buckle down and finish this one:
I've talked about it before, but my sordid, lost years as a honkytonk drummer is a story I someday want to tell in a graphic novel. My son Thomas Charles posed for a series of images and this scene grew out of that photo sesssion (nice paradiddles Tomas!) And oh, the scenes of violence and debauchery I saw from this position on drum risers and in VFWs and Moose Lodges and honkytonks all over the Old Pueblo:
"One of the secrets to a happy life is continuous small treats."
December 8, 2006 Bonus Blog
I have a morning ritual. Kathy brings me coffee and half a banana at 6 a.m. and I sit up in bed and study the sketches from the previous day, which I had placed against the bedroom fireplace beyond the foot of the bed the night before. After trying to determine what works and what doesn't, I get up at 6:30, let the dogs out the front gate and walk out to the end of the road and get the paper, come back into the studio and turn on the computer, bring the paper into the kitchen, put a cinnamin-raisin English muffin in the toaster and a packet of Quaker Oats oatmeal in a dish with milk and put it in the microwave for 1:25 minutes and sit down to read the paper. In addition to the news, I'm looking for interesting photos that might stimulate me in terms of my art. Here's a good example from yesterday's Arizona Republic. It's a dog photo (below, left), which was in the community section and I believe encouraging dog adoption, but I was struck at the cool design with the dog coming out of the shadows, into the light with his forepaw extended just above the ground. That led to the following sketch (below, right):
And those sketches led to the following sketches (the bottom two are inspired from John Ford's Rio Grande which I captured from images off my computer screen for art reference):
"He was louder than a jackass makin' love in a tin shed."
I’m still processing the ending of the book I finished the other night. I found it realistic, but somewhat irritating and I didn't want it to end where it did (which is often the sign of a great book). And speaking of which:
More Important Data On Harvey Fergusson
“Even more importantly he wrote the 1925 American Mercury article (that begins "Who Remembers Billy the Kid?") that perfectly foreshadows Burns' book in terms of thematic content. I feel certain Burns read the article and it inspired him to write Saga. Fergusson's Billy article is central to the 20th-century explosion of the Kid legend.”
—Distinguished Professor Paul Andrew Hutton
Amazing. Paul had told me he found this magazine article that predates Walter Noble Burns’ Saga of Billy the Kid, but I didn’t put it together with the author of The Conquest of Don Pedro. Kind of makes one believe that everything here on this planet is connected, doesn’t it? And just to underline that premise, Hutton is currently curating a huge Billy the Kid show that will premiere next May at the Albuquerque Museum.
Not So Random Conquest Excerpt De Jour
“. . .he plucked a bunch of grass over beside the edge of the bosque, dipped it in the water and rubbed the sweating hide to a smooth coolness. The burro turned his head slightly, as he always did when he received this attention, as though to express an incurable surprise. Perhaps no other burro in the long history of New Mexico had ever been treated with such distinguished consideration. Burros were the pack and riding animals of the poorest Mexicans and they had always been objects of abuse, execration and neglect. A burro rider used neither saddle nor bridle. He sat well toward the rump of his mount, guided him by whacking him on the side of the neck with his burro stick, and propelled him forward by a steady pounding of his rear, and by calling him all the eloquent names known to Spanish profanity. When his day’s work was done a burro was turned loose anywhere and picked up his living as best he could, eating weeds, brush and even cactus when no grass was available. Yet a burro was seldom thin and many observers had noted that a dead burro was a rare sight. Burros were not immortal but they did live to a great age, and they were peculiarly immune to accidental casualty and resistant to exploitation. In the service of mankind most burros seldom exceeded a slow walk, but let one of them smell a mountain lion and he would pass anything slower than a frightened jack rabbit.”
—Harvery Fergusson, The Conquest of Don Pedro
”He was grinnin’ like a jackass eatin’ prickly pear.”
Cave Creek cowboy Russ Garrett came by and took me to lunch at El Encanto at noon today. I hadn't been there in months. Sat out by the pond. Beautiful day to sit outside. Linda was our waitress, and she told me this is their slow time. I had the machaca and eggs and Russ had a taco and enchilada ($19 plus $5 tip, I picked up the tab because Russ told me of a tire place that will drive out and fix my John Deere tire!). He has a John Deere and does odd jobs. Put an ad in the paper and gets calls. He loves it. Russ is the guy who hooked me up with the mule owner, Denny Haywood. Russ has nine grandkids and four great-grandkids. He used to live in Stillwater, Oklahoma which is where True West was for many years. Over lunch he told me many horse stories and in fact, told me, shaking his head, that horses have probably held him back in life. He went on to say he is an expert at buying horses, just not very good at selling them (he also told the old joke that horses are like potato chips: you can't have just one).
I should have known that when it comes to books, one blog reader would not only know about the obscure book I just read, but would know all his other titles and his sister! To wit:
"Marshal has good taste. The Conquest of Don Pedro has been one of my top favorites since I first read it. All of Harvey Fergusson's novels set in the Southwest are very much worth reading...Wolf Song, Grant of Kingdom, and In Those Days especially. He is really good at his portrayal of women...particularly Spanish women. Harvey was the sister of Erna Fergusson, who I imagine you have heard of, and whom I visited in her home in Albuquerque. She died in 1964. I never got to meet Harvey. Anyway, your mention of the book in your Blog brought back memories."
—Bob McCubbin, Santa Fe, New Mexico
And here's Marshall with a few tidbits on the author:
"I did some checking on Harvey Fergusson Jr. He was the son of Harvey Fergusson Sr, a crusading Democratic New Mexico politician who challenged the Republican establishment in New Mexico. Later he was the first congressman to represent NM following statehood in 1912. Interestingly, as a lawyer, he once tried a case in Lincoln County.
"Harvey Jr. born in New Mexico in 1890, was a newspaperman who also wrote fiction mostly about the end of the frontier and the new West. One of his later works, "The Conquest of Don Pedro" was a historical novel but all the characters and places were fictitious. He continually sought to correct what he saw as a flaw in conventional western writing saying "not that its stories are melodramatic but that its heroes and heroines are lifeless." His best work is considered to be "Wolf Song," a novel based loosely on Kit Carson.
"During the 1930s he moved to Hollywood where he did some screenwriting. Fergusson died in California in 1971."
This is one of the benefits of owning a magazine like True West and writing a blog. I have all of you to do my homework! I'm not kidding, it really is thrilling to me to know such inspiring people.
A Maniac response Pancho's Revenge:
"Say, I just came from checking out the ol' blog—where I noticed something interesting. The first painting of Pancho Villa you have posted there looks (to me, anyhow) amazingly like the painted image of James Coburn in the original Italian poster for Sergio Leone's DUCK YOU SUCKER (aka, FISTFUL OF DYNAMITE...aka, GIU LA TESTA)!
"I have attached some images to compare. Do you see a resemblance...or is it just me?"
—Chris, Maniac #946, Sierra Vista, Arizona
And here's the Mapinator weighing in on my recent mule-renderings:
"I was studying your mule portraits yesterday and was amazed at how much character and personality you have given these much maligned critters. your reference work has paid off on their behalf. i think you’ve embued them with wisened, cat-like attitudes, at least facially. perhaps the term 'dumber than a mule' should be stricken from our vocabulary."
—The Mapinator, Gus Walker
Yes, today at lunch Russ Garrett was telling me about how smart mules are. He told about being a kid in Missouri and trying to get a mule to hoe a row while plowing with his brother, and the mule kept trying to get in the left furrlow from the plow and one of them finally had to get in front of the mule and force him to stay in what they thought was the correct furrow, only to find out when their dad got home that the mule knew which furrlow to go in, and they were the ones who were "dumb as a post." The mule knew more than they did!
“It was a place of old walls, old trees, old songs and stories, old feuds and hatreds, a place where human relations were ruled by old forms and customs too rigid for men to break. . .The town stood on slightly higher ground a few hundred yards to the east, showing only as a cluster of reddish adobe walls, with some treetops lifting above them. Beyond it the mesa, thinly grown with greasewood, was a dull and dusty olive green, reaching away toward a purple loom of mountains. It was a very hot, bright day in early September. The heat waves shimmered and danced above the old walls, as though they had stood at the bottom of a troubled, limpid sea.”
Warmer out this morning, rode up Old Stage Road on my bicycle without a jacket. Beautiful sun-tipped saguaros peeking over the ridge below Sugarloaf. And speaking of apt descriptions of nature, I just finished an excellent book last night.
Last month, at the Cave Creek Wild West Days, we had a book sale and were unloading boxes of old books for a dollar each. At the end of the day, as we were loading up the ones that didn't sell, Marshall Trimble pointed at a non-descript, haggard looking book jacket on the table and said, "That's one of the best books I've ever read." I picked it up and it had one of those lame 1950s type titles: "The Conquest of Don Pedro" and I looked at it, then at Marshall, and said, "Are you serious?"
Marshal shook his head andl told me the book "is a classic" and really impacted him, but added, "watch out for the ending." I had never heard of the author, Harvey Fergusson, who sounds more like a tractor salesman than a writer. I picked it out of the junk pile and took it home and it sat on the night stand for about a week and one night I finally got a few minutes and opened it up. It started slow and has an odd protagonist (a jewish peddler), but the setting, on the Rio Grande in New Mexico after the Civil War was instantly riveting to me, and I soon fell under the spell of the book. I'll post some of the eloquent passages later, but I must second Marshall's rave review. I highly recommend this book to anyone who loves the Southwest and vaguero culture. And, one of the punchlines to the book is the tragic Salt War, which my good friend Paul Cool is publishing a book on next year, and he's asked me to do illustrations for it. Oh, the serendipity!
And speaking of New Mexico and one of the minor characters in the book, here's an unfinished painting I found over the weekend of a certain boy outlaw getting a "Spanish Kiss." Has potential (which ironically is how several teachers described me on my failing report cards)
This morning, Robert Ray walked me through the layouts for CGIII (Classic Gunfights, Volume III). Going to be the best one yet. Man, Gus, Robert and I put in the hours on these damn fights. The attention to detail in the Mapinator maps alone is worth the price of admission. We have worked so hard, for so long (seven years!) on these fights, I sometimes forget just how much work went into them.
"Who wants to read about success? It is the early struggle which makes a good story."
Been working hard on mules and muley reference. Here's a couple of pages out of my sketchbook, and by the way I'm up to 2,633 sketches (six a day) without missing a day. Pretty proud of that:
Also, our crew from Vegas is back and they took this photo of the booth last weekend. Left to right, Samantha Somers (seated), Trish Brink, Joel Klasky, Bethany Braley and Sue Lambert. They handed out many thousands of source books and we have Jolyn (Charlie and Linda Waters' daughter) working there even as you read this. So there's still time to go by and get a free one at the Mandalay Bay Convention Center.
Last night Kathy and I drove down into the Beast for the annual Arizona Republic Christmas Party at the Phoenix Art Museum. My fellow cartoonist, Steve Benson, shocked me with the news that he's getting a divorce (29 years!). Nice talking to all my old friends who used to work at New Times but now they toil for the Evil Empire (as we used to refer to the R&G when we were high on life and full of piss and vinegar). More later.
I have a film crew here and we're going out to my house to tape gunfighter stuff for educational purposes, of course.
"I destroy my enemy by making him my friend."
Still quite chilly out. I heard at the party last Saturday night that the big Microsoft (or was it IBM?) honcho who bought the horse farm up at the end of the street had a nasty fall from a horse and sold his property. He spent a ton up there and walked away. Some other mega-millionaire bought it and the improvements continue. Rode by this morning and saw them working on the turf.
News From The Front Lines
Carole Glenn sometimes gives me the skinny on the phones and she sent this to me this morning: "Melva Stokes of Stanfield, Arizona called to get a gift sub today. She said she and her husband moved from Virginia to AZ after visiting – their real estate agent gave them a gift sub to True West and Arizona Highways. She said that she had received the Best of the West/Source Book and has it on her desk – she has used it to order Christmas gifts and to locate a website for Soda Creek. She said that she read the October issue cover to cover and she, husband and friends visited Tombstone and had a ball."
More culling and filing in the studio this morning. Here's a half-finished, big, splashy painting of the James-Younger Gang riding out of Northfield called "They Took The Whole Road." (below, left). Need to flesh out the other riders but it's got that Remington sweep and could be a good one. Next to it (below, right) is an unfinished scene of the Acme Saloon in El Paso, Texas on the night John Wesley Hardin was shot and killed.
Here's a failed painting of a Mexican rider that originally was under, or part of, one of the Pancho paintings posted yesterday (below, left). I cut it off and attacked it as a stand-alone painting and it has some potential. On the right is a cloud study I pulled out of the rejection pile and gave it a few strokes. Not bad. Those are the mountains north of our house.
In my Wild Bill Hickok files I found this big painting which ran in True West several years back (below, left). Wild Bill preferred mules and my model, Jerry Tarrantino, was riding a horse out at Winter Range and I gave his horse longer ears, but now that I know more about mules it really doesn't fly, does it? Next up, is a black and white, stark image of The Carkid (below, right) which I created back in the eighties. It's a story about a modern day Billy the Kid, who steals a dream car from Ford Proving Grounds in Yucca, Arizona, circa 1956 and takes off on a joy ride with a Vegas stripper. Yes, that's famed Kingman based Highway Patrolman, Floyd Cisney, on the right. He held the record for the most stolen car nabs (over 5,000 collars). This story was inspired by a tale Stubb Shaeffer told me when I worked in my dad's gas station. Stubb had a hotrod which I seem to remember he called "The Black Widow" and he was coming back from Phoenix and outran several patrol cars and they ended up with a road block at Peach Springs, with highway department machinery parked across the road to stop him, and he blew right past them. I wish I could tell the story as good as he did.
And from the permanently failed pile, comes a Tommy Lee Jones cover attempt that was supposed to illustrate a True West cover story on The Missing. I had no photo reference from the movie (it hadn't been released yet) so I had to extrapolate what he might look like. Didn't work. Next to Tommy Lee is another failure, this one of Wyatt and Doc Holliday for a proposed issue on the dynamic duo. Great idea, but it just flat sucks. And on the far right is a failed Davy Crockett painting where I was emulating a Rembrandt self-portrait and it ended up looking like a gay banker with a Michael Jackson-style nose job.
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Cleaned and organized all day yesterday, finding many gems and as many piles of poo poo paintings. For starters, here's two unfinished paintings that go way back. The first is of The Apache Kid which goes all the way back to 1987. The model is Flint Carney and it has good potential. The second goes back a couple years and is of a certain Apache scout (who shows up later). Both are unfinished, but have potential. The next one is a Custer portrait I did for Hutton's issue on the Battle of the Little Bighorn. It also has potential and I need to find time to flesh it out. Same for the fence sitting Honkytonk Sue (far right). My daughter Deena posed for this about seven years ago up at Barro's corral.
Back in 2003 we had planned on doing a Pancho Villa cover. At the last minute, we did the Digging Up Billy cover and all my Pancho efforts came to a halt. Here's two paintings that were in my Failure Pile, which I pulled out this weekend and added some paint here and there, and I think they are pretty cool:
On the scratchboard front, I pulled all of the images I have done for the Top Secret Project and layed them out on the breezeway (below, left). Quite an impressive array of images, don't you think? Virtually every character in our project is represented here, including Tom Horn (center). At right are a smattering of Honkytonk Sue images with Lee Harvey Oswald, E.J. Radina and Billy Hamilton thrown in for good measure.
Of course, through the years I have always corraled my kids into modeling for me, and here's Deena and Tommy posing for a piece I did on the Stones appearing in Phoenix back in 1995, or so (below, left). It ran in New Times Weekly. And here's a study of Johnny Cash (below, right) which I did for an issue of Old West Journal (a short-lived title we did way back in 2000). Not bad, or not as bad as I thought they were at the time.
And finally, here's a whole bunch of paintings I can only describe as It Seemed Like A Good Idea At The Time (evidently, Buddy Boze Hatkiller agrees, look at his disgust!)
There's more, but I'll save them for later this week.
"Art for art's sake is a silly notion made up by artist's who have no clue."
—"Vincent Van Google
Still chilly in the mornings but the afternoons are warming up into the high sixties. Big, neighborhood party last night down at the Waltons. Many Delta airline pilots and horse gentry in attendance. Mike is both and the party was to honor his retirement from the airline. They had it outside beside their horse barn. A margarita machine, big fajita spread for dinner and Alaskan smoked salmon flown in for the party. Pioneer Pepper And the Sunset Pioneers performed and they put on a delightful show. Their leader, Marshal Pioneer Pepper, pointed me out in the crowd and told the story that when they were on tour in Austria their promoter had one request: bring him a True West magazine. Got home around ten. Nice time.
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Got up and filed artwork all day. Got myself confused (not hard) by all of the art categories. Here's my random count of art on hand, and the status of said artwork:
• Finished paintings published in True West (including Classic Gunfight images): 238
• Cover images (True West and other): 7
• Unfinished, or failed paintings: 69 (yes, I keep these and sometimes save one, see next category)
• Saved paintings out of failed pile: 12
• Patina, or background paintings, waiting for a foreground or subject matter: 56
• Black and white scratchboard images: 123
• Failed scratchboard images: 45
• Saved scratchboard images: 0 (Scratchboard is a very unforgiving medium)
I'll post some of the images tomorrow.
A writer and a photogrpaher from The Mesa Tribune came out last Thursday to interview me. The writer, Mike Branom, found my blog entry about Dwight Tindle's passing, and interviewed Carole Compton Glenn for the piece, who in turn, sent the writer some True West magazines and he became intrigued and wrote the following piece. Check it out at:
http://www.eastvalleytribune.com/index.php?sty=79981
Helpd Kathy put up her Christmas lights, then we went up town and bought a Christmas tree ($65 house account) and brought it home. Took Buddy Boze Hatkiller with us and he stuck his big, fat behind in my face all the way up there, and in Kathy's face all the way home. New Yorker's can be so rude.
"Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents which in prosperous circumstances would have lain dormant."
Town buzzing with activity. Took the recycling up at about 11 and there were cars parked all over library hill (they are having a book sale and at least 100 of the books they are selling are mine, or True West's). And the Cactus Shadows Booster's Christmas Tree Lot opened today on the corner of School House Road and Cave Creek Road so there are cars all over that corner.
And on our street, Sherie was putting out Luminarios for a big party she and Mike are putting on tonight (she told me quite a few pilots are coming and they need "landing lights" to guide them in).
I started a list of all the things I want to accomplish this weekend and of course, it is ridiculous, but totally befitting an ADD mind.
Yesterday Brian Label called from Cowboy Legacy and over lunch asked me if I had sold the cover to the resource guide (this is the cover painting I am embarrassed by), and when he heard the price he snatched it right up. I guess this underscores the obvious: What Do I Know About Art?
As I sat down to write my list of things to do today I documented some of it with photos. Here we go. First off I needed to load all the plastic, paper, cardboard, tin, aluminum, dark glass, light glass into the back of the Ranger (below, left). Check that off. Next I need to take the dogs for a bike ride (Note, Buddy's look: "Now Dad? Now?"). Check that off the list.
Isolate and organize all the Billy the Kid paintings for Paul Hutton's big Billy show next spring in Albuquerque (below, left). Check that off. Organize and create a scene list for mule reference on the Top Secret Project (see art desk, below, right). Not done. In fact, as you can see, it's a total mess.
Build a fire in studio stove using leftover wood from chicken condo project (see stove, below, left). Check that off. Bring in a skip loader to shovel out all the artwork behind Buddy's chair (not done)
In random order here's some of the other tasks I want to get to today:
• Cull, or answer the 359 Emails from my AOL inbox (now you know why I haven't answered your Email)
• Start the '49 Ford
• Answer "Horny?" Email from signigicant other
• Do at least 30 sketeches and studies of mules utilizing excellent mule reference shot yesterday.
• Throw away bad art (gonna need that skip loader and a back hoe)
• find out why a certain bootmaker returned the painting I sent him
Not a bad list, but one that gives me fits. I try to stay positive about it, even though I know I'll probably be carrying many of these items until way into 2007. Gee, I wonder what the Old Vaqueros have to say about this?
"In the long run, the pessimists are right, but the optimist has a better time on the trip."
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Posts Tagged ‘Daniel Walters’
America’s Pastime
Major League Baseball has a rich tradition with fiery and passionate fans. At first ABC tried to negotiate with teams to sell television rights. At first only three teams agreed to these terms. Major League Baseball wanted fans to come to the ball park and wanted to keep coverage of the games local and did not allow ABC’s Game of the Week to air within 50 miles of the ball park. This made matters worse for ABC who was trying to do anything to stay afloat during this time. The MLB has grown incredibly since the 50’s and the money television networks puts up shows this. Starting off in 1984 the original contract between NBC and ABC was $126 million. ABC putting up $56 million and NBC $70 million. Those two networks started the trend more national coverage and others soon followed suit. Now the heavyweights for baseball coverage are FOX, Fox Sports 1, TBS, and ESPN. Each network shoveling at least $300 million a year towards coverage. The numbers have increased and along that the fans have increased. These huge television contracts fuel long-term salaries. According to CrainsDetroit.com the Detroit Tigers have a reported $568 million committed to long term contracts between Justin Verlander, Prince Fielder, and Miguel Cabrera. Local television contracts fuel this contracts by supplying money to the club. These facts lead me to believe that the contracts will only grow in order to keep up the ever-growing salaries for players. This has been foreseen ever since the early 1880’s by then Chicago White Stockings owner Albert Spalding. “Professional baseball is on the wane. Salaries must come down or the interest of the public must be increased in some way.” – Chicago White Stockings owner Albert Spalding, 1881 (Forbes).
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ABL vs. USFL: Keeping the Game Alive
Monday, April 21st, 2014
In America, today, the people want to see sports on tv. The growing love of watching professional started long ago. But in the early 80’s it began to grow even more with the development of television. People could watch teams from across the nation. With ESPN growing as America’s flagship for sports entertainment, people wanted more. An antiques dealer from New Orleans by the name of David Dixon wanted to start an off season football league to be played in the spring and summer. He developed the United States Football League (USFL). In 1960 Dixon envisioned a spring and summer football league. FOr the next 15 years he prepared to make this happen. He studied the likes of leagues like the NFL, AFL, and World Football League. Dixon also formed a blueprint for the prospective league’s operations, which included early television exposure, heavy promotion in home markets, and owners willing to absorb years of losses,which he felt would be inevitable until the league found its feet in the market. Dixon then signed up 12 cities that would be host to the teams. 9 of those cities already had an NFL team in their respected city. Dixon set up million dollar television contracts with ABC and ESPN. USFL also had their own version of Monday Night Football. The USFL experienced problems in early years like most pro startup leagues. The league dealt with franchise instability, relocation, and closures. Another problem was trying to grow too quickly the league increased from 12 to 18 teams in the first two years. After financial problems the league declared CHapter 11 bankruptcy. When the league folded it lost over $163 million dollars.
The American Basketball League was a women’s basketball league that developed in 1996. It was formed after the growing interest of women’s basketball after the USA’s undefeated gold medal run in the ’96 summer games. The WNBA was being introduced to the public at the same time as the ABL. This led to conflicts with exposure and showed the lack of funds from the ABL. The ABL’s biggest problem was operating as a single entity structure. This made it so all major decisions and and operations were made out of the headquarters in Palo Alto, California. This didn’t help local markets who were trying to gorw and expand. The ABL could not keep up with the financial resources that the WNBA had and the league folded after 2 and 1/4 seasons.
The National Women’s Soccer League or the NWSL can learn some key points in trying to stay afloat from the USFL and ABL. One of the main things they can learn is trying not to expand too quickly until the nation has grasped the league and can hold attention. They should not try to compete with similar markets such as MLS. The biggest thing they need to overcome is how they’ll market the league. Their main target market should be girls between the ages of 7-19. This way they can get their attention early on and keep their attention for the rest of their life. You gotta start at the bottom.
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Coaching Student Athletes
With the steadily increasing interest in college athletics, the importance of academics has decreased. Why is this? The student athlete is supposed to be student first, athlete second. But these days it seems they are athletes first and students eighth or ninth. Is this coach’s fault? Is there too much emphasis on the sport and little to none on academics? Nowadays, the elite athletes are only worried about if they’re going to make it to the league. The NCAA needs to get back to the original student athlete and get these players grades up; especially men’s basketball and football programs.
Adding incentives to coaches contracts could decrease the problem. The athlete has to want to work in the classroom also so the incentives should include them as much as possible. Also, I would suggest all teams be in some kind of study table with tutors.
If team gets a cumulative 2.5 GPA coach gets $5,000 bonus and players get new game shoes
If team has 2.75 GPA coach gets $10,000 bonus
If team has 3.0 GPA team gets off of study table
Obviously, it would be a very difficult task for a full football team to have a 3.0 but the schools could rearrange the contracts however they wanted to. It’s just my personal opinion that these athletes need to think realistically and that they are not going to be able to play their sport forever and need to think about real life. Their education needs to come before their sport and the person who can start that tradition HAS to be the coach and backed up by the institution.
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New Smiles, New Faces
Meeting Stefanie McDowell
Trinity Glandon, Staff Writer|October 4, 2018
Stefani McDowell working in the counselor lobby.
Trinity Glandon
After being a stay at home mom for 16 years, Stefanie McDowell felt the time was right for her to re-enter the workforce. McDowell is the new CHS student service secretary; she assists the students with scheduling to see the counselors and loves to fill in where needed.
Although she misses being a stay at home mom, McDowell loves her job at Combs,“The people are awesome, the kids are fun…never a dull moment,” McDowell said.
Throughout her life McDowell says she’s had many ups and downs, especially as a kid. She wants to help put a smile on peoples’ faces so they know someone is there and cares.
McDowell is an only child and was born April 26, 1980. She was raised in Mesa, Arizona where she attended Mesa High School and has lived here since.
“Growing up in Mesa was nice, I lived right down the street from the high school and it was a smaller town back then, the kind of small town where everyone knew everyone,” McDowell said.
When she was around six years old, however, life took a slight turn. Her parents decided to separate which was hard for young McDowell.
“It was my mom, dad and me until they split up, but I survived it,” McDowell said. “The divorce really did affect how I wanted to raise my kids.”
When she was 13-years-old, McDowell’s mom remarried. Around that time, it was rough for her because she wasn’t sure how life would change.
McDowell helping plan counselor Lohr’s meetings.
“Being 13-years-old is a difficult time; you’re no longer in elementary school, and you don’t know who you’ll meet or how people are going to treat you,” McDowell said.
She pushed through and made a new life for herself. She went to beauty school for a year as a senior and also taught preschool for four years before deciding to stay at home.
McDowell is now a mother of five children, three girls and two boys, and has been married for 19 years. Her family enjoys time together, especially outdoors.
Although going back to work means that McDowell might get less time with her family, she is grateful that CHS took a chance on a stay at home mom.
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SESSION 8: HE KEEPS HIS WORD
For this session we’re joined by two wise and successful men, Ivan Misner, founder of BNI (the global networking organization), and Michael Gerber, author of The E-Myth. In this conversation we’ll talk about what it means to keep your word in a complex world where that can be difficult.
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Toyota sets a new Nürburgring lap record.
7:22.329 seconds. Nürburgring lap records are notoriously unofficial but that time puts Toyota's electric powered EV P002 in the top ten on most lists. That's faster than an Nissan GT-R, a Porsche GT2 RS or even a Maserati MC12. Impressive.
The Radical based P002, developed by Toyota Motorsport GmbH in Cologne and driven by Jochen Krumbach, smashed TMG previous EV record by over 25 seconds and is the second EV success for Toyota this year following the record set at Pike's Peak by Monster Tajima.
Electric car racing will be a reality, like it or not and Toyota has been developing independent means of recharging batteries without additional infrastructure at racing venues. Not there with the ideal solution of removable battery packs yet but Toyota uses a "battery van" containing large cells that then can transfer the charge "battery to battery" anywhere.
“Since our Nürburgring record last year, we have developed our electric powertrain to deliver more power, more consistently, over a longer distance by managing the temperature of batteries, motors and inverter." Ludwig Zeller, General Manager of Electrics and Electronics at THG. "Pikes Peak was a clear illustration of the improvements and we have now reinforced that at the Nürburgring. But this achievement is not only about on-track performance; we are also very proud of the DC Quick Charger which again provided a reliable power supply in a remote location. This is an aspect of electric motorsport which has not been discussed at length but it is very significant; electric race cars need to be charged and it is a challenge to have the right infrastructure at race tracks, particularly temporary street circuits. Together with our partners at Schneider Electric, we have developed a solution to charge a race car literally anywhere in the world. This, along with the TMG EV P002 powertrain, represents a major step forward for electric motorsport.”
The EV P002 is powered by electric motors delivering a nominal 350Kw of power and 900 Nm of torque, that's 469HP and 663 ft/lbs. Top speed is is listed at a relatively low 150 mph, curious because the Radical SR8 is good to 170 plus. I wonder what the limiting factor is, weight, gearing? Certainly looks faster than 150 in the video .
An impressive result though, to really win over fans, EV racing still have to develop what may be impossible, a seductive sound.
Labels: electric cars, EV, Nürburgring, TMG, Toyota at 7:58 AM
Jeff Tuesday, October 02, 2012 11:44:00 AM
Sounds like limited gearing is the top speed issue. Def. left a few seconds on the table in some of the longer stretches. I'm curious as to if this hing has regenerative braking, or traditional w or w/o ABS. Not sure what 'formula' they're aiming for here, if it's just a test platform they've got a good start...
Also, that's a legit full lap of the ring, not BTG which is how some of those fast times are recorded. That final blast up the straight really could have used another high gear, what with all that torque available.
AC Tuesday, October 02, 2012 11:55:00 AM
Yeah, the specs say only one gear, again, not sure that the issues are as far as fitting more gears to an EV
Jeff Wednesday, October 03, 2012 3:53:00 AM
Granted, there aren't too many tracks with extended straights like the 'ring. This EV would shame most ICE formulas at most other tracks for shorter sprint races. Only a matter of time.
Anonymous Tuesday, October 02, 2012 1:19:00 PM
Love the leftover Toyota F1 steering wheel being used on it... total overkill as they don't need the gear change paddles, shift lights, gear indicator and clutch paddles :D
Doug Wednesday, October 03, 2012 11:19:00 AM
Were the cars parked on the side to allow for this run? Is that the policy?
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Fragments of a Cale Season
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The "Most Generic Song Title" award for the John Cale catalog goes to Things, the third track on 2003's HoboSapiens. It also ran a strong second in the "Most Improbable Reference To Another Songwriter" category, taking the very distinctive title phrase from Warren Zevon's "Things To Do in Denver When You're Dead." ("(I Keep a) Close Watch" narrowly beat it out, despite this judge's objections.)
Cale claims ignorance that the phrase was Zevon's, says he got it from the film that ripped off Zevon's title. Sure, John. All I know's that Zevon's ode to hotels that never change the sheets was played over the end credits of the film after some repentance and bribery from the guilty filmmaker. But if Cale didn't watch the movie all the way through, I've never seen it at all, so I can't speak much to connections between the film and the song. If there are any, please let me know.
This is a very hard song to judge. It's a song about sex, and Cale's are never subtle. They are always weird, though, and this one doesn't disappoint. The initial lyrical gambit, which may or not be a typo, sets a really bizarre scene: "Elsewhere in the Temple, the llamas are gearing up / to assault Tiger Mountain when the sun comes up." Other than the Brian Eno/Maoist theatre reference, it conjures up an army of meditating warrior ungulates. Maybe he meant lama, maybe not.
It's a heavily-referential song full of great one-liners (appropriate for a Zevon jumping-off point), but the lyrics don't really hang together - he jumps from Tibet to Dixieland ("talked about the difference between North and South / keep your gun in your pocket and your tongue in your mouth") to Charles Schulz ("I saw the way you looked at her Charlie Brown... good grief.") to Crete without any apparent connection. Except doing the things you do in Denver when you're dead.
And yet as much as the dirty-old-man feeling and the lyric disconnects make me want to dislike it, it charms with its breezy and vigorous melody and instrumentation. The rhythm track isn't that special, but it gets to me. The xylophone accents are delightful. There's an electronic squiggle here, a heavily effected guitar there, even some backwards guitar, if my ears don't deceive me.
His effective use of woo-woo girls continues here on the chorus - very few artists use them so often without becoming insufferable. The lead vocal vocal really makes the song, though - he may be singing phonetically rich nonsense, but he's singing it with gusto. I hate to say it, but I think he sounds... cute. (!) It could be that this is one of those great performances of mediocre songs.
So: Things is definitely a guilty pleasure. There's really not much to it, but it's a song I find myself singing too often for comfort. Guess I'll go toss back a shot of rye.
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SNP to Labour and Lib Dems: Join our call for more welfare powers.
The SNP is today inviting Labour and the Lib Dems to join calls for the Westminster government’s proposals on welfare to be strengthened. The welfare provisions contained in the draft clauses published yesterday represent a significant watering down of what was promised by the Smith Commission. They do not enable the Scottish Parliament to create new benefit entitlements in devolved areas – and will also see the UK Government hold a veto over key devolved powers, including the ability to abolish the Bedroom Tax. First Minister Nicola Sturgeon yesterday made clear the proposals fell far short of the powers needed to create a fairer welfare system. Leading campaign groups including Citizen’s Advice Scotland, the Poverty Alliance, SCVO and the STUC described the proposals as a missed opportunity. Following the publication of the Smith Commission report in November, a number of Labour and Lib Dems MSPs claimed that the proposals would give Scotland the powers to shape a new welfare system. Prior to yesterday’s publication of the draft clauses, Labour’s Education spokesperson Iain Gray said: “With the Smith agreement…We can construct a whole new Scottish welfare system of new benefits of our own design.” Labour Finance spokesperson Jackie Baillie also claimed that welfare powers were “the most substantial power of all” while Lib Dem leader Willie Rennie claimed Scotland would have the ability to create “a new Scottish welfare system” with the powers to “create new benefits”. Commenting, SNP MSP Christina McKelvie, who sits on the Welfare Reform Committee, said: “The welfare proposals outlined by the Westminster government yesterday were a disappointment – watering down the Smith Commission proposals and giving Westminster a veto over key devolved powers, including the ability to abolish bedroom tax. It is no wonder that organisations including Citizens Advice Scotland and the Poverty Alliance feel an opportunity has been missed. “Following the publication of the Smith Commission in November last year, Labour and Lib Dem MSPs alike claimed that the Smith proposals would give Scotland a range of new powers over welfare. Frontbench Labour MSPs Iain Gray and Jackie Baillie and Lib Dem leader Willie Rennie all said this. Now it’s clear the Westminster Government’s proposals will not deliver, it is time for Labour and the Lib Dems to do the right thing. They must join the SNP and third sector organisations across Scotland in our call for an urgent rethink by the UK Government. “Westminster has proven time and time again that it cannot be trusted to protect vulnerable and hard-working people. As 100,000 more children in Scotland face poverty by 2020 as a result of unfair Tory cuts, it is time for Labour and the Lib Dems to stand up for Scotland and argue for the powers we need to create a welfare system that supports and empowers people. “A strong team of SNP MPs will ensure the Westminster parties are not allowed the ‘Vow’ they made to the people of Scotland – and will use their clout to push the case for more powers at every opportunity.”
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Sluggish, Poorly Coded Games & Today's Overrated Hipster Indie Devs (Pro #GamerGate Dev Rant)
Real talk...the focus on slow, sluggish, upper upper level spaghetti code like Ruby or js might be the cause of the more, as they say... "cinematic" games. Yes, Javascript is finally getting some ok (albeit still bloated) frameworks...but as somebody who came from an era when calling yourself a "game developer" in the Computer Science field was still taboo...we were strictly taught to make the best code for the specific system we are working on. This included getting to know your computer's code all the way down to Assembly. I'm not saying you should know Assembly for every chipset you code for...portability of apps/game is very important today due to the various marketplaces (Steam, IOS, Android, Web, PC, Consoles)...but a real programmer must understand that this one-size-fits-all methodology with IDEs like Unity won't always work as planned. Not all systems are created equal. What works on a an iPhone might not work on an Android phone... what runs smoothly on an Xbox might not work on a Playstation. A great example of that last example would be Skyrim. Due to the now old PS3's memory allocation methodology with it's Cell computing, memory management is very tricky. The result was a very buggy and subpar version of a great game.
Again, I can understand from a business point of view why you would want to code once and have it run on all devices...but what the current indie scene forgets (in addition to giving all accolades to "devs" who hardly proved themselves beyond some political message and/or Patreon panhandling) is that there's a cost associated with a one-size-fits all coding structure.
Even AAA companies like Ubisoft are running into this issue. Tetris on the PS4 should not in any way run sluggish...but that comes from bloated firmware and bad coding practices. Video game programming is not easy and unlike applications seen in other industries like business & finances... video game programming does in fact use ALL you learn in Computer Science, from coding a full structure of classes that use inheritance and polymorphism both logically and (most importantly) fast. To code a fast and highly interactive game you need to know things like when to use certain data structures over others for the best performance... when to use a struct or enums instead of whole classes, what to throw into closures and what not to during each step of the game loop cycle...when to use linked lists and/or tree structures for level design and/or pathfinding. You then have to code all of that with finite, well structured animations, camera/movement or maybe some dynamic lighting, etc that don't blow up that cycle and lead to such lag. This is why the professors I had in college in 2003 were dead wrong in their notion that it was "childish" to be a Computer Scientist for the sake of being a game developer.
Today, everyone and their dog are game devs... or at least claim they are. Trust me, I love it. I want more game dev, guys and girls and I'm glad to see this branch of computer science get the limelight it has so deserved. Back when I was in my CS courses in the early 00s...it was just so taboo to say you were a game dev and, yes, as others on both sides of the Gamergate / Social Justice Warrior have claimed... women in CS were almost non existent in the entire field. Some women where there with me when I was in Suffolk Community College's CS courses but almost all were gone when I was in the large lecture halls of Stony Brook University... while trying so hard to understand the barley legible bumblings of their CS professors then. Was bad enough my manager job at Friendly's almost killed me... it was salt to the wound to see my CS courses at Suny Stony Brook not only have even more disenfranchised professors, but have the front row of the "class" have what I could only describe as autistic "melvins" who interrupted the lecture every two seconds with questions. I, like many do indeed want to see more women in the field as those few who do make the choice to be programmers do indeed get paid the same as their male counterparts (see Roberta William's example above). Please, we need more girls in programming. The doors are open but those who close the doors behind them need to be told why they are wrong.
Except, there's been an issue that older devs like myself have noticed and it's brought up by Daniel Vavra's quote above. Due to the recent spearheading of indie game development into popular culture... we are getting people who are riding on the coattails of this movement..using clickbaiting, profiteering, trend-spamming and professional self victimization to get themselves known as either game "journalists" or even, more a more damning precedence, as "game devs" themselves. In the past, in both the journalism and game development fields...such people would have been told to "put up or shutup", they'd be held up to their actual skills in those fields. I'm not saying I'm the greatest programmer around; despite my quick understanding of one of the newest programming languages.. Apple Swift (and creating a published game with it), my past knowledge of "tougher" languages like C/C++, Java and Obj-C...I'm still so green in the system since I only have one fully "completed" game, PikiPop, one forever-in-development game, Tenshi-Oni, and code stubs of games that might never be..thanks mostly to a terrible job luck that didn't end when I left Friendly's. I'm not writing this to say "I've been here forever thus I must have a place in the indie scene"...but what I see are what we don't need in the indie scene... organizations, ones as old as the IGDA pandering to psuedo devs who have less to show than even I do as a dev, yet getting all the fame, financial help and accolades.
Not only are we getting a new wave of game devs that are using a political message, loud complaining or in some cases self-victimization to get known and help by these now cracked organizations...but an emphasis in programming methodologies and languages that are counterintuitive to the tenants of all Computer Science. The abnormal focus in Ruby and Javascript is proof of that. Granted, when I was in school, Java was the new kid on the coding block... it was a great tool for learning OOD...but in no way would you want to code games or any applications that required speed and runtime efficiency. Back then, to be a game dev, you'd learn about OOD through Java but if you were to actually make a game... you did it in C++. If that was too hard to do...you'd then maybe use actionScript and kept your game in the availability of only online Flash portals. As of today, that has changed. Java is not the hog it used to be and is what's under Android's hood. Java is now where it belongs as a legit mid-upperlevel language that also is much easier to read, structure than C/C++ or even Objective-C can be. The growth of Java and Android was inevitable. Javascript is not Java though...it's a completely different language and only now getting some ok frameworks.
My issue is that we are having organizations like IGDA putting favoritism in programmers who probably never made classes in C/C++ or Java, whom probably know nothing of OOD, who cut and paste a function in a .js file and think it's just magic and then slap their name on it. What's worse is that these organizations and game journalists are promoting these pseudo devs based off of their political views.. not their coding prowess. Like other situations where politics controls it...those who don't fit in that opinionated mold get shunned out from any opportunity no matter their skill or willingness to improve that skill. What we are seeing is a "cliche" of what you can loosely consider to be game programmers, making sub par products despite all the Patreon money (or in the case of Brianna Wu, $200,000 from mommy and daddy... I mean, fuck, if I had that I'd be a AAA dev by now... and I sure as hell would not make 3D sprites that look worse than the 1995 3D models from Reboot if I had the resources she has.)
What I'm saying is that if this trend with the "Indie Scene" continues... not only will we see quality devs be pushed to the side in favor of a rich upper middle class club, but we as gamers will lose the quality gaming that the indie scene has and can give due to the creative freedom (which the SJW side wants to control) and we could even lose much of what has been built on in Computer Science as a whole. As a programmer who was told I'm not good enough... I do want an even playing field, but at the same time, we need quality in the coding and art that makes games so great. We don't need a political agenda forcing the hand of the industry...otherwise we'll see more games that should be simple to execute on current gen systems & devices run terribly slow and thus cause the entire industry crash.
Promote quality code, quality game art (sexy, violent or not), and devs who push for excellence in that field... not those who use the popularity of gaming as a soap box, whom now seem to want to be gatekeepers in this industry.
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Sex toy critics test a real sex doll called “Steven” and must change the penis. The first thing I did was to tear off his plastic penis and replace it with a much smaller curved dildo from my own collection.
This is easier to manage. I put a condom on it and then I crossed him. When I jumped up and down his length, I looked down at my silicone enthusiast. He stared blankly at the ceiling, without any expression at all. It’s like having sex.
Visitors can forgive me for thinking that the robot is a real human because the video shows the amazing construction details of her face and her limbs movement. A person who is not with you. A professional sex toy tester has sex with the BBC’s three documentary “Sexual Robots and Us”, where she shares her insights.
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In fact, in my entire series, there is no real shadow penis. It seems that the more unrealistic the toy, the better. We repacked Steven and left him in the middle of my lounge. I hope to get rid of him the next day.
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Especially when I found out that I had to assemble him. Is the woman still a machine? You won’t know what this terrible lifelike robot will believe. The details on her face and the movements of the limbs made the gamers in Tokyo convinced that she was a real woman.
I had to screw his head to the neck of his male torso, which was very impressive. Then I took him out of the box with some help. Japanese sex dolls are more than just sex toys; they are more like human substitutes
But the beautiful female TPE sex doll robot has come to the fore – despite the fact that she is just a public relations prop. She stood on the stand of “Detroit: Becoming a Human” with several other similar people – this is a new video game developed by Dream, France, published by Sony Interactive Entertainment Japan.
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Barry Buglass; Alison Fisher; Barry Fisher; Robin Hamilton;
Kenneth Maule; Eric Robertson; Yvonne Wemyss
Quentin Dimmer (Harbourmaster)
Apologies: Andrew Brown; Paul Ingram.
Minutes of the previous meeting:
The minutes of the meeting held on 10th November 2018 were approved.
There were no matters arising other than those covered elsewhere in the agenda
Port Marine Safety Code and the Health & Safety Report:
Incident log review
There has been a recent incident with a dog falling to his death in the harbour. The dog’s owner also got into serious difficulties by following his dog into the water.
2. Risk Assessment review
The following risks were reviewed all involving the technical failure of a vessel –
Possible collision with the quayside
Possible grounding
Possible collision with another vessel
The current risk assessments on these subjects were approved without further amendment.
It was noted that the question has been asked again as to whether railway sleepers along the south pier would increase or decrease the safety of the harbour. This matter will be kept under review
3. 2018 Safety Review
The draft was reviewed but not approved as it did not fully capture the incidents that had occurred during 2018. The incident log will be completed before the review is signed off. QD
The set of measurable objectives with actions designed to mitigate identified risks were agreed as being –
Continued review of three risks at every Board Meeting ;
Education at the Dunbar Grammar School about the dangers of jumping into the harbour;
Harbour walk-rounds by Directors each quarter.
Removal of the bolts under the Dunbar Battery (which previously secured the bins).
Finance Report:
There was a small surplus in the month of December
Landings were up as predicted. Year to date landings are 6% more than in 2017/18
Skip hire is £795 more than last year, reflecting the Harbour Trust’s commitment to keep the harbour tidy.
Repairs of nearly £1,000 in December related to work need to repair the Broadhaven Breakwater, the pier outside McArthur’s Store and the south Pier davits.
The debt position is good.
2019/20 budget:
The Revenue budget for 2019/20 was agreed.
There was discussion about the prioritisation of the Capital budget, which is party influenced by the level of grant funding that can be secured.
Highest priority will be given to:
Major work on the Harbour Walls
Refurbishment of the Harbour Bridge
Additional storage under the Maggie.
Also under consideration are:
Additional investment in the branders project, dependant on the success of the stage that has already been completed.
Harbour management committee:
Harbour bridge –
Arch Henderson (Jane Arbuckle) will be on site on Monday to advise on the best ways forward for effective bridge maintenance RH
Toilet –
A suggestion was tabled that the Harbour Trust should secure a larger porta loo that could be moved around the Harbour. There are no details yet as to how this would be secured, who would maintain its cleanliness, and where this would be sited, so this is currently work-in-progress.
Moorings committee:
The 2019/20 invoices are now out and several users have already paid their mooring charges for next year.
Development of the area under the Maggie –
The FLAG grant has been awarded and a planning application has now been supported. There is a Civic Pride grant application pending.
Arrangements for the Civic Art work have still to be finalised.
The main contractor has been selected.
Arch Henderson will advise on a list of competent contractors who can look after the bridge.
After full audits have been conducted a maintenance plan will be agreed.
Wall repairs –
There are major undermining issues that we hope to address in February and March when the tides are favourable. There are lower priority repairs that can be tackled in safety if the weather is rough.
Plans are in place to deliver the stones for the next stage of the Broadhaven breakwater.
Tidal gauge –
This has still not been fitted at the mouth of the harbour.
Harbour Improvement Plan:
Environmental improvements –
There will be events in week commencing 15th April 2019 to encourage schoolchildren to be aware of the environmental impact of pollution on the harbour and the sea. There will be clean-up days on Mon/Wed/Thu/Fri. There will be an Open Day on the Tuesday.
The request to re-install two dog litter bins and two cigarette butt bins was approved. YW
The requirements of the Port Waste Management Plan were discussed. The Harbour Trust does provide the facilities for visiting boats and harbour users that are required by the law. There can legally be a mandatory charge for these facilities but the Harbour Trust provides its waste disposal facilities at no additional charge. The primary responsibility under the law is for the boat owner to remove the waste responsibly.
This basic waste disposal facility for boats using the harbour needs to be differentiated from the waste produced by individual businesses at the harbour. Progress is being made to encourage the businesses that operate on the quayside to tidy after themselves, and the Harbour Trust will continue to assist when it can to enable obsolete creels and equipment to be removed tidily from the harbour. It does however remain the responsibility of these individual businesses to remove their own industrial waste. If the Harbour Trust is asked to provide facilities to clear this waste there should be a charge on the polluters.
The concept of a recycling centre at the harbour was discussed. No conclusion was drawn and further work will be undertaken on its cost, location, ongoing servicing, and the probability of success. It was noted that previous attempts had been frustrated because harbour users did not use the recycling bins for their proper purpose.
RNLI slipway –
Consents have been issued for the RNLI to undertake this work.
Agreement with the Crown Estate ahs been received.
The interfaces with Boats-In Day, the Wall Repair project and RNLI Day have all been discussed and the projects will all be able to work side-by-side.
Castle stairs –
Gordon Easingwood is keen to lead a team of volunteers to restore proper access up the stairs to the Castle.
It will always be too difficult to allow full public access but it will be positive if we can get safer guided tours to the Castle.
It was noted that the railings at the top of the castle will soon need to be replaced.
Friends of Dunbar Battery:
The grass has taken well.
Trip signage needs to be organised. SA
Any other competent business
Annual appointment of Directors –
Alasdair Swan, Barry Buglass, Barry Fisher and Steve Anderson are required to retire by rotation but all four can stand for re-election if they so wish.
An advertisement will be placed to see whether anyone else is willing to put themselves forward for election. Notices will be posted. BF
Tom Shearer has now retired. Sharon Saunders will be the obvious replacement for him on the Appointing Body and she will be invited to represent ELC. AS
Elaine O’Brien expressed a wish last year to stand down, so a replacement for her may also be required. AS
Alison Fisher was appointed to deputise for Alasdair Swan on the Appointing Body as he is up for re-election. AF
Appointment of other Officers –
It was agreed that at our April Board Meeting we should seek to elect a Vice Chairman and a Secretary at the same time that the Chairman is elected.
Matters raised by fishermen -
Yvonne tabled that two issues of current concern that had been communicated to her were –
The lack of CCTV coverage in Cromwell Harbour
The absence of a sink in McArthur’s Store
Quotes are being gathered for the upgrading of the Harbour Trust’s CCTV coverage and it was noted that past frustration has been caused because so much of the activity under investigation has taken place in the dark when the film has not been clear enough to establish the identification of those involved. Any new system needs to be able to operate in the dark at a quality that will be admissible in court.
Once the McArthur Stores tenants have produced a plan and costing for the sink and confirmed a willingness to pay for the work the Harbour Trust will seek the necessary approvals and will commission the work.
Retailers –
It was recommended that invoices should be sent out to the retailers at the same time as the mooring charge invoices..
Date of the next meeting:
The next meeting of the directors will be held on Thursday 14th February 2019 in McArthur’s Store at 18:45
Dunbar Castle
Cromwell Harbour
McArthurs Store
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History of the Dundee Township Lions Club
The Dundee Township Lions Club has provided more that 80 years of service, which began April 2, 1937 with 39 charter members. Joseph F. Estes was the charter President and Harry D. Jacobs was Secretary-Treasurer during the club’s first year. The dinner meetings were held on the first and third Mondays of each month at 6:00 p.m. at the Hill Top Inn, which was located at 310 W. Main Street, Dundee.
Outstanding food, fun and fellowship have marked the dinner meetings throughout the club’s long history. Over the years the meeting nights were changed to the first and third Thursday of each month and the dinner meetings moved from the Hilltop Inn to the First United Methodist Church Basement, Congregational Church of Carpentersville, Library Hall, Veterans of Foreign Wars Canteen, The Evergreens, Chateau Louise, Floyd’s Restaurant, Holiday Inn, Elgin, and currently to the Village Squire in West Dundee.
Men and women of good will from all walks of life have committed themselves to community service through the Dundee Lions Club and in so doing have formed close friendships. Our members have devoted thousands of hours of time and talent in the performance of service to those less fortunate than themselves. The club is strong and a very high proportion of members are extremely active.
The Elgin Lions Club originally sponsored the Dundee Township Lions Club in 1937. In turn the Dundee Lions sponsored a new club in Hampshire in 1953 and a new club in Carpentersville in 1959. In 1980 the Carpentersville Lions sponsored the Gilberts Lions Club. The Carpentersville Lions has since disbanded and joined with the Dundee Township Lions.
Throughout the eighty plus years the club has always maintained a strong participation and involvement in the affairs of Lions International. Dundee members have served as District Governors during four different years. Lion Herman J. Ohe 1944-45, Lion Erv Deuchler 1954-55, Lion Walt Wilson 1974-75 and Lion Fred Schuttie 1983-84.
Fund raising functions over the years have included our annual Ranch Breakfast, , Candy Day for Sight & Sound, outdoor Chicken & Corn Roast, Jamboree Days Security, auctions, The Taste of Dundee, Donkey baseball and basketball, Kane County gate service, Meadowdale Raceways gate service, Circus Cracker Jack Day, Broom sale, all-male cast “Womanless Wedding” home Talent show, Heritage Fest Pancake Breakfast, co-sponsor bingo at the Firemen’s Carnival, Middle School Baskletball Tournament, 5 K Walk and Run and the Christmas tree sale.
“WE SERVE” is the motto of Lions International and service to community is emphasized in the Dundee club. Special emphasis is placed on Sight & Sound projects, but the club has contributed money, member’s time and talents to hundreds of worthwhile community projects in its 80 year plus history. A partial listing of community projects would include: Two pavilions at Randall Oaks Park, playground equipment to Dundee Township Park District, tennis courts and ice skating rink at Tower Park, the first washrooms at South End Park, Dundee Township Library Room, Lions Park East Dundee, Haeger Memorial Swimming Pool East Dundee, Jockey Club field lights, fence for Triangle Park, funds for Boy Scouts, Girl Scouts, YMCA, YWCA, Dundee Scots, Tri-Cities Little League, Boys and Girls Club, F.I.S.H. Pantry, Easter Egg hunt, Children’s Halloween Party, Ice Carnival, Holiday Home Lighting Contests, sponsoring students to Illinois Boys State and Washington, D.C., river bank cleanup duty, hearing van, campers to Camp Lions, Festival of Trees during Dickens in Dundee, the Boy’s and Girl’s Middle School Basketball Tournaments and many, many others activities and projects.
Dundee Township Lions Club sponsored the Dundee Lioness Club in 1982. The Lioness Club members are service –orientated women of the community, who have completed many worthwhile projects in their 24 year history. The Lioness Club combined with the Lions in 2006.
Currently Dundee Lions Club is a part of the Fox River Region, Zone 1 lineup of District 1-J Lions of Illinois. There are 74 Lions Clubs, 11 Lioness Clubs, and 13 Leos Clubs in district 1-J. Worldwide there are over 44,000 clubs in 192 countries with 1.4 million members. All Lions are dedicated to seeking out and helping those in need.
There are many social functions for all Lions members. Each year we have a valentine dinner, family picnic, officer installation dinner, and a Christmas party. There are inter-club meetings with neighboring Lions clubs, inter-club and District Bowling and golf tournaments, and other activities.
While the history, activities and accomplishments of the first 80 plus years are an inspiration; it is only the foundation or springboard from which the Dundee Township Lions will continue to build a better community in which to live and to make a living.
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Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare
The play opens with Marullus and Flavius yelling at the public for supporting Caesar. Julius Caesar and his troops have returned to Rome after winning a battle in Spain.
Caesar takes a procession through the streets of Rome celebrating their win. A soothsayer warns Caesar to ‘beware the Ides of March’. Caesar pays no attention to the warning and continues with his procession.
Julius Caesar Play
In the meanwhile, Marcus Brutus is a close friend of Caesar is manipulated by Cassius, Caesar’s political rival, into joining a group of conspirators who are plotting to assassinate Caesar. Cassius instigates Brutus by telling him that Caesar alone wants to rule over Rome.
Cassius goes up to the extent of writing fake letters to Brutus instigating him against Caesar. Initially, Brutus suspects Cassius but is slowly convinced by Cassius. Caesar is assassinated in Act III of the play.
Julius Caesar Wife
Before leaving for the Senate, Caesar is again warned by the soothsayer and his wife. Brutus however advice Caesar to go to the Senate and Caesar obliges. The conspirators approach Caesar as if they wanted to ask for a favor.
Almost immediately Casca stabs Caesar in the back of his neck. Once Casca has attacked, the other conspirators begin to stab Caesar. Brutus, however, is the last to stab him.
History of Julius Caesar
On realizing that he had been betrayed by his close friend Caesar says “Et Tu, Brute?” and breathes his last. In the next scene, the conspirators try to justify their actions to the people of Rome.
Brutus gives a speech explaining his actions and even succeeds in winning the public’s support. Mark Anthony, a good friend of Caesar, asks for a chance to speak to the crowd. He begins his speech by saying the popular line “Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears”.
Anthony soon changes the atmosphere through speech and it begins to turn the public against the conspirators. A wave of anger spreads amongst the people of Rome and they try getting their hands on the guilty. In the commotion, a poet named Cinna is mistaken for Lucius Cinna, one of the conspirators and is attacked and killed by the mob.
Brutus and Cassius to save their lives are forced to seek shelter elsewhere. Mark Anthony and Caesar’s adopted son Octavian strategized their attack on Brutus and Cassius. They seek the help of Lepidus, a rich banker.
Together Anthony, Lepidus, and Octavian were known as Triumvirs. They get all the necessary ammunition to fight Brutus and Cassius. In the initial scene of Act IV, Brutus and Cassius are shown to be fighting wherein Brutus questions Cassius about the bribes taken by him.
Brutus even asks Cassius “Did not great Julius bleed for justice’s sake?”. They, however, resolve their differences. Brutus and Cassius ready themselves for war with Caesar’s adopted son Octavian (Octavius) and Mark Anthony.
Brutus and the Ghost of Caesar
The same night, Brutus sees Caesar’s ghost who warns Brutus of defeat in the war. The next scene is the battle scene. Brutus and Cassius enter the battlefield aware of the fact that this might be their end. The battle begins with the two forces suing all their power. Initially, it appears that Brutus and Cassius are at an advantageous position.
However, soon the situation became chaotic in Brutus and Cassius’s camp. Cassius and his friend Titinius committed suicide, soon Brutus was defeated in the battle and even he commits suicide. In the end, Mark Anthony regards Brutus ‘the noblest Roman of them all’.
Some of the Quotes in Julius Caesar
”O, pardon me, thou bleeding piece of earth”
“Beware the ides of March”
“Friends, Romans, countrymen lend me your ears, I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him.
“This was the noblest Roman of them all”.
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Home USS LST 325 Memorial Museum Collection evpl-lst325bk-004-0032
Odyssey of the LST 325 December 2000-2001 V 2
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►Continued from Page 1B
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35 years before it was decommissioned.
Jornlin and the crew brought
the ship back from Greece to Gibraltar and on to Mobile with the
goal of turning it into a traveling
museum and memorial. The crew
sailed the LST-325 in November
2000, on a two-week voyage from
Crete to Gibraltar, lt left Gibraltar
for Mobile on Dec. 12, 2000, and
arrived Jan. 10,2001.
The LST-325's engines died
shortly after it arrived in Mobile,
and it was towed to Hooks Terminal about two miles north of the
Port of Chickasaw, where it remained until Aug. 24. It was
towed to Bender Shipbuilding
and Repair in Mobile harbor,
where it underwent extensive
work in drydock, depleting the
ship's funds of about $200,000.
This work did not include getting
the ship's engines running again,
which is expected to be much
more expensive.
After drydock, the LST-325
was put on display for tours next
to the convention center, where
it was the featured attraction for
the late September reunion of the
United States LST Association.
Thousands toured the LST-325
during the reunion and donated
some $35,000 to $40,000 in contributions for the ship.
Following the reunion, the
LST-325 was towed back upriver
to Hooks Terminal, where it remains until funds can be raised
to get the ship in sound running
condition. Volunteers known as
the "Blue Crew" have donated
hundreds of hours of their time
to restoring the ship.
"We've got about $80,000 to
$90,000 now," Jornlin said in a recent telephone interview from his
Illinois residence. "Our fund-raising is just getting cranked up."
He said the solicitation of corporate funding has just begun,
and he expects that, along with
the donations of some parts, it
will take about $1.5 million to get
year on April 7, which was proclaimed "Dominick Perruso Day."
"I was also the front figure in
the Memorial Day parade in Easton, Pa.," he said.
Anyone who would like to
make a donation to the restoration of the LST-325 should make
checks out to: USS LST Ship Memorial Inc. and mail them to:
American Savings Bank, P.O. Box
the ship ready to go from port to
port as a traveling museum and
memorial.
"I don't have any doubt it's
going to happen," Jornlin said.
He said he hopes arrangements can be made to dock the
LST-325 during the winter
months each year at Battleship
Memorial Park on the Mobile Bay
Causeway.
Jornlin said he hopes to eventually be able to take the ship up
the Mississippi, Ohio and Illinois
rivers during the warmer
months, opening it for tours in
towns and cities along the way.
Another highlight of the past
year for the LST-325 came when
the crew was honored at a Veterans Day luncheon in Mobile on
Nov. 12 with the "Patriot of the
Year" award. Jornlin and most of
his 27 crew members were present for the honor. The LST-325's
executive officer, Jackson R. Carter of Rancho Palo Verdes, Calif.,
died of cancer about two months
after the ship arrived in Mobile.
"It has changed our lives totally," Jornlin said of the voyage
and its aftermath. "We pretty
much breathe LST-325. I've given
hundreds of speeches all over
the United States on LST-325."
Other crew members reported similar reactions.
"It's been a big turnaround in
my life. I've gotten a lot of phone
calls from all over — from Arizona to Florida," Donald Molzahn,
74, a crew member from La
Crosse, Wis., said recently. "I've
had 28 speaking engagements.
It's more than I anticipated."
However, he said, he is glad he
could help bring to the LST-325
to Mobile.
Donald K. Lockas, 74, of Marseilles, 111., said that he also had a
hectic schedule. "If I'm not speaking, I'm going out and trying to
hustle money for the LST-325," he
Crew member Dominick R.
Perruso, 75, of Cresco, Pa., was
honored In his home county last
627, Danville IL 61834.
The LST-325 is open for tours
from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., Mondays
through Fridays. Motorists can
reach it from Mobile by traveling
north on Highway 43 and turning
right at the Hooks Terminal sign '
onto Hardwood Lane, three-
tenths of a mile north of the water tower.
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Transcript ►Continued from Page 1B O (3 o .3- (0 s 35 years before it was decommissioned. Jornlin and the crew brought the ship back from Greece to Gibraltar and on to Mobile with the goal of turning it into a traveling museum and memorial. The crew sailed the LST-325 in November 2000, on a two-week voyage from Crete to Gibraltar, lt left Gibraltar for Mobile on Dec. 12, 2000, and arrived Jan. 10,2001. The LST-325's engines died shortly after it arrived in Mobile, and it was towed to Hooks Terminal about two miles north of the Port of Chickasaw, where it remained until Aug. 24. It was towed to Bender Shipbuilding and Repair in Mobile harbor, where it underwent extensive work in drydock, depleting the ship's funds of about $200,000. This work did not include getting the ship's engines running again, which is expected to be much more expensive. After drydock, the LST-325 was put on display for tours next to the convention center, where it was the featured attraction for the late September reunion of the United States LST Association. Thousands toured the LST-325 during the reunion and donated some $35,000 to $40,000 in contributions for the ship. Following the reunion, the LST-325 was towed back upriver to Hooks Terminal, where it remains until funds can be raised to get the ship in sound running condition. Volunteers known as the "Blue Crew" have donated hundreds of hours of their time to restoring the ship. "We've got about $80,000 to $90,000 now," Jornlin said in a recent telephone interview from his Illinois residence. "Our fund-raising is just getting cranked up." He said the solicitation of corporate funding has just begun, and he expects that, along with the donations of some parts, it will take about $1.5 million to get year on April 7, which was proclaimed "Dominick Perruso Day." "I was also the front figure in the Memorial Day parade in Easton, Pa.," he said. Anyone who would like to make a donation to the restoration of the LST-325 should make checks out to: USS LST Ship Memorial Inc. and mail them to: American Savings Bank, P.O. Box the ship ready to go from port to port as a traveling museum and memorial. "I don't have any doubt it's going to happen," Jornlin said. He said he hopes arrangements can be made to dock the LST-325 during the winter months each year at Battleship Memorial Park on the Mobile Bay Causeway. Jornlin said he hopes to eventually be able to take the ship up the Mississippi, Ohio and Illinois rivers during the warmer months, opening it for tours in towns and cities along the way. Another highlight of the past year for the LST-325 came when the crew was honored at a Veterans Day luncheon in Mobile on Nov. 12 with the "Patriot of the Year" award. Jornlin and most of his 27 crew members were present for the honor. The LST-325's executive officer, Jackson R. Carter of Rancho Palo Verdes, Calif., died of cancer about two months after the ship arrived in Mobile. "It has changed our lives totally," Jornlin said of the voyage and its aftermath. "We pretty much breathe LST-325. I've given hundreds of speeches all over the United States on LST-325." Other crew members reported similar reactions. "It's been a big turnaround in my life. I've gotten a lot of phone calls from all over — from Arizona to Florida," Donald Molzahn, 74, a crew member from La Crosse, Wis., said recently. "I've had 28 speaking engagements. It's more than I anticipated." However, he said, he is glad he could help bring to the LST-325 to Mobile. Donald K. Lockas, 74, of Marseilles, 111., said that he also had a hectic schedule. "If I'm not speaking, I'm going out and trying to hustle money for the LST-325," he said. Crew member Dominick R. Perruso, 75, of Cresco, Pa., was honored In his home county last 627, Danville IL 61834. The LST-325 is open for tours from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., Mondays through Fridays. Motorists can reach it from Mobile by traveling north on Highway 43 and turning right at the Hooks Terminal sign ' onto Hardwood Lane, three- tenths of a mile north of the water tower. 120
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Trevor Manuel failed Sharemax pensioners
In 2006 Deon Basson pleaded with Ministers Manuel and Mpahlwa to act on Sharemax.
In October 2006, journalist Deon Basson wrote to Trevor Manuel and Mandisi Mpahlwa, then the respective Ministers of Finance and Trade and Industry. The letter implored the ministers to do something about property syndication company Sharemax. Basson did not receive a response to his letter. When Basson sent his letter, Sharemax had sold syndications to the value of no more than R1.5bn. It was still in its infancy. By the time of its collapse, in September 2010, Sharemax had sold schemes to the staggering value of R5.5bn. The majority of investors are pensioners.
Please see the FULL Article on Moneyweb.
If anyone is interested in a detailed expose of what is wrong with Sharemax, the article on Moneyweb contains a link to the Prakke report.
The Prakke report is an investigation conducted into Sharemax by forensic auditor Andre Prakke. Basson asked Prakke to compile the report to assist him in his legal battle with Sharemax. The 143-page Prakke report was comprehensive and damning. Prakke took particular issue with the investment structure through which Sharemax offered its attractive returns. Prakke argued that this structure was both unsustainable and illegal. He has since been vindicated on both counts. Prakke says he received several threats of legal action, but never received a summons.
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Fight with property hijackers ends in death : Property News from IOLProperty
Now here is something extremely bizarre! The Trustee of the Trust that owns the property was thrown in jail for two and a half years after being accused of hijacking the building by the building hijackers. It is so easy to look at the Deeds Office and see who the owner of the property is and once it is established that it is owned by a Trust, you can ascertain the names of the Trustees from the Master of the High Court (where Trusts are registered). The whole process should take maybe 2-3 weeks at the most. How was this man locked up for two and a half years???
Questions should be asked of the police and prosecutors who allowed an innocent man to languish in prison. His reward for getting out ... to be stabbed to death by the same group of people who falsely accused him.
One man's battle to evict building hijackers from a Hillbrow building had a bloody ending, with suspected hijackers stabbing him to death with a knife.
The trustee of the Learn and Earn Trust, an NGO that owns the old Florence Nightingale Hospital in Hillbrow, had been battling for years to restore the building to order, but Siphiwe Jeffrey Nzuza in return was thrown in jail for two-and-a-half years after being accused of hijacking by the illegal tenants before he was finally killed on Saturday. He was stabbed several times while walking in Braamfontein.
According to a Gauteng Hawks team which specialises in building hijacking cases, three suspects were arrested at the scene. It is believed they had followed Nzuza from the Hillbrow building.
The old building was donated to the trust by Afrox in 1992 after the hospital closed down.
The trust was formed to promote business entrepreneurship, enhance numeracy and literacy, prison rehabilitation programmes and for transitional housing.
The Department of Local Government and Housing was brought on board to subsidise the transitional housing.
The trail of paperwork shows that Afrox gave R1 million to the trust when it handed over the building. A trustee then allegedly embezzled R600 000, together with a portion of the tenants' rent.
In 2002, the first cracks appeared in the form of mismanagement of the building, slow progress in upgrading the building and failure to set up proper procedures.
A housing company, Vusani Amadolobha, was appointed by the trustees, but a few years later, tenants who had already hijacked the building threw them out.
Many legal disputes followed between trustees, with many resigning and going missing, while the tenants entrenched themselves further in the building. They formed a committee and were collecting R150 a month to run and keep the building clean.
The Housing Department had, in the interim, walked away from the project.
Nzuza was still trying to salvage the trust, but was arrested on December 21, 2010 on allegations that he was trying to hijack the building. He was denied bail until July 10 last year, when he was acquitted.
Nzuza appealed to The Star for assistance shortly after he was released. He said a new group of people were collecting rent.
He said tenants were refusing to comply with requests to leave, pay rent and comply with by-laws. The arrears owing on services totalled R4m.
With tenants refusing to pay rent, Nzuza started evicting them, causing huge tension and anger in the building.
Region F spokesman Shaun O'Shea confirmed that an agreement had been reached between tenants and the trust and that the building would start paying off its arrears and adhering to by-laws.
How the law dealt with the crime
•There are an estimated 22 000 buildings in the Joburg inner city, and more than 1 000 are in the hands of slumlords.
•The highest sentence that has been handed to a building hijacker was 10 years in prison.
•The City of Joburg has established a task team made up of police officers, prosecutors and officials from the SA Revenue Service to reclaim the buildings from hijackers, but has admitted that legal procedures take too long.
•The task team has more than 1 500 buildings on its radar.
•Since August, 36 buildings have been handed back to their legitimate owners.
•Since 2008, more than 2 000 hijacked buildings have been given back to their rightful owners.
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Tshwane cleans up Pretoria city centre
The Tshwane Metro Police will this year continue Operation I Can, its clean-up initiative targeted at the inner city.
As part of this initiative, which started last August, the metro police last week demolished a dilapidated building on the corner of WF Nkomo and Kgosi Mampuru streets.
Spokesman Senior Superintendent Isaac Mahamba said during the operation they looked for all types of criminal activity and irregularities related to dilapidated buildings, illegal structures and contraventions of by-laws.
The building belonged to the city. "It was recommended that the building be destroyed. There are no plans for developing the property as yet," said SA councillor Sam Moimane.
The property has been rezoned for business purposes.
Thomas Mangwane who had been living in the old building for more than 10 years, claimed he owned the property but Moimane rejected his claim. "He applied for rights to the property but it was never approved."
Mahamba said operations were planned for at least once a week and involved about 30 metro police officers and the SAPS.
Last Thursday, the metro police confiscated more than 500g of dagga, impounded four unlicensed vehicles and confiscated a trailer.
Rubble and trash were collected and disposed of to keep the streets clean. Illegal water and electricity connections were cut and three electricity accounts were disconnected due to outstanding fees ranging between R150 000 and R200 000.
Vagrants living in old buildings and on the streets were checked and taken to shelters where possible.
None of them was found to be illegal immigrants.
Successes so far
Since "Operation 1 Can" started:
•280 vehicles have been impounded on Church Square.
•Five businesses have been closed down in the CBD.
•87 street lights have been repaired.
•93 homeless people have been taken to shelters.
•20 trees, obstructing the view of traffic cameras, have been cut down.
FSB stands by Sharemax-tarnished official
Rinate Goosen was compliance officer for a company accused of Fais Act breaches.
The Financial Services Board (FSB) has stood by an official linked to the failed Sharemax investment scheme.
Rinate Goosen, wife of former Sharemax director Gert Goosen, is a manager in the Financial Services Board’s (FSB’s) FAIS enforcement department. This is ironic because Rinate Goosen used to be compliance officer for a company that has been accused by Fais Ombud Noluntu Bam of failing to comply with the FAIS Act.
Rinate’s husband, Gert Goosen, and three other Sharemax directors, have been accused by Bam of operating a Ponzi scheme. In a recent determination, Bam found Goosen and his co-directors directors jointly liable for the loss suffered by a pensioner who invested in two Sharemax products.
Rinate Goosen was the compliance officer of a company called Unlisted Securities South Africa (USSA). USSA has come under severe criticism by Bam in recent determinations.
USSA was established by Gert Goosen in 2004. Its purpose was to provide financial advisers with the licence necessary to sell Sharemax products.
... Click HERE for the link for balance of the article. (The comments on Moneyweb are also interesting.)
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Is it just me or has common sense completely dissapeared?
Although I don't have access to all the details, it appears to me to be utterly ridiculous that the FSB would re-hire a compliance officer so obviously tainted by the Sharemax scandal. Do the words "conflict of interest" not clang out loudly here? Is the FSB not just looking for trouble!
I then fail to understand Mr. Anderson's comment when asked if Rinate Goosen's position is being reviewed pursuant to the Ombud's Report that: “The FSB’s position is unchanged in this regard.” A report confirming the existence of a Ponzi Scheme is irrelevant to the FSB whose position remains unchanged ... can it be?
The name "Mr. Anderson" always reminds me of the movie "The Matrix" and, much like that movie, I suspect that there are still many things that are not as they appear to be in the Sharemax Saga.
Opinion: Deon Basson was right about Sharemax
Sharemax is a Ponzi scheme, a Ponzi scheme, a Ponzi scheme, a Ponzi scheme….
There - I’ve said it, and for the first time it can now be said without fear of being threatened with bullying letters from one of the phalanx of lawyers used by Sharemax over many years.
This is the one consequence of the ruling by the Financial Advisory and Intermediary Services (Fais) Ombud Noluntu Bam, who finally had the courage to blow open the festering sore known as the Sharmax Property Syndications with a courageous and honest ruling that sets in motion far- reaching consequences, both legal and financial, for the advisors, directors and other parties associated with this.
The other consequence is that, unless this ruling is somehow overturned by the Financial Services Board (FSB) Appeal Panel or another court, the floodgates are now well and truly open for financially dispossessed investors, particularly in the Zambezi Mall and The Villa, to pursue their claims through the offices of the ombud.
These two schemes in particular had all the characteristics of a Ponzi scheme: investors handing over money in order to get a little bit of their money back. This could only continue as long as there were other investors in the back of the queue to pay the investors in the front of them.
In total about R2.5bn was invested into these two schemes, most of it now simply gone….
Wow - a very interesting article by Magnus Heystek. Talk about calling a spade a spade. Please click on the above link for the full article.
Tshwane in dire need of student housing
Tshwane's universities are facing a student housing crisis, and plans are under way to provide more student accommodation.
The University of Pretoria (UP) is able to meet only 18 percent of its students' accommodation needs, and new avenues for housing developments are being explored.
Tukkies recently advertised the need for private, off-campus accommodation for its students.
This was in response to a request from the higher education ministerial committee for universities and the private sector to enter into partnerships to address the national need - for more than 2 007 800 student beds - as identified in 2011.
Professor Roelf Visser, director of residence affairs and accommodation at UP, said there was a shortage of on-campus accommodation, with 38 500 students being left without this option.
Many students wanted to live in the university's residences, but not all could be accommodated.
"UP intends to increase its residence capacity by seeking private, off-campus student accommodation," Visser said.
The private accommodation would serve as a supplement and alternative to residences.
The number of students accommodated on campus is 8 500 - only 18 percent of the number of enrolled students.
This is 12 percent lower than the national norm of 30 percent.
As part of UP's growth plan for 2025, 8 000 additional beds are to be provided to meet the 30 percent standard.
"We are looking for welldesigned, quality, affordable student clusters with supporting facilities to create a quality living and learning environment," Visser said.
He emphasised the importance of safety, security and a location near the university's main campus in Hatfield.
According to Visser, there were many reasons for the shortage of accommodation.
These included the lack of investment in student housing, shortage of funds and land, and the lack of available high-quality accommodation.
"It seems many students do find accommodation in below-
Tstandard, overcrowded communes with almost no maintenance, security measures and support," Visser said.
Students were often exploited by people renting out these lowquality communes, he said.
Visser expressed the need for additional services as part of the private accommodation offered off-campus.
"Associated services such as provision of food, day-to-day maintenance, security, student support, and transport are required," he said.
Visser said accommodation should be available for occupation by January next year or January 2015.
Proposals for private accommodation developments may be submitted to the university before 12pm on February 22.
Meanwhile, the Tshwane University of Technology (TUT) has opened the doors to a new private, off-campus housing development.
Junction-S, a student housing provider in Gauteng, recently opened the first phase of a R300 million student housing development, Ekhaya Junction, in Wier street, Pretoria Gardens.
"We are confident that this will go a long way in addressing the student housing shortage in Pretoria," said Cornelius Mokone, director of Junction-S.
Ekhaya Junction will accommodate 2 300 students when the complex is completed in December next year.
The first phase houses 522 students and the second phase, to be completed by the end of May, will add another 324 beds. The bedrooms are grouped into units (for 12 students or for four students).
Costs range between R1 750 a bed a month and R2 450 a bed a month, depending on whether they are single rooms or shared accommodation.
Each unit has a communal kitchen and one bathroom for every four beds.
Some of the amenities provided by Ekhaya Junction include free Wi-Fi, study rooms, kiosks, a games room, laundry facilities and daily cleaning and maintenance.
Ekhaya Junction is connected to TUT campus by a 300m paved walkway.
This will be open for students as soon as TUT gives the go-ahead to install a biometric gate to provide access to the campus.
Until then, transport will be provided.
Students who already live there are satisfied with the facilities, especially compared to their previous housing.
"Compared to on-campus res, I love it!" says Nompumelelo Zungu, 19, a second-year architecture student.
However, the limited space in her single bedroom may become a problem when she has to do her projects, she said.
Neo Monnahela, 20, a secondyear engineering student is happy with Ekhaya as a learning environment because of the reduced noise especially after 8pm.
Since Ekhaya Junction is still under construction, management is open for suggestions and has already adjusted its planning to incorporate more single rooms.
As suggested, a swimming pool and gym are on the table, according to Mokone.
Meanwhile, the Tshwane Metro Council has identified some of its sites for much-needed student accommodation.
A report submitted to the council said the metro area hosted a number of research institutions and universities such as the Innovation Hub, the CSIR, Tukkies, TUT and Unisa, and it had become critical that students arriving in the city from all over South Africa be provided with accommodation.
It was estimated that 60 000 students were in need of accommodation.
The municipality has now identified land in Marabastad for student accommodation.
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Joburg finances stable but billing is still a bugbear
The City of Joburg has received another qualified report from the Auditor-General for the 2011/12 financial year.
And the billing problems are cited as one of the reasons for this, together with the city's asset register.
Announcing the report, the city's member of the mayoral committee for finance, Geoff Makhubo, said many of the A-G's concerns had already been addressed and that good progress had been made in resolving the billing "challenges".
The problems identified with billing related to estimates and meter readings.
"Challenges lie with the fact that the system is based in historic records of consumption by residents which are being thrown out by the computers. The A-G said it is taking too long to resolve these," he said.
In terms of the Road Revenue Map released in November 2011, of all queries ringfenced by that month, 99 percent had been resolved.
As far as current queries are concerned, city manager Trevor Fowler said 90 percent were being resolved in 90 days. The average time of resolution of queries was 36 days, and it was hoped to reduce this to 30 days.
"The city's finances are stable, our capital expenditure is at 89 percent and we have R5 billion surplus," he said.
City auditor Quentin Green said the council's cash and cash equivalents had risen compared to the previous financial year due to improved liquidity management strategies implemented during the year.
He said the city was committed to pursuing:
•Improved and accurate billing;
•Improved cash collection of rates and services;
•An increase in expenditure levels for maintenance;
•Elimination of expenditure;
•Profitability and liquidity rates;
•Renewal of IT systems and an integrated accounting database; and
•An unqualified audit.
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Posted 12th November 2008 (UK Time)
Sunday morning - 58 family & supporters boarded coaches for the 1 hr journey from Kobe to Kyoto where we immediately were taken on a wonderful tour of Kinkakuji (Golden) temple and the Nijojo Castle which set the mood for our Kyoto stay after a very nice lunch the tour continued with visits to the Heian Shrine (dropping in to the nearby Butokuden Martial Arts centre to watch a children's Karate competition) then finally to the Kiyomizu shrine before getting to our hotel around 6-00pm. We were very fortunate to have the assistance of Bryan Huddard, a well-known martial arts teacher originally from New Zealand but resident for more than 40 years in Japan.
On Monday another very full day with a 3½ hr visit to the 1000yr old temple complex on Mt Hiei where we attended a lecture on meditation and experienced first hand the discipline and benefits of traditional Japanese culture After a very sparse lunch with the monks we travelled by coach for another 2 hours to Nara to visit Todaiji Temple over 1200 years old and the largest wooden building in the world. We returned to our hotel around 6-00pm and as described by a number of us we were all “templed out”.
Coincidentally Group D arrived in Tokyo for their week's stay and are firmly ensconced in the Keio Plaza Hotel.
Meanwhile on Monday morning very early the team and all the staff travelled by 1st class bullet train to Tokyo to take up residence at the Olympic centre to make their final preparations for the Worlds.
Tuesday saw the first full day workout in Tokyo for the team with the benefits of their 5-day acclimatisation beginning to show in their training so that by Thursday they should be at their peak.
Meanwhile in Kyoto we had a free morning on Tuesday then off for a very traditional lunch at an organic sushi restaurant in the suburbs of Kyoto before a coach trip to visit an authentic ninja museum in Shiga prefecture with a guided tour from the owner and a lot of input from local Bryan Huddart that was greatly appreciated by all of us.
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On Wednesday we had an easy morning with a visit to the Kyoto Handicraft Centre and 2 nearby Martial Arts shops then on Wednesday afternoon we all made our way by bullet train and local subway to the suburbs of Osaka for an evening of fun and frolics with a very nice Shito-ryu group under the guidance of Fujita sensei. We expected an interesting time but it turned out to be the highlight of our trip so far with a training session that included about 50 children from 3 yrs old then a University karate team and seniors which when added to the 38 people we fielded produced just the right mix for a great social evening. Fujita-sensei organised a little competition between the young University team and our “oldies” which included Carl Linley, Tony,Gray, Steve Scott, Damian Bowen, Martyn Dean among others and the match was held in a great atmosphere of friendship and fun.
Then we had demonstrations by both the locals and us of kata and finally I was hauled out to give a demo of Karate Jutsu with the Polish students. We exchanged gifts and promised to stay in touch so we finally got back to Kyoto around midnight after a thoroughly great evening.
We are off to Tokyo on Thursday morning for the final leg of our trip and hopefully fruitful trips to the Budokan for 4 days to support our team.
Posted 8th November 2008 (UK Time)
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Wednesday 5th November saw the 2nd part of our group arrive in Kobe from London which now meant we numbered over 80 members with a further 20 plus due on or around the 10th Nov.
The team were out for an early morning run in sunny warm weather and by Wed midday the team and its coaches were established at the Kobe Regatta and Athletic Club where they have the complete run of all the facilities while they are in Kobe. So far the team have shown an ever improving build-up to next week's Worlds. Thursday, in very nice weather, the team had their early morning run then 3 separate work sessions under the watchful eyes of all the coaches interspersed with video analysis of their earlier efforts.
Friday was a rest day which the athletes really appreciated and which gave them a day to explore this fascinating port city in West Japan. Saturday was decidedly cooler and rainy so the early morning run was skipped in favour of extended 3 session work-outs again. I spoke to the coaches tonight (Sat) and all of them praised the team for their application and continuing improvement.
Against this hard work ethic all of us “hangers on” are having a great time. Wednesday was a free day when we arranged our Shinkanses (bullet train) First Class rail passes that allow us unlimited travel in Japan for 2 weeks on the Shinkansen. The group is a very good mix of ages, interests and nationalities (we have 22 Poles with us). On Thursday we went to train at the Shotokan dojo in Hyogo Kenritsu University with young and very timid students who wondered what had happened when this load of big foreigners descended on them. We all had a good time and to reciprocate we invited the University members to the KRAC on Thurssay evening for a small reception and to watch a demonstration of Karate for the local Kobe community. The demonstration was very well received with Jonathon Mottram giving his usual superb kata display. Following the demonstration a presentation was made to the Hyogo Kenritsu University members and we have been asked to return again in the not too distant future.
Friday was another very full day with an early start by coach then onto the Bullet train for the 1½ hr journey to Hiroshima. We boarded our special coaches at Hiroshima with English speaking guides and proceeded to the Peace Park and Museum then for a superb buffet lunch at the ANA hotel before boarding the coaches for a drive to the port where we took a ship to the wonderful 1000 year old plus Miyajima shrine, which is a UNESCO World Heritage site where the torii (gate) stands in the sea. We were very fortunate to see a real traditional Japanese wedding taking place and we all voted that the day was a great success as we sped back to Kobe on the bullet train on Friday evening.
Saturday was free-day with some of the group going to Himeji to see the famous historical “White Egret” castle and reenact the scenes from James Bond (You Only Live Twice) movie that were shot there in the 1960’s . Other members of the group went to Osaka to visit dojo’s and/or the castle. One thing we all realise is that without the excellent professional services of KNT (one of Japan’s largest travel groups) the logistics of this trip for 100 people would have been almost impossible. Nothing has been too much trouble for the KNT staff who are with the group all the time during travel to solve any problems and there have been a few with lost passports, lost cash and changes in itineraries (all the forementioned ended in the right result).
On Sunday we leave Kobe and the team and move onto Kyoto for 5 days. Lets hope we enjoy ourselves as much as we have done over the past 5 days. On Monday the team leaves by Bullet train for Tokyo and the Olympic Village to start their final preparations for the World’s starting Thursday.
Off to the Land of the Rising Sun
EKF athletes, coaches, family members and supporters got up early on Monday 3rd and travelled from all over England to meet at the Holiday Inn Heathrow at 3.00pm in preparation for the trip to Japan and the 19th World Karate Championships. This first group totalled 58 and following a comprehensive talk from the the organisers KNT and the main sponsors CYBERBUDO the team posed for photos in their new track suits, T-shirts, sweaters etc, then we all went to terminal 3 for the 7-00pm direct flight to Tokyo.
The flight took 11hrs 40 mins then we changed planes arriving at our destination Kobe at 10-00pm local time (1.00pm UK time) making a total of 18 hrs main travel. I must say there is a very good spirit among the team and they all seem very well focussed which we hope can be brought to a sharp edge over the next 10 days so the team is at its peak from the 13th -16th for the competition in Tokyo. The second group of supporters, family and friends left Heathrow on Tues following exactly the same route as the first group and are expected to arrive here in Kobe around 9-00pm Wed evening (local time).
The third group leaves London on the 9th Nov direct to Tokyo which means we will have over 100 people from the EKF which I think is very very good. We have come a long way and for most of the group it’s the realisation of a lifetime's wish to visit the cradle of Karate and experience for themselves the real Japan while they can. We will bring you a daily update and regular photos of the trip - so stay tuned to this site.
Posted 1st November 2008
The Pain and The Glory . . . DEJA VU
With only a few days to go more than 100 members and supporters of the EKF are preparing to leave for Japan for the 19th World Karate Championships in Tokyo from 13th – 16th Nov. The team and officials number 21 and for everyone this is the one place they all want to do well. The excitement and thrill of competing in the cradle of Karate-Do has built up over the past 18 months to the realisation that this time round the English team will compete against more than 100 national teams to see how good they really are.
What a big difference to 38 years ago at the first World Chapionships in Tokyo / Osaka in 1970. To put things in perspective please see the following photo, who do you recognise? (see below). Well on this trip three of us will be there as we were in 1970 namely a young Ticky (fifth from left) and Brian Hammond (2nd from left) and as in 1970 yours truly was waiting in Tokyo to greet the team after I had worked in the Zenkuren FAJKO (All Japan Karate Organisation) HQ in Tokyo for 2 years to bring the first Championships to fruition.
From left; Stan Knighton, Brian Hammond, Brian Fitkin, Steve Arneil, Ticky Donovan, Hamish Adams and 3 guesses?
If I remember correctly the 1970 team were delayed in reaching Japan and they finally did it after 3 days travel. Despite this there was a really great team spirit although the team came from 4 different styles in England.
Enough of yesterday and we all hope the thrill of representing their country will lift today's team to the highest level of performance. I know how hard it has been to organise this team’s selection and then arrange sponsorship. I am sure that to get this team to Tokyo has cost more than any other English team over the past 40 years and despite no funding from Sport England the EKF is sending its team in style and with its head held high. Over the past 18 months the EKF has led by example and fulfilled its promises and developed the EKF to undoubtedly the only effective governing body for karate in England. As I have said many times in the past “words are cheap, money buys the whiskey” and the time is coming for all karate clubs in England to be objective and decide where their future wil be best looked after. Please watch our website as we send back daily photos and video streaming of the Tokyo competition, as we did with great success in the last Championships in Tampere, Finland.
Wishing everyone the very best,
Terry Wingrove
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Tuesday, July 28, 2009 0
Comic-Con TV Reporter Dresses as Princess Leia
John Edwards has a sex tape?
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In the story that will not die, we now learn that John Edwards, the former North Carolina Senator and VP running mate to John Kerry, now reportedly has a sex tape. According to Rush & Molloy, the gossip columnists of the New York Daily News, Edwards former aide Andrew Young just finished a book proposal that described first, that he is not the father of the child of Rielle Hunter, John Edwards mistress, second, that Young just happened to see a sexually-explicit videotape as he was unpacking after moving to California from the East Coast, where he lived with Rielle Hunter, Edwards' mistress, and Young's wife and family.
The story is known by now: in August of 2008, after the heat of the Democratic Primary had cleared and just before the Democratic National Convention, former Senator Edwards admitted he cheated on his wife Elizabeth starting in 2006, while she was battling breast cancer. The scandal was originally reported by the Enquirer as far back as November of 2007, and just a few blogs, including Zennie62, then called "Zennie's Zeitgeist" followed it.
Rielle Hunter was an amateur film-maker Edwards befriended in New York City in 2006, but the friendship turned into two things: a $200,000 video job for Hunter and an affair for Edwards. Then - aide Andrew Young told the media - or those new media types paying attention - that he was the person who had the affair with Hunter and evntually got her pregnant.
This video I created gives you a look at what Rielle Hunter did for Edwards on the campaign trail:
Now Young's changing his story, claiming there's a sex tape and he has it, stating that he's not the father of Hunter's child and that Edwards is, and throwing Edwards so far under the bus he's going to be ran over by it and have skid marks on his back.
The question is why, after all this time, would Andrew Young do this to his former boss? Loyalty can last forever, can't it? According to the Huffington Post, Young feels "betrayed" by the "once-friendly" Edwards family. That turnabout may have come at the hands of Elizabeth Edwards, as the NY Daily News claims it was she who blamed Young for being an "enabler" of Edwards affair with Hunter, even to the point of arranging cell phone calls between Edwards and Hunter. Reportedly, Ms. Edwards threatened to leak information about Young's criminal past.
And The Enquirer, which rose from tabloid obscurity to gain mainstream media attention by breaking this story, reports that Young expressed displeasure with Edwards after he visited Hunter just after the child was born last year. Then, just after Edwards admitted his affair in August of 2008, Fox News ran a post presenting Young's unfortunate past of arrests. Young, with his image damaged, felt backed into a corner and like any wounded animal, struck back with this new story. The real story.
(Some websites, like the Enquirer claim the story of Young's past came up in The Daily Beast, but that's not true. It was Fox News.)
That the Edwards matter has degenerated to this point is sad to say the least. A once-promising man and family have essentially reduced themselves to the point of slinging mud at former friends and vice versa and who knows who else is next, given that Elizabeth Edwards is writing a book too.
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Friday, July 24, 2009 0
Tron Legacy Comic-Con footage in HD! VFX Test for 2009 Movie
From textinsf on YouTube who writes: Sponsored by: http://bit.ly/wC5B Tron Legacy is a 3D high-tech adventure set in a digital world that's unlike anything ever captured on the big screen. Sam Flynn (Hedlund), the tech-savvy 27-year-old son of Kevin Flynn (Bridges), looks into his father's disappearance and finds himself pulled into the same world of fierce programs and gladiatorial games where his father has been living for 25 years. Along with Kevin's loyal confidant (Olivia Wilde), father and son embark on a life-and-death journey across a visually-stunning cyber universe that has become far more advanced and exceedingly dangerous.
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Double Rainbow over Oakland, California
UFC Fighter 'Rampage' Jackson Dry Humps Cagepotato.com Reporter LIVE!
Rev Al Sharpton's amazing speech at Michael Jackson Memorial
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One of the highlights of the Michael Jackson Memorial is an amazing speech given by the Rev. Al Sharpton. Sharpton's always a lighting rod for criticism for his "tell-it-like-it-is" style, and he presented it at the memorial. Sharpton gave one of the best speeches I've ever heard because it cut deep to the core reasons why many people love and defend Michael Jackson and for another reason: Jackson represents the growth of mainstream American Culture, where people paid less attention race and more attention to what they liked regardless of the skin color of the person who made what they liked.
Sharpton walked up and delivered an old-fashioned unplanned stump stemwinder speech. The kind I'd expect to hear from him in church. Here's the transcript of Sharpton's masterpiece presented by Seattlemedium.com:
All over the world today people are gathered in love viduals to celebrate the life of a man that taught the world how to love.
People may be wondering why there’s such an emotional outburst. But you would have to understand the journey of Michael to understand what he meant to all of us. For these that sit here as the Jackson family - a mother and father with nine children that rose from a working class family in Gary, Indiana - they had nothing but a dream.
No one believed in those days that this kind of dream could come true, but they kept on believing and Michael never let the world turn him around from his dreams. I first met Michael around the 1970 Black Expo, Chicago, Illinois. Rev. Jesse Jackson, who stood by this family till now, and from that day as a cute kid to this moment, he never gave up dreaming. It was that dream that changed culture all over the world. When Michael started, it was a different world. But because Michael kept going, because he didn’t accept limitations, because he refused to let people decide his boundaries, he opened up the whole world.
In the music world, he put on one glove, pulled his pants up and broke down the color curtain where now our videos are shown and magazines put us on the cover. It was Michael Jackson that brought Blacks and Whites and Asians and Latinos together. It was Michael Jackson that made us sing, “We are the World” and feed the hungry long before Live Aid.
Because Michael Jackson kept going, he created a comfort level where people that felt they were separate became interconnected with his music. And it was that comfort level that kids from Japan and Ghana and France and Iowa and Pennsylvania got comfortable enough with each other until later it wasn’t strange to us to watch Oprah on television. It wasn’t strange to watch Tiger Woods golf. Those young kids grew up from being teenage, comfortable fans of Michael to being 40 years old and being comfortable to vote for a person of color to be the President of the United States of America.
Michael did that. Michael made us love each other. Michael taught us to stand with each other. There are those that like to dig around mess. But millions around the world, we’re going to uphold his message. It’s not about mess, but it’s about his love message. As you climb up steep mountains, sometimes you scar your knee; sometimes you break your skin. But don’t focus on the scars, focus on the journey. Michael beat ‘em, Michael rose to the top. He out-sang his cynics, he out-danced his doubters; he out-performed the pessimists. Every time he got knocked down, he got back up. Every time you counted him out, he came back in. Michael never stopped. Michael never stopped. Michael never stopped.
I want to say to Mrs. Jackson and Joe Jackson, his sisters and brothers: We thank you for giving us someone that taught us love; someone who taught us hope. We want to thank you because we know it was your dream too.
We know that your heart is broken. I know you have some comfort from the letter from the President of the United States and Nelson Mandela. But this was your child. This was your brother. This was your brother. This was your cousin. Nothing will fill your hearts’ lost. But I hope the love that people are showing will make you know he didn’t live in vain. I want his three children to know: Wasn’t nothing strange about your Daddy. It was strange what your Daddy had to deal with. But he dealt with it…He dealt with it anyway. He dealt with it for us.
So, some came today, Mrs. Jackson, to say goodbye to Michael. I came to say, thank you. Thank you because you never stopped, thank you because you never gave up, thank you because you never gave out, thank you because you tore down our divisions. Thank you because you eradicated barriers. Thank you because you gave us hope. Thank you Michael. Thank you Michael. Thank you Michael!
Fox News Bill O'Reilly said Sharpton's speech was racist, but that's certainly not the dumbest thing I've ever heard O'Reilly say - his crack about not knowing "Black restaurants" could be nice places to go to takes the prize - but it's close.
The bottom line is Michael Jackson did change American Culture. Think about it. He became a singing star just four years after the passage of The Civil Rights Amendment in 1964 and continued to produce hit after hit to his death, all the time gaining fans around the World who didn't care what color his skin was; they just liked his music and him. That's powerful, and all the more so when one considers the racial problems we've seen and experienced. It's really gotten better and Jackson deserves a lot of credit for that.
Conservatives can't deal with anyone telling the truth about race relations, but they'd better start because it's their inability to understand how race relations have changed that has doomed the political future of conservatives and of the GOP.
A political party historically based on hating a racial group - as was true for the GOP for decades - can't survive when people of different colors are mating as one. Causing that in a small way is but one of Michael Jackson's gifts to society. If it's hard for you to deal with that fact, one of the "hard facts that create America" as President Lincoln would say, you're not American at all because you don't get your own country.
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Monday, July 06, 2009 0
Michael Jackson Fans gather at Staples Center for their last goodbyes
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Sunday, February 15, 2009 0
Late Show - Where's Joaquin Phoenix? - 2/11/09
This Letterman show video clip is just too funny for words!
Friday, February 13, 2009 0
Julia Allison and Gawker's Obsession With The Online Star
Julia Allison's exploits are regularly covered by the online publications Gawker and Valleywag, who complain that she wants attention, then give her the attention in the process. Why? She's a great example of self-promotion.
Monday, February 09, 2009 0
2009 Oscars® Trailer -- Academy Awards February 22, 2009
Saturday, February 07, 2009 0
Actor Christian Bale Apologizes for F-Bomb Tirade
Christian Bale called in to the Kevin and Bean show on KROQ-FM (106.7) in Los Angeles to say he was sorry for the tantrum on the set of "Terminator Salvation" that was recorded and has been pinging across the Internet for days.
Michael Phelps Smokes Bong: American Hypocrisy
I had the pleasure of meeting Michael Phelps last fall at the Bank of The West Classic tennis event. I said then that he was "a cool guy" or words to that effect. The matter of his "bong" event is a study in American Hypocrisy.
Star Trek Movie Trailer Reveals Hit Star Trek Movie
The second Star Trek trailer reveals a movie that will be a sure-fire hit. J.J. Abrams, who directed the movie and co-produced it, and his staff aimed for a mix of realism and Star Trek and hit it right on the money.
I do hope we can see William Shatner in it, but I understand why he made this difficult -- he'll be sorry. But I hope he's in it with Leonard Nimoy.
Leonard Nimoy's Ballad of Bilbo Baggins
What the hell was Leonard Nimoy doing singing this stupid song? Well, according to Wikipedia,..
"The Ballad of Bilbo Baggins" is a song composed by Charles Randolph Grean and performed by Leonard Nimoy, telling the story of Bilbo Baggins and his adventures in J. R. R. Tolkien's novel The Hobbit. The recording originally appeared on The Two Sides of Leonard Nimoy (Dot Records Cat. DLP 25835, 1968), the second of Nimoy's albums on Dot Records. It was also released as a single (Dot Records Cat. #45-17028), backed with a "modern thought-image" folk song called "Cotton Candy".
Well I guess that explains it, but I'd still like to talk to Mr. Nimoy about that one! LOL
Thursday, February 05, 2009 0
Ghostbuster Ernie Hudson On Fame, Black Actors and Hollywood
I had the pleasure of meeting Ernie Hudson at the 2007 WonderCon earlier this year. In this interview, Hudson, who's website is at http://www.Ernie-Hudson.com, talks about fame, the Black Actor, and Hollywood.
Tuesday, February 03, 2009 0
Christian Bale Goes ApeSh#t on Terminator 4 set
Christian Bale goes on another profanity-fueled rant where he exhibits the alleged anger management problem that lifted it's head during the week of the premier of The Dark Knight. So I guess we can say The Dark Knight really is a Dark Knight. But why? What's up with this great acting talent?
Labels: Christian Bale, movies, Terminator 4, the dark knight
MICHAEL PHELPS SMOKES POT FROM A BONG!
Ok, so he smoked pot from a bong. Frankly, I'd be surprised if he didn't do it. But let's see how this plays out.
"G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra" Superbowl Spot
I have to admit I don't remember G.I. Joe doing all of this stuff, but whatever. It was a cool trailer -- not the best one but cool.
Saturday, January 31, 2009 1
Ashton Kutcher's Cell Phone Video Rant Good For Property Values
Ashton Kutcher's Cell Phone Video Rant was Good For Property Values -- for the perso next door to him!
Thursday, January 22, 2009 0
2009 Academy Awards Nominations Annouced Today
Well, Oscar time is here. The 2009 Academy Awards take place in just one month! Forest Witaker, fresh from his appearance at the 2009 Presidential Inauguration and the "We Are One" Concert, presented the nominees with Oscar President Syd Ganis. Here's the video:
But that was only part of the list. Here's the full list of nominees:
The 2009 Oscar nominees are:
Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role
Richard Jenkins THE VISITOR
Frank Langella FROST/NIXON
Sean Penn MILK
Mickey Rourke THE WRESTLER
Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role
Josh Brolin MILK
Robert Downey Jr. TROPIC THUNDER
Philip Seymour Hoffman DOUBT
Heath Ledger THE DARK KNIGHT
Michael Shannon REVOLUTIONARY ROAD
Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role
Anne Hathaway RACHEL GETTING MARRIED
Angelina Jolie CHANGELING
Melissa Leo FROZEN RIVER
Meryl Streep DOUBT
Kate Winslet THE READER
Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role
Amy Adams DOUBT
Penélope Cruz VICKY CRISTINA BARCELONA
Viola Davis DOUBT
Marisa Tomei THE WRESTLER
Best Animated Feature Film of the Year
Achievement in Art Direction
Achievement in Cinematography
Achievement in Costume Design
Achievement in Directing
THE BETRAYAL (NERAKHOON)
Best Documentary Short Subject
THE CONSCIENCE OF NHEM EN
THE FINAL INCH
SMILE PINKI
THE WITNESS - FROM THE BALCONY OF ROOM 306
Achievement in Film Editing
Best Foreign Language Film of the Year
The Baader Meinhof Complex
Revanchee
Achievement in Makeup
Achievement in Music Written for Motion Pictures (Original Score)
Achievement in Music Written for Motion Pictures (Original Song)
WALL-E "Down to Earth"
SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE "Jai Ho"
SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE"O Saya"
Best Motion Picture of the Year
La Maison en Petits Cubes
LAVATORY - LOVESTORY
OKTAPODI
AUF DER STRECKE (ON THE LINE)
MANON ON THE ASPHALT
SPIELZEUGLAND (TOYLAND)
Achievement in Sound Editing
Achievement in Sound Mixing
Achievement in Visual Effects
Adapted Screenplay
Original Screenplay
HAPPY-GO-LUCKY
Now comes the hard part. Predictions. But event then, my question is this: are you going to watch the Oscars? Let me know!
Labels: Academy Awards, media, movies, news, Oscars
Wednesday, January 14, 2009 0
Will Ferrell Promises His Bush On Broadway Will Surprise
Will Ferrell says audiences should expect the unexpected from his upcoming one-man Broadway show and HBO special about President George W. Bush.
Howie Mandel Rushed To Hospital With Irregular Heartbeat
While filming in Toronto, Canada, he was rushed to the hospital where he is being treated for irregular heartbeat and suspected heart attack
MARVEL SHOCKER: Samuel L. Jackson Might Not play Nick Fury
Samuel L. Jackson, clearly bristling, said today that negotiations to put him in the role of Nick Fury have broken down because "there seems to be an economic crisis in the Marvel Comics world."
BART OFFICER JOHANNES MEHSERLE ARRESTED!
http://oaklandfocus.blogspot.com/2009/01/bart-officer-johannes-mehserle-arrested.html - In a shocking turn of events, BART Officer Johannes Mehserle, who was the cop who shot 22-year-old Oscar Grant in the back was arrested Tuesday night.
Tuesday, January 13, 2009 0
HOWIE MANDEL LEAVES HOSPITAL, PLANS RETURN TO WORK - New York Post
More at New York Post: “A publicist for Howie Mandel says he's out of the hospital and plans to return to work Wednesday.
Mandel was in Toronto taping his new show "Howie Do It!" when he was taken to the hospital for an irregular heartbeat Monday, said Lewis Kay, publicist for the 53-year-old comedian and game show host.
Mandel was conscious and breathing when police officers responded to a report of a man with a medical condition at a downtown hotel Monday evening. Family members went with him to St. Michael's Hospital, police said.”
Labels: howie mandel, media, new york post, news
Kate Winslet WINS the Golden Globe for Best Actress Drama
Kate Winslet was just amazing here because she was so honest in her reaction. It's nice to see someone like what's given to them.
Iron Man - Theme Song
Ok for a little lightness, here's the Iron Man theme song from 1966. I know this by heart, but now if you run this about 40 times each day, you can too!
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NBA Basketball COMMENTARY
A View Into the Miami Heat’s Uncertain Future
The Miami Heat revealed itself for what it is this past season – a fun and exciting team which can out-effort anyone to victory on any given night, but not one built for sustained playoff success. It’s a team with a ton …
Miami Heat: 2017-18 NBA Season Preview
The Miami Heat pulled off perhaps the greatest turnaround in NBA history this past season, following up an exasperating 11-30 first half with an 30-11 second half that was good for second-best in the league and made it the first team to …
Kyrie Irving Reportedly Requesting Trade Out of Cleveland, Lists Miami Heat as a Preferred Destination
Just when we thought a wild NBA offseason was finally winding down, another stunner was delivered last Friday with the disclosure by ESPN that four-time All-Star point guard Kyrie Irving has asked the Cleveland Cavaliers to trade him. Irving reportedly made the …
The Miami Heat, Creatively, Locks In Its Vision for the Future
Pat Riley’s goal for this summer was clearly to sign Gordon Hayward. It had been that way for quite a while. He downplayed it because, well, it was always going to be exceedingly difficult to execute. Hayward tugged at our heartstrings for …
NBA Drops 2017-18 Salary Cap Projection $2M, to $99M, As Revenues Track $70M Short of April Estimate
With less than 24 hours left before the start of the draft and just ten days until the start of free agency, NBA teams were provided an updated projection for the 2017-18 salary cap — and it’s not nearly as high as …
Miami Heat Select Kentucky Center Bam Adebayo at No. 14 in 2017 NBA Draft
With the 14th pick in the 2017 NBA draft, the Miami Heat selected Kentucky center Edrice “Bam” Adebayo. The 6-foot-10, 243-pounder is built like Dwight Howard. He’s strong, freakishly athletic, and explosive both laterally and vertically. He runs the floor with reckless …
Miami Heat Emerge As Serious Threat to Sign Gordon Hayward
Update (07/01/17): Pat Riley and the Miami Heat organization received some encouraging news on Friday, as they prepare to lure All-Star free agent Gordon Hayward away from the Utah Jazz in a meeting scheduled for Saturday. Hayward is reportedly considering the Heat, …
A Fun (But Serious) Look into the Golden State Warriors Future
Update (7/5/17): Each of the Golden State Warriors’ critical free agents this summer has agreed to return. Stephen Curry will sign the full 5-year, $201M designated player max contract for which he qualifies. Andre Iguodala will sign a guaranteed three-year, $48M contract. …
All-NBA Team Announcement Could Shape the Future of Free Agency
Today’s announcement of the All-NBA teams for the 2016-17 season had much more far-reaching implications than in years past, thanks to new “Designated Veteran Player” rules in the new Collective Bargaining Agreement that reward certain players with higher maximum salaries than to …
A Preliminary Look at the Upcoming Miami Heat Free Agency
The Miami Heat pulled off perhaps the greatest turnaround in NBA history this past season, under perhaps the most challenging of circumstances. After losing Dwyane Wade to free agency and Chris Bosh to a possible career-ending medical condition, it was always going …
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Helena History Press Advisory Board
Foreword Review’s Review of Comrade Baron
by Bradley A. Scott
Jaap Scholten has done an extraordinary job of recording and presenting the stories of a persecution almost forgotten.
In Comrade Baron, Jaap Scholten explores a harrowing history little known in the English-speaking world. With a mixture of personal observation, sympathetic interviews, and astute historical analysis, he exposes the Romanian government’s cruel campaign against the aristocratic families of Transylvania between 1949 and 1989, when Nicolae Ceaușescu’s brutal dictatorship finally collapsed. “I want to write down the stories of a disappearing world,” he explains to a skeptical sister-in-law in the introduction. Those stories form a gripping and tragic tale.
Read full review on Foreword Reviews’ website
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Chris Amodeo
Ray Weston
Mick Taras
Dylan Wilson
Additional Musicians
Lyrics/Booklet
Chris Amodeo’s recent burst into music has been mythic. As a Rolfer®, Shaman and voiceover artist, he already lives an unusual life. ” I’ve spent the last 22 years in my own little magic box working with people individually exploring realms of therapy and personal transformation. Now, with the music, it’s still about transformation…. it’s just being delivered in a way that’s more familiar, accessible and fun .”
” I think people are hungry for what’s real, soulful and transparent, more than ever in this jaded, post-meltdown world. Now music can offer more than the status quo in this new, internet-based “free-for-all”. The epitome of rock’n roll has always been to challenge the status quo. Artists don’t have to play down to some vast demographic. We’re already seeing too much dumbing down of our culture…just look at what most of the world watches on Youtube. Reality is nearly degrading to what the movie Idiocracy portrayed. What I’m doing has an underlying shamanic/spiritual energetic wrapped in a musical idiom influenced by 60’s and 70’s folk, American and British pop and, of course, classic rock.”
On Homo Luminous, Chris Amodeo And The Modern Minds put together a transformational musical romp that uplifts with smart, transcendent lyrics, strong hooky melodies, layered guitars, lush B3 and backup singers from Pink Floyd and The Rolling Stones.
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Associations/Breeds, Championships, Dressage, Products/Services
Harper JR Named ‘Sport Horse of the Week’ at IFHSA World & Grand National Championships
Photo Courtesy of IFSHA and Avalon Photography.
Springfield, Ohio (November 4, 2019) –Nearly 300 classes were presented over five days in October when the International Friesian Show Horse Association (IFSHA) 2019 World and Grand National Championships came to the Champions Center in Springfield, Ohio, but it didn’t take long for N2 Saddlery to find its Sport Horse the Week: Part-Bred Friesian English Pleasure World Champion, Harper JR, owned by Lauren Riehle of Kernersville, NC, and competed by amateur rider Anaiah Powers, who trains under one of the top handlers ever to enter a Dressage at Devon ring, Bruce Griffin, of Griffin Sport Horses in Virginia.
Griffin, whose professional training career with Friesians like Harper JR began under the tutelage of great horsemen like Jeff Wonnell and Barbara Cross, says, “It’s a dream come true to be blessed with such talented and versatile horses.” The 2019 World Champion and N2 Saddlery Sporthorse Award winner had previously earned overall Part Bred High Point and overall High Point in Hand Horse titles at the 2016 IFSHA World Championships.
But the real story of this gentle giant, says Riehle, just keeps growing. “I lucked into my dream horse. I met him the day he was born,” she says of her nine-year-old, 17.3-hand (“he just keeps growing!”) Friesian/Percheron/Thoroughbred cross. “You may not see the Thoroughbred but he’s got a whole lot of go. He’s also a kind, fun guy and he’s great with Anaiah.”
When Riehle brought the young Friesian to Griffin Sport Horses, she told its trainer, “I just want a nice trail horse. Let’s take our time.” Then three months later Bruce called her back and told her, ‘I don’t know what you think you got, but you’ve got yourself a show horse here.’”
The N2 Saddlery Award recognition couldn’t have come at a better time. “Saddles have always been a challenge for him. So thank you, N2, for your sponsorship and this lovely award.” Because, as Riehle lovingly notes, finding anything to fit her great big World Champion can be a challenge, “Do you know how hard it is just to find a 90” blanket? Ninety inches – I’m not kidding!”
Contact: Sue Newell
www.n2saddlery.com
sue@n2saddlery.com
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Pee-Yew! Something sure smells rottenly ripe around the banking industry...
To piggyback on the previous article, let’s review how the securitization process IGNORED risk and thus created over leverage… The Seattle Times just wrote a piece about Wa Mu and how their practices destroyed risk assessment, ultimately leading to their demise:
Reckless strategies doomed WaMu
Execs say WaMu fell victim to the economy & employment; but WaMu caused its demise by embracing risky loans and dismantling safeguards
By Drew DeSilver
On Sept. 10, 2007, Washington Mutual CEO Kerry Killinger stood before an audience of analysts and money managers and assured them the Seattle-based thrift would come out of the housing slump stronger than ever.
WaMu, Killinger told the Lehman Brothers conference, had tightened its lending standards, could access plenty of cash, and was "picking and choosing carefully" when it came to making new loans.
"This frankly may be one of the best times I have ever seen for taking on new loans into our portfolio," he said.
But even as he spoke, WaMu was a dead bank walking. The company had plunged headlong into the business of making exotic, high-risk home loans, selling many of them to investors but holding onto others; now defaults on those loans were rising, and big investors had lost their taste for them.
Almost a year to the day after the Lehman conference, Killinger was fired. Two and a half weeks after that, federal regulators seized WaMu's banking units, effectively euthanizing a 119-year-old institution that had survived the Great Depression and the S&L crisis.
After its collapse, Killinger and other leading WaMu executives repeatedly deflected responsibility, saying the company fell victim to a housing slump turned global credit crisis that they foresaw but couldn't outrun.
But interviews with former WaMu executives and employees, along with government and internal company documents, reveal a far different picture, one of executives charting a reckless course that doomed the bank:
• In its headlong pursuit of growth, WaMu systematically dismantled or weakened the internal controls meant to prevent the bank from taking on too much risk — the very standards and practices that had helped it grow in the first place.
• WaMu's riskiest loans raked in money from high fees, but because the bank skimped on making sure borrowers could repay them, they eventually failed at disastrously high rates. As loans went bad, they sucked massive amounts of cash that WaMu needed to stay in business.
• WaMu's subprime home loans failed at the highest rates in nation. Foreclosure rates for subprime loans made from 2005 to 2007 — the peak of the boom — were calamitous. In the 10 hardest-hit cities, more than a third of WaMu subprime loans went into foreclosure.
By the summer of 2004, nearly 60 percent of the loans WaMu was making were the riskiest sort — option ARMs, subprime mortgages and home-equity loans.
The demise of Wa Mu was easy to see coming. Mish, me, and others tracked their mortgage pools and watched as delinquencies soared. In fact, it was so easy to see coming that I stated well over a year before it happened that they would fail. They did, but we still have a not-so-little problem…
You see, they made a huge number of JUMBO Option-Arm loans that are just now hitting their reset periods and they do not peak until the middle of the year 2011. A very high percentage of loans are going bad. The questions I ask now are; where are they, who holds them, how many times were the same loans sold in differing tranches, and how much risk are the holders of this toxic waste exposed to?
Instead of letting Wa Mu go completely down the toilet, the government (remember the central banks are now the government) decided that JPMorgan would take over Wa Mu. Thus, all of Wa Mu’s “assets” (bad loans) are now owned by JPM, unless they have been able to dump them on hapless “investors” or the U.S. Taxpayer. I sincerely doubt that they have managed to get rid of the bulk of it, but regardless, those time bombs are sitting out in our financial system just ticking away, backed by homes worth a fraction of what they once were. JPM holds more than $80 TRILLION worth of derivatives. While I can’t see exactly what’s going on with the securitization process (who can?), what I can see is the swamp, and the swamp is beginning to smell worse and worse.
Those who think that the financial crisis is over are simply living with their noses buried in the sand. The large banks and the government are complicit in trying to hide the rotting smell. Their fraud and deception are going to be the end of both, just as Wa Mu’s recklessness was the end of them.
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NSU Oceanographic Center Directions for the Thesis Track Student
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Brook Beasley
1 NSU Oceanographic Center Directions for the Thesis Track Student This publication is designed to help students through the various stages of their Ph.D. degree. For full requirements, please consult the Oceanographic Center Catalog at 1. General and Credit-Hour Requirements Academic Requirements, Activities and Approvals Academic Timetable and Milestones Admission Within 12 months Within 24 months Within 9 years Committee Qualifying Proposal Presentation Progress Reports Comprehensive Examination Defense of Dissertation Revision of the Dissertation and Final Submission... 6 Appendix 1. Sample Cover... 8 Appendix 2. Sample Signature Page... 9 Appendix 3. Screen shot of application for degree
2 NSU Oceanographic Center Guidelines to the Ph.D. Student 1. General and Credit-Hour Requirements There are two informal divisions within the Ph.D. in Oceanography Program: marine biology and physical oceanography. The Ph.D. degree requires a minimum of 90 credits beyond the baccalaureate. At least 42 credits must consist of upper-level course work. At least 24 credits must consist of dissertation research. The student may not register for research credits (DIS) until after successfully defending the research proposal. After faculty acceptance of the research proposal the student must register for a minimum of 3 research credits per session until completion of the degree. The student is limited to a total of 9 credits of coursework per term. In rare circumstances the student may register to take more than 12 credits/term but this requires written permission from the Director of Academic Programs. Milestones towards the degree include: 1) submission of a successful application package, 2) a qualifying exam, 3) defense of planned research at a qualifying proposal presentation, 4) passing of a Ph.D. comprehensive examination, 5) a successful public and private defense presentation of the completed dissertation before the supervising committee. Students are expected to complete the Ph.D. program in nine years or less, a minimum of three years is required. 2. Academic Requirements, Activities and Approvals Applicants must have an M.S. degree in an appropriate discipline and satisfy the entry requirements listed in the Table in section of the Oceanographic Center catalog. The M.S. degree will normally be thesis-based. If an applicant has a capstone-based degree (involving a review paper rather than empirical research) their graduate transcript should show at least 6 credit hours of research experience (such as directed independent study credits relevant to research). Applicants who meet the requirements of the program should contact a prospective faculty project supervisor ahead of formally applying to the OC to secure agreement. The application package must contain a brief outline of the proposed research and a supporting statement from the prospective supervising professor attesting to her/his commitment and capability (expertise and funding) to mentor the applicant. Ph.D. students may transfer up to 30 graduate course credits from prior graduate programs in the same disciplines. Transferred courses must be either acceptable equivalents of courses offered at NSU or be clearly applicable to the field of interest. The Director of Academic Programs, the Major Professor, and the students' dissertation committee (if formed at entrance) will decide transfer acceptability. Formal course work minimum requirements should be taken within 21 months after admission to the program. 2
3 3. Academic Timetable and Milestones 3.1. Admission Apply to Ph.D. program. Secure a written agreement from a prospective Major Professor and submit with an overview of proposed research. This is a paragraph or so on the general topic of research not a full proposal. Students are not admitted without prior agreement on a research topic and a Major Professor. Furthermore, the Major Professor will need to state in writing that she/he has or will be able to acquire sufficient funds to cover the Ph.D. student s research expenses for the duration of the student s course of study at the Oceanographic Center. The OC will not be responsible for covering research expenses in the event of funding loss by the Major Professor. Submit application package containing letters of recommendation, statement of career goals, GRE scores, undergraduate and graduate transcripts, general research topic, and statement of support from prospective Major Professor (see Table in section of the catalog). This is the package that will go to faculty. Acceptance into the program is effectively provisional for all basically the accepted student is a precandidate until later defense of proposal and successful passing of Comprehensive Exams Within 12 months Assemble a supervising committee of at least 4 people (at least 3 OC faculty and 1 external member). One of the committee is the Major Professor. The external member(s) must have demonstrated expertise (by an appropriately strong publication record) in the dissertation research field. Prepare final program of studies with Major Professor and secure agreement with committee and Director of Academic Programs Within 6 months the student should also complete a qualifying exam before his/her committee to determine basic knowledge and deficits to be corrected by coursework. This test is used to tailor the student s curriculum. It is not graded, and does not determine candidacy. Compile a detailed research proposal (with Major Professor and committee) for presentation in an open defense. Defend the proposal by demonstrating knowledge about and a justification of the scientific value of the research topic at the Qualifying Proposal Presentation (3 to 12 months into the program). If the defense is failed, and the committee decides a retake is warranted, the student may retake the defense within 6 to12 months Within 24 months Typically complete course work within 21 months after entry Take comprehensive exams. These are normally taken within six months of completion of formal course work, but not prior to one and one-half years after admission. Admitted to candidacy and begin dissertation credits (48 credit hours required). Begin formal research on the approved research topic. Note: research may begin immediately on acceptance but not for credit 3
4 3.4. Within 9 years Complete research and write dissertation Defend dissertation Complete corrections suggested by committee Submit final dissertation 4. Committee The student s Ph.D. Committee consists of at least four members. Three of the committee members must be Center faculty and one must be from outside the Oceanographic Center. The external committee member must be a recognized expert in the student s field of research. The committee monitors all phases of the candidate s progress and must be formed prior to the candidate s oral defense of the proposed research. The Major Professor chairs the committee. In special circumstances it may be possible for the external committee member to be the Major Professor. In this case there must be at least four committee members from inside the Oceanographic Center and the external Professor must be eligible for Adjunct Professor status at the Oceanographic Center. 5. Qualifying Proposal Presentation Before research relevant to the Ph.D. can begin, a student must produce a detailed research proposal written under guidance of the Major Professor and members of the supervising committee. The dissertation proposal should consist of at least the following elements: title of the proposed dissertation statement of the problem and hypothesis to be tested statement of the significance of the work A list of scientific journals appropriate for publishing the proposed research A detailed description of the methodology. Literature should be cited where applicable with enough detail that the methodology can be understood without going to the literature. Proper experimental design is very important and will be subject to review and comment by the dissertation committee. Expected results of the research should be provided, and any required funding, facilities, and other equipment/resources should be listed. references/bibliography A pre-candidate student will defend the proposal in an oral presentation to faculty. A written version must be submitted at least one week beforehand and reside in the program office for inspection by the faculty if desired. At the oral presentation defense, a candidate will be expected to demonstrate sufficient knowledge about the proposed research project and to justify the chosen research topic. Presentation will be open to all OC students and NSU faculty and a closed session will follow with the student restricted to the committee and interested OC faculty. Neither the open or closed proposal defense is open to family or acquaintances of the precandidate student that are not professionally associated with the OC. If areas of deficiency are highlighted in the defense, a candidate will be notified and will have the opportunity to modify the proposal. The committee may require a second presentation. 4
5 The student should give the qualifying proposal presentation within 3 12 months after admission into the program. 6. Progress Reports Ph.D. students are required to submit a written progress report at the end of every session. This report will be approved by the Major Professor, sent to all committee members, and a copy filed in the Graduate Program Office. This filed copy must have signed approval from the major professor. It is the student s responsibility to insure that the reports are accomplished and filed in a timely manner. The report will include the following information: Students name and date A brief narrative synopsis of the work completed since the last report. For examples, details of experiments conducted and literature reviewed. Estimated progress towards completion of dissertation research Target date for dissertation completion A list of problems experienced (if any) Major professor s comments Major professors signature This form can be found at 7. Comprehensive Examination The written examination, taken within 3 months of completion of formal course work (typically within 24 months after admission to the program), is administered by the Major Professor and consists of questions submitted by each committee member. The examination takes a minimum of three days. The committee will discuss results of the examination and a decision will be reached. The student is informed of the results of the written examination within one week of completion. In almost all cases, the student will be required to take an oral examination within two weeks of this notification. The condition of an oral examination will be decided by the committee. The oral phase consists of questions focusing on topics that were identified as areas of concern in the written examination. The committee may waive the oral examination if performance on the written examination was exemplary. The oral examination is chaired by the Major Professor and must be at least two hours in length. After the examination, the student will be excused and the committee will determine the outcome. The decision of the committee must be unanimous. A student failing either part may retake the examination once, typically two to six months after the first attempt. Successful completion of the comprehensive examination signifies admission to candidacy and the student is allowed to begin registration for dissertation research credits. Non-successful completion of the comprehensive examination signifies the student is no longer admitted to the Ph.D. program. 8. Defense of Dissertation On completion of the dissertation to the Major Professor s satisfaction, a draft document is 5
6 formally submitted to the full committee members for their review. Upon agreement of the Major Professor and committee, the dissertation may be defended. The defendable dissertation draft must be well written, in the proper format, and judged by the committee as essentially 95% complete. The student should consult frequently with the committee during all phases of dissertation work for continuity and in order to avoid significant problems during the formal defense. On completion of the dissertation to the major professor s satisfaction, it is formally submitted to the other committee members. Once the committee is satisfied the defendable copy must be submitted to the program office for final acceptance. This includes an electronic copy and a cover sheet signed by all committee members. This can be found at under Student Forms at the Oceanographic Center s website at: Upon approval, the defendable draft will be made available to faculty interested in reviewing the work prior to the defense. All Ph.D. dissertation defenses must be scheduled at least three weeks in advance through the Graduate Program Office. Notice will be provided to the faculty. At least two weeks prior to a student s scheduled defense, a formal clean copy of the work in proper format must be submitted to, and reside in, the Program Office. For very long documents, this time period may be extended to provide faculty adequate time for reading and comments. This defendable copy must be essentially complete, including, for example, all relevant materials, appendices, figures, and data tables (where appropriate, figures and tables are to be incorporated into the text). The copy (or reproductions thereof) will be available for review to any interested faculty member. Incomplete works (those less than 95% complete) will not be acceptable for defense. If the defendable copy is not submitted in time, or changed in any fashion during the review period, the defense will be rescheduled accordingly. The defense consists of an approximately 50-minute oral presentation to the faculty, student body, and other interested persons. After the student addresses questions from the general audience, there will be a closed session of the committee with the student. The committee will question the candidate on the dissertation and related subjects. This session is closed and limited to the candidate, members of the committee, and interested faculty members. The committee then discusses results in closed session without the student and votes. The dissertation may be accepted, accepted with revision, or rejected. The student is notified of the results following the committee deliberations. The Oceanographic Center faculty has final approval of the dissertation. 9. Revision of the Dissertation and Final Submission The student shall be required to remain in full registration throughout the Ph.D. program, during defense, and during any required revisions of the dissertation. At least three signed copies of the successfully defended and completed dissertation (including revisions specified during the defense) must be submitted in printed form, on at least 20% cotton rag content paper, to the Oceanographic Center librarian. The cost of binding is the student s responsibility. An electronic copy must be submitted as well. 6
7 The Major Professor and committee are responsible for insuring that changes specified by the committee are incorporated in the final version. Once the final version has been accepted, registration requirements for the student are over. One bound copy will be placed in the library, one is for the student s major professor, and one is for the program office. The student may submit any number of additional personal copies to the librarian for binding or may have them bound elsewhere. 7
8 Appendix 1. Sample Cover NOVA SOUTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY OCEANOGRAPHIC CENTER TITLE By Name of Student Submitted to the Faculty of Nova Southeastern University Oceanographic Center in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctorate of Philosophy Nova Southeastern University Date 8
9 Appendix 2. Sample Signature Page Doctorate of Philosophy *Dissertation title* Dissertation of * NAME * Submitted in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Nova Southeastern University Oceanographic Center Month Year Approved: Dissertation Committee Major Professor : *** *********, Ph.D. Committee Member : *** ******, Ph.D. Committee Member : *** ******, Ph.D. Committee Member : **** ******, Ph.D. 9
10 Appendix 3. Screen shot of application for degree Degree/Diploma Application for: Your Name hererequired fields marked with an asterisk(*). Month/Year * in which you will complete your degree requirements: Degree Major:* Doctor of Philosophy (OS) Oceanography Minor: Concentration: 2nd Major: 2nd Minor: 2nd Concentration: Daytime Phone #:* (Include Area/International Code) In the space below, type your name EXACTLY as you want it to appear on your diploma.* (First, Middle, Last Name, Suffix) NOTE: If your name contains a special character (for example, é,ü, etc) this system will not accommodate the inclusion of them. As such, please send an to us indicating the special characters that should appear in your name in addition to completing this application. Please indicate the address where your diploma is to be mailed (NO P.O. Box) Address Line 1:* Address Line 2: City:* State:* (U.S.Addresses) Florida Province (Non U.S.addresses): Country: United States of America Zip/Postal Code:* Phone #: Please verify that all information is accurate and correct prior to clicking the "Submit Request" button. Submit Request Reset Form 10
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Interview With John Paul Kelly – Production Designer of Stephen Hawking Biopic ‘The Theory Of Everything’
25 Nov 2014 : Seán Brosnan
‘The Theory Of Everything’, the long-awaited Stephen Hawking biopic chronicling the life of the genius theoretical physicist and his battle with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is out in Irish cinemas in early 2015. The challenging job of moulding story and set seamlessly together to portray Hawking’s embattled cosmos fell to Irish production designer John Paul Kelly.
Already armed with an Emmy and a BAFTA for the 2003 TV movie ‘The Lost Prince’ and two IFTA nominations for ‘The Guard’ and ‘The Other Boleyn Girl’, 2015 may well see an Oscar nod too as the film has premiered with positive reviews and a lot of buzz. Here, IFTN catches up with John Paul Kelly to talk about the theory of being a production designer.
IFTN: Tell us about your work on ‘The Theory Of Everything’.
John Paul Kelly:The challenge with this film was its requirement to span three decades in storytelling. The film is set in the timeless world of Cambridge academia and the idea was to slowly introduce change to Stephen's world. This was done very gradually and in close collaboration with lighting, costumes, hair and makeup. We wanted Stephen's world to modernise, but as with real life, so gradually that it was almost unnoticeable. Not until the final scene of the film when the story rewinds do we realise the long journey we've travelled. As time passes Stephen's body shuts down and becomes smaller so in contrast we wanted to create a world that, like his mind, fame and achievements, was expanding around him. He starts his story in small wood panelled rooms in halls of residences and his world gradually grows until he inhabits huge auditoriums full of thousands of people. We even increased the size of wheelchairs gradually until the final chair is about 30% bigger than it should have been, allowing Eddie Redmayne to look smaller in the chair. Theory was a great experience with a fantastic team and great collaboration between departments.
What training/education did you receive to become a Production Designer?
I studied an architecture BA in Kingston University London followed by an MA in Design for Film at the Royal College of Art London.
What was your first job in the industry?
I designed low budget promos and television for a few years after college. My first Art Directing job on a film was ‘Last of the High Kings’ in Dublin, with the wonderful designer and mentor Frank Conway. The first feature film I designed was Carine Adler's ‘Under the Skin’.
What do you enjoy most about being a Production Designer? And what do you consider the greatest challenge?
Collaboration and collaboration! It is the best job in the world when a room full of creatives come together to create something beautiful. We are envied by artists everywhere who are limited to working alone. Collaboration is not always easy of course and dancing past egos becomes an essential skill of the job. The Production Designer is of course the head of a large team and getting this team to work well together is key to the role. Everybody has something to give and needs to feel like they are responsible in their own ways for the finished result and hopefully even had fun along the way. Fun is the key to a happy art department. I trained as an architect and changed discipline when I realised that set design was architecture without all the boring pipes, insulation and building regulations. There was no going back! I remember being in the National Gallery and seeing Patrick Lavery's The Artist's Studio. It was then I realised that what attracted me to the room in the painting wasn't just the architecture. It was everything; the costumes, the lighting, the composition. That was the moment when I realised that I wanted to make films.
Describe your typical working day and the equipment you use.
An early start is the best way to get a bit of space to design. I know this sounds odd as the role is as a designer but the day can fill very quickly with everything else except sitting at a drawing board or sketching ideas. These other jobs might include recces and meetings. So many meetings..... Director, DP, Production, Locations, FX VSX, Accountants. The lists go on and on!
What Production Designer has influenced you?
I really like Stuart Craig's (three-time Oscar winning PD of all the Harry Potter films) work as a production designer. He never forgets that storytelling is the key to good design. There are moments when the sets need to sit quietly in the background and there are moments when they need to come singing and dancing to the front. Judging this well is what makes a film design work well for me and ultimately what contributes to the making of a good film.
What Irish film or TV show would you have loved to have worked on?
‘The Quiet Man’ because I used to dream of it as a child, complete with thatched cottages and half doors!
What films and TV shows did you enjoy growing up that may have encouraged you to work in the industry?
Growing up in the 70’s in Ireland meant a healthy dose of ‘Wanderly Wagon’. Not the finest of VFX jobs I admit but it was enough to get me thinking of design! I enjoyed Hollywood musicals as a child (probably because they were always on the telly) and I loved the sets so much. I liked that they looked like sets, probably because it made the job of film design real in a funny kind of way. Give me subtle design nowadays any day!
What’s the difference between working on an Irish production and working on an international production for you?
None. Irish art departments and crews are amongst the best trained and professional in the world.
What advice would you give to anyone wishing to get into Production Design?
Draw like crazy, get a portfolio, watch films, watch more films. You'll be told it's a hopelessly competitive world and it is but persistence pays. If you're good and you want it enough just keep at it and keep knocking on doors. They will open. Once inside, be a jack of all trades and don't be grand. The best way of learning is by looking. Oh and don't forget to smile.
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Two more members receive letters from their MPs about the Trade Bill Amendment
April 11, 2018 by john
I wrote to my MP, Kate Green (Lab, Stretford & Urmston) expressing concern about the Trade Bill going through Parliament; namely the lack of accountability to Parliament in this Bill and any future trade deals following Brexit. So-called ‘Henry VIII’ powers would be used by government ministers to rush through trade agreements and alterations to EU laws without parliamentary debate and scrutiny.
Ms Green assured me that she herself was a sponsor of an amendment (NC3) aimed to ensure this did not happen.
She goes as far as to say that MPs should have access to the negotiating texts of international trade agreements as they are formulated. And that all documents relating to trade negotiations should be listed on the parliamentary website, as they are in other European parliaments.
I find this very encouraging, and am certain that my MP is strong advocate of the very position taken on these matters by GMTAN.
Brian Hepworth
Afzal Khan (Labour, Gorton) however, despite having been lobbied in Parliament and given us a photos at the Trade Bill Takedown had to be chivied to reply to a request to co-sponsor the amendment.
He responded:
“…This is something that we have been pressing on the Government since the bill received its second reading in parliament on the 9th of January.
I am pleased that New Clause 3 has been tabled now prior to Report Stage of the Bill and replicated many of the amendments that and my Labour colleagues tabled at the committee stage. If it is one of the amendments selected at Report Stage by the Speaker then I will be supporting it.
I was disappointed that the Government’s Trade Bill did not include such measures when it was introduced to the House of Commons, and that is why I opposed it at Second Reading. I was further disappointed that at Committee Stage the Government voted down Opposition amendments that would have precisely ensured proper oversight by Parliament. As a front bench spokesperson I am unable to sign Early Day Motions. However, I will continue to press for proper transparency and scrutiny of trade deals both in the Trade Bill and when the Government sets out its policy on future trade deals thereafter. …”
Stephen Pennells, GJ Manc.
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Characterization of breast lesions with CE-MR multimodal morphological and kinetic analysis: Comparison with conventional mammography and high-resolution ultrasound
Vassiou, K.; Kanavou, T.; Vlychou, M.; Poultsidi, A.; Athanasiou, E.; Arvanitis, D. L.; Fezoulidis, I. V.
10.1016/j.ejrad.2008.01.012
Radiology, Nuclear Medicine & Medical Imaging
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Objective: Evaluation of the diagnostic value of magnetic resonance mammography and comparison with conventional mammography and ultrasonography in cases of women with suspicious breast lesions. Subjects and methods: Sixty-nine women (age range 39-68 years) with 78 focal breast lesions were examined with mammography, ultrasonography and dynamic magnetic resonance mammography. The lesions were classified according to the Breast Imaging Reporting and Data System (BIRADS) lexicon of the American College of Radiology for each diagnostic method. Histological reports were available after biopsy or surgical excision of the lesions. Results: Pathological examination confirmed that 53 lesions were malignant and 25 benign. Conventional mammography estimated a total of 59/78 lesions as malignant with 44 true positive lesions, ultrasonography estimated a total of 50/78 lesions as malignant with 44 true positive lesions and magnetic resonance mammography estimated a total of 66/78 lesions as malignant with 52 true positive lesions. Sensitivity and specificity of magnetic resonance mammography in the diagnosis of malignancy was 98.1% and 44%, of conventional mammography 83% and 40% and of ultrasonography 83% and 76%. Negative predictive value for magnetic resonance mammography was 91.7%, for ultrasonography 67.9% and for mammography 52.6% for malignancies. Conclusion: Magnetic resonance mammography has the highest negative predictive value compared with mammography and ultrasound in cases of suspicious breast lesions. The combination of morphologic and enhancement criteria can improve the diagnostic capability of magnetic resonance mammography (MRM) in breast lesion characterization. (C) 2008 Elsevier Ireland Ltd. All rights reserved.
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Kygo, Alison Wonderland, Tiësto, and more have paid tribute to Avicii
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The Greenfield Community Association (GCA) was approached by a group of residents from the Four Mile Run section of the neighborhood regarding a comprehensive door-to-door survey of Four Mile Run residents. Residents have expressed strong concerns about years of flooding, a situation that has yet to be mitigated to any effective degree.
Four Mile Run residents expressed the need to have a sufficient, credible voice as investments in an around their neighborhood begin to be examined and discussed.
The Greenfield Community Association requested that JCP provide professional consulting capacity to design a Community Census Project that allowed the residents the Four Mile Run Community to voice the neighborhood's aspirations, issues, concerns and needs at a household level. The GCA strongly supports the need for detailed input from Four Mile residents to identify household concerns and needs. The Community Census promoted broad resident participation gathering a range of critical data, developed and populated a dataset of outcomes and provided a summary report of the project work and data outcomes.
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412 Food Rescue is a unique Pittsburgh-based organization that uses social media, technology, and over 800 volunteers to address food insecurity in and around Allegheny County by collecting fresh perishable food from 160 food retailers and re-distributing it through 125 (and growing) agency partners who then redistribute it to individuals, families, and children.
412 Food Rescue had been relying on mostly anecdotal information about how the organization impacts end users, and needed assistance in creating a data collection initiative to better understand impacts of the work.
412 Food Rescue needed assistance in defining, planning, and facilitating a symposium with key agency partners, as well as in processing and summarizing the event outcomes in a format that can be shared with participants and potential funders to identify and frame the critical next stages of the work.
Because food recovery on this scale is a relatively new way to address connections between hunger, sustainability, and the environment, there are very limited best practices from which to draw. 412 Food Rescue is seeking to host a national conference in Pittsburgh to begin to share their own best practices, and open up this sector for greater participation and coordination with a variety of stakeholders.
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The Hazelwood Community Census
The neighborhoods of Greater Hazelwood have become among Pittsburgh’s poorest and most blighted communities. Working with community-based partners, The Heinz Endowments is developing place-based and people-based strategies to transform the community and chose Jackson/Clark to conduct a community-wide census as the cornerstone of their long-term investment.
JCP hired and trained 8 Hazelwood residents to execute a door-to-door outreach initiative that built community participation and buy-in while providing Heinz and its nonprofit partners with the household-based information necessary for comprehensive community planning.
Regional leaders and funders recently committed to redeveloping Hazelwood’s riverfront ALMONO site, the city’s largest brownfield, an ambitious initiative that will potentially attract tens of millions of dollars in investment. The Heinz Endowments has committed to aligning that regional opportunity with a transformation plan for the Hazelwood community and sought to develop information-based strategies for place-based / people-based investment in the neighborhood.
The Hazelwood Community Census team implemented an outreach campaign that captured critical data from over 35% of the 2,100 households in Greater Hazelwood. JCP worked with partners to design campaign identity, materials and outreach that ensured that Hazelwood embraced the theme “We’re Building a Greater Hazelwood” as something more than just a logo on sweatshirts – by the end of the 5 month campaign, it had become a shared community commitment to positive change.
Setting a renewed focus for Pittsburgh’s lead community development organization.
The board of Pittsburgh’s established community development funding intermediary, the Pittsburgh Partnership for Neighborhood Development, sought a consulting team that could revitalize the organization to best meet the changing, 21st Century demands of the city’s neighborhood development sector. They chose Jackson/Clark Partners, which teamed with Fourth Economy Consulting, to repostition the organization to better meet the needs of the communities it serves and for innovation in community investment on a regional scale.
Jackson/Clark Partners, teamed with Fourth Economy Consulting to redefine and reposition the Pittsburgh Partnership for Neighborhood Development into a revitalized organization that best meets the changing, 21st Century demands of the city’s neighborhood development sector.
JCP provided experienced, community-level expertise and a proven planning process that would ensure that executive level decisions by the board were grounded in the realities of their neighborhood partners. Jackson/Clark engage in dozens of hours of one-on-one interviews with leaders in both the community development and nonprofit service sectors. The process identified a clear set of assets, challenges, goals and opportunities that reflected the realities of Pittsburgh’s evolving community development sector. The result was a dramatically transformed strategic vision and plan for the organization that better supported community needs into the next decade, set a clear course to build the capacity necessary to provide that support, and established a core commitment to make Pittsburgh the most livable city for all its residents. Jackson/Clark defined a new brand for the organization – Neighborhood Allies – that reflected this new direction for supporting those neighborhoods of promise most in need of transformative reinvestment.
A community-wide plan to support the youth of Warren, OH
Jackson/Clark worked with project collaborative of partners from the school system, youth service providers, the Mayor’s office, neighborhood leaders and the Wean Foundation to undertake a comprehensive assessment of assets and needs of Warren’s support network for young people.
Warren, OH has struggled for years as a smaller, post-industrial city. Once the home of a city-wide model of excellence for recreation and out-of-school support, the community of Warren faced continuing challenges to provide sufficient support for its next generation of citizens.
Jackson/Clark worked with partners from local youth based non-profits, the school system, youth service providers, the Mayor’s office, neighborhood leaders and the Wean Foundation to undertake a comprehensive assessment of assets and needs of Warren’s support network for young people. JCP led participatory, community-driven outreach that allowed for development of an informed plan and also ensured community ownership in its implementation. Project partners worked with JCP to design the “We Are Warren” initiative, creating volunteer survey teams of students, parents, educators and citizens that enlisted over 600 survey participants.
An additional assessment of service provider resources and needs helped better align existing under-utilized resources with community issues. The result of this collaborative, information-based and community-driven approach is a plan that helps build more effective partnerships to pursue a clear set of core goals and opportunities to better serve Warren’s next generations.
The Larimer Community Census
Jackson/Clark developed a comprehensive, community-driven neighborhood census in support of Larimer’s Choice Neighborhoods Implementation Grant and helped Larimer become one of six finalists nation-wide to receive a $30 million grant from HUD .
Jackson/Clark developed a comprehensive, community-driven neighborhood census in support of Larimer’s Choice Neighborhoods Implementation Grant for HUD. The Larimer Census employed neighborhood residents to gather critical data on neighborhood needs, assets, issues and goals, while also developing community capacity, increasing civic participation and developing local leadership.
Working in one of Pittsburgh’s most neglected and economically depressed neighborhoods, Jackson/Clark developed a community plan that was embraced by the Larimer community, moved immediately into implementation through five community-driven Action Teams, and produced visible community change that exceeded all expectations.
JCP worked with the community to create an easily recognizable and highly visible brand that promoted broad participation – “We’re All In," reflecting the team's deeply held commitment to engage and involve the entire community. That commitment began with engaging residents and neighborhood leaders in planning and developing the survey, and continued with hiring and training residents on surveying their neighbors, voter file walk lists, and iPad technology. The result was an extensive data set of household level information that supported the HUD application, engaged over 40% of resident households, and now allows community partners the ability to match much needed resources – such as health insurance access – to neighborhood needs at the household level.
The Larimer Community Plan provided the foundation for new investment into a community that had struggled for four decades to move forward. JCP designed and facilitated all community participation efforts in Larimer as part of the Choice Neighborhoods Implementation Grant application for the US Department of Housing and Urban Development that attracted $30 million for a comprehensive community transformation initiative. The community participation process and outcomes are the focus of HUD’s first nationally distributed Choice Neighborhood’s Promising Practices Guide.
Grow Pittsburgh's First Strategic Plan
In 2012, Jackson/Clark helped staff and Board to develop their first-ever strategic plan, positioning Grow Pittsburgh as the go-to organization for growing food in our city.
For years, the team at Grow Pittsburgh worked to become experts in growing food in urban settings. Through community gardens on vacant lots, teaching inner city kids how to grow their own food in schoolyard gardens to developing a production farm on a former mill site in Braddock, Grow Pittsburgh developed a deep understanding of the issues regarding urban agriculture.
In 2012, Jackson/Clark helped staff and Board to develop their first-ever strategic plan, positioning Grow Pittsburgh as the go-to organization for growing food in our city. The new plan allowed the team to leverage their years of experience and refocus their mission: from growing food themselves, to making it easier for all people to grow food in our city. Results included more coordinated programming and a less ED-centric organizational structure, where key staff now hold leadership positions in-line with their core areas of knowledge and expertise. Based on outcomes of the plan, Jackson/Clark continued work with Grow Pittsburgh and community constituents to develop Pittsburgh’s first-ever Urban Agriculture policy priorities that will be used to advocate and effect change with the City’s new administration.
Developing Policy Priorities for Urban Agriculture in Pittsburgh
Jackson/Clark worked with the team at Grow Pittsburgh to plan and facilitate an Urban Agriculture Symposium designed to be the beginning of a large-scale effort to make it easier to grow food in our City and processed outcomes of the symposium into a set of policy priorities that were shared with the City.
As a key goal in their strategic plan (facilitated by Jackson/Clark), Grow Pittsburgh worked with Jackson/Clark to develop and lead a Symposium on Urban Agriculture. The effort was designed to be the beginning of a large-scale effort to make it easier to grow food in our city and positioned Grow Pittsburgh as a lead convener and go-to organization.
The Symposium brought together practitioners and policy makers to review pertinent issues in urban agriculture, share information about the state of urban agriculture in Pittsburgh, and to begin to develop a shared set of policy priorities. Jackson/Clark helped Grow Pittsburgh define the right content and message for the Symposium, developed the format and all Symposium materials, and facilitated highly interactive sessions that allowed all 100+ attendees an opportunity to participate and make their voices heard.
Jackson/Clark helped Grow Pittsburgh process outcomes of the Symposium into a set of Policy Priorities that were shared with the Mayor’s office and City officials and will be used to make it easier to grow food in Pittsburgh.
Jackson/Clark Partners worked with The Buhl Foundation to develop a comprehensive community-wide, resident-driven plan for sustainable investment in the city’s 18 Northside neighborhoods. Since January of 2014, JCP has been working closely with Buhl to better understand Northside community assets, opportunities, and areas of need. JCP guided the development of the framework for Buhl’s investment based on the community’s shared vision and values.
JCP’s work in the Northside has included: the development and management of a comprehensive community census; the facilitation of community partner sessions with over 250 in attendance at each; the planning, facilitation, and documentation of 12 individual Strategy Team meetings with an average attendance of 25-30 participants each; and the development and launch of a highly visible branding, communications, and documentation package that includes a web site, marketing materials (posters, tote bags, t-shirts, and signage) that has been distributed throughout the community.Jackson/Clark is currently working with Buhl to mobilize resdients and community partners to implement the One Northside plan and to establish an on-going community participation network via the One Northside Community Corps, teams of hired and trained Northisde residents who provide citical connections between Northsiders and community resources.
Developing a framework & outreach strategy for Pittsburgh's first urban forest master plan
We helped Tree Pittsburgh develop Pittsburgh’s first-ever urban forest master plan. During the planning initiative, we created the most effective public engagement effort ever undertaken for an urban forest master plan, engaging thousands of Pittsburghers to share their tree-story and give input on urban forest policy.
We created a project framework and case study for Tree Pittsburgh and over a dozen partner organizations, conducted best-practice benchmarking and then created a public engagement and input campaign for the development of Pittsburgh’s first-ever urban forest master plan.
How to get people to share their thoughts and opinions about trees in ways that could get beyond planning as usual.
Made it accessible and fun for the community while collecting significant data to drive the initiative. We developed a project framework that was actively supported by the range of partner organizations, and created a public engagement campaign that met people in their communities to produce a highly visible initiative that nearly doubled targeted levels of public input.
Community Planning for New Castle, PA
After decades of endemic decline, crime, and corruption, a core group of civic leaders in New Castle decided they would undertake a bold, new approach to meeting the problems of this struggling third-tier Pennsylvania city.
Led by Dave Copper, the head of Lawrence County youth service provider Cray Youth & Family Services, a group of over a dozen business, nonprofit and elected leaders committed to a collaborative approach that set as its goal the transformation of New Castle. They established New Visions for Lawrence County with the idea of actively engaging the range of the County’s civic resources in this commitment to rebuilding the community and ensuring that community participation would be the cornerstone of their initiative. New Visions and Jackson/Clark undertook a process of community engagement to inform their work and establish a long-term direction for the organization.
Larimer Community Building
Larimer maintained a reputation as one of Pittsburgh’s most persistently challenged and stuck communities for almost two generations prior to Jackson/Clark Partners work for the Urban Redevelopment Authority of Pittsburgh in 2007.
We worked with community leaders, residents and business owners to guide the development of a community plan that established a shared vision for progress, built volunteer Action Teams to begin implementing priority projects, and the Larimer Consensus Group (LCG) charged with guiding the implementation of the updated Larimer Community Plan. The Larimer Community Plan provided the foundation for over $12 million in new investment into a community that had struggled for four decades to move forward in attracting any resources. JCP is currently working in Larimer to develop a Choice Neighborhoods Implementation Grant application for the US Department of Housing and Urban Development with the goal of attracting up to $30 million for a comprehensive community transformation initiative.
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Judo Grand-Prix Tbilisi 2017: Day - 1 ~ Final Block
Author: Nicolas Messner
Tbilisi, in the collective imagination of the judoka of the whole world, has a place apart. For years, the Tbilisi Tournament, well before it became a Grand Prix of the World Judo Tour, was already considered one of the most prestigious events on the planet. One had to dare to come to Georgia in the days of the Soviet Union, and one had to be even more courageous to face the high volume of fighters coming from the east.
Vladimir Barta (IJF Head Sport Director), Daniel Lascau and Armen Bagdasarov (IJF Sport Directors) remember with emotion their passage on the tatami of the Georgian capital. Daniel Lascau, who became World Champion in 1991 in Barcelona, visited the country in his youth and recalled: "I was only 17 or 18 when I first came to Georgia. I was too young and too tender, but it was an extraordinary experience to enter a stadium, with 10,000 spectators screaming from the first contests. I learned a lot.“
Judo Grand-Prix Tbilisi 2017: Day 1 ~ PRELIMS
For Vladimir Barta, Tbilisi is afforded a special place in his heart: "I finished 7th here. The tournament was terrifying. When I returned to my country, I was received as if I had almost won a medal. That tells you how difficult it was to get out of the preliminary rounds.
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“There were no less than 10 Soviet Union athletes in each category and beating a Georgian was literally a feat of achievement.
“But I must say that the Georgian public is extraordinary. They are passionate about sports and judo in particular. So yes, for the local athletes, to play in front of their public, was a definite advantage, but that did not prevent the fairplay and the respect for all the athletes.
Armen Bagdasarov, an Uzbekistan silver medallist at the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta, also fought several times on the banks of the Koura River: "I have come here many times with the national junior then senior team of the Soviet Union. It was really difficult. There was a real friendly competition among us all but we wanted to be the ones on the podium. With the Tournoi de Paris and the World Championships, it was really the tournament where everyone wanted to reach the places of honour and winning was a historic achievement."
Of all the testimonies that it is possible to glean around the tatami of the Grand Prix of Tbilisi, there is a common aspect: The Prestige. Participating in the Tournament and furthermore winning a medal added an important line on one’s prize list.
The prestige has not disappeared, quite the contrary. The tournament, that became a Grand Prix of the World Judo Tour four years ago, has been internationalised. It has been equally opened to women and now enjoys media coverage that extends beyond Georgia and the entire region. In the morning, the atmosphere is at the rendezvous. If the Georgian athletes still have the advantage of the public, the beautiful judo is privileged by the thousands of spectators and undoubtedly winning here in Tbilisi still has a particular feeling, a prestigious sense of accomplishment.
Mr. David Kevkhishvili, President of Georgian Judo Federation, welcomed all the athletes, delegates and spectators: “Dear Minister of Sports, dear representatives of the International Judo community, I want to welcome you here in Georgia. We are happy and honoured to host this event for the fourth time and I want to thank the IJF President, Mr. Marius Vizer. Without the support of the Minister of Sports and of the IJF this wouldn’t be possible. I want to thank all our sponsors as well and all the judo friends in Georgia and in the world.“
Mr. Tariel Khechikashvili, Minister of Sports and Youth Affairs, said: “I’d to thank the IJF and its president for the confidence they put in us to organise such a prestigious event that helps for the popularisation of judo. I’d like to mention that Georgia is considered as a strong sports country in the region. We are organising several sports tournaments and this Grand Prix is the most important of all the events we are organising in Georgia. I’m always impressed to see that the superstars of judo are coming to our country and I’m very happy to welcome you all here. I wish you the best judo and thank you for coming here to support the sport and to make this event a success.“
Then Mr. Vladimir Barta, IJF Head Sport Director declared: “Dear Minister of Sports and Youth Affairs, Dear President of the Georgian Judo Federation, ladies and gentlemen. It is my great pleasure and honour to welcome you all here in Georgia for the fourth edition of the Tbilisi Grand Prix. Georgia is a big country of judo and your athletes have achieved amazing results over the past years throughout the IJF World Judo Tour events, at the World Championships and at the Olympic Games. During the weekend, 251 of the best athletes of the moment from 36 delegations are gathered together in the beautiful city of Tbilisi. I want in the name of our President, Mr. Marius Vizer, to wish you all the best and good luck and I declare the 2017 Tbilisi Grand Prix open.”
-48kg: KOYAMA DOUBLES UP IN TBILISI
After her brilliant and first victory at the Baku Grand Slam, a few weeks ago, Stefannie Arissa KOYAMA (BRA) again qualified for the final of the day and was opposed to Maryna CHERNIAK (UKR). The 21-year-old Brazilian still lives in her native Japan and reached her second final in a row on the occasion of an IJF World Judo Tour event, which is an achievement as a relative newcomer to the international stage.
After a 5th place in Düsseldorf and a 7th place in Baku, Maryna CHERNIAK, confirmed that she starts to have consistent results at the international level by reaching the final.
The first good opportunity for KOYAMA to win again, came with an opportunist combination from standing position to groundwork, that the Brazilian exploited to take down her opponent, but only for a handful of seconds, not enough to score. The rest of the match was dominated by a fight for the end of the sleeves offering no opportunities for strong attacks but finally KOYAMA engaged a reverse sided tsuri-komi-goshi, which even if it was in slow motion, scored a waza-ari for a second amazing victory in a row for the pocket-sized Brazilian.
Stefannie Arissa KOYAMA (BRA) defeated Taciana CESAR (GBS) in the semi-final while Maryna CHERNIAK took the advantage over the Portuguese, Maria SIDEROT.
The first bronze medal contest saw Melanie CLEMENT (FRA) and Maria SIDEROT (POR) opposed for a place on the podium. The first effort to score was produced by SIDEROT, with a makikomi technique (sacrifice of her own balance) but for no score. But boosted by that first attack, the Portuguese continued to put pressure on her opponent, the French being penalised two times for passivity. The next penalty would have resulted in disqualification for CLEMENT, but the weak attempt of tani-otoshi of SIDEROT, gave a clear opportunity to CLEMENT to conclude with an uchi-mata for ippon and the bronze medal. There was one minute left on the clock.
In the second bronze medal contest, Mariia PERSIDSKAIA (RUS) faced Taciana CESAR (GBS). After one minute, PERSIDSKAIA was penalised with a first shido for passivity, the long silhouette of CESAR apparently being difficult to deal with. But less than a minute later, the Russian engaged a powerful drop-seoi-nage technique to score a first waza-ari. A second shido was awarded to PERSIDSKAIA in the last minute but some tactical groundwork offered her some more seconds to finally hear the gong, which gave her the bronze medal.
KOYAMA, Stefannie Arissa (BRA) vs. CHERNIAK, Maryna (UKR)
Bronze Medal Fights
CLEMENT, Melanie (FRA) vs. SIDEROT, Maria (POR)
PERSIDSKAIA, Mariia (RUS) vs. CESAR, Taciana (GBS)
1. KOYAMA, Stefannie Arissa (BRA)
2. CHERNIAK, Maryna (UKR)
3. CLEMENT, Mélanie (FRA)
3. PERSIDSKAIA, Mariia (RUS)
5. CESAR, Taciana (GBS)
5. SIDEROT, Maria (POR)
7. DIOGO, Joana (POR)
7. MOSDIER, Anais (FRA)
-52kg: BUCHARD’s COMEBACK COMPLETE
The final of the day opposed the silver medallist of the 2013 World Championships, Erika MIRANDA (BRA) who had a tough match against Charline VAN SNICK (BEL), the 2012 Olympic Bronze medallist, even though VAN SNICK achieved her Olympic dream in the lower category as she just moved up to the upper weight division.
In the final itself MIRANDA was opposed to the best French hope for the future, Amandine BUCHARD. The French was the best chance of medal for her delegation in Rio in -48kg but facing weight management problems, the 21-year-old, did not go tot Rio. Being now in the -52kg category, she showed that she will be one of the main contenders in the coming years. But still the way is long until Tokyo 2020. In her semi-final, BUCHARD eliminated second seed athlete of the day, PUPP Reka (HUN).
During the first two minutes, MIRANDA and BUCHARD seemed to study one another, the French trying to wrap up her opponent into a large makikomi movement, while the Brazilian tried to take advantage of several situations on the floor. But when they entered the final minutes, they only had one shido each, not enough to win the match. With 30 seconds left, the final seemed to go straight to golden score, when BUCHARD launched her version of kata-guruma for waza-ari, signing a beautiful comeback at the top level.
The first bronze medal contest opposed Joana RAMOS (POR) and PUPP Reka (HUN). Halfway from the end, RAMOS scored the first positive advantage with a rolling makikomi for waza-ari, which was doubled up a few seconds later with the left handed same technique. The Portuguese, who has been on the circuit already for many years, finally concluded with an immobilisation for waza-ari. Her last presence on the podium of a World Judo Tour event was almost two years ago, when RAMOS won the Tyumen Grand Slam 2015.
In the second bronze medal contest Darya SKRYPNIK (BLR) faced Charline VAN SNICK (BEL). After a powerful groundwork session, SKRYPNIK caught VAN SNICK in sankaku-jime and osaekomi but for no score as the Belgian escaped in time. Then the four minutes of the regular time did not give the opportunity to both athletes to score anything. In the meantime they were penalised with one shido each. It is in the golden score that SKRYPNIK finally launched a left handed drop-seoi-nage for a well-deserved waza-ari and a bronze medal.
MIRANDA, Erika (BRA) vs. BUCHARD, Amandine (FRA)
RAMOS, Joana (POR) vs. PUPP, Reka (HUN)
SKRYPNIK, Darya (BLR) vs. VAN SNICK, Charline (BEL)
1. BUCHARD, Amandine (FRA)
2. MIRANDA, Erika (BRA)
3. RAMOS, Joana (POR)
3. SKRYPNIK, Darya (BLR)
5. PUPP, Reka (HUN)
5. VAN SNICK, Charline (BEL)
7. EDWARDS, Kelly (GBR)
7. GILES, Chelsie (GBR)
-57kg: SILVA GRIMACES, ZABLUDINA SMILES
After a disappointing 5th place for her at the Paris Grand Slam, earlier this year, the current Olympic champion from Brazil, Rafaela SILVA, entered again a final in her impressive career. In the final she was opposed to Irina ZABLUDINA (RUS), who so far didn’t succeed in reaching a podium in 2017.
The Brazilian defeated Natalia GOLOMIDOVA (RUS) to reach the final while Irina ZABLUDINA stopped Margriet BERGSTRA (NED) to meet with her illustrious contender.
After one minute and a half, SILVA launched her trademark flying juji-gatame (armlock) but could not conclude the eye-catching technique. Looking confident and strong, the Olympic champion apppeared to be untouchable but it was the Russian who finally took the opportunity to conclude on the floor with an impressive piece of groundwork: juji-gatame for ippon.
The first bronze medal contest opposed Khulan TSEREGBAATAR (MGL) and Margriet BERGSTRA (NED). After two minutes of hard combat for the grip, the Dutch scored a waza-ari with an aerial uchi-mata that she could keep alive until the end of the match to step on the podium and win a very first medal on the occasion of a World Judo Tour event.
For the second place on the podium, Ivelina ILIEVA (BUL) was opposed to Natalia GOLOMIDOVA (RUS). GOLOMIDOVA scored the first waza-ari with an opportunist ko-soto-gake technique. Then it was the turn of ILIEVA to score a waza-ari as she invited her opponent for a little ‘dance’ that ended with GOLOMIDOVA rolling on her back, but not flat enough for ippon. It was time to enter the golden score. It was ultimately GOLOMIDOVA who scored with koshi-guruma for waza-ari.
SILVA, Rafaela (BRA) vs. ZABLUDINA, Irina (RUS)
TSEREGBAATAR, Khulan (MGL) vs. BERGSTRA, Margriet (NED)
ILIEVA, Ivelina (BUL) vs. GOLOMIDOVA, Natalia (RUS)
1. ZABLUDINA, Irina (RUS)
2. SILVA, Rafaela (BRA)
3. BERGSTRA, Margriet (NED)
3. GOLOMIDOVA, Natalia (RUS)
5. ILIEVA, Ivelina (BUL)
5. TSEREGBAATAR, Khulan (MGL)
7. JANASHVILI, Mariam (GEO)
7. KAJZER, Kaja (SLO)
-60kg: GOLDEN CHKHVIMIANI ON HOME SOIL
Top seeded athlete and home judoka Amiran PAPINASHVILI (GEO) was expected to be in the final by the whole public of the New Sports Arena and he did not disappoint his fans as the -60kg Georgian qualified for the last fight of the category with a win over Albert OGUZOV (RUS). The final produced a 100% Georgian show as the second athlete qualified was Lukhumi CHKHVIMIANI, also from the host country. CHKHVIMIANI took the lead against Mukhriddin TILOVOV (UZB) to face his teammate and already two-time Grand Slam winner, PAPINASHVILI.
After less than a minute in the final, CHKHVIMIANI was penalised with a first shido for passivity. But CHKHVIMIANI scored the first in what looked like a weak attack, but on the edge of the competition area PAPINASHVILI, released his pressure and had no other choice than to follow his teammate for waza-ari. Being obliged to take risks in order to win, a few seconds before the end, PAPINASHVILI was counterattacked for a second waza-ari and a surprising win.
The first bronze medal contest featured Phelipe PELIM (BRA) and Mukhriddin TILOVOV (UZB) fighting for a place on the podium. The first four minutes of regular time were not enough to differentiate the two athletes who entered the golden score with a shido each. Almost two more minutes later, the score was still the same and both PELIM and TILOVOV seemed incapable of finding a slight opportunity to finally score. But after 1 minutes and 55 seconds, the Brazilian went under the centre of gravity of his opponent with a super yoko-tomoe-nage for a winning waza-ari. PELIM won his third medal in a Grand Prix here in Tbilisi.
In the second bronze medal match was a Russian story as Islam YASHUEV (RUS) was opposed to OGUZOV. The danger came after less than 20 seconds, from OGUZOV who launched a flying juji-gatame from which YASHUEV easily escaped. Half way to the end, OGOZOV was penalised with two shades for passivity though. Then it was YASHUEV’s turn to be penalised for a forbidden groundwork defence. After a last sequence where both athletes blocked their opponent to build positive judo, they were penalised one more time. With only two penalties on his side, YASHUEV won the contest to step on the podium.
PAPINASHVILI, Amiran (GEO) vs. CHKHVIMIANI, Lukhumi (GEO)
PELIM, Phelipe (BRA) vs. TILOVOV, Mukhriddin (UZB)
YASHUEV, Islam (RUS) vs. OGUZOV, Albert (RUS)
1. CHKHVIMIANI, Lukhumi (GEO)
2. PAPINASHVILI, Amiran (GEO)
3. PELIM, Phelipe (BRA)
3. YASHUEV, Islam (RUS)
5. OGUZOV, Albert (RUS)
5. TILOVOV, Mukhriddin (UZB)
7. JAGVARALDORJ, Amarbold (MGL)
7. SADIGOV, Mehman (AZE)
-66kg: GIUNASHVILI EXULTS
The last final of the men’s categories opposed the third Georgian athlete of the day to fight for gold as Lasha GIUNASHVILI (GEO) faced Tumurkhuleg DAVAADORJ (MGL) after having defeated Charles CHIBANA (BRA) in first the semi-final. On his side of the draw, DAVAADORJ eliminated Yakub SHAMILOV (RUS) to face the Georgian.
In the final, after 45 seconds, DAVAADORJ was penalised a first time for blocking his opponent, who was warmly supported by his home public. Both athletes engaged a battle of strong men, the Mongol looking a bit tougher than GIUNASHVILI, which was confirmed a little later, when the Georgian literally entered into a wall that countered his attack for waza-ari. With only a few seconds left on the clock, DAVAADORJ was controlling the end of the final but maybe a bit too much. Penalised two more times, the last a few seconds before the final gong, the Mongol could be angry at himself. With this unexpected victory, the public could exult like in the ‘good old times’.
Sergiu OLEINIC (POR) and Yakub SHAMILOV (RUS) were opposed in the first bronze medal contest. Halfway to the end, SHAMILOV possessed a strong lead with a waza-ari scored earlier during the match with a sumi-otoshi. Despite all his efforts to put pressure on SHAMILOV, OLEINIC couldn’t score and even if the Russian was penalised two times for passivity, his early waza-ari offered him the bronze medal.
Slovak Matej POLIAK faced Brazilian Charles CHIBANA (BRA) for the second spot on the lower step of the podium in this last men’s category for the day. If the Brazilian was seeking of the third victory on the occasion of the World Judo Tour event here in Tbilisi (2 Grand Slam gold in Tyumen 2014 - Moscow 2013), he had to concede the victory to GIUNASHVILI in the semi-final. Would his experience at that level be enough against POLIAK who so far had only a European cup medal to his prize list? The answer came quick as it took a little more one minute for the Brazilian to score a superb ippon with a koshi-waza technique that propelled POLIAK flat on his back.
GIUNASHVILI, Lasha (GEO) vs. DAVAADORJ, Tumurkhuleg (MGL)
OLEINIC, Sergiu (POR) vs. SHAMILOV, Yakub (RUS)
POLIAK, Matej (SVK) vs. CHIBANA, Charles (BRA)
1. GIUNASHVILI, Lasha (GEO)
2. DAVAADORJ, Tumurkhuleg (MGL)
3. CHIBANA, Charles (BRA)
3. SHAMILOV, Yakub (RUS)
5. OLEINIC, Sergiu (POR)
5. POLIAK, Matej (SVK)
7. DOVDON, Altansukh (MGL)
7. HAJIAGHALI, Orkhan (AZE)
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Michael Carr Dec 11, 2019
Good data, when harnessed, enables better decisions and can dramatically simplify project management. At the same time, collecting and accessing high-quality data has long been a challenge in the AEC industry.
Business leaders in construction are often required to make critical decisions based on limited supporting data. While this is sometimes unavoidable, new technologies aim to make this a thing of the past.
Here are five things business leaders can do to refine their project management strategies through the use of data.
1. Capture More Data
The more data, the better. Standardize business processes to minimize the use of customized, one-off solutions and spreadsheets. This will also produce standardized and well-structured data.
Moving from analog to digital will amplify these benefits. Analog data can’t easily be used in the digital world, and often lacks consistent structure, making it cumbersome to use even if someone takes the time to put it in a digital format. Look for systems that offer the benefits of analog in a digital format.
2. Ensure Data Quality
All the data in the world won’t help if it’s inaccurate. Ensure data quality through the following steps.
First, automate data collection wherever possible. New technologies like sensors, wearables, mobile devices and drones are vastly expanding the possibilities when it comes to data capture.
Second, get data straight from the source. Don’t collect it and make it someone’s job to enter it into a system. Not only does this make for a lot of unnecessary work, it also opens up the possibility of introducing transfer and interpretation errors and it reduces people’s level of concern in the accuracy of their data because they feel disconnected from it and less personally responsible.
Third, enable community validation if possible. The more people who see the data, the more likely errors are to be caught and fixed. This helps to flag errors and get them corrected.
Finally, incentivize accurate data reporting by making sure everyone derives benefits from it. Use the data to eliminate steps that teams would otherwise have to perform, or give them new insights that can inform their decisions.
3. Make Data Accessible
Good data isn’t very helpful if it’s all stored in different places. Making it accessible is key.
First, look at storing data in the cloud. This makes data readily accessible and provides commercial-grade server redundancy, data backups and security that are often lacking with private hosting.
Second, seek out software applications able to integrate and share data with other applications. Software integrations in construction are relatively new, so many applications are still developing them. But do make sure that it factors high on their development roadmap.
4. Invest in Data Visualization
Dashboards enable data visualization through different lenses. Without them, it’s difficult to make sense of data and draw any real conclusions from it.
Just like the dashboard in an airplane or a car, business dashboards need to present information that’s clear, concise and actionable. Here are eight things to look for in a dashboard:
Fresh, actionable data. Data latency should match or better the decision cycle.
Dynamic data that reflects the current state and shows how it’s changing.
Carefully selected metrics that reveal and magnify issues to focus on.
Comprehensive coverage without any blind spots.
Interactive filtering and drill-down capability to zero in on areas of interest and understand driving factors.
Intuitive presentation that conveys information at a glance.
Shareable information that the entire team can distribute and use when needed.
Timely alerts that can be set to prompt the team when the data shows something designated as important.
5. Develop a Data-Driven Culture
It’s important to instill an appetite for data in the organization so that people are encouraged to continually look for new sources of data and ways to apply it. A data-driven culture seeks out ways of using data to inform decisions, highlights good results, defines success metrics and starts measuring them to gauge performance.
When people directly benefit from providing accurate data, more care is taken to ensure that the data is good. With higher-quality data and more organizational emphasis on its value, a team will be able to make better, more informed decisions. As the team sees the benefits of the data they collect, they’ll become increasingly invested in its accuracy, analysis and ongoing development.
(This article first appeared in Construction Executive)
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On June 25, 2019, President of Karlova University, Mr. Tomáš Zima visited and worked with Hanoi University, joining the event, there was also the presence of Czech Ambassador to Vietnam, Mr. Screwězslav Grepl. President Nguyen Van Trao received Ambassador Screwězslav Grepl and Principal Tomáš Zima.
At the meeting, Assoc. Prof. Dr. Nguyen Van Trao warmly welcomed Ambassador Screwězslav Grepl and President Tomáš Zima to visit the University and introduced to Ambassador and President Tomáš Zima about Hanoi University, its training programme of the University, especially some new majors that were recently opened according to the needs and demands of the society, including Marketing, Multimedia Communication, which are taught in English, and Business Communication which is taught in French.
Principal Tomáš Zima also introduced some information about his Karlova University and said that Karlova is a multidisciplinary training university, with key disciplines such as biotechnology, information technology, social science, education, sports and philosophy sectors. In particular, Karlova also offers language courses of some Asian countries such as Chinese and Vietnamese. The Vietnamese community has a very large population in the Czech Republic, especially the 2nd generation living and studying here. Thus. the University of Karlova looks forward to the opportunity to cooperate with Hanoi University.
With the information that the two universities share, President Nguyen Van Trao proposed some forms of bilateral cooperation such as student, teacher exchange program, 2 + 2 training model under the sponsorship of Erasmus scholarships, etc.
In addition, Ambassador Screwězslav Grepl proposed that the two universities are able to implement the Czech language teaching program, supported by the Czech Embassy in Vietnam. According to the Ambassador, at present, Hanoi University is preparing to set the Polish language into teaching as a second language, thus, Vietnamese students can have the opportunity to study and work in the Czech Republic.
President Nguyen Van Trao welcomed the Ambassador’s proposal and said that Hanoi University is willing to collaborate to implement this programme. Accordingly, the two sides can appoint experts to work at Hanoi University, jointly develop training programs at different levels and teach pilots to consider its effectiveness before becoming an official training program.
Ambassador Screwězslav Grepl emphasized that with the population of 100,000 Vietnamese living in the Czech Republic, language and education will be a bridge to help many Vietnamese living in the Czech Republic understand their tradition. as well as help Czech students have the opportunity to learn and explore Vietnamese culture.
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Join us on February 4 to celebrate the 150th anniversary of when the Carson City Mint issued its first coin in 1870. Special guests will be on hand to make the ceremonial first strikes on Coin Press No. 1 of a special sesquicentennial .999 fine silver medallion. The medallion dies are sculpted by former U.S. Mint Engraver, Tom Rogers. The medallion honors the rarest minting duo existing on the planet; the CC Mint and Coin Press No. 1.
The day’s guest of honor is the director of the U.S. Mint, David Ryder. Director Ryder will kick off the festivities by striking a new sesquicentennial medallion on Coin Press No. 1. The Governor and other state leaders in attendance will also be invited to assist with first strikes. Following the ceremonial minting, there will be a sesquicentennial program featuring Director Ryder as the keynote speaker. A lunch reception sponsored by the Nevada Mining Association follows the program.
8:30 a.m.: Free admission to the museum. Planchets for sale in the museum store.
9:30 a.m.: Parade down Carson Street from Capitol to Mint with a local high school marching band.
10 a.m.: Following remarks marking the occasion, the Mint opens its actual front doors allowing historic access to the museum. The front doors on Carson Street are how the building was entered in 1870.
11 a.m.: Sesquicentennial Program with keynote speaker, David Ryder, Director of the U.S. Mint. Nevada Gov. Steve Sisolak is also invited to speak as are other Nevada dignitaries. Buffet lunch reception sponsored by the Nevada Mining Association follows the program.
Noon: Coin Press No. 1 demonstrations begin. Planchets available for purchase and minting into a new sesquicentennial medallion.
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Welcome to the website of the London Westminster & Middlesex Family History Society. For over 40 years we have been helping family historians who either have ancestors in our area or live here. Please look around our website and perhaps we can help with your genealogy. Better still, why not join our Society and get the benefit of the knowledge of other members and our quarterly journal METROPOLITAN.
LWMFHS was formed in 2001 when the London and North Middlesex FHS (previously the North Middlesex FHS) joined together with the Westminster and Central Middlesex FHS (previously the Central Middlesex FHS.
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Parish Guides
The Society has started publishing a new series of Parish Guides. The purpose of these is to assemble in one booklet a list of the main records of each Ancient Parish in our area and where these can be found, whether they be original hard-copy records or on the internet. Our aim is to inspire family historians and help them locate their ancestors in places they might not have thought of looking before.
The booklets cost £6 each plus postage and packing and can be purchased from GenFair or by writing to the Editors.
Clerkenwell, St Anne Soho, Paddington, St George Hanover Square, Islington, St James Piccadilly, St Marylebone , Enfield , St Margaret and St John Westminster, St Pancras, Willesden, Tottenham, Pinner, Hendon and East Barnet are available now. St Clement Danes is due out on 1 March 2020, followed by Great and Little Stanmore on 1 May and Hampstead on 1 July 2020.
NEW SERIES: Monumental Inscriptions
The Society has now published three in this new series. Each booklet will contain the monumental inscriptions from a church and graveyard in our area. Photographs and diagrams are also included. The inscriptions were collected by members in the 1980s and originally published on fiche. Each booklet costs £6 and can be purchased from GenFair or by writing to the Editors.
Monumental Inscriptions: St John the Baptist, Chipping Barnet; St Mary the Virgin, Monken Hadley;
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On Earth in Camden - The Borough in the Age of the Moon Landing
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Ancestry releases Electoral Rolls for London
Ancestry have released new data covering the London Electoral Rolls 1835-1965. See
http://search.ancestry.co.uk/search/db.aspx?dbid=1795
They are name indexed, though like so many scanned documents, the quality of the OCR is bound to vary. I noted that while some Middx records (e.g. for Enfield) are there for the earlier years, they are missing for the more recent period. However, it's a valuable resource allowing you to find addresses in the modern (post censuses) period.
Locating London's Past
London's largest cemetery now on Deceased Online
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Rieder won’t be qualified; eligible to become an unrestricted free agent July 1
Jon Rosen June 25, 2018 0 CommentsContracts and Finances
The LA Kings won’t qualify Toby Rieder, hockey operations confirmed to LA Kings Insider. First reported by Elliotte Friedman in today’s 31 Thoughts, this was an expected decision after the team came to terms with Ilya Kovalchuk on a three-year, $18.75-million contract over the weekend. Rieder will be eligible to become an unrestricted free agent on July 1.
This is not necessarily a reflection of the player, but rather of the salary cap realities of a team that has $6.25M less wiggle room for the upcoming season. With a qualifying offer of $2.45M, it would have been likely that Rieder would have accepted the offer, a sizeable commitment, even for one year, for a player whose abbreviated 2017-18 tenure included four goals and six points in 20 games and no points in four playoff games. I don’t have any information right now as to whether the team will circle back to Rieder in an attempt to ink him to a less expensive contract. Keaton Ellerby, for what it’s worth, re-signed with Los Angeles in 2013 after the team did not send him a qualifying offer, but that precedent shouldn’t have any sort of bearing on team decisions some five years later.
Rieder joined Los Angeles in late February in a creative move to add speed and the potential for some secondary scoring when he was acquired from Arizona along with goaltender Scott Wedgewood for Darcy Kuemper. This was a move with minimal risk for the Kings. Kuemper was not going to re-sign with the club and would have tested the open market had he not been moved, and instead, Los Angeles received a forward with the potential to fill a depth scoring role at a position where it was needed at the cost of a player who had only a small handful of starts remaining in L.A. Ultimately, it produced no tangible bounty, and it appears the team and Rieder will part ways after a 20-game union. Kuemper, who signed a two-year, $3.7M extension with the Coyotes shortly after the trade, went 2-6-2 with Arizona down the stretch with a 3.22 goals-against average, an .899 save percentage and one shutout. Jack Campbell, who assumed the back-up role following the trade, maintained Kuemper’s excellent play in net for the club and went 2-0-2 with a 2.47 GAA and a .924 Sv%. He’ll serve as Quick’s back-up in 2018-19.
The Kings will announce later today the players who have received qualifying offers. Kurtis MacDermis, Alex Lintuniemi, Paul LaDue, Jordan Subban and Justin Auger are those eligible. Of that group, LaDue and Auger are arbitration-eligible, per CapFriendly.
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Watchmakers > A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z №
New Chronograph by Century
Swiss watch company Century has released a new watch Prime Time Egos Chronograph Day & Date of twelve facet sapphire case, which was cut and polished entirely by hand. This is a very laborious task, requiring much time and skill.
Prime Time Egos Chronograph Day & Date has a slightly tinted white dial. Hour and minute hands are coated with phosphor composition, for the best easy viewing in the dark. A tachometer scale is situated on the edge of the dial. The provisions of 12, 3, 6 and 9 hours are marked by bright red circles.
Seconds are displayed by a small hand at the "9 o'clock". On contrary, in a huge circular aperture are day and date on which the concerned sides are pointed with the red hands. The central seconds hand and counter at "12 and 6 o'clock," perform the functions of the chronograph: 30-minute and 12-hour.
Of course, first of all, the new wrist watch Century captures the attention of the diamond-shaped arrangement of its 4 extra dials. Especially it is interesting the one that is at the mark "3 o'clock". This is an unusually large aperture, showing in a "porthole" a day and a number.
Water resistance of this watch is 100 meters.
Inside is mounted an automatic Swiss movement Valjoux, certified by COSC. The watch Prime Time Egos Chronograph Day & Date has a 48-hour power reserve.
The watch is delivered on a steel bracelet from the links of Milan woven – it looks like very brutal, however, the impression of the watch can easily be mitigated by replacing the bracelet on a leather strap. The watch Prime Time Egos Chronograph Day & Date is a unique combination of style, elegance, and at the same time, chopped, simple forms, which give the model a special charm.
The famous watch company Century was founded in 1919 by Pascal Klingenberg. It was brand Century which released the world's first wrist watch in the case, carved from a single sapphire. This is a unique technology that allows forming the complex carved case, maintaining the integrity of the stone.
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Prime Time Watch by Century
The watch brand Century has introduced two new models Prime Time ref. 606.7.S.AB1.15.SM and 606.7.S.12.15.SM, issued on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of a landmark Prime Time collection.
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Symbol of Freedom on the Wings of Time Watch by Century
Known company Century, inspired by the image of the bird that is the embodiment of the desire to the free flight, has released an unusual watch Wings of Time. When you open the dial, it seems that the gracing bird soars skyward.
New Jewelry Women’s Watches by Century: the elegance and luxury
The watch company Century has presented in the current 2012 new jewelry women’s watches Scala and Scala ovale, additions to an excellent Precious Elegance collection.
Century Company Presents a Novelty - Mogul Alexandrite Watch: luxury and refinement
The watch brand Century has announced the release of a new model Mogul Alexandrite Ref. 636.7A.F.N5P.58.CYK.
BaselWorld 2012: Elegance Chronograph GMT Watch by Century
International watch exhibition BaselWorld 2012 is in full play, and the attention of the the world community, indifferent to the watch delights, artists and designers today are concentrated in a small Swiss town - Basel.
A New Ballerina Precious Elegance by Century
The mysterious world of dance and turned figurines of dancers are inspired the watch company Century to create a new jewelry watch Ballerina Precious Elegance, designed for modern women who appreciate a femininity and beauty.
One of the leading companies, producing jewelry watches, Century was founded in 1919 in Switzerland. The company was founded by Pascal Klingenberg, but the company became famous thanks to the son of the founder, the genius of watch making Hans Klingenberg. He embodies the reality such watch projects that can be imagined only through vivid imagination. These projects have crossed the edge of imagination and materialized in the products of genius watchmaker Hans Klingenberg. His dream was to create watches of whole-precious stones. After much searching, he invented a system of “Megalith”, by which it was possible to ...
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A business owner with the soul of a performer, Ellen, is an Actress, a Speaker, and a Presentation Skills Coach.
Her career began in acting, with the love of the stage. Over the years, this love has been transformed into work as a presentation skills coach. Ellen spent most of her career helping others find their voice, polish their skills, and deliver dynamic and persuasive presentations. As an actress, she understands what is involved in creating, preparing, and executing a strong and engaging performance.
With twenty years plus experience as a coach and trainer, she has learned how to bring out the best in people. Ellen supports her clients in developing and utilizing their natural skills and gifts to convey well-prepared messages, delivered with conviction. Whether she is working with business owners or corporations, the goal is the same; capturing an individual’s passion and turning it into a presentation that is memorable.
Ellen combines her performance skills with coaching acumen to build dynamic relationships with her clients. Her interactions are direct but kind, focused but fun, and always transformational.
She makes it her mission to provide coaching and workshops that are entertaining, and thought-provoking. Approaching this work as an actor takes the trainings to a whole new level. Ellen teaches her clients the secrets that only actors know.
A little background
I grew up in Montreal, Quebec and did my undergraduate studies at McGill University. I received a B.A. in English/Drama, and graduated with Honors.
Graduate Studies were pursued in Toronto, Ontario in Expressive Arts Therapy.
My Corporate Facilitation skills were honed with Focus Management Group in Toronto and then Powersuasion, Inc. in Chicago.
As a Certified Professional Coach, I studied with The Coaches Training Institute based in California.
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Deadline Tuesday: Apply to be a #FrackingFighter
Grassroots organizing is the key to saving our communities and our planet. If you're fighting fracking in your community, will you apply to become the first MoveOn #FrackingFighter in New York? Or share this opportunity with friends and family? Applications are due this Tuesday, December 3, at 10 p.m. local time, and are available in English and Spanish.
I'm Josh Fox, director of the films Gasland and Gasland 2.
In 2008 my family's home and my neighbors' homes came under siege by the gas industry, which was buying up leases left and right to start fracking all over the Delaware River Basin. I've experienced first hand the devastation that fracking brings.
My two documentaries, Gasland and later Gasland 2, became award-winning films precisely because they called out the fracking industry for its lies and put a face on the millions of Americans at risk—along with our environment and global community—because of the largest domestic fracking campaign in history.
Traveling all across the U.S., I witnessed the destruction that drilling and fracking brings to communities, to public health, and to the environment. Water so contaminated it lights on fire, air so polluted it causes multiple health problems, and communities overrun by this destructive industry.
And along the way, I've seen that our only way out is to organize—to rally together, to petition our elected officials, to get out into the streets.
That's why I'm very excited about MoveOn's new initiative to support the fracking movement at its heart, and why I hope you'll apply to be one of 50 MoveOn #FrackingFighters.
Click here to learn more and apply to become a MoveOn #Fracking Fighter.
Applications are due this Tuesday, December 3, at 10 p.m. local time—so don't wait any longer to apply.
You can also help by forwarding this email to friends or family who might be affected by fracking. Or click here to share this opportunity with folks in your network on Facebook. Nearly every state is touched by some part of the fracking process, and the climate change caused by the fossil fuel industry truly affects us all.
If you're selected as a FrackingFighter, you'll receive a $500 grant to use for your campaign, a toolkit of materials like banners and clipboards, and training from experienced organizers. And you'll join a network of grassroots leaders fighting fracking across the country—from the oil fields in California and Texas, to the gas fields in Pennsylvania and Colorado, from the Midwestern dunes being mined for the silica sand used in fracking, to the New Jersey and North Carolina neighborhoods threatened by pipelines and export terminals that would transport fracked gas.
I had the pleasure of working with MoveOn members to screen Gasland 2 at movie parties coast to coast earlier this year—and I've since met MoveOn members across the country who are educating their neighbors, lobbying their elected leaders, and earning media coverage to put an end to fracking.
In my town, after years of meetings, letters, and phone calls, we won. This summer, the two biggest gas companies fracking in Wayne County, Pennsylvania, announced they were canceling all leases and backing out of fracking in our county.
It's only the start of what our movement can make possible. We need more victories like that across the country—and you can be part of it by applying to be a MoveOn #FrackingFighter before the deadline at 10 p.m. this Tuesday, December 3.
Thanks—and good luck,
Josh Fox
P.S. La solicitud para #FrackingFighters también está disponible en español aquí: http://moveon.org/frackingfighters/solicitud/index.html?source=email. Please forward this email to friends and family or click here to post about #FrackingFighters on Facebook, so that we can reach even more people with this exciting opportunity. Applications are due this Tuesday, December 3, at 10 p.m. local time.
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Rachel Maddow reminds us that "impeachments are unpredictable." Bombshell evidence dropped "out of the sky" during Richard Nixon's impeachment, forcing Nixon to resign.
Rachel Maddow reminds us that "impeachments are unpredictable." Bombshell evidence dropped "out of the sky" during Richard Nixon's impeachment, forcing Nixon to resign.1
Donald Trump is now the third president of the United States impeached by the House of Representatives. We all know that there's more evidence of Trump's transgressions that has yet to be made public. And new polling shows support for Trump's conviction is skyrocketing.2
The impeachment fight is far from over. But with the process now moving to the Senate, we have to face facts: Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has no intention of running a serious trial. He's ruled out calling witnesses and openly said that he plans to work with Trump's own lawyers to guarantee acquittal.3
The only way that we'll get a fair trial in the Senate is if Republican senators choose to uphold their constitutional duty. Will you chip in $3 a week to support MoveOn's all-hands-on-deck campaign to pressure senators to do exactly that in 2020? (MoveOn will bill your weekly donation to your credit card once a month starting today and will contact you shortly after Trump is no longer president to see if you want to modify or cancel your weekly donation.)
Yes, I'll chip in weekly to help keep MoveOn's impeachment campaign going in 2020.
No, I'm sorry, I can't chip in weekly.
McConnell knows that the evidence of Trump's high crimes and misdemeanors is overwhelming and that the true facts of the case aren't really even contested. Trump withheld military aid to Ukraine to bribe its president into intervening in our election and helping him win re-election. Then, he obstructed Congress' efforts to investigate.
More than 700 respected historians signed an open letter saying that "President Trump's numerous and flagrant abuses of power are precisely what the framers had in mind as grounds for impeaching and removing a president."4 More than 500 legal scholars signed a similar letter saying that "his conduct is precisely the type of threat to our democracy that the Founders feared when they included the remedy of impeachment in the Constitution."5
Under oath, even Trump's biggest allies admitted that he blatantly sought a quid pro quo, trading official acts for political favors. And we still haven't heard from the White House officials closest to the Ukraine scandal, like John Bolton and Mick Mulvaney.
That's why McConnell knows that his only hope for saving Trump is to make sure that there are no witnesses and no real trial.
But here's McConnell's big problem: If just four Republican senators vote to require witnesses, then his plan for a sham trial goes out the window. Trump loyalists will go on Fox News and lie all day. But under oath, everything changes. Look at how Gordon Sondland changed his tune under oath. The same thing will happen with other witnesses—if we can get just four Republicans to uphold their basic oath of office and vote for a real trial.
That won't be easy, and that's why we're asking you to chip in $3 a week to help fund MoveOn's impeachment work, so that we can go big in 2020 and leave no stone unturned. Are you in? (MoveOn will bill your weekly donation to your credit card once a month starting today and will contact you shortly after Trump is no longer president to see if you want to modify or cancel your weekly donation.)
If we can raise the resources to sustain our campaign, here's what we'll do with it:
Expand our billboard campaign to build public support for impeachment. MoveOn needs your help to buy billboards in the districts of on-the-fence Republicans. Our billboards will very visibly help get the truth out about the extent of Trump's crimes—and that Republicans are STILL are defending Trump, even as more and more damning evidence is exposed.
Fully fund our team of organizers on the ground in key states. We've recruited and trained an incredible team of organizers in the key states with senators most likely to support a real trial, but we don't yet have the funding we need to pay their salaries through a full Senate trial. This is an absolute must.
Take on Trump's lies directly online and on TV. We don't need to counter the millions of dollars that Trump and his enablers are spending to spread lies and misinformation dollar-for-dollar—because the people are on our side. But we do need to have substantial resources to reach the activists who are ready to get involved to tell the truth and give them opportunities to act, such as protesting, calling Congress, and showing up at their lawmakers' offices.
Expand our bird-dogging operations in Washington, D.C. For months, MoveOn has been following lawmakers and asking them a simple question: Is it OK for a foreign government to interfere in our elections? Now, we must bring that pressure to on-the-fence Senate Republicans. Wherever they run and hide, we must find them. And when they try to wiggle out of answering our question, we must make sure their constituents know about it.
Mar, our democracy is under attack. History is watching. The House impeached. Now, the Senate must remove. Will you chip in $3 a week to help finish the job and end Trump's criminal presidency? (MoveOn will bill your weekly donation to your credit card once a month starting today and will contact you shortly after Trump is no longer president to see if you want to modify or cancel your weekly donation.)
Yes, I'll chip in weekly to help keep MoveOn's impeachment campaign going for as long as it takes.
–David, Emma, Robert, Mary, and the rest of the team
1. "Pam Bondi and Trump Foundation. TRANSCRIPT: 12/13/19, The Rachel Maddow Show," The Rachel Maddow Show, December 13, 2019
http://act.moveon.org/go/114891?t=8&akid=253831%2E10220574%2EyUoSKw
2. "Public support for Trump conviction at all-time high, poll finds," Yahoo News, December 26, 2019
https://act.moveon.org/go/115496?t=10&akid=253831%2E10220574%2EyUoSKw
3. "McConnell indicates he'll let Trump's lawyers dictate Trump's impeachment trial," The Washington Post, December 13, 2019
4. "More than 700 historians call for Trump to be impeached as key vote looms," The Guardian, December 17, 2019
5. "Letter to Congress from Legal Scholars," Medium, December 6, 2019
How do weekly donations to MoveOn work? When you sign up to make a weekly donation to help with MoveOn's impeachment work, your weekly contribution will be billed to your credit card once a month, starting today and repeating on the same day of every month going forward. To determine your monthly contribution amount, we will multiply the weekly amount of your donation by 4.34—the average number of weeks per month. We will contact you by email when Trump is no longer president to see if you want to modify or cancel your weekly donation. You can also cancel or modify your recurring donation at any time. If you decrease or cancel your weekly donation partway through the month and would like to request a refund, please contact us at contrib_problem@moveon.org.
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Panic in Mitch McConnell’s office
The latest poll by Donald Trump's own pollster put Mitch McConnell in a virtual tie with his top Democratic opponent, who has raised record-setting amounts of money for her campaign.
The latest poll by Donald Trump's own pollster put Mitch McConnell in a virtual tie with his top Democratic opponent, who has raised record-setting amounts of money for her campaign.1
Now, McConnell is facing a MASSIVE backlash after he admitted that he's "not an impartial juror" and plans "total coordination" with Trump's team in managing the Senate impeachment trial.2,3
And cracks are finally appearing in the Republican wall of opposition to convicting and removing Trump in the Senate. Last week, Republican Senator Lisa Murkowski of Alaska said that she was "disturbed" by McConnell's pledge of "total coordination" with Trump's team on impeachment.4
McConnell's Senate seat and the GOP's control of the Senate have never been more vulnerable than they are right now, but we still face one big problem: McConnell's home state of Kentucky—plus other critical Senate states, Colorado and Maine—are not key battleground states in the 2020 presidential election.
And we can't afford to take away any of the resources from our campaign to beat Trump. That means we need to raise enough money to fund an entire additional Senate election operation on top of everything we're doing to beat Trump.
We MUST defeat Mitch McConnell and other GOP senators in 2020. And we MUST NOT make cuts to our critical work to defeat Donald Trump. Will you start a $5 a month donation to help us defeat McConnell and flip control of the Senate in 2020—without pulling any crucial resources out of our fight to defeat Donald Trump?
McConnell's handling of the Trump impeachment trial has become a massive political problem for him.
Just a few weeks ago, it was hard to imagine even one Republican senator turning on McConnell. Now, it's the opposite. Murkowski is already calling him out for blatantly failing to uphold his oath of office, and if he keeps turning the Senate trial into a sham, it's not hard to imagine more Republicans coming out against him, especially those facing tough re-election races next year.5
When even Senate Republicans are starting to bail on McConnell, you KNOW he's in trouble.
McConnell also has big problems back home. Matt Bevin, the the McConnell-backed governor of Kentucky, was recently defeated for re-election.6 And Amy McGrath, a McConnell opponent, is flat-out out-fundraising McConnell.7
McConnell's local press is awful, too. A top columnist at the Lexington, KY, newspaper called McConnell "Kentucky's shame."8 And a Kentucky-born law professor just wrote a scathing op-ed in the biggest newspaper in Kentucky, accusing him of breaking two sworn oaths—his oath of office to defend the Constitution and the oath he will take as a juror in Trump's trial.9
Mar, it has never been more clear that we can beat Mitch McConnell and flip control of the Senate, and we can't let this opportunity go by. But we also can't afford to take any resources out of the key battleground states we're working in to beat Donald Trump.
That means we need to raise enough money to fund an entire additional Senate election effort—including advertising, staff, and all of the other campaign infrastructure needed to ditch Mitch and end GOP control of the Senate in 2020.
Will you become a monthly donor today and help us defeat Mitch McConnell and flip control of the Senate in 2020—without scaling back our plans to defeat Donald Trump? $5 a month, or whatever you can afford, will go a long way.
–Chris, Robert, Jayne, Liia, and the rest of the team
1. "McGrath raises nearly $11 million in third quarter for bid to unseat McConnell," The Hill, October 10, 2019
https://act.moveon.org/go/111129?t=6&akid=253737%2E10220574%2EYmvTFA
2. "Mitch McConnell: 'I'm not an impartial juror' ahead of Senate impeachment trial," CNN, December 17, 2019
3. "G.O.P. Senator 'Disturbed' by McConnell's 'Total Coordination' with White House," The New York Times, December 25, 2019
https://act.moveon.org/go/115498?t=10&akid=253737%2E10220574%2EYmvTFA
6. "Republican Matt Bevin concedes defeat in Kentucky governor's race," CNN, November 14, 2019
7. "Amy McGrath Is Now Officially Challenging Mitch McConnell," Mother Jones, December 28, 2019
8. "McConnell is Kentucky's shame, in impeachment proceedings and everything else," Lexington Hearald Leader, December 20, 2019
9. "Law professor writes Kentucky newspaper op-ed accusing McConnell of breaking two oaths," The Hill, December 27, 2019
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This is former Labor Secretary Robert Reich. I'm writing to you today because the media industry is in deep trouble right now.
Hi, fellow MoveOn member,
As Facebook and Google become behemoths that gobble up an increasing share of advertising revenue, many media operations have had to lay off staff or shut down completely. More than 7,800 people lost their jobs in the media industry this year, according to Business Insider.1 And according to The New York Times, more than 1,000 local reporters are out of work.2
I launched my own nonprofit media organization, Inequality Media, back in 2014, to help get fact-based videos out there. We've made many "explainer" videos in collaboration with MoveOn—most recently, on how America has socialism for the rich and harsh capitalism for everybody else, and why we need to legalize marijuana. With a small but mighty six-person team, we've created videos and broadcasts that have been viewed over 500 million times.
Because Inequality Media doesn't depend on advertiser dollars or Facebook's algorithm, we are an exception in the turmoil that's hit the media industry this year—but that means we have a responsibility to do even more in 2020, especially given the growing right-wing wave of disinformation and the shrinking unbiased press that we're up against.
We've set a goal of raising $100,000 from MoveOn members by December 31 to achieve our ambitious goals in 2020—ramping up our operation so we can produce ten times the content at ten times the pace. Will you chip in $3, or more if you can?
Yes, I'll help keep Inequality Media strong—as a factual, truthful counterpoint to Fox News, Breitbart News, and the rest of the deceptive right-wing media.
In 2020, we need to double down on our efforts and do even more.
Our current model is operating on a shoe-string budget and putting out just one video a week. In 2020, that just won't cut it. One video a week, no matter how in-depth and well-researched, is simply not enough to combat the one-two punch of the growing right-wing wave of disinformation and the shrinking unbiased press.
That's why we're shifting gears in 2020. With your help, we're going to put out videos every day—short, snappy, but still fully-researched clips that will directly debunk whatever lies the right wing has been spreading that day. And we're launching a YouTube talk show to take on the platform's right-wing radicalization.
We have big plans. But we can't do any of our work without your support. Which is why I'm asking:
Will you chip in $3, or more if you can? Your donation to Inequality Media today will help us blast out more content and educate the public next year. Donations are tax-deductible, and if you chip in by New Year's Day, your donation will be matched dollar for dollar by generous supporters dedicated to our mission.
Yes, I'll make a tax-deductible, matched gift to Inequality Media!
Inequality Media has to do everything we can, day in and day out, to combat the Trump administration's lies with the truth. The right wing has deep-pocket, dark money funders to get its message out there; that's what keeps Fox News and Breitbart News in business.
But we have something much better: We have you.
Will you make a tax-deductible, matched gift to Inequality Media now, and help us start 2020 strong?
Thanks, so much, for all you do.
1. "7,800 people have lost their jobs so far this year in a media landslide," Business Insider, December 10, 2019
https://act.moveon.org/go/114941?t=5&akid=253601%2E10220574%2E5_6Gda
2. "These Reporters Lost Their Jobs. Here Are the Stories They Couldn't Tell." The New York Times, December 21, 2019
We won't stop until America welcomes all with dignity and respect
Congress failed to #DefundHate this time, but a growing number of elected officials are fighting back.
Last week, Congress voted to give U.S. Immigration and U.S. Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Customs and Border Protection (CBP) another blank check, but something new happened: 75 representatives and seven senators voted against the bill.
This is important because it shows that our work is having an impact—including actions from tens of thousands of MoveOn members across the country and from immigration groups who have been tirelessly organizing to hold these agencies accountable.We always knew that this would be a long-term fight. And it's important to reflect on milestones like these when they happen, so that we have the reserve needed to continue on.
Through months of negotiations, the Defund Hate coalition, which MoveOn is a part of, with fierce advocates including United We Dream, Detention Watch Network, and Indivisible, made our demands clear: Cut funding for ICE and CBP, and close their loopholes for overspending.
Congress heard the message loud and clear from MoveOn members who signed petitions, made thousands of phone calls, brought the demands to their local lawmakers' offices, and held events like the Close the Camps day of action, which highlighted the abuses happening in immigrant detention and demanded accountability.
Will you watch and share this video to remind your friends why we do this work? Check out this video on Facebook that outlines one of Trump's policies that guts our asylum process.
ICE and CBP spending was a crucial piece of the negotiation. Countless articles cited it as a top priority for both Democrats and the president. And in the end, Democratic leadership caved to secure wins in other areas.
But a large number of elected officials fought back to say no. They won't continue pouring money into the agencies attacking immigrants and flagrantly overspending without any accountability.
Funding to ICE and CBP has never decreased in either agency's history, and increases have been proposed by both Democrats and Republicans. Having a growing number of elected officials who refuse to support bills that inflict harm on immigrants shows the huge progress the Defund Hate coalition has made, and sets us up for wins in the future.
Democrats just spent months fighting against these out-of-control agencies. Now, they need to increase pressure until ICE and CBP are no longer designed to harm, but rather to treat immigrants, asylum-seekers, and refugees with dignity and respect.
And we'll be there every step of the way, ensuring Congress continues to make it a top priority to create an America that welcomes and where people are free to move and free to stay.
–Emma, David, Stephen, Corinne, and the rest of the team
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Impeachment: what happened, what's next
MoveOn members' actions helped lead to the impeachment of Donald Trump. And our work will be critical for what comes next.
On Wednesday, December 18, the United States House of Representatives impeached Donald Trump.
This is a critical milestone in the fight to hold Trump accountable, protect our democracy, and demonstrate that nobody is above the law. This heroic achievement is a testament to the strength of grassroots action of a people-powered movement, including millions of MoveOn members. Thank you for all you've done to stand up for our democracy—and we invite you to join us for the next steps because we're not finished.
What's next? A fight in the Senate to hold Trump accountable for his corrupt and self-serving attacks on our elections, national security, and the Constitution—and to demand that Republicans choose their country over their loyalty to Trump. And it's a moment that needs all of us.
Can you join us for a national organizing call on Sunday, January 5? We'll hear from leading strategists who will lay out what to expect in the Senate phase of the process, our strategy, and how you can make an impact.
Click here to RSVP for the national call at 8 p.m. ET (7 CT/6 MT/5 PT) on Sunday, January 5.
It was not an easy path to this critical moment. Though MoveOn members called for Trump's impeachment in June 2017 and have campaigned tirelessly to build support for the case to hold him accountable and declare that nobody is above the law ever since, many Democrats were too timid to discuss impeachment as recently as a few months ago—and Republicans continue to actively defend and enable Trump to this day. A few short months ago, many were crowing that "the impeachment dream is dead."1
But thanks in part to efforts of MoveOn members, we moved the Democratic caucus, moved the national discourse, and turned impeachment from "dead" to done!
On the eve of the impeachment vote we came together with allies at 600+ volunteer-led events in all 50 states and Washington, D.C., to demand that Congress impeach and remove Donald Trump.
And in the months leading up to last week, MoveOn members:
Made more than 100,000 calls to House and Senate offices to demand that Congress hold Trump accountable.
Powered billboards, TV ads, and videos seen millions of times, making the case for impeachment and calling out the Republicans who chose party over country.
Joined and led actions through the spring, summer, and fall outside congressional offices to build the drumbeat for this moment.
Participated in a record-setting petition delivery of 10 million signatures calling for impeachment.
We're not finished yet. We have organizers in Maine, Arizona, Colorado, and Kentucky working with MoveOn members, local allies, and other voters to keep up constituent pressure on senators and generate local news coverage. And we're launching mobile billboards in critical states in the new year to continue to drive the narrative. We'll continue bird-dogging senators on Capitol Hill when they return from recess. And there are more plans in the works.
The fight in the Senate is unpredictable. This is only the third time in history the Senate has taken up an impeachment trial.We know that Mitch McConnell is actively coordinating with the White House to deny the American people a fair impeachment trial and rig the outcome to ensure that Trump remains above the law. We know that Republicans seem more afraid of Trump's wrath than they are concerned about defending our Constitution and protecting the integrity of our upcoming elections.
The unlikely arc to making impeachment a reality shows us that we cannot afford to let conventional wisdom stop us from doing what we know is right. There is so much more that could be revealed about Trump's crimes and corruption. There are Republicans around the country who are fed up with his abuses of power. And we know that we have people power on our side—that all of us together are able to accomplish so much to defend our democracy and stand up to the abuses of this administration.
So join us on January 5 to be part of the strategy conversation about what comes next. Just click here to RSVP for the national call.
—Rahna, Justin, David, Anne, and the rest of the team
1. "Ex-federal prosecutor: 'Impeachment dream is dead,'" The Hill, July 25, 2019
https://act.moveon.org/go/114920?t=10&akid=253281%2E10220574%2EtBZRH6
Can we send you a free "Impeached!" sticker?
It's official: The House has voted to impeach Donald Trump, making him only the third president in United States history to achieve such an infamous designation.
This is an enormous milestone, driven in large part by the work of MoveOn members like you, Mar.
To mark this momentous event—and to remind the senators who will now pick up the impeachment process that no one is above the law—MoveOn has printed a big batch of impeachment stickers, and we're giving them away for free. Over 100,000 MoveOn members have already ordered their stickers, and this is your last chance to get yours before we run out.
Just click here or on the image below to order your free sticker now!
As we move into the next phase of the impeach and remove fight, let's not forget just how much work went into building a movement to make Trump's impeachment possible.
MoveOn called for Trump's impeachment over two years ago, after his first attempt to obstruct the investigation into Russian meddling into our election, and ever since, MoveOn members and our allies have been steadily growing a coalition of support for impeachment in the face of Trump's continued, blatant, and unrepentant criminality.
Although the House voted to impeach Trump on only two counts—abuse of power and obstruction of Congress—they point to the larger pattern of his corruption and cruelty.
As the Mueller report laid out, Trump attempted to obstruct that investigation at least ten times, and he encouraged contact between his campaign and Russian agents.
Not only did he attempt to bribe Ukraine into interfering in the 2020 election, he openly called for China to do the same, and then directed his administration to refuse to cooperate with the House's investigation of those efforts.
And most heinously, he violated international law by ripping children from their families at the border and holding immigrants and asylum-seekers in concentration camps, often without access to food, water, hygiene products, or medicine.
Donald Trump may not have earned much in his life on his own, but he earned his impeachment.
Now, let's spread the word that Trump is not above the law and make sure that the Senate does its job by convicting and removing him from office.
Click here to get your free "Impeached" sticker now.
–Kelly, Kate, David, Mark, and the rest of the team
Sign this petition re: impeachment trial in the Senate
Sign this petition demanding that Mitch McConnell and Senate Republicans allow direct witnesses to testify in the Senate impeachment trial.
Mitch McConnell stated this week that he will not allow any direct witnesses to testify in the Senate impeachment trial against Donald Trump.1 This is unacceptable. Mitch McConnell is not fulfilling his oath of office as Senate majority leader. He should call all direct witnesses to testify, because Americans have a right to know the truth.
Mitch McConnell cannot continue to rig the system in favor of a corrupt and bigoted administration.
Will you sign the petition demanding that Mitch McConnell and Senate Republicans allow witnesses to testify in a fair impeachment trial in the Senate?
The House of Representatives impeaching a sitting president is historic and deserves to be taken seriously by the Senate. Unfortunately, however, Mitch McConnell and Senate Republicans are falling into their political lines and staying complicit with the greed and corruption of this administration.
If Mitch McConnell continues to stop witnesses from speaking in front of the Senate, he is protecting an administration rife with bribery, obstruction of justice, and corruption.
If this administration has done no wrongdoing, then these direct witnesses will be able to provide President Trump some very much needed exculpatory evidence. If there was no wrongdoing, Republicans, McConnell, and this administration should have nothing to fear from the questioning of first-hand witnesses.
First-hand, direct witnesses should be required to testify in front of the Senate for a fair impeachment trial. The American public has a right to hear the truth.
–Donna Edwards, MoveOn Member from Olympia, Washington
1. "McConnell Suggests Senate Will Not Call Witnesses Requested by Democrats in Impeachment Trial," The New York Times, December 17, 2019
https://act.moveon.org/go/114895?t=10&akid=253093%2E10220574%2EbYgH2w
Thank you from Impeach and Remove Rally hosts
We did it! We came together despite the weather and the denial of our permit and exercised our constitutional right to speak out! We marched for democracy and the rule of law. As Aylett Colston said on Tuesday night: "The first three words in the constitution are 'We the people' - and that is us."
Thank you all for coming out on Tuesday to make history, some from far away. We loved your signs, your enthusiasm and your commitment to a peaceful evening of protest.
Many thanks to our inspiring speakers: State Senator Erica D Smith, Gerald Givens, President Raleigh Apex NAACP, Faisal Khan, Carolina Peace Center, Aylett Colston, Attorney, Raleigh Apex NAACP, Rabbi Raachel Jurovics, Yavnah: A Jewish Renewal Community, Bob Phillips, Common Cause NC and Joy Weeber, Disability Advocate. Thanks to our musicians Randa McNamara and Michael Flaherty. Thanks to our marshals and the Raleigh police, who kept things moving along safely and peacefully. Thanks to those of you who cheerfully helped out when asked. We are so proud to be a part of such a wonderful community of activists.
Impeachment has happened. Right now, it is vitally important that we keep the pressure on our representatives. We know that Senators Tillis and Burr are probably not going to vote to remove, but they still need to hear very clearly what we think. Please call them daily at (202) 224-3121 and let them know that our President should not be above the law.
You are all invited to continue to protest with Tuesdays with Tillis every Tuesday, 11:30-12:30, in front of the Terry Sanford Federal Building. This week, we are demanding that Tillls and Burr Vote to Remove. If you can't make it, you are welcome to keep up with us on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, MeWe or our newsletter. We look forward to continuing our work together.
Thank you all for standing up for our democracy.
Marci, Michael and Karen
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What's next on impeachment?
Last night, Donald Trump became only the third president—in all of American history—to be impeached.
Now, the impeachment fight moves to the Senate, where anything could happen. Because, as Rachel Maddow recently reminded us, "impeachments are unpredictable".1
Bombshell evidence dropped "out of the sky" during Richard Nixon's impeachment, causing what had been "unimaginable defection from Richard Nixon's camp," including members of Congress who had led his defense.2 And he was forced to resign.
To force Trump's conviction—or resignation—we must be steadfast and unrelenting, keeping a laser focus on what we can do to pressure on-the-fence Republicans to support a fair trial.
MoveOn is ready to spring into action to put maximum pressure on persuadable Republican senators to agree to a fair trial. But we've been going all-out on impeachment for weeks now, and we need to raise $500,000 in the next 24 hours to launch billboards targeting senators, extend the contracts of our organizers on the ground in key states, print more materials for protests and rallies outside senators' offices, and more.
Will you rush a $3 donation right now to help CONVICT and REMOVE Donald Trump from office?
We will not stop until the final vote in the Senate is cast. And we will never give up when it comes to defending our democracy.
Republican Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said that the Senate will conduct the trial in "total coordination" with the White House.3
But it's not just up to him. A majority of senators need to agree on the rules for Trump's impeachment trial, and that means that only four Republican senators need to insist on a fair trial.
If McConnell gets his way, the Senate trial will be a total sham. But, if we keep taking to the streets, rising up, and being loud, and if we convince four Republicans to insist on a real trial, with a full accounting of the evidence, we can prevail—just like when, through our grassroots activism, we stopped McConnell from repealing the Affordable Care Act.
Which is exactly what we will do, with your help.
With your help, we will:
Expand our billboard campaign to build public support for impeachment. MoveOn needs your help to buy billboards in the districts of on-the-fence Republicans. Our billboards will very visibly help get the truth out about the extent of Trump's crimes—and that Republicans STILL are defending Trump, even as more and more damning evidence is exposed.
Fully fund our team of organizers on the ground in key states. We've recruited and trained an incredible team of organizers in the key states with senators most likely to support a real trial, but we don't yet have the funding we need to pay for their salaries through a full Senate trial. This is an absolute must.
Take on Trump's lies directly online and on TV. We don't need to counter the millions of dollars that Trump and his enablers are spending to spread lies and misinformation dollar-for-dollar—because the people are on our side. But we do need to have substantial resources to reach the activists who are ready to get involved to tell the truth and give them opportunities to act, like protesting, calling Congress, and showing up at their lawmakers' offices.
Expand our bird-dogging operations in Washington, D.C. For months, MoveOn has been following lawmakers to ask them a simple question: Is it OK for a foreign government to interfere in our elections? Now, we must bring that pressure to on-the-fence Senate Republicans. Wherever they run and hide, we must find them. And when they try to wiggle out of answering our question, we must make sure their constituents know about it.
We have a historic chance now to convict and remove Donald Trump in the Senate—if we seize it. Please chip in $3—or whatever you can afford—right now to help finish the job and end Trump's lawless presidency.
–David, Reggie, Mary, Corinne, and the rest of the team
http://act.moveon.org/go/114891?t=5&akid=253052%2E10220574%2EdO4pQx
3. "McConnell: In 'total coordination' with White House for impeachment trial," USA Today, December 12, 2019
https://act.moveon.org/go/114888?t=7&akid=253052%2E10220574%2EdO4pQx
Can we send you a free sticker?
It's official: The House has just voted to impeach Donald Trump, making him only the third president in United States history to achieve such an infamous designation.
To mark this momentous day—and to remind the senators who will now pick up the process that no one is above the law—MoveOn has printed a big batch of these impeachment stickers, and we're giving them away for free while supplies last.
Just click here or on the image below to order yours now!
As we move into this next phase of the impeachment and removal fight, let's not forget just how much work went into building a movement to make this day possible.
MoveOn called for Trump's impeachment over two years ago, after his first attempts to obstruct the investigation into Russian election meddling, and ever since, MoveOn members and our allies have been steadily growing a coalition of support for impeachment in the face of Trump's continued, blatant, and unrepentant criminality.
As the Mueller report laid out, Trump attempted to obstruct that investigation at least ten times, and he encouraged contacts between his campaign and Russian agents.
Not only did he attempt to bribe Ukraine into interfering in the 2020 elections, he then openly called for China to do the same and directed his administration to refuse to cooperate with the House's investigation of those efforts.
Now let's spread the word that Trump is not above the law and make sure that the Senate does its job by convicting and removing him from office.
Click here to get your free sticker now.
Curious: Why did you join the Impeach & Remove event?
We want to hear from you. Can you take a quick survey about your Impeach & Remove event?
Dear Mar,
Today, history has its eyes on Congress—but last night, we couldn't take our eyes off of you.
With more than 600 events in all 50 states, you showed our entire country exactly what democracy means: people demanding better from our representatives by reminding them that no one is above the law, not even the president.
Was the Impeach and Remove event everything you wanted it to be? What were the highlights? Do you have feedback for the organizers? Click here to fill out a brief survey to let us know how the event went, and we'll share it with the Nobody Is Above the Law coalition.
On a national scale, there is no doubt: this mobilization met a historic moment. Below are just a few pictures from around the country:
Take it in. That's you out there.
Here's the bottom line: this mobilization brought people across the country into the streets. What about these events brought you out? What will you remember from this experience? Take a quick survey and let us know.
If it sweetens the deal, the video clip from the Rachel Maddow show last night highlighting our nationwide events awaits you on the page you'll see after completing the survey. :)
—David for the "Nobody Is Above the Law" partners
Important updates about Impeachment Event tonight
Thank you so much for signing up for this crucial national mobilization. As you know, there are now over 600 events in all 50 states; in Raleigh alone over 2200 people have signed up. This evening will be a pivotal moment in the history of this country.
If you can't come and even if you can: Don't forget that another important way we can show our support for the impeachment and removal of this president is by calling Senators and Representatives. Phone numbers are the end of this letter. Call every day.
Some important details about tonight:
This is a peaceful protest. The Capital police (different from the Raleigh police) are not giving us a permit. We are not sure exactly why or exactly what this means. We do know that we must take good care of ourselves and each other to make sure everyone is safe. Please be respectful to the police; they are supporting our consititutional right to peaceful assembly. These are not the same people who refused our permit.
If there are counterprotesters, please do not engage with them in any way unless you are completely comfortable with your skills in de-escalation.
Bring a flashlight. Do not bring weapons or carry signs on sticks.
It most likely will be raining, so do whatever you can to be as comfortable as possible in the rain. Also be prepared for cooler temperatures in the evening.
We plan to start at 5:30 pm in Bicentennial Plaza (not Bicentennial Mall) between Jones and East Edenton St, beginning near Jones Street and eventually marching toward and then around the Capital Building before returning to where we started. There will be a vigil in the plaza for people who are unable to walk this distance.
Parking on the street in Raleigh is free after 5 pm; before that there are meters. I am going to try again with a map of the area. There are two parking decks on Edenton St; one of them has an entrance on Jones St.
In case you missed it, here is a link to Rachel Maddow's show last night in which she talked about this national mobilization.
If you take pictures, you can send them to photos@moveon.org. Videos can be sent there too. The social media hashtag is #NotAboveTheLaw.
This event is being hosted by Tuesdays with Tillis. We protest every single week (rain or shine) from 11:30 am to 12:30 pm at 310 New Bern Avenue, Raleigh 27601. Everyone is invited to join us any week and to sign up for our newsletter.
This effort has already been so inspiring. Even if it rains, tonight will be great. See you soon.
Karen, Mike, and Marci
Senator TIllis 202-224-6342
Senator Burr 202-224-3154
Switchboard for representatives 202-224-3121
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Reminder: Your Nobody Is Above the Law protest for impeachment is TODAY!
On #ImpeachmentEve, we're taking to the streets to demand Congress impeach and remove Donald Trump.
Your Nobody is Above the Law event is today!
Today, on #ImpeachmentEve, over 500 events will take place across the country, where we'll gather to demand Congress impeach and remove Donald Trump for his abuse of power and obstruction of justice. This is a key moment in the fight, as it's the last thing lawmakers will hear from their constituents before the House votes to impeach Trump and then sends the impeachment process to the Republican-held Senate. Members of Congress need to hear that the majority of Americans want them to uphold our Constitution and hold Trump accountable.
Here are the details of your event:
What: Nobody Is Above the Law mobilization
When: Tuesday, December 17, 5:30 PM
Where: Bicentennial Plaza
1 E Edenton St, Raleigh, NC 27601
Your Event Dashboard, where you can contact your host, invite friends, and more is here:
http://act.moveon.org/event/impeach-and-remove-attend/tools/?i=l.1576591924.2592000.10220574.DO3kpQ&t=2&akid=252859%2E10220574%2EsUyay1
Here are a few tips to ensure that you have a great experience and make the biggest impact:
Amplify your impact via social media! Post photos on social media using the hashtags #NotAboveTheLaw and #ImpeachmentEve. Hashtags help folks all across the country see the work that you're doing. Email photos to photos@moveon.org with your city and state in the subject line, so we can help spread your message.
Invite your friends. Call, text, Snapchat, and spread the word to friends and family to ask them to come along—events are happening everywhere.
Be on the lookout for changes: there is some severe weather in the midwest, so be safe and read any messages from your local event host for last minute changes.
Lead some songs and chants. Check out the suggested songs and chants here and think of your own to belt out at your event.
Bring signs. Download signs and get inspiration for homemade signs from the materials posted here.
We appreciate your commitment to engage in nonviolent, peaceful action, act lawfully, and strive to de-escalate any potential confrontations with those who may disagree with our values. Be sure to review these de-escalation tips ahead of time.
Already, press coverage is rolling in, lifting up our voices and making it clear to our members of Congress that we're paying attention and that we expect them to prove that Nobody Is Above the Law. Make a difference today, but be safe.
Thank you for being part of this nationwide movement for justice, and thanks for all you do.
–David, Scott, Kate, Elsie, and the rest of the team
Weekend impeachment update
I will keep this email short and to the point: The House of Representatives is expected to vote on the impeachment of Donald Trump just 72 hours from now, and I am asking you to chip in to help fund MoveOn's all-hands-on deck impeachment effort.
Hi, fellow MoveOn member!
I will keep this email short and to the point: The House of Representatives is expected to vote on the impeachment of Donald Trump just 72 hours from now, and I am asking you to chip in $3 to help fund MoveOn's all-hands-on deck impeachment effort.
MoveOn is doing all it can to make sure that the House votes on Wednesday to impeach Trump. Your donation to MoveOn will be put to immediate use to do all this:
Turn out protesters in communities across the country the night before the House vote. More than 100,000 people in all 50 states have now signed up to attend rallies on the eve of the House vote to call on Congress to impeach and remove Trump. There's been a huge surge of activism and public support for impeachment over the past few days, and MoveOn needs to keep up the momentum to increase the number of events and the turnout. MoveOn needs to raise enough money to make sure that these protests are seen by millions by promoting them online and through social networks and earned media, to fly in organizers, to rent stages and audio equipment, to print and ship signs and other materials, to do enough press pitches to propel these events to the front pages of local papers, to coordinate with dozens of organizations on the ground, and more.
Keep camera crews at the Capitol in Washington, D.C., to confront members of Congress. MoveOn activists have been asking a very simple question of Republicans: Is it OK for a president to solicit help from a foreign government to win an election? Republicans are literally running and hiding to avoid answering this question, so MoveOn is focusing on the Republicans most likely to break with Trump, capturing their responses, featuring it in digital videos, and sharing the videos far and wide to ramp up the pressure they feel.
Keep phones ringing off the hook. MoveOn's most efficient way to connect droves of activists to their lawmakers costs about $2 per phone call. It requires dedicated analyst time, payments to MoveOn's call vendor for every single call—which add up quickly—and legal costs, too, because the rules in every state are different. And while there are cheaper ways to connect some (smaller) number of calls, MoveOn simply can't connect anywhere close to this volume of calls any other way.
This is a historic moment. If you're anything like me, when you think back on this moment years from now, you'll want to be sure that you did everything you could, left no stone unturned, and gave this fight your all.
I'm sending you this email today because I want to do everything I can to support MoveOn's impeachment effort, and the best way that I can do that is by making sure that millions of people around the country get this message and chip in what they can to MoveOn. We need you, Mar.
Please. Chip in $3 now and help fund MoveOn's all-hands-on-deck push to impeach Donald Trump.
Raleigh Impeach and Remove Rally on Tuesday
Our Raleigh Impeach and Remove event is set for Tuesday, December 17 at 5:30 in Bicentennial Plaza. The impeachment vote is scheduled for Wednesday, 12/18, but even if that schedule changes, we will still protest on Tuesday evening.
We are very excited to have some fantastic speakers, musicians and over 1500 attendees! We will start with a rally at 5:30, have a march (under 1 mile) around the Capitol Building or a vigil in the plaza and then a closing rally back in Bicentennial Plaza.
Please keep inviting people to this event. You can use this link to spread the word by email and social media. Send it far and wide so people can find the event closest to them. On social media before and after the event, use the hashtag #NotAboveTheLaw. If you take pictures during the event, please send them to photos@moveon.org
The sun will be setting as we gather, so bring a flashlight if you have one. Signs and costumes are welcome. If you can't get there at 5:30, no worries, we will be there until 7:30 at least.
Above all, we want to have a peaceful protest, one in which children and physically fragile people can be safe and we all feel comfortable. If there are counter protestors, don't engage them. We also want to be respectful to the police. If we all are vigilant keeping each other safe and being welcoming and friendly, we will have a great rally.
Thank you for your support of democracy, the rule of law and our constitution at this crucial time in our country's history. You are making public support for impeachment visible.
Please feel free to contact us with questions or concerns. You can also post questions on our facebook event. We look forward to seeing you on Tuesday!
Tuesdays with Tillis
tuesdayswithtillis.org
Confirmed for TUESDAY (12/17): Nobody Is Above the Law events to Impeach & Remove
We're taking to the streets on Tuesday to demand Congress impeach and remove our criminal-in-chief.
It is official: The House is expected to vote on Wednesday on the articles of impeachment against Donald Trump.
The Nobody Is Above the Law mobilization will take place on Tuesday, December 17, the eve of this pivotal vote. Together, at more than 450 events across all 50 states, we will deliver the closing arguments for the House of Representatives to impeach Trump and call on the Senate to remove him.
You've signed up for the Nobody Is Above the Law event in Raleigh.
Here is the page for your Raleigh event, which your event host will keep updated with the date, time, and location of the event.
The host has been notified of the mobilization date, but if you arrive at the page before they have a chance to update the event date and time, please check back soon. We'll also send you a reminder email on Tuesday morning to confirm the details. Hosts have the final say on the date and time of their events, in case it differs from the national plan.
More than 100,000 people are planning to take to the streets to declare that nobody is above the law. As the pivotal vote nears, more people will want to join you in action. Know anyone who wants to join? Click here to send an email inviting people to join you or click here to share the image below on Facebook.
After inviting your friends and family, head over to the resources page to print a sign or learn some chants before your rally on Tuesday.
It is clear that Donald Trump abused his power and put his personal and political interests ahead of the American people's. In more than two hundred years of history, only two presidents have been impeached by the House. We need to make sure Trump is the third. This is historic, somber, and necessary: Impeachment exists in the Constitution to protect our democracy.
–David, Justin, Emma, Kate, and the rest of the team
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Will you sign the petition to urge the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service to bar Donald Trump Jr. from importing his endangered "trophy" home?
Donald Trump Jr. recently went to Mongolia with taxpayer-funded support after purchasing a hunting trip at a charity auction to benefit the National Rifle Association (NRA). While in Mongolia, Trump Jr. shot and killed a rare argali sheep that is listed and protected as "Threatened" in Mongolia under the Endangered Species Act.1
Sign the petition to urge the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service to bar Donald Trump Jr. from importing his endangered "trophy" home.
Deny Donald Trump Jr. a permit to import a protected sheep trophy and investigate whether he illegally brought the body parts back into the United States.
Trump Jr. did not reportedly have a permit to kill the imperiled argali sheep at the time of his hunt and was granted one retroactively after he had left the region.
The argali sheep is threatened by agriculture and energy production and is listed as "Decreasing" by the IUCN Red List.
As part of this process, the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service considers whether local, national, and multinational laws and regulations are followed and whether the killing of animals is beneficial to conservation as a part of the importation process. As Mr. Trump received a permit for his trophy hunting only after he had killed the imperiled species and was likely able to do so only because of his father's position, the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service should reject any forthcoming import request from Mr. Trump and ascertain whether he has already imported the carcass in violation of U.S. law.
—Mitch Merry, Endangered Species Coalition
1. "Donald Trump Jr. Went to Mongolia, Got Special Treatment From the Government and Killed an Endangered Sheep," ProPublica, December 11, 2019
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Multiphysics 2020
Aim and Objective:
The aim is to enable all those interested in multiphysics to discuss and disseminate the most up-to-date research findings for purposes of product and process improvements. This will encompass:
maximisation of multiphysics dialogue across national borders at all levels,
collaboration between researchers, institutions, industry and governments,
development of curriculum for the higher education sectors worldwide.
The objective is to be recognised by all relevant agencies, as a society which promotes the integration of multi-disciplinary sciences and contributes to the future needs of scientific advancement.
Executive Board:
President Prof. M. Moatamedi Multiphysics, UK
Vice President (Europe) Prof. G. Boiger ZHAW, Switzerland
Vice President (Scandinavia) Assoc. Prof. H. Khawaja Multiphysics, Norway
Vice President (Asia) Prof. S. Itoh Okinawa College, Japan
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Vice President (Australia) Prof. S. Wakes University of Otago, New Zealand
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Home Positivity
Derek Hilbert Hosts “Tips-For-Turkey”at the Fickle Peach To Help Needy Families
Derek Hilbert is pictured in front of items donated for "Tips for Turkeys" at the Fickle Peach. Photo by: Mike Rhodes
Muncie, IN—Four years ago, Derek Hilbert (D-Rock) had an idea. Four days before Thanksgiving, he found out someone he knew was in need for Thanksgiving. It made him think.
He wondered, “What can I do to help?” He decided to have a spontaneous event at the bar he worked that night, and called his impromptu event, Tips for Turkey.
“Tips” in this case, included all of Derek’s bartending tips he had received during the night. A Tuesday night.
He raised $250.00 that evening. Six families were helped. One from the downtown community and five additional Muncie families he found at local southside grocery stores. The shoppers had no idea someone was coming up behind them to help them. Derek said, “It was a really emotional experience and we knew we were making at least a small difference in someone’s life…at least temporarily.”
Derek said, “We go out and find unsuspecting shoppers in local grocery stores that we think may be able to benefit from acts of goodwill and kindness. It’s all about changing peoples lives and spreading the love in hopes that they at some point will be able to do the same for other families in need.”
This year Derek hopes to raise enough money for Derek and his associates to take care of over 100 households right here in Muncie.”
In 2015, for example, there was a lady we approached. We got in the grocery line behind her. She was an older woman with two handicapped adult children. The woman could not understand…”Why me?” she said. I explained we just felt like she could use some help. A brief conversation ensued and the woman began crying. We paid her entire grocery bill—about $89.00. She was totally in tears. —Derek Hilbert
This year’s event will be held Saturday November 18th at The Fickle Peach in downtown Muncie. Funds will be raised through raffles and silent auctions with auction items donated by local artists and businesses.
On November 22nd, Derek and his associates will head out to local grocery stores to offer some random acts of financial kindness to those they think have a need.
If you would like to donate items, gift cards, or art, please contact D-Rock (Derek) through his Facebook event page. (You may have to login to Facebook to see the page.)
Starting at 5pm:
*Raffle ticket sales from 7pm to 9pm
* Silent auction from 5pm to 9pm
* Jake Hendershot and the Vintage Reserves will perform from 9pm to midnight
All proceeds will go to local families in need.
Editor’s note: Tips for Turkeys 2017 raised over $7,500. Derek and his associates were able to provide groceries (& kindness) for 151 households in Muncie. YOUR tips & generous donations made this possible.
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Comprehensive Report of Relevant Container and Codec Support in Windows 7 and Media Center
FF/RW Subtitles Selectable audio tracks Useful metadata Chapters
AVI No No No *** No No
MP4 Yes No * No **** No ***** No
TS No No * No **** No ****** No
M2TS No No * No **** No ****** No
WTV Yes Maybe ** Yes Yes No *******
* Despite the spec requiring this, Microsoft decided not to implement MPEG-4 Part 17 “Timed Text”.
** According to this Microsoft Whitepaper, WTV supports most standard types of “captioning” however captioning isn’t what we normally think of as “subtitles”.
*** Note that AVI does support multiple audio tracks, however there is no way to change tracks and all tracks play at the same time, mixed together.
**** Only first audio track plays. There is no method for selecting alternate tracks.
***** MP4 does support metadata but Media Player and Media Center don’t recognize it. Tagging an MP4 based TV episode in the Zune software generates Windows Media style “WM/TagName” tags as a sub-tag of a custom MP4 “Xtra” tag, however, despite the use of Windows Media tags, TV episodes and movies do not show up in the Media Center Recorded TV area or Movie Library.
****** Zune software won’t recognize TS or M2TS files so I’m not able to test Windows Media tags on these files since no other known software can generate such tags.
******* It may be possible to simulate “chapter” support by using Microsoft’s “iTV” system but this looks like a lot of engineering work and the work versus payoff probably isn’t worth it.
MPEG-4 Video Codecs
Part 10/AVC/H264 Part 2/ASP/DivX/XviD
AVI Yes Yes *
MP4 Yes Yes *
TS Yes No **
M2TS Yes No **
WTV Yes ***
Note that I didn’t cover MPEG-4 Part 2/SP (Simple Profile) because it is a low quality codec designed for low-end devices such as mobile phones and portable media players.
* Most, but not all, MPEG-4 Part 2 Profiles are supported. Nothing using "DivX 3” is supported.
** These containers do not support MPEG-4 Part 2 by design.
*** As of this moment, I’m unable to convert anything other than AVC/H264 to WTV. I assume MPEG-2 files will work but I didn’t test due to lack of material to test with and increasing irrelevance of the codec for our purposes. Plus we already know MPEG-2 works because all TV broadcast in the US uses MPEG-2.
MP3 AAC AC3 DTS
AVI Yes * Yes No
MP4 Yes Yes No *** No
TS No Yes Yes No ****
M2TS No Yes Yes No ****
WTV No No ** Yes No *****
* Although I’ve read that AVI supports AAC, I wasn’t able to test due to lack of content.
** I was able to create a WTV file with an AAC audio track but the file won't play in Media Center at all. It does, however, play in Media Player with some issues. The sound works and, according to GraphStudio, is being decoded by “Microsoft DTV-DVD Video Decoder”. The only real problem is that moving the slider around causes the video playback to become corrupted and sketchy. According to the PBDA whitepaper linked to above, WTV should support AAC so I’m quite confused as to why AAC has issues in WTV.
*** The AC3 decoder included with Windows 7 is DirectShow based but the MP4 container source is handled with Media Foundation, which has no AC3 decoder, so AC3 doesn’t work despite being part of the MPEG-4 ISO specification.
**** Despite DTS being part of the specification requirements for TS and M2TS files, Microsoft hasn’t implemented a DTS codec in either DirectShow or Media Foundation. The mildly good news is that if you have a TS/M2TS file with multiple audio tracks, the first track that is supported is the one that plays.
For example, my ripped copy of Big Trouble in Little China has five tracks:
H264 video
DTS main audio
AC3 main audio
AC3 director commentary
SRT / Timed Text / Presentation Graphic Stream
However, the only streams that actually play are (1) the main H264 video and (3) the main AC3 audio. Note that there is no method to change to (4) director commentary from within Media Player or Media Center.
***** I was able to create a WTV file with a DTS audio track but the file won't play in Media Center at all. The strange thing is that the file did play in Media Player and the System Tray icon appeared for “ac3filter” but only when I have “ac3filter” set to handle SPDIF audio. I suspect it may be possible to get DTS working in WTV with some major hacking and/or DTS may work via SPDIF passthru, however I have no SPDIF hardware to test this theory.
MPEG-2 was not covered because it isn’t efficient enough, the files take up way too much space and everyone already has their collection in either H264 or DivX/XviD already anyway
Interestingly, WTV doesn’t seem to be Media Foundation based since WTV files can be loaded in GraphStudio but TopoEdit won’t touch them. H264 in WTV is handled by “Microsoft DTV-DVD Video Decoder” which is, according to the PBDA whitepaper, both a DirectShow filter and Media Foundation Transform, so apparently there simply isn’t a Media Foundation Source to handle WTV files.
At the very least, Microsoft should be supporting MPEG-4 Part 17, or Timed Text, as the ISO specification does require it. Microsoft is a very “accessibility” centric company and not supporting subtitles in MPEG-4 media files seems very not-accessible to those with hearing problems. Plus a lot of us have ripped media with community based subtitle solutions (SRT, ASS, etc.) that could easily be converted to MP4 and take advantage of Timed Text.
This is a good start but I don’t think we can really call MPEG-4 “supported” out-of-the-box. The lack of subtitles or “Timed Text”, no DTS codec and no support for standard metadata really make Windows 7’s MPEG-4 support feel unfinished. I’m also confused as to why some Part 2 (ASP) files didn’t work. It seems like DivX 3 should work since the code was apparently based on code that leaked from Microsoft that was eventually used as one of the WMV codecs. Even more confusing is why some XviD files wouldn’t play despite DivX and XviD being based on the Part 2 ASP specifications.
Media Foundation is supposed to be the successor to DirectShow, and from what I can tell, Media Foundation is a much cleaner system and supports some nice features, like transcoding, but without support for WTV files, AC3, DTS and hit-or-miss MPEG-4 support, it feels very unfinished as well.
By ogre on December 4, 2009 at 12:15 AM
Tagged: Windows 7, WTV, TS/M2TS, H264, Microsoft DTV-DVD Video Decoder, AAC, AVI, MPEG-4, MP4
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Schneider Electric to invest in Australia’s renewable energy future
Executives from Schneider Electric, which has an $800 million investment fund for high growth business opportunities, are currently meeting with local startups to invest in Australia’s renewable energy future. The company’s chief innovation officer, Emmanuel Lagarrigue, is in Australia seeking out incubations, investments and partnerships with promising startups.
Lagarrigue said demand for electricity is set to double in the next 20 years and the current power infrastructure won’t be able to keep up with demand.
“We are moving from a fossil fuel-driven economy to an electrified one and we are looking for entrepreneurs that can help the world become more energy efficient and transition to decentralized, renewable energy,” he said.
“We assist innovators by turning their vision into reality and can provide the needed resources to succeed in this complex industry beyond just capital.
“We partner with entrepreneurs and provide access to global markets and expertise to solve global problems.”
A local recipient of SE Ventures’ funding and incubation support has been Clipsal Solar, headed up by Preeti Bajaj.
Clipsal is a 100 year old South Australian brand and this new business spin out was launched by Premier Steven Marshall in mid-September and uniquely empowers consumers so they can take control of their energy use and cut their electricity bills by using household data analytics to manage rooftop solar electricity generation and energy use around the home, office or shop.
SE Ventures is exploring investment opportunities in the new energy landscape.
As part of the search, Lagarrigue together with his senior vice president of innovation based in Silicon Valley, Heriberto Diarte Martinez, met with South Australian Premier Steven Marshall and Chief Entrepreneur Jim Whalley, along with three local South Australian businesses this week.
South Australian Minister for Innovation and Skills David Pisoni said he was thrilled local startups in the energy sector were given an opportunity to meet with SE Ventures.
“SE Ventures visiting South Australia directly supports a key element of our Future Industries Exchange for Entrepreneurship (FIXE) Strategy to attract more venture capital investment into South Australia to support the growth of our innovative startup and scaling up businesses,” Pisoni said.
“Having SE Ventures in Adelaide also provides us with the opportunity to showcase the development of Lot Fourteen as a leading centre for future industries and entrepreneurship in the southern hemisphere.”
The visit to South Australia by Lagarrigue and his team follows the announcement last week that Schneider Electric Ventures has committed $16 million over the next four years to incubate and develop up to four Singapore-based companies with global growth potential.
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Global aviation leaders gather amid climate protests, MAX safety talks
Monday, 23 September 2019 09:00 GMT
A passenger plane passes in front of the full moon as it makes it's final landing approach to Heathrow Airport, London, Britain, September 14, 2019. Picture taken on September 14, 2019.
The debate over aviation's impact on the environment will be a major topic for the public side of the talks
(Repeating Sept. 22 story with no changes to text)
By Allison Lampert
MONTREAL, Sept 22 (Reuters) - Global aviation leaders will be under pressure to deepen efforts to tackle airline emissions as they gather this week under the shadow of protests led by Swedish activist Greta Thunberg.
The 16-year-old, who inspired a 'flight-shaming' protest movement against aviation and sailed across the Atlantic rather than board a plane, is expected to join a march on Friday in Montreal as 193 nations meet at the U.N. aviation agency.
The International Civil Aviation Organization holds its assembly every three years and its 75th-anniversary gathering starting on Tuesday comes at a time of growing concerns about climate change and a six-month-old grounding of the Boeing 737 MAX jetliner.
On Monday, the head of the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration, Steve Dickson, will brief global regulators about delayed progress in approving MAX flights, which were halted in March following two fatal crashes.
The grounding is not on the agenda of the Sept. 24-Oct. 4 assembly but regulators will be anxious to avoid divisions on the sidelines over actions needed to restore the jet to service.
The debate over aviation's impact on the environment will be a major topic for the public side of the talks, however.
Commercial flying accounts for 2.5% of carbon emissions. But with passenger numbers forecast to double to 8.2 billion by 2037, experts say emissions will rise if no action is taken.
At its last full meeting in 2016, ICAO fostered the first global industrial climate initiative with a medium-term scheme to help airlines avoid adding to their net emissions from 2020.
The Carbon Offsetting and Reduction Scheme for International Aviation (CORSIA) requires most airlines to limit emissions or offset them by buying credits from environmental projects.
The industry says around $40 billion in climate financing will be generated between 2020 and 2035.
The move eased the threat of a trade war after the European Union initially imposed its own emissions scheme unilaterally, but environmentalists say it did not go far enough.
The EU, some campaigners and the industry itself want ICAO to commit now to setting longer-term goals at its 2022 assembly - though they may well differ sharply over what they should be.
URGENT DEBATE
Andrew Murphy, aviation manager at the Brussels-based campaign group Transport & Environment, said climate protests led by Thunberg may put more pressure on the assembly.
"Discussions in ICAO on boosting climate ambitions have been stuck in neutral for years - Greta's presence could inject much needed urgency to the debate," he told Reuters.
ICAO secretary general Fang Liu said she would be open to meeting Thunberg in Montreal.
"Our goal is the same goal as Greta's," she said.
The aviation industry has committed to a target of halving net emissions by 2050, compared to 2005 levels, but there is no comparable long-term climate target for aviation set by countries in any international agreement, including the 2016 Paris accord. The industry and others believe ICAO can help come up with such a goal.
The International Council on Clean Transportation (ICCT), which commissioned research that led to the 'Dieselgate' auto industry scandal, said last week emissions from commercial flights are rising up to 70% faster than predicted by the United Nations.
Airlines insist they can't tackle the problem alone and are pushing for government help for technology such as alternative fuels.
"We can't wait until 2049 to take action," said Michael Gill, director of the industry-led Air Transport Action Group. (Reporting By Allison Lampert, Editing by Tim Hepher and Sonya Hepinstall)
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Brand New Naval/Seaforth books
Posted on February 27, 2017 by News Editor
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Fighters over the Fleet, Naval Air Defence from Biplanes to the Cold War
This book is probably the most comprehensive study of naval aviation and the importance of the fighter to provide defence to a fleet. The author has produced extensive notes, bibliography, data and index to help the reader find a way through the considerable amount of detail on naval aviation from the major navies – Most Recommended
Looking Down on War, Intelligence Images From The Eastern Front
The author had a distinguished career in aerial photographic Interpretation and this is his seventh book, drawing from that considerable experience. The author has based his lavishly illustrated work on captured German war photographs showing what they knew about Russian strength and activity on the Eastern Front. Highly Recommended
The Illustrated War Reports, Trench Warfare, Contemporary Combat Images From The Great War FILE: R2443
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A splendid selection of war artist illustrations with vivid text. This is a fascinating book that brings out the carnage of WWI as the opposing armies engaged in a terrible war of attrition. Highly Recommended
Images of War, The Patton Tank Cold War Warrior, Rare Photographs From Wartime Archives
A new addition to the Images of War series, covering the Patton tanks of the Cold War. This is a fascinating book that reveals the development from the M47 to the M60 and the specialist support variants. Good text and outstanding images, a Must Read book.
Images of War, SS Grenadiers on the Russian Front, Rare Photographs From Wartime Archives
A new addition to the Images of War series, extending the coverage of the Waffen SS. The text is confined to a brief but informative introduction and to photo captions. The strength of the book is in the outstanding selection of images.
Secret Duties of a Signals Interceptor, Working With Bletchley Park, The SDS and the OSS
Had this book only covered the Special Duties Service and its radio intercept stations, it would be a very important addition to the available knowledge on one of the most important but covert parts of activity during WWII. The author has covered much more including details of RAF Mosquito squadrons and her later service for the OSS. Most Highly Recommended.
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War Birds, The Diary of a Great War Pilot
This book has come to print partly because of a pact between two pilots. In the event of the diarist dying, his comrade would continue the diary. The number of American volunteers joining the RAF during the Great War was mostly due to impatience at the US sending warplanes to Europe. Highly Recommended.
Voices from the Past – Britain’s Wartime Evacuees, The People, Places and Stories of the Evacuations Told Through the Accounts of Those Who Were There
World War 2 was the first war to include the widespread deliberate targeting of civilians, and particularly of children, anywhere in accessible enemy territory. Millions were evacuated from British cities to the greater safety of the countryside and the more remote areas. This large scale movement of people is reviewed in this study, using the voices of those who were there. Highly Recommended.
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SPOTLIGHT: TV SHOW PUSHES BLACK STEREOTYPES
Deaf, dumb and blind to the diversity of the African-American community, WABC TV’s “Here and Now” show was criticized by us in two letters to WABC TV’s General Manager. Read More
Feds OK Separate “Help” for Blacks on Urban Campuses
The Obama Administration’s Education Department has attempted to carve out a race-based exception to civil rights laws, for endorsing “support” programs like the “Black Male Initiative” at CUNY… Read More
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When the White House blamed an obscure online video for the recent attack on its consulate in Benghazi, we decried the government’s “queries” and arrest of the video’s maker as an assault on Americans’ free speech rights. Read More
MEYERS’ OPEN LETTER TO U.S. EDUCATION SECRETARY: FEDERAL EDUCATION DEPARTMENT IS NOT DOING ITS JOB AS CIVIL RIGHTS ENFORCER
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SPOTLIGHT: WABC TV’S “HERE AND NOW” PUSHES SKIN COLOR/IDENTITY POLITICS
Disgusted with the WABC TV show “Here and Now” constantly pushing stereotypes of “the black community” – and with its treatment of blacks as one – dimensional in politics, art, culture and ideology – we sent two letters protesting this media bias to the General Manager of WABC TV, Dave Davis. The text to our latest letter follows.
Dear Dave Davis:
We wish to register our concern and continuing objection to what we regard as bias in covering race and black community issues on your revamped “LIKE IT IS” show, now titled HERE AND NOW. Indeed,we discern very little difference between the political and ideological diatribes that made LIKE IT IS so notable and objectionable (by way of biased coverage and racial rhetoric) and your current show, HERE AND NOW.
Today’s (Sunday, February 24, 2013) HERE AND NOW was another example of WABC-TV proselytizing in favor of skin color deification and so-called racial/cultural differences in a format supposedly about policies and community issues facing African Americans. HERE AND NOW repeatedly, it seems to us, through the actions of its producers and programmers, presents a one dimensional viewpoint–the stereotypical “black perspective” (which, I take, is the opinion of the producers) about controversial questions and public policy matters of particular interest to blacks. On today’s show, HERE AND NOW, once again, invited three panelists with the same point of view about historically black colleges. No consideration or invitation was extended to anyone with an opposing point of view–and no opposing point of view was offered. Rather, three “coordinators” of the New York City Omega Black College Tour were “interviewed” (actually cheered on) by your host, Ms. Sandra Bookman who, also, during the broadcast, encouraged viewer support for what she regarded as a worthy cause, by way of fund support for historically black colleges and the “important” work of the New York City Omega Black College Tour program. The guests also encouraged fund support–but that was to be expected; it was not my idea of legitimate public affairs programming for the host of the show--who represents management and WABC TV–to particpate in the fund raising drive on behalf of the Omega Black College Tour, thereby encouraging and steering black students to the historically black colleges and universities.
Whether there ought to be or whether black students should be encouraged to attend racially identifiable colleges–an important policy question for the 21st century–was an issue never posed much less considered in the programming decision to have three advocates of historically black colleges who on their own, and with the support of WABC TV’s Bookman, sought broad support for the idea of black colleges during the show. Your show and its producers, and the host of the show, simply presumed there is no other point of view within the black community or larger society worthy of consideration–such as whether black colleges are indeed outmoded and serve as relics of a discredited past in America, an era when colleges were organized around race and when blacks were excluded from the mainstream colleges and universities. Indeed, I do not recall Sandra Bookman even asking how many black students–a considerable minority of them–that the historically black colleges serve nowadays. The overwhelming majority of black students, one would never know from watching your show, avoid racially-identifiable historically black colleges–for their own and compelling reasons, especially in a society where we supposedly value diversity and interaction of students with persons from different economic and cultural backgrounds. Your Ms. Bookman–as is usual–tilted the conversation away from hard and sophisticated policy questions into proselytizing on behalf of societal, community and fund support for these racially-identifiable institutions of higher education.
It is shameful how this media bias shapes and perpetuates misconceptions about the so-called black community and misses the diversity of opinion within the black community; HERE AND NOW constantly presents a one-dimensional view and propagates race-consciousness as a value of and for blacks to emulate and propagate. WABC-TV’s role in siding with racial idiocy and ideology will not escape scrutiny much less criticism and dissent for much longer.
I do not get the sense that there is any adult supervision when it comes to the producing of HERE AND NOW–indeed, when it comes to race matters and race-oriented programming on your station. It appears that when it comes to exacting standards of objective journalism or even critical inquiry on important questions and issues, your station’s minority affairs programming–such as HERE AND NOW–reinforces stereotypes and misinformation about the black community in the guise of offering the “black perspective.”
I encourage your personal intervention to ensure broader representation on the show of all sides of controversial subjects such as this one; if the ordinary standards of journalism and critical inquiry do not apply to HERE AND NOW, and its host, I’d like to know why not, from you, the management of WABC TV. I do not regard it as relevant or satisfactory the disclaimer at the end of the show that the show may or may not reflect the views of WABC TV’s management. It seems to us that the show does indeed reflect a point of view–a bias, from the standpoint of programming decisions that exclude points of view dissimilar to the producers’ on such subjects as this–i.e. the efficacy or archaic nature of racially-identifiable colleges and universities in 21st century America.
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Murray O'Coin, our friend and
candidate to become an
Instituted Acolyte
for sub-diaconal ministry
in the Ordinariate and soon,
we pray, a Deacon,
was our host this week
on the Tyendinaga Reservation.
Murray took us to the beautifully restored Chapel Royal of Christ Church where he worships every Sunday with a growing Ordinariate community. Mass according to Divine Worship: The Missal is currently celebrated monthly in the Chapel, thus preserving the Mohawk Anglican patrimony within the full communion of the Catholic Church.
The Ordinariate Catholic community of Christ the King has its home in one of the very few Chapels Royal outside of the U.K., marking, in a dramatic way, the unity which is the hope and promise of the Ordinariates around the world.
The community dates to the arrival in Canada of the Mohawk people who were loyal to the Crown during the Revolutionary War in the USA. Mohawks at the time were both Anglican and Catholic and sided with the British against the rebellion in 1776.
Royal Arms over the west door of the Chapel Royal
By the 1800s they had built Her Majesty's Chapel Royal of the Mohawk and brought the Queen Anne silver which had been given to the Mohawk nation as a gift from Queen Anne when they still lived and worshipped along the Mohawk River in what is today New York State.
The chancel and sanctuary of the Chapel Royal, Tyendinaga
The NY territory is near the site of the birth of St. Kateri Tekakwitha. Today the original Mohawk homeland is marked with the U.S. Shrine commemorating St. Kateri who is the first aboriginal woman and Mohawk to be declared a saint.
Christ the King Ordinariate community has been welcomed to use the Chapel on Sundays and Feast Days by the Chief and Council of the Tyendinaga Mohawk Reserve. The current Chief is a Catholic convert and member of the Ordinariate community. Note the corpus of Christ added to the top of the rood screen.
Jane Hodgins looks at the beautifully restored Chapel Royal with
Murray O'Coin who oversees the growing Ordinariate community
at Tyendinaga
Fr. John Hodgins with Murray O'Coin at Christ Church, Chapel Royal of the Mohawks
The Flags of Canada, the Mohawk First Nation and the Union Jack fly in front of the Chapel Royal and the cemetery of the Mohawk community.
Note the cross in the bottom
left panel. This replacement
glass depicts the
Queen Anne Silver
with the Ordinariate Cross
in the Chapel which is legally
the property of
the Mohawk community.
Our Lady of Guadaloupe, patroness of
the Americas, has a special place in
the hearts of her sister aboriginal people
in the north of the Americas.
The beautiful altar cross given to
the Chapel Royal by the King in
the Georgian period features depictions
of the Our Lady as well as
the four Gospel writers. Notice the
Ten Commandments written in the
Mohawk language forms
part of the reredos.
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Patrick Dopson is now prepping for his sophomore release GOD IS on his indie label Oilonit Music and Central South Distribution by releasing a new radio single and title track “GOD Is”.
Dopson has established his distinguished soulful voice as one that God has designated a special anointing for praise and worship and to cross, tear down and unify racial, cultural and denominational barriers.
Patrick is a 2014 Stellar Award winner who, by his pen, delivers poignant lyrics and life-changing music. His 2012 debut project Open the Heavens yielded signature hits “Keep Me” and “Open The Heavens”.
“I started writing this song by really asking God two things about this record,” Patrick shares. “One, ‘what is it that you want to say to your people?’ and two, ‘what do you want your people saying back to you – how do You want to be worshipped?’. There was simply no other intent.” Patrick concludes, “This particular song really was pulling on me. I knew it was supposed to be the single before I wrote it.”
“With my song “Keep Me” people became aware of how God carried me and my wife Christina through the challenges of conceiving a child,” Patrick shares. “We were blessed to adopt our son Garion and he has changed our lives forever. In this season, God has placed a couple of new and exciting items on our plate that is far more than we can accomplish on our own. We know it’s going to be all Him. So this new single ‘GOD Is’ is definitely reiterating our dependence being fully on Him; Giving us the faith to stand on our feet and say GOD IS!”
“GOD Is” will be available on iTunes March 18 and is available for pre-order now. Patrick has released the official lyric video to “GOD Is” on Youtube. Supporters can log on to www.Oilonit.com for current tour dates as a national tour will soon be announced.
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Oedipus was a detective in search of himself.
How could Harriet Miers know her path was his as she led her search committee toward the next Supreme Court Nominee?
How could I know how similar to Jackie Mason I would feel in expressing that parallel?
Is a "how could you" question answerable or rhetorical, asked by someone making a point?
Yet I ask it.
-- How could you? I can't even look at you. Don't let it happen again.
Sunday, October 2nd from 5PM to 6PM at the Bryat Park Book Fair, continued.
As for my Book Fair report, following Art Spiegelman in the New York Times Book Review tent was Pamela Paul to personally introduce us to her new book, "Pornified."
If you sense a kinetic energy in your hotel room, then perhaps it's because, sniff-sniff, it's been pornified!
In case I was not already alarmed by my potential comments about a hundred million dollar industry, following Pamela Paul and a summer camp break with Christopher Lehman-Haupt, was author Ariel Levy, introducing her new, red book, Female Chauvinist Pigs, describing her undercover work during the spring break shoot of a show called "Girls Gone Wild." (This show, immortalized by Larry David in a Curb Your Enthusiasm episode, is mostly comprised of minimally solicited public-breast-bearing "reality" clips. In syndication, perhaps it should rerun as "Girls Went Wild.")
If I add anything to the self-perceptions of the "wild" ones whose body displays were freely offered to cameras in those episodes -- especially to those who masturbated –- it is this suggestion; rather than being victimized in retrospect, consider the respect you offered to a 100 million dollar industry and its customers by mooning them.
Perhaps there are times when the act of observing something does NOT change it. Let voyeurs watch. The power to change in their observation is negligible compared with a scientist looking for an electron through a microscope.
Yes, bodies are fascinating, ever-surprising in their breath-taking beauty, and worthy of time spent looking at them.
No, I haven't seen March of the Penguins, but I'll bet we benefit by observing them, too.
If pornography is images of people who prepare and present themselves and others in various displays of sexual arousal then, yes, the world is pornified.
But what is pornography? The knowledge of it, like the knowledge Adam and Eve acquired about being naked in the Garden of Eden, was contained in the definition; "I KNOW it when I see it."
The standard has become what a community/planet will tolerate.
Perhaps for sexual arousal to be pornographic a measure of self-hatred is required.
Pamela Paul's featured video description was of “sheiks” clenching Abu Ghraib prison photos as they surrounded the military-garbed woman they held responsible.
In this video after a suggested decapitation they drench the woman with their self generated kinetic fluids.
“Masturbatable,” perhaps with self-hatred. Consider, in response to the blinding rage "generatable" from the previous near-dada description, how powerful emotions (i.e., hate, love...) readily couple with physical feelings of sexual (reproductive) arousal.
-- Don't just stand there, do something.
-- I can't. It's on film; it already happened.
To write one of these MD posts I like to have some kind of general interest update to share.
I just returned from a day of jury duty in 2d Dept. Federal Court, and no I wasn't picked but I was among the first called to join a panel seated within a beautiful courtroom jury box after watching a hypnotizing video projection. I didn't catch the video title but it was directed by Jody E. George of the Federal Judicial Center and screened in double projection with capital-letter-captioning, white on black.
"We're going to show you a film. What the film does is give you a brief idea of what it's like to do jury service here in Federal Court."
Yes, it cast a spell upon all, turning random individuals into prospective jurors.
Only by the judge saying these magic words, "You are excused," may the juror spell be broken, and he did to me, so I missed out on determing the controversy raised by Ralph Lauren suing Jordache and the United States Polo Association for trademark infringement of the double horse logo, which I confess I cannot picture.
The judge conducted the voir dire of the jurors as the eight attorneys and two rows of interested observers sat with senses on alert.
"Do you rent or own where you live?"
In addition to clearly establishing the trial schedule, Judge George B. Daniels asked other probative questions, and unearthed amazing coincidences. (i.e. My husband is a partner in the plaintiff's firm, I'm friends with one of the defense attorneys (waves exchanged) and I just submitted an opposition brief to your honor on another matter., or -- I provided fringes for Lauren clothes, I met him often and yes, he was very good to me., -- Or, most generally, my attorney suffered a psychotic episode and was disbarred during my med mal trial.)
A jury of eight was quickly, impressively, and admirably had.
I went for lunch to the corner dim sum place and ran into the owner of a sea food restaurant, "Up the River," in Westley near Mystic. He and I struck up a conversation because I couldn't help noticing that his shirt had a bright polo insignia of a man on a horse swinging a mallet. Now there's an original trademark for a polo shirt.
Look, if you invest, time, money and effort in some(any)thing, then you should have at least the modicum of self-interest (and intelligence) to create a defendable ownership stake in it...
The jury service waiting time after lunch was an opportunity to read the daily free paper, "AM New York." A brief article within it speculated about the identity of Bush's next supreme court nominee. Will it be his former personal attorney?
Again, if you, the term-limit-public-servant, have a choice discretion, you may also wish to factor self-interest into the equation.
Suddenly here appears a general header for everything I write:
Dear gentle reader, I don't readily access past sensory observations as readily as I access the internet so an additional purpose served by this writing is to refresh my memory.
Furthermore, my undercover expose' tone (like I'm a spy on the "Girls Gone Wild" shoot) is a reverberation from what I enjoyed yesterday afternoon when I attended -- and forgive me because any literature distributed at the event had run out by the time I arrived at 5PM -- some kind of book fair at the park (Bryant) behind The New York Public Library.
Multiple tents were up, plus a carousel! One tent had a waiting line extending throughout half the park, because a panel discussion by New York Times Op Ed writers was soon to ensue within.
Another little tent was wide open for seating. I heard the buzz word, Heidegger, and asked a distinctively tee-shirted attendant. She said that speaking in there was Harry Frankfurt (I am only now realizing that the City of Frankfurt is his surname) reading from his philosophical treatise "On Bullshit." (on dancer on donner on prancer...).
The word "Bullshit" still has its punch as a period, a conversation stopper, or at least, as an argument starter.
Mr. Frankfurt's primary observation is that the bullshiter simply doesn't care if what he says is the truth in contrast with Iago, that liar, who does.
He concluded by reading from his treatise what I will paraphrase as follows: Our general acceptance of bullshit means that we, yearning for its substitute, discern and respect sincerity. A person whose expression holds the ring of truth, from being true to him or herself, is the final exemplar of bullshit, because in truth, no matter how true to ourselves we sincerely are, reality exists apart from our perception and expression of it.
I agree, even as I, with all my sensory caveats, seek clarifying expressions of reality.
That little reading tent was like The New York Times Book Review, Live, and I kept getting up, and then sat back down after they announced the next author.
I knew of Harry Frankfurt's book, as well as Pamela Paul's Pornified and Ariel Levy's Female Chauvenist Pigs from the past year's New York Times Book Review. And the novel The Mad Cook of Pymatuning was read by its author, Christopher Lehman-Haupt, a reviewer of books for the New York Times.
As for the Target Logo appearing within the New York Times banner behind these authors in the little tent, although it remains unclear what the "Target" trademark represents, I am familiar with it because its trademark holders, whoever they are, had bought out an entire New Yorker issue’s ad space for red and black graphics, making that issue so obviously a collector’s item that I promptly threw it away.
Also appearing within the tent was the amazing Art Spiegelman. He followed Mr. Frankfurt and I sat down in disbelief immediately upon hearing his name as I greatly admired Maus and enjoyed his attention-grabbing New Yorker Covers. He crucified the Easter Bunny over some tax forms and illustrated the slurp kiss between two people who would more likely share an employer/employee relationship, among other covers suggestive of George Grosz paintings. Mr. Spiegelman did the black on black World Trade Center cover in the wake of their demolition. What better person to do the cover? Not only does his family live two blocks from the calamitous site but his is wife the cover editor for the New Yorker. After his presentation he went to sign copies of his "graphic novel," In the Shadow of No Towers.
I am sorry to only now think of asking him, does he have any update on the activities of his fellow Raw comic book artist, Mark Beyer?
I must go now. MORE LATER...
tail-end notes...
Supposedly you could get your book appraised from professional booksellers at this fair; someone showed me multiple hardcover first edition copies of On The Road. No, I could not imagine what they were worth and thanked him for letting me look at them.
Somehow, the idea that buying a 15 dollar N.Y.T. tote bag would entitle one to enter an area of, and fill the bag with, gently used books was vaguely annoying.
Oh, thank you for telling me about the book fair.
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Averages Mixtures and Alligation-Exercise Questions
Averages Mixtures and Alligation-Exercise Questions updated on Jan 2020
1) Find the average of first 40 natural numbers.
a. 20.5
c. 19.5
2) Find the average of all the numbers between 6 and 34 which are divisible by 5
3) The average of 2,7,6 and x is 5 and the average of 18,1,6,x and y is 10. What is the value of y?
4) The average of 7 consecutive numbers is 20. The largest of these numbers is
5) Nine persons went to a hotel for taking their meals. Eight of them spent Rs 12 each on their meals and the ninth spent Rs.8 more than the average expenditure of all the nine. What was the total money spent by them?
6) In seven given numbers, the average of first four numbers is 4 and that of the last four
numbers is also 4. If the average of these seven numbers is 3, the fourth number is
7) The average weight of 29 students is 28 kg. By the admission of a new student, the average weight is reduced to 27.8 kg. The weight of the new student is
a. 22 kg
b. 21.6 kg
c. 22.4 kg
d. 21 kg
8) The average age of a committee of 8 members is 40 years. A member aged 55 years
retired and his place was taken by another member aged 39 years . The average age of
present committee is;
a. 39 years
b. 38 years
c. 36 years
d. 35 years
9) Eight persons participated in a shooting competition. The top score in the competition is 85 points. Had the top score been 92 points instead of 85 points, the average score would have been 84. Find the number of points actually scored in the competition.
10) Find the average of all even numbers upto 75.
11) The average mark of a class of twenty students is 64. If three students whose marks are 32,28 and 34 are removed , then find the approximate average mark of the remaining students of the class.
12) The number of students in the three sections of a class are in the ratio 2:3:4. The average marks scored in each of these sections is in the ratio 4:3:1. By what percent is the average mark of the second section more than the class average?
a. 23.27%
b. 28.57%
c. 32.38%
d. 36.74%
13) The average age of 40 students is 8 years. If the age of teacher is also included , then their average age increases by half a year. What is the age of the teacher?
b. 48.5 years
c. 28.5 years
d. 26.5 years
14) Eight kilograms of rice costing Rs. 16 per kg is mixed with four kilograms of rice costing Rs. 22 per kg. What is the average price of the mixture?
15) How many kilograms of tea powder costing Rs. 31 per kg be mixed with 36 kilograms of tea powder costing Rs. 43 per kg, such that the mixture when sold at Rs. 44 per kg gives profit of 10%?
16) A solution of 66 litres contains milk and water in the ratio 7:x. If four litres of water is added to the solution, the ratio becomes 3:2, find the value of x?
17) A single refined oil can contains 20% impurities. After double – refining it contains 4% impurities. How much of double- refined oil can be obtained from 30 litres of single refined oil?
a. 24.0 litres
b. 24.8 litres
c. 25.0 litres
d. 25.5 litres
18) A mixture of 20 kg of spirit and water contains 10% water. How much water must be added to this mixture to raise the percentage of water to 25%
a. 4 kg
b. 5 kg
c. 8 kg
d. 30 k
19) A can contains a mixture of two liquids A and B in the ratio 7:5. When 9 litres of mixture are drawn off and the can is filled with B, the ratio of A and B becomes 7:9. How many litres of liquid A was contained by the can initially?
20) Equal weights of two alloys containing tin, copper and lead in the ratio 3:2:7 and 4:11:3 are melted and mixed together. What is the ratio of tin, copper and lead in the resultant alloy?
a. 41:81:37
b. 33:91:81
c. 17:28:27
d. 51:86:89
Answer & Explanations
1. Exp. Sum of first n natural numbers = n( n+1)
So, sum of first 40 natural numbers = 40*41/2 = 820
Required average =820/40 =20.5
2. Exp. Multiples of 5 between 6 and 34 are 10,15,20,25,30
Average = (10+15+20+25+30)/5 =5(10+30)/2*5 = 40/2 =20
3. Exp. We have : ( 2+7+6+x)/4 = 5 or 15+x =20 or x = 5
Also (18+1+6+x+y)/5 = 10, 25+5+y = 50, y =20
4. Exp. Let the first number be x, Then the last number is ( x+6)
Average = x+(x+1)+(x+2)+(x+3)+(x+3)+(x+4)+(x+5)+(x+6) = 20
7x + 21 = 20*7 = 140, 7x =119, x = 17
The largest number =x+6 =17+6 = 23
5. Exp. Let the total expenditure be x, Then the average = x/9,
8*12+ [x/9+8] =x or [ x-x/9] =104.
8x/9 = 104, x =104*9/8 =117.
6. Exp. Let the fourth number be x, Then , First three + x = 4
First three +x = 16, x + last three = 4, x + last three = 16,
(First three + x) + last three = 3, First three +x + last three = 7*3 = 21
16 + (16 -x ) = 21, x = 32 – 21 = 11
7. Exp . The total weight of 29 students = 29* 28
The total weight of 30 students = 30* 27.8
Weight of the new student = ( 30*27.8 – 29*28)
= 834 - 812 = 22
8. Exp. Total age of the committee = 40*8 = 320,
Total age when a member is retired
and a new one was joined = 320-55 +39, =304
Average age of present committee = 304/8 = 38.
9. Exp. Let the actual number of points scored be x,
Then [ x + (92 –85 )] /8 = 84, ( x + 7) /8 = 84 , x = ( 84*8 )- 7,
= 672 - 7 = 665
10. Exp. Average of all even numbers upto 75 = [ 35/2* ( first even number +
greatest even number before 75) ]/35 = ½ *(2 +74 ) = 76/2 = 38.
11. Exp. Total mark of 20 students = 64*20 = 1280,
Total mark after the removal of 3 students = 1280 –(32 +28+34 )
= 1280 – 94 = 1186
Approximate average mark = 1186/(20-3) = 1186/ 17 = 70
12. Exp. Let the number of students be 2x, 3x, 4x.
Let the average marks be 4y,3y,y.
Average mark of class = ( 8xy+9xy+4xy)/(2x+3x+4x) =21xy/9x=7y/3
Percentage difference = ( 3y - 7y/3)/7y/3 *100 = 28.57%
13. Exp. Total age of 40 students = 40*8 = 320
Let the age of the the teacher be x, Then (320+x)/41 = 8+1/2 =8 ½.
320+x =17/2*41 =697/2 = 348.5, x =348.5-320 = 28.5
14. Exp. P1 = Rs.16 per kg, p2 = Rs. 22 per kg, q1 = 8 kg, q2 = 4 kg
Now , p = (p1q1+p2q2)/(q1+q2)
Average price of the mixture = 8*16+4*22/12 = 128+88/12
= 216 /12 = 18
15. Exp. SP of the mixture = 44, Profit =10%, Then CP = SP*100/110
44*100/110 = Rs. 40 per kg
Using alligation rule, the required ratio =
= 1:3
If 36 kg is 3 part then 1 part is 36*1/3 =12
16. Exp. Total new quantity = original sol + water =66+4 =70
New ratio = 3:2, New quantity of milk =3/5*70 = 42 Lit,
New quantity of water = 2/5*70 = 28 Lit
Water present initially = (28-4) = 24 Lit
Ratio = 42/24 =7/4 There for x = 4
17. Exp. On double- refining impurity decreases from 20% to 4%., but the
amount of pure oil in both cases remains constant,
i.e, 96% of double refined oil = 80% of single refined oil.
Let x be the quantity of double-refined oil
Then 96*x/100 = 80*30/100, x = 30*80 /96 = 25
18. Exp. Water in the given mixture = 10*20/100 =2 kg,
And spirit = (20-2) = 18 kg
Let x kg of water added, Then, x+2/20+x *100 ==25
4x+8 =20+x, or x =4 kg
19. Exp. Suppose the can initially contains 7x and 5x litres mixtures A and B
Quantity of A in mix. left =[7x –7/12 * 9 ] =[7x –21/4]
Quantity of B in mix. left =[5x –5/12 *9 ] = [ 5x - 15/4 ]
Therefore [ 7x-21/4 ] =7/9 or 28x-21 = 7/9
[5x-15/4]+9 20x+21
252x -189 =140x+147 or 112x =336 , x = 3.
Quantity of A in the can initially =7*3 =21
20. Exp. Let the weight of the two alloys be w each
Required ratio =
(3w/12 +4w/18): ( 2w/12 +11w/18 ): (7w/12+3w/18)
= 17w/36 : 28w/36 : 27w/36
= 17:28: 27
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Alternative Therapeutic Method for Type Two Diabetes: Whole Body Vibration Therapy: A Mini-Review
Erika L Simmerman1, Xu Qin1,2, Henrik O Berdel1,3, Mahmood S Mozaffari1, Babak Baban1, Jack C Yu1,4
1Department of Oral Biology, Georgia Regents University, Building CL2140, 1120 15th St, Augusta, GA, USA
2Tongue Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Department of Stomatology, Wuhan, Hubei, China
3Palmeto Health/University of South Carolina School of Medicine, Columbia, SC, USA
4Department of Surgery, Division of Plastic Surgery, Georgia Regents University, Building HB-5040, 1120 15th, Augusta, GA, USA
Babak Baban
Department of Oral Biology
Georgia Regents University
Building CL2140, 1120 15th St, Augusta, GA, USA
Phone +706-721-2032
Fax +706-721-6252
Received November 14th, 2015 - Accepted January 6th, 2016
Context As the prevalence of obesity and diabetes continues to increase there is a need for new interventions to control this epidemic. Multiple alternative treatment methods exist for type 2 diabetes mellitus such as acupuncture, bariatric surgery, yoga, aromatherapy, herbal remedies, etc. Whole Body Vibration is a relatively new area of interest recently utilized as an adjunctive therapy in type 2 diabetes mellitus, representing a potentially new and novel treatment for type 2 diabetes mellitus. Objective The primary objective of this study was to summarize current literature regarding the effects of whole body vibration on type 2 diabetes mellitus. This review details the effect of whole body vibration on areas of high clinical impact in the treatment of type 2 diabetes mellitus such as glycemic control, body composition, renal function, inflammatory indices, peripheral neuropathy, and wound healing. Methods Reviewers independently screened abstracts and full texts in journal articles and books to extract data from multiple studies and literature to compile a current review on the topic of whole body vibration and diabetes mellitus. Results Current literature in murine and human models reported an overall improvement in glycemic control, renal function, inflammatory indices, and peripheral neuropathy following whole body vibration therapy. Whole body vibration effect on body mass composition is controversial with inconsistent reports of the effect on lean mass, bone density, and fat mass. Conclusions Whole body vibration has demonstrated significant promise in improving multiple systems related to the sequela of type 2 diabetes mellitus, thereby suggesting a new and novel treatment modification in this patient population. Subsequent studies are needed to further analyze the effect of whole body vibration on type 2 diabetes mellitus.
Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2; Diabetic Nephropathies; Diabetic Neuropathies; Hemoglobin A, Glycosylated; Wound Healing
T2DM type 2 diabetes mellitus; WBV whole body vibration;
Diabetes is the fifth leading cause of death in the US, and according to the National Diabetes Statistics Report in 2014 approximately 29 million Americans are living with diabetes mellitus with the majority being type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) [1]. It is reported that every 10 seconds a person dies worldwide secondary to a diabetesrelated pathology [2]. The prevalence of childhood obesity continues to rise dramatically, going hand in hand with the increased incidence of T2DM. According to recent studies, 25% of children and adolescents are overweight or obese [3]. The prevalence of T2DM in adolescents 12 to 19 years rose from 9% in 1999/2000 to a staggering 23% in 2007/2008 according to the 2008 National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) [4, 5]. Excess caloric intake combined with decreased physical activity and energy expenditure as a result of a more sedentary lifestyle has led to this inevitable increase in T2DM and obesity. These lifestyle trends have resulted in a staggering rise of Lifestyle-Related Chronic Diseases including diabetes, obesity, hypertension, and cardiovascular disease [6]. With the increasing prevalence of T2DM, there is increasing economical burden worldwide as a result of secondary health complications [2].
Central obesity, impaired insulin secretion from pancreatic B-cells, and decreased insulin sensitivity of peripheral tissues contribute to insulin resistance which results in hyperglycemia and ultimately T2DM as a result of a progressive imbalance in glucose homeostasis. Recent studies have reported pancreatic beta cells as regulators of rhythmic transcription genes controlling insulin secretion, revealing an essential role of the circadian timing system in diabetes [7, 8]. Excess visceral adipose tissue is independently associated with the development of diabetes secondary to increased insulin resistance [4, 9]. Impaired insulin-induced signal transduction results in peripheral insulin resistance via impairment of membrane translocation of glucose transporters [1, 10]. Pharmacologic treatment has focused on improving tissue sensitivity, increasing insulin levels, and reducing carbohydrate absorption from the gastrointestinal tract [2]. In short, the pathogenesis behind T2DM is multifactorial and requires evolving treatment modalities to improve management of this complex disease process.
Nutrition and exercise are the number one recommendations for treatment of T2DM. With regular exercise there is an increase in energy expenditure with the expectation of decreasing peripheral adipose tissue. With resistance training and aerobic exercise there is generally a reduction in HbA1c, fasting glucose, hyperlipidemia, and hypertension [11]. Exercise may also improve glycemic control in T2DM due to anti-inflammatory properties as demonstrated in animal models [1, 12-14]. Although this approach is the most recommended, there is low compliance long term with strenuous and time-consuming exercise regimens. Thus, there is the need for developing new and novel treatment strategies. Like exercise, whole body vibration (WBV) exerts mechanical stresses on the skeleton, which could potentially indicate a novel exercise modification. It may allow the health benefits of exercise without the intensity and duration of standard sustained exercise programs. This review will detail specific findings involving the effects of standard high frequency, low-amplitude WBV on factors related to T2DM such as body mass composition, glycemic control, renal function, inflammation, peripheral neuropathy, and wound healing.
WHAT IS WHOLE BODY VIBRATION (WBV)?
Whole Body Vibration (WBV) is a relatively new area of interest in medicine with increasing focus on the effects WBV has on various systems. It has demonstrated promise as a new modality in therapy for a number of different disease processes. Utilizing specific frequencies and amplitudes, WBV transmits vibration via vertical (synchronous) or side-alternating (oscillating) platforms to the body while standing on the delivering platform [15, 16]. Frequencies and amplitudes delivered through the vibrating platforms range between 5-90 Hz and up to 10mm respectively [17]. During WBV treatment with low magnitude/high frequency vibration, mechanical stimuli are transmitted throughout the body, loading bone and stimulating sensory receptors and muscle spindles, which in turn causes contractions that lead to tonic vibration reflexes [15-17]. This ultimately elicits a warm-up effect, which can improve muscle power and strength [16].
Many studies utilizing WBV have been performed on patients with neurologic disorders such as Parkinson’s, Cerebral palsy, stroke, etc. to evaluate the benefits on spasticity, rigidity, tremor, balance, and muscle weakness [15]. WBV has also been a major area of focus in athletic conditioning and rehabilitation. More recent studies have focused on vibration exercises to prevent osteoporosis and muscular atrophy, to improve muscle strength and balance, to improve skin blood flow, and to improve glycemic control [18-21]. Although not as extensively studied, more recent research is focusing on the application of WBV therapy in T2DM as discussed below. The beauty of utilizing WBV as an exercise modality is the reduced time and effort required of individuals when compared with standard exercise regimens, thus representing a potentially new and novel adjunctive therapy in T2DM.
WHOLE BODY VIBRATION THERAPY AND TYPE 2 DIABETES MELLITUS
Effects of WBV on Glucose Metabolism
Glycemic control is the cornerstone of treatment of diabetes and the degree of glycemic control is directly related to the risk for diabetic complications [2]. Therefore, treatment is aimed at reducing hyperglycemia to minimize these complications. Many studies have demonstrated improved glucose control with the use of WBV therapy. Studies have been performed in murine and human models to evaluate the effects of WBV on glucose control. A clinical report from Germany in 2007 demonstrated superior glycemic control in elderly patients with T2DM treated with WBV when compared to the control [20]. This study utilized a daily horizontal swing administering WBV at 2mm maximum amplitude and a frequency of 30 Hz for three weeks, reporting a decrease in peak fasting glucose concentrations of 6% following oral glucose tolerance testing [20].
Yin et al. studied the effects of WBV therapy on diabetic (db/db) and non-diabetic (db/m) mice. This study demonstrated a reduced HbA1c (~22 %; p <0.05) in the vibrated diabetic mice when compared with nonvibrated diabetic mice; however, WBV did not affect HbA1c levels in the non-diabetic mice (Figure 1) [1]. The authors of this study prompted further speculation that an osteocyte-dependent process may be a likely contributor to the regulation of glucose. The reasoning behind this postulation lies in the bone’s role as an endocrine organ secreting osteocalcin which leads to an increase in B-cell mass, insulin secretion, and insulin sensitivity, which ultimately will lower blood glucose [1, 22]. The skeleton undergoes stress secondary to muscle contractions and gravitation during exercise, creating fluid flow within the lacuna-canalicular systems of the bone [1, 23]. This results in osteocyte stimulation to signal for osteoblast synthesis and release of osteocalcin [1, 24]. Therefore, osteocalcin could potentially cause the exercise-induced improvement in insulin sensitivity and glucose control secondary to the exercise stimulated increased release of osteocalcin by bone (Figure 2) [1, 25]. Although the reason for improved glycemic control is unclear, the data from the mouse model strongly suggests that WBV has beneficial effects on glucose metabolism [1].
Figure 1. HbA1c levels of non-vibrated and vibrated db/m and db/db mice; data are mean +/- SD of n=6 animals for each group.
*p<0.05 compared to their respective db/m controls.
**p<0.05 compared to their non-vibrated counterparts [1].
Figure 2. The effect of WBV on glycemic control. Muscle contraction leads to osteocyte stimulation and osteocalcin release, which increases beta cell mass, insulin secretion, and insulin sensitivity, thereby decreasing blood glucose. Energy expenditure with exercise increases the translocation of GLUT-4 receptors, increasing influx of glucose into cells, thereby decreasing blood glucose levels.
Glut-4 is a specific glucose transporter found in adipocytes and skeletal muscle that facilitates movement of glucose into the cell following insulin stimulation which is of particular interest in this topic as resistance training increases energy expenditure as well as insulin-induced membrane translocation of GLUT-4 [1, 10]. If WBV does indeed mimic resistance training and achieves the same physiologic effects, it could stimulate this insulin-induced membrane translocation of GLUT-4, providing an additional logical reason behind the improved glycemic control seen in subjects following WBV therapy (Figure 2).
Pozo-Cruz et al. performed a study on the feasibility and safety of utilizing WBV treatment for 12 weeks to reduce cardiovascular risk factors in T2DM patients with a sedentary lifestyle [11]. They demonstrated a reduction in HbA1c and fasting glucose in patients with T2DM in a primary care setting [11]. Alfonso-Rosa et al. further described the cost-utility of a 12-wk WBV treatment in patients with T2DM, demonstrating that WBV in comparison to standard care is indeed cost-effective [26].
There is great promise with WBV as a treatment modality in patients with T2DM to improve glycemic control. WBV may simulate actual exercise in a manner that stimulates similar pathways thus causing improvement in glucose metabolism. More extensive studies are needed to further evaluate the effects of WBV on glycemic control.
Effects of WBV on Renal Function
Diabetic nephropathy is a major complication affecting approximately 40% of patients worldwide and has been reported as one of the leading causes of renal failure in the United States [2]. The cause of diabetic nephropathy is a result of progressive microvascular disease resulting from a chronic hyperglycemic state. Very few studies have been performed that focus on the effects of WBV on renal function with virtually no discussion of the effect in humans. However, this is a critical system to study secondary to the natural disease process of diabetes largely impacting the renal system. A few select studies exist utilizing murine models that demonstrate promise for improvement in renal function following WBV therapy.
Lin et al. studied WBV benefits on diet-induced obese middle-aged mice to evaluate body composition, exercise performance, and physical fatigue-related and biochemical responses [27]. This study utilized both high frequency WBV (13 Hz, 2mm, 0.68g) and low frequency WBV (5.6 Hz, 2 mm, 0.13 g), reporting a dose-dependent decrease in creatinine that was seen in mice treated with WBV compared to controls (p=0.0020) [27].
In an investigation of diabetic nephropathy performed by Mozaffari et al. there was a reported increase in immunostaining of gamma-H2AX (a marker of cell injury) in renal tissue in diabetic mice when compared with nondiabetic mice [28]. In another study by Baban et al. renal cells prepared from kidneys of diabetic mice demonstrated an increase in IL-17 (pro-inflammatory marker) in diabetic mice when compared to non-diabetic mice [29]. Yin et al. reported a statistically significant decrease in IL- 17 and gamma-H2AX in diabetic mice treated with WBV when compared to unvibrated diabetic mice. This could demonstrate a significant impact on renal function.
Yin et al. further addressed renal function in terms of measuring water intake, urine excretion, and urine osmolality in adolescent diabetic and non-diabetic mice [1]. In this study, WBV did not affect urine osmolality or urine output but did stimulate an increase in fluid intake in the non-diabetic mice [1]. However, the diabetic mice demonstrated reduced fluid intake by 25%, decreased urine excretion, and increased urine osmolality by 28%, consistent with improved urinary concentrating abilities [1].
If whole body vibration can improve creatinine and decrease cellular damage to kidneys, one could postulate that this could have a significant impact on the treatment and prevention of diabetic nephropathy. Additional research is needed in this area to evaluate the effects of WBV on the renal system.
Effects of WBV on Body Mass Composition
If WBV is considered a modification of resistance training exercise then one would expect that it should help decrease body fat, increase lean mass, and improve bone density. In an obese subject, one would expect a decrease in weight following WBV therapy. Unfortunately, current research results that focus on this area are controversial as to the true effect of WBV on body composition.
In a murine model, Yin et al. did not demonstrate a significant difference in weight between vibrated and non-vibrated mice in both the diabetic group and nondiabetic group of mice [1]. However, specific lean mass versus adipose tissue was not evaluated in this model. Lin et al. studied body composition in their research of WBV in diet induced, middle aged mice [27]. This study again demonstrated no difference in body weight; however, they did report a significant decrease in the absolute and relative weight of the liver as well as a frequency dosedependent increase in the absolute and relative weight of brown adipose tissue [27].
With regards to human research, Gonzalez-Aguero et al. studied the effect of WBV on body composition in adolescents with Down syndrome. After measuring upper and lower limb body fat and lean body mass, they reported a reduction in body fat of the upper limbs (p<0.05) and an increase in whole body lean mass following 20 weeks of WBV therapy [30]. Conversely, Pitukcheewanont et al. and Söderpalm et al. reported no difference in femoral fat mass following WBV treatment as measured by Computed Tomography and Dual energy X-ray modalities respectively [31, 32]. Pitukcheewanont et al. did, however, report significant increases of 6.2% in cancellous bone density, 2.1% in cortical bone density, and 6.1% in muscle mass [31]. Pozo-Cruz et al. reported no significant difference in weight in T2DM following a 12-wk WBV regimen, although they did demonstrate a significant reduction in lipidrelated cardiovascular risk factors such as cholesterol, triglycerides, and atherogenic index [11].
Animal models with osteoporosis have been studied and demonstrated improved bone density and bone strength following treatment with short-term lowintensity, high frequency mechanical stimulation [31]. As previously stated, Pitukcheewanont et al. demonstrated an increase in bone density in children, though it was studied in children with pre-existing low bone density [31]. Söderpalm et al. reported no significant change in bone mass, muscle strength, or bone density when studying the effect of WBV therapy in patients with Duchene Muscular Dystrophy but did report an increase in a marker for bone formation: bone-specific alkaline phosphate [32]. Ruck et al. studied WBV therapy in children with cerebral palsy and actually found an increase in areal bone mineral density at the lumbar spine but a decrease in bone density in the diaphysis of the femur in the WBV group [33].
Much controversy exists regarding the effects of WBV on body composition. Although WBV has not been reported to have a significant impact on weight, it may affect individual aspects to overall improve body composition. If WBV can reduce body fat while increasing lean body mass and bone density, it would again demonstrate a possible alternative or adjunctive treatment option for obesity and T2DM. Further research focusing on individual aspects of body composition will be helpful to determine the effects of WBV on fat mass, lean muscle mass, and bone density.
Effects of WBV on Inflammatory Indices
Recent studies have reported that the pathology of diabetes involves chronic inflammatory processes, necessitating treatment of inflammatory events in this patient population [2]. Mozaffari et al. described multiple studies focusing on the interplay of systemic and tissue specific inflammatory events involved in the “diabetesassociated immune response” [2]. Insulin resistance and islet beta-cell dysfunction in T2DM has been reported to be secondary to oxidative stress, endoplasmic reticulum stress, lipid deposition in muscle, liver, and pancreas, amyloid deposition in the pancreas, and more [34]. Donath et al. reported immunological changes altered in obesity and T2DM such as specific cytokines and chemokines, leukocyte populations, tissue fibrosis, and apoptosis, suggesting the relationship between inflammation and the pathogenesis of T2DM [34]. Teixeira-Lemos described the anti-oxidant and anti-inflammatory effects of regular exercise as treatment and prevention of T2DM, recognizing this crucial interplay between inflammation and diabetes [12].
WBV has reportedly exerted beneficial effects on indices of inflammation and cell injury [1]. Yin et al. demonstrated a reduced pro-inflammatory profile and less cytotoxicity in mice treated with WBV by analyzing the whole blood of experimental animals for IL17 (a pro-inflammatory cytokine and marker of T helper cells) and Foxp3 (an antiinflammatory marker of regulatory T cells) expression [1, 35, 36]. IL-17 positive cells and Foxp3 positive cells were significantly reduced and increased respectively in the vibrated diabetic mice when compared to non-vibrated diabetic mice (Figure 3) [1].
Figure 3. FACS analysis of IL-17 (a) and Foxp3 (b) positive cells of peripheral blood obtained from vibrated and non-vibrated db/m and db/db mice; data are mean +/- SD of percent of CD4+ cells of n=6 mice/group.
*p<0.05 compared to their respective controls.
Further evaluation of the expression of gamma-H2AX (a marker of DNA injury) demonstrated a markedly reduced percent of whole blood cells testing positive for gamma- H2AX in the vibrated db/db mice when compared to nonvibrated db/db mice (Figure 4) [1, 28, 37].
Figure 4. FACS analysis of gama-H2AX expression of vibrated vs. nonvibrated db/m and db/db mice; data are expressed as mean +/- SD of percent of total peripheral blood cells (n=6 animals/group).
Overall these studies demonstrated improvement in inflammatory parameters with a decrease in cellular injury following WBV therapy. With inflammation identified as an integral factor in the pathogenesis of T2DM it is necessary to focus on treatments that will affect the inflammatory profile. If these studies can be translated to humans, WBV may indeed improve inflammatory parameter and in turn contribute to the treatment of T2DM.
Effects of WBV on Peripheral Neuropathy in Patients with Type 2 Diabetes
Peripheral neuropathy is commonly found in patients with long-standing diabetes mellitus as a result of progressive microvascular disease causing decreased blood flow to the skin and ultimately peripheral somatosensory deficits. In fact, neuropathies are one of the most common complications of diabetes mellitus, representing roughly 60% of non-traumatic amputations in the United States [19, 38].
Recent research has demonstrated the positive impact WBV has on balance in patients with peripheral neuropathy. Yoosefinejad et al. performed a study evaluating the short-term effects of WBV on the balance and muscle strength of patients with T2DM and pre-existing peripheral neuropathy. They reported significantly increased strength of the tibialis anterior (p=0.004) and quadriceps muscles (p=0.05) after only 6 weeks of WBV therapy [39]. This study also demonstrated a significant decrease in the “Timed Up & Go Test” (p=0.001), a measure of balance, when compared with the control [39]. Johnson et al. reported improved skin blood flow in subjects treated with lowfrequency, low-amplitude WBV [19].
The application for WBV in the treatment of diabetic peripheral neuropathy is multifactorial. Improving distal extremity strength will likely improve balance control, an important consequence of peripheral neuropathy. More importantly, if WBV may be applied in the treatment of T2DM, it could be postulated that if it results in improved skin blood flow then it could potentially prevent, or at least slow the progression, of the microvascular disease effects causing this neurologic sequela.
Effects of WBV on Wound Healing
Yet another significant cause of morbidity and mortality in patients with T2DM are diabetic ulcers and poor wound healing. Approximately 25% of diabetics worldwide develop a foot ulcer, and greater than half of these wounds are unhealed after longterm treatment [40, 41]. Wound healing is intricate and involves multiple cell types and cellular processes such as clot formation, inflammation, epithelialization, angiogenesis, granulation tissue formation, wound contraction, and tissue remodeling [41]. With sustained nutrient and caloric excess there is a dysregulation of energy metabolism, which causes further detrimental effects [2]. Obesity and hyperglycemia cause apoptosis, necrosis, ischemia, hypoxia, cellular swelling, microangiopathy, neuropathy, persistent inflammation, and eventually tissue breakdown and chronic wounds [2]. If WBV can affect the steps of wound healing on a cellular level, one could expect an alteration in wound healing as a result (Figure 5).
Figure 5. WBV effects on factors influencing wound healing.
Weinheimer-Haus et al. described improved angiogenesis and wound healing in diabetic mice. This study evaluated delayed wound healing in diabetic mice receiving excisional cutaneous wounds with the experimental group receiving low-intensity vibration therapy for 30 min/d. At 7 and 15 days wound tissue was collected and evaluated with the vibrated group demonstrating increased angiogenesis and granulation tissue after 7 days of treatment and accelerated wound closure and re-epithelialization at days 7 and 15 of treatment [40].
Yet another important factor impacting wound healing is blood flow to the skin. As discussed earlier, Johnson et al. reported a significant increase in skin blood flow in diabetic patients with peripheral neuropathy receiving WBV when compared to the sham (p=0.115) [19]. Not only would improving skin blood flow likely improve peripheral neuropathy frequently found in diabetes as discussed above, but one would also expect to see an improvement in diabetic foot ulcers and delayed wound healing with improved skin blood flow (Figure 5).
With diabetic complications currently one of the leading healthcare problems in the United States and worldwide, it is necessary to continue the search for treatment modifications. WBV therapy is a potentially new and novel adjunctive therapy that could be beneficial in patients with T2DM. Improvement of weight and glycemic control will have a huge impact clinically for this patient population. Improvement in renal function would highly impact transplant medicine as it stands now with diabetic nephropathy a major factor contributing to the high demand for kidney transplants. Treatment altering the inflammatory pathologic basis of this disease could potentially impact multiple factors and secondary complications seen in this population. Improvement in peripheral neuropathy would not only improve quality of life but could also potentially decrease the incidence of non-healing wounds or injuries as a result of decreased sensation to the lower extremities. Lastly, improvement in wound healing would have a huge impact on the morbidity and mortality of this population.
Subsequent studies are necessary to evaluate the extent of benefits that WBV therapy could provide as an adjunctive treatment modality in T2DM. This subject needs to be further explored with randomized clinical trials of significance focusing on the various pathologic processes behind this multifactorial disease. There have not been any reported negative effects of WBV therapy, and as this could be a potential new and novel therapy, we believe it is not unreasonable to incorporate this treatment modality into the primary care setting.
We would like to acknowledge Michelle Barnes and Edwina Terrell for their administrative help and support, and Jeanene Pihkala at GRU flow cytometry core facility.
None of the authors have potential or existing conflicts of interest.
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SCALISE SHOOTER ‘LIKED’ LEFT-WING SMEAR GROUP LINKED TO CHICK-FIL-A ATTACK
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WASHINGTON – The Illinois man who allegedly wounded Rep. Steve Scalise, R-La., and several others at a baseball practice early Wednesday in Alexandria, Virginia, apparently was a fan of the Southern Poverty Law Center, which nearly five years ago was linked to a domestic terror attack at the Washington office of the Family Research Council.
James T. Hodgkinson, who reportedly shot at Republican congressmen and staffers who were at a practice for an annual charity baseball game for members of Congress, was an avid supporter of Sen. Bernie Sanders’ 2016 presidential campaign, according to his Facebook page.
Many of Hodgkinson’s profile pictures featured Sanders, as did his cover photo before Facebook removed his page Wednesday shortly after he was identified as the suspect.
Hodgkinson “liked” many anti-Republican, far-left Facebook pages, including “Dump Trump,” “Liar, Liar, Republican campaign on fire,” “Republicans ARE the problem,” “Berniecrats United to Resist Trump” and “Fire the Republican Government.”
Overtly anti-Republican groups were not the only things he liked on Facebook. His “liked” TV shows favored by the left-wing such as “Last Week Tonight with John Oliver” on HBO, “The Rachel Maddow Show” on MSNBC and “The Daily Show” with Trevor Noah on Comedy Central.
The shows regularly paint Republicans to be incompetent at best and outright fascists and Nazis at worst.
He also was a member of groups such as “The Road To Hell Is Paved With Republicans” and “Community Justice Center,” a California-based group of community organizers who opposed Republicans. He posted statements such as “It’s time to destroy Trump and Co.” and that Scalise should “lose his job.”
He “liked” the Southern Poverty Law Center, which itself has been linked to domestic terror and once put Ben Carson on its list of “haters.”
Get the Whistleblower Magazine’s revelations about the SPLC, in its March 2015 edition of “The Hate Racket,” the complete story of how one group fools government into equating Christians and conservatives with Klansmen and Nazis – and rakes in millions doing it.
SPLC’s past targeting of FRC was cited in court as the impetus for an attack on the Christian organization’s Washington, D.C., headquarters.
The legal team at Liberty Counsel, criticizing SPLC for “falsely and recklessly labeling Christian ministries as ‘hate groups,’” noted SPLC is “responsible for the first conviction of a man who intended to commit mass murder targeted against a policy organization in Washington, D.C.”
“On August 15, 2012, Floyd Corkins went to the Family Research Council with a gun and a bag filled with ammunition and Chick-fil-A sandwiches. His stated purpose was to kill as many employees of the Family Research Council as possible and then to smear Chick-fil-A sandwiches in their faces (because the founder of the food chain said he believed in marriage as a man and a woman). Fortunately, Mr. Corkins was stopped by the security guard, who was shot in the process. Corkins is now serving time in prison. Mr. Corkins admitted to the court that he learned of the Family Research Council by reading the SPLC’s hate map.”
WND reported a video showed Corkins entering the FRC offices and confronting Leo Johnson.
Corkins later was sentenced to prison for domestic terrorism. It was during an interview with FBI officers that Corkins named SPLC as his source of information.
Central to the case, according to the government’s document, was that Corkins “had identified the FRC as an anti-gay organization on the Southern Poverty Law Center website.”
FRC officials repeatedly have explained that they adhere to a biblical perspective on homosexuality but are not “anti-gay.”
SPLC also exhibited behavior so egregious that it was reprimanded by the far-left administration of Barack Obama.
Judicial Watch, citing a letter to Michael M. Hethmon, senior counsel for the Immigration Reform Law Institute, and others, said the DOJ reprimand came in 2016 but was “kept quiet at the agency’s request.”
“[It] involves the SPLC’s atrocious behavior during immigration court proceedings. Two groups that oppose illegal immigration, the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR) and the Immigration Reform Law Institute (IRLI), were the target of personal, baseless and below-the-belt attacks from SPLC attorneys during official immigration court proceedings. The SPLC filed a motion attacking and defaming the two respected nonprofits by describing them as ‘white supremacist,’ ‘eugenicist,’ ‘anti-Semitic,’ and ‘anti-Catholic.’ In its reprimand the DOJ says it is troubled by the conduct of SPLC lawyer Christopher Strawn and that his conduct ‘overstepped the bounds of zealous advocacy and was unprofessional.’ Furthermore, SPLC made ‘uncivil comments that disparaged FAIR and its staff,’ the rebuke states, adding that the language constitutes frivolous behavior and doesn’t aid in the administration of justice,” Judicial Watch explained.
“The Obama administration kept the reprimand confidential and asked FAIR and IRLI to keep it under wraps. In the meantime, SPLC continues to publicly trash the groups and escalate attacks against them by putting them on the official hate list. The executive director and general counsel of IRLI, Dale Wilcox, says his nonprofit and FAIR will keep fighting for immigration policies that put America first. ‘The SPLC’s latest tactic in its never-ending witch-hunt and the federal government’s resulting reprimand should send the following message to the mainstream media,’ Wilcox said: ‘Stop using the SPLC as a legitimate hate-watch source in your news coverage. That a cabal of biased list-keepers can play such an important role in distorting the immigration debate in this country is testament to the utter failure of much of the mainstream media which frequently publishes their inflammatory commentary and refuses to question their baseless methods or financial motivations,’” Judicial Watch said.
The letter explained the DOJ stopped short of “formal disciplinary proceeding[s],” instead opting for the rebuke in the letter.
“We take this opportunity to remind the attorney practitioners involved in this misconduct that practitioners before EOIR should be striving to be civil and professional in their interactions with each other, the public, the board and immigration courts. Attorneys owe a duty of professionalism to their clients, opposing parties and their counsel, the courts, and the public as a whole.”
To really understand the war zone America is becoming, read the June issue of WND’s acclaimed monthly Whistleblower magazine, “RAGE AND VIOLENCE: Why the Left has gone insane in the Age of Trump.”
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Self-sampling kits to increase HIV testing among black Africans in the UK: the HAUS mixed-methods study
Health Technology Assessment, 2018 April; 22(22):1-158 (doi: 10.3310/hta22220).
Authors: Seguin M, Dodds C, Mugweni E, McDaid L, Flowers P, Wayal S, Zomer E, Weatherburn P, Fakoya I, Hartney T, McDonagh L, Hunter R, Young I, Khan S, Freemantle N, Chwaula J, Sachikonye M, Anderson J, Singh S, Nastouli E, Rait G, Burns F.
Background: Timely diagnosis of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) enables access to antiretroviral treatment, which reduces mortality, morbidity and further transmission in people living with HIV. In the UK, late diagnosis among black African people persists. Novel methods to enhance HIV testing in this population are needed.
Objectives: To develop a self-sampling kit (SSK) intervention to increase HIV testing among black Africans, using existing community and health-care settings (stage 1) and to assess the feasibility for a Phase III evaluation (stage 2).
Design: A two-stage, mixed-methods design. Stage 1 involved a systematic literature review, focus groups and interviews with key stakeholders and black Africans. Data obtained provided the theoretical base for intervention development and operationalisation. Stage 2 was a prospective, non-randomised study of a provider-initiated, HIV SSK distribution intervention targeted at black Africans. The intervention was assessed for cost-effectiveness. A process evaluation explored feasibility, acceptability and fidelity.
Setting: Twelve general practices and three community settings in London.
Main outcome measure: HIV SSK return rate.
Results: Stage 1 - the systematic review revealed support for HIV SSKs, but with scant evidence on their use and clinical effectiveness among black Africans. Although the qualitative findings supported SSK distribution in settings already used by black Africans, concerns were raised about the complexity of the SSK and the acceptability of targeting. These findings were used to develop a theoretically informed intervention. Stage 2 - of the 349 eligible people approached, 125 (35.8%) agreed to participate. Data from 119 were included in the analysis; 54.5% (65/119) of those who took a kit returned a sample; 83.1% of tests returned were HIV negative; and 16.9% were not processed, because of insufficient samples. Process evaluation showed the time pressures of the research process to be a significant barrier to feasibility. Other major barriers were difficulties with the SSK itself and ethnic targeting in general practice settings. The convenience and privacy associated with the SSK were described as beneficial aspects, and those who used the kit mostly found the intervention to be acceptable. Research governance delays prevented implementation in Glasgow.
Limitations: Owing to the study failing to recruit adequate numbers (the intended sample was 1200 participants), we were unable to evaluate the clinical effectiveness of SSKs in increasing HIV testing in black African people. No samples were reactive, so we were unable to assess pathways to confirmatory testing and linkage to care.
Conclusions: Our findings indicate that, although aspects of the intervention were acceptable, ethnic targeting and the SSK itself were problematic, and scale-up of the intervention to a Phase III trial was not feasible. The preliminary economic model suggests that, for the acceptance rate and test return seen in the trial, the SSK is potentially a cost-effective way to identify new infections of HIV.
Future work: Sexual and public health services are increasingly utilising self-sampling technologies. However, alternative, user-friendly SSKs that meet user and provider preferences and UK regulatory requirements are needed, and additional research is required to understand clinical effectiveness and cost-effectiveness for black African communities.
Study registration: This study is registered as PROSPERO CRD42014010698 and Integrated Research Application System project identification 184223.
Funding: The National Institute for Health Research Health Technology Assessment programme and the BHA for Equality in Health and Social Care.
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BELLE ET SÉBASTIEN was my favourite film of the year up until a few days ago when I saw BOYHOOD, so far this year it will have to settle for the number 2 position, still a highly coveted position. I have not seen such a beautiful and light film that was also powerful and heartwarming. As soon as I received the invite to attend this film I knew I would like it. French alps, big fluffy dog, cute kid incapable of melting butter in his mouth, loving people, tale of danger and heartbreak. SOLD. It is like Lassie meets The Sound of Music without singing :). BELLE ET SÉBASTIEN, also known as Belle and Sebastian (not to be confused with the band, although the band did name themselves after the story) is releasing from ICON MOVIES for preview screenings from June 15th followed by official release on July 3rd. It is ONLY playing on limited release at selected art house cinemas – definitely playing at Dendy. It is rated PG and runs for 98mins.
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REVIEW BY JASON KING
BELLE ET SÉBASTIEN aka BELLE AND SEBASTIAN has been around for a very long time. It originated in 1965 as a book by Cécile Aubry, about a young 6yr old boy and his dog, Belle, a Pyrenean Mountain Dog, who live in a village in the French Alps close to the frontier with Italy. Sébastien lives with his adopted grandfather, sister, and brother, as his mother, a Romany, died after giving birth to him while trying to cross the border on Saint Sebastian‘s day.
The same year the book came out they launched a television show of the same name that lasted for 5yrs, all filmed in black and white, the English picked it up and dubbed it and retitled into the English of BELLE AND SEBASTIAN. It should be noted the movie is releasing under this title in Australia but in honour of the work I am maintaining the original name of the film, novel and TV series. The TV series spawned offshoots on its success, SEBASTIAN AMONG MEN and SEBASTIAN AND THE MARY MORGAN and in 1981 the Japanese released it as an anime series called MEIKEN JOLIE, the Japanese titling of BELLE AND SEBASTIAN. This ran for 52 episodes and was broadcast in Japan, France and the US (from 1984). The UK started playing it 1989 and then again in 1991. It appears when the people need them Belle et Sébastian will return (friends of The Dark Knight no doubt) and returned they have in the most epic and largest budget version of this beautiful tale.
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BELLE ET SÉBASTIEN is indeed about a young boy who is seven years old. It is set in the French alps and the scenery is unmatched, it is just flawless, the film takes us back to a different point in time, namely nearing the end of World War 2. Germans have a regular military presence in the small town but this is a different part of WWII, these mountain folk are quite resilient and live through very harsh seasons and on the land, the films representation of WWII is more the mild SOUND OF MUSIC version we would be used to as opposed to the SCHINDLER’S LIST version that was more reality. A group of the townsfolk are sneaking Jewish people over the mountains into Switzerland and the Germans are there to try and find and stop them, but the townsfolk get information from someone on the German side. The military presence is not of much concern to Sébastien, he is a young child and the film is seen through his eyes, eyes that comprehend right and wrong, positive and negative and this is all that drives him when he defends Belle, the wild dog, who the villagers have named “The Beast” as they believe he is eating all the sheep.
He is a mistreated huge dog who is fending for himself in this harsh environment and is a little unsure of correct life etiquette, when him and Sébastien first meet they are both unsure and scared of each other, but all it takes is an act of kindness from each other and these two become an inseparable force of love and family. A bond evermore stronger because of both their needs to have a family, a person to belong to and love unconditionally.
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Nicolas Vanier’s direction is a blend of three television series of the story into one movie with a concentration on the WWII inclusion. His documentaries are brilliant works of art mainly about animals and it is pretty evident he was asked to make this film from his work on a documentary called LOUP, a young boy protecting reindeer from wolves. It was also set in freezing remote conditions and this skill of working with animals, extreme conditions and children would be a definite shoe-in for being selected as director for BELLE ET SÉBASTIEN. He also grew up watching the TV show and his addiction to the show from a young age gave him the drive to remain faithful to the story.
Vanier’s collaboration with French cinematographer Eric Guichard and French composer Armand Amar was a superb teaming. Guichard is also used to filming in remote locations having filmed HIMALAYA back in 1999 (along with a huge list of credits) and his way of capturing the village life, the remote location and cleanness of the environment was beautiful to view. And how anyone can pull off a film with young children and a huge mountain dog in this environment is deserving of awards. Armand Amar’s composing is just beautiful and truly heartwarming, it really is music straight from a GHIBLI film. After the trailer at the bottom I have included a YouTube clip of the music from the film with accompanying stills.
BELLE ET SÉBASTIEN | THE SALTY POPCORN REVIEW | CÉSAR (TCHÉKY KARYO) AND SEBASTIAN (FÉLIX BOSSUET)
Félix Bossuet is possibly the cutest child to ever be onscreen. he could basically be a serial killer and smile to camera and you would help him bury the bodies. It must have been a gruelling shoot for him having filmed over nine months. Bossuet was selected from over 2400 applicants and 200 auditions. He will not win awards for his acting, and there are a couple of scenes that are saved by his cuteness, but he definitely holds the camera and carries the film on his shoulders. There are a few scenes that are just him and Sébastien mucking around, chasing each other and playing and in those scenes you hear the laughter of a child in childhood playing bliss, those few scenes are worth the price of the ticket alone. That sound is what is good about this human race of ours and our stupidity and badness. Those moments of untainted innocence are what the world is worth fighting for.
Bossuet has a big name as his opposite onscreen, his uncle César is played by long time actor Tchéky Karyo who is a Turkish man raised and considered French and in France he is huge, but he is also well known in Hollywood, playing the bad guy in BAD BOYS, then in THE PATRIOT, KISS OF THE DRAGON, JOAN OF ARC, THE WAY and many more. Karyo’s César is the acting strength onscreen and the drunken character’s arc of redemption is a bonus to the story. He and Bossuet have great onscreen chemistry and you can see they really got along. In an interview Karyo claimed he loved to work with children and animals because “the rapport is all about instinct and spontaneity and listening and trust.”
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My first thoughts after seeing this film is how it was like a GHIBLI film come to life, a film of innocence and beauty with an undercurrent of WWII darkness and malevolance that could erupt at any moment. But to Sébastien he has more to worry about, the life and love of a dog are all that matters. His universe is much smaller than the world around. Just as Ghibli would have done it.
The cinematography of this film demands a cinema screen and the film will not play for long, will barely get any advertising and sadly, none of the big cinema chains will screen it, because like what, it has subtitles and no superheroes in it. I urge you to see this film, enjoy an unhindered film that allows you to feel young again.
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K @ the Lair
I cried just watching the preview. What will I be like when I see the movie. Looks amazing. Thank you for the write up. K@thelair
saltypopcorn
June 16, 2014, 3:51 pm
You will love this one K – you have the luck on your side – you will be able to see it on the big TV at my house when I get the Blu Ray, unless it makes it down the South Coast, which, at this stage, it does not, the best you could do is hit it up at one of the Canberra cinemas if you get down there while it is out.
Being a huge studio Ghibli fan, I really liked this movie. Everything in it reminded me of Studio Ghibli: The story, the atmosphere, the music… It’s a shame that in the end, the random folk will see this movie as a random kids movie.
Oh amazing – so glad we saw the same film Mikael – I truly thought it was incredibly Ghibli and want the world to love this film – already pre-ordered it on Blu Ray and am taking my mum to see it when it releases 🙂 Thanks for leaving a comment!
Sue Lehtonen
August 6, 2014, 10:11 pm
To my great amazement, this gorgeous film was screened at the Birch Carroll and Coyle cinema in Cairns! I caught its final screening today and had the entire cinema to myself…Sad as always that these worthy films don’t get a much larger audience, but also must admit to enjoying the quiet solitary screening immensely.
So happy you got to enjoy it Sue, truly spectacular film – definitely one of my top 5 films of the year.
Massive fan of Jeunet’s City of Lost Children. Pretty sure that’s meant to be a children’s film. Amazing design, so very dark and beautiful. Must have watched this a hundred times over the years.
Lyn Ball
My teenage son and I still enjoy watching the Italian version of ‘Pinocchio’ starring the energetic force of nature Roberto Benigni! Critics hated this – but we loved the characters and most of all Roberto’s entertaining wooden puppet and the beautiful, colourful imagery. Walt Disney’s ‘Pinocchio’ was the first childrens movie I has ever watched on the big screen as a child, so maybe I’m biased. I love that the story encourages children not to lie or their nose will grow longer – I’m sure parents today still warn their children of that.
I absolutely love Hayao Miyazaki’s films, especially ‘Ponyo’ because of the storyline of a little boy, who helps a goldfish, which turns into a girl! Their friendship is a great bonding experience.
Judith Maunders
Having an eight year old daughter, I’ve seen a lot of children’s movies. One that we both love is Studio Ghibli’s Ponyo. I basically love all Ghibli films, but Ponyo wins out for its beautiful aquatic setting. And Cate Blanchett in the English version. My sister-in-law is Japanese and she, my brother-in-law and niece live in Japan so it kind of feels like I’m watching family when I watch Ghibli films. But happy to expand Miss Eight’s international viewing family and take in BELLE ET SÉBASTIEN. I’m sure Miss Eight and her fur sibling would be more than happy to watch. The fur sibling is part basenji so she really does watch TV!
Harry varvaressos
I believe the best children’s story to be the recent hit Life of Pi, which uses CGI motion capture to bring various animals, and most memorably a fully breathing Bengal tiger, to astonishing reality. The groundbreaking 3D accompanied with the CGI enhance this aesthetic marvel, rather than bereave it from plot (I’m looking at Michael Bay’s Transformers). Yann Martel’s novel is told in a disjointed, non linear fashion, making it hard to develop the lyrical quality of a book into the coherent nature of a film. In addition, the scenes of the ship sinking, and all of the other adventures at sea, as well as the inclusion of a BENGAL TIGER, guarantee a mega budget – something not easy to get for a film as decidedly uncommercial as this. But Ang Lee proved why he is an Academy Award winner by achieving the impossible; he both won over critics, and blitzed the global box office thanks to golden word of mouth as well as picking up a plethora of accolades. In short, it was an astonishing cinematic experience.
honestly i love charlotte’s web because i loved the book as a kid
Debra Moody
I’m a big Ice Age fan, I haven’t met a child that didn’t love this movie.
james pizzey
walt disney lady and the tramp what a love story learned a new way to eat spaghetti doggy style also turned a lot of people off the breed of cat siamese the baddies of the movie
Regan S
What a beautiful looking movie. My seven year old dog-loving son would love this, although not sure I want him to get the idea he should be allowed to roam the mountains near here by himself all day!! Disappointed that I missed a local cinema screening, I remember assuming it wouldn’t get a local release here.
Another Studio Ghibli fan here. A favourite children’s movie is Spirited Away. I agree, from watching the preview, this movie seems very Ghibli-esque. Absolute favourite children’s movie would have to be the Wizard of Oz, though, for its timelessness and those ruby slippers!!
Peta N
I have so many favourite movies and most of them are kids films!
I love Ponyo and My Neighbour Totoro, I love Frozen, I love The Princess Bride, I love The Never Ending Story – the list goes on!!
I can’t pick a favourite but I will tell you why My Neighbour Totoro is up there – it is a film my entire family loves from Master 2 up to Mr 36. It is visually stunning film and it has such a simple but beautiful score. I love the close knit family, the sisterly bond and how much the father loves his little girls. I love the Catbus! And I love the soot sprites – it makes my house seem less dirty and more magical. 🙂
Marie Pohnetalova
Frozen – totally kiccks ‘Ice’!
Roberto Colombi
Monsters Inc…. for me it was the first real animation that really appealed to adults and children alike… great one liners, animation which was crisp and defined, cuddly friendly monsters, scary baddies – a great movie for the whole family to enjoy as one
Dami_30
If I had to pick just one, it would be Alice in Wonderland (the 50’s version). I love this film and it will forever be my favourite childrens film. I can relate to Alice and her desire to escape to a wonderland of nonsense, but this movie delivers an important message about how you need a little bit of serious and nonsense. All serious or all nonsense is never tolerable.
Thomas Tran
Good to see a lot of love for Studio Ghibli films here. Spirited Away takes the cake for me, close to my all-time favourite movie as well.
However I would have to go with Stand By Me. It’s a more mature movie dealing with much more serious matters than other children’s movies but it is simply superb. I’m not sure if it really is a children’s movie but it’s one that I watched when I was younger. The really strong performances from the child actor, especially the late River Phoenix amazes me as they deal with matters beyond their years.
Oh I love this movie – I got an extra copy for me – this will be my sick and feeling sorry for myself movie – the winners are drawn and very interested in knowing your thoughts after you see it.
Gratz to…………
Gratz peeps and thanks to all who entered – sorry you could not all win something 🙂
Thank you for this. My daughter (eight) and I watched it just before Christmas. At first it was difficult to get her to watch because … it isn’t animated! Eek, scary but true! She was watching something on the iPad, so I put it on the TV and soon she couldn’t help but watch. She’s watched it twice now and loves it. Even our dog was drawn into watching. She had to tell those wolves what for and try and find where Belle ran off to (behind the screen?) – oh how lovely it would be for a suburban dog to have mountains like that upon which to run! Many thanks again!
Oh amazing Judith – thanks for sharing this – it makes it all worthwhile – such a beautiful film and I am so glad others enjoy it – even their dogs 🙂
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Rynn stood at the head of the ship, watching as they glided over the still water of Clearwater Lake. It was amazing to him, this lake. Nearly as large as the Niktean Wastes back on Gallidus, it was the largest body of freshwater on Jenoa, and that meant that it was a great place to just get lost. The crew of the Ruvalk just dropped a bucket in the water when they wanted water to drink, and were able to catch fish at regular enough intervals that there was plenty of food for all.
Captain Bronzebeard walked up to stand by him. “Enjoying the view?”
Indeed, the view was stunning. Pressen hung over the horizon, probably two-thirds of the planet in full view, and as it was night the sunlight refracted around the planet through its rings, casting a weak light over all they could see, brighter here because of the mirrored image of all that was in the sky on the water. The planet itself was gorgeous at night; Rynn had missed its beauty, as he hadn’t been this deep into the Deadlands in years.
“I forgot how beautiful it can be here in the Deadlands at night. And on this lake, it’s ever more gorgeous.”
“Indeed,” the Captain said. “I’ve sailed the world over, but I always enjoy Clearwater Lake. Feels like home to me. I was born on its shores, actually.”
Rynn glanced at him sideways. The ranger had been on the lookout for other possible metallic dragons since meeting Akle and Mirwen, and this Captain Bronzebeard, with his uncanny hearing and unusual strength, not to mention his dedication to goodness and charity, was a prime candidate. The ranger had shared his suspicions with the group their first night on the ship, and Khaska had indicated that he too had considered the possibility. The cleric had been very deferential to the Captain since then, something Rynn suspected the captain found annoying.
“Your parents lived on the death side?”
“They wandered all over, much like me,” he said. “I know that Dad at one point at set up on Slyn, but, really, I didn’t get to know them very much. They died when I was very young.”
The two of them sat in silence for a moment.
“Rynn, I wanted to ask you a question,” the captain said.
“When you were talking to me back on shore, you mentioned two names. Akle and Mirwen Taldiril. Why did you think to bring them up?”
Rynn shrugged. “Something about you reminds me of them.”
“Ah. I see. As I said, Aklemendorian is known to me. But tell me of this Mirwen. ”
Rynn and he talked about their adventures in Twilight several months before. Rynn did leave out some specifics about Kvanir out of deference to Khaska, and the dwarf didn’t press for details, but did seem interested in how Mirwen and Akle had gotten along. Eventually Orensland joined them, having just come back from speaking with Lady Maramos.
“You are a brave man, Orensland. Being the one who talks to her, I mean, since that puts you in the most danger of being discovered.”
“I have my friends nearby if it comes to that.”
“You have good friends. And how is our honored guest?” the Captain asked.
“She’s fine. We’ve been discussing where to have you drop us off.”
“I’ve been wondering that myself. We’ve been sailing for two days now, and we’ll need to make some decisions shortly so I know where to steer the Ruvalk.”
“Sebastien favors heading to Hub where we could resupply and possibly even get a new cart. Travel more inconspicuously.”
Khaska and Sanjin approached, seeing the discussion. Sanjin, as was his usual wont, kept staring at Bronzebeard. Khaska was merely overly deferential. Occasionally Rynn regretted telling them of his suspicions about their dwarven captain.
“I was wondering,” the wizard said, “if we might want to travel on the south side of the Derring River. A bit longer, but smoother travelling to be sure.”
“Or just push through and follow the original plan,” said Khaska. “Get dropped off along the Derring River.”
Bronzebeard shook his head. “You don’t want to be on the river. Since Manson knows that you’re travelling by boat the best chance he has of catching you is to try to ambush you on the Derring.”
Bronzebeard has no new information about the Cult of Skyrnyn and how you could act to better fool people into thinking you are a true member, Orensland. When asked about their activities, however, he’s aware that the pilgrimages by boat sail up the Derring River from Ethir Port, and the people disembark at the gridlines (main map here) between 20 and 21 with I and J, which is the same place you would get off if you choose option 3 below (option 1 from the previous chapter). He doesn’t know where they go from there.
So your options as basically outlined are:
1. Head North.
a. You could resupply at Hub and perhaps change your mode of transportation so you’re not using the inky black, sticks-out-like-a-sore-thumb coach.
b. Or you could just head straight across to the Derring River. Obviously faster, but you couldn’t travel more incognito.
c. Either way, you’ll have to find a shallow place to cross the river, and given the volatility of the weather of late, that could be problematic.
2. Go south, landing on the east coast of Clearwater Lake, and walk. This would be faster as the land south of the river and to Darkcrest from there is more easily travelled. You wouldn’t have to cross the river, but couldn’t change travel arrangements to be more incognito.
3. Follow the original plan and just travel as far as possible on the river. You had rejected this before, but you could technically change your minds. Captain Bronzebeard recommends against this, though.
Khaska is inclined—and not just out of obsequiousness!—to trust Bronzebeard on this one. Ever since the Steelhammer Lifts, he's been irked by the Death Side, and he'd rather not set the party and Bronzebeard's crew up for an ambush. To avoid attracting attention, for one, he'd advocate going to Hub and trading out Lady Maramos's coach. For that matter, could the party then proceed with the new coach to the eastern tip of Clearwater Lake, and walk from there? That seems the best option; that way they wouldn't be able to be traced by the sudden presence of the coach in Hub.
Rynn is also in favor of option 1 and head toward Hub. Maybe we could even send a couple of scouts ahead to secure new transportation so nobody even sees us roll into Hub with Lady Maramos' coach.
Just in case it wasn't clear, Hub is at least a two day walk from the shore of Clearwater Lake. The map makes them look relatively close, but what I've stated her is the reality on the ground. I don't think that's necessarily going to change what you have posted so far, but I thought I'd clarify just in case.
Sanjin doesn't care what Bronzebeard says. But he will go with the party -and it does make sense to go with option 1.
Orensland would also be in favor of option 1a. He also approves of one or two members of the party scouting ahead and securing transportation in advance.
“I am inclined to follow Sebastien’s recommendation,” Khaska said. “It sounds like acquiring a new cart at Hub would be easy enough.”
“I agree,” said Rynn. “In fact, we could send a couple of scouts ahead to secure a new cart. We don’t even have to roll into Hub with Lady Maramos’ shiny black coach.”
Sanjin shrugged. “Sounds like a plan to me.”
Orensland nodded. “Perhaps I should go tell Sebastien and Lady Maramos of our decision while you change course, Captain. Captain?”
Bronzebeard had walked over to the side of the ship and was peering down into the water. His first mate came over. “Something in the water, Captain?”
“Aye.”
The hatch to below decks opened, and Lady Maramos came out. She came over to the railing and also looked down. She and the Captain glanced at each other, then both looked down.
“How did you notice it, Captain?”
“I’ve sailed these waters for many many decades, my lady. If something is amiss, I can tell pretty easy. And you?”
“It’s swimming so close to the ship that I can sense its heartbeat.”
“Yes, I supposed you would be interested in that, wouldn’t you?” She glanced at him sharply. He shrugged. “I’m not stupid. I know what you are.”
“Um, I hate to break up the party,” Orensland said, “but what are you talking about.”
“There’s a shark in the water, and it’s following us,” the Captain said.
“The problem is that there are no natural sharks in Clearwater Lake,” Lady Maramos said. “This is fresh water, not salt water.”
“Druid?” the Captain asked her, almost rhetorically.
“Druid,” she responded.
“If it’s tracking us, you should probably try to kill it.”
“Unless it surfaces, none of my spells can reach it, and if it’s a druid, it’s not going to be foolish enough to surface.”
“I bet you a shiny gold piece it’s allied with Manson.”
“I won’t take you up on that. I don’t want to lose a gold piece. Why would a druid ally with Manson? Whitecloaks don’t usually have druids in their order.”
“I’m sure you can afford the gold piece. Manson, from what I hear, is shady as the abyss. I’m sure he has resources and ways of using them that could gain him such allies. Perhaps even reluctant allies.”
“Let’s talk about defenses.” Lady Maramos said that while actually stepping towards the Captain in a menacing way.
“Alright,” the first mate said. “I’m going to assume that neither the vampire nor the Captain of the ship want a fight amongst ourselves on the open waters.”
After a moment of staring at the captain, Lady Maramos backed away. “Quite right.”
“I assume if we’re attacked that you could lend your not inconsiderable talents to our defense.”
“You have something in mind?”
“Ships don’t respond well to fireballs.”
Lady Maramos actually smiled at that. “No, they do not.”
The shark didn’t stick around much after that, though both Lady Maramos and Captain Bronzebeard said that it likely was not gone, but possibly still following them at a distance. If it did trail them from a distance, there was no way of knowing if it was still there, or if it had left the area.
After sunset twilight had come, Lady Maramos retreated back down below decks. Captain Bronzebeard was at the helm, steering the ship, keeping a watchful eye out.
Rynn approached Sanjin.
“I remember at the docks, that Captain Bronzebeard said that he and his crew might not be able to defeat Lady Maramos, even if they had wanted to. If he is a dragon …”
“Then she is very powerful. I have seen no spellbook, or indication of one, but she spoke of her magic and of casting the Fireball spell. She is probably a sorceress, and a powerful one at that.”
“And if she is concerned about Manson …”
“We might be caught in the middle of a fight that’s a little above our pay grade.”
After another day, Bronzebeard turned the ship towards the north. He knew a relatively out-of-the-way cove that would allow them to disembark easily enough, yet likely not attract attention. The party, with Sebastien, was contemplating exactly how they wished to handle that—take the coach to Hub, take the coach partway to Hub, or not really take the coach at all and leave it on the shore of the lake once a new transport for Lady Maramos’ coffin had been secured.
But that all became irrelevant mid-afternoon.
“Ship!” the lookout called. “Skyship!”
Sure enough, approaching from the east was a skyship. It eventually came to rest just floating high above the lake, then turned to follow them as they passed under it. Lady Maramos came above deck to assess the situation, finding the party all gathered, watching the skyship.
“He’ll wait until sunrise twilight to attack,” she said. “The direct sunlight poses a danger to me and limits what I can do to help.”
“Surely we could just provide shade for you, my lady,” Rynn said. “If you can attack them from a distance with your spells, they need not get close.”
She stared at the ship, glaring at it as if willing it to drop from the sky. “This Manson knows his quarry well. If he seeks re-admittance to the Bringers of Light, he will have to bring me in alive. Slaying me would destroy my body, and thus any evidence of the deed.”
“If he’s as clever as I’ve heard,” Captain Bronzebeard said, approaching, “he’ll also know that you require food. I imagine that Mr. Sebastien will be a target as well.” He glanced at her. “How long can you survive without feeding?”
“Actually, indefinitely. But I’ll go slowly mad after a few months.”
Orensland gave off a tiny shudder at that. If Sebastien died, that would mean that Lady Maramos would require other food … and she had indicated that she would be willing to use the party to sustain herself should that be necessary. He also didn’t like the idea of an high-powered sorceress vampire going mad from starvation.
You are being trailed by a skyship, but it’s staying out of range of any magic spells for now.
As a reminder, the day/night cycle on the death side goes like this: Daytime (12 hours). Light reflected off of the gas giant Pressen provides illumination. Sunrise Twilight (4 hours). The sun rises from the horizon and provides illumination. Nighttime (4 hours). The sun goes behind Pressen, creating low-light illumination. Sunset Twilight (4 hours). The sun emerges from behind Pressen and provides illumination before setting under the horizon. You are currently in the daytime. Sunrise twilight is next, in a few hours. During the twilights, there is direct sunlight, so Lady Maramos would be vulnerable to that.
If the skyship is Manson (which seems a reasonable assumption at this point), you know he has likely several objectives:
1. Capture Lady Maramos.
2. Take her coffin for transport.
These mean that Manson cannot simply destroy the Ruvalk. He’ll need to board.
3. He’ll probably want to kill Sebastien.
Lady Maramos is a high-level sorceress. Bronzebeard is wary of her. Manson is likely to be a high-level cleric (which fits with his being a former high-ranking Whitecloak). The other men with white cloaks are likely his associates, and statistically will likely be clerics.
I’ve paused here to give you a chance to a) plan any tactics you might want to, given the near likelihood of a naval battle, and b) for Sanjin and Khaska to prepare spells. You have been aware that a fight was coming for several days now, so you can prepare accordingly.
What, if anything, do you all want to talk about here/plan for?
Because my character is not well equipped for hand to hand combat, I was wondering if there is a way to get him onto the ship, perhaps in some magical way. If not, he'll probably hide in plain sight, find a good sniping position and hide there with his crossbow. He would remain hidden, moving around if need be, and attack from the shadows where possible.
Another possibility is that my character could remain close to Sebastian. If anyone comes for him, he can do a sneak attack. Orensland would be in favor of protecting him, as made clear in the post.
…unless someone has a better idea. If I can get onto the ship, I could try to sabotage it somehow. If anyone can think of a good idea for how to make that work, I am all ears.
Should I make my rolls now?
I'm assuming Khaska would have consulted with the others about their expectations for an attack in order to plan his spells. What sort of tactics would the others have recommended? I'm guess that most effective might be spells that could damage the opposing ship at a distance—say, fire to destroy its sails or its hull. What do you guys think?
Rynn likes the idea of hurting their ship from a distance, though he doesn't have anything to help with that. Arrows in their hull probably won't make much difference, and I'm guessing they don't leave their skyship crystals exposed.
Actually, since a fight seems imminent, I wonder if there could be an opportunity for us to take their skyship? Then we wouldn't need a coach. Other than that, Rynn doesn't have much to suggest. He's more in a reactionary mode at this point, figuring that he'll just be shooting his bow once the enemy draws nigh.
Rynn is also somewhat sorrowful that the attack is happening this soon and would affect Captain Bronzebeard, and his ship and crew.
Crosis, when you make a decision like "Orensland will hide in plain sight near Sebastien," then give me an appropriate roll, in this case a Hide Check. Otherwise I'll usually just ask for rolls when necessary. I do not need combat rolls yet. And you sell your character short when you say "my character is not well equipped for hand to hand combat." Your sneak attack rolls are up to 4d6 damage … that ain't nothing'!
In talking with Thev, we realized that he had not yet leveled to Level 8. I'll work with him over the next few days to finish the leveling process and also help him prepare spells (spell preparation for Sanjin and Khaska is the major reason I paused at this point).
However, regarding Rynn's speculation that you might be able to capture the skyship, Captain Bronzebeard indicates that he could probably sail a skyship. As he understands it, it's not all that different from a watership as far as propulsion and steering. It does appear to be a smaller ship than his though … and if you wanted to transport Lady Maramos, you would need to make sure she had somewhere to rest, which means either her coffin or the bag of dirt that she brought with her from her graveyard. You have not, as of yet, needed the dirt, but it is available as backup. The dirt would need to be contained somehow for her to sleep on it. (Veleria, back in Codex III-Chapter 10, had dirt under her bed in Hormon Stoneheart's house, and Khaska knew what that meant; it was one of the clues that identified Veleria as a vampire.)
If you'd like to explore that option further, ask your questions here in the gray box and I'll give you Bronzebeard's answers.
I updated the prepared spells Sanjin would have ready for a possible fight. He is in favor of attacking from a distance -as many of his spells can be used at a distance.
“If they plan to board our ship, perhaps we ought to return the favor,” Rynn suggested.
Orensland snorted. “Would certainly cut down on our travel time to Darkcrest.”
Bronzebeard nodded. “I know a bit about skyship sailing. I could do it. The question would be how.” He pulled out a long telescope, put it to his eye and began looking intently at the other ship.
“You would need to have your coffin aboard the ship in order to travel to Darkcrest, correct, my Lady?” asked Khaska.
“Or we could use the bag of dirt from my graveyard held in reserve if needed. It would need to be contained somehow, I can’t just sleep on the dirt itself.”
“I don’t suppose there’s a magic way of getting me onboard the ship, is there?” Orensland asked, staring at Lady Maramos. She shook her head. “Darn.” He drew his sword. “Well, I think it might be best for me to stick by Sebastien, if he is a priority target for them.”
Sebastien drew his dagger. “I can give some account of myself.”
“Stay below decks,” Bronzebeard ordered him. “If you want to guard him, Orensland, that’s not a bad idea, but the hatch down there is a chokepoint. If we can defend the main deck, I don’t think it will be a problem. If we can’t defend the main deck, defending him won’t matter. We’ll have bigger problems to worry about.”
“I’ll stay up here,” Lady Maramos said. “If Manson has done his homework on me, that ship won’t approach while I can see it. Your idea of shade when the sun rises, Rynn, is a good one. Unless that ship is faster than any skyship I’ve seen, it won’t make it close enough to us because of my spells.”
Bronzebeard collapsed his telescope with a sharp snap. “Here’s what I can see. Looks like four men with white cloaks, I presume Manson and three of his buddies. There’s a centaur as well, and it looks to me like the gnome piloting the ship has been chained to the steering wheel. One of them was watching me with a telescope the whole time I was watching them.”
Lady Maramos pursed her lips, making them into a small line on her face as it tightened. “I’ll be right back,” she said, and ducked down below decks. A moment later a bat emerged from the hatch and fluttered off.
A beam of piercing light lanced from the skyship a minute later, and shortly after the bat returned, morphing into Lady Maramos as it dove down onto the deck.
“There’s another gnome on the deck as well, down below the railing where the captain couldn’t see her. She’s tied up and blindfolded, and one of the whitecloaks is standing next to her with a drawn sword. My guess is she’s a hostage, which is how they are getting the pilot’s cooperation. One of them tried to hit me with a Searing Light spell, but missed.”
“Uh, sir,” said the first mate, “fog’s coming up.” Bronzebeard looked at the lake, and, sure enough, fog has just begun to lift from the surface.
“That’s odd,” Bronzebeard said. “There’s no reason …” he stopped and he and Lady Maramos looked at each other again.
“Manson is controlling the weather,” he said.
“He’s cast Control Weather,” she said, at the same time. “In a few minutes, the area around his ship will be completely shrouded in fog.”
“He won’t be able to dissipate it,” Bronzebeard said. “You’ll be protected from the sun.”
“Little good that will do me if I can’t see his ship to launch spells at it!” she snapped back at the Dwarf.
Bronzebeard turned to his first mate. “Arm the men. They are coming.” He went below decks himself, returning dressed in leather armor and wielding a greataxe.
As Lady Maramos had predicted, the fog increased slowly until it was so thick you could barely see from one side of the ship to the other. The minutes ticked by, leaving everybody on edge for a while, but over time they all relaxed a bit naturally when the imminent attack turned out to be … not so imminent.
“So,” Sanjin mused, “they do this weather thing for kicks? It can’t possibly take this long for the skyship to get here.”
“Maybe they can’t find us,” Rynn mused. “Fog affects them just as much as it does us.”
“Yeah,” said Bronzebeard, “but fog on this lake, even magical fog, stays near the surface. They can stay high enough to avoid it if they want.”
It began to get brighter. Lady Maramos pulled the hood of her cloak up around her head and pulled on some gloves. “Sunrise Twilight,” she said. “I should be fine as long as the fog doesn’t dissipate. Once it does I’ll need some shade.”
The crew set up a quick lean-to near the front of the ship that would give her some shade if the fog dissipated, but it did not.
It was about ten minutes later when the lookout up at the top of the ship’s sail (there wasn’t a crow’s nest, but he just had hung himself with a makeshift harness up near the top of the mast) cried out. “Here they come! From the starboard side!”
Everybody turned and, tracking alongside them, moving perpendicular, the skyship was bearing down on them, hovering about forty feet above the lake’s surface and moving quickly.
“They’re trying to take out our mast!” Bronzebeard cried as Lady Maramos chanted in an arcane language and prepared to launch her spells at the approaching ship.
I’m not sure what happened, but I swear I had written up the part for the last post where Lady Maramos scouted their ship out. Anyway, there are 4 whitecloaks, likely all clerics but possibly fighters (you know Manson is a cleric), all in plate armor, a centaur, and two gnomes. One gnome is tied, bound, blindfolded, and gagged, the other is chained to the skyship steering wheel.
The ship is bearing down on you quickly, but you have a few seconds to prepare. It is flying above you about 30 feet above your deck (which is about 10 feet above the water). Due to the angles involved, none of you can see anybody on the deck to fire arrows at or even attack with long-range spells. Lady Maramos looks to be targeting the underside of the ship itself.
What actions do you wish to take, if any?
They might not only be planning on taking out the mast, but also jumping aboard the party's ship. We should ready ourselves for an attack from over the sides of the skyship. Other than that, it might be best for Orensland to climb the mast and board their ship as it comes near. In Khaska's case, since we can't see those on the skyship directly, now might be the time to summon one or both of his magical creatures, which can attack on their own outside of our line of sight. What do you all think?
If they were planning on boarding the ship this pass, they would likely not be flying so high. Unless they all have Rings of Feather Falling or Feather Fall prepared. And since your animals last only 8 rounds, I'd hold off until you are sure they are boarding. I'll allow you to set up a "trigger," i.e., "if people start jumping off to board, I cast Summon Monster IV."
Sanjin will cast Mage Armor on himself.
Orensland would feel perfectly at home trying to board the ship, sneak about, and potentially steal the boat (free the gnomes, etc.). It's been a while since he's used his grappling hook (overlooking his time with the Shadowdancing Troupe, of course), but more importantly, I've forgotten the necessary roles. So I'll take a few stabs and tell me if I actually needed to use any of them.
Use Rope: 31 (rolled 16 + 15 modifier)
Climbing: 31 (rolled 20 + 11 modifier)
Hide: 26 (rolled 3 + 23 modifier)
Move Silently: 34 (rolled 11 + 23 modifier)
…Please tell me those were the necessary roles. That would be an epically adventurous scene. Presuming my 3 hiding roll doesn't get me killed, of course.
I presume that, should most of the enemies jump on board the Captain's ship, they would leave a guard behind to keep the gnomes in check. Probably the white cloak already guarding the gagged gnome. If that's the case, Orensland would sneak attack the chum and hopefully take command of the ship. Before doing anything rash at that point, would the team be opposed if I convinced the gnomes to fly out of range of the white cloaks/centaur to put them in a pretty nasty situation?
If the enemies do NOT board the Captain's ship, Orensland may want to go about sabotaging the ship. Light a fire, make an explosion, something like that. Again, input is appreciated before rash action is taken.
Also, should the sky ship manage to effectively cripple our ship, Orensland would realize that such actions could leave both ships crippled, leaving us stuck on the lake that people die getting lost on. He may want to mention that to Lady Maramos before she blows out the underside of the ship. If that be the case, he would probably just board and wait for the opportune moment to do something nasty. No sense charging a horde of warriors that are individually above my pay grade, you know?
Also, what would happen if I just removed the crystals that enable the ship to fly? I presume that Orensland would be passingly familiar with such things, having travelled on sky ships previously. Not saying that would be his course of action just yet, I'm just curious.
As for jumping onto the ship, I am presuming that the back is the safest place to attach. Orensland would consult with Lady Maramos and the Captain before ultimately deciding. If they consider the back to be hazardous in any way, he would follow their advice as to which side is better. If they have no suggestions, to the back it is.
Rynn doesn't have any suggestions at this point; he's a bit out of his element and just waiting for the attack to come. He'll wait on the highest part of the deck (if applicable) waiting for a chance to use his bow or sword.
I like the idea of Orensland getting up onto their ship. Rynn would want to look for an opportunity as well, though he doesn't expect that he could climb up nearly as well as his friend (the ranger's climbing skill is pretty lousy; not worth an initial attempt at this point).
The only other thing he can think of is that plate armor would be extremely hard to swim in. We should look for any opportunity to knock them into the water.
It would be fantastic if we could commandeer their vessel—in that case, we might be able to fly to Darkcrest, moving much more rapidly and out of reach of anyone on the ground. Khaska would warn against damaging their ship beyond repair.
That said, given that Orensland will be trying to board the ship, Khaska will cast Water Walking on him (which will apparently last 40 minutes). That way he'll be able to avoid swimming if he falls (crossing fingers that he doesn't!).
The use of most spells will be decided by the exigencies of the moment (Eryx said I could offer "triggers" for further spells, so here are a couple:
Summon Monster II: If the Whitecloaks try to board or get close enough to the water, Khaska will summon a squid, which can then attempt to drag the Whitecloaks into the water. As Rynn has thought, swimming with plate would be awful. (For the same reason, Khaska will stay as far from the edges of the ship as he can.)
Silence: When the Whitecloaks start trying to cast spells at the ship—especially if they're moving the skyship toward the ship—Khaska will cast Silence on the skyship, rendering anyone on board unable to cast spells for eight minutes.
Hold Person: Especially important if any of the Whitecloaks board the ship. Khaska will try to freeze them and, hopefully, toss them overboard. If he can freeze them mid-leap, or over the water, all the better.
Bear's Endurance: Eryx suggested that I reserve this for Lady Maramos.
Summon Monster IV: When the skyship "parks" near the ship, when the Whitecloaks try to board, or when the skyship comes around for a second pass—all these are options for when this spell could be used. In principle, Khaska wants to make sure it can supplement the party's firepower, overwhelming the WCs with firepower and targets.
Greater Magic Weapon: Khaska will decide which weapon needs the biggest boost, whether Rynn's bow or someone's sword (or otherwise) depending on the opportunity people have to use their weapons (range vs. melee combat, for instance).
I'm sure Khaska would have discussed spell strategy with other members of the party in preceding days. Would any of you have made strategy suggestions in addition to or contrary to the above?
“Are they going to board us too?” asked Rynn, nocking an arrow and moving to the upper deck.
“Hard to port!” The captain yelled at his first mate, who was steering the ship. “They’ll come around for another pass, lower and slower to board.”
There was only a few seconds to act, but as the lookout frantically cut at his harness Orensland had the opposite idea. He rushed towards the mast, waving Lady Maramos off, then began climbing up the rigging.
Khaska rushed over. “What are you doing?”
“Going to rescue the gnomes. If I can get onboard without them knowing, and then they board our ship …” Khaska thought for a moment, then reached out and said a quick prayer, touching the Shadowdancer as he did so.
Lady Maramos was undisturbed by Orensland’s frantic motions to stop, and completed her spell. A bead of light lanced from her fingertip, detonating on the bottom of the skyship, setting it partially ablaze.
“Water walking,” Khaska said. “Will help you get back to us if you need to, rather than swimming.” Orensland nodded, and then was up the mast, just as the lookout fell from his perch, having severed his harness finally. The human landed with a thud while Orensland clambered halfway up the mast, grappling hook in hand.
Despite the efforts to steer away by the first mate, the skyship smashed into the Ruvalk’s mast. Orensland was clinging to it about five feet below where the ship hit, and as the mast splintered above him, he was whirling his grappling hook and launched it into the air just as the ship passed overhead. It snagged, and he was violently yanked with it, having wrapped the rope quickly around him. He gritted his teeth, and then blended into the shadows. From the perspective of those remaining on the Ruvalk, he vanished, but the rope and grappling hook remained visible. Captain Bronzebeard rushed to the side, trying his best to see before the ship vanished into the fog.
He stepped back. “I’m not sure he made it, but I didn’t hear a splash, so he didn’t fall either.” The captain took a deep breath, and then hefted his axe.
Then there was a huge splash.
“That would be them landing the ship in the water,” the Captain said. He looked at Lady Maramos. “The Fireball spell was a nice idea. Now that we’re crippled, they’ll be coming to board us, they’ll have the advantage in movement of their ship. Let’s get ready to propel them.”
Sure enough, a few minutes later the ship came sailing out of the fog, which seemed to be lessening. The skyship was hovering just barely above the water, moving at a good clip, and adjusted course so it would basically glance by the Ruvalk on the starboard side.
“Here they come!” Bronzebeard shouted!
I’ve split the fight into two, narratively. While Orensland is on the skyship (metagaming, I will tell you that he’s made it, which was indicated by Bronzebeard in the post), I’m doing his part separate, and asked him not to read the campaign until I tell him to. He’s on his honor not to after this post.
The ship is in the water, the fire from Lady Maramos extinguished, and will be strafing by you in a moment. It has considerable speed and it looks like Manson and his buddies will be jumping on board.
Please everybody roll initiative and give me three rounds of actions. The first round will largely be them approaching, and the second round will be them trying to board, to give you an idea of what you’re reacting to.
Initiative: 9 (7 +2 mod)
Round 1: Sanjin will cast crushing despair on as many enemies he can catch in his cone (without hitting an ally) Will save DC: 17
Round 2: Sanjin will use his action to transform his rod into the snake form.
Round 3: Sanjin will cast false life on himself. Nagini (the python) will try to get to an enemy and grapple it; Grapple: 30 (rolled 7 +23 mod)
Initiative: 7 (do I need to add a mod for this?)
When the Whitecloaks first try to cast spells on the party, Khaska will cast Silence on their skyship. He will Summon Monster II and Summon Monster IV as soon as the skyship gets close enough; the more targets and sources of injury we can amass, the better. Other spells (including the lower-level ones that would affect groups of people generally) he'll cast as the battle demands. Let me know if you need any more info!
Rynn will focus on taking out as many enemies as he can. Ideally, he'd look for opportunities to hit them as they come off their ship so they stagger in their landings or are even knocked back into their own ship or into the water.
longbow 33 crit! (rolled natural 20 + 13 bonuses), damage: 18 (max damage 8 + rolled 5 + rolled 3 + 2 STR; longbow is a crit x3 weapon)
longbow 12 (rolled 4 + 8 bonuses), damage: 6 (rolled 4 + 2 STR)
longbow 33 crit! (rolled natural 20 + 13 bonuses), damage: 23 (max damage 8 + rolled 6 + rolled 7 + 2 STR)
longbow 27 (rolled 19 + 8 bonuses), damage: 4 (rolled 2 + 2 STR)
longbow 15 (rolled 2 + 13 bonuses), damage: 9 (rolled 7 + 2 STR)
longbow 16 (rolled 8 + 8 bonuses), damage: 10 (rolled 8 + 2 STR)
Wow, two good crits! Not a bad way to start things off.
The air filled with the sounds of chanting, from both ships, and a number of spells exploded around everybody simultaneously. A pillar of fire erupted at Lady Maramos’ feet as she completed her spell, casting Bear’s Endurance on everybody. Everybody on the Ruvalk felt invigorated by the vampire sorceresses’ spell. At nearly the same time, they all felt a sharp pain as a spell from one of the clerics on the other ship lanced into all of them, causing them all to feel weakened and hurt. Khaska spit blood from his mouth and finished his spell, casting Silence on the human in the middle. It appeared to fail, however, as the man finished his spell and suddenly grew to twice his size!
Bronzebeard just laughed as his huge longbow twanged twice, the arrows landing in the now larger than life cleric. Rynn’s arrows hit another of the humans, finding their mark twice and clearly weakening the man, who cried out in pain. Lady Maramos completed another spell and everybody also felt stronger and more invigorated as well. She had given them Bull's Strength.
As the two ships passed, the skyship grated against the side of the Ruvalk, but all three of the human clerics from the other ship jumped, and with the larger cleric’s assistance, all three of them made it to the deck as the skyship peeled away.
Now the clerics had made their choice. There was to be no retreat, obviously. They were here to conquer or die.
Lady Maramos finished another spell and the two normal-sized humans suddenly seized up, unable to move.
“Focus on the big one,” she yelled out.
Bronzebeard dropped his bow and grabbed his greataxe, whispering a command word. It immediately began arcing lightning up and down the shaft, electricity playing across the axe head. “With pleasure!” he said, charging at the man.
Suddenly the arms of two squids wrapped themselves around the two frozen humans, trying to drag them into the water. Khaska had been successful in summoning monsters to serve him, as Sanjin sent Nagini into battle to grapple with the now large cleric. While fending off the snake, the cleric reached over and cast a prayer on one of his friends, who was released from Lady Maramos’ holding spell. That man shook off the squid’s tentacles as Bronzebeard began smashing his axe into the big man, serious and taciturn in combat.
Maramos and the freed normal-sized cleric glared at each other from across the deck.
“Die, vampire fiend!” he cried, casting a prayer her way.
“After you, Manson! You’re a blight on my kind. I’ll be happy to send you to meet the gods!” She at the same time launched a spell towards them, a duel between a holy cleric and a dark vampire sorceress. Both spells appeared to fail. But their duel was just beginning.
Bronzebeard hit the bigger cleric twice, and Nagini managed to wrap herself around the cleric’s legs and one arm. He was pinned.
Khaska let a prayer towards Bronzebeard, who was still merrily chopping away at the large human, and Sanjin cast a spell on himself that immediately perked himself up.
Just then a hawk flew down into the deck, morphing into a huge bear that lashed out at Khaska, catching the cleric with a glancing blow and drawing blood.
Here is the hitpoint situation:
Rynn—23.
Khaska—11.
Sanjin—11. (I rolled for your casting of False Life.)
Lady Maramos cast both Bear’s Endurance and Bull’s Strength on all of you. I’ve given you the two extra hitpoints, and from now on take the extra strength (+4) into account in your rolls as needed. BlackWolf, I can't alter your google doc, so you'll have to do it all yourself.
There are 4 people who have boarded the ship. One is currently trapped in a Hold Person spell, one has made himself larger than life and is currently getting wailed on by Bronzebeard while also pinned by Nagini, and the third is Manson himself, and he appears to be in a bit of a wizard’s duel with Lady Maramos. The fourth is the druid, and he is a Brown Bear and currently attacking Khaska.
I took the liberty of having Khaska use one of his Level 4 spells to heal Sanjin, who was at 1 hitpoint after that first round of spells from the other side.
If I could get a Knowledge (Nature) check from Rynn and Khaska, please.
What do you all want to do? Give me 3 more rounds of actions.
Rynn will just continue firing arrows, focusing on the big one as ordered, unless he sees someone else that could possibly be finished off.
longbow 31 (rolled 18 + 13 bonuses), damage: 5 (rolled 1 + 4 STR)
longbow 18 (rolled 10 + 8 bonuses), damage: 11 (rolled 7 + 4 STR)
I figure that Rynn will be standing away from the enemy as best he can so he can shoot, but there's only so much room on the ship. If he hits an enemy within 30 feet, please add +1 damage for his Point Blank Shot.
If battle comes too close to him, Rynn would switch to his longsword. (Basically the same results as above, though it's magic if that matters, and that last 19 would be a crit with a sword.)
Cast acid arrow To Hit: 10; Damage: 7 lasts for three turns (Damage: 8 & 6).
Nagini uses Constrict Damage: 18
Cast acid arrow To Hit: 9; Damage: 3 lasts for three turns (Damage: 5 & 3).
Nagini uses ConstrictDamage: 12
Cast Ray of Frost To Hit: 20; Damage 1
Since he's suddenly found himself in Melee, Khaska will draw his scimitar to engage the druid-bear. (Unless Eryx or anyone else has a better idea!)
To hit: 18 + 8 = 26 (Crit!)
Damage: (6 + 2) x 2 = 16
To hit: 14 + 8 = 22
Damage: 3 + 2 = 5
I hope I got the calculations right!
And the other check:
Knowledge (Nature): 7 + 4 = 11
The cleric immediately drew his scimitar and began slashing at the creature, carving a gash into the creature’s side. Rynn watched this new battle unfold as he continued unleashing arrows at the larger-than-life cleric, and the ranger noticed something. The bear attacked once, drawing blood, but did not continue fighting as hard as it could. It would make the most sense, indeed, for the bear to grapple with Khaska. But the bear swiped at the cleric half-heartedly, as if wanting to pretend to be fighting, but not really with its heart in it.
Lady Maramos unleashed a lightning-bolt that jumped from Manson to his companions, the sound of thunder echoing across the lake even as the clerics healed each other. Rynn had been worried about that. Traditionally it made tactical sense to attack the healers in an enemy group. But what did one do when all of the enemy group were healers?
Apparently continue to whack away at them, if you were Bronzebeard, who landed another blow, shoot arrows at them, if you were his crew, and cast more spells at them, if you were Sanjin and Lady Maramos.
The vampire sorceress next blasted the three clerics with a spell that detonated, leaving ice everywhere on them and on the ship. Rynn even noticed that the lake behind them froze from the effects of the spell. Nagini, unfortunately, was also caught in the blast, and turned into a staff—having taken too much damage to continue to function. However, the large cleric fell to the deck with a large clank, the ship literally shaking with the impact of the overly large man.
Lady Maramos grinned and stepped forward, an arctic blast erupting from her fingers and coating the remaining clerics once again in ice. But Manson called out a prayer and, as Rynn fired more shots off, he felt the effects of the spell hit him, and darkness overtook his vision as he passed out from the magical damage the cleric inflicted on him.
Sanjin managed to overcome some of the effects of the spell, a Mass Inflict Wounds spell of some variety. He watched as literally everybody except for him and Bronzebeard hit the deck, including Ranna! The bear took one look around and charged right at him, hitting him in the head with his paw, knocking him unconscious.
Orensland clambered up the rope slowly, trying not to make too much sound. He got his hands on the lip and pulled himself up and over, steadying himself as the ship hit the water pretty hard, sending him sprawling on the deck. He got up quickly.
He appeared to be undiscovered.
Quietly as he could he moved back to where the grappling hook was still attached, and grabbed it, stuffing it in his Haversack, where it disappeared as he blended into the shadows. There was a little awkwardness as he pulled the length of rope up and in, but nobody was paying attention, and he tried to position himself directly behind the gnome steering the ship to avoid line-of-sight issues anyway.
Nobody was talking. The humans and centaur used buckets of water to put out a few lingering fires, but the ship appeared to be mostly intact, and still flyable. The gnome pulled them out of the water slowly, angling the skyship crystals with a complicated set of levers and pulleys to bring the ship back out of the water and eventually, above the fog level as he circled around.
The centaur leapt forward, turning into a hawk and circling down into the fog. He came back a moment later, and the gnome followed his lead, dropping the ship into the fog.
One human, a tall man with graying hair by his temples, muttered some words and waved his hand horizontally, dismissively.
“Lord Manson, my place is by your side!” one of the other humans, a young man, said to the tall one. “Let me fight with you?”
“No, Harrison. Do as you’re told. We don’t have much time.” The other human began saying prayers, holding a symbol hanging from his chest, and touching each of the others in turn. Everybody, actually, was casting spells on themselves and on others. They were preparing for war, and all the spell casting took a while as the ship descended further, skimming the surface of the lake and still following the druid. The young man completed his spells on the others, then stepped back.
“Come and get us when we’ve killed them all and secured the vampire.” Cedric said to the young man.
Harrison nodded, then moved to stand by the tied up and gagged gnome, drawing his sword.
The Ruvalk emerged from the fog, and the gnome twisted the wheel ever so slightly, angling their ship so that it would pass right by the other ship. Orensland even wondered if it might scrape the Ruvalk, the gnome was flying so close.
Actually, it did scrape the Ruvalk. The three clerics jumped through spells and arrows to land on the other ship. Orensland watched behind him until the Ruvalk disappeared in the fog. The gnome took the ship up slowly, and Harrison was peering over the side, watching as spell effects lit the fog from below.
Now was the time to make his move. Orensland crept forward, making sure to stay hidden in the shadows from the rigging and sails, and, when he was directly behind Harrison, he struck!
His sword grated on Harrison’s armor and the young man gave a yelp and turned quickly, moving into a defensive position.
“Darn,” the rogue said.
“Die, vampire fiend!” Harrison cried out. The young cleric lunged forward, but Orensland managed to parry his blow.
The cleric was dedicated, devout, and sincere, not doubting for a moment the cause of his righteousness and calling upon his God for protection.
But Orensland was much more experienced. Harrison never even landed a blow on him before Orensland killed him. The young cleric had barely collapsed into a heap on the deck, when Orensland delivered a killing blow. Harrison’s head bounced away after a swift slice of the shadowdancer’s sword cleaved through his neck.
He quickly sheathed his sword and drew a dagger, moving over to the tied up gnome female. She panicked, trying to inchworm away, but Orensland slashed her bounds quickly and then backed away.
The gnome chained to the steering wheel was just staring at him.
“Don’t worry. I didn’t hurt her. I’m on your side.” The shadowdancer said. “Is there a key to your chains?”
“In Manson’s pack. The green one.”
Orensland slid the pack over to the gnome, who began looking through it cautiously, half-keeping an eye on this newcomer.
“I’m a friend,” Orensland said. “I’m the enemy of these men that have treated you so poorly. My name is Orensland.”
“But you’re a vampire,” the woman said.
Orensland burst out laughing. “No, no, no, that’s not me. I just happen to be very good at hiding. See look, I’m in the sunlight. I’d be scorched by now if I were a vampire.”
“But you work for a vampire, right?” she asked.
“I’m traveling in the same company with her, but I’m not on her side.”
“So you don’t work for her,” the pilot said. “You were just traveling on the ship?” He had found the key and was now working to free himself.
“Well, I’m honor bound to not go into the details. For a higher cause, I am helping to transport this vampire to a specific location. Believe me when I say I would rather not be in this job.” Orensland was looking into the fog, where spells still played out, lighting the mist up.
“So what do you intend to do with us?” the female asked. She had approached the pilot, steering well clear of Orensland, and the two embraced.
“I intend you no harm, but would like to ask your help.”
“What do you want us to do? Because I’m inclined to turn around and get the hell out of here!” the pilot said.
“You’ve crippled our ship. There are many good men there who will die if you leave them stranded. Can the druid reach us? Can he see us if we were within telescope sight?”
“The druid can fly fast enough to catch us, but he’s not on their side. Manson captured his family and is holding them hostage.”
Orensland thought about that. It was troubling. Innocent lives were at risk. “Are any gnomes being threatened off-ship? Are they threatening anyone else for you? How were they to contact the ship?”
“Just the druid’s family. They captured the two of us and forced us to fly for them. We were to wait until they had captured the vampire, and then approach to bring her on board.”
“Is this ship his?”
“No, this is our ship. He captured us with it.” Manson seemed to be a world-class jerk. Weren’t clerics like him supposed to be good? Orensland thought back to the fallen cleric Kyrnyn … it seemed Manson was getting dangerously close to that point.
“Look. I just saved your lives, and I’m not asking you to put yourselves in harm’s way.”
“What do you suggest then?” The pilot said. “We’re not approaching that ship unless Manson and his buddies are all dead.”
“Stay far enough away that only the druid could reach us. That way no harm will come to you, but we can still save my friends if they defeat Manson.”
The pilot looked at his wife. She nodded.
“He did rescue us. We can wait to see what happens.”
The husband looked at Orensland. “I can do that much for you. But if Manson wins, we’re sailing off and never looking back.”
“Fair enough. Thank you, my good man. Can you get closer to the lake’s surface?”
“You want to swim over?”
“I can walk on water at the moment.” Orensland looked at the gnomes. “Can I trust you to not leave us? Even though you are out of harm’s way.”
“We will wait. But we will wait far, far away.”
“Agreed. Thank you both very much. Now take us down. You are noble folks.” The pilot adjusted some levers and took the ship down. There were still flashed of light below, enough that Orensland knew where to go. “Thank you for your kindness. Hope to see you soon.”
Orensland jumped overboard, falling a few feet to the lake and stopping on its surface. That was weird, and the surface was a bit choppy. He hoped that he could still help; Manson seemed a genuine psychopath. He took off at a dead run, doing his best to blend into the shadows as he did, hoping he wouldn’t be too late.
He was too late.
Two of the clerics remained on their feet, as did Captain Bronzebeard. The rest of the ship was silent, except for Lady Maramos, who was fumbling about as if blinded. There was also a—bear? Probably the druid.
“As a show of good faith, I will stabilize your men, but only stabilize,” Manson was saying. He and the remaining cleric were moving in parabolas around Lady Maramos, but also avoiding Bronzebeard, seemingly as wary of him as they were of her.
“I accept,” said Bronzebeard. “The vampire is yours. Her feeder is below decks.”
“She is all I came for,” Manson said, and then he began to move towards Lady Maramos, pulling out a wooden stake as he did so. The other cleric began to move towards the bodies that littered the deck.
“You will not take her!” Sebastien came running up from below decks, dagger in hand. Bronzebeard smacked him once with the flat side of his axe and the young man went sprawling, unconscious.
Nobody had yet seen Orensland, but he saw Bronzebeard look in his direction, directly at him. There was no way the dwarf could have known where he was, and yet he was staring right at the shadowdancer.
Here is the hitpoint situation.
Rynn. -8 hitpoints. Bleeding out. I forgot to account for Ranna in the combat. She too is unconscious and bleeding out. She has -5 hitpoints.
Khaska. -6 hitpoints. Stable. (You made one of your d% rolls.)
Sanjin. -3 hitpoints. Stable. (The bear did non-lethal damage to you.)
Orensland. Full health. (Poor Harrison.)
Even though Orensland is the only one who can currently hear and interact with Bronzebeard, Manson, and Manson’s ally, the rest of you can give input.
Lady Maramos is bumping about the deck. She appears to have been deafened and blinded. This happened immediately after everybody was knocked below 0 hitpoints.
Orensland just caught the tail end of the conversation, but it appears that Bronzebeard has convinced Manson and his remaining ally to merely depart with Lady Maramos, whom they can now easily capture. Manson is unaware that you have captured his ship. However, you will discover that he prepared Word of Recall in case the combat went sideways, and can therefore transport himself, his remaining ally, Lady Maramos (with her bag of graveyard dirt, but not her coffin), and the druid away. Bronzebeard will tell you that Manson’s word in this matter is good and that he will depart in peace.
What would you all like to do? What will Orensland say? (You are still on the water, and Bronzebeard appears to be aware that you have arrived.)
Perhaps, Crosis, we could do a dialogue over chat once major decisions have been made about what the party wants to do at this point.
Sorry about that. A couple of questions first.
First of all, I thought they needed Lady Maramos alive. Why is Manson pulling out a wooden stake? Should Orensland be panicking?
Secondly, does Word of Recall mean they can teleport to the ship? Or to the mainland?
Orensland would walk over to and communicate with Bronzebeard. Obviously hiding in plain sight, and it appears Bronzebeard can see him anyways. Orensland would inform him quickly that the gnomes on the ship are free and waiting at a distance, with the guard they left behind dead on the deck. If they are teleporting back to the ship, this will be a problem. But we need to know first.
I'll write more soon, I need to run right now.
I came to post an update with a few suggestions and thoughts to maybe get the ball rolling since nobody seems inclined to post, and then discovered that Crosis had posted just a bit ago. I'll answer his quesitons first, and then proceed with my thoughts.
I don't really agree with how the rules treat this, but per the 3.5 rules, "Driving a wooden stake through a vampire’s heart instantly slays the monster. However, it returns to life if the stake is removed, unless the body is destroyed." I wouldn't have used the term "slay" there if they can return to life. Basically, Manson is planning on incapacitating her, not killing her. I am following the rules in this instance.
You don't know where Manson's Word of Recall will take him. That might be a good question to ask him (or have Bronzebeard ask him).
Now to my thoughts:
I feel obligated to point out that Bronzebeard can hear from ridiculously far away.
I see that you basically have 2 options.
1. Let him take Lady Maramos. Then you can:
a) Leave her to her fate. It's not like you all are her friend anyway. Kaylee and her mercenaries get blamed, maybe?
b) Track her down and rescue her. (Do the gnomes know where his home base is? If they don't, could you find out by other means?)
2. Fight. Do you think that you can take the two of them, with Bronzebeard's help, Crosis? Nobody else on the ship is currently in a position to help, and Rynn will likely die in 2 rounds if he isn't stabilized by someone.
3. Something I haven't thought of.
The most reasonable thing would be to just let Manson go with Maramos, as everyone except Bronzebeard is knocked out and no one knows about Orensland. But we should make certain that we're not condemning the gnomes and the druid to servitude. Can Orensland ask Bronzebeard to ask Manson where his Recall spell will take him? Is there any way that Bronzebeard could prevent Manson from taking the druid with him when he activates the Recall spell?
Alrighty. Some ideas.
First things first, I would like to point out what my character is probably thinking. Orensland enjoys stealing from wealthy, arrogant folk that belittle the lower classes. While unsure of Manson's financial status, all this blackmail, kidnapping, and stealing from innocent folk definitely fits the mold of people Orensland goes out of his way to make miserable. So while he would not get into a suicide fight with two clerics, Orensland would be leaning towards tactics that would make Manson… less than happy.
Onward. With Bronzebeard, Orensland would whisper as quietly as possible "can you hear me?" If he gets confirmation, he would proceed to relay information via whispering. If not, he would try to board the ship and move to Bronzebeard to talk.
Orensland would concisely relay what happened - he had killed the guard they left behind, the gnomes were free and waiting to see who won the battle. He would likely also make clear that the druid is being blackmailed into helping the clerics, if Bronzebeard had not already deduced that.
Knowing that Bronzebeard cannot reply without giving away Orensland's location, these questions are one-sided yes or no questions he can relay via discrete nods or shakes, or other small gestures.
Does Manson have any way aside from the flying ship to get back to the mainland?
(If Bronzebeard doesn't know, he can technically ask Manson. This can also solve our Recall location problem. Besides, how is Bronzebeard planning on getting back to land without the flying ship? The ship is crippled. His men will die without some form of transportation.)
I know she is evil, but she is our way into the Cult. If it comes to fighting, would you be willing to fight to protect her? (If that be the case, I could sneak aboard and pull the stake out of her heart. Presuming the blinding/deafening spell has worn off, at least. Do you know how long the spell has left?)
…some things depend on what happens. For example, if Manson discovers that the ship has been commandeered, would he throw a fit and try to kill the barely stabilized crew? He seems the type. At which point, Bronzebeard would be inclined to pulliing out his axe, and Orensland would move into a position to de-stake Lady Maramos.
If Bronzebeard is unwilling to fight, Orensland has no hope in a three-on-one battle. He would wish Lady Maramos a not-so-fond farewell.
…but really, what is Bronzebeard planning in regards to getting back to land? If the peaceful route, he would probably inform the clerics of their stolen ship and advise they use the Recall spell. The druid can stay if he wants. The gnomes then help us get back to land.
If Manson, again, throws a fit or some such and refuses to allow for such negotiations… Orensland would move into position to take the stake out of Lady Maramos' heart.
And whatever happens, Orensland would hope that all action can wait until the men are stabilized. It's kind of pointless fighting for people who are bleeding out on their own.
I agree with Thev.
After thinking about it for a while, I really don't have much input to give. In a way it's fitting, since Rynn is unconscious anyway. I agree with the sentiment that we don't want the gnomes to suffer more, and we'd like to turn the tables if possible. But it seems that our options are limited. We may have to cut our losses and try to come up with something later.
Obviously, I'd prefer it if Rynn did not die here, especially given that his contribution seemed somewhat pathetic, but sometimes that's the tragic turn of events. I wouldn't want him to be saved by deus ex machina, so I suppose I should at least try some saving rolls (d%): 80, 35
And thus it seems that without some quick help, Rynn will be dead. I'm actually okay with that as a player; the situation isn't ideal, but dems the breaks, right? I suppose resurrection of some kind could be possible, but our finances aren't great. I'd rather roll a new character than make a huge deal (or quest) just to raise Rynn.
Edit: derp, forgot to roll for Ranna stabilizing (d%): 30, 58, 54, 43, 28. Looks like her luck is like her master's and will die shortly.
Orensland remembered that Bronzebeard could hear from extraordinarily far away, so he muttered quietly. “Can you hear me?”
Barely perceptibly, Bronzebeard raised his head up and then down. He could.
“The skyship is ours,” Orensland said. “They are staying out of range until things are resolved here, however. If Manson wins, they’ll just fly away. I water walked here, thanks to Khaska. Also, the druid isn’t on their side. They are blackmailing him into helping them.”
“Stabilize the ranger first,” the captain was saying. “He is the most injured.” Bronzebeard moved to the side and propped his greataxe against the railing of the ship, within reach, but not in hand.
Manson’s friend moved over and reached down to touch Rynn.
“The wolf too.”
Manson was moving close to Lady Maramos, then at the last minute rushed her and stabbed her in the heart with the stake. She collapsed instantly.
“I thought he wanted to take her alive,” Orensland said.
“A wise decision, to incapacitate her. You should cover her up in case the fog lifts.” Bronzebeard was saying. Manson took his bloodstained and scorched cloak off and placed it over her. He never took his eyes off of Bronzebeard, who was pointing at the first mate. “Stabilize him next. What will you do now?”
“Summon our ship once the fog lifts. Then we will be on our way.” The other cleric was healing the first mate.
“Yes, I thought we might hit that particular snag,” Bronzebeard said. “The skyship is ours. One of her bodyguards snuck aboard it when you destroyed our mast. I happen to know that he succeeded. You won’t be getting back that way.” He reached down to grab his axe, but didn’t hoist it. “Are we going to have to finish the fight?”
Manson shook his head. “I have no desire to tempt my fate by fighting you more, whoever or whatever you are. I’ll be taking Lady Maramos with me using Word of Recall.”
“What does that mean?” Orensland asked.
“I assume that will teleport you back to your home base? Not the ship?”
Manson touched his face and began to mutter a prayer.
Bronzebeard hefted the axe ever so slightly, dangling the heavy weapon easily in one hand and pointing swiftly with his other. “No healing! You leave as you are now, or we ‘tempt fate’ together.”
Even Orensland was intimidated by the tone of voice the captain used. It surprised him. Manson dropped his hand, holding it away from himself. “Very well. Yes, my spell will return me to my base of operations, not to the ship.”
“I think I could get the drop on them,” Orensland said. “They don’t know I’m here. Do you think that would work? I could sneak and take the stake out of Lady Maramos too, so she would be on our side.”
Bronzebeard shrugged. “The fog is lifting,” he said. “Make sure she’s completely covered. I would hate for something to happen, though I know you would have a few seconds to cover her before she died. You’ve planned this so carefully, but as we all know, fate and chance are enemies on every battlefield. The outcome of my fights, I’ve discovered, is not necessarily in my hands.”
The captain was right. The fog was lifting, and Orensland had crept closer to the ship so as to be in its shadow, the shadows from the fog becoming too unreliable. Bronzebeard had turned to look at Orensland again when speaking last, and the shadowdancer got the message that Bronzebeard was trying to convey in secret—an attack might succeed, but it also might not succeed. And Lady Maramos was in danger from the sunlight as the fog was dissipating more and more. But he was willing to fight. The decision was Orensland’s to make.
“If they leave,” whispered Orensland, “how are we going to get off of the lake? We’re stuck! Also, would the druid fight if we decided to surprise them suddenly?”
“Once you’re gone,” Bronzebeard said, “I’ll have the skyship drag us to shore. Better than being left out here to die.” Orensland managed at this point to hop aboard the ship, making sure to stay near shadow. None of the others, aside from Bronzebeard, knew that he was there.
“I’m sure someone would find you eventually,” said the other cleric. “And it’s not like you would run out of water or fish.” He was stepping closer to Manson and the prone form of Lady Maramos, and snorted. “Maybe the ‘spirit of the lake’ the locals speak of so much will come save you.” Manson gestured to the druid and pointed at the prone form of the dead cleric, who was only now returning to normal size, the Righteous Might spell having worn off. “Come and pick up Skyler. We’ll be going.”
“How did you get a druid to join your cause anyway?” Bronzebeard asked. “I didn’t know whitecloaks had druids in their order.”
“Drikdare serves us for his own reasons,” Manson answered vaguely. The bear shambled over, but slowly.
“I would hope that those reasons aren’t coercion. You walk a fine line as a cleric, Manson. You might find yourself with few allies if you carry on in this way. I have many allies, some old, and some new. It’s the better path.”
Orensland noted the phrasing. Bronzebeard was trying to convey to the druid their desire to have him not be enslaved further to these fallen whitecloaks. He hoped the druid was getting the message. The shadowdancer was close to Lady Maramos. The sunlight was spotty and even when it was foggy (which came and went a bit with the wind) enough of it was peeking through that Orensland worried about Lady Maramos. There was still enough shade for him to blend into the shadows, however. As the light grew stronger, actually, there were plenty of shadows for him to tap into. He remained undetected. But what to do?
Everybody is stabilized, but still unconscious. The cleric gave everybody who was bleeding out a single hitpoint. Everybody is where they were in the last post. (Rynn and Ranna lost a hitpoint, but then gained one as the cleric stabilized them.)
Manson and his buddies, and the druid, are about to leave.
I hope I’ve answered your questions as best you can. Basically.
1. Bronzebeard is willing to fight, but thinks it’s a gamble. You might succeed. You might not.
2. The Word of Recall spell does not take them back to the skyship. The gnomes will be free.
3. The druid is being ordered to go with them. The druid will not be free.
I’ve set this up so that the decision making is still in the hands of the group. Of all the ways the combat could have gone, I wasn’t expecting to have the NPCs be alone and finishing the fight. Bronzebeard has intimidated/coerced/diplomacied them to this point, and so now you have to decide. Let them take Maramos, or fight and “tempt fate” as Manson put it.
What do you all want to do? I can answer a few more questions here if I feel that information would be available and I didn’t do a good job of conveying it through the narrative.
It sounds like we are in a bit of a pickle. We can't really fight without risking the lives of everyone on the ship, because if Manson uses another one of his nasty spells all of the "stable" people will die quickly. Plus lady Maramos would not be able to fight with us, as the sun is basically out now. But technically innocent lives are still at stake, as the druid and his family are still in trouble. Plus Manson is a jerk, and I wouldn't mind taking a few swings at him.
For starters, Orensland would Point out to the captain that Mansons spell will not be able to carry their dead friend back with them. He would then encourage the captain to use this information to convince a clerics to free the druid, as they basically need to choose between the two. Perhaps by hinting that the white cloaks would look down on him leaving his fellow cleric behind.
Ultimately, though, it seems that the consensus is letting Manson go. It almost feels immoral to say that, but the odds are stacked against us making it out alive, and my characters priorities lie in protecting his friends. Unless anyone feels strongly that we should fight, we would probably just let Manson go, with or without the druid. My character will probably be racked with guilt for some time over this, and likely try very hard at getting better so he doesn't feel so powerless again.
Point of order, I was misreading the spell when talking to Crosis via texting a few days. Manson can take everybody back with him. Including the dead cleric. Per the spell description, "You can transport, in addition to yourself, any objects you carry, as long as their weight doesn’t exceed your maximum load. You may also bring one additional willing Medium or smaller creature (carrying gear or objects up to its maximum load) or its equivalent per three caster levels. A Large creature counts as two Medium creatures, a Huge creature counts as two Large creatures, and so forth. All creatures to be transported must be in contact with one another, and at least one of those creatures must be in contact with you."
Between Manson, his other cleric friend, and the centaur, they can carry all of them, per my calculations.
Ah. Well, that being the case…
I've been rethinking it. Orensland has a lot of emotion on this one. He would be torn, but… he is a rather impulsive character at times. Manson is evil in all the ways that count, perhaps even worse than Lady Maramos, whom we intended to backstab farther down the road. We have a hypothetical golden dragon on our side, so that's handy.
Orensland would fight. Hopefully the druid joins our side as well, that should make things… even more interesting.
Orensland would whisper to Bronzebeard: "The druid's family will always be in danger if we don't end this now, as well as countless others with a monster like Manson running about. Can you get the attention of both clerics as soon as everyone is stabilized? I'm going to pull the stake out of the vampire. We should gang up on Manson, he likely prepared the Word of Recall spell. If he escapes, the druid's family may be in danger."
Presuming such a distraction worked, Orensland would pull the stake out, whisper "attack Manson first, shade is behind you, move quietly" then move (hiding in the shadows as he goes) to get in position to sneak attack. The attention of the clerics will be on Bronzebeard, they won't be looking to spot me. When they turn around for Lady Maramos, she will be way too distracting for them to be looking for me. Hopefully she can get to shade in time, she'd likely have stayed close to the contraption the crew had set up earlier. If Lady Maramos is successful in attacking Manson, Orensland would move to attack the other cleric instead. He's likely somewhat weaker, Manson won't be shooting spells in that direction, and the odds of accidentally getting hit by Lady Maramos would be higher if he's hanging around the head honcho. If she is unsuccessful, he would sneak attack Manson and hope the big guy with the electric axe would be a more important target to focus on.
Any objections? Technically party members can veto this decision if enough are strongly opposed. If it helps, the battle should go quickly. Eryx and I can do it over the phone one-on-one, as I'm the only player technically involved.
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If Khaska were conscious, he'd worry that they'd have a way to kill everyone—except, perhaps, Bronzebeard. He'd lean toward caution and not fighting. After all, as the situation stands the party might have an "out" with the vampires in Darkcrest: they were all unconscious when Lady Maramos was captured, and could advise them on tracking her down again.
If you decide to pull out the stake, Crosis, that will be your action in the "surprise round," and both Manson and his cleric friend seem pretty jumpy, though you are right they are focused on Bronzebeard. Manson is practically standing over Lady Maramos' body.
Ok. I talked over the schematics of the boat with Eryx, and decided that an attempt to kill Manson and his cleric in one blow would be near suicidal. I also considered lifting the cloth briefly to kill Lady Maramos and strike some kind of metaphorical blow at Manson, but am aware that would just make the two angry enough to… say, try to kill everyone on board. They are not known for their restraint.
Here's what I propose. We let him take Lady Maramos, with his cleric friend, with the druid. Then I vote that we go try to save Lady Maramos, for three reasons. One, the druid's family may still be in danger. In the dialogue, it sounds like Manson is not keen on letting his druid friend go, at least for some time. Two, if we save Lady Maramos, we would earn her trust far beyond that of mere bodyguards. This can further our plans for the Cult greatly, far more than just showing up on their doorstep and hoping they let us know everything. And third, Manson is a jerk that will likely continue to harm innocents. Our party doesn't do well with people harming innocents and would probably enjoy taking him out.
…and, from a metagaming perspective, we may want to beef up our characters before continuing to explore the Deadlands. This would provide a good, exciting opportunity.
The gnomes may have an idea of where their base of operations is, and their packs (including the druid's) are on the skyship, which can provide clues as to where they may have gone.
So. You guys ready to go on an adventure, saving the damsel in distress? :)
Crosis speaks sense, I think!
I question calling her a "damsel in distress", but other then that… it sounds good.
Drikdare morphed from the bear form into his natural centaur form, and Orensland could clearly see the disappointment on the druid’s face. It almost made him want to draw his shortsword and lunge at the cleric standing near him, but then he hesitated. The shadowdancer almost heard, in his mind, Khaska’s wise and measured thoughts on the dangers of continuing the fight, coupled with Rynn’s tactical assessment of the situation. (Sanjin, with his morbid sense of humor, was indifferent in the shadowdancer’s mind.) The cleric and Manson looked pretty bloodied, but even catching them by surprise (they seemed pretty wary of Bronzebeard, watching him like hawks), and even if Drikdare joined their fight, even allowing just one of them to get a spell off might kill all the remaining members of the crew. Orensland looked at the still form of Lady Maramos under Manson’s cloak, and weighed the possibility of saving her against the possibility of his friends dying.
It was no contest, though he was sure that Bronzebeard could hear his teeth grinding as he looked at Manson. Kidnapping. Blackmail. Assault and killing of innocents to get what he wants (if you considered Bronzebeard’s crew innocents—they were, after all, defending a powerful vampire sorceress). Manson was everything that Orensland hated.
Manson’s cleric friend moved down below decks and came back a few moments later carrying the bag of Lady Maramos’ graveyard dirt. He then grabbed their fallen comrade and draped the dead body over the back of the centaur. Their group assembled, the druid picked up the comatose form of Lady Maramos in his arms, and the three of them touched each other as Manson said a prayer. The light around them seemed to bend and waver, distorting the three of them until there was a small puff of noise as they vanished.
Orensland immediately dropped his hiding in plain sight.
“That hiding in the shadows is a neat trick,” Bronzebeard said. “I wish I knew it.”
“For all the good it did me,” Orensland grated.
“You are a daring one, when the situation demands, Mister Orensland. Yet tempered with wisdom to hold action when faced with difficult choices. You made the right choices. You and your friends live to fight another day.” Orensland could tell that Bronzebeard was impressed with him. The thought of a Bronze dragon being impressed with him made him smile. Bronzebeard’s next words, though, immediately erased the smile from his face. “Unfortunately, it seems most of my crew does not.”
The five sailors of Bronzebeard’s crew were all on the upper deck at the front of the Ruvalk, and had all fallen where the spells of Manson and his cleric allies had slain them. Orensland didn’t know what to say, so, perhaps awkwardly, he didn’t say anything.
The fog was lifting now, almost entirely, and Orensland could easily find the gnome skyship in the distance, lazily floating in the air. Bronzebeard could see them using their spyglass to look at him, while using his spyglass. They drifted close, and then gently landed in the water. Bronzebeard and the gnome woman lashed the two ships together so they wouldn’t drift apart, and then the gnome man left the steering wheel of his ship, hopping across onto the deck of the other ship.
“I am Captain Ryx Bronzebeard, and this here is what remains of my ship, the Ruvalk. I’d appreciate it if you could help me scrub the deck to remove the foul stench of Manson and his cronies. I’d be willing to return the favor.” He looked across at their deck, stained with Harrison’s blood, the body where Orensland had left it, the head still towards the bow of the ship. “It seems we both need it.”
The gnome woman laughed. “I am Hellin Cloudlover, and this is my husband, Alpip. Our ship is the Rainbow Javelin.” She turned to Orensland. “You have my thanks for rescuing us.” Alpip came up to him and hugged the elf, that being a little awkward since Alpip’s face came up to Orensland’s belly. The gnome grabbed fiercely around the shadowdancer’s waist. “Yes, thank you sir. The thought of being enslaved to Manson for longer …” He turned away, wiping his eyes, and composing himself. Then he looked around the bloodstained deck. “What do you need help with. Where should we start?”
“First, let’s get our people up and awake,” said Bronzebeard. “I don’t suppose that you have a healing potion available?”
“I know that Harrison had a few!” Hellin said, and then hopped over to the other boat to bring back the various backpacks from Manson and his allies. Orensland’s face lit up. He hadn’t even considered the possibility that stranding them without their skyship meant that he would have a chance to plunder the things that they had left behind!
A potion of healing got Khaska back on his feet. The Maha’i bolted upright upon the potion being dribbled down his throat, and looked around in panic.
“Whoa, easy there,” Orensland said, holding the cleric’s head, “Manson is gone. There’s no danger to us.”
The cleric groaned, sitting up. “What happened?”
“I was able to free the skyship, but Manson and his friends got away with Lady Maramos.”
“Got away? How?” The cleric was moving to get on his feet, very weak from the damage he had taken in the fight.
“Manson had prepared a Word of Recall spell,” said Captain Bronzebeard. “It was able to teleport them away, despite the fact that they couldn’t get back on their skyship.”
“Ah,” said Khaska. “And I see we have made some new friends.”
The gnomes introduced themselves as Khaska healed himself up a bit to make him steadier on his feet, and then moved to get the remainder of the unconscious up—with the exception of Sebastien, at Bronzebeard’s suggestion, who would remain unconscious for probably several hours. In a few minutes everybody was awake and able to move, despite multiple internal injuries sustained from the magic spells from Manson and his allies. Bronzebeard demurred to be healed.
Bronzebeard and his first mate prepared the bodies for burial, cutting the sail of their ship and wrapping the bodies up and weighting them down. He asked Khaska to pray over the bodies of the fallen crewmembers, which the cleric was more than happy to oblige, though the thought of merely dumping the bodies over the side was a bit strange. Then again, as he pondered on the burial rites he was familiar with, he realized that the attention to the facing of the horns was … not a consideration for the other races. Bronzebeard was unphased by it, as were the gnomes, so Khaska figured it might be a sailor difference more than even a racial one.
After the bodies had been buried at sea, Orensland went through all of the backpacks, but Rynn and Khaska were more interested in speaking to the gnomes and what they knew about Manson and his operation.
It turns out, they knew quite a bit.
“Manson has taken over a fishing village, Rhun, on the east shore of the lake about twenty miles south of the Derring river,” Alpip told them. “The people aren’t very happy about it, but even ruling the town with an iron fist like Manson, there are advantages. Raids from pirates or from others from the land side simply are ineffective, as Manson has substantial followers with him. The three that raided your ship are his most powerful followers, but he does have more low-level recruits to his cause, all whitecloaks from his times with the Bringers. So he protects the town in exchange for their housing him. It is an occupation, though, so I’m sure the people would be happy to see him leave. They also don’t like the way he treated us and the druid’s family. Or the two of us. Basically, we were all coerced in one way or another to help Manson in his ‘righteous cause.’”
“I have been to Rhun in the past,” Bronzebeard said. “I can’t imagine they like being thrown into the middle of Whitecloak politics.”
“Do you know what his plan was if he were to successfully capture Lady Maramos?” asked Rynn.
“Just bits and pieces that I overheard. The plan was to head back to Garth Calad, probably sending a messenger ahead. Manson was excommunicated by the Bringers for overzealousness, and it was thought that bringing back such a prize …”
Bronzebeard held up a hand. “We know Manson’s background. He seeks readmittance to the Bringers of Light. I know the Bringers think it a personal affront to their order that vampires have taken up residence on the Death Side. Bringing Lady Maramos would be a worthy bargaining chip for them.”
“Now that he doesn’t have our skyship,” Alpip said, “they’ll have to walk, and since there’s really only one way across the Sacrous River, we know exactly where they will be. Or at least where they have to go.”
“Unless he steals or somehow hijacks another skyship,” said Sanjin. “Would that be possible?”
“Highly unlikely. It was dumb luck that he captured us. We have relatives in Rhun and were visiting, a nephew of mine and his wife and kids. That’s how they captured us. It’s one of the many reasons the town turned against him. There isn’t a skyship port on the death side, aside from maybe occasionally Hub and Darkcrest, but they certainly would not go to Darkcrest, and Hub is in the wrong direction anyway. My guess is that they’re packing up right now and headed for the South Hagarit Bridge. I’m sure the good people of Rhun are overjoyed.”
“And in a skyship, we’ll be faster than they are,” Sanjin said. “By a lot.”
“We will make sure that Bronzebeard and his ship are first dragged to shore,” Khaska said. “It would be very improper to leave them stranded here.”
“Thank you, Khaska,” the captain said. “The Ruvalk is very salvageable, but we need to make a new mast and install it. Dropping us off at Rhun would be adequate. They are still in the forested area of the shore, and there would be no trouble finding an appropriate tree to serve as a new mast.”
Orensland interjected. “And I don’t think the Cloudlovers are in this fight with Manson with us. They want to drop us off and be gone, am I right?”
The both nodded vigorously. “We are honor bound to help you and your friends, Orensland, because you rescued us, but we will not endanger ourselves or put ourselves in a position to be recaptured. Once we determine where you want to be dropped off at a safe distance from any danger, we will do so, and be on our way.”
“And there’s the matter of Mister Sebastien,” Bronzebeard said. “I knocked him out, but he will eventually wake up. I bet he’ll insist on going after Lady Maramos, or perhaps hightailing it to Darkcrest to get reinforcements on the skyship. And he’ll probably be mad at me.”
Orensland snorted. “Given that you managed to hold your own again Manson and his cleric friends and then intimidated them into not fighting with you anymore, I don’t think you need to be worried if he comes after you.”
“If you wanted to go to Darkcrest, we would drop you off away from the city,” said Alpip. “I have no desire to fly to into the city itself.”
“So,” said Captain Bronzebeard, “it is up to you. As long as my ship gets to shore, I am content, and as long as the gnomes aren’t in danger from Manson, it seems they are content.”
Orensland went through the four backpacks of Manson and his followers and found the following items, as well as the armor and weapon from Harrison. Orensland did not go through Sebastien’s or Lady Maramos’ things, but there’s no reason he couldn’t at the moment. Let me know if you would want to.
1. Harrison’s plate armor (plate armor).
2. Harrison’s sword (+1 longsword).
3. Ring of Protection +1.
4. A Heward’s Handy Haversack. (And 3 regular packs, if you care.)
5. Rations for 36 days.
6. Gold and jewels totaling 748 gold.
7. 5 potions of Cure Light Wounds.
8. Cloak of Charisma +1. (From Harrison, and the cloak is white with silver trim, making it the stereotypical “white cloak” that the “whitecloaks” get their nickname from.)
9. Two sets of manacles.
10. And of course the coach, which was lashed to the deck, and four horses, which were under the deck during the fighting.
For the fight, you all earn 2160 XP, except for Orensland who earns only 900 XP.
Also, consider yourselves fully healed. By the time you get anywhere it will have been several days and you have healed up between Khaska’s spells and your natural rest.
What do you want to do? The Cloudlovers will drop you off basically anywhere you want on the Death Side as long as it doesn’t endanger them, after you drag the Ruvalk off to a location that Bronzebeard can get a new mast for his ship. Sebastien is still unconscious, so you can all freely discuss your options without tipping your hand that you’re not actually on his side.
I promise I'm trying to get back into the rhythm of posting; pardon my many excuses and delays. But I think things went the right way. Discretion being the better part of valor and whatnot. We lost the battle, but really our position isn't much worse off given that we weren't really on Lady Maramos' side. The real loss is Bronzebeard's crew and ship.
Rynn will take his share of the gold and gems (divided 4 ways, right? 748 / 4 = 187 gp). He'll gladly take any magic items that others don't want so he can sell them off later. But maybe we should let Bronzebeard have some spoil to help defray his costs on this trip?
As far as our next steps go, Rynn definitely agrees with Orensland that Manson needs to pay for his crimes. His "ranger justice" is happy to let that be a swift death in the wild (as Rynn creeps ever closer toward the chaotic good alignment).
But we also originally came here to try to discover what was happening with the pilgrimages, vampires, and Cult Of Skyrnyn at Darkcrest. In some ways having Lady Maramos dead is best, but will we be able to investigate Darkcrest without her?
Some ideas of how we might proceed:
Visit Rhun and make sure that Manson's cronies are all wiped out and the village liberated.
Track Manson down and try to kill him (possible problem: they already beat us badly here on the boat, though we might be able to ambush).
If we kill Manson, we could either liberate or finish off Lady Maramos. The latter sounds better, but the former might help us get into Darkcrest.
Beat Manson to Garth Calad (yay skyship!) and try to make allies with the Whitecoats. They certainly should be amenable to helping us against the forces of Darkcrest — even if only in an "enemy of my enemy" sort of way.
We know that Manson was kicked out of their order, so maybe we could convince them to imprison or punish Manson?
They might know things about Darkcrest that would help us.
They could finish off Lady Maramos.
Use Sebastien in order to get into Darkcrest. Perhaps convince him that we need reinforcements to rescue her.
The big risk in going to Darkcrest is that we might not be well received having failed our bodyguard task.
Interrogate or charm Sebastien to learn more about what he knows.
Will be going through withdrawal?
Was he ever a willing participant in the evil schemes or has he been controlled / manipulated the whole time?
I think we had posted in a previous chapter some questions we had for Sebastien, but I don't think they ever got answered.
No matter where we go, the horses from Lady Maramos' carriage could prove useful.
I am still in favor of rescuing Lady Maramos. From the standpoint of our overall mission, such an action could put us right into trusted circles, circles that would give us both the information we need and the leeway to rescue some pilgrims. Plus, if the druid is still being blackmailed, we could rescue him and his family.
As for how we do that, direct confrontation is not necessary. Lady Maramos comes back to life should the stake be removed from her heart. Will she be in heavy blood withdrawals, or does being incapacitated in such a way postpone the need to feed? Regardless, with the stake removed she can escape in bat form in the night while whoever pulls the stake out (probably Orensland) will make their exit.
That's what I'm thinking, at least. Or reinforcements to fight them. Or reinforcements to fight them AND distract them while someone pulls the stake out, bringing a very strong player back onto the board. Or one of the ideas outlined by BlackWolf.
"Lady Maramos comes back to life should the stake be removed from her heart. Will she be in heavy blood withdrawals, or does being incapacitated in such a way postpone the need to feed? Regardless, with the stake removed she can escape in bat form in the night while whoever pulls the stake out (probably Orensland) will make their exit."
Excellent questions, Orensland. I think that Thevarou could roll a Knowledge (Religion) Check to find the answers, and that Rynn (who has "undead" as a favored enemy) can roll the same if he wants.
BlackWolf has done a fabulous job of outlining the various options you have available. You should probably all bone up on your Deadlands lore here on the wiki so you can better understand the various options.
Garth Calad
Sacrous River
South Hagarit Bridge
Darkcrest
Bringers of Light
Tribe of Enadul
And though it seems unlikely that you'd head to any of these places:
Prismatic Dunes
Zyrbryxion Marshes
Namordegan Highlands
Ghostmire
Putari Forest
Sanjin is in favor of interrogate or charm Sebastien to learn more about what he knows. -The information we receive may help us make a more informed decision on what to do next. Also the more information we have the better position we will be whether we try to save the Vampire or go directly to Darkcrest.
Sanjin doesn't like Whitecoats -he would not be in favor of working with them.
BlackWolf is right that there were a few questions posed earlier to Sebastien in gray boxes that I did not answer well in the narrative as I promised. I've copied and pasted them here for your benefit. These are things that you could have asked him before now, or that you could ask him now when he wakes up. I don't know that there's going to be a need to charm him. He thinks you're on his side, and are getting information that might help track and hunt down Lady Maramos. If you do want to charm him further, how do you suggest your characters go about it? I don't think any of you can charm him aside from Diplomacy rolls (which are unneeded since he is already Helpful towards you according to the rules for Diplomacy checks).
Q: Sanjin will ask Sebastien questions about his experience working with a vampire (due to his morbid interest in such things).
A: Sebastien is indeed a Vampire worshipper. In Darkcrest, young people are hired by the great houses as assistants to the vampires. Success and diligence in serving the vampires is rewarded after one's term is completed, usually with money and other such rewards, perhaps a mansion of one's own, with servants (young and attractive, of course, with sexual favors expected from them) sometimes with vampire blood (a potent drug that can be very addicting), or, in extreme cases, with Ascension—becoming a vampire oneself and formally adopted into the vampire house. For people like Sebastien, Ascension is the end goal, equivalent of apotheosis for a vampire worshipper.
Q: Over time, the ranger would try to casually chat with Sebastien about the pilgrimages. He'll drop a few facts that he knows from the living side and then try to inquire about what the people were used for on in the deadlands. Slaves for manual labor? Food and servants for vampires? Or what?
A: Sebastien doesn't know much about the pilgrimages aside from the fact that they exist. He serves Lady Maramos, and tries to keep his head down. A good servant doesn't pry too deeply into his mistresses affairs, but he does know she makes sure that things on the Living Side are well-greased for the Cult of Skyrnyn, which was the reason for their trip to the living side.
Q: Will be going through withdrawal?
A: He isn't addicted to vampire blood. She drinks from him as a food source; it's not the other way around. In fact, he finds the question odd. Addicts are not used as servants, it is a reward for service rendered. Though some people can continue to function while addicted to vampire blood, some cannot. It is seen as too risky to reward a servant with vampire blood to drink while still in service.
Q: Was he ever a willing participant in the evil schemes or has he been controlled / manipulated the whole time?
A: He serves Lady Maramos in hopes of obtaining Ascension, though he has his doubts that he has served her well enough to earn that reward, given that she was just kidnapped by Manson. He's quite heartbroken about that at the moment.
Khaska would be in favor of questioning Sebastien further; the more information we have, the better.
All in all, it seems that we're now in the thick of people and organizations far beyond our strength. Manson did a number on us on the ship, so facing him directly—even if we can find him—seems inadvisable. Khaska thinks that the party would be better off trying to make some allies, even if they are temporary alliances; and given his personal proclivities, he would prefer going to the Whitecloaks than to Darkcrest. For one, if we can head off Manson and explain our objectives, we'd rescue ourselves from being branded as servants of a vampire and making other enemies. Further, it's possible that the Whitecloaks could provide support/intelligence that would be useful for infiltrating Darkcrest, and they could set a trap for Manson to get him out of the way. What would the Whitecloaks do with Lady Maramos? I'm not sure, but perhaps we could prime them to think of her in a way that'd be useful for our ends.
In fact, perhaps we could take Bronzebeard, the Ruvalk, and Sebastien in Rhun, telling Sebastien to keep his head low while we go off to avenge Lady Maramos's capture (or rescue her, if possible). Indeed, perhaps Bronzebeard himself could monitor/watch over Sebastien. Then we'd proceed to Garth Calad to head off Manson and, hopefully, return to Rhun to liberate the town, then proceeding to Darkcrest.
Here's the Knowledge (Religion) roll: 25 = 12 + 13
What questions would you like to know the answers to, from Sebastien?
From Khaska's Knowledge (Religion) Check, which is higher than Rynn's can even be, so I no longer need a roll from you, BlackWolf, you know that stabbing a vampire in the heart basically freezes them in time. If the stake is removed, Lady Maramos will be at the same hitpoints she was, with the same spells she could cast, and will not be starving from not technically having eaten for many days (she having eaten from Sebastien the night before the attack). In short, she'll be right where she left off, with one exception. The spell that had been cast on her that blinded her will have long since worn off. (The magic energies of the spell are not maintained by her having gone into "stasis," for lack of a better term.)
Also, it seems we have one vote (Thev) for heading to Rhun to assess the situation there. Shall we head in that direction while asking Sebastien questions? It's a trip that will take several days, as you are in the middle of Clearwater Lake.
We should definitely get to Rhun before making our ultimate decision. Although if we wanted to stir up trouble for Manson and his buddies, I had an idea. There are centaur tribes in the planes that they are crossing, right? Orensland would… take great pleasure in firing a crossbow into a tribe of centaurs (hidden, of course) while the clerics are camped by at night. Might just cause the distraction needed to try to release Lady Maramos.
…anyways. Just playing Orensland's thought process here.
As for questioning Sebastien, Orensland doesn't really care as long as we don't accidentally make him an enemy. He hopes such an inevitable event will occur much farther down the road.
I agree that Rhun should be out next stop. It's close at hand and might be our last stop at any kind of civilization for a while.
But I do think we need to decide whether we are going to rescue Lady Maramos or not. If we are, then we need to bring Sebastien along wherever we go and we have to keep up the mercenary act (and he might even question what's up with us in Rhun). Eventually we'll need him so that he can go back to being vampire food. And besides, I don't really feel like we can lean on Bronzebeard any further to babysit Sebastien.
On the other hand, if we're not going to rescue the vampire, then perhaps we should terminate Sebastien. He's an enemy and a loose thread. If he's gone then our enemies lose the trail on what happened to Lady Maramos.
My big worry about rescuing Lady Maramos is whether we'll get in too deep. She's dangerous and I always had half a mind to betray her on the way when she could be killed easily. If we go to Darkcrest as "heroes" can we play things off as just mercenaries doing our job? Will we attract too much attention? What do we hope to accomplish there? Just investigate? Try to free slaves or something? And will things be worse because we helped a powerful vampire get back home?
Maramos is definitely our "in" if our goal is to get inside Darkcrest and learn more. Maybe her going missing is a better way to disrupt their organization? I'm not sure how we'd find another way in though.
Overall, I think I lean more toward not rescuing the vampire. We were going along, biding our time without a real plan. Now fate has given us an opportunity to be rid of her and maybe stop Manson as well. And who knows, maybe dealing with Manson could ingratiate ourselves with Darkcrest (provided that we don't also claim to be the failed bodyguards).
I must say I'm enjoying the back-and-forth here in the gray box. For what it's worth, I'd like to encourage more of this. Sometimes your posts have been vague and there hasn't been much consensus, and I move forward interpreting it as best I can. I can tell that will not be the case this time.
So, the two questions I would like to ask for you all to weigh in on:
1. How do you want to approach Rhun? Scout it out first (maybe Rynn and Orensland after you park a ways away from the village proper)? Just sail on in?
2. Are we rescuing Lady Maramos, killing her, or abandoning her to her fate? Though we have time at Rhun before you that part of the story will move forward, BlackWolf brings up a good point … if abandoning her or killing her, it might be a good idea to kill Sebastien now, while he's unconscious. Then again, maybe you could all string him along for a bit to get more information out of him, and then kill him. So actually, I have three questions:
3. If killing or abandoning Lady Maramos … what are you going to do with Sebastien?
Thevarou (via email to Eryx)
One wrinkle that could come with letting Lady Maramos die (or helping her death along, for that matter) and then going to Darkcrest: Khaska. He basically sticks out like a sore thumb on the Death Side, and people at the Lifts would probably remember his passing through with Lady Maramos and company. An investigation extensive enough to question people at the Lifts would be expensive for those at Darkcrest, but we'd have to be pretty sure to have an alibi for Khaska, at least. (Maybe I recall hearing about some spell/item that would let him wear a disguise?)
That said, Rynn has good points about being conspicuous; they could be in a bad way if they came to be hailed as heroes in Darkcrest, and at least for the moment they could be passed off as incompetent or overpowered, not active agents of sabotage. If we could ensure that Lady Maramos does perish but that no one's around to witness it, that would be preferable.
1. It would be good to scout out the town first. After all, we know it's under the thumb of Manson's followers, and it would be a good idea to gauge the atmosphere and the forces there.
2. Khaska now leans toward letting her die and trying to find some other way into Darkcrest—maybe we monitor/track Manson until he does the deed, and then dispose of him?
3. Khaska would advocate against killing Sebastien, but would defer to Rynn on that question.
The spell you're looking for, Thev, is Disguise Self, and only Sanjin in your party can cast it, but he doesn't have it in his spellbook. Also, it only lasts 10 minutes per level, so 80 minutes at the moment. A Ring of Chameleon Power or Hat of Disguise have basically the same ability, with some extra perks in the case of the ring.
So… between all the maybes and leanings, my words will be strong. Orensland would argue vehemently that we go save the vampire. To be more specific, here are my answers to the questions:
1. Agreed, scouting out the village first would be a good idea. We don't want to put the ships, or the Cloudlovers, at risk. Plus, Manson would love to get his hands on the skyship again, so he may wait/station men at the village to warn him if it comes back. Another Word of Recall spell would let them pop back and take it, or his men could be on orders to steal the ship and bring it to where they are in the plains. Regardless, scouting first would be a good option.
2. I vote we save the vampire, for several reasons. First of all, walking into Darkcrest with no real plan seems like a terrible plan. We could have done that before joining up with Lady Maramos, but felt at the time that she was our best shot. I don't see how hoping an unlikely but greater opportunity show up is better than the fantastic opportunity we currently have, the trust of an individual (evil though she may be) who plays a key role in the plot we are trying to uncover. Also, I don't see how Manson could help us/how we would ever get back at the madman any other way. Dealing with the white cloaks seems like a bad idea, so betting on a paranoid group of zealots to help us deal with an even more paranoid zealot seems like a stretch. It seems our options are hoping something randomly works out as we wander about, or saving Lady Maramos in a daring rescue attempt to bolster our trustworthiness and value in Darkcrest for when we arrive. Plus possibly taking down an evil madman in the process. I don't know about you guys, but the second option sounds way more fun as well as way more effective.
3. And, as that is my vote, Sebastien would be needed, so Orensland would be strongly opposed to killing him.
Khaska's concerned that either way we go, we'll be biting off more than we can chew (and he knows something about chewing, as an ruminant). That the party nearly entirely perished during the last battle he finds worrisome.
His personal inclinations would lead him to seek out the Whitecloaks; overzealous though they are, at least they operate on a level and for general ends that he understands. He also guesses that a little more zeal might be needed in the Deadlands, with a city run by vampires as a next-door neighbor.
He also worries about being associated with Lady Maramos and Darkcrest more openly or heroically; he doesn't want to draw attention, and as a Maha'i on the Death Side, he knows a little something about drawing attention.
But he also understands that the party has a mission it's taken on: finding out more about the pilgrimages and doing what they can to halt whatever nefarious purposes are behind them. This deed would save thousands and outweigh the personal disadvantages.
With that, he'll reluctantly agree to track down Lady Maramos and rescue her from Manson.
However, he does want to do what he can to make the party's objectives known to those who might otherwise be hostile. With the party's permission, he'd like to observe the leadership structure in Rhun and find to whom he should reveal his identity and purposes on the Death Side. Apart from the party, and definitely away from Sebastien (whom we should keep alive), he'll approach that person and ask to speak with him/her privately. He'd gladly submit to testifying under a Zone of Truth. He'd ask that a messenger be sent to Garth Calad to let them know what's going on and see about potentially establishing lasting contact to plot against the evils in Darkcrest.
How's that sound?
(Also: getting a Hat of Disguise is now his primary goal, item-wise. He'll take every opportunity to seek one out, and if the party arrives in Darkcrest before he's able to find one, he'll wait outside the walls as someone purchases one for him.)
I agree with you Crosis when you say, "walking into Darkcrest with no real plan seems like a terrible plan." I'm just worried that we don't have much of a plan in any case. Certainly walking into Darkcrest as bodyguards of a vampire makes it easier to get thought the gates (so to speak), but that does not equate to a "plan".
Will rescuing Lady Maramos will draw undue attention to us? Maybe we could just say that rescuing her was part of our bodyguard duty and shrug off the extra attention. That would at least get us into Darkcrest so we can learn more about what they are doing (which was our original purpose).
So I guess I'm coming around to your plan to rescue her… Thev has a good point about biting off more than we can chew though. I wonder if we've been too reckless already.
Meanwhile, Eryx asked me for some rolls to help us approach Rhun:
Hide: 26 (rolled 18 + 8 bonus)
Survival: 26 (rolled 13 + 13 bonus)
Crosis (via texting)
Hide Check: 40 (17+23)
“Then may I suggest we head to Rhun,” said Rynn. “You can fix your ship there or nearby and we can evaluate the situation in the town to ascertain what our next steps might be.”
“Do we want to head right to Rhun?” Alpip asked.
Orensland piped up. “I can certainly sneak in and take a look around during the night if need be. Assess the situation before we head on in, or decide that we shouldn’t.”
“I’ll go too,” said Rynn.
“Your ranger and tracking skills would be valuable if Manson has left Rhun behind now that he has his prize,” said Khaska.
It was decided, then. The Cloudlovers and Captain Bronzebeard tied their two ships together, and they began to make their way to Rhun.
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Mobily, SAP to run new training program for employment - Arab News
Etihad Etisalat (Mobily), PSU, and SAP global company, signed a partnership agreement to launch the second batch of the (Mobily SAP) training program for employment, which is one of the approved programs of King Salman bin Abdulaziz for Education for Employment.
The agreement was signed in the presence of Melfi Al-Marzoqi, acting senior executive officer HR Center of Excellence; Ahmed bin Saleh Al-Yamani, PSU director; and Bill McDermott, CEO of SAP Global Company.
This program is a result of Mobily’s efforts to contribute to the development of the Saudi universities graduates and to help them get job opportunities.
Mobily provides the financial and technical support for the program, while SAP will provide a number of advantages for the distinguished university graduates, which is reflected in one year period participation in SAP Learning Hub Customer Edition, which is a cloud software platform allowing access to full package of training from SAP, including training topics and courses on the Internet.
Mobily and SAP already celebrated in September last the graduation of the first batch of graduates of the program consisting of 37 graduates from PSU, after having completed successfully the intensive training program of the academy over a period of 30 weeks.
King Salman program of education for employment is one of the distinctive programs of the PSU Center of Community Services & Continuing Education Center, which has the support of Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Salman.
PSU is the official umbrella for this program under the direct supervision of Prince Abdulaziz bin Mohammed bin Ayyaf, VP, Riyadh Philanthropic Society for Sciences. The program specializes in the rehabilitation of the graduates from Saudi universities of boys and girls who are suffering difficulties in getting a job as a result of lack of skills.
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Sharks moving minor league team to San Jose's SAP Center - Silicon Valley Business Journal
Jan 29, 2015, 12:56pm PST
Vicki Thompson
Here's where the Sharks minor league team will play.
Ryan Fernandez, Associate editor
It's official: The San Jose Sharks will be moving their minor league franchise from Massachusetts to SAP Center in San Jose.
The move of the yet-to-be named American Hockey League development team, currently based in Worcester, is part of a larger plan that creates a new minor league division of five teams that are based in Western North America. The new Pacific Division will include the Sharks club, a Bakersfield team affiliated with the Edmonton Oilers, an Ontario, California club affiliated with the Los Angeles Kings, a San Diego team affiliated with the Anaheim Ducks and a Stockton team affiliated with the Calgary Flames.
The Sharks club move, reported earlier this month by the San Jose Mercury News, will take effect in October.
While any additional entertainment activity in downtown San Jose benefits local businesses, the Sharks' move comes bundled with questions. It remains to be seen how long the minor league team stays, whether their games can draw fans without cannibalizing the main team's fan base and whether ticket sales can generate enough revenue to cover costs.
Other early reports raised issues regarding team branding, room at facilities likely to be shared by both teams, and scheduling problems arising from playing 38 AHL home games at SAP Center in addition to NHL games.
Still, John Tortora, chief operating officer for the San Jose Sharks, is confident the presence of the AHL club will be a boon to his team.
"Having our AHL club playing in close proximity to our NHL club has innumerable benefits for the development for our young players and prospects," Tortora said in a statement. "It also provides an opportunity for the Sharks organization to grow Sharks Territory and enhance our footprint into what is an already hockey-crazy market."
People who want to get on a waiting list for season tickets for the AHL team can pay a deposit of $50. Current Sharks season ticket holders will get first priority.
NEC aims at Big Data 'sweet spot' with SAP Hana tool - Computerworld
Cloud computing and SAP's Hana in-memory database can be a powerful combination for data analysis, and new tools could help to make sure it doesn't fall down on the job.
On Friday, NEC released a tool designed to make life easier for data analysts by boosting Hana availability in the cloud.
Focusing in particular on users of the Amazon Web Services cloud, the new tool takes advantage of NEC's ExpressCluster software. The tool can automatically detect system faults as SAP Hana runs on AWS and switch over to a standby server when problems arise. The result, NEC said, is to shorten downtime and improve both availability and operational efficiency.
The tool is aimed both at companies using SAP Hana for high-speed Big Data analyses and those using it for core business-critical systems, the company said.
Eventually, NEC plans to make the software available for other cloud-based services as well.
The new offering fills a distinct need at the intersection of the four key technologies involved, said Kirk Borne, a data scientist and professor at George Mason University.
"SAP Hana delivers in-memory analytics; clusters deliver fast parallel computing speed-ups for analytics tasks; cloud computing delivers scalable on-demand cluster computing; and AWS delivers managed cloud services in an accessible way," Borne said via email. "The NEC tool marries these solutions by providing an AWS-based workflow and cluster-management layer on top of the powerful in-memory analytics from SAP Hana."
The tool could help to democratize analytics, he said, by bringing it to an even broader community of data analysts without requiring a steep learning curve.
Numerous Big Data predictions for 2015 included both cloud-based analytics and in-memory analytics, so "it appears that NEC hit a sweet spot for data scientists," Borne said.
NEC is one of several vendors certified by SAP to work with Hana, so the new solution is probably an effort by NEC to differentiate itself, said analyst Henry Morris, a senior vice president with IDC.
However, it doesn't appear to offer any kind of uptime guarantee, he added.
"That's what the buyer would want to hear -- if they stand behind this offering," Morris said.
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