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Costa Rica 2018 Election: A Change in Climate Governance?
Posted on February 13, 2018 February 13, 2018 by Sam Goodman in Sobre Cambio Climático
The first place finish of National Restoration Party candidate Fabricio Alvarado in the opening round of the 2018 elections in Costa Rica sent shock waves through Latin America’s oldest democracy.
Foto Facebook: Fabricio Alvarado
Alvarado, a journalist, singer and Evangelical preacher, rose from 3 percent in the polls in January to gain nearly a quarter of the votes in the first round of the elections on February 4, primarily as a result of his opposition to the Inter-American Court of Human Rights’ decision in January ordering Costa Rica to recognize same-sex marriage. Alvarado has threatened to pull Costa Rica out of the Inter-American Court, arguing that the decision is a violation of Costa Rica’s sovereignty. He will face Carlos Alvarado, a center-left candidate from the ruling Citizens’ Action Party, in a runoff election on April 1st.
While Fabricio Alvarado has been outspoken in his positions on same-sex marriage, abortion and sex education in public schools, his plans on climate change remain unclear. The environmental proposals addressed in his 56-page Government Plan lack specificity and an understanding of current climate governance structures, standing in stark contrast to Carlos Alvarado’s Plan.
Fabricio Alvarado is clearly ahead of his rival, leading by nearly 15 percentage points in a recent El Mundo poll. Following February’s elections, the National Restoration Party now controls 14 of the 57 seats in Costa Rica’s Legislative Assembly, second only to the center-right National Liberation Party’s 17 seats. Fabricio Alvarado was previously the party’s lone congressman.
A victory by the National Restoration Party in the presidential runoff will likely trigger significant changes in governance from the current administration of Luis Guillermo Solís. While topics of religion, gender and human rights have dominated the political discourse in recent weeks, there could also be a significant departure from the current administration’s climate governance policies.
Costa Rica has long been regarded as a leader in climate governance and has adopted bold and innovative environmental policies under the current administration. With Solís at the helm, Costa Rica signed the Paris Agreement and set forth its Intended Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC), which establishes ambitious targets for a developing nation, reaffirming its goal of carbon neutrality and pledging to become a country of zero net emissions by 2085. Solís also extended Costa Rica’s ban on petroleum exploration and extraction through 2021. And this past January, Solís signed into law an electric transportation bill that incentivizes the use of all-electric vehicles.
Fabricio Alvarado devotes an entire section of his Government Plan to Sustainable Environmental Restoration and highlights the importance of addressing the issue of global warming. In his Government Plan, Alvarado states:
“The world is currently on the precipice of environmental catastrophe if the governments of the world do not take urgent measures to stop global warming, pollution and the destruction of our ecosystems. The Christian stewardship that lies at the basis of our ideology, understood as the obligation that we have to care for and preserve God’s creation, is expressed in our concern for the environment and sustainable development.”
Alvarado goes on to outline a series of sustainable action proposals, calling for the continuation of electricity produced through clean sources and ensuring that sustainability is incorporated in all orders for national development policies. In addition, he calls for a new mining code to help pay off the country’s debt while leaving a green footprint and a new forest management policy that looks to improve the sustainable market options for Costa Rican wood.
Although Fabricio Alvarado seems to have some grasp of the urgency of environmental issues we face, he fails to make specific reference to climate adaptation and mitigation in his government plan, nor does he mention to Costa Rica’s NDC. While the idea of Sustainable Environmental Restoration may be appealing, he fails to link his policies to the Paris Agreement or other international documents.
Many of the policy proposals outlined in his government plan lack specificity and a timetable for action. For example, Alvarado calls for the stiffening of penalties for public or private actions that undermine the country’s environmental sustainability. It is unclear what actions Alvarado would consider to be detrimental to the country, how severe these penalties would be and how they would be implemented.
This stands in stark contrast to Carlos Alvarado’s Government Plan, which builds upon the work of the Solís administration and offers comprehensive proposals for climate governance. His Plan is based on two principal goals:
Advance the decarbonization of the economy through actions to reduce emissions.
Implement effective mitigation, adaptation and risk management policies to be a nation resilient to climate change.
Most importantly, Carlos Alvarado’s proposals directly address the need to fulfill the goals set forth in the Paris Agreement. Alvarado plans to uphold Costa Rica’s promise of becoming a carbon neutral country by 2021 and honor the goals of Costa Rica’s NDC. Alvarado hopes to make Costa Rica a global model for decarbonization.
A Carlos Alvarado administration would likely maintain Costa Rica’s place as a global leader in climate governance, but a Fabricio Alvarado-led government would largely be a step into the unknown. While other issues have dominated the news cycle, Solís’ impressive climate legacy may be at stake when Costa Rican voters go to the polls on April 1.
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Sochi Olympics and the Circassian Neo-Conservatism, by Sinar Sami Dishack
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Circassian Center -- After decades of misfortunes and absence from the world’s cultural and political arena, once again, the old Circassian conservative politics threatens to undermine the contemporary viable opportunities in advancing Circassian national objectives in addition to the economic opportunities in the North Caucasus. The Sochi Olympics in 2014, when it was announced, thought to be embraced and celebrated among Circassians as a step stone towards achieving greater national objectives. Yet, quite astonishingly, the event was met with a fierce opposition by a vocal numbers of Circassians whether in the motherland or the Diaspora. The majority of those opponents perceive Sochi Olympics as a Russian conspiracy to diminish the Circassian identity of the land, where as others refuse any kind of rapprochement or cooperation with Russia without the full restoration of Circassian sovereignty over their historic lands.
The latest Protest against Sochi Olympics in Vancouver can be viewed in a various perspectives in accordance to the various strategies developed by different Circassians factions that is thought to better serve achieving our national objectives. Whether we do support the Sochi Olympics or not, is not the main issue here rather than the misleading propaganda and tactics that some Circassian organizations are deploying to draw the support of Circassians and the rest of the world. From a political perspective, It is legitimate to argue that someone has to utilize all given opportunities to advocate his claims especially when there is no real or vocal competitive in the arena, but doing so to the extent of presenting misleading facts and false claims of representing the majority of Circassians including the bulk of the Diaspora in Turkey is an alarming precedent in our Circassian national movement. The Circassian participant and organizers of the protest in Vancouver did not exceed a handful figure, where the rest of the protestors where drawn on give and take backroom deal from members of other organizations protesting the Vancouver Olympics. No one can argue or dispute the tragedy and the misfortunes Circassians faced, however there is quite disagreement and controversy on the actual causes and the extent of involvement of each internal and foreign parties in this tragedy including Circassians themselves. Indeed there are quite vocal Circassians who appose the Sochi Olympics, but to claim that most Circassian in the Diaspora including the bulk of the Diaspora in Turkey are actually opposing the Sochi Olympics is quite misleading information. In fact the leading Circassian organizations in Turkey are not opposing the event, not mentioning that a large majority of Circassians in North Jersey are either neutral or perceive the Olympics as an opportunity to advance our Circassian national objective if it is to be utilized properly. Moreover, exploiting the passionate youth without the intention of educating them but only to exploit their enthusiasm to advance certain agendas is considered a threshold towards radicalizing our youth. Like said before, it is quite legitimate to have different views or perspectives on how to better achieve our national objective and even being quite vocal in advocating it, but it is quite unfortunate to present half facts and misleading information to advance our agendas.
The rising concern among neoconservative Western trend’s over Russia’s exceeding power and its sphere of influence over energy transits is met with a relentless old cold war strategy to contain Russia. This strategy is evident in most US conservative politicians’ rhetoric’s and in the conservative media around all issues concerning and surrounding the region. The Sochi Olympics itself was protested by US conservative politicians during the last US presidential election campaign. Back then the opposition was on the ground of “Russia’s military aggression” against Georgia in the latest Georgian-Abkhaz conflict and the “breakaway” of Abkhazia’s from Georgia. Ironically, the same organizations that were and still associated and involved in delegitimizing Abkhazia’s separation from Georgia are the same ones who are provoking Circassians in restoring their national historic rights by planning and aiding in events directed against Russia such as the protest against Sochi Olympics in Vancouver. “A just demand aiming for wickedness” as stated by Imam Ali describing the Khawareg’s (Separatist) raised slogan “there is no rule but God’s rule” in opposing his attempt to negotiate with his rivals over the ruling legitimacy of the Islamic Empire, which he considered a justified demand but aiming towards wickedness by creating disorder and controversy.
If we consider such an event like Sochi Olympics accruing under different hypothetical circumstances of the region such as under “sovereign Circassia”, and let us then imagine the enormous welcoming of such an event among Circassian. Such an event will indeed bring great economic opportunities by luring foreign investments and capitals in addition to advancing and promoting local industries. It will also advance the infrastructure needed to support such an event. It will generally promote “Circassia” which will have a great impact on all various aspects of life whether it is cultural, political, economic, tourism, scientific, education, etc. Hence, we might all agree that the event it self has a great positive impact but the current political circumstances of the region makes such an event perceived negatively by Circassians.
Developing a strategy that considers reality on the ground along with a dynamic mechanism aiming towards maintaining and preserving our national objectives is the only viable strategy for Circassian to optimize their gains and limit the “negative repercussions” of events surrounding the region “including” events such as Sochi Olympics. On the other hand let us discuss our issues honestly instead of blaming the others to clear our conscious from lacking the will to carry out our duties and responsibilities toward our nation. One example I can think of is repatriation. How many Circassian organizations in the Diaspora “except for Turkey” are practically engaged in rational and practical effort to bring back Circassians to the mother land? We hear a lot of vocal Circassian pessimists accusing Russia from their ivory podiums in foreign countries and quite number of them are not even aware of the real situation on the ground or even have a conclusive idea of the actual impediments of repatriation whether within the Diaspora or in the mother land . I even doubt if the majority of those five star hotel’s opposition even bothered or feel it is necessary to visit the Caucasus and gather information on the ground. Does Circassians in the Diaspora have the intention to return to the mother land? Do they have the will to sacrifice their comfort and established life and return and build the Caucasus? Do they at least have a viable strategy to establish a foot ground in the Caucasus for their future generation to be able to make that decision? Do we at least have a conducted survey that indicates the actual impediment for repatriation within the Diaspora itself? It is easy to blame the Russians for every misfortune of our nation but the only one to blame is ourselves for the lack of commitment and beliefs in our cause. Our attachment to the Caucuses should deal with the current issues and the realities of the region and not limited to a sentimental attachment engulfed in the tales and pages of history.
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Circus 1884 - Orton Anglo-AmericanMichael Riley2019-01-08T03:41:22-05:00
I am writing a Chautauqua style oratory for our Museum in Greeley, Colorado about 10 circus men who died in a train fire in August 1884. My concept is to have an orator portray one of the men and entertain people with tales about life in the circus in 1884 and circus traditions of that time and “betcha’ didn’t know”, kinds of information. To put their lives into context I would like to know more about the Orton Anglo American Circus of that time. Also, would there be any way to chart their route of that year and maybe see a poster of their circus?
Thank you Nancy Lynch, Lead Interpreter, Greeley Museums
Circus History asked 16 years ago
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I just came across an ad for the Anglo-American Circus in a Lebanon (KY) newspaper of 11 Apr. 1883. The ad says the circus will be arriving in Lebanon, KY “on their own special trains” for a Tuesday, Apr. 24 show in Lebanon. The ad says that the show will then go to Greensburg, KY for a show on Wed., Apr. 25. (Though the C & O railroad had planned to go through Greensburg, KY on south, financial problems stopped track expansion at Greensburg.) According to the ad, “Miles Orton and Little Allie and Bernard are with us.” If you would like a copy of the ad, I would be happy to forward it.
Joe DeSpain
Circus History answered 15 years ago
William L. Slout, Olympians of the Sawdust Circle, pp. 228-230. Has some Orton genealogy and details on the family. Says Hiram Orton was born 1805 and died August 2, 1883 of heart trouble at Norris, Michigan, age 72. Norris, MI was a suburb of Detroit, MI, I think. Others have his death as 1884.
J. Griffin
Regarding the death of Orton, we have very little on who died, just a few names mentioned in a newspaper article, and none were of an Orton. The following is a quote of the portion of the article that deals with that. Greeley Tribune, September 8, 1884, of August 29, 1884 event; “TEN MEN ROASTED ALIVE Ralph Meeker in the Denver News.” “The names of the dead, as far as can be learned, are as follows; Alex McCleod, of Marinette, Wisconsin; John Kelley, of New York city; Silverthorn, and others called Andy, Frenchy, Frank, George, Smithee, and one they don’t know anything about.”
I ran across this tonight about the Orton Circus. I would like a copy of that fire in Greeley, Colorado. About the 10 circus men who died in a train fire. Do you have a list? Hiram Orton died about that time and he was with his son Miles Orton who was in charge of the Orton Circus at that time. I am surprized to see that Miles Orton had names the circus Orton Anglo-American. I did write Greeley, CO for a death cert. on Hiram Orton 1884. Aug. 8, 1884 in a book said he died. From John Polacsek’s route, that put the circus in Kansas about that time. Miles’s brother, R. Z. Orton – Orton Brothers Circus wintered in Ortonville, Iowa. R. Z. Orton died in 1923 and his wife took over until 1931 when she died. I have been working on the Orton history, all I need now is where Hiram Orton died and was laid to rest. Do you know if Hiram Orton was on of those who died in the fire?
Thank you, Ruth Orton Miller
Thanks to John Polasek for your information on the itinerary for the Orton Circus in 1884. You had mentioned an ad in the Longmont Paper for the circus. I could definitely drive to Longmont and look that up. Bizarre that the fire occurred after midnight August 29, 1884 with ten men killed in the fire, numerous others seriously injured and incapacitated yet they played Golden that same day? Or, maybe they were scheduled to play that day and had to postpone a bit.?? Curious. Thank you ever so much. 🙂
Nancy Lynch, City of Greeley Museums
Where might I look to find Orton posters from that era and what their circus featured for acts?
The Orton Anglo American Shows and Menagerie for 1884 started at the shows winterquarters just north of Detroit, Michigan. In May the played lower Michigan, in June were in Wisconsin, then worked their way to Minnesota going as far north as Duluth were they played the 4th of July. They were at West Union Iowa July 29, and Aug. 6 at Lamar, Missouri, then into Kansas at Girard Aug 8, Salina August 20, Junction City, Aug 18, Ellsworth Aug 22, McPherson Aug. 21, Hays Aug 23, (all Kansas). Sunday the 24 they had off, and appear in Longmont, Colorado Aug 27, Fort Collins Aug 28, Golden Aug 29. (There is an ad in the Longmont newspaper for the show, check the microfilm) Sept 15 Waterville, Kan,, Sept 17 Kirwin, Kan,,Sept 20 Washington, Kan., Oct 1 Pittsburgh, Kan., Oct. 4 Jonesboro, Ark, and a recorded date, but they may have not played it for Oct. 8 Grenada, Miss. The show reportedly wintered in Nevada, Missouri after closing in Jonesboro, Arkansas. I am unaware of any posters for that season.
John Polacsek
I initiated this conversation in 2004 and my thanks to everyone who responded. We had a great response to the 2004 version and are repeating it this August (2007). I would love to have an advertisement copy or poster, if any have access to Orton Anglo American Shows and Menagerie for 1884, or any Orton poster copies. My email has changed to Nancy.Lynch@greeleygov.com.
Nancy Lynch
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Abstract. Ontologies and vocabularies are a key resource for creating interoperable metadata on the Semantic Web. To make the finding and using ontologies easier, the idea of Ontology Repositories have been introduced with current implementations including e.g. the NCBO Bioportal, ONKI and Cupboard. However, at the moment each ontology repository is a separate island with its own user interfaces and APIs. They also use varying ontology languages such as OWL, SKOS, RDF Schema and others. Due to this, global search, browsing, and inference over the repositories is difficult and generally not done. At the same time, there is a genuine need for different kinds of Ontology Repositories, each focusing on different kinds specific user-needs, different ontologies and different organizational requirements which can not be addressed by a single global implementation. Since there are benefits of having interoperability among the repositories, we have developed a loosely coupled Network of Ontology Repository (NOR) architecture that makes the repositories globally interoperable while maintaining their unique functionalities and strengths. To participate in the network, each ontology repository is required to implement a shared API. As a proof-of-concept, we present a global metasearch prototype for searching simultaneously hundreds of ontologies in the ONKI and NCBO Bioportal repositories. 1
...ight capabilities for maintaining and using thesauri and ontologies as part of Drupal websites. Other examples include DBPedia [6], semantic metadata registries such as the SAHA [11] and CultureSampo =-=[12]-=-. A single ontology repository system most probably will not replace all of the different systems that are used for maintaining ontologies and vocabularies of various degrees of formality. Therefore, ...
Widen the Peepholes! Entity-based Auto-Suggestion as a rich and yet immediate Starting Point for Exploratory Search
by Johannes Osterhoff, Harald Sack
"... Abstract: Today’s search engines provide instant keyword-based auto-suggestion and completion of the user’s search queries. This paper presents a novel auto-suggestion interface for the Semantic Multimedia Explorer (SEMEX), a semantic search engine that supports entity-based exploratory video retrie ..."
Abstract: Today’s search engines provide instant keyword-based auto-suggestion and completion of the user’s search queries. This paper presents a novel auto-suggestion interface for the Semantic Multimedia Explorer (SEMEX), a semantic search engine that supports entity-based exploratory video retrieval. In difference to traditional text-based retrieval, auto-suggestion and auto-completion of the user’s query string is not based on plain text but on semantic entities grouped by meaningful categories. Sug-gested entities are ranked by plain edit-distance as well as by popularity while their representations are enabled for brushing and linking. The categories contribute to a quick comprehensibility of the suggested entities compared to other systems that constrain an actually significant and practical feature into static and narrow vertical listings. Thus, our approach is leading to better decision making from the very start of an exploratory search. 1
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Animating sand as a fluid (2005)
by Y ZHU, R BRIDSON
Venue: In Proceedings of ACM SIGGRAPH
Physically Based Deformable Models in Computer Graphics
by Andrew Nealen, Matthias Müller, Richard Keiser, Eddy Boxerman, Mark Carlson - EUROGRAPHICS 2005 STAR – STATE OF THE ART REPORT , 2005
"... Physically based deformable models have been widely embraced by the Computer Graphics community. Many problems outlined in a previous survey by Gibson and Mirtich [GM97] have been addressed, thereby making these models interesting and useful for both offline and real-time applications, such as motio ..."
Physically based deformable models have been widely embraced by the Computer Graphics community. Many problems outlined in a previous survey by Gibson and Mirtich [GM97] have been addressed, thereby making these models interesting and useful for both offline and real-time applications, such as motion pictures and video games. In this paper, we present the most significant contributions of the past decade, which produce such impressive and perceivably realistic animations and simulations: finite element/difference/volume methods, mass-spring systems, meshfree methods, coupled particle systems and reduced deformable models based on modal analysis. For completeness, we also make a connection to the simulation of other continua, such as fluids, gases and melting objects. Since time integration is inherent to all simulated phenomena, the general notion of time discretization is treated separately, while specifics are left to the respective models. Finally, we discuss areas of application, such as elastoplastic deformation and fracture, cloth and hair animation, virtual surgery simulation, interactive entertainment and fluid/smoke animation, and also suggest areas for future research.
Aggregate Dynamics for Dense Crowd Simulation
by Rahul Narain, Abhinav Golas, Sean Curtis, Ming C. Lin
"... Figure 1: Some examples of large, dense crowds simulated with our technique. (a) 100,000 pilgrims moving through a campsite. (b) 80,000 people on a trade show floor. (c) 25,000 pilgrims with heterogeneous goals in a mosque. Large dense crowds show aggregate behavior with reduced individual freedom o ..."
Figure 1: Some examples of large, dense crowds simulated with our technique. (a) 100,000 pilgrims moving through a campsite. (b) 80,000 people on a trade show floor. (c) 25,000 pilgrims with heterogeneous goals in a mosque. Large dense crowds show aggregate behavior with reduced individual freedom of movement. We present a novel, scalable approach for simulating such crowds, using a dual representation both as discrete agents and as a single continuous system. In the continuous setting, we introduce a novel variational constraint called unilateral incompressibility, to model the large-scale behavior of the crowd, and accelerate inter-agent collision avoidance in dense scenarios. This approach makes it possible to simulate very large, dense crowds composed of up to a hundred thousand agents at nearinteractive rates on desktop computers.
Advections with Significantly Reduced Dissipation and Diffusion
by Byungmoon Kim, Yingjie Liu, Ignacio Llamas, Jarek Rossignac - IEEE Trans. on , 2006
"... Back and Forth Error Compensation and Correction (BFECC) was recently developed for interface computation using a level set method. We show that BFECC can be applied to reduce dissipation and diffusion encountered in a variety of advection steps, such as velocity, smoke density, and image advections ..."
Back and Forth Error Compensation and Correction (BFECC) was recently developed for interface computation using a level set method. We show that BFECC can be applied to reduce dissipation and diffusion encountered in a variety of advection steps, such as velocity, smoke density, and image advections on uniform and adaptive grids and on a triangulated surface. BFECC can be implemented trivially as a small modification of the first-order upwind or semi-Lagrangian integration of advection equations. It provides second-order accuracy in both space and time. When applied to level set evolution, BFECC reduces volume loss significantly. We demonstrate the benefits of this approach on image advection and on the simulation of smoke, bubbles in water, and the highly dynamic interaction between water, a solid, and air. We also apply BFECC to dye advection to visualize vector fields.
...ty [7], [8], by using particles [8], [9]. All of these solutions can be considered as problem-specific enhancements of the firstorder advection. We notice that the FLIP method, introduced recently in =-=[10]-=-, advects properties with particle, and therefore, may be applied to any advection achieving zero dissipation. However, in advecting dye or smoke from a source, new particles may have to be created as...
Real-time Control of Physically Based Simulations using Gentle Forces
by Jernej Barbič, Jovan Popović
"... Figure 1: Real-time control ensures fixed simulation outcome regardless of runtime user forces: First: the rest configuration of the “T”-shape structure and the two target balls. Second: reference motion from an external simulator; the two ends of the “T ” impact the two balls. Third: user-perturbed ..."
Figure 1: Real-time control ensures fixed simulation outcome regardless of runtime user forces: First: the rest configuration of the “T”-shape structure and the two target balls. Second: reference motion from an external simulator; the two ends of the “T ” impact the two balls. Third: user-perturbed real-time simulation, without control. The two ends miss the target. Fourth: controlled user-perturbed real-time simulation, with gentle control forces, tracks the reference motion and successfully impacts the target. The perturbation force load (green arrow; applied 1/5 through the simulation, only in the third and fourth motion) pushes the “T ” in the opposite direction of motion. Recent advances have brought real-time physically based simulation within reach, but simulations are still difficult to control in real time. We present interactive simulations of passive systems such as deformable solids or fluids that are not only fast, but also directable: they follow given input trajectories while simultaneously reacting to user input and other unexpected disturbances. We achieve such directability using a real-time controller that runs in tandem with a real-time physically based simulation. To avoid stiff and overcontrolled systems where the natural dynamics are overpowered, the injection of control forces has to be minimized. This search for gentle forces can be made tractable in real-time by linearizing the system dynamics around the input trajectory, and then using a time-varying linear quadratic regulator to build the controller. We show examples of controlled complex deformable solids and fluids, demonstrating that our approach generates a requested fixed outcome for reasonable user inputs, while simultaneously providing runtime motion variety.
A Point-based Method for Animating Incompressible Flow
by Funshing Sin, Adam W. Bargteil, Jessica K. Hodgins - , 2009
"... In this paper, we present a point-based method for animating incompressible flow. The advection term is handled by moving the sample points through the flow in a Lagrangian fashion. However, unlike most previous approaches, the pressure term is handled by performing a projection onto a divergence- ..."
In this paper, we present a point-based method for animating incompressible flow. The advection term is handled by moving the sample points through the flow in a Lagrangian fashion. However, unlike most previous approaches, the pressure term is handled by performing a projection onto a divergence-free field. To perform the pressure projection, we compute a Voronoi diagram with the sample points as input. Borrowing from Finite Volume Methods, we then invoke the divergence theorem and ensure that each Voronoi cell is divergence free. To handle complex boundary conditions, Voronoi cells are clipped against obstacle boundaries and free surfaces. The method is stable, flexible and combines many of the desirable features of point-based and grid-based methods. We demonstrate our approach on several examples of splashing and streaming liquid and swirling smoke.
Direct forcing for lagrangian rigid-fluid coupling
by Markus Becker, Hendrik Tessendorf, Matthias Teschner - IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON VISUALIZATION AND COMPUTER GRAPHICS , 2008
"... We propose a novel boundary handling algorithm for particle-based fluids. Based on a predictor-corrector scheme for both velocity and position, one- and two-way coupling with rigid bodies can be realized. The proposed algorithm offers significant improvements over existing penalty-based approaches. ..."
We propose a novel boundary handling algorithm for particle-based fluids. Based on a predictor-corrector scheme for both velocity and position, one- and two-way coupling with rigid bodies can be realized. The proposed algorithm offers significant improvements over existing penalty-based approaches. Different slip conditions can be realized and non-penetration is enforced. Direct forcing is employed to meet the desired boundary conditions and to ensure valid states after each simulation step. We have performed various experiments in 2D and 3D. They illustrate one- and two-way coupling of rigid bodies and fluids, the effects of hydrostatic and dynamic forces on a rigid body as well as different slip conditions. Numerical experiments and performance measurements are provided.
... boundary conditions by deforming the underlying simulation mesh. There exist alternative concepts to incorporate boundary conditions for Eulerian fluids. Batty et al. [23] improve the FLIP method of =-=[24]-=- for two-way rigid-fluid coupling. In this approach, the pressure projection is formulated as a kinetic energy minimization problem. Carlson et al. [25] use Distributed Lagrangian multipliers to proje...
G.: Reconstructing surfaces of particlebased fluids using anisotropic kernels
by Jihun Yu, Greg Turk - In Proc. of the 2010 ACM SIGGRAPH/Eurographics Symp. on Comput. Anim , 2010
"... In this paper we present a novel surface reconstruction method for particle-based fluid simulators such as Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics. In particle-based simulations, fluid surfaces are usually defined as a level set of an implicit function. We formulate the implicit function as a sum of anisotr ..."
In this paper we present a novel surface reconstruction method for particle-based fluid simulators such as Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics. In particle-based simulations, fluid surfaces are usually defined as a level set of an implicit function. We formulate the implicit function as a sum of anisotropic smoothing kernels, and the direction of anisotropy at a particle is determined by performing Principal Component Analysis (PCA) over the neighboring particles. In addition, we perform a smoothing step that re-positions the centers of these smoothing kernels. Since these anisotropic smoothing kernels capture the local particle distributions more accurately, our method has advantages over existing methods in representing smooth surfaces, thin streams and sharp features of fluids. Our method is fast, easy to implement, and our results demonstrate a significant improvement in the quality of reconstructed surfaces as compared to existing methods.
... particle center. One of the drawbacks of Blinn’s original formulation is that high or low densities of particles will cause bumps or indentations on the surface. Noting this problem, Zhu and Bridson =-=[ZB05]-=- modify this basic algorithm to compensate for local particle density variations. They calculate a scalar field from the particle positions that is much like a radial basis function that is centered a...
Data-Parallel Octrees for Surface Reconstruction
by Kun Zhou, Minmin Gong, Xin Huang, Baining Guo - IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON VISUALIZATION & COMPUTER GRAPHICS
"... We present the first parallel surface reconstruction algorithm that runs entirely on the GPU. Like existing implicit surface reconstruction methods, our algorithm first builds an octree for the given set of oriented points, then computes an implicit function over the space of the octree, and finally ..."
We present the first parallel surface reconstruction algorithm that runs entirely on the GPU. Like existing implicit surface reconstruction methods, our algorithm first builds an octree for the given set of oriented points, then computes an implicit function over the space of the octree, and finally extracts an isosurface as a water-tight triangle mesh. A key component of our algorithm is a novel technique for octree construction on the GPU. This technique builds octrees in real-time and uses level-order traversals to exploit the finegrained parallelism of the GPU. Moreover, the technique produces octrees that provide fast access to the neighborhood information of each octree node, which is critical for fast GPU surface reconstruction. With an octree so constructed, our GPU algorithm performs Poisson surface reconstruction, which produces high quality surfaces through a global optimization. Given a set of 500K points, our algorithm runs at the rate of about five frames per second, which is over two orders of magnitude faster than previous CPU algorithms. To demonstrate the potential of our algorithm, we propose a userguided surface reconstruction technique which reduces the topological ambiguity and improves reconstruction results for imperfect scan data. We also show how to use our algorithm to perform on-the-fly conversion from dynamic point clouds to surfaces as well as to reconstruct fluid surfaces for real-time fluid simulation.
Efficient High-Quality Volume Rendering of SPH Data
by Roland Fraedrich, Stefan Auer, Rüdiger Westermann
"... High quality volume rendering of SPH data requires a complex order-dependent resampling of particle quantities along the view rays. In this paper we present an efficient approach to perform this task using a novel view-space discretization of the simulation domain. Our method draws upon recent work ..."
High quality volume rendering of SPH data requires a complex order-dependent resampling of particle quantities along the view rays. In this paper we present an efficient approach to perform this task using a novel view-space discretization of the simulation domain. Our method draws upon recent work on GPU-based particle voxelization for the efficient resampling of particles into uniform grids. We propose a new technique that leverages a perspective grid to adaptively discretize the view-volume, giving rise to a continuous level-of-detail sampling structure and reducing memory requirements compared to a uniform grid. In combination with a level-of-detail representation of the particle set, the perspective grid allows effectively reducing the amount of primitives to be processed at run-time. We demonstrate the quality and performance of our method for the rendering of fluid and gas dynamics SPH simulations consisting of many millions of particles.
Smooth surface reconstruction from particles
by Brent Warren Williams - In Proceedings of SIGGRAPH ’08: ACM SIGGRAPH 2008 Papers. Association of Computing Machinery, ACM , 2008
"... Outlined is a new approach to the problem of surfacing particle-based fluid simulations. The key idea is to construct a surface that is as smooth as possible while remaining faithful to the particle locations. We describe a mesh-based algorithm that expresses the surface in terms of a constrained op ..."
Outlined is a new approach to the problem of surfacing particle-based fluid simulations. The key idea is to construct a surface that is as smooth as possible while remaining faithful to the particle locations. We describe a mesh-based algorithm that expresses the surface in terms of a constrained optimization problem. Our algorithm incorporates a secondary contribution in Marching Tiles, a generalization of the Marching Cubes isosurfacing algorithm. Marching Tiles provides guarantees on the minimum vertex valence, making the surface mesh more amenable to numerical operators such as the Bilaplacian.
...in space as with Eulerian systems. There are many variations on the Lagrangian approach including Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH [41]), Particle-in-Cell and FLuidImplicit-Particle (PIC and FLIP =-=[60]-=-), marker particle methods [26] as well as various adaptive variations [1, 31]. See Bridson [5] for a comprehensive review of Lagrangian fluid simulations. Lagrangian approaches share a number of bene...
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Introduction to the special issue on leadership and culture in the Middle East (2001)
by H Kabasakal, A Dastmalchian
Venue: Applied Psychology: An International Review
by unknown authors , 2009
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Introducing blended learning: An experience of uncertainty for students in the United Arab Emirates
by Linzi J. Kemp , 2012
"... The cultural dimension of Uncertainty Avoidance is analysed in this study of an introduction to blended learning for international students. Content analysis was conducted on the survey narratives collected from three cohorts of manage-ment undergraduates in the United Arab Emirates. Interpretation ..."
The cultural dimension of Uncertainty Avoidance is analysed in this study of an introduction to blended learning for international students. Content analysis was conducted on the survey narratives collected from three cohorts of manage-ment undergraduates in the United Arab Emirates. Interpretation of certainty with blended learning was found in: student skills with technology; student acknowledgement of course organisation; and student appreciation of online feedback. Uncertainty with the introduction of blended learning was found: when membership was assigned for group work, higher quality research methods were introduced; where course structure lacked detail, increased time was required for new and different online activities. These international students, from countries with a high score on Uncertainty Avoidance, exhibited that dimension when introduced to blended learning. The implications of these findings are discussed, and strategies suggested for introducing blended learning to interna-tional students. The limitations of the study are considered, and a direction for future research is suggested. This is the first study on undergraduates in the Middle East for the effects of a cultural dimension when introducing blended learning. The findings increase the body of knowledge that relates to learning technology in the international business classroom.
...gy to learning (Postman 1992). Further academic study on the cultural dimensions of learners is also important because of increased diversity in face-to-face, blended and online classrooms worldwide (=-=Kabasakal and Dastmalchian 2001-=-). The dimension of UA for the introduction of learning technology Two culture frameworks are of interest in this study because of the similarities in the findings for the Middle East (Hofstede 1980, ...
The Effects of Sex, Gender Role, and Personality Traits on Leader Emergence Does Culture Make a Difference?
by Ilknur Özalp Türetgen, Pinar Unsal, Inci Erdem
"... This study investigated the effects of sex, gender roles, and personality (self-monitoring, self-efficacy, and dominance) on leader emergence in Turkish uni-versity students. Two hundred and nineteen business students filled in personality and gender role inventories, and 60 of them were selected by ..."
This study investigated the effects of sex, gender roles, and personality (self-monitoring, self-efficacy, and dominance) on leader emergence in Turkish uni-versity students. Two hundred and nineteen business students filled in personality and gender role inventories, and 60 of them were selected by personality and sex to join in a 4-person leaderless group discussion involving a gender-neutral task. At the completion of the sessions, they evaluated each other on leadership per-ception and preferences. Results showed that the only personality trait predicting leader emergence in Turkish students was self-monitoring. Differing from stud-ies conducted in Western cultures, dominance, self-efficacy, sex, and gender role orientation were not found to predict emergent group leaders. This difference is explained within the context of Turkey’s feminine and collectivist cultural char-acteristics. The study supports the idea that North American research findings on group leadership perceptions should be tested in other cultures. This issue is espe-cially important for global organizations functioning worldwide.
...key’s. In a study known as Project GLOBE, a cultural classification was made based on geographical position, and Turkey was categorized in the Middle East cluster, containing Iran, Kuwait, and Qatar (=-=Kabasakal & Dastmalchian, 2001-=-), and these countries were compared with each other in various cultural dimensions. In another classification made within the same project, Turkey was classified within the Arabic cluster, together w...
1 The influence of fatalism on health beliefs in Diabetic Patients in Khartoum A Comparison between
by Dana Hag Hamed
"... First and foremost, my sincere gratitude goes to Dr Marguerite Daniel, whose efforts and diligence are what made this thesis possible. Without whom the standard and level of competence would have truly been effected. I cannot thank you enough. I would also like to thank the Hemil center staff for th ..."
First and foremost, my sincere gratitude goes to Dr Marguerite Daniel, whose efforts and diligence are what made this thesis possible. Without whom the standard and level of competence would have truly been effected. I cannot thank you enough. I would also like to thank the Hemil center staff for their inspiration, determination and dedication to the field of health promotion. Whose efforts were not only limited to the academic arena, but transcended to involve us in the field as health promoters to be. Special thanks to Maurice Mittelmark, whose Socratic questioning forces one to read more. Elisabeth Fosse for accepting and working with our feedback to improve the taught modules, demonstrating what it means to participate in health promotion. And of course Torill Bull for her constant encouragement and support. A special thank you to Ahfad University for Women that gave me the opportunity to take part in this program. And Lanekassen for funding the program as well as the data collection of this study. This study would not have been possible without Father Salib, whose time, assistance and support were what made this study possible. The Holy Bible he provided is an incredible gift that
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The Performance of Multistage Interconnection Networks for Multiprocessors (1983)
by C P Kruskal, M Snir
Venue: IEEE Trans. Computers
Limits on Interconnection Network Performance
by Anant Agarwal - IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems , 1991
"... As the performance of interconnection networks becomes increasingly limited by physical constraints in high-speed multiprocessor systems, the parameters of high-performance network design must be reevaluated, starting with a close examination of assumptions and requirements. This paper models networ ..."
As the performance of interconnection networks becomes increasingly limited by physical constraints in high-speed multiprocessor systems, the parameters of high-performance network design must be reevaluated, starting with a close examination of assumptions and requirements. This paper models network latency, taking both switch and wire delays into account. A simple closed form expression for contention in buffered, direct networks is derived and is found to agree closely with simulations. The model includes the effects of packet size and communication locality. Network analysis under various constraints (such as fixed bisection width, fixed channel width, and fixed node size) and under different workload parameters (such as packet size, degree of communication locality, and network request rate) reveals that performance is highly sensitive to these constraints and workloads. A twodimensional network has the lowest latency only when switch delays and network contention are ignored, but...
...ks This section derives a contention model for high-radix direct networks and validates it through simulations. The derivation proceeds like the buffered-indirect-network analysis of Kruskal and Snir =-=[16]-=-. Our contention model assumes buffered networks as well. Simulation experiments by Kruskal and Snir show that as few as four packet buffers at each switch node can approach infinite buffer performanc...
Flattened butterfly: A cost-efficient topology for high-radix networks
by John Kim, William J. Dally - in Proc. of the Intl. Symp. on Computer Architecture , 2007
"... Increasing integrated-circuit pin bandwidth has motivated a corresponding increase in the degree or radix of interconnection networks and their routers. This paper introduces the flattened butterfly, a cost-efficient topology for highradix networks. On benign (load-balanced) traffic, the flattened b ..."
Increasing integrated-circuit pin bandwidth has motivated a corresponding increase in the degree or radix of interconnection networks and their routers. This paper introduces the flattened butterfly, a cost-efficient topology for highradix networks. On benign (load-balanced) traffic, the flattened butterfly approaches the cost/performance of a butterfly network and has roughly half the cost of a comparable performance Clos network. The advantage over the Clos is achieved by eliminating redundant hops when they are not needed for load balance. On adversarial traffic, the flattened butterfly matches the cost/performance of a folded-Clos network and provides an order of magnitude better performance than a conventional butterfly. In this case, global adaptive routing is used to switch the flattened butterfly from minimal to non-minimal routing — using redundant hops only when they are needed. Minimal and non-minimal, oblivious and adaptive routing algorithms are evaluated on the flattened butterfly. We show that load-balancing adversarial traffic requires non-minimal globally-adaptive routing and show that sequential allocators are required to avoid transient load imbalance when using adaptive routing algorithms. We also compare the cost of the flattened butterfly to folded-Clos, hypercube, and butterfly networks with identical capacity and show that the flattened butterfly is more cost-efficient than folded-Clos and hypercube topologies.
...rfly networks have been proposed. Additional stages can be inserted to the butterfly network [26] but adding additional stages to the butterfly ultimately leads to a Clos network. Dilated butterflies =-=[15]-=- can be created where the bandwidth of the channels in the butterflies are increased. However, as shown in Section 4.3, the network cost is dominated by the links and these methods significantly incre...
MULTIPROCESSOR SCHEDULING TO ACCOUNT FOR INTERPROCESSOR COMMUNICATION
by Gilbert Christopher Sih , 1991
"... Interprocessor communication (PC) overheads have emerged as the major performance limitation in parallel processing systems, due to the transmission delays, synchronization overheads, and conflicts for shared communication resources created by data exchange. Accounting for these overheads is essenti ..."
Interprocessor communication (PC) overheads have emerged as the major performance limitation in parallel processing systems, due to the transmission delays, synchronization overheads, and conflicts for shared communication resources created by data exchange. Accounting for these overheads is essential for attaining efficient hardware utilization. This thesis introduces two new compile-time heuristics for scheduling precedence graphs onto multiprocessor architectures, which account for interprocessor communication overheads and interconnection constraints in the architecture. These algorithms perform scheduling and routing simultaneously to account for irregular interprocessor interconnections, and schedule all communications as well as all computations to eliminate shared resource contention. The first technique, called dynamic-level scheduling, modifies the classical HLFET list scheduling strategy to account for IPC and synchronization overheads. By using dynamically changing priorities to match nodes and processors at each step, this technique attains an equitable tradeoff between load balancing and interprocessor communication cost. This method is fast, flexible, widely targetable, and displays promising perforrnance. The second technique, called declustering, establishes a parallelism hierarchy upon the precedence graph using graph-analysis techniques which explicitly address the tradeoff between exploiting parallelism and incurring communication cost. By systematically decomposing this hierarchy, the declustering process exposes parallelism instances in order of importance, assuring efficient use of the available processing resources. In contrast with traditional clustering schemes, this technique can adjust the level of cluster granularity to suit the characteristics of the specified architecture, leading to a more effective solution.
On the geographic location of internet resources
by Anukool Lakhina, See Profile, Mark Crovella, Ibrahim Matta, Anukool Lakhina, John W. Byers, Mark Crovella, Ibrahim Matta - IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications , 2003
"... All in-text references underlined in blue are linked to publications on ResearchGate, letting you access and read them immediately. ..."
All in-text references underlined in blue are linked to publications on ResearchGate, letting you access and read them immediately.
...able service it becomes necessary to add switches in a superlinear fashion. Thus, e.g., multistage interconnection networks for multiprocessor computers are often designed to scale in n log n fashion =-=[22]-=-, [18]. V. LINKS AND DISTANCE Given an understanding of how routers are distributed over the Earth’s surface, we next proceed to examine the geographical properties of nodenode links. As described in ...
LoGPC: Modeling Network Contention in Message-Passing Programs
by Csaba Andras Moritz, Matthew I. Frank - IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON PARALLEL AND DISTRIBUTED SYSTEMS , 1998
"... In many real applications, for example those with frequent and irregular communication patterns or those using large messages, network contention and contention for message processing resources can be a significant part of the total execution time. This paper presents a new cost model, called LoGPC, ..."
In many real applications, for example those with frequent and irregular communication patterns or those using large messages, network contention and contention for message processing resources can be a significant part of the total execution time. This paper presents a new cost model, called LoGPC, that extends the LogP [9] and LogGP [4] models to account for the impact of network contention and network interface DMA behavior on the performance of message-passing programs. We validate LoGPC by analyzing three applications implemented with Active Messages [11, 18] on the MIT Alewife multiprocessor. Our analysis shows that network contention accounts for up to 50% of the total execution time. In addition, we show that the impact of communication locality on the communication costs is at most a factor of two on Alewife. Finally, we use the model to identify tradeoffs between synchronous and asynchronous message passing styles.
Reconfiguration With Time Division Multiplexed MINs for Multiprocessor Communications
by Chunming Qiao, Rami Melhem - IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems , 1994
"... In this paper, time-division multiplexed multistage interconnection networks (TDM-MINs) are proposed for multiprocessor communications. Connections required by an application are partitioned into a number of subsets called mappings, such that connections in each mapping can be established in a MI ..."
In this paper, time-division multiplexed multistage interconnection networks (TDM-MINs) are proposed for multiprocessor communications. Connections required by an application are partitioned into a number of subsets called mappings, such that connections in each mapping can be established in a MIN without conflict. Switch settings for establishing connections in each mapping are determined and stored in shift registers. By repeatedly changing switch settings, connections in each mapping are established for a time slot in a round-robin fashion. Thus, all connections required by an application may be established in a MIN in a time-division multiplexed way. TDM-MINs can emulate a completely connected network using N time slots. It can also emulate regular networks such as rings, meshes, Cube-Connected-Cycles (CCC), binary trees and n -dimensional hypercubes using 2, 4, 3, 4 and n time slots, respectively. The problem of partitioning an arbitrary set of requests into a minimal ...
..., in the presence of nonuniform bandwidth requirements and limits on the size of shift registers, tradeoffs have to be made when performing the above optimization. Replication of a MIN is proposed in =-=[12]-=- for improving performance as well as reliability of a MIN. A K -way TDM-MIN can be regarded as a time-domain equivalence of the replication approach. One can configure a K -way limited TDM-MIN to a T...
Data Forwarding in Scalable Shared-Memory Multiprocessors
by Koufaty Chen, X. Chen, D. K. Poulsen, J. Torrellas - In Proceedings of the 1995 International Conference on Supercomputing , 1995
"... Scalable shared-memory multiprocessors are often slowed down by long-latency memory accesses. One way to cope with this problem is to use data forwarding to overlap memory accesses with computation. With data forwarding, when a processor produces a datum, in addition to updating its cache, it sends ..."
Scalable shared-memory multiprocessors are often slowed down by long-latency memory accesses. One way to cope with this problem is to use data forwarding to overlap memory accesses with computation. With data forwarding, when a processor produces a datum, in addition to updating its cache, it sends a copy of the datum to the caches of the processors that the compiler identified as consumers of it. As a result, when the consumer processors access the datum, they find it in their caches. This paper addresses two main issues. First, it presents a framework for a compiler algorithm for forwarding. Second, using address traces, it evaluates the performance impact of different levels of support for forwarding. Our simulations of a 32-processor machine show that a slightlyoptimistic support for forwarding speeds up five applications by, on average, 50% for large caches and 30% for small caches. For large caches, many sharing read misses can be eliminated, while for smaller caches, forwarding ...
The Impact of Communication Locality on Large-Scale Multiprocessor Performance
by Kirk L. Johnson , 1992
"... As multiprocessor sizes scale and computer architects turn to interconnection networks with non-uniform communication latencies, the lure of exploiting communication locality to increase performance becomes inevitable. Models that accurately quantify locality effects provide invaluable insight into ..."
As multiprocessor sizes scale and computer architects turn to interconnection networks with non-uniform communication latencies, the lure of exploiting communication locality to increase performance becomes inevitable. Models that accurately quantify locality effects provide invaluable insight into the importance of exploiting locality as machine sizes and features change. This paper presents a framework for modeling the impact of communication locality on system performance. The framework provides a means for combining simple models of application, processor, and network behavior to obtain a combined model that accurately reflects feedback effects between processors and networks. We introduce a model that characterizes application behavior with three parameters that capture computation grain, sensitivity to communication latency, and amount of locality present at execution time. The combined model is validated with measurements taken from a detailed simulator for a complete multiprocessor system. Using the combined model, we show that exploiting communication locality provides gains which are at most linear in the factor by which average communication distance is reduced when the number of outstanding communication transactions per processor is bounded. The combined model is also used to obtain rough upper bounds on the performance improvement from exploiting locality to minimize communication distance. 1
...per, we use a model for packetswitched, buffered mesh networks, but the framework can easily accommodate models for other types of packet-switched networks such as that for indirect networks given in =-=[8]-=-. We believe that modifications to allow for circuit-switched networks would be straightforward. The network model used in this paper is that for packetswitched k-ary n-dimensional torus networks with...
Fast Algorithms for Routing Around Faults in Multibutterflies and Randomly-Wired Splitter Networks
by Tom Leighton, Bruce Maggs - In IEEE Transactions on Computers , 1992
...each channel consists of d wires. Because it is harder to congest a channel than it is to congest a single wire in a butterfly, dilated butterflies are better routing networks than simple butterflies =-=[14, 16, 27]-=-. 1 Throughout this paper, log N denotes log 2 N. 3 000 001 010 011 100 101 110 111 0 1 2 3 row level Figure 1: An 8-input butterfly network. 1.2 Splitter networks Butterfly and dilated butterfly netw...
Chaotic Routing -- Design and Implementation of an Adaptive Multicomputer Network Router
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"... A crucial component of a massively parallel multicomputer is the interconnection network which links all of the nodes of the computer together. This network provides the primary method of communication between the hundreds or thousands of processing nodes and is, thus, critical to the successful o ..."
A crucial component of a massively parallel multicomputer is the interconnection network which links all of the nodes of the computer together. This network provides the primary method of communication between the hundreds or thousands of processing nodes and is, thus, critical to the successful operation of the multicomputer. Current state-of-the-art interconnection networks use simple, oblivious routing techniques which achieve very good performance when loading is light, but do not perform well in the presence of non-uniform congestion or faults. Chaotic routing, a non-minimal adaptive routing technique, provides a mechanism which takes into account the presence of congestion and faults when choosing a path for a message and can, thus, achieve better performance. Chaot...
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Skinning the Cat: How Mandatory Psychiatric Evaluations for Animal Cruelty Offenders Can Prevent Future Violence
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In 2017, the Texas legislature amended Texas Penal Code § 42.092, which governs acts of cruelty against non-livestock animals. The statute in its current form makes torturing, killing, or seriously injuring a non-livestock animal a third degree felony, while less serious offenses carry either a state jail felony or a Class A misdemeanor charge.
While a step in the right direction, Texas law is not comprehensive in that it fails to address a significant aspect of animal cruelty offenses: mental illness. For over fifteen years, Texas Family Code § 54.0407 has required psychiatric counseling for juveniles convicted of cruelty to animals, but in that time, a similar provision for adult offenders has not been suggested. Persons convicted of animal cruelty are notorious re-offenders whose crimes can escalate to violence against humans. Furthermore, violent behavior may not manifest itself during childhood and can be a result of a newly developed mental illness.
Animal cruelty has major negative societal impacts. For instance, domestic abusers often abuse animals to control their victims, while the internet has developed a significant market for animal sexual abuse that involves human victims as well. By creating a stricter punishment for those convicted, Texas has acknowledged the importance of prosecuting these acts. However, the state needs to push farther by requiring psychiatric evaluations for those convicted in order to better prevent recidivism and escalation.
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I think you’re mistaken. The T6i is capable of servo AF in movie mode and I have the choice to turn it on or off. I can watch the AF work. It’s just slow on this lens.
I beg to differ. KV was correct, as always. Your camera does not really track subjects.
"Movie Servo AF" is exclusive to cameras with Dual Pixel AF sensors. That camera has a Hybrid CMOS AF III sensor. Read the description very carefully. No where does it mention "tracking", just faster focusing. I have that same sensor in my M3, and it does not track in Movie Mode.
You must tell it where to focus, and hopefully your subject is under one of the AF points. Also, with a wide angle lens your subject may be a little to far away for the camera to pick up out of the background. Subjects almost need to fill the frame.
Actually, the T6S does not have dual pixel either, just a slightly improved method for object tracking.
The T6i only has contrast detection focusing in video mode. This is inherently slower than phase detect focus. It can track, but not very well.
From Adorama from an article comparing the T6S to the T6i :
"TheCanon T6salso comes with some notable shooting features including Canon’s SERVOAF in live view, allowing for some of the fastest refocusing and tracking capabilities in aCanon Rebel camera. If you’re an aspiring wildlife photographer or want to capture all theaction at a sporting event, SERVO AF will help keep the action tack sharp. Lastly, althoughboth the Canon T6s and Canon T6i can shoot 30 frames-per-second 1080P full HD video, theT6s includes an incamera HDRmovie mode."
https://www.adorama.com/alc/0015165/article/Canon-T6i-T6s-Comparison-An-Enthusiast-DSLR-That-Meets-t...
@kvbarkley wrote:
Notwithstanding all that blather, the bottom line is what it's always been: If you need to shoot video well, get a video camera.
"If you need to shoot video well, get a video camera."
Seems reasonable doesn't it? I guess not.
There is a crucial and subtle difference between the AF systems. Apparently, the T6i performs continuous AF by using contrasting colors. It is not capable of actual subject tracking and face tracking around the viewfinder, in either movie or stills modes.
You seem to be expecting face/subject tracking. By focusing on the closest contrasting colors, the camera may seem like it is tracking your subject. But, it is not really tracking the subjects. Subject tracking usually puts a moving AF square on the subject, as the subject moves around the viewfinder.
I may be totally wrong and maybe it’s a gimmick from canon but there is a Servo AF function in video mode that I can turn on or off. If it’s turned on, I can touch the screen on the subject I want to track and it will put a little white box on the subject and follow it around the screen as long as it’s within the field of view.
Yup. My M3 does the same thing. It probably works just like your T6i does in both Live View and Movie Mode. The "tracking" leans a little toward the gimmick side, though. As long as what you're tracking is the closest thing to the camera, it mostly works, albeit slowly.
Try this. Switch to Live View, and keep the camera stil.. Use AI Servo focusing.. If you can still Touch AF, then do it, and keep the subject still. Now half press the shutter, and the camera locks focus. How could you tell it locked focus? The box changed color.
When you touch AF, the white box appears on the subject, and stays on the subject as the subject moves around the screen. Now try half pressing the shutter as the subject moves around the screen. The focus box stays on the subject. What happens when the subject suddenly stops moving? The camera locks focus, right? How could you tell it locked focus? The box changed color.
In both tests, the focus did not lock until the subject was still. The camera is not maintaining focus as it tracks a subject. The focus lags behind the tracking. The subject must come to a near stop for the AF to get a lock.
Now, if you try that same test on a camera body equipped with a Dual Pixel AF sensor, the camera maintains near perfect focus while the subject is moving. It does not have to wait for the subject to stop moving before it can get an accurate focus lock. Half pressing the shutter maintains a focus lock at all times.
THAT is the performance difference between CMOS AF III sensors and Dual Pixel AF sensors.
Awesome explanation. Thank you very much!!
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A Path to Diversity
Leave a comment October 25, 2017 Roberta Lavin
I spent most of my career taking diversity for granted. Having entered my career at St. Elizabeths Hospital in Washington, DC my first supervisor was an African American female. When I returned to St. Elizabeths as a new nurse practitioner my medical director and the supervisory physician was an African American male and in fact, most of my colleagues and those that helped me transition into practice were African American. When I left St. Elizabeths and moved to Tucson, AZ my supervisor was Indian American and my most of my colleagues were Mexican and Phillapino Americans. I had no idea at the time how the diversity I experienced in my early career formed and broadened my perspective. Nor did it ever occur to me that the people with whom I worked would be anything other than close friends.
It wasn’t until I was in my mid-career that first experienced being pressured to make a choice based on race. I was not asked to hire a less qualified person that was a minority. I was asked not to hire the more qualified person who happened to be an African American female. I was told, “When she fails, and she will because they all do I will hold you personally responsible.” I hired her anyway and she went on to be highly successful. I thought it was an isolated incident, but I never forgot it.
Diversity is a blessing
Diversity is in harmony with justice, grace, and peace. Diversity should be defended as it is representative of the dignity that belongs to each person. It is the uniqueness of each individual – ethnicity, religion, political views, nationality, sexual orientation, physical and mental abilities, age, vocation, and thought – added together that makes a strong and more perfect society. The source of diversity and thus the strength of the society doesn’t come from a state mandate but is the creation of God. If an organization lacks diversity, the diversity created by God, then we are going against the natural order and in so doing are weakening ourselves and our society.
I find myself disturbed by the lack of diversity in academia. Maybe it is the places I’ve been or the limited number of people with whom I’ve interacted, or maybe it is an issue in nursing departments. However, the more I read the literature the more I realize that perceptions are sometimes reality. A quick review of a post by Donna Nelson makes clear that there is a lack of diversity in academia and especially in the sciences. Thomas Pfau implies that while we in academia obsess about academic freedom we are a little less concerned about freedom of speech and certainly diversity of perspective.
What is diversity
Diversity refers to all the ways in which people differ and the effect of those differences on our thinking and behavior. This includes socioeconomic status, race, ethnicity, language, gender, religion, and age. A core element of diversity is inclusion, which calls for creating a climate where all individuals are actively engaged, feel safe, and are welcomed. – American Association of Colleges of Nursing
It is not necessary to commit to a substantive definition of diversity and make explicit the normative grounds on which such a definition rests. Diversity is about more than being of different races, ethnicities, or genders or quantifying this many of X and that many of Y. In fact, by adhering to such a definition and quantification one may be missing the attitude of respect that diversity helps to achieve. It may be sufficient to know which affinity group you identify as being important in defining diversity? How would the diversity help you to achieve a more perfect organization or society?
Genetic characteristics
Abilities (mental, physical, emotional)
It is not sufficient to tolerate others or the practices of others. Diversity is an attitude of respect that must include a conscious effort to:
Understand and appreciate the interdependence of humanity, cultures, and the natural environment.
Practice mutual respect for qualities and experiences that are different from our own.
Understand that diversity includes not only ways of being but also ways of knowing;
Recognize that personal, cultural and institutionalized discrimination creates and sustains privileges for some while creating and sustaining disadvantages for others;
Build alliances across differences so that we can work together to eradicate all forms of discrimination. (QCC)
Reading these it is clear that if we practiced this level of respect and did make a conscious effort toward diversity we would be stronger as individuals, organizations, and as a society.
What is getting in the way of diversity
The easy answer is our fear of change, but that is too easy. I believe that the first and primary issue is that we have done a poor job of explaining the benefits and blessings of diversity. We have not made clear the positive impacts on thought, creativity, peace, and justice.
Question: Why did the universe or God put this person in my path? What am I to learn from them and what have I got to offer in return?
The second barrier is the bias in the way we view those that check different affinity groups from the majority. We all have biases, but not everyone lets bias adversely impact decisions. If I am willing to recognize and own my biases it is easier to break down barriers and not let them obstruct desirable and just action.
Question: What biases do I have and how are they impacting my interactions with others? Do my biases prevent me from treating another human being with full dignity and respect?
The third barrier is privilege. Those of us that grew up in the majority have trouble seeing ourselves as part of the problem. We view the world through a lens that has largely lacked discrimination. It is true that women face discrimination when competing with men, but white women are certainly advantaged over African American and Hispanic women. It is also true that some white males have been disadvantaged when competing for jobs as a result of a desire for diversity. However, it is the exception and not the rule. We could walk through every group in this same manner – older/younger, rich/poor, Christian/Muslim, and on and on. The result would be the same. Some groups are now and have historically been privileged and continue to benefit from those privileges which they did not earn, but were given.
Question: What privileges do I have? How have those privileges made my life easier? Have my privileges resulted in someone else being made worse off?
The final barrier is lack of moral courage. How many of us have seen a more qualified person passed over for the less qualified? There is always a rationale that is offered and too many that are willing to accept the rationale as a reasonable explanation even when knowing that explanation violates our values.
We can and must remain connected to our fundamental values such as respect for human diversity and the need to create and sustain inclusive environments. Those of us who are associated with or work for organizations that have made their diversity and inclusion values public and even published them have an additional responsibility — to call on the leaders of those organizations to reaffirm those values. As Mahatma Gandhi said:
Your beliefs become your thoughts
Your thoughts become your words
Your words become your actions
Your actions become your habits
Your habits become your values
Your values become your destiny.
Five Actions for Diversity officers and Social Justice Advocates – Johnnetta Cole
Question: What are my values? Am I willing to show moral courage and call on my leaders to reaffirm the values of diversity?
Don’t be timid
It takes moral courage and effort to make diversity a priority. If one is to move an organization the first thing to do is acknowledge that people will be uncomfortable and accept that it is necessary for change. There will be no room to be timid.
For the Spirit God gave us does not make us timid, but gives us power, love and self-discipline. (Timothy 1:7)
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Often referred to as one of the most consistently pioneering artists of his generation, the Tenerife bred DJ/Producer comes with an impressively commendable back-story. In an industry well known for overnight success due to monopolisation and consumer- driven demands, Hector is an outstanding example of what playing the long game and staying true to yourself can get you if you put your heart and soul into it.
Hector was one of, if not the first artist from the Canary Islands to make a considerable impact on the evolution of the modern Tech House sound which is globally fashioned at the forefront of electronic dance music. Tenerife and the surrounding areas have since gone on to export a strong flow of artists that emulate a similar sort of acoustic signature, something that many people believe Hector is directly responsible for. Carving a specific sound and inspiring an entire wave of artists, an achievement that his industry peers not only respect him for but something they have always championed him for, too.
Not only is Hector clearly inspiring, but he is also extremely decorated in terms of high profile attachments of his name. He has released on pretty much every big House and Tech House label in the industry over the last half a decade and beyond. Something that he has done time and time again without conforming to recent label trends or sound fads. Each time, being showcased for his standout sound and musical vibe, another exemplary trait for an artist that many struggle to accurately master throughout their respective careers.
The extent of Hector’s ever-growing exhibition of an artist comes seeming without any weaknesses. Not only has he appeared on pretty much benchmark label in the industry (sometimes on several occasions), he has also been a frequent fixture on artist schedules with the biggest event brands on the planet. The likes of Sankeys, ElRow, ADE, BPM, Music On, Solid Grooves and many more being regular bookers and believers of Hector’s raw, constantly developing talent.
To put it simply, at many different levels, Hector is a household name in electronic dance music. From a release catalogue that most aspiring artists can only dream of, to an endless stream of industry recognised and internationally respected DJ awards, to working with some of his idols and favourite artists in the industry, to being consistently at the forefront as a globally touring performing artist. You could ask what is left to do in the career of someone that seems like they’ve done it all already? The answer is simple, in remembering that he fell in love with the music and that’s all it has ever been about, continuing to bring his talent to the masses and share his passion for amazing music with the rest of the world.
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My Five Causes of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
Rocochet asks this question over the weekend: What are your top 5 causes of the fall of the Roman Empire. OK, I will take a shot at this from my decidedly amateur perspective:
Demographic collapse, caused by a series of plagues (perhaps even an Ur version of the black death) and possibly climate change (colder) that depopulated the western half of the empire
A variety of policies (e.g. grain dole) that shifted population from productive farms to the cities. In the 19th century, this shift was to be growth-inducing as farm labor was moving into growing factories, but no such productivity revolution existed in Roman cities. The combination of #2 with #1 left huge swaths of farmland abandoned, and the Romans dependent on grain ships from North Africa to feed the unproductive mouths in large Italian cities. It also gutted the traditional Roman military model, which depended strongly on these local farmers for the backbone of the army.
The Romans lost their ability to be innovative in including new peoples in their Empire. The Romans had a bewildering array of citizenship and tax statuses for different peoples who joined or were conquered by the empire. For hundreds of years, this innovation was hugely successful. But by the 4th and 5th centuries they seemed to have lost the trick. The evidence for this is that they could have solved multiple problems -- the barbarians at the gates and the abandonment of farm land and the need for more soldiers -- by finding a way to settle barbarians on empty farm land. This is in fact exactly what the barbarians wanted. That is why I do not include the barbarian invasions as one of my five, because it did not have to be barbarian invasions, it could have been barbarian immigration. Gibson's thesis was that Christianity killed the Roman Empire by making it "soft". I don't buy that, but it may have been that substituting the Romans' earlier incredible tolerance for other religions in their Pagan period with a more intolerant version of Christianity contributed to this loss of flexibility.
Hand in hand with #3, the Roman economy became sclerotic. This was the legacy of Diocletian and Constantine, who restructured the empire to survive several centuries more but at the cost of at least an order of magnitude more state control in every aspect of society. Diocletian's edict of maximum prices is the best known such regulation, but in fact he fixed most every family into their then-current trades and insisted the family perform the same economic functions in all future generations. Essentially, it was Ayn Rand's directive 10-289 for the ancient world, and the only reason these laws were not more destructive is that the information and communication technologies of the time did not allow for very careful enforcement.
Splits in the governance of the empire between west and east (again going back to Diocletian) reduced the ability to fund priorities on one side of the empire with resources from the other side. More specifically, the wealthy eastern empire had always subsidized defense of the west, and that subsidy became much harder, and effectively ended, in the century after Diocletian.
I will add, as a reminder, that to some extent this is all a trick question, because the Roman Empire really did not totally fall until the capture of Constantinople in 1453. So I should have stated at the outset that all of the above refers to the fall of the western empire in the late 5th century, which in part explains why #5 is there in the list.
And, if you were in a room of historians of this era, you could quickly get into an argument over whether the western Roman empire really fell in the late 5th century. For example, the Visigothic Kingdom in the area of modern southern France and Spain retained a lot of Roman practices and law. But I have gone with tradition here and dated the "fall" of the empire to 476 when the Roman Emperor was deposed and not replaced.
Tags: ayn rand, economy, france, military, North Africa, prices, Roman Emperor, Roman Empire, spain, Visigothic Kingdom
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When Regulation Makes Things Worse -- Banking Edition
One of the factors in the financial crisis of 2007-2009 that is mentioned too infrequently is the role of banking capital sufficiency standards and exactly how they were written. Folks have said that capital requirements were somehow deregulated or reduced. But in fact the intention had been to tighten them with the Basil II standards and US equivalents. The problem was not some notional deregulation, but in exactly how the regulation was written.
In effect, capital sufficiency standards declared that mortgage-backed securities and government bonds were "risk-free" in the sense that they were counted 100% of their book value in assessing capital sufficiency. Most other sorts of financial instruments and assets had to be discounted in making these calculations. This created a land rush by banks for mortgage-backed securities, since they tended to have better returns than government bonds and still counted as 100% safe.
Without the regulation, one might imagine banks to have a risk-reward tradeoff in a portfolio of more and less risky assets. But the capital standards created a new decision rule: find the highest returning assets that could still count for 100%. They also helped create what in biology we might call a mono-culture. One might expect banks to have varied investment choices and favorites, such that a problem in one class of asset would affect some but not all banks. Regulations helped create a mono-culture where all banks had essentially the same portfolio stuffed with the same one or two types of assets. When just one class of asset sank, the whole industry went into the tank,
Well, we found out that mortgage-backed securities were not in fact risk-free, and many banks and other financial institutions found they had a huge hole blown in their capital. So, not surprisingly, banks then rushed into government bonds as the last "risk-free" investment that counted 100% towards their capital sufficiency. But again the standard was flawed, since every government bond, whether from Crete or the US, were considered risk-free. So banks rushed into bonds of some of the more marginal countries, again since these paid a higher return than the bigger country bonds. And yet again we got a disaster, as Greek bonds imploded and the value of many other countries' bonds (Spain, Portugal, Italy) were questioned.
So now banking regulators may finally be coming to the conclusion that a) there is no such thing as a risk free asset and b) it is impossible to give a blanket risk grade to an entire class of assets. Regulators are pushing to discount at least some government securities in capital calculations.
This will be a most interesting discussion, and I doubt that these rules will ever pass. Why? Because the governments involved have a conflict of interest here. No government is going to quietly accept a designation that its bonds are risky while its neighbor's are healthy. In addition, many governments (Spain is a good example) absolutely rely on their country's banks as the main buyer of their bonds. Without Spanish bank buying, the Spanish government would be in a world of hurt placing its debt. There is no way it can countenance rules that might in any way shift bank asset purchases away from its government bonds.
Tags: banks, debt, financial crisis, Italy, Portugal, Regulation, risk, spain, US, Without Spanish
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European Auster-Yeti
There are people who will swear to this day that, despite all evidence to the contrary, Bigfoot exists and they have seen it. Paul Krugman similarly is just sure he has seen European austerity. The rest of us are left scratching our heads for the evidence -- he doesn't even have a blurry photo or footprint. Just tales from a friend of a friend, who is not only sure there has been austerity, but that it caused an old lady to dry her cat in a microwave and that if you swim 20 minutes after eating you will get cramps.
The official Keynesian story is that the PIIGS of Europe (Portugal, Italy, Ireland, Greece and Spain) have been devastated by cutbacks in public spending. Austerity has made things worse rather than better – clear proof that Keynesian stimulus is the answer. Keynesians claim the lack of stimulus (of course paid for by someone else) has spawned costly recessions which threaten to spread. In other words, watch out Germany and Scandinavia: If you don’t pony up, you’ll be next.
Erber finds fault with this Keynesian narrative. The official figures show that PIIGS governments embarked on massive spending sprees between 2000 and 2008. During this period, their combined general government expenditures rose from 775 billion Euros to 1.3 trillion – a 75 percent increase. Ireland had the largest percentage increase (130 percent), and Italy the smallest (40 percent). These spending binges gave public sector workers generous salaries and benefits, paid for bridges to nowhere, and financed a gold-plated transfer state. What the state gave has proven hard to take away as the riots in Southern Europe show.
Then in 2008, the financial crisis hit. No one wanted to lend to the insolvent PIIGS, and, according to the Keynesian narrative, the PIIGS were forced into extreme austerity by their miserly neighbors to the north. Instead of the stimulus they desperately needed, the PIIGS economies were wrecked by austerity.
Not so according to the official European statistics. Between the onset of the crisis in 2008 and 2011, PIIGS government spending increased by six percent from an already high plateau. Eurostat’sprojections (which make the unlikely assumption that the PIIGS will honor the fiscal discipline promised their creditors) still show the PIIGS spending more in 2014 than at the end of their spending binge in 2008.
As Erber wryly notes: “Austerity is everywhere but in the statistics.”
Tags: 2008, Europe, Europe Portugal, germany, Ireland, Italy, PIIGS, Southern Europe, spain, stimulus
Statists Write History
In today's history lesson, we have something called the "Addled Parliament." Surely that cannot be a good name to have, and in fact the name was given as a term of derision, very like how the Left describes the current Congress as obstructionist and ineffectual.
So why did it gain the name "addled"? It turns out, for about the same reasons the current Congress comes under derision from Obama: It did not give the King all the money he wanted. Via Wikipedia:
The Addled Parliament was the second Parliament of England of the reign of James I of England (following his 1604-11 Parliament), which sat between 5 April and 7 June 1614. Its name alludes to its ineffectiveness: it lasted no more than eight weeks and failed to resolve the conflict between the king, who wished to raise money in the form of a 'Benevolence', a grant of £65,000 and the House of Commons (who were resisting further taxation). It was dissolved by the king.
Parliament also saw no reason for a further grant. They had agreed to raise £200,000 per annum as part of the Great Contract and as the war with Spain had reached its resolution with the 1604 Treaty of London, they saw the King's continued financial deficit as a result of his extravagance (especially on Scottish favourites such as Robert Carr) and saw no justification for continued high spending.
Moreover there remained the continuing hostility as a result of the kings move of setting impositions without consulting Parliament.
Wow, none of that sounds familiar, huh? In fact, James was an awful spendthrift. Henry the VII was fiscally prudent. Henry the VIII was a train wreck. Elizabeth was a cheapskate but got into expensive wars, particularly in her declining years, and handed out too many government monopolies to court favorites. But James came in and bested the whole lot, tripling Elizabeth's war time spending in peace time, mainly to lavish wealth on family and court favorites, and running up debt over 3x annual government receipts. History, I think, pretty clearly tells us that Parliament was absolutely correct to challenge James on spending and taxes, and given that it took another century, a civil war, a Glorious Revolution, a regal head removal, and a lot of other light and noise to finally sort this issue out, it should not be surprising that this pioneering Parliament failed. Yet we call it "addled".
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Some Potential Good News on Solar
This is terrific, if true. My fear, of course, is they are getting subsidized through a back door somewhere, but if they really think they can make subsidy-free solar work financially, that's awesome:
Two German solar energy developers are planning to build photovoltaic plants in southern Spain that will earn a return without government subsidies.
Wuerth Solar GmbH & Co. intends to build a 287-megawatt plant in the Murcia area for 277 million euros ($363 million), according to the regional authority. Gehrlicher Solar AG said it plans to develop a 250-megawatt solar park in the Extremadura region for about 250 million euros.
The projects, about three times larger than any European solar plant, may be the first that don’t rely on feed-in tariffs and compete with wholesale power prices. All plants in the region so far depend on fixed premium rates for solar power, which can be several times higher than wholesale prices.
Spain suspended the tariffs on Jan. 27 as part of government austerity measures, threatening the survival of the industry. Tariffs for large-scale solar were set at 121 euros per megawatt-hour. Developers now look to build plants without this support, helped by falling equipment prices.
Tags: AG, Gehrlicher Solar, Good News, planning, prices, solar, spain, Two German, Wuerth Solar
Flash: European Finances Still Screwed Up
As I predicted, the various highly touted European debt and currency interventions last month did squat. This is no surprise. The basic plan currently is to have the ECB give essentially 0% loans to banks with the implied provision that they use the money to buy sovereign debt. Eventually there are provisions for austerity, but I wrote that I don't think it's possible these will be effective. It's a bit unclear where this magic money of the ECB is coming from - either they are printing money (which they refuse to own up to because the Germans fear money printing even more than Soviet tanks in the Fulda Gap) or there is some kind of leverage circle-jerk game going where the ECB is effectively leveraging deposits and a few scraps of funding to the moon.
At this point, short of some fiscal austerity which simply is not going to happen, I can't see how the answer is anything but printing and devaluation. Either the ECB prints, spreading the cost of inflation to all counties on the Euro, or Greece/Spain/Italy exit the Euro and then print for themselves.
The exercise last month, as well as the months before that, are essentially mass hypnosis spectacles, engineered to try to get the markets to forget the underlying fundamentals. And the amazing part is it sort of works, from two days to two weeks. It reminds me of nothing so much as the final chapters of Atlas Shrugged where officials do crazy stuff to put off the reckoning even one more day.
Disclosure: I have never, ever been successful at market timing investments or playing individual stocks, so I generally don't. But the last few months I have had fun shorting European banks and financial assets on the happy-hypnosis news days and covering once everyone wakes up. About the only time in my life I have made actual trading profits.
Thought problem: I wish I understood the incentives facing European banks. It seems like right now to be almost a reverse cartel, where the cartel holds tightly because there is a large punishment for cheating. Specifically, any large bank that jumps off the merry-go-round described above likely starts the whole thing collapsing and does in its own balance sheet (along with everyone else's). The problem is that every day they hang on, the stakes get higher and their balance sheets get stuffed with more of this crap. Ironically, everyone would have been better getting off a year ago and taking the reckoning then, and certainly everyone would be better taking the hit now rather than later, but no one is willing to jump off. One added element that makes the game interesting is that the first bank to jump off likely earns the ire of the central bankers, perhaps making that bank the one bank that is not bailed out when everything crashes. It's a little like the bidding game where the highest bidder wins but the two highest bidders have to pay. Anyone want to equate this with a defined economics game please do so in the comments.
Tags: atlas shrugged, banks, debt, ECB, Euro, European Union, Fulda Gap, game, Greece, inflation, investments, Italy, spain
Category: Financial Markets, International Affairs | 7 Comments
Over the Cliff, My Fellow Lemmings!
I found this 2009 graph and comment by Paul Krugman (dredged up by Megan McArdle) to be a hilarious call to arms for all his fellow lemmings to follow him over the cliff
[from November 2009]: Why, people ask, would I want to compare us to Belgium and Italy? Both countries are a mess!
Um, guys, that's the point. Belgium is politically weak because of the linguistic divide; Italy is politically weak because it's Italy. If these countries can run up debts of more than 100 percent of GDP without being destroyed by bond vigilantes, so can we.
Today I spent time arguing with a group of folks about global warming and the precautionary principle. The others all argued that a slim chance of a catastrophe justified immediate action. I argued, of course, that they were understating the cost of the intervention, but that is another story.
Its amazing to me that so many on the Left squawk about the precautionary principle in the case of climate, but are ready to continue running up government spending and deficits despite the fact that the disaster of this approach, given the experience in Europe, is no longer even debatable. Its simply math.
Our problem will play out differently than in Europe. Long before interest rates on US securities run up to the 6% or so tipping point, the Fed will be running the printing presses. Don't believe me, well, they already have been.
Savers beware, our path will be devaluation and inflation.
By the way, the speed with which hyperinflation can take hold is astounding. Here is the inflation rate in the Weimar Republic. As with the Fed today, the central bank of the Weimar Republic was buying up government debt with printed currency. Look how fast the inflation took hold:
(source) Imagine a quarterly meeting of the Fed in August of '22. They are probably looking at month-old data, and in July it looks like everything is under control. Boom, three months later, by the next schedule quarterly meeting, inflation is already out of control. Krugman would say not to worry about inflation, they will have plenty of time to act. Coincidently, this is exactly what Italy and France and Spain said about their sovereign debt, but in a flash, the crisis was upon them and so far out of control there is nothing they can do.
Tags: belgium, debt, Europe, inflation, Italy, Paul Krugman, precautionary principle, spain, Weimar Republic
How Governments Solve Problems
This is hilarious, all the more so because the actors involved have absolutely no self-awareness of just how bad this looks
This week alone has seen a ratings downgrade for Spain as well as a threat by agencies to review France's AAA status -- and the markets have taken notice. Once again, it would seem, ratings agencies are making things difficult for European countries.
Now, the European Union is considering doing something about it.
European Internal Market Commissioner Michel Barnier is considering a move to ban the agencies from publishing outlook reports on EU countries entangled in a crisis, according to a report in Thursday's issue of the Financial Times Deutschlandnewspaper
This is not even a content neutral ban on speech - it obviously will only be applied to bad reports, not positive ones. No wonder Obama has always been so admiring of the Europeans.
Tags: AAA, EU, European Union, Financial Times Deutschlandnewspaper, france, review, spain
Seen and Unseen
Every time you see a politician claiming he created jobs with some expenditure of taxpayer money, you have to ask yourself, what would private investors have done with that money had it not been taken away from them? Via John Stossel
In a new article, "The Myth of Green Energy Jobs: The European Experience", the environmental scientist and a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute writes,
"Green programs in Spain destroyed 2.2 jobs for every green job created, while the capital needed for one green job in Italy could create almost five jobs in the general economy."
Tags: American Enterprise Institute, economy, Energy, Italy, spain, Via John Stossel
Category: Economics, Government | 1 Comment
Room Temperature Ice
Some scientists claim to be able to make room temperature ice (yes, I presume at 1 atm pressure). Not sure what to make of it:
Earth's climate is strongly influenced by the presence of particles of different shapes and origins "” in the form of dust, ice and pollutants "” that find their way into the lowest portion of the atmosphere, the troposphere. There, water adsorbed on the surface of these particles can freeze at higher temperatures than pure water droplets, triggering rain and snow.Researchers at Spain's Centre d'Investigació en Nanociència i Nanotecnologia (CIN2) have studied the underlying mechanisms of water condensation in the troposphere and found a way to make artificial materials to control water condensation and trigger ice formation at room temperature. Described in the Journal of Chemical Physics, which is published by the American Institute of Physics, their work may lead to new additives for snowmaking, improved freezer systems, or new coatings that help grow ice for skating rinks.
The next step? The researchers' goal now is to produce environmentally-friendly synthetic materials for efficiently inducing snow. "If water condenses in an ordered way, such as a hexagonal structure, on such surfaces at ambient conditions, the term "˜room temperature ice' would be fully justified," adds Verdaguer. "The solid phase, ice, would be produced by a surface effect rather than as a consequence of temperature. In the long term, we intend to prepare smart materials, "˜intelligent surfaces,' that will react to water in a predefined way."
I remember some work on how water boiling could be suppressed by polishing surfaces where bubbles form (watch a pot of water boiling, the bubbles appear on the pan surfaces). I presume this may be a related effect.
Tags: bubbles, ice, spain, temperature
Category: Science | 5 Comments
"Green Jobs" Are Starting To Sound a Lot Like Those Jobs At The Museum of Science and Trucking on the Sopranos
Via Christopher Horner:
Spain's Dr. Gabriel Calzada "” the author of a damning study concluding that Spain's "green jobs" energy program has been a catastrophic economic failure "” was mailed a dismantled bomb on Tuesday by solar energy company Thermotechnic.
Says Calzada:
Before opening it, I called [Thermotechnic] to know what was inside "¦ they answered, it was their answer to my energy pieces.
Dr. Calzada contacted a terrorism expert to handle the package. The expert first performed a scan of the package, then opened it in front of a journalist, Dr. Calzada, and a private security expert.
The terrorism consultant said he had seen this before:
This time you receive unconnected pieces. Next time it can explode in your hands.
Dr. Calzada added:
[The terrorism expert] told me that this was a warning.
The bomb threat is just the latest intimidation Dr. Calzada has faced since releasing his report and following up with articles in Expansion (a Spanish paper similar to the Financial Times). A minister from Spain's Socialist government called the rector of King Juan Carlos University "” Dr. Calzada's employer "” seeking Calzada's ouster. Calzada was not fired, but he was stripped of half of his classes at the university. The school then dropped its accreditation of a summer university program with which Calzada's think tank "” Instituto Juan de Mariana "” was associated.
Additionally, the head of Spain's renewable energy association and the head of its communist trade union wrote opinion pieces in top Spanish newspapers accusing Calzada of being "unpatriotic" "” they did not charge him with being incorrect, but of undermining Spain by daring to write the report.
Tags: Financial Times, Gabriel Calzada, green jobs, Instituto Juan, Says Calzada, Science, security, solar, spain, Via Christopher Horner
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Green Rent Seeking
I am a little late on this but want to link it none-the-less:
As predicted was inevitable, today the Spanish newspaper La Gaceta runs with a full-page article fessing up to the truth about Spain's "green jobs" boondoggle, which happens to be the one naively cited by President Obama no less than eight times as his model for the United States. It is now out there as a bust, a costly disaster that has come undone in Spain to the point that even the Socialists admit it, with the media now in full pursuit....
La Gaceta boldly exposes the failure of the Spanish renewable policy and how Obama has been following it. The headline screams: "Spain admits that the green economy as sold to Obama is a disaster."
This is a failure of every single number ever published by supporters of government stimulus programs. They always fail to acknowledge that the money for these programs came from somewhere. It was being employed by someone to buy something or to invest in something or to pay someone's wages. Every private company in the world seems to understand this concept of opportunity cost, so it is amazing that it is so hard to grasp in the media which breathlessly reports every BS number Obama has spit out.
Tags: economy, green jobs, La Gaceta, media, President Obama, spain, stimulus, United States
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Window Repair Jobs
Tyler Cowen links to a good article that gets at the fallacy that suddenly obsoleting our energy infrastructure and having to rebuild it will be of net economic benefit.
Optimistically treating European Commission partially funded data, we find that for every renewable energy job that the State manages to finance, Spain's experience cited by President Obama as a model reveals with high confidence, by two different methods, that the U.S. should expect a loss of at least 2.2 jobs on average, or about 9 jobs lost for every 4 created, to which we have to add those jobs that non-subsidized investments with the same resources would have created
Includes 1 million euros in government subsidies per wind job created.
In my mind, the green jobs mantra is a result of the CO2 abatement case becoming fatally weak, with supporters of legislation casting about for other justificaitons. From the very beginning, many of the most passionate folks are on the AGW bandwagon not because they really understand the science, but because the theory provided justification for a range of government actions (reduced growth, limited technology, reduced energy use, reduction in global trade -- even vegetarianism) that they supported long before AGW made the news.
Update: A quick note on a theme I harp on a lot - nameplate capacity for wind and solar is really, really misleading. In Spain in the study cited, wind operates at 19% of nameplate over the course of a year and solar operates at 8% (figure 3). The actual CO2 reduction is even worse, because, particularly for wind, fossil-fuel fired turbines have to be spinning on hot backup for when wind suddenly dies. Germany, the largest wind user in the word, found only 1,000MW of reduced fossil fuel plant needs from every 24,000 MW of wind capacity.
Tags: agw, European Commission, fuel, green jobs, investments, MW, solar, spain, trade, wind
Category: Energy | 15 Comments
Absolutely Inevitable
If you move solar panels out of the Arizona desert, they are going to produce less electricity. You almost don't have to tell me where they are going -- if they are currently close to the optimal spot for maximum solar energy production, then moving them is bound to reduce their output.
Seems obvious, huh? So why is it so difficult to understand that when the government moves capital and other resources away from the industries where the forces of market optimization have put it, output is going to go down.
Subsidizing renewable energy in the U.S. may destroy two jobs for every one created if Spain's experience with windmills and solar farms is any guide.
For every new position that depends on energy price supports, at least 2.2 jobs in other industries will disappear, according to a study from King Juan Carlos University in Madrid.
U.S. President Barack Obama's 2010 budget proposal contains about $20 billion in tax incentives for clean-energy programs. In Spain, where wind turbines provided 11 percent of power demand last year, generators earn rates as much as 11 times more for renewable energy compared with burning fossil fuels.
The premiums paid for solar, biomass, wave and wind power - - which are charged to consumers in their bills -- translated into a $774,000 cost for each Spanish "green job" created since 2000, said Gabriel Calzada, an economics professor at the university and author of the report.
"The loss of jobs could be greater if you account for the amount of lost industry that moves out of the country due to higher energy prices," he said in an interview.
We all know from reading the media that the Obama administration is 1) full of brilliant people way smarter than the rest of us and 2) driven by science. So this insightful exchange between a reporter and White House spokesman Robert GIbbs vis a vis this Spanish study should come as no surprise:
Q: Back on the President's speech today, a Spanish professor, Gabriel [Calzada] Ãlvarez, says after conducting a study, that in his country, creating green jobs has actually cost more jobs than it has led to: 2.2 jobs lost, he says, for every job created. And he has issued a report that specifically warns the President not to try and follow Spain's example.
MR. GIBBS: It seems weird that we're importing wind turbine parts from Spain in order to build "” to meet renewable energy demand here if that were even remotely the case.
Q Is that a suggestion that his study is simply flat wrong?
MR. GIBBS: I haven't read the study, but I think, yes.
Q Well, then. (Laughter.)
In two sentences, Mr. Gibbs demonstrates that 1) He is an idiot and 2) He has no respect for science. The correct, intelligent response would be "I can't comment, I have not read the study yet." Mr. Gibbs does deserve credit for being an apparent master of the non-sequitur. I have been trying to think of an eqivilent formulation. The best I can come up with is to suppose someone said that "publicly funded sports stadiums generate no new economic activity and are just a taxpayer subsidy of sports owners, players, and ticket holders" and getting the response that "how can this be when people still go to the games?"
I was afraid that all this braininess in the White House was going to eliminate the humor from Administration pronouncements but I see that won't be the case.
Tags: green jobs, solar, spain, Subsidies, wind
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I think regular readers know that I am not one to see Islamic terrorists hiding under every rock. In fact, I am not sure I have written a single post on the current state of Islam or ties to terrorism. I don't see the world primarily in terms of some great culture war with Islam. Certainly a number of fundamentalist Islamic states suck in terms of human rights, and some of that is probably due to ties with Islam, but many other states suck nearly as much without any Muslim help.
That being said, I must say as someone interested in history that this argument from Dr. Mahmoud Mustafa Ayoub of Berkeley, as reported from the Canadian human rights tribunal by Andrew Coyne, strains credulity:
What is jihad? Article equates it with Al Qaeda: fighting,
suicide bombing etc. But word actually means, originally, "to strive,
to do one's best." Koranic sense is that religious struggle we must all
engage in within our souls against evil tendencies. There is also
"social jihad," the obligation to change things that are wrong. This does not mean violence. The Koran is not a book of violence.
The notion of armed struggle, or violent jihad, is
mentioned in the Koran. "Permission has been given to those who have
been wronged only because they say God is our lord that they fight in
self-defence." (Sura 22.) So jihad is not limited to fighting "†it's just one type of jihad,
and should only be done in self-defence. The extremist, violent types
are an anomaly. "They are more a problem for us than for the west."
I have no problem with modern folks interpreting the Koran in this way for themselves. But this is absurd from a historical context. This portrayal of jihad as a sort of peaceful civil rights movement may be how moderate Muslims want to make the Koran relevant to their modern life, but it is outrageous in the historic context of if the 7th century. People of all faiths in this era didn't have sit-ins to correct social wrongs -- they gathered up their friends and some swords and went out to try to chop up the folks who did them wrong. Muhammad was a brilliant military leader, uniting disparate Arab tribes out of nowhere to carve out a huge part of the western world as their empire. His (and his successors') achievement is roughly equivalent to an unknown set of tribes suddenly bursting out of the Amazon and taking over modern North America.
The concept of jihad as originally applied in the 7th and 8th centuries was bloody and militaristic -- and effective. So much so that the Catholics copied many of the key parts for their crusades. The 7th century was a totally different world in its outlook and assumptions. Here is one example: We have heard many times of the slave revolts in Rome, and most of us have seen Spartacus. But not a single person in the 1000 years of the Roman empire, slave or not, is recorded to have ever advocated the elimination of slavery. They may have wanted to be free themselves, or treated better, but everyone accepted the institution of slavery even while trying not to be a slave themselves. We, with our 19th century anti-slavery movement, see the slave revolts of Rome as something they simply were not. I believe a similar revisionism is at work here on jihad.
All that being said, I have no opinion on whether or not the militaristic concept of jihad animates any substantial number of modern Muslims or not. I simply am not well enough informed, and currently find it hard to find any text discussing this issue that is trustworthy on either side.
Postscript: It is true that the Muslims showed special respect in their lands to Jews and Christians - in part for religious reasons and in part for practical reasons related to special taxes. The Spain of three religions under Muslim rule was certainly more dynamic and tolerant than the counter-reformation Catholic Spain. But this fact does not obviate the militaristic origins of jihad. Islam respected Christians and Jews .... in the lands where the Muslims had taken over and ruled. Where Muslims did not yet rule but wanted to, all bets were off.
Tags: Al Qaeda, Andrew Coyne, Catholic Spain, civil rights, Postscript It, reformation, Rome, spain
The Most Fanciful Thing I Have Read Today
Conservatives were all over Keith Ellison for his comments about 9/11. While I think that many of the arguments by 9/11 "truthers" are scientifically bankrupt, I kind of respect the general lack of trust and respect for the government that their skepticism stems from. And as to Ellison's comments about impeaching the vice-president, I can't imagine anything I would enjoy more than watching Congress tie itself up for months impeaching a largely irrelevant office holder.
However, I thought this was pretty fanciful:
You'll always find this Muslim standing up for your right to be atheists
all you want," Ellison, the first Muslim to serve in Congress, said in a speech to more than 100 atheists at the Southdale Library in Edina. . . .
Does anyone really think that if they showed up at the Tehran airport tomorrow proclaiming that "I'm an atheist - let's be pals" that they would be treated with respect? If I made up a list of countries not to visit as an atheist, 15th Century Spain would be first, but my guess is that several modern Islamic countries would crack the top 10.
Tags: Century Spain, Keith Ellison, spain
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Parochialism from the NY Times
I was reading the NY Times' International Herald Tribune today here in Paris, and saw something funny at the end of an article about the crazy process underway to select the 2012 Olympic venue. By the way, this is the big issue in Paris right now - you can't walk anywhere without finding yourself in the middle of some sort of Paris promotional event, presumably being simulcast back to the selection committee in Singapore.
Anyway, the IHT had this funny line:
The last days of the race drew the president of France, the prime minister of Russia and the queen of Spain here. New York City pulled Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton away from a busy schedule to lend her star power.
Uhh, you mean the president of France and the prime minister of Russia don't have busy schedules? And wouldn't a more correct formulation be "while other cities were represented by their head of state, NY City could only muster a junior member of Congress"? I hope any city but New York wins, because, given past history, NYC will likely get themselves into some financial hole hosting the Olympics that the rest of the country will have to bail them out of.
By the way, apparently in a bid to head off past corruption, the International Olympic Committee has banned its members from actually visiting host cities and their facilities ahead of the selection. This seems kind of extreme - you have to pick between cities but you can't learn anything useful about them. Its depressing that the members of the Olympic committee are so untrustworthy that the only way to prevent them from collecting bribes from potential host countries is to not allow them anywhere near the country.
Tags: france, IHT, International Olympic Committee, new york, NY, NY Times, NYC, Paris, Russia, spain
Category: Media and the Press | 5 Comments
Bailing out Euro Disney
This, from Marginal Revolution, is kind of funny for its irony value:
For years, France has fought what is sees as an American cultural invasion, powered by Hollywood movies, U.S. pop music and giant brands like Coca-Cola. Now, it is going to great lengths to save an American cultural icon in its backyard: Disneyland
The French government has just finished helping Walt Disney Co. bail out Euro Disney SCA, the operator of two Disney theme parks outside Paris. A state-owned bank is contributing around $500 million in investments and local concessions to save Euro Disney from bankruptcy. This comes after 17 years during which French leaders have spent hundreds of millions of dollars and countless hours to ensure that the land of Money [ed: Monet?] could keep Mickey Mouse. Still saddled with debt, Euro Disney is gambling that expensive new attractions and an improved tourism climate will deliver a turnaround.
I am not sure the Euro Disney site will ever work. The main problem is that it was put in the wrong place. The plurality of European tourists go to Spain for vacation - Spain is the Florida/California of Europe, with its warm weather and nice beaches. Putting a theme park in northern France may seem geographically logical, on the transportation nexus between England, France, and Germany, but it makes no sense for tourism -- its in a great place for a distribution warehouse, but no one wants to take their vacation there.
The equivalent would be putting a Disney theme park in Chicago. Chicago is a wonderful town and sits astride the #1 transportation hub in the US, but few people want to go there on their vacations, at least not for about 9 months of the year (by the way, due to ocean currents the situation is not that comparable, but note that Euro Disney is actually NORTH of Chicago!)
Tags: Coca Cola, Euro Disney, france, Marginal Revolution, Mickey Mouse, NORTH, SCA, spain, Walt Disney, Walt Disney Co
Giving Thanks For the Lack of Gold and Silver
Hey, what does a good capitalist have against gold and silver? Nothing, per se, but I have been reading John Steele Gordon's An Empire of Wealth and it got me to thinking how important for the eventual success of the US it was the English and the Dutch, rather than the French and the Spanish, colonized most of the eastern US.
Very few countries colonized by Spain have been able to recover from the experience, even hundreds of years later. When people decry imperialism, they should be thinking first of the old Spanish empire. Their colonization was nearly entirely extractive - focused on pulling out gold and silver and some tropical agricultural products. There was no thought of developing a colony that might grow in value over time through investment and entrepreneurship. Perhaps worse, Spanish and French imperialism were entirely micro-managed top-down by the state, leaving a legacy of bad statist economics in the countries they colonized. My previous post, though it focused on France rather than Spain, shows through statistics the legacy of poverty and bad government that this approach left behind.
So, how does silver and gold come into play? Well, the US eastern seaboard is singularly devoid of precious metal ore deposits, which kept Spanish attention to the south, seeking more lucrative immediate spoils in Mexico and South America. The lack of abundant fur animals like beaver kept the French to the north. As a result, the US was left to be colonized by the Dutch and the English. Unlike the Spanish and the French, most of this colonization was not military or state-run. Most of the major colonization pushes were actually for-profit private enterprises. Though these early colonies would have loved to find gold and silver, lacking this they had to find ways to develop the land and the New World to make returns for their investors.
Tags: france, mexico, New World, spain, US
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CCPA | Data Privacy | GDPR
Modern Business & the Role of the Data Protection Officer
With recent data breaches, scandals, and trends in big data, Data Protection Officers are proving essential for companies.
Kyle Schryver | July 13, 2018
Why the DPO
With recent data breaches, scandals, and trends in big data, Data Protection Officers are proving essential for companies who process or control user data. Under the recently enacted GDPR, companies must follow stringent guidelines for data privacy and are required to provide customers access to their data.
The GDPR became effective May 25 — and only weeks after — new governing bodies are approving similar data regulation, including California and it’s Consumer Privacy Act. The state recently passed a privacy bill to grant residents enhanced data privacy rights.
Data Protection Officers present an opportunity for companies to operate within new regulations, maintain a healthy relationship with user data and regulatory bodies, and work through subject access requests. DPOs also provide transparency to the public as an appointed executive in charge of all things privacy.
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Growth in Data Protection Hiring
Since the EU announced that GDPR would be coming into effect in 2018, companies have been scrambling to reorganize their privacy efforts and comply. As far back as two years ago, a trend started with the hiring of DPOs. One estimate last year suggested that the GDPR would generate demand for 28,000 DPOs in Europe and America, and 75,000 worldwide.
Now more than ever, companies that control or process data need a Data Protection Officer.
These experts — with a background in law, privacy, and technology — support a company’s compliance with regulation, ensuring that all departments are run in accordance. Since GDPR came into effect on May 25th, many companies have faced lawsuits and an abundance of Subject Access Requests.
“On the first day of GDPR enforcement, Facebook and Google have been hit with a raft of lawsuits accusing the companies of coercing users into sharing personal data. The lawsuits, which seek to fine Facebook 3.9 billion and Google 3.7 billion euro (roughly $8.8 billion in dollars), were filed by Austrian privacy activist Max Schrems, a longtime critic of the companies’ data collection practices.” — Russell Brandom on The Verge
The Role of a Data Protection Officer
Data Protection Officers own all security efforts, manage data protection, and evaluate privacy risk. Privacy has become a hot topic, and firms are looking to integrate privacy, security, and protection with regard to data into their systems. With experience working in legal or regulatory fields, Data Protection Officers are capable of advising executives on compliance guidelines and risk associated with data. Further, Data Protection Officers act as a point of contact with both the regulatory agencies and data subjects. This allows companies to maintain a relationship with the governing body and its customers to ensure both parties are satisfied.
Further, DPOs can run educational training programs for company teams. By informing employees of how their work pertains directly to regulation, DPOs ensure that every employee has their data secure and in compliance.
DPOs can assist controllers or processors in all issues relating to the protection of personal data; they help companies by:
Informing and advising the executives and employees of a company on managing data collection and processing;
Monitoring the organization’s compliance with all legislation in relation to data protection by providing internal audits and raising awareness to departments as to how their role pertains to the data;
Acting as a contact point for requests from individuals regarding the processing of their personal data and the exercise of their rights;
Cooperating with Data Privacy Authorities and acting as a contact point for DPAs on issues relating to processing.
Consumers, companies, and regulators alike are becoming increasingly aware of the potentially problematic methods of handling data. A driving factor of this increased awareness is the media spotlighting massive breaches and scandals occurring for large corporations, informing users of the risks of sharing their information. In the EU, the regulatory body responded with GDPR to protect its residents, which led to significant changes in data processing worldwide.
Most recently, California created a bill to take effect in 2020 — which will produce a similar impact on the processing of data and by granting additional rights to data subjects in the state. As users become more aware of the methods of processing data, companies will be further pressured to comply with data privacy policies. Data Protection Officers provide confidence and transparency in the new Age of Privacy.
About the Author: Kyle runs content marketing by leading the creation of blog posts, newsletters, and social posts, and assists with webinars, events, and digital marketing. Kyle attends Santa Clara University and is pursuing a degree in Management Information Systems, inspired by his interest for technology in business.
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3 Mindanaoans are top House spenders
by davaobreakingnews2 January 23, 2019
Three lawmakers from Mindanao, two from Davao Region and one from North Cotabato, are the biggest spenders of government coffers in 2017.
The Commission on Audit identified former House Speaker Pantaleon Alvarez as number one in the list of spenders in the House of Representatives for 2017.
Based on the COA’s itemized list of amounts paid to and expenses incurred by lawmakers, Alvarez spent ₱43.7 million on his second year as speaker, ₱30.4 million of which went to office consultants.
Pwersa ng Bayaning Atleta Party-list Representative Jericho Nograles followed Alvarez in the list with a total of ₱23.4 million expenses that year.
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This was revealed in a memorandum by Director II Evelyn de Jesus, of the Human Resource Management Service of the House of Representatives to the director of accounting services.
The memorandum, dated July 30, 2018, was for a request to delete a list of 42 contractual employees assigned at the office of the Speaker effective August 2018.
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The list of contractual employees were included on the payroll beginning on July 16.
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A summer of policy reports gets underway...
A Conservative source tells the Daily Mail's James Chapman that the Tories are planning "a genuine radical ideas blitz" over the summer months to prove that there is real substance to the Cameron project and to provide a contrast with Gordon Brown.
The Mail highlights the recommendations of Ken Clarke's democracy taskforce (highlighted in the graphic on the right) which promise to win back the public's faith in politics and restore the standing of parliament - reduced to "poodle status" under Tony Blair.
The Mail believes that David Cameron will embrace the former Chancellor's proposals.
It is not clear if Mr Clarke will make any recommendations on state funding of political parties. Extra state funding of politics is very unpopular with grassroots Conservatives and many MPs. Ken Clarke's 2005 campaign manager, Andrew Tyrie, was the architect of David Cameron's plans for state funding.
The next three months will see all of the major policy groups report. Key tensions to look out for:
Tensions between the quality of life and international development policy groups. John Gummer's quality of life group want to reduce the environmental impact of food being flown around the world whilst Peter Lilley's international development group is more minded to open up our markets to third world farmers.
Iain Duncan Smith's social justice policy group making recommendations on family and drugs that could potentially alarm the party's social liberals.
An emphasis on the importance of lower taxation within John Redwood's economic competitiveness report.
June 04, 2007 at 08:57 in Constitution and democracy, Policy Groups | Permalink
the Tories are planning "a genuine radical ideas blitz"
Really? After two and a half years of inaction under Cameron the mountain brings forth...Ken Clarke.
I suppose this non-story is supposed to shut down Grammargate.
BTW, whatever did happen to 'Sir' Bob Geldof and whatever it was that he was supposed to be going to do to make the party look 'cool'?
Posted by: Traditional Tory | June 04, 2007 at 09:02
At least they are trying TT. Making the Office for National Statistics independent looks interesting.
Posted by: Henry Mayhew | June 04, 2007 at 09:10
These are all sensible policy suggestions from Ken Clarke. Very welcome.
Posted by: Alan S | June 04, 2007 at 09:13
All those mesaures seem sensible. I only hope they bite the bullet and slash the number of MPs, to the extent that they can all fit on the green benches.
Posted by: CDM | June 04, 2007 at 09:20
Does anyone still work there now it's off to Newport ?
Posted by: TomTom | June 04, 2007 at 09:23
Posted by: Edward | June 04, 2007 at 09:27
They're all good suggestions, and especially the curtailment of the right of Scottish MPs to vote on English matters. But if we are to reduce the number of MPs, presumably each will then serve a wider area. I would be interested to see the proposals for dealing with casework if that happens - would the MP/constituency link be strained?
Posted by: Tory T | June 04, 2007 at 09:30
Agree with all apart from cut in MPs.
Can see no reason for this other than Clarke feels the public don't like politicans and there should be less of them purely for that reason.
Becomes very hard to represent a constituency properly/campaign in it properly if it gets above 100,000 electors - besides, who will choose which areas lose representation? How will we maintain a diversity of talent in the HoC?
Not a good move.
Posted by: Peter Hatchet | June 04, 2007 at 09:31
two and a half years of inaction under Cameron
I don't agree that there has been inaction under Cameron. In any case, he has only been leader for 18 months.
As for Bob Geldof, he wasn't supposed to be doing anything to make the party look cool. He is part of the group led by Peter Lilley looking at international development.
Posted by: Peter Harrison | June 04, 2007 at 09:45
All nice sensible suggestions, but hardly the stuff to fire the imaginations of those voters we need to pick up to make a majority.
It's radical initiatives and alternatives on health, education, defence, security, and taxation that we need to be bringing forward. I feel sure that the electorate (when the time comes) will not be looking for a "more of the same" rebranded extension to Blairism, and will expect the Conservative Party to be well armed with good policies and ready to form a government.
Posted by: Curly | June 04, 2007 at 09:48
At last something I can wholeheartedly agree with . The cut in MPs is a good thing in my opinion. We must do something to restore a modicum of pride in our political process.All the other points seem sensible.
Does state funding come under the area of responsibility of this policy group? If it does then I hope Clarke and his team will do the decent and sensible thing and reject it outright.
I usually can't be bothered to respond to your posts these days 'Traditional Tory' but if you could add you might realise that Cameron has led our party for a little over 18 months not two and a half years. 18 months we were still behind in the polls and now we lead consistently even after the miserable fortnight the party has endured.
Posted by: malcolm | June 04, 2007 at 09:54
On the proposals, I'm broadly in favour of these.
To some extent I share Peter Hatchet's concern on cutting MPs. However, if we are serious about localism, it seems an obvious consequence - the fewer decisions are made nationally, the fewer politicians you need to do it. As for choosing which areas "lose" representation, that would be down to the Boundaries Commission.
A legal right for the Cabinet to be consulted may not be easy to enforce in practise but it sends the right message.
A code of conduct to limit political spin sounds like a good idea but may be difficult to define. At what point do you draw the line between promoting government policy (legitimate) and political spin (not legitimate). There is often no agreement as to what constitutes "the facts". However, if a clear line is possible, this is a good move.
The rest all seem sensible, particularly making ONS independent.
Could somebody explain how decreasing the number of representatives is good for democracy?
Posted by: Ash Faulkner | June 04, 2007 at 09:56
Very promising. Who heads up the education policy group and when are its interim recommendations due?
Posted by: David Belchamber | June 04, 2007 at 09:56
What's so special about 100,000? India seems to get by reasonably enough, and some of their constituencies contain more than a million voters.
Larger constituences would also lessen the incentive for MPs to spend all their time obsessing over local issues, rather than debating national issues at Westminster.
I can't see MP's backing a cut in their number. Turkeys voting for christmas and all that. That is unless of course, the cut comes from Scottish and inner city MP's, in which case we will benefit.
No mention of the EU I notice!
Posted by: Andrew Woodman | June 04, 2007 at 09:58
"Could somebody explain how decreasing the number of representatives is good for democracy?" Of course it isn't, but then Kenneth Clarke isn't a democrat.
"I look forward to the day when the Westminster Parliament is just a Council Chamber in Europe".
Kenneth Clarke, from International Currency Review. Vol.23 Autumn 1996.
Posted by: Denis Cooper | June 04, 2007 at 10:10
Largely sensible, although I share the concerns already articulated on this thread about reducing the number of MPs.
Posted by: Cllr Iain Lindley | June 04, 2007 at 10:13
Why the concern about cutting MPs? Most are nothing more than voting lobby fodder, whose constituents wouldn't know them from Adam (or Eve).
if you could add you might realise that Cameron has led our party for a little over 18 months not two and a half years
Quite right. It just seems like two and a half years.
now we lead consistently even after the miserable fortnight the party has endured.
Not for much longer I suspect.
I see 'Cllr' Lindley is back. Nice name that. Did the vicar stub his toe on the font when he baptised him.
Looks like the warm weather is bringing the 'Roon Brigade back in force
I can't wait. How thrilling to have the latest pc rubbish, and modish garbage from Dave and his super-fit 'right-on' team. Pass the sick bag, Alice.
Posted by: richard | June 04, 2007 at 10:27
" see 'Cllr' Lindley is back. Nice name that. Did the vicar stub his toe on the font when he baptised him"
Ed, do we really have to endure all these personal attacks from a ukip voter?
What does that add to the debate?
Since 33% MPs are in the Government explain how it is serving their constituents to have them signed up to the Administration ?
Maybe capping the number of Junior Ministers might be an idea - lots of these jobs could be done better by Civil Servants in a less political manner
WE have too much government - too many ministers - too many MPs. Lots of things could be done by Local Government using bye-laws. Yesterday The Politics Show revealed that dogs cannot be controlled without Primary Legislation.......when a normal country would simply pass an Omnibus Bill delegating whole areas of such trivial legislation to Local Authorities for Byelaws and Referendum
modish garbage from Dave and his super-fit 'right-on' team
Yes. Arch-Eurofanatic Clark wheezing in a cloud of poisonous smoke with his beer belly overhanging his belt seems almost human in comparison.
The 'suggestions' listed above certainly won't set the Thames on fire. Back to Grammargate!
"Why the concern about cutting MPs? Most are nothing more than voting lobby fodder, whose constituents wouldn't know them from Adam (or Eve)."
Is it a good thing, or a bad thing, that most of their constituents don't know them from Adam (or Eve)?
If it's a bad thing, do we want to make that worse?
And why hasn't Clarke addressed the problem of the iniquitous whip system, which reduces MPs to lobby fodder?
I agree with TomTom that "WE have too much government - too many ministers" but not that we have too many MPs - we should have less government, needing fewer ministers, and those MPs who are not ministers should be holding the ministers to account on behalf of their constituents and the country as a whole.
If we keep expanding the number of government (and official opposition) posts, and also cut the total number of MPs, we'll end up with no backbenchers, and therefore no free spirits, in the Commons at all. Of course some people would welcome that, but it would hardly be good for democracy.
I don't support UKIP Tory T, so I guess that counts as a personal insult. I am fortunate in having a Conservative MP who is anti-EU and (as far as I can make out) not particularly pro-Cameron.
The 'serious' point I am making is that I (and others) find the flaunting of petty titles such as 'councillor' extremely irritating.
If I ever post under my own name - I'll do that the day after Cameron resigns - I must remember to list my several qualifications in order to impress - nay gobsmack - the readership.
Tory T. I don't like Traditional Torys posts anymore than you do. However you do yourself no favours by continually misrepresenting those who don't subscribe to your point of view. There are several people who write very negatively about the party but claim to support it.Traditional Tory is one of those. He has been equally insulting about UKIP.
I've had enough of Traditional Tory, too. One more nasty, personal comment and I'll delete all further posts that he makes.
Posted by: Editor | June 04, 2007 at 10:58
TomTom, 10:28:
"Since 33% MPs are in the Government explain how it is serving their constituents to have them signed up to the Administration ?"
Arguably it isn't, though that seems a case for a presidential system.
I agree the obvious answer is major decentralisation...though if that's happening, it needs to happen after we cut down MPs, not before.
Please behave yourself Traditional Tory - don't get thrown out. I think you have been most amusing and clever in part today. I even liked the stubbed toe comment, which I thought was reasonable.
You are a decent, hard-working pirate who will need somewhere to take your parrot 'Chip' for a walk. It must be getting knackered going out 20 times a day though.
*I mean before we cut down MPs, not after. Silly me :P
Cutting the number of MPs really isn't a good idea, as many have said above. It will put tremendous strain on the constituency link, and some constituencies are already far too big. We need a proper unbiased boundary review, which focuses on levelling out the population of constituencies, not "maintaining traditional links".
Curtailment of Scottish MP voting powers must be EVOEL, no more no less. I was shocked to read that some people think that just cutting the number of Scottish MPs is the answer... it isn't, it simply makes it less prominent, whilst disenfranchising Scottish voters on UK wide issues. No Scottish (or Welsh for that matter if we make the Assembly more powerful) MP should be ever be able to vote on a law which will not affect their constituents.
I share the editors concerns regarding more state funding for political parties, but the rest of the list sounds fine.
Posted by: Chris | June 04, 2007 at 11:14
Thank you Henry.
I am about to take my parrot for a very long walk.
There's shopping to be done.
"John Gummer's quality of life group want to reduce the environmental impact of food being flown around the world"
How do they intend to do this without hitting consumers in the wallet?
Very promising proposals from Ken Clarke. Radical enough to be more than just window-dressing but not too radical that they fundamentally change our constitution. I know this issue won't win or lose elections, but it does help to allay the still-persistent image that the Conservative Party is old-fashioned and out-of-touch. Good work.
Posted by: Edward Taylor | June 04, 2007 at 11:38
Wot...no airsick Maine lobster ? I always enjoy those meals when BBC types put food on the table and a full wine list
Correct, Chris - as far as may be practicable, a British citizen in Scotland and a British citizen in England should have exactly the same level of representation in the British Parliament when it deals with matters reserved to that Parliament. It's only for matters which have been devolved to the Scottish Parliament for Scotland that the British citizen in Scotland shouldn't be allowed any say on the decisions which affect England. The cleanest way to achieve that would be to remove those England-only decisions from the British Parliament to an English Parliament with the same powers as the Scottish Parliament, preferably located outside London somewhere closer to the geographical centre of England. That would also put a stop to the continuing attempts by europhiles to persuade the English that they really want "Parliaments", plural, aka EU Regional Assemblies.
Not only is Clarke anti British , he is also is deeply anti English .
No mention of the gigantic democratic deficit which the English have to endure in the British state ie no parliament , no specific representation , no executive , no first minister , no budget and no English Office while at the same time having the British system rigged agianst us via the Barnett Rules ( which he conspires with Labour to keep quiet about )
He tries the usual ruse - which works with some Tories - of blabbing on about preventing Scottish MP's voting on matters which affect their own constituencies . This is just fiddling around with the British parliament ( highly divisively by the way ) and anyway , because of the Barnett Rules ALL English legislation affects Scottish consytituencies .
He does not mention tha MP's for Wales and Ulster could still vote on English matters . Why not?
It goes without saying that the number of Scottish MP's in the British parliament should go back to 45 just as the Act of Union Article 22 .
If we do the obvious , democratic and logical thing there will be an English parliament for England along the same lines as that of Scotland . Not a part time British one . In the federal British state that will result the number of MP's in the British patish parliament could then be reduced - would be a popular measure in England .
Posted by: Jake | June 04, 2007 at 11:57
The policies we really need and not from Ken Clarke , are on Europe and how we are going to get out of the EU.
Cameron made promises on this and let us all down. Now he's U-turned on Grammar Schools its time to put the pressure on. He's obviously too weak to withstand ant real pressure.
Dump Ken Clarke and the leftists. We need real Conservatives chairing committees on how to deal with the EU and immigration - the things really care about.
Posted by: John Irvine | June 04, 2007 at 12:04
"Very promising proposals from Ken Clarke".
God help us. This is supposedly a "democracy" task force, yet of the proposals mooted so far the one which most directly impacts on the "demos" is to cut the number of their elected representatives. Still, this is only a leak, and maybe the full document will have other proposals, for example that the "demos" should be able to requisition referenda, or to recall their representatives, or perhaps that it should be a criminal offence for anybody to apply undue pressure on an elected representative in an attempt to change the way he will vote - with only his own constituents being largely (but not entirely) exempted from that law.
Good on Ken - proves he still has a massive contrubution to make the both the Conservative Party and to Politics generally.
Posted by: Justin Hinchcliffe | June 04, 2007 at 12:15
If Councils are going to have proper powers, and do more without central supervision, that will be a good thing. Maybe people will start voting in local elections if they think it will make a difference.
When that happens we don't need so many MPs. MPs shouldn't be social workers anyway. Much of their 'constituency work' consists of trying to 'lean' on local authorities anyway; it should be the Councillors who are responsible.
If we're to have Conservative policies of localism, then we could do with about half the number of MPs.
Posted by: clive elliot | June 04, 2007 at 13:18
Yes it is strange that a Democracy Taskforce does not have anything to say about the involvement of the EU and courts of justice and human rights in our democracy. I thought 50% of legislation originates in Brussels. Perhaps it is not relevant.
I do not support cutting the number of MPs either as too large an electorate cuts the constituency link and makes PR easier to justify.
I am also concerned about the specific mention of Scottish MPs being unable to vote on English matters, EVfEL requires the same restrictions on Welsh and NI MPs too. I would prefer a federal parliament, as I have posted before, which is a cleaner solution and makes the transition less threatening to the Scots. At the least, Clarke is missing a trick in not arguing for a full parliament (rather than an Assembly) for the Welsh which should be worth a few extra votes in Wales.
Posted by: Jonathan | June 04, 2007 at 13:27
@Henry Mayhew
It is not that EU law is not relevant it is that, left to the FCO and the current political elite, nothing can be done about it.
"If we're to have Conservative policies of localism, then we could do with about half the number of MPs."
And if a subsequent government reversed those Conservative policies of localism, would it also restore the number of MPs to compensate for that? I think not.
This has nothing to do with "localism", it's to do with having fewer people with their hands anywhere near the levers of power, who would be more disconnected from the common herd, and who could be more easily (and cheaply) kept in line.
In other words, it's mainly about strengthening oligarchy, not democracy.
They did in Northern Ireland - Heath increased representation at Westminster after imposing Direct Rule and sidelining Stormont
Jonathan, can't you say that the Leader's way: 'It's delusional to think debating the EU's involvement in our democracy is practical politics. We need to stop splashing around in the shallow end of the debate, trying to bring back about a mythical time when we were a sovereign democracy.' :)
I agree with those who don't like the idea of a reduction in MPs but that aside I think this is a decent list of proposals.
Regarding radicalism on health and education, just how much will the electorate let us get away with? The European health model has cash issues and the American system is demonised for being ruthlessly free-market (even though it's heavily subsidised and regulated). How viable is the far-eastern model? Or is there a workable model we could produce that hasn't been tried elsewhere?
As I recall, Heath also argued that the total number of MPs should be halved.
Henry I like your style!
Eurofanatics like Clarke have no place in our party. Personally I would like to see him kicked out.
Unless Britain comes out of the UK it will cease to exist as a sovereign nation.
The English parliament pre 1707 had about 500 MP's - a figure which I suspect would be acceptable in England for an English parliament .
As for the British parliament
( when we have a proper English one and an effectively federal British state )
- that can concern itself with pan British only affairs - and will need rather few - by about 50% - than the present 620 or so members , ie 300 -250 .
Bound to be massively popular with the elctorate throughout what is still called the United Kingdom
( the Westminster villagers will fight it like mad though ) .
The English parliament pre 1707 had about 500 MPs
Aye but some of them were sons of their fathers in The Lords just waiting to inherit....others were Placemen....it was hardly representative democracy nor a centralised megastate
of course it wasn't a representative democracy a la 21st century you pillock
( though more representative than Scotland at the time )
my point was that , as it was found to be then , the figure of 500 Mp's for an English parliament had emerged as about right
and that , despite the 10 fold rise in population since then ie 5 to 50 million , would probably be deemed to be about right now .
Reduce the number of MP's - what, so they can be even further away from the electorate?
Wouldn't a few more seats be nice, perhaps let's say, representing geographical areas for instance, and evenly spaced with no consideration for demographics and population - you know, more in the countryside and less in the cities - now that would be good wouldn't it...
Posted by: Policy Dog | June 04, 2007 at 16:15
Aah the odious John Irvine makes an unwelcome reappearance. You have not poisoned this blog with your bile for a long time have have you John? Coincidence that the day 'Traditional Tory' goes for a walk with his parrot you crawl out from under your stone?
'Personally I would rather he was kicked out of the party'. You really haven't got a clue have you? Much as I disagree with him about the EU he is still popular with the electorate and probably the best person we have in pricking the Labour bubble. Like it or not without him and people like him the Conservative party is highly unlikely to win an election if we kick him and people like him out of the party.
Apart from the number of MP's suggestion, a few nice ideas with Clarke's paw print on. I wonder how he would have done the Grammar thing...
Posted by: Adam Tugwell | June 04, 2007 at 16:24
Adam Tugwell:a few nice ideas with Clarke's paw print on. I wonder how he would have done the Grammar thing...
More bicycle sheds for crafty cigarette breaks?
Posted by: William Norton | June 04, 2007 at 16:27
I have not disappeared, Malcolm, nor have I reappeared under some other guise, as you seen to be implying.
Is this your response to the Editor's request that we avoid unpleasant personal attacks?
Getting Britain out of the UK would be a neat trick if you can do it!
But none of them are radical, and most of them are not even new, and some
of them may look good on paper but be impossible to achieve in practice.
For example, take:
"A legal right for the Cabinet to be consulted on all major policy decisions".
Does the Cabinet have sufficient legal status, to be granted a legal right?
How would a "major" policy decision would be defined in law?
Even when it is required by law, a "public consultation" is often pretty meaningless, so why should a "Cabinet consultation" be any better?
In the event of a perceived failure to consult properly, how would the Cabinet enforce its "legal right" to be consulted?
And would that action be initiated by the Cabinet collectively, or could a single Cabinet minister who feels that he was not properly consulted launch his own court action against the Prime Minister?
Either you have a Prime Minister who wants to consult the colleagues he has appointed to ministerial positions currently enjoying "Cabinet" status, or you
have a Prime Minister who prefers to disregard the views of his colleagues,
and if it's the latter it's down to those colleagues to decide whether to put up
with it (they usually do) or to insist on being consulted. Asking a judge to tell
him off isn't going to get them anywhere.
A mix of a couple of half-decent ideas, and lots of daft suggestions. On the good-ish side:
- A Civil Service Act preventing political interference
- Independence of the ONS
- A code of conduct on spin in government publications
On the dotty side:
- Requiring Parliament to approve going to war.
- Preventing Scottish MPs voting on matters that don't affect their constituencies (i.e. abolishing the Union).
- A legal right for the Cabinet to be consulted.
Do the bloggers on this site really regard these as "a few nice ideas" or things that are "sensible"?
Posted by: Andrew Lilico | June 04, 2007 at 17:27
Yes Andrew.
Requiring Parliament to approve going to war.
May as well abolish The Privy Council then if we take away The Royal Prerogative - even the USA reserves the right to go to war to the Executive.
Only Germany has to go to the Bundestag because it got such a bad reputation in 1914....it would not have had any effect in 1939 because the Constitution was suspended by its own Article 48 and Article 47 gave Executive Powers to go to War surprisingly to The Executive.
If anyone wants to give such power to Parliament I want Annual Parliaments as the Chartists demanded, with annual elections and the power of Recall to remove MPs by petition
I prefer to have strong enough characters to hold Cabinet to account - Blair was fortunate in having rank opportunits in his Cabinet so they never challenged him - presumably for fear of Rottweiler Gordo chewing the carpet in the corner..........and Thatcher famously had vegetables in her Cabinets
Strong departmental Ministers make Cabinet work - but it is a long time since we had some
You'd prefer to rely on the bent words of a corrupt PM like Blair (or Eden)then Tomtom?
Very sensible.
You'd prefer to rely on the bent words of a corrupt PM like Blair (or Eden)
Eden was a thoroughly decent Tory who was neither 'bent' nor 'corrupt'
I think you should reconsider that statement.
Andrew Lilico: I've no real objections to giving Parliament a veto over any declaration of war. There's an arguable case that under the UN Charter, member states can't declare war on other member states any more. (The UK hasn't fought any wars in the technical sense since 1945: Korea and Iraq I and Iraq II were enforcement actions on behalf of the UN Security Council; the Falklands was a response to an armed attack on British territory to evict an illegal occupier; Suez was allegedly a joint voluntary act to separate combatants, and was probably an illegal act of aggression; Kosovo was allegedly an enforcement action under the NATO Charter.)
Such a new rule would not rule out a state of war which arose because someone else attacked us first, and probably wouldn't extend to a pre-emptive use of the right to resist armed attack under the UN Charter. In other words, it would be a pointless gimmick.
"- Preventing Scottish MPs voting on matters that don't affect their constituencies (i.e. abolishing the Union). "
so , Andrew , bearing in mind that MP's for English constituencies in the British parliament have already had their right to vote on matters affecting the internal affairs of Scotland abolished by the Scotland Act 1998 ,
I understand that you are saying the that The Union is already abolished .
Why the h-ll can't we have an English parliament then ?
TomTom,
According to the US constitution Congress is the only body formally allowed to declare war on behalf of the US, but it has not done so since WW2. US Presidents have often ignored the spirit of the law over the years.
The War Powers Act 1973 gave the US President authority to attack a foreign power (but not declare war!), but has to seek the approval of congress within 90 days of the orders being given.
The UK does have a real separation of powers, and consequently comparing to the royal perogactive to the President's executive powers is not really a fair comparsion.
The highlights look good and the party has inklings of becoming attractive again to this floaty voter. ('Tis a pity that the wholly unnecessary grammar school thingy was allowed, inexplicably, to pre-empt whatever is to come out of another taskforce on the subject of education.)
However, a clear commitment to regain sovereign powers from Europe is still required.
As to Andrew Lilico's concern that preventing Scottish MPs voting on matters that don't affect their constituencies amounts to abolition of the Union, restoration of Union means abolition of devolution (Act of Union specified one parliament and one only for Great Britain. We have reverted to a Union of Crowns)). Otherwise follow through the logic and give us an English Parliament in its historic Westminster home, with a somewhat smaller federal UK parliament located geographically more central.
Restore sovereign powers to UK.
Home rule for England.
Democracy might then start to be meaningful again.
Posted by: Occasional Visitor | June 04, 2007 at 18:13
William Norton,
That's where the flaw in the US constitution lies. No American President declares war, they just invade ignoring the spirit of the law. The Framers didn't intend for Presidents to run off into Vietnam and Korea without consulting congress.
Agree it's pretty pointless positioning rather than anything concrete. Did we Declare War on Iraq? If not when did the UK last actualy make a Declaration of War?
It's not as if any of the conflicts we have entered in last two centuries were unexpected - and if Parliament wasn't supportive the Government would fall pretty quickly.
Posted by: Ted | June 04, 2007 at 18:16
"The rights of Scottish MPs to force through legislation that does not apply in their own constituencies now Scotland has its own Parliament will also be curtailed. "
How would you decide "English only issues", when funding for public services is linked.
Posted by: 601 | June 04, 2007 at 18:19
"A cut in the number of MP's"
= less chance of 'off-message' MP's like Graham Brady or Eric Forth.
It's a clever democracy reducing trick. Politicians are generally unpopular, and talk of cutting their numbers will on the street no doubt be popular, but the reality is more power in fewer hands.
More power in fewer hands is not a recipe for greater authoritarianism, not democracy.
Posted by: Chelloveck | June 04, 2007 at 18:36
More power in fewer hands is a recipe for greater authoritarianism, not democracy.
"Act of Union specified one parliament and one only for Great Britain."
Well, Article III of the Treaty of Union stated:
"That the United Kingdom of Great Britain be Represented by one and the same Parliament, to be stiled the Parliament of Great Britain."
And so it still is, the one and the same Parliament being that at Westminster;
its creature, the Parliament at Holyrood, only represents Scotland, and only for matters which Westminster has devolved to it.
If it had been called an Assembly or a Council this confusion would not have arisen, but as I understand Donald Dewar insisted on the name "Parliament".
How would you decide [ie, presumably, define] "English only issues"?
The same way as "Scottish only issues" are decided now.
If a decision in respect of Scotland would be taken by the Scottish Parliament, then the corresponding decision in respect of England would be taken by the English Parliament.
"How would you decide "English only issues", when funding for public services is linked."
All money raised in Scotland is spent in Scotland. All money raised in England is spent in England.
I prefer to leave Westminster as The English Parliament in the current form as in The Act of Union but.......to have Scottish MPs indirectly elected to Westminster through the Scottish Assembly and given Observer status only. They can speak but not vote.
The Secretary of State for Scotland would also leave Cabinet and in place we would have a Cabinet Post of Intelligence & Security Coordinator & Border Guards/Coast Guard with its own fast patrol boat fleet
er no ,
What you meant was ,
All money raised in Scotland is spent in Scotland .
All money raised in England is spent in ,
well - in Scotland , Wales and Ulster of course
and any left over is also spent in Scotland .
Of course .
What I meant was that is the arrangement we should introduce.
Does anyone really think that David Cameron (or any other potential British Prime Minister for that matter) would support the creation of an English Parliament?
Firstly, with Cameron specifically in mind, an English Parliament would likely have responsibility for his pet sociocentric policies (Environment, Education, Health). Can you see him handing them over to a lower tier of government?
Secondly, I suspect this proposal has been designed to save the Exchequer money. The creation of an English Parliament would cost the Exchequer a large sum.
Thirdly, and most importantly it is one thing for the British Prime Minister to face difficulties from a parliament representing the minority interests (in terms of overall UK population) of Scotland or Wales. It is a completely different situation if they are opposed by a majority supported English Parliament. Could an English Parliament bring down the higher tier of government?
Therefore, there are only four ways forward for the Conservatives.
1) Do nothing
2) Repeal the current devolution legislation
3) Break up the union
4) Fudge it and make it even messier.
Doing nothing would infer the Conservatives don't care about the inequalities that exist.
Doing option two would cause uproar, but it is the real way to save the Union.
Doing option three would cause divisions in the party and in anycase is not really in the interests of this island or its people Furthermore, it does not seems to have much support anywhere.
So I suspect they have chosen option four in the hope that it will quell the growing noise about an English Parliament.
I don't think it will, but it may slow it down long enough for someone to come up with a better plan.
In summary, I think these proposals are more a case of tinkering with the Golf Club Rule Book than addressing the democratic needs of 21st Century Britain. Quite disappointing really.
Posted by: John | June 04, 2007 at 21:19
I'll reconsider nothing Traditional Tory.Eden may have had an honourable career until 1956 but over Suez, he lied to his cabinet, to parliament and to the country.
You might think that decent behaviour ,I do not.
Do you think Dave had anything to do with designing the Olympic logo? As it is both modish and useless there's a fair chance.
Unlink it by abolishing the Barnett formula
There that wasn't difficult was it.
Your mind is closed to possibilities.
Under a federal parliament the four national parliaments could send representatives to the UK parliament based in the House of Lords chamber or in York or Chester or anywhere really. The Prime Minister of England could be the same person as the Prime Minister of the UK or someone else entirely. Given that the only role of the UK PM would be to replace Trident and go on foreign junckets it would'nt matter much who he was. Real political power would rest over the lives of Englishmen with the English PM.
As to the question of cost; a federal parliament would be infinitely cheaper (for England) because we would save
1)the Barnett formula
2)the cost of the House of Lords
3)the cost of the current Celtic MPs
4)the cost of the Scottish Welsh and NI offices
5)the cost of a Labour government for the forseeable future
Against which the costs even of a Palace for the UK parliament in Chester including 12% for Norman Foster would be peanuts in comparison.
Posted by: Opinicus | June 04, 2007 at 23:46
A federal UK would benefit us, but the centralised nature of systems such as the NHS would make the union ever more fragile. You could end up with a Scottish NHS funded by tax, an English NHS by compulsory insurance and the Welsh could abolish state healthcare. 3 very different systems, but all within the same "country".
@Malcolm
Eden's attack on Nasser was an inspired rearguard action which could have have rendered the last half of the 20th century entirely different. It was a brave but unlucky throw of the dice. The villains were Macmillan who put personal ambition ahead of country and the Americans, who behaved like sh*ts, not allies, in pursuit of a deliberate and shortsighted policy to destroy the British Empire for their own immediate commercial gain. If Nasser had lost, the present middle east disasters and Islamic fascism would, very likely, have been nightmares, not reality.
To describe it as "not decent behaviour" is so serious a misunderstanding of the realities of politics at that level, that you must be a source of embarrassment even to your own Sunday School pupils.
England is sick, politically and economically and needs to start taking decisions in our own best interests. If those decisions weaken the Union then that may have to be. I have no doubt that the Union is in the best interests of all its constituent countries still but I personally, am no longer prepared to pay any price to preserve it. I am not prepared to pay anything at all. If the Scots and the Welsh cannot see the value of it too, then it is better we part than that we struggle on with our illusions.
That the NHS should be funded 3 ways within a country is irrelevant and a matter for the local residents. The NHS consists of medical care funded out of taxation, free at the point of use. If it is funded from North Sea Oil in Scotland, share stamp duty in England and a water tax in Wales, so what?
I too have no issue with ending the union, i merely consider it as an argument because many people would consider it unthinkable for the Tory party to support an independent England.
If Nasser had lost, the present middle east disasters and Islamic fascism would, very likely, have been nightmares, not reality.
If Nasser had lost then Anthony Eden would have been seen as a hero and maybe Harold Macmillan would never have been PM, no doubt Harold Wilson would have renounced Britain's share in the Suez Canal though and it would have returned to Egypt anyway, Nasser would have been overthrown, it might have meant a France more strident in international policy for a bit, but in the longer term it probably wouldn't have had much lasting effect, although there was no way to know this at the time.
Posted by: Yet Another Anon | June 05, 2007 at 00:42
If Nasser had lost then Anthony Eden would have been seen as a hero
Nasser couldn't lose - he was tacitly backed by the US and John Foster Dulles who wanted Britain and France out of the Middle East.
These are facts we should recall every time some 51st stater yaps about the 'Anglosphere', 'Special Relationship' etc. etc.
England would be in a much weaker strategic position with an independent sovereign state controlling the northern third of the home island. That is why
the English political elite wanted more than the existing Union of the Crowns,
and insisted on a Union of the Parliaments, in 1707. Not for the economic exploitation of Scotland, but for the security of England.
England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland should each have a devolved Parliament, with the over-arching federal UK Parliament dealing with matters which affect the UK as a whole. That would include defence and foreign affairs, and since we're increasingly governed by international treaty there would be no shortage of work for Westminster MPs. They already have more than they can cope with - so they don't do it, they just ignore it.
New South Wales has its own Parliament, and nobody is worrying about the Commonwealth of Australia falling apart, so why shouldn't the original Wales
also have its own Parliament within a federal United Kingdom?
As for the cost - remember the old saying "penny wise, pound foolish". The
costs involved in not having the United Kingdom would far exceed the costs
of keeping it together with a federal structure, and those costs would have to
be borne indefinitely into the future.
My attention has been drawn to the extremely unpleasant and pesonal comments made against me by the person who calls himself only "Malcolm"
If this anonymous coward is representative in any way of the modern conservative party I would say it has very little future left.
I think his aim is to terrorise off the website anybody who doesnt agree with him
the Constitution of the United States is modelled on the Hanoverian Monarchy of George III as interpreted by Montesquieu who thought England had separation of powers but it only has separation of Shared Powers
The position of The US President is akin to that of an elected George III with his Vice President being akin to the Prince of Wales - like the PoW the Veep is a member of the Senate analogous to the PoW in the House of Lords
It is true that Congress has the power to "declare war" but Teddy Roosevelt proved the Executive Power with The Great White Fleet and delimiting Congressional Power to funding it not to commanding it.
The War Powers Act is a joke which makes US forces contingent allies for 60 days. Noone in his right mind would be an ally of the USA on such a basis, which is why wars are rarely declared nowadays, simply fought
" You could end up with a Scottish NHS funded by tax, an English NHS by compulsory insurance and the Welsh could abolish state healthcare. 3 very different systems, but all within the same "country". "
um , we already have just that .
The British governemnt bangs on endlessly about "the NHS" and the media lap it up but the split along national lines happened in 1998 . The Scottish governemnt ( ie executive , for those who don't want to face reality ) controls the Scottish NHS and makes sure that it is lavished with plenty of money -English money , that is .
The Welsh NHS , now almost as separate as the Scottish NHS is controlled by the Welsh Assembly - ditto with plenty of English money .
Ulster has as separate system too .
Everyone in Scotland and Wales knows this . It is only the politically naive English who don't .
A federal British state will work perfectly well . The English NHS could then consciously carve its own path and not be mentally clutterd with "celtic" health
or the cost .
Surely the restoration of parliamentary supremecy should be announced closer to the GE to compliment these otherwise excellent ideas.
They cannot hide over EU forever.
Posted by: Steve | June 05, 2007 at 11:59
The way forward is very clear. We need to push decision making as close as feasible to ordinary people. We need to re-visit the whole devolution settlement to have real local devolution. Some powers will stay at Westminster (foreign policy, economics etc), some powers will remain in Edinburgh and Cardiff but many powers will go further down to counties and indeed to community council levels.
Posted by: Matt Wright | June 05, 2007 at 22:25
Matt Wright:
I agree powers should be divested from the centre to counties - but including individual Scottish, Welsh and Northern Irish ones. Devolution to Belfast, Cardiff and Edinburgh should then be scrapped, or else give us an English Parliament.
Home Rule for my country! (whether that be a restored UK or my nation)
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Closing the Gaps: Rolling Doors That Meet Mandatory ASHRAE 90.1 Standards
The importance of specifying rolling doors that meet new air infiltration standards
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Discuss air infiltration requirements of ASHRAE 90.1, International Energy Conservation Code (IECC), and California’s Title 24, and the impact on net-zero, energy-efficient, and sustainable buildings.
Identify the mandatory requirements for rolling doors to meet new air infiltration standards.
List the variety of credits that code-compliant, high-performance rolling doors can contribute to when meeting green building rating systems, such as LEED.
Specify exterior rolling doors that meet ASHRAE criteria for project climate zones.
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Design professionals are increasingly demanding products that meet and exceed code requirements. They are designing to meet new high-performance criteria and using energy models to meet net-zero energy use. In the near future, it is highly likely that a well-designed building will be expected to meet the goals of net-zero energy usage.
A greater industry focus on improved energy performance standards has led to changes in regulations, codes, green building rating systems, and building products. Code authorities have recognized that reducing air infiltration is crucial when improving the energy performance of exterior rolling doors. Air infiltration is defined as the unintended or accidental flow of air through a building envelope via cracks in the building envelope—particularly in and around door and window openings. Controlling air infiltration is an important strategy for design professionals focusing on the reduction of energy use and is a crucial part of achieving a building with net-zero energy usage.
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New durable rolling doors are meeting and exceeding energy codes, providing improved sound attenuation, and can be finished with attractive, no-VOC colors, as shown in the door for this new Harley Davidson distributor facility. The rolling steel doors protect the venue and equipment when not in use. The doors were powder coated with an orange that matches the brand’s color guidelines.
Exterior rolling door manufacturers are one of many industry leaders who have developed high-performance products to meet these new stringent performance goals. Advances in exterior rolling door construction enable new rolling doors to exceed current air infiltration codes by as much as 73 percent. Enhancements to the aesthetics of rolling door products can support a wide range of design intentions, while also achieving mandatory code compliance.
There are many benefits to selecting rolling exterior doors, but traditionally aesthetics were not at the top of that list. This is changing, as manufacturers are now able to powder coat custom images onto doors, either to help the door stand out or even blend into a larger design aesthetic. While sectional doors are more energy efficient than rolling doors, there are many situations where rolling products are the best—and sometimes only—option for a closure product. They work particularly well in low-headroom situations, as rolling doors are stored in a compact coil at the head of the opening. Fortunately, recent advances in rolling doors are significantly improving their energy efficiency. They are selected as space savers and are used in many applications where security, reliability, and durability are paramount. Now, the demand for sustainable products has driven the rolling door industry to improve energy efficiency. Design professionals are now choosing energy-efficient overhead doors for both high-end and industrial buildings. These doors contribute to the use of nonrenewable resources wisely, providing economic and environmental savings.
Designers can meet LEED Materials and Resources credits for indoor air quality by selecting doors with non-emitting, no-VOC finishes, as used in the graphics at the McKee corporate office showroom.
Insulated rolling steel doors provide building security and prevent heat loss, especially with extreme outside temperatures.
In 2015, at the 21st Conference of the Parties (COP21) of the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCC), nearly 200 countries, including the United States, signed a historic agreement to keep global average temperature rise low. This agreement set a long-term commitment to keep the global average increase to well below 2 degrees Celsius above preindustrial levels and to pursue efforts to limit the temperature increase to 1.5 degrees Celsius. To meet this target, the world must reach zero fossil fuel CO2 emissions in the urban built environment by about 2050 and zero total global greenhouse gas emissions by 2060 to 2080.2
At the same time, numerous organizations, including those that set building codes and standards, are developing tighter regulations that apply to the energy efficiency of building products. The latest best practices and standards for meeting new air infiltration standards of The International Energy Conservation Code (IECC) 2015, 2015 International Green Construction Code (IgCC), California Title 24-2013 Building Energy Efficiency Standards, and the American Society of Heating, Refrigerating, and Air-Conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE) 90.1-2013 are important energy-saving mandates. Many design professionals do not realize the latest code requirements identify stringent, nonnegotiable standards for acceptable air leakage. Contrary to popular opinion, these are not optional standards to be “greener.” The new regulations are mandatory, and a trade-off path to approval is not available. Even more importantly, products must have third-party certification to substantiate compliance.
Energy codes are adapted at the state, county, or city level. At the federal level, there are codes and standards that must be met to comply with federal funds available throughout the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) of 2009. Different federal agencies, like the GSA as well as several branches of the armed services, require that buildings are designed to meet strict environmental targets. For the residential build community, ARRA requires states to meet or exceed the 2009 International Energy Conservation Code (IECC) or achieve equivalent or greater energy savings. For the commercial build community, states must meet or exceed ANSI/ASHRAE/IESNA Standard 90.1-2007 (ASHRAE Standard 90.1-2007) or achieve equivalent or greater energy savings to qualify to receive federal funding.
Many authorities do not adopt ASHRAE Standard 90.1 directly but instead adopt the IECC. The 2009 IECC contains two options for commercial buildings: 1) ASHRAE Standard 90.1-2007 by reference or 2) a set of requirements directly in the IECC. The commercial requirements in ASHRAE Standard 90.1-2007 and the 2009 IECC are similar but not identical. Both ASHRAE Standard 90.1-2007 and the 2009 IECC have been superseded by newer versions that require higher levels of energy efficiency. ASHRAE Standard 90.1-2010 was published in August of 2010 and the 2012 IECC was published in May of 2011. The first step in effective enforcement of energy codes is to know the requirements of the applicable code.
Different codes are enforced for different building types, including residential, commercial, state, or federal. If it is necessary to look up which code is in effect, there are a number of resources available, including the Building Energy wCodes Project’s (BECP) Status of State Codes Database, the International Code Council’s (ICC) adoption database, and the Building Codes Assistance Project (BCAP) Status of Codes Database.3
IECC, California Title 24, and ASHRAE codes have all been developed with input from numerous stakeholders, including The Door and Access Manufacturers Association (DASMA). DASMA represents numerous organizations divided into six divisions of door manufacturers. Five divisions represent manufacturers in these product categories: Access Control Point Systems, Commercial & Residential Garage Doors, High Performance Doors, Operators & Electronics, and Rolling Doors. A sixth DASMA division, the Associates Division, includes manufacturers that supply raw materials or significant components used in the manufacture and installation of door and access systems. Their participation in the code-development process resulted in a significant but attainable reduction in allowable air leakage.
DASMA’s Technical and Code Committee has been actively involved in a wide range of technical issues relating to commercial and residential garage doors. These issues include a garage door’s wind resistance, thermal performance, pinch resistance, steel gauge, code compliance, standards development, and much more. DASMA has been instrumental in the development of changes to the building codes that relate to greater performance of rolling doors.4
Meeting building codes does not necessarily mean that the design professional is guaranteed a green building. In fact, the codes often list the bare minimum that is required to secure an energy-efficient building. That said, green building designers can use the codes as a guide to identify more strict performance values. If the target is to deliver a net-zero or a high-performance building envelope, the architect will want to select products and materials that exceed energy codes. These codes mandate third-party certifications and have tightened allowable air infiltration rates. The three most important codes to consider when selecting an exterior rolling door that minimizes air leakage are the International Energy Conservation Code (IECC) 2015, ASHRAE 90.1-2013, and, if in California, Title 24 Building Energy Efficiency Standards.
International Energy Conservation Code (IECC) 2012
Many state and local governments have adopted the International Code Council’s International Energy Conservation Code (IECC) 2012.5 The 2012 requirements reduced the allowable air leakage rate for exterior doors. IECC 2012 Section C402.4.3 requires that the air leakage of fenestration assemblies shall meet the provisions of Table C402.4.3. This Table requires a maximum air infiltration rate for rolling doors of 1.0 cfm/ft2 in accordance with ANSI/DASMA 105, NFRC 400, or ASTM E283.
ASHRAE develops standards and guidelines that are referenced by most codes. These standards establish consensus for methods of testing and performance criteria guiding the industry toward acceptable performance values. They also publish design guides that encourage enhanced performance. ASHRAE 90.1-2013 requires that air leakage for rolling doors shall be determined in accordance with the National Fenestration Rating Council NFRC 400 guidelines. Doors must be labeled and independently tested to meet a maximum air leakage rate of 0.4 cfm/ft2., which is even more stringent than IECC. Requirements in ASHRAE 90.1-2010 and 2013 are similar.
California Title 24 – 2013 Building Energy Efficiency Standards Enacted in 1978, the California Title 24 energy code mandates the energy efficiency of new (and altered) homes and commercial buildings. This standard is updated every three years. By 2030, the target for all new buildings in California is to meet net-zero energy. This energy code was developed “because energy efficiency reduces energy costs, increases reliability and availability of electricity, improves building occupant comfort, and reduces impacts to the environment, standards are important and necessary for California’s energy future.”6 A majority of states have adopted energy codes, many using Title 24 as a model.
The mandatory requirements for fenestration products and exterior doors are found in Subchapter 2, Section110.6 of California Title 24-2013 Building Energy Efficiency Standards. Other than a field-fabricated door, exterior doors may be “installed only if the manufacturer has certified to the Commission or if an independent certifying organization approved by the Commission has certified that the product complies with all of the applicable requirements of this subsection.”7 The applicable requirement is that manufactured fenestration products and exterior doors shall have air infiltration rates not exceeding 0.3 cfm/ft2 of door area for nonresidential single doors (swinging and sliding) and 1.0 cfm/ft2 for nonresidential double doors (swinging) when tested according to NFRC-400 or ASTM E283 at a pressure differential of 75 Pascal (or 1.57 pounds/ft2).
GETTING TO ZERO: MEETING AND EXCEEDING CODE
The inclusion of higher standards for air leakage resistance was a controversial area in the development of the IECC 2012. The IECC Table that references air leakage standards shows a high disparity between allowable air leakage rates for fenestration and door products. These are some of the allowable maximum air infiltration rates for fenestration assemblies. • Windows: 0.20 cfm/ft2
• Sliding doors: 0.20 cfm/ft2
• Storefront glazing: 0.60 cfm/ft2
• Garage doors: 0.40 cfm/ft2
• Rolling doors: 1.00 cfm/ft2
The New Buildings Institute (NBI) is a nonprofit organization that assesses technologies, promotes design approaches, and helps guide policies and programs that will significantly improve the energy efficiency of commercial buildings.8 NBI collects data on buildings and currently publishes a database of 319 commercial buildings that are verified or on the path to meeting net-zero energy goals. They have also developed a new Zero Energy Performance Index (zEPI), which provides a visual scale of how buildings fit into a scale of 0 to 100 on the path to reducing energy usage. This scale was adapted into the 2015 International Green Construction Code and is expected to become part of future model codes.
In the analysis of these low-energy buildings, NBI has learned that the characteristics and strategies for achieving high-performance building envelopes are a key to the success of these projects. NBI provides guidance to communities on “stretch codes,” which are those used by jurisdictions to demonstrate environmental leadership or to be used as zoning incentives. These codes are requiring air leakage rates of 0.25 cfm/ft2 of the whole assembly—a standard that will require control and specification of all of the parts of the building envelope.
Image courtesy of the New Building Institute
This rolling door section shows where conventional doors are most susceptible to air leakage.
Ralph Ellison, chief executive of the New Buildings Institute, believes that although there can be resistance to product developments that may advance ahead of the market, manufacturing leaders provide a variety of products that meet and exceed code requirements. These leaders push the economic viability of products with higher standards. In fact, some manufacturers are actually exceeding the code requirements for rolling doors with products with maximum air infiltration rates of 0.3 cfm/ft2.
In addition to specifying doors that meet higher standards than required by code, Ellison observes that there can be a big difference between the air leakage rates that are published and tested and the reality of field performance. A door may meet code requirements on paper, but many factors affect code compliance in reality. Once the door is installed, its air infiltration performance should be verified.
Ellison believes that future standards will require that the contractor perform commercial building tests and commissioning similar to those provided for residential buildings. These tests will include thermal imaging and blower testing for the building envelope. He has observed that new high-performance buildings are now adding micro-switches on operable windows and doors. This product interlocks the operations of the door or window with the HVAC system, adjusting these systems when users open and close doors. Some systems also have red/green light strategies, providing alerts that allow doors to open and close based on weather conditions.
According to Ellison, many designers are focused on net-zero energy standards and using passive design standards. They are also designing to reach the maximum credits for green building systems, such as LEED or the Living Building Challenge.
The Zero Energy Performance Scale was adapted by the 2015 International Green Construction Code.
Architect Marc Chavez, AIA specifier, ZGF Architects, practicing in Washington, is proud of specifying high-performance products for his clients. Washington state complies with strict energy codes, and designers always develop energy models for their projects. He finds that there is a “hit in the energy model to the building envelope from sectional or coiling doors that leak like sieves.” Selecting a high-performance door system is important as well as making sure it is not value engineered out of a project. Increased performance values are available in rolling doors that decrease air infiltration by as much as 95 percent.
Air infiltration can be controlled through the design of doors with advanced perimeter seals, thermally broken frames (known as guides for rolling doors), and insulation. These specialized perimeter seals can accommodate odd floor and wall conditions, including slopes, curbs, or rails. Doors that are designed to meet specific installation requirements can be constructed to provide an energy-efficient enclosure for new construction. They can be easily retrofit to improve the energy efficiency of existing buildings.
Key air leakage areas for a conventional rolling door are at the head and along the guides. Since metal has high conductivity, energy-efficient doors with metal frames include thermal breaks to reduce thermal conduction. Frames without thermal breaks reduce the energy efficiency of the entire building envelope.
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An insulated door in Amarillo, Texas, protects the building from hot outside air infiltration, while also complementing the exterior construction.
The overall energy efficiency of all buildings is affected by location. Climate zones are listed in the U.S. Department of Energy’s 2012 IECC Commercial Scope and Envelope Requirements.9 Additional compliance to ASHRAE 90.1 criteria is required to meet LEED v4 rating system credits. U-values or u-factors are selected by climate zone. U-values are used in calculations to meet the associated environmental criteria whether using a prescriptive or whole building modeling. If a designer is looking for concrete return on investment data to justify installing an insulated rolling door, some manufacturers have calculators on their websites to provide this exact information.
Optimizing energy efficiency requires the design team to maximize the thermal behavior of all products included in the building envelope by climate and location. Some manufacturers estimate savings up to $970/per door with a two-year payback when selecting an energy-efficient rolling door for the appropriate climate zone.
Air Infiltration Testing Methods
Specifying a well-insulated rolling door can decrease air infiltration by as much as 95 percent over air infiltration from standard doors. Exterior doors are designed to withstand the full range of specific wind-load requirements. Double-skin interlocking roll-formed metal slats are filled with 7/8-inch-thick, closed-cell, pressure-foamed-in-place urethane insulation. Insulated exterior rolling doors can also be specified to meet strict fire and sound ratings. Manufacturers provide certifications and label the performance values validated through third-party testing. The approved method for testing exterior doors is the ASTM E 283-04: Test Method for Determining Rate of Airflow Through Exterior Windows, Curtain Walls, and Doors Under Specified Pressure Differences Across the Specimen. Third-party testing is a requirement in energy codes, standards, and green building rating systems.
Selecting insulated rolling doors that exceed code standards can be part of a green building rating submittal.
MAPPING TO GREEN BUILDING CREDITS
The U.S. Green Building Council’s LEED green rating system provides one of the largest collections of environmental guidelines and resources for delivering a sustainable building. LEED credit points contribute to LEED certification and are granted based on the overall building’s design and performance. While no single product or material alone can earn LEED credit points, the design of a building envelope can have the largest impact on the energy performance of a building. Passive design strategies include building orientation, construction, and materials that include high standards for window and door performance. As part of an integrated design and construction strategy, the use of rolling doors with a number of environmental benefits will help designers obtain LEED v4 credits.
Applicable qualifying LEED v4 credits for rolling doors can be applied in the following categories: 1. Energy and Atmosphere Credit: Optimize Energy Performance
2. Materials and Resources Credit: Building Life-Cycle Impact Reduction
3. Indoor Environmental Quality Credit: Low-Emitting Materials
4. Innovation Credit: Innovation
5. Regional Priority Credits
Higher thermal resistance values provided by increased door insulation optimizes energy performance when the loading areas of a building envelope are calculated in energy models.
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Suddenly Last Summer, By Tennessee Williams
thecharcoalslate Play June 16, 2019 June 20, 2019 6 Minutes
Suddenly, Last Summer was a 1958 one act play written by Tennesse Williams. The wealthy poet Sebastian Venable has been killed, and the family are gathering to hear his cousin, Catharine Holly, describe his scandalous death. Sebastian’s mother doesn’t believe her niece and has had Catharine committed; an attending doctor, known for performing lobotomies, injects her with a truth serum to get to the bottom of things.
“Suddenly Last Summer” was, perhaps,the most poetic I’ve done. – Tennessee Williams, Interview with Studs Terkel.¹
Devouring Sexuality
“Cousin Sebastian said he was famished for blonds.” – Catharine
It has since adapted into many other media, including the famous film starring Katharine Hepburn, Elizabeth Taylor and Montgomery Clift. It comprises two acts, focused around monologue, and is set in a New Orleans arboretum garden populated with tropical, carnivorous plants. The tropical plants in the fading arboretum are an early hint of sexuality, corruption and the consumption of flesh. Invoking the decadent predation in the play, intertwined with class politics. The impoverished family reliant on exploitative wealthy relatives, and the young boys vulnerable to exploitation by Sebastian.
Violet even relates that Sebastian would import fruit flies at great effort and expense, to feed the voracious appetites of his venus fly trap. It mirrors Sebastian’s exploitation of the impoverished local boys, which leads to his downfall. He ploughs great effort and expense into his other traps; his cousin and mother.
The name of the place where he is ‘devoured’, Cabeza de Lobo, loosely translates as the Wolf’s Head, another symbol of devourment.
Incest and Lust
“She took my son from me!” – Violet Venable
The rancour felt from Violet to Catherine is akin to that a jilted wife might feel upon being confronted by a much younger mistress. One who insists on being inconveniently present at the reading of the will. Dr Sugar acts as a proxy for their rivalry. Violet brandishes her fortune and grief; Catherine her youthful charms, and damsel in distress act.
Particularly in the film, the idea seems to be that the two cannot co-exist. Catherine, for all that her mind is rocked by her traumas, is realistic. She sees things clearly, despite being trapped in a precarious position. Violet is stubbornly set on her fantasies. She believes her son has not aged; thinks his annual poems are works of genius; insists angrily that he was chaste. Catharine labels Violet suffocating; Violet insists she held Sebastian back from destruction, and that she was the only one who could satisfy her son.
Violet’s parentification of Sebastian, in forcing him into a spousal role, may have led to his sophistication and lack of emotional development. His own mother used him – why should he not use others?
Violet prioritised her son over her own husband, perhaps incorrectly assuming his love was ageless and un-conditional. Yet this substitute husband still traded her in for a younger model when Violet’s looks faded; she was still cast aside. Her role as mother did not protect her from being discarded by the man she prioritised.
Rape and Victim Blaming
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“I think we ought at least to consider the possibility that the girl’s story could be true.” – Dr
This play acts as confessional; perhaps, all along, Tenneessee wondered if Rose’s accusations were true. And whether the lobotomy could or should have been prevented. It is telling that Catharine had recently been raped by an acquaintance. This could be an allusion to the fact that rape victims are often disbelieved / punished. Indeed, Violet dismisses Catharine’s rape as a crush gone wrong. It takes a (fictional) truth serum for Dr. Sugar to even consider than Catharine is telling the truth, albeit about Cabella Des Lobo.
“but after the operation, who would believe her, Doctor?” – Violet
The threat of lobotomy hangs over the play, along with dark corruption. A woman may well be lobotomised – not for being ill – but to shut her up, because she speaks inconvenient truths. At worst the ‘operation’ will render her ‘babbling’ and Cassandric. It’s a clear parallel to their mother lobotomising Rose because the girl said her father had raped her.
Many of his characters are, I think, re-imaginings of Rose’s potential future, often coupled with his own. Their close relationship was sometimes interpreted as quasi incestuous. (As is Sebastian and his mother’s). Would her fate have been to become an alcoholic prostitute, like Blanche? (Another character relegated to an asylum because her truth was inconvenient). Or to be trapped, to grow hard and calculating like Maggie the Cat? Like her counterpart Catharine, both women are reduced to begging wealthier relatives for money; enduring scorn and with little power for themselves. Or would he have used her the way Sebastian did?
Aging and Decay
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“Suddenly, last summer, he wasn’t young anymore…” – Catharine
Both Sebastian and his mother had a fear of aging. Gerascophobia suffuses all of Williams’ plays. Sufferers of the disorder experience natural age progression as decay – a slow motion torture. Akin to the way someone with a degenerative, incurable disease might feel.
He had heart problems, and the incident preceding his death involves the man popping pills almost convulsively. As if to ward off the impending disaster – or else an omen of it.
Religion and Sacrifice
“The role of a benefactor is… a sacrificial victim… they want your blood on the altar steps of their outraged, outrageous egos!” – Violet
The stage directions describe the Venable’s garden as prehistoric, and specifically suggests flowers that look like torn organs. The directions have a primal, Aztec feel to them, invoking human sacrifice.
Everything was planned and designed in Sebastian’s life – perhaps even his death. After all, Catharine insists she tried to stop Sebastian from “sacrificing himself to a cruel god.”
The character was named after the “patron saint of gays”; St Sebastian – a portrait of whom hangs in the Venable home. This particular Saint was clubbed to death in a clear parallel with Sebastian Venable. He has since been lionised by the LGBT community, and has been said to symbolise a “tortured closet case” – much like the dead protagonist.
Homophobic Polemic or Scathing Satire?
The film got through the censors by framing itself as a parable about the horrors of homosexuality. I feel it is, in fact, anything but. It is possible, given the times, that Williams intended Sebastian as a caricature. One of society’s misguided perception of what a homosexual really is.
And as cinema queer points out; who is the real monster here? The dead protagonist? Or the wealthy older woman? The one steeped in power, who suffocated and smothered her child. The one representing the pinnacle of respectability and convention. But at all costs. She would rather destroy her niece’s self than confront the realities of her queer son and spousal substitute. She goes as far to insist he was chaste; whilst actively procuring his lovers.
Tennessee likes to explore potential fates for his family members.
The attempt to silence Catherine, and her uncomfortable truths has an obvious parallel in Rose Williams. But also in Tennessee himself. His work had to be coded and was heavily censored. The film version of A Streetcar Named Desire used words like ‘sensitive’, ‘softness’ and alluded to Gray’s inability to find a job. Sebastian, as a character, was ‘acceptable’ because he was literally torn to pieces. It was seen by unsubtle censors as a fable about the evils of homosexuality.
He portrayed his own potential futures in his work. Alan Gray, committing suicide from shame. Brick, drinking himself to death in a loveless marriage. Sebastian, reduced to using trickery and money to get sex, and ultimately torn apart by his own voracious appetites.
All three futures could be interpreted as anti-gay polemics. But that would be missing the underlying point. All three scenarios would be rendered moot in a world where men who loved men were free to do so. Remove the shame, denial and expectations and all three men could have been happy. It is wrong, therefore, to characterise Williams as a typical ‘self loathing queer’ stereotype.
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With Burning Concern: We Accuse Pope Francis
With Burning Concern: We Accuse Pope Francis
"The culminating event that impelled us to take this step was the revelation of your 'confidential' letter to the bishops of Buenos Aires authorizing them, solely on the basis of your own views as expressed in Amoris Laetitia, to admit certain public adulterers in 'second marriages' to the sacraments of Confession and Holy Communion without any firm purpose of amending their lives by ceasing their adulterous sexual relations. "
From Michael Matt, Christopher Ferrara & John Vennari
A Joint Declaration from The Remnant and Catholic Family News
(Posted in three parts. What follows is Part I)
Feast of Saint Januarius in the Month of Our Lady of Sorrows
Your Holiness:
The following narrative, written in our desperation as lowly members of the laity, is what we must call an accusation concerning your pontificate, which has been a calamity for the Church in proportion to which it delights the powers of this world. The culminating event that impelled us to take this step was the revelation of your “confidential” letter to the bishops of Buenos Aires authorizing them, solely on the basis of your own views as expressed in Amoris Laetitia, to admit certain public adulterers in “second marriages” to the sacraments of Confession and Holy Communion without any firm purpose of amending their lives by ceasing their adulterous sexual relations.
You have thus defied the very words of Our Lord Himself condemning divorce and “remarriage” as adultery per se without exception, the admonition of Saint Paul on the divine penalty for unworthy reception of the Blessed Sacrament, the teaching of your two immediate predecessors in line with the bimillenial moral doctrine and Eucharistic discipline of the Church rooted in divine revelation, the Code of Canon Law and all of Tradition.
You have already provoked a fracturing of the Church’s universal discipline, with some bishops maintaining it despite Amoris Laetitia while others, including those in Buenos Aires, are announcing a change based solely on the authority of your scandalous “apostolic exhortation.” Nothing like this has ever happened in the history of the Church.
Yet, almost without exception, the conservative members of the hierarchy observe a politic silence while the liberals exult publicly over their triumph thanks to you. Almost no one in the hierarchy stands in opposition to your reckless disregard of sound doctrine and practice, even though many murmur privately against your depredations. Thus, as it was during the Arian crisis, it falls to the laity to defend the Faith in the midst of a near-universal defection from duty on the part of the hierarchs.
Of course we are nothing in the scheme of things, and yet as baptized lay members of the Mystical Body we are endowed with the God-given right and the correlative duty, enshrined in Church law (cf. CIC can. 212), to communicate with you and with our fellow Catholics concerning the acute crisis your governance of the Church has provoked amidst an already chronic state of ecclesial crisis following the Second Vatican Council.
Private entreaties having proven utterly useless, as we note below, we have published this document to discharge our burden of conscience in the face of the grave harm you have inflicted, and threaten to inflict, upon souls and the ecclesial commonwealth, and to exhort our fellow Catholics to stand in principled opposition to your continuing abuse of the papal office, particularly where it concerns the Church’s infallible teaching against adultery and profanation of the Holy Eucharist.
In making the decision to publish this document we were guided by the teaching of the Angelic Doctor on a matter of natural justice in the Church:
“It must be observed, however, that if the faith were endangered, a subject ought to rebuke his prelate even publicly. Hence Paul, who was Peter’s subject, rebuked him in public, on account of the imminent danger of scandal concerning faith, and, as the gloss of Augustine says on Galatians 2:11, ‘Peter gave an example to superiors, that if at any time they should happen to stray from the straight path, they should not disdain to be reproved by their subjects’.” [Summa Theologiae, II-II, Q. 33, Art 4]
We have been guided as well by the teaching of Saint Robert Bellarmine, Doctor of the Church, regarding licit resistance to a wayward Roman Pontiff:
“Therefore, just as it would be lawful to resist a Pontiff invading a body, so it is lawful to resist him invading souls or disturbing a state, and much more if he should endeavor to destroy the Church. I say, it is lawful to resist him, by not doing what he commands, and by blocking him, lest he should carry out his will…” [De Controversiis on the Roman Pontiff, Bk. 2, Ch. 29].
Catholics the world over, and not just “traditionalists,” are convinced that the situation Bellarmine envisioned hypothetically is today a reality. That conviction is the motive for this document.
May God be the judge of the rectitude of our intentions.
Michael J. Matt
Editor, The Remnant
Christopher A. Ferrara
Columnist for The Remnant and Catholic Family News
Editor, Catholic Family News
LIBER OF ACCUSATION
By the grace of God and the law of Church, a complaint against Francis, Roman Pontiff, on account of danger to the Faith and grave harm to souls and the common good of the Holy Catholic Church.
What Sort of Humility Is This?
On the night of your election, speaking from the balcony of Saint Peter’s Basilica, you declared: “the duty of the Conclave was to give a bishop to Rome.” Even though the crowd before you consisted of people from around the world, members of the Church universal, you expressed thanks only “for the welcome that has come from the diocesan community of Rome.” You also expressed the hope that “this journey of the Church that we begin today” would be “fruitful for the evangelization of this beautiful city.” You asked the faithful present in the Saint Peter’s Square to pray, not for the Pope, but “for their Bishop” and you said that the next day you would “go to pray the Madonna, that she may protect Rome.”
Your strange remarks on that historic occasion began with the banal exclamation “Brothers and sisters, good evening” and ended with an equally banal intention: “Good night and sleep well!” Not once during the first address did you refer to yourself as Pope or make any reference to the supreme dignity of the office to which you had been elected: that of the Vicar of Christ, whose divine commission is to teach, govern and sanctify the Church universal and lead her mission to make disciples of all nations.
Almost from the moment of your election there began a kind of endless public relations campaign whose theme is your singular humility among the Popes, a simple “Bishop of Rome” in contrast to the supposed monarchical pretensions of your predecessors and their elaborate vestments and red shoes, which you shunned. You gave early indications of a radical decentralization of papal authority in favor of a “synodal Church” taking its example from the Orthodox view of “the meaning of episcopal collegiality and their experience of synodality.” The exultant mass media immediately hailed “the Francis revolution.”
Yet this ostentatious display of humility has been accompanied by an abuse of the power of the papal office without precedent in the history of the Church. Over the past three-and-a-half years you have incessantly promoted your own opinions and desires without the least regard for the teaching of your predecessors, the bimillenial traditions of the Church, or the immense scandals you have caused. On innumerable occasions you have shocked and confused the faithful and delighted the Church’s enemies with heterodox and even nonsensical statements, while heaping insult after insult upon observant Catholics, whom you continually deride as latter-day Pharisees and “rigorists.” Your personal comportment has often descended to acts of crowd-pleasing buffoonery.
You have consistently ignored the salutary admonition of your immediate predecessor, who resigned the papacy under mysterious circumstances eight years after having asked the bishops assembled before him at the beginning of his pontificate to “Pray for me, that I may not flee for fear of the wolves.” To quote your predecessor in his first homily as Pope:
“The Pope is not an absolute monarch whose thoughts and desires are law. On the contrary: the Pope’s ministry is a guarantee of obedience to Christ and to his Word. He must not proclaim his own ideas, but rather constantly bind himself and the Church to obedience to God’s Word, in the face of every attempt to adapt it or water it down, and every form of opportunism.”
A Selective Meddling in Politics, Always Politically Correct
Throughout your tenure as “Bishop of Rome” you have shown scant regard for the limitations of papal authority and competence. You have meddled in political affairs such as immigration policy, penal law, the environment, restoring diplomatic relations between the United States and Cuba (while ignoring the plight of Catholics under the Castro dictatorship) and even opposing the Scottish independence movement. Yet you refuse to oppose secularist governments when they defy the divine and natural law by such measures as legalizing “homosexual unions,” a matter of divine and natural law on which a Pope can and must intervene.
In fact, your many condemnations of social evils—all of them politically safe targets—are continually belied by your own actions, which compromise the Church’s witness against the manifold errors of modernity:
• Contrary to the constant teaching of the Church based on Revelation, you demand worldwide total abolition of the death penalty, no matter how grave the crime, and even the abolition of even life sentences, yet you have never called for the abolition of legalized abortion, which the Church has constantly condemned as the mass murder of innocents.
• You declare that the simple faithful are sinning gravely if they fail to recycle their household waste and turn off unnecessary lighting, even as you expend millions of dollars on vulgar mass events surrounding your person in various countries, to which you travel with large entourages in charter jets that emit vast quantities of carbon emissions into the atmosphere.
• You demand open borders for Muslim “refugees” in Europe, who are predominantly military-age males, while you live behind the walls of a Vatican city-state that strictly excludes non-residents—walls built by Leo IV to prevent a second Muslim sack of Rome.
• You speak incessantly of the poor and the “peripheries” of society but you ally yourself with the wealthy and corrupt German hierarchy and pro-abortion, pro-contraception, pro-homosexual celebrities and potentates of globalism.
• You deride greedy corporate profit-seeking and “the economy that kills” while you honor with private audiences and receive lavish donations from the world’s wealthiest technocrats and corporate heads, even allowing Porsche to rent the Sistine Chapel for a “magnificent concert… arranged exclusively for the participants,” who paid some $6,000 each for a Roman tour—the first time a Pope has allowed this sacred space to be used for a corporate event.
• You demand an end to “inequality” as you embrace communist and socialist dictators who live in luxury while the masses suffer under their yokes.
• You condemn an American candidate for the presidency as “not Christian” because he seeks to prevent illegal immigration, but you say nothing against the atheist dictators you embrace, who have committed mass murder, persecute the Church and imprison Christians in police states.
In promoting your personal opinions on politics and public policy as if they were Catholic doctrine, you have not hesitated to abuse even the dignity of a papal encyclical by employing it to endorse debatable and even demonstrably fraudulent scientific claims regarding “climate change,” the “carbon cycle,” “carbon dioxide pollution” and “acidification of the oceans.” The same document also demands that the faithful respond to a supposed “ecological crisis” by supporting secular programs of environmentalism, such as the Sustainable Development Goals of the United Nations, which you have praised even though they call for “universal access to sexual and reproductive health,” meaning contraception and abortion.
A Rampant Indifferentism
While hardly a pioneer respecting the destructive post-conciliar novelties of “ecumenism” and “interreligious dialogue,” you have promoted to a degree not seen even during the worst years of the post-conciliar crisis a specific religious indifferentism that practically dispenses with the mission of the Church as the ark of salvation.
Respecting the Protestants, you declare that they are all members of the same “Church of Christ” as Catholics, regardless of what they believe, and that doctrinal differences between Catholics and Protestants are comparatively trivial matters to be worked out by agreement of theologians.
Given that opinion, you have actively discouraged Protestant conversions, including one “Bishop” Tony Palmer, who belonged to a breakaway Anglican sect that purports to ordain women. As Palmer recounted, when he mentioned “coming home to the Catholic Church” you gave this appalling reply: “No one is coming home. You are journeying towards us and we are journeying towards you and we will meet in the middle.” The middle of what? Palmer died in a motorcycle accident shortly thereafter. At your insistence, however, the man whose conversion you deliberately impeded was buried as a Catholic bishop—a mockery that was contrary to the infallible teaching of your predecessor that “ordinations carried out according to the Anglican rite have been, and are, absolutely null and utterly void.” [Leo XIII, Apostolicae curae (1896), DZ 3315]
As to other religions in general, you have adopted as a virtual program the very error condemned by Pope Pius XI only 34 years before Vatican II: “that false opinion which considers all religions to be more or less good and praiseworthy, since they all in different ways manifest and signify that sense which is inborn in us all, and by which we are led to God and to the obedient acknowledgment of His rule.” You have been utterly heedless of Pius XI’s admonition “that one who supports those who hold these theories and attempt to realize them, is altogether abandoning the divinely revealed religion.” In that regard, you have suggested that even atheists can be saved merely by doing good, thus eliciting delighted praise from the media.
It seems that in your view Rahner’s heretical thesis of the “anonymous Christian,” embracing virtually all of humanity and implying universal salvation, has definitively replaced the teaching of Our Lord to the contrary: “He that believes and is baptized shall be saved; and he that disbelieves shall be condemned (Mk 16:16).”
Simultaneously published by The Remnant. Will also appear in full in print version of Catholic Family News, October 2016 edition.
Part III of III
"Have you no sense of alarm about the divisions you have provoked within the Church, with some bishops departing from the teaching of your predecessors on the divorced and 'remarried,' solely on your purported authority, while others attempt to maintain the bimillenial doctrine and practice you have labored without ceasing to overthrow?"
A Joint Statement from The Remnant and Catholic Family News
Michael J. Matt, Christopher Ferrara & John Vennari
A “Pastoral Practice” at War with Doctrine
You have approved as the only correct interpretation of Amoris a moral calculus that would in practice undermine the whole moral order, not just the norms of sexual morality you obviously seek to subvert. For the application of virtually any moral norm can be deemed “unfeasible” by a talismanic invocation of “complex circumstances” to be “discerned” by a priest or bishop in “pastoral practice” while the norm is piously defended as unchanged and unchangeable as a “general rule.”
The nebulous criterion of “limitations that diminish responsibility and culpability” could be applied to all manner of habitual mortal sin, including cohabitation—which you have already likened to “true marriage”—“homosexual unions”—whose legalization you have refused to oppose—and contraception, which, incredibly, you have declared is morally permissible in order to prevent the transmission of disease, which the Vatican later confirmed is in fact your view.
Thus the Church would “in certain cases” contradict in practice what she teaches in principle regarding morality, meaning that the moral principle is practically overthrown. In the midst of the synodal sham, but without mentioning you, Cardinal Robert Sarah rightly condemned such a specious disjunction between moral precepts and their “pastoral application”: “The idea that would consist in placing the Magisterium in a nice box by detaching it from pastoral practice—which could evolve according to the circumstances, fads, and passions—is a form of heresy, a dangerous schizophrenic pathology.”
Yet, as you would have it, based on “discernment” by local priests or ordinaries, certain people living in an objective condition of adultery can be deemed subjectively inculpable and admitted to Holy Communion without any commitment to an amendment of life even though they know the Church teaches that their relationship is adulterous. In a recent interview the renowned Austrian philosopher Josef Seifert, a friend of Pope John Paul II and one of the many critics of Amoris whose private entreaties for correction or retraction of the document you have ignored, has publicly noted the moral and pastoral absurdity of what you now explicitly approve:
"How should that be applied? Should the priest say to one adulterer: 'You are a good adulterer. You are in the state of grace. You are a very pious person, so you get my absolution without changing your life and you can go to Holy Communion.' And in comes another, and he [the priest] says: 'Oh, you are a real adulterer. You must first confess. You must revoke your life. You must change your life and then you can go to Communion'.”
"I mean, how should that work?.... How can a priest be a judge of the soul [and] say that one is a real sinner and the other is only an innocent, good man? I mean that seems completely impossible. Only a priest who would have a kind of Padre Pio vision of souls could possibly say that, and he [Padre Pio] wouldn’t say that…."
With your praise and approval, the bishops of Buenos Aires even suggest that children will be harmed if their divorced and “remarried” parents are not permitted to continue engaging in sexual relations outside of marriage while they profane the Blessed Sacrament. One casuitical defender of your departure from sound teaching surmises that this means adultery is only a venial sin if one partner in adultery is under “duress” to continue engaging in adulterous sexual relations because the other partner threatens to leave the children unless he is given sexual satisfaction. According to that moral logic, any mortal sin, including abortion, would be rendered venial merely by one party’s threat to end an adulterous relationship if the sin is not committed.
Even worse, it that were possible, the bishops of Buenos Aires, relying solely on your novelties, dare to suggest that people who continue habitually to engage in adulterous sexual relations will grow in grace while sacrilegiously receiving Holy Communion.
You have thus contrived no mere “change of discipline” but rather a radical change of underlying moral doctrine that would effectively institutionalize a form of situation ethics in the Church, reducing universally binding, objective moral precepts to mere general rules from which there would be innumerable subjective “exceptions” based on “complex circumstances” and “limitations” that would supposedly reduce habitual mortal sins to venial sins or even mere faults posing no impediment to Holy Communion.
But God Incarnate admitted of no such “exceptions” when He decreed by His divine authority: “Every one that putteth away his wife, and marrieth another, committeth adultery: and he that marrieth her that is put away from her husband, committeth adultery (Lk 16:18).” Every one.
Other subheadings:
• “Exceptions” to the Moral Law Cannot be Confined
• Ignoring All Entreaties, You Forge Ahead with Your “Revolution”
• We Must Oppose You
For the rest of document, go to :
http://www.cfnews.org/page88/files/620701cd08ba49e80312ae1ae26d4104-635.html
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Overview of CF
How Common is CF?
How Does CF Develop?
What Causes CF?
Chronic Cough
Chronic Sinus Infections
Clubbed Fingers & Toes
Greasy & Bulky Stools
Meconium Ileus
Salty Skin
Wheezing & Shortness of Breath
Chest Imaging Tests
End-Stage CF
CFTR Modulators
Kalydeco
Orkambi
Symdeko
Trikafta
Mucus Thinners
Treating Exacerbations
Complementary & Alternative Treatments
Common Complications
Respiratory Complications
Exacerbations
GI Complications
Malnutrition & Underweight
Poor Growth (Children)
CF-Related Diabetes
Pancreas Issues
CF-Related Arthritis
Complications (Women)
CF & Infertility
Living with CF
Cleaning Nebulizers
Working with CF
Relationships & Intimacy
CF Community
Physical Activity & Exercise
Smoking & Secondhand Smoke
Drinking Alcohol
Involving Children in Care
Transitioning to Adult Care
Children (8-12 years old)
Teens (13-17 years old)
Young Adults (18-25 years old)
Caring for Siblings
Daycare & School
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Coping with CF
What Are Common Respiratory Complications of Cystic Fibrosis?
The respiratory system has two parts:
The upper respiratory system (the nose, sinuses, pharynx, and trachea)
The lower respiratory system (the lungs and bronchus)
Respiratory complications are the most common complications of cystic fibrosis (CF). That’s because CF’s faulty gene prevents the normal flow of salt and water in and out of the cells in the lungs and other organs, creating a thick, sticky mucus. This mucus provides an exceptional breeding ground for many bacteria and viruses. This makes lung and sinus infections among the most common symptoms of CF.1-5
Common causes of respiratory complications
A pathogen is a term for any infectious organism or germ that causes disease, such as a virus, bacteria, fungus, protozoa, or prion. The bacteria and viruses that people with CF get most often include:
Staphylococcus aureus (staph)
Haemophilus influenza (flu)
Burkholderia cepacian
Mycobacteria (Mycobacterium abscessus and Mycobacterium avium-intracellulare)
Achromobacter (Alcaligenes or Acinetobacter) xylosoxidans
Stenotrophomonas maltophilia
These pathogens tend to lead quickly to exacerbations, or serious illness in people with CF. Because people with CF battle these infections so often, they tend to be at risk for antibiotic resistance, meaning these vital drugs stop working to fight the infections.
Lung infections and cystic fibrosis
The wet environment of the lungs makes it an attractive target for germs. Normally, the body removes bacteria and viruses as we breathe. However, in people with CF, thick mucus slows or prevents the efficient removal of pathogens, leaving these germs to settle in and grow in the lungs.
As the germ reproduces, the body’s immune system responds to the infection with inflammation. This inflammation causes the lining of the lungs to swell, which leads the immune system to respond by creating more mucus.
Infection weakens the immune system, which leads to more frequent lung infections. Over time lung infections can lead to bronchiectasis and other complications.
Bronchiectasis and cystic fibrosis
Bronchiectasis (brong-kee-EK-ta-sis) is a type of lung damage by infection and inflammation. It occurs when the bronchi (walls of the airways) that carry air in and out of the lungs thicken and widen, then become flabby and scarred. CF causes almost 50% of the cases of bronchiectasis in the U.S.2
As the bronchi become less able to clear mucus from the lungs, it creates an environment where dust, bacteria, virus and fungi stay too long in the lungs, leading to more serious lung infections.
Each infection damages the airways still more, leading to greater susceptibility for infection and declining lung function. Over time, this prevents enough oxygen from reaching the other vital organs, which puts a strain on the heart and lungs that can lead to respiratory failure and heart failure.
Sinusitis and cystic fibrosis
There are four pairs of air-filled spaces in the head called the sinus cavity. When these spaces become inflamed and clogged with mucus, the area can become infected. This is known as sinusitis, or a sinus infection. Sinusitis is common in people with CF.
Common symptoms include a stuffy nose, pain in the face, sore throat (from post-nasal drip), cough, headache, mouth breathing, poor sense of smell, reduced sense of hearing, and a constant need to clear the throat.
People with CF often also have nasal polyps, and about 20% of people with CF also experience allergies that make them more vulnerable to sinus infections.3
What is a pneumothorax?
Pneumothorax is a collection of air outside the lung between the lung and the chest wall. This condition can be painful and cause shortness of breath. It is a side effect of the lung infections common to CF. A small pneumothorax may not require hospitalization, but a large one does.4
Treatment for respiratory complications in people with cystic fibrosis
Respiratory complications, whether in the lungs or sinuses, are generally treated with a combination of therapies and may vary widely from person to person. These include: antibiotics, bronchodilators, inhaled steroids, increased frequency of airway clearance treatments, mucus thinners, and oral anti-inflammatory medicines. CFTR modulators do not attack the infection but may help the body work better by improving the function of the mutated CFTR protein.2,3
People with CF, and their friends and family can take many steps to reduce their risk of infection, including remaining at least six feet from other people with CF.
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Cystic Fibrosis Foundation. Why Are Some Germs Particularly Dangerous for People With CF? Available at: https://www.cff.org/Life-With-CF/Daily-Life/Germs-and-Staying-Healthy/What-Are-Germs/Why-Are-Some-Germs-Particularly-Dangerous-for-People-With-CF. Accessed 4/29/2019.
National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute. Bronchiectasis. Available at: https://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/health-topics/bronchiectasis. Accessed 4/29/2019.
Stanford Medicine-The Cystic Fibrosis Center at Stanford. Sinusitis. Available at: https://med.stanford.edu/cfcenter/facts/CFNews-Sinusitis.html. 4/29/2019.
Cystic Fibrosis Foundation. Pneumothorax and Hemoptysis Clinical Care Guidelines. Available at: https://www.cff.org/Care/Clinical-Care-Guidelines/Respiratory-Clinical-Care-Guidelines/Pneumothorax-and-Hemoptysis-Clinical-Care-Guidelines. Accessed 4/29/2019.
Elborn JS. Cystic fibrosis. Lancet 2016; 388: 2519–31. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(16)00576-6.
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Posted on June 10, 2007 September 16, 2018 by Bryant Frazer
Hostel Part II (2007)
The problem with Hostel Part II isn’t its sadism. (Actually, there’s only one graphic torture scene, unless you count an abortive attempt that sends a would-be sadist blubbering from the room.) And the problem isn’t its sexism. (The female stereotypes are deliberately stoopid and thus represent an effort at cleverness rather than outright misogyny.) No, the problem with this horror sequel is its laziness.
Writer/director Eli Roth showed some stuff, I think, with his energetic flesh-eating-virus gorefest debut, Cabin Fever. Inconsequential but enjoyably nasty (and perhaps inadvertently timely following 2001’s anthrax scare), it was a bracing departure from the self-reflexive teen horror cycle that had been threatening to crawl inside its own navel. Hostel was more conceptually audacious, inviting viewers to share a Eurail pass with a couple of dumb American students looking for good times in Europe. When the duo makes an unplanned detour from Amsterdam to the former Eastern Bloc — in hopes of taking advantage of lonely women in poorer countries — the would-be exploiters become, decidedly and spectacularly, exploitees.
The sequel isn’t more of the same, exactly — because the gimmick is no longer fresh, Roth doesn’t have the luxury of the kind of peek-a-boo games he played before revealing the dark torture chambers of Hostel — but it’s no departure, either. The most obvious change is a gender swap. This time around, the protagonists are a trio of vacationing young women. Where the first film’s victims were lured to Hosteltown by the whiff of easy pussy, these girls are hooked on the promise of really good spa treatments. And where Hostel‘s kids were just a couple of dumbfuck horndogs, Roth can’t resist deploying generic genre stereotypes for the sequel — say hello to The Slut (Bijou Phillips), The Nerd (Heather Matarazzo), and multifaceted Good Girl (Lauren German), who works overtime as the Rich Girl and, of course, the Final Girl.
That’s fair enough, because you’d expect Roth to at least have some fun with the tired characters who populate the film. But there are no surprises to be had, and the script feels like a first draft. For instance, Roth abruptly dispatches Heather Matarazzo’s character, Loma, about midway through the movie in an over-the-top set piece that plays like an insert from a 1970s Eurotrash horror picture. It could be a truly queasy spectacle if we had any reason to care what happens to the poor girl, but Roth has been directing Matarazzo into a freakish performance that’s several times more garish than her feature debut in the seriocomic Welcome to the Dollhouse. As disconcerting as it is to see her suspended upside-down from the ceiling, breasts flopping lamely, that spectacle is barely more grotesque than the uncharitably soulless role Roth stuck her with. It’s less that she’s a sacrificial virgin and more that she’s a helpless thing being put out of her misery.
There are enough ideas here to make it clear Roth’s not completely clueless, yet Hostel Part II is indifferently scripted and ineptly directed. A no-doubt-intentional irony is that the film’s gawky virgin appears mostly nude, while the sexed-up Whitney (Bijou Phillips) retains her modesty throughout, but so what? Another wrinkle is Roth’s decision to dedicate screen time to perpetrators Todd and Stuart, American businessmen who’ve grown bored with Asian sex tourism and expect actual murder to take their alpha-dog confidence to the next level. Those scenes have the tantalizing whiff of Neil LaBute about them, but they’re executed limply — which makes the eventual pay-offs less satisfying. (And Roth doesn’t have the Abel Ferrara or Wes Craven scuzziness he’d need to execute a proper rape-revenge sequence.) Improbably, he’s most successful flirting with a Haneke-style critique of the spectator, as he dares to obscure a key decapitation from the audience’s view.
The general problem, I think, is a director who’s uncommitted, or has lost his nerve. Far from the misanthropic spectacle suggested by his earlier work, Hostel Part II feels studio-safe and focus-grouped. The newly sexualized torture is balanced by the quasi-feminist denouement; the quasi-feminist denouement is mitigated by the idea that your ability to survive is closely related to the size of your checkbook. The ridiculous, just-fooling coda (involving a severed head and something fun to do with it) is just more bet-hedging — the joke’s on you if you take any of this seriously. Or, keep moving; there’s nothing to see here. D
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Survey reveals big problem for Mississippi business owners
JACKSON, Miss. (WTVA) – A recent survey by the Mississippi Secretary of State’s Office reveals a big issue for business owners in Mississippi.
The survey of thousands of business owners revealed common hurdles to starting a business, investigating and expanding operations in the Magnolia State.
The biggest issue is the lack of an educated workforce.
“We need more jobs, higher wages and greater opportunities for all Mississippians, but the message businesses are sending us is clear,” said Secretary of State Delbert Hosemann. “We will fail to accomplish these goals if we do not have an educated workforce.”
Among other responses, the survey shows:
About 75 percent of Mississippi businesses find it moderately to significantly difficult to find an educated workforce;
It takes more than 47 percent of businesses three months to a year (or more) to find a qualified employee for an open position;
About 45 percent of current businesses said they would expand in Mississippi if they had an educated workforce;
More than 45 percent of businesses require employees to hold a two-year degree or higher; and
More than 30 percent of businesses said an educated workforce is most important to their business, and 20 percent said community support was most important.
Source: WTVA
Don’t Forget to Vote Tuesday
Hosemann leads all elected officials in approval ratings
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Army aiming for autonomy in the cockpit
NASHVILLE, TN -- The Army needs to move away from ground control stations and put more autonomy in aircraft to fight in megacities, according to the service's project manager for unmanned aircraft systems.
Boeing makes case for Chinook Block II as Army proposes cancellation
NASHVILLE, TN -- Boeing is trying to convince lawmakers to preserve the Chinook Block II upgrade as the Army prepares to make a final decision on the program’s fate in two to three years, according to the service's vice chief of staff.
Navy seeking information from contractors for TH-XX training
The Navy earlier this month issued a request for information to identify contractors capable of providing ground-based training for the service's new training helicopter, dubbed TH-XX, according to a Federal Business Opportunities notice.
Army releases RFI for FLRAA amid concerns with development strategy
The Army has released a request for information for the Future Long-Range Assault Aircraft, a multiservice effort to replace the Black Hawk helicopter as soon as 2030.
Army to phase out all A-model Black Hawks by 2024
The Army plans to replace all UH-60 Black Hawk A models in the National Guard by fiscal year 2022 and in the active force by 2024, according to a service official.
Esper to industrial base: Get on the modernization 'bus'
Army Secretary Mark Esper is telling the defense industrial base to get on board with the service's modernization goals amid concerns over the service's drastic reallocation of funds from legacy upgrades and other programs to the defined six priorities in its fiscal year 2020 budget.
FVL CFT preparing to wrap up next-generation rotorcraft S&T effort
HUNTSVILLE, AL -- The Army's Future Vertical Lift cross-functional team is nearly ready for the competitive phase of its Future Long-Range Assault Aircraft program after establishing the base requirements for a future rotorcraft through the Joint Multi-Role Technology Demonstrator.
Navy hangs $1.1 billion price tag on new training helo program
The Navy's fiscal year 2020 budget request pegs the service's upcoming training helicopter program with a total procurement cost of at least $1.1 billion for 109 aircraft, according to budget documents.
Army quadruples FARA funding in FY-20 to speed up schedule
The Army nearly quadruples funding for the Future Attack Reconnaissance Aircraft in its fiscal year 2020 request over its FY-19 projection as the service plans to rapidly pull forward development of the light-attack reconnaissance helicopter.
Chinook upgrade headed for Army chopping block
In a show of strict commitment to the Army's six modernization priorities, the service is ending the next-generation Block II upgrade program for the Chinook cargo helicopter after fiscal year 2020, according to the service's under secretary.
Army's FY-20 budget has major R&D investments for modernization
The Army's $182.3 billion fiscal year 2020 budget request would advance key service priorities through new research and development projects, including funding for contract awards supporting the Next Generation Combat Vehicle program and completion of the initial design phase for a major helicopter replacement program.
Army's FY-20 budget request shows major R&D investments for modernization
CRH program aims for September 2019 milestone C decision despite DOT&E warning
The Combat Rescue Helicopter program office is aiming for a September 2019 milestone C decision, despite concerns from the Pentagon’s senior weapons tester.
ATEC protests GE's Apache, Black Hawk engine replacement win
Advanced Turbine Engine Co. said today it has filed a protest with the Government Accountability Office against the Army's award to General Electric Aviation for the Improved Turbine Engine Program, intended to replace the engines in the AH-64 Apache and UH-60 Black Hawk helicopters.
SIGAR: Afghanistan Black Hawk program at risk of pilot, personnel shortage
The Pentagon's effort to modernize the Afghan Air Force with UH-60 Black Hawk helicopters may lack trained pilots and maintenance personnel to operate the new aircraft, according to a bi-annual report submitted to Congress.
DOT&E recommends adjusting CRH program schedule
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Boeing, Lockheed opt out of TH-XX competition following RFP publication
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DOD IG: Navy spent $1.4B on helos 'it did not need' until FY-20, will spend $2M annually to maintain aircraft
The Navy spent $1.4 billion on backup helicopters "it did not need" until fiscal year 2020, and will spend $2 million annually to store those aircraft as a result of requirements offices not informing one another of schedule changes, according to a new government watchdog report.
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ITEP downselect expected in early 2019
Vendors competing in the Army's Improved Turbine Engine Program expect the service to downselect to one design in early 2019.
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Cognition, Intelligence February 21, 2008 October 9, 2018
Has average intelligence started to decline?
After years on the increase, average intelligence test performance could be in decline. That’s according to Thomas Teasdale and David Owen who took advantage of the Danish tradition of testing the intelligence of all 18-year-old men being considered for conscription into military service.
Consistent with the observed world-wide increase in average intelligence – the Flynn Effect – the 25,000 young men assessed for military service in Denmark in 1999 performed significantly better, by about 2 IQ points, than the 33,000 tested in 1988. However, the 23,000 men tested in 2003/2004 performed significantly worse than the 1998 group, at a level almost equivalent to the 1988 cohort. This apparent decline in average intelligence matches a similar observation made in Norway among their conscripts.
So what’s causing this reversal in braininess? Teasdale and Owen rule out any effect of diet – after all, there’s been no change in average height, which would be expected to suffer if diet quality had deteriorated.
Prior research found that test performance was higher among those men with a negative attitude towards military service. On that basis, Teasdale and Owen also reject the suggestion that the decline could be due to malingering – that is, deliberate poor performance on the intelligence test to avoid military service.
Instead, the researchers surmise that the performance decline is due to “some qualitative change in the emphasis on abstract reasoning and problem-solving within the Danish educational system or a decreased emphasis on speed”. They also cite a rising proportion of immigrants in the young population as another possible contributing factor.
Finally, Teasdale and Owen noted that with average intelligence test scores beginning to rise in developing countries, the decline observed here, if representative of a larger pattern, could mark the beginning of the end for any observed differences in average IQ test scores between nations.
TEASDALE, T., OWEN, D. (2008). Secular declines in cognitive test scores: A reversal of the Flynn Effect. Intelligence, 36(2), 121-126. DOI: 10.1016/j.intell.2007.01.007
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10 thoughts on “Has average intelligence started to decline?”
Is that a random sample of male 18-year olds or are they in some way (self-) selected?
It’s all 18-year-olds in Denmark for a given year. Conscription is compulsory so they all have to go along to be assessed (unless they have medical exception). The numbers have declined over the years because of a falling birth-rate and more men being disqualified for medical reasons.
Hettie says:
“Prior research found that test performance was higher among those men with a negative attitude towards military service. On that basis, Teasdale and Owen also reject the suggestion that the decline could be due to malingering”at the same time it would be good to know the percentage of 18-year olds getting exemption on medical ground. It might be that brainier ones are better at getting exempted…The paper was a good read though and it’ll be interesting to see where things will go in the future.
@ hettie:a good read?? yeah, it is always a good read to hear that average intelligence is declining.
Ivo says:
The massive use of computer technologies doesn’t allow young people’s brain muscles to develop. Any media, according to McLuhan, is at the same time an extension and a castration. Google for instance is an extension and a castration concerning our research and answer-finding capabilities.
This all presupposes, of course, that not only is there something called ‘IQ’, and that ‘IQ’ can be measured; but also that an ‘IQ test’ actually measures accurately that thing called ‘IQ’. Most likely, all that is being demonstrated here is a difference in manner/mode/type of education over time that emphasises or trains or favours slightly differing aspects of human functioning (‘intelligence’); leading to differing results when these tests are taken by different groups over time.
mjr says:
The average intelligenceo of Americans has been in decline for years – just look at the presidents!
The average intelligence of Americans has been in decline for years – just look at news story comments and craigslist ads.
Idiocracy!
It has been shown in a great many different studies that people of lower intelligence tend to have on average significantly more children than those of higher intelligence. Given than environmental challenges no longer cull less intelligent people from the populace it is a simple matter of survival of the fittest. Horny stupid people simply out breed smarter individuals that naturally reproduce less successfully. Expect to see a world populated by very attractive, horny and dim people in the centuries to come.
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Why TV ad buyers don’t yet see connected TV threatening linear TV budgets
Connected TV advertising is not stealing ad dollars away from linear TV so much as redirecting how those traditional TV dollars are being spent. While TV advertisers are moving more of their money to advertise against the content that people stream over the internet to their big-screen TVs, that money is usually connected to the money they continue to spend on linear TV, according to agency executives.
Connected TV is “a complement. It’s definitely not a substitute [for linear TV],” said Garrett Winkler, director and connected TV lead at Modi Media, GroupM’s advanced TV unit. “You look at the Nielsen numbers, and the time spent on linear TV is more than connected TV. But that’s changing a little bit.
That TV advertisers’ connected TV dollars are often tied to their linear TV dollars is, in some ways, a reflection of the challenges that TV advertisers face in adapting to the new channel. For example, TV advertisers are used to buying ads based on the content they will appear against, but connected TV advertising is broadly sold on an audience basis, like digital advertising, without advertisers knowing what content will carry their ads. That lack of transparency and control, as well as more favorable pricing, has spurred TV advertisers to deal directly with publishers for connected TV campaigns, which has further reinforced the connection between connected TV and linear TV.
TV networks have seized on connected TV as an opportunity to ease TV advertisers into the new channel while tethering those investments to linear TV by selling their OTT inventory as an extension of traditional TV deals. During the annual upfront negotiations, TV networks are increasingly pitching so-called “fluidity” deals. In these deals, the networks’ linear and OTT inventory is bundled together so that an ad may run wherever the audience is. That type of tie-up is expected to be even more prevalent in this year’s upfront negotiations. “One of the things I expect to see heat up this year is how connected TV rounds out the ways that people are delivering their TV budgets,” said an agency exec who asked to not be named.
TV advertisers typically see connected TV as a way to add incremental reach to their linear TV campaigns, according to agency execs. For example, streaming TV services, be it Hulu’s, YouTube’s, Sling TV or DirecTV Now, syndicate the same ads running on traditional pay-TV services but show them to people who have cut the cord without any additional effort or investment by the advertiser. Similarly TV networks’ OTT apps often require people to log in with their cable or satellite accounts to stream a show, turning that inventory into a safety net to catch people who have not cut the cord but are untethering themselves to an extent.
However TV advertisers are also using connected TV to augment their TV campaigns in a different way. Instead of simply ensuring that they reach people tuning into traditional TV through non-traditional means, TV advertisers are taking advantage of connected TV’s technological edge to find the people they can’t reach through the streaming TV safety nets and to follow up with those they did reach on linear TV.
Roku and Samsung already take advantage of smart TVs’ built-in automated content recognition technology to track what people watch on linear TV networks in order to target them with ads when those people are streaming videos on their connected TV platforms. That enables advertisers to round out their addressable TV campaigns by targeting households that are not exposed to the ad on linear TV, said Mike Piner, svp of video and data-driven investments at MullenLowe’s Mediahub. The ACR technology and corresponding targeting options also enable advertisers to retarget people who had seen their linear TV ads with follow-up ads that could take advantage of the belief among advertisers that connected TV viewers are more receptive to ads because they are actively choosing what they want to watch and therefore more willing to sit through an ad, said the unnamed exec.
TV advertisers may not be investing connected TV for its own sake so much as to shore up their linear TV campaigns. However connected TV’s supporting role does not mean it is stuck taking a backseat to traditional TV. Instead, by enabling advertisers to ease into it, its complementary status could clear the path for more traditional TV money to move into the connected TV market and potentially make its way to other types of sellers.
‘Nascent space’: Connected TV is grappling with ad frequency issues
‘A turning point’: Buyers are adopting TV-style co-viewing metrics for connected TV
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Multiscale integration: beyond internalism and externalism
Ramstead, MJD; Kirchhoff, MD; Constant, A; Friston, KJ; (2019) Multiscale integration: beyond internalism and externalism. Synthese 10.1007/s11229-019-02115-x. (In press).
Multiscale integration beyond internalism and externalism.pdf - Published version
We present a multiscale integrationist interpretation of the boundaries of cognitive systems, using the Markov blanket formalism of the variational free energy principle. This interpretation is intended as a corrective for the philosophical debate over internalist and externalist interpretations of cognitive boundaries; we stake out a compromise position. We first survey key principles of new radical (extended, enactive, embodied) views of cognition. We then describe an internalist interpretation premised on the Markov blanket formalism. Having reviewed these accounts, we develop our positive multiscale account. We argue that the statistical seclusion of internal from external states of the system—entailed by the existence of a Markov boundary—can coexist happily with the multiscale integration of the system through its dynamics. Our approach does not privilege any given boundary (whether it be that of the brain, body, or world), nor does it argue that all boundaries are equally prescient. We argue that the relevant boundaries of cognition depend on the level being characterised and the explanatory interests that guide investigation. We approach the issue of how and where to draw the boundaries of cognitive systems through a multiscale ontology of cognitive systems, which offers a multidisciplinary research heuristic for cognitive science.
10.1007/s11229-019-02115-x
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Boundaries of cognition, Variational free energy principle, Externalism, Internalism, Enactive cognition, Embodied cognition, Markov blankets
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Iridessa is one of the main characters in the Disney Fairies franchise. She is a medium-skinned light talent fairy and is the first to voice discomfort about Tinker Bell not wanting to accept her job as a tinker.
In an early interview with Raven-Symoné for the original Tinker Bell film, she noted that the role of Iridessa was given to her when she was eighteen. She also noted that when she first approached the character, she gave the character a very high-pitched stereotypical fairy voice. The filmmakers suggested that she simply use her natural voice, which gave the light fairy a more realistic outlook. She has the mop of hair since the talent fairy.
Iridessa is one of the most talented fairies, not only as a light fairy, but a fairy overall. She is unmatched at what she does as a fairy and takes great pride in it. Being a very bright and shining girl full of perk and energy, her profession as light fairy fits her perfectly.
Iridessa is a detail-oriented perfectionist. She finds joy in things that go her way and hates it when even one thing is out of place. Iridessa constantly strives to maintain perfection and balance around Pixie Hollow, believing that her way is the best and only way to go about it.
Iridessa is very persistent and determined in achieving one of her goals. She shows amazing vitality in the face of any obstacle, no matter how painstaking for her it is. Iridessa never lets herself falter, and will eventually be successful in the end.
Iridessa can also be a bit of worrywart, preferring to stay out of trouble and take few risks in order to stay safe. Iridessa can automatically tell the dangers of a situation, which can make her very cautious about her surroundings. Her friends often mistake this a paranoia, so they don't often take her advice, even Iridessa knows what's best.
Even when Iridessa tries to see the bright side of things, she can still be somewhat worrisome towards any possible negative outcome. It can take some convincing to get her to go along with a risky or dangerous plan (a stubbornness that Tink certainly has too).
Nevertheless, Iridessa can always remain optimistic, even in times of worry and peril. Even though she is usually the most cautious out of her friends, she can still shine even brighter than any fairy around, in order to keep the peace in her circle of friendship.
In the end, she will do anything to help a friend.
Film appearances
Iridessa is first seen at Tinker Bell's arrival, alongside her friends and other light-talent fairies. They quickly befriend the newcomer Tinker Bell upon her first full day in Pixie Hollow. One day, however, while getting their supply of pixie dust, Iridessa, Rosetta, Silvermist and Fawn are greeted by an excitable Tink who tells her friends that she plans on changing her talent, so she can be able to travel to the mainland alongside them. Like the rest of her friends, Iridessa is hesitant to follow through with such an idea and is actually the last of Tink's friends to accept the idea.
After training to become a water-talent fairy ends in failure, Tink attempts to become a light fairy. Iridessa attempted to teach her how to catch light and bestow upon lightning bugs. Like the water fairy training, the light talent training ends in disaster. After more failed attempts with Rosetta and Fawn, Tinker Bell finds a lost music box and begins to repair it. Unbeknown to her, Iridessa and the others were witnessing the event silently and are proud to see Tinker Bell putting her talent to good use.
Later on, Pixie Hollow is preparing to go off to the mainland to change the seasons, but the preparations are destroyed by a stampede of sprinting thistles. The damage is so great that Queen Clarion is forced to call off the trip to the mainland. Tink puts her talent to good use once more and creates an array of inventions capable of restoring the preparations within a few hours.
In the finale, Iridessa and the others are able to go to the mainland on schedule, with Tink tagging along to return the music box.
Iridessa in Tinker Bell and the Lost Treasure.
In the sequel, Iridessa is first seen at the opening, carrying on with her normal duties of changing the seasons on the mainland. Later on, she is seen with Silvermist at Fairy Tale Theater and was apparently spooked by the story that was just told. The next day, Iridessa is taking a flight with Silvermist and Rosetta when Tinker Bell approaches them and asks for extra pixie dust. The reason why is unknown to Iridessa and the others, but they have to deny her request as they need all the pixie dust they can use for their trips to the mainland.
Later on, Iridessa is seen making preparations for the blue harvest moon festival. In the end, she is seen with her friends, celebrating Tink's successful duty to bestow blue pixie dust upon Pixie Hollow.
In this film, Iridessa and the other fairies attend a summer camp. When Tinker Bell is captured by the human girl named Lizzy, she joins her friends on their quest to rescue her. At one point, Vidia gets trapped in mud and while Iridessa and the others are trying to pull her out, an oncoming vehicle comes right into their patch, threatening to crush them. Iridessa uses her light to blind the driver, forcing him to stop the truck. When the driver exits the vehicle to see if anyone was around, they grab on to his loose shoelace to get themselves out of the mud. After finding and saving Tink, Iridessa and the others lend their pixie dust to Lizzy in order to save Vidia, who was kidnapped by Lizzy's father and taken to London for study. After the rescue, the fairies and humans make peace and are seen together, having a picnic and reading through Lizzy's research journal on fairies.
Iridessa in Secret of the Wings.
On an ordinary day, Iridessa is carrying on with her normal duties when she heard Tinker Bell broke the fairy laws and crossed the border over to the Winter Woods and froze her wings. Because of the harsh winter climate, warm fairies aren't allowed to cross the border that separates the Winter Woods and the rest of Pixie Hollow. Iridessa, Rosetta, and Silvermist meet up with Tinker Bell, Fawn, and Vidia at the doctor where Tink is said to be just fine. After they depart, Tink tells her friends about how her wings sparkled and glowed when she crossed the border.
Like the others, Iridessa believes it was just the light from the sun, but Tink feels the Winter Woods was calling her. Later that night, Clank gathers Iridessa and the others, who learn that Tinker Bell crossed the border again and met her sister Periwinkle, a frost-talent fairy. Tink plans on creating a snow making machine that will allow Peri to get a tour of Pixie Hollow. Iridessa helps out and the following day, Periwinkle is taken on a breathtaking tour. Iridessa shows Periwinkle her ability to create rainbows, which puts Peri into awe.
However, the hot climate begins to destroy Periwinkle's wings, forcing the frost fairy to return home. Queen Clarion and Lord Milori, the ruler of the Winter Woods, force Tink and Peri to never see each other again. The next day, the snow maker machine goes out of control, so Iridessa and the other evacuate the fairies and animals to the warmth of shelters. Periwinkle and the frost fairies are able to save the Pixie Dust Tree by preserving it, however, thus saving Pixie Hollow and the Winter Woods. Finally, Queen Clarion and Lord Milori allow Tinker Bell and Periwinkle to see each other, as well as allowing warm fairies to cross the border.
Iridessa appeared in the The Pirate Fairy, where she and her friends magically swapped talents because of the multi-colored dust that Zarina experimented with and made. Iridessa became a garden fairy.
Iridessa appears in the sixth Tinker Bell film along with the other fairies.
Artwork for Iridessa from Iridessa, Lost at Sea.
At the beginning of Vidia and the Fairy Crown, Iridessa talks briefly when Queen Clarion asks everyone if they have seen her crown.
Iridessa is seen briefly in Fira and the Full Moon when all the light-talents eat together. Then again at the arrival of the triplets, Sparkle, Helios, and Glory.
In Tink, North of Never Land, Terence gives Iridessa her daily cup of fairy dust. She then showed him a light show with sparkles of every color. She is seen again at the end having been worried about Tink, and happy to see her.
In Iridessa, Lost at Sea, she is attacked by an owl and then appointed by Queen Clarion to find a way to get rid of it. Tink comes and helps Iridessa with ideas. They have a fight about what they should do, Tink goes to find a bottle and Iridessa goes after her. They accidentally get trapped in the bottle and thrown off the ship. They encounter several creatures along the way including a sea turtle, the mermaids Numi and Oola, then a colorful crab. They made a boat out of the bottle than washed along the shore when Beck found them and helped them back to Pixie Hollow. The light-talents then helped put sunbeams in the bottle to scare away the owl. They put the bottle in this nest forcing him to leave.
Pixie Hollow Games
Iridessa in Pixie Hollow Games.
In the television special, Iridessa represents the light-talent fairies and takes the position of team captain with Lumina as her team partner. During the teacup challenge, Iridessa sparks too much pixie dust on her teacup that both Iridessa, Lumina and the teacup fly on top of the cave, causing them to get eliminated from the competition.
Iridessa makes an appearance during the Pixie Hollow mini-game.
Iridessa used to meet at Disneyland's Pixie Hollow. In the spring, a topiary of Iridessa can be found in Epcot for the Flower and Garden Festival. In the Spring of 2010, Iridessa and her fellow fairies were featured in Fairies Primavera at Tokyo DisneySea. She is no longer seen in any park and is now a retired character.
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Iridessa on Disney Fairies Wiki
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Princess (later Queen) Ariel is the main protagonist of The Little Mermaid trilogy and TV show. In the sequel The Little Mermaid II: Return to the Sea, she serves as the deuteragonist. She has vivid flowing red hair and blue eyes. When she was a mermaid she had green fins and a lavender seashell bra. She is voiced by Jodi Benson.
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Ariel was the 16-year-old daughter of the sea king, King Triton, who hated humans. However, she wanted to know more about the humans and was fascinated by them. Her goal was set when she fell in love with a human prince Eric. Desperate, she traded her voice with the sea witch Ursula for human legs, which would last for three days. Before the sunset of the third day, she had to let Prince Eric kiss her with true love's kiss in order for her to become human permanently. However, Ursula kept thwarting Ariel's plans. By the third day, Ursula changed into a human with Ariel's voice, enchanting the prince. Nonetheless, Ariel had her voice back, but her father was changed into a polyp, and Ursula gained control of the trident and the seven seas. In the end, Eric stabbed Ursula with a broken ship, killing her. King Triton felt symphamthy for his daughter and bestowed her with legs.
She and Eric lived happily ever after. As depicted in the 1989 film, Ariel is the youngest of King Triton's seven daughters, and is 16 years old. Ariel has a vast fascination with the world of humans, despite such contact being forbidden by her father, King Triton, who is xenophobic, meaning that he hates humans. At the beginning of the film, Princess Ariel and her fish friend Flounder swim through a shipwreck where they salvage human items. During their adventure, the two are attacked by a shark, but Ariel manages to outwit the vicious creature. After escaping the shark, Ariel and Flounder swim up to the surface, where they speak to Scuttle to identify human objects. Scuttle misidentifies a fork as a "dinglehopper" used to straighten their hairs and a pipe as a "snarfblatt" used to make music. The identification of the latter remind Ariel about the concert she was initially supposed to a part of. After Ariel is watched by two eels, Flotsam and Jetsam, Ursula the Sea Witch watches from her crystal ball bubble and wants them to keep an extra close watch on her.
Ariel hurries home to her father King Triton and Sebastian the crab, who both rebuke her for missing the concert. Hearing from Flounder about Ariel's encounter with a seagull, King Triton reprimands Ariel for going up to the surface, telling her how she could have been spotted by what he calls "barbarians" who could have snared her with a fishhook. After being demanded by Triton to obey his every rule and not to swim up to the surface again, Ariel tearfully swims off to her secret grotto, where her collection of human objects, from books to other regular objects, such as globes, mugs and chests of jewels, is kept. She feels that collecting human objects isn't enough and gets more curious about the world above the ocean, even expressing her desire to actually live among the humans.
Later, Ariel spots a ship passing above. Incited, she quickly swims up to the surface and toward the ship, where she watches the party on board. She then spots a male human by the name of Prince Eric and remarks to Scuttle how she has never seen a human this close before. Just then, a storm moves in and destroys the ship. Ariel looks around for Eric and finds him unconscious in the sea. She carries him to the shore, where she sings to him how she longs to be with him in his world, but is forced to leave when others approach. Ariel falls in love with the prince and becomes even more determined to accomplish her dreams of living alongside humanity. Back at Atlantica, Ariel's other sisters notice her humming dreamily, giving them a notion that she is in love. Ariel comes up with a plan to somehow see Eric again, but Sebastian tries to talk her out of it, telling her how life under the sea is better than the world up above through the song Under the Sea.
While Sebastian tries to entertain Ariel with a band of crustaceans producing music, Flounder comes over to Ariel to tell her something, and they both swim off. Flounder takes Ariel to her grotto, where he surprises her with a statue of Eric that Flounder has somehow salvaged from Eric's destroyed ship and added into Ariel's collection. Ariel thanks Flounder, but then faces her stern father, who is very upset to learn from Sebastian that she has rescued a human being from drowning. Shocked and enraged that Ariel is in love with that human, Triton loses all his temper and proceeds to destroy all the human artifacts in the grotto with his trident, including the statue of Eric. Ariel tries plead for her father to stop, but to no avail. Devastated, Ariel breaks down in tears, and an ashamed Triton leaves the grotto. Sebastian, who has accompanied Triton to the grotto, try to console Ariel, only for her to tell him to leave. After Sebastian and Flounder exit the grotto, two eels, Flotsam and Jetsam, appear to convince Ariel to see their mistress Ursula the Sea Witch, who may have the power to make Ariel's dream come true.
Ariel, after initially attempting to refuse, reluctantly follows Flotsam and Jetsam to Ursula's fortress. Ariel nervously and fearfully enters the fortress, and Ursula calls for her. The sea witch, who knows that Ariel is in love with a human through spying on her via Flotsam and Jetsam, tells Ariel that she must become a human herself to be with Eric. Ursula explains the deal to Ariel: Ariel will become human for three days, during which she must get a kiss of true love from Eric before the sun sets on the third day in order to stay human; otherwise, Ariel will turn back into a mermaid and will be bond to Ursula forever. Ursula further states that as part of the deal, Ariel must give up her voice in order to become human.
(Unknown to Ariel, the deal is simply a part of Ursula's sinister plot to take Triton's throne). Ariel, thinking that is her only chance to be with Eric, accepts the deal as she signs a contract conjured by Ursula. The sea witch then orders Ariel to sing for her and summons magical hands to rip out Ariel's voice, which is then sealed into a seashell of Ursula's necklace. Ariel is then turned into a human and is helped to the shore by Flounder and Sebastian due to her inability to swim. At the shore, Scuttle arrives and witnesses Ariel's new legs for the first time.
However, Sebastian is beyond furious, going into a nervous panic at what would happen if she failed to kiss Eric, as well as if King Triton were to find out about the entire event. Frustrated, the crab begins trotting home, only to have Ariel convince him to stay and help, knowing if they reversed the curse and went back home, Ariel would be miserable once again. Now that the mission is set in motion, Scuttle provides some "clothing" for Ariel, just as the group is found by Eric's sheepdog Max, who leads his master to her. When Eric sees Ariel, he finds her familiar, but when he sees that she is unable to talk, he gets the feeling that she cannot be the girl he is looking for. Nevertheless, Eric takes Ariel to his palace, where Ariel takes a bath and gets dressed for the dinner.
As Eric, his manservant Grimsby and maid Carlotta join her, Ariel notices a fork and uses it to comb her hair, making the three dumbfounded, which makes her embarrassed. Noticing Grimsby's pipe, Ariel takes it and, thinking it as a musical instrument, blows the contents into Grimsby's face, and Eric laughs at Grimsby's face covered with ash. After Grimsby wipes his face and dinner is served, he suggests that Eric take Ariel out on a kingdom tour, which Ariel accepts. The next day, Eric takes Ariel out to show her his kingdom, whilst Sebastian, Flounder, and Scuttle watch on, anxiously awaiting the moment they finally share the kiss of true love. During the tour, he teaches her to dance and ride a carriage. For Ariel, finally exploring the human world freely, it was the best day of her life, with a constant smile beaming on her face as she curiously experiences the sights and sounds of the kingdom. That evening, Eric and Ariel spend time in a lagoon, riding in a rowboat rowed by Eric.
In order to get the two to kiss, Scuttle tries to provide some romantic stimulation. However, his terrible squawking (mistaken for singing) prompts Sebastian to lead some animals in the lagoon to create the mood with music and his song "Kiss the Girl". Ariel and Eric enjoy the sights and draw closer to a kiss, but before they can, purposely Flotsam and Jetsam tip the boat over by order of the scheming Ursula (who's been watching the couple's development from her undersea lair), prompting Eric to help Ariel out of the water, and thus ruining the kiss. The next day (which is the third and last of Ariel's human days), Scuttle wakes Ariel up and delivers the news that Eric is getting hitched. She excitedly runs downstairs, only to see Eric with a dark-haired girl named Vanessa, whom he intends to marry. Ariel breaks down in tears and runs off, devastated that Eric is not marrying her. Later that afternoon, the wedding ship departs with Eric, the girl, and the wedding guests on board, leaving a heartbroken Ariel to mourn the loss of her dream prince. Just then, Scuttle comes over to tell Ariel a shocking news: the girl Eric is getting married to is the sea witch in disguise.
Recalling Ursula's deal, Ariel jumps into the sea, but has to grab onto one of the barrels released by Sebastian to stay afloat, and Flounder helps her to the wedding ship by pulling the barrel. Just as Ariel reaches the ship and climbs aboard, the seashell of Ursula's necklace that the bride has been wearing shatter in front of Ariel, freeing Ariel's voice, which is then restored to her. Eric, who has come out of a spell placed on him by the girl who seduced him with Ariel's voice, realizes that Ariel is the girl he is looking for. He dumps Vanessa and runs over to Ariel. But just as Eric and Ariel are about to kiss, the sun sets and Ariel turns back into a mermaid and collapses. Vanessa transforms back into Ursula, takes Ariel as her prisoner, and dives back into the sea.
As Ursula thinks of what she should do to Ariel next, Triton appears to confront the sea witch and orders her to release his daughter, to which Ursula refuses. Ariel apologizes to her father as he attempts to destroy the contract, to no avail. Ursula proceeds to wither Ariel, but offers someone even better to take Ariel's place. Triton accepts by blasting his signature on the contract with his trident. Ariel is released, but is forced to watch as her father is withered and transformed into a polyp. Ursula then takes Triton's crown and trident. Shocked and enraged, Ariel confronts Ursula and tries to fight her off, only for the sea witch to destroy the mermaid princess with the trident.
Eric arrives to help Ariel, hitting Ursula with a harpoon. Ursula prepares to destroy Eric with the trident, but an enraged Ariel pulls on Ursula's hair just as the trident shoots, causing the shot to miss Eric and hit Flotsam and Jetsam instead, killing them. After Ursula shortly mourns their loss, she enlarges herself as an even more eviller, nastier, monstrous version. Ariel and Eric try to escape, but then face a towering, gigantic Ursula. The sea witch declares herself as ruler of the ocean who has the power to control the waves and creates a rainstorm and a whirlpool. Ariel is separated from Eric, and Ursula causes her to become trapped at the bottom of a whirlpool. Ursula aims her trident at the princess and fires bolts of pure destruction at the now helpless Ariel, who barely manages to avoid her painful destruction each time. Just as Ursula prepares to use the trident to destroy Ariel with an unavoidable blast and taunting that she will never kiss Eric, Eric plunges the splintered bow of one of the shipwrecks (that have surfaced as a result of the whirlpool) through Ursula's abdomen, killing Ursula and saving Ariel at the last minute.
With Ursula defeated, her spells upon unfortunate merfolk are broken, including the spell cast upon King Triton, who transforms back into a merman. Above the waters, Eric manages to swim to shore, breaking down out of exhaustion as a saddened Ariel watches on from a nearby rock. King Triton and Sebastian look on from a distance; the king finally softening up towards humans upon realizing Eric risked his own life to save Ariel. Knowing the love between his daughter and Eric is pure and true, despite their differences as species, King Triton uses the power of the trident to permanently transform Ariel into a human, allowing her to be with the one she loves, at long last. After the transformation, Ariel walks up to the shore, where she is happily reunited with Eric as he embraces her, and the two share their first kiss. Soon, Ariel and Eric, now married, have a wedding on the wedding ship attended by Eric's loyal subjects onboard and Ariel's family and friends in the sea around the ship. Ariel silently bids farewell to Scuttle and Flounder and gives to Triton a heartwarming hug before happily sailing away with Eric. Thanks to Ariel, Triton accepts Eric, Ariel's new husband, as his new son-in-law.
The Little Mermaid (Television Series)
The prequel series, which first debuted in 1992, takes place during an indeterminate time chronologically before the 1989 film and revolves around Ariel's adventures as a 15 to 16-year old mermaid living under the sea. Most of Ariel's adventures involve her meeting various creatures, getting into trouble and usually getting out of it successfully. Her friends, Flounder and Sebastian, are also featured prominently in the series.
She is also shown to have a friend named Urchin, an orphaned merboy. The series also has her meeting Hans Christian Andersen, which also hints at both her possible birth year (ie. during his lifetime, yet at least 16 years before the writing of The Little Mermaid) and the possible chronological events of the series, due to Ariel being a direct influence on the creation of the story. Ariel continues to be fascinated with human things in the series and is shown collecting items for her grotto; she gives them strange names such as calling an ordinary telescope a "Thing-a-mabob." Many episodes show Ariel working to foil enemies who would do harm to Atlantica. Prince Eric is sometimes shown in the series, but Ariel always just misses seeing him, preserving the continuity that she sees him first in the 1989 film. This is similar to Peter Parker, and Mary Jane in the first comic they met.
Ariel’s sailor gown
Ariel’s palace gown
Ariel’s sailor dress
Ariel became the mother of her daughter, Melody. After Melody got a fish tail from the sea witch Morgana, she gave the witch Triton's magic trident. By doing this, she put all her family members in danger. Meanwhile, Ariel changed back into a mermaid to find her daughter, but was ultimately saved by Melody. In this 2000 direct-to-video sequel, Ariel serves as the deuteragonist. The film shows Ariel as having given birth to a daughter named Melody (the film's protagonist). When we first see Ariel playing with her adorable and very beautiful newborn daughter, many toys of Flounder, Sebastian and other fish can be seen in the room, showing that she misses her old friends and family.
When Melody's safety is threatened by a sea witch named Morgana (sister of Ursula, who died in the 1989 film), Ariel and her husband Eric decide they must keep Melody away from the sea, and to this effect, they build a large wall separating the castle from it. Melody's love of the sea proves too strong, however, and when Melody falls into Morgana's clutches, Ariel is forced to temporarily resume her mermaid form in order to rescue her and save Melody from Morgana's scheme. In this time, Ariel briefly returns to her grotto as seen in the first film, and studies the objects, (which we are left to presume survived King Triton's anger in the first film) and keeps looking for Melody. This sequel features Ariel becoming an over-protective parent for her daughter, effectively taking over the role of her father in the 1989 film. Ariel is the first and only mother of the Disney Princesses.
Ariel appears as a regular guest in the animated television series House of Mouse and its specials, usually sitting with Sebastian and Scuttle. Her appearance alternates irregularly between her human form and mermaid form, depending on what the situation requires. Daisy Duck seems to be a big fan of Ariel and her films, as shown in "Daisy's Debut" and "House of Genius". In the show's opening song, she is seen combing her hair with a fork, like in the original film. In the episode "Jiminy Cricket", while Jiminy Cricket is sharing his wisdom, he states "Never sell your voice to a giant sea witch just because you have a crush on some guy, it's just not worth it." Ariel sits there looking embarrassed and ashamed, and upon hearing this, she snatches the necklace containing her voice away from Ursula, much to Ursula's anger. Also in "Everybody Loves Mickey", Ariel wishes that Mickey could live under the sea with her.
In "Pluto vs. Figaro", she tried to sing on stage, although the set ended up falling on top of her. In "Suddenly Hades", Pete attempted to flood the club to run out the customers, as he could shut down the club if there were no guests. Though he succeeded in flooding the club, he was stopped from closing the club as Ariel was still present. Ariel was also briefly seen in "Pete's House of Villains" where she held up a sign that read "Somebody stole my voice again" since she lost her voice. In "Ask Von Drake", she is seen in Professor Von Drake's song, sitting next to a giant seashell where Ursula is hiding. Ariel also appears in Mickey's Magical Christmas: Snowed in at the House of Mouse. In the film, Ariel, along with Eric and other characters are snowed in and trapped inside the club. Ariel is the first to openly have faith in Mickey Mouse, who she believes will have a plan.
After her mother, Athena, gave King Triton a music box and was later killed by a ship, the king banned all music from his kingdom. His daughter, Ariel, tried to find the truth about the past and saved music from fading away. Years before the events of the original film, a toddler Ariel and her sisters enjoy a music-filled life in Atlantica, with Triton and their mother, the beautiful Queen Athena. The merfolk are shown relaxing in a lagoon above water, and Triton gives Athena a music box. Suddenly, a big pirate ship approaches. Everyone escapes except Athena, who is crushed by the ship when she tries to save the music box. Devastated by Athena's death, Triton throws the music box into the ocean and bans music from the kingdom.
Ten years later, when Ariel was fifteen, she and her sisters live under a strict routine maintained by their governess, Marina Del Rey and her assistant, Benjamin. Marina hates being the girls' governess and longs to be Triton's attaché, a job currently filled by Sebastian. Ariel is frustrated by their current lifestyle, which brings her into conflict with her father. One day, Ariel encounters Flounder, whom she later follows to an underground music club. She is overjoyed by the presence of music, and is shocked when she sees Sebastian performing there. When her presence is revealed, the entire band stops playing and hides, believing Ariel will tell her father about them. Ariel sings a song explaining her love of music and the remembrance of her mother and she joins the club with an oath. Ariel returns to the palace, and sisters confront her over her disappearance. She explains where she was, and the following night all seven girls go to the club to have fun. Marina secretly finds them, and she later reports their activities to Triton. Sebastian, Flounder and the band are sent to jail, while Marina gets the job she wants.
Triton confines his daughters to the palace, which results in Ariel asking him why music isn't allowed. Triton refuses to answer and shouts that he won't have music in his kingdom. Distraught, Ariel confronts Triton and says that Athena wouldn't have wanted music to be forbidden and angrily swims to the girls' bedroom, her saddened sisters soon following, while Marina, who is not the girls' governess anymore, is now Triton's new attaché. That night, she decides to leave Atlantica and frees the jailbirds. Sebastian leads them to a deserted place far from the palace where Ariel finds Athena's music box, as Sebastian hoped. Ariel and Sebastian decide to return to Atlantica to bring the music box to Triton, hoping that it will change his mind, as he has forgotten how to be happy after Athena's death. On the way back, Marina and her electric eels confront Ariel, Flounder, and Sebastian. Before music is restored back into the kingdom, the final battle begins when Marina bans Ariel from going back to Atlantica. Marina wants to stop them so she will retain her position of "power", and a struggle ensues. It ends when Marina barrels towards Sebastian, but Ariel pushes her away, getting hit in the process.
Triton arrives in time to witness this, and he is remorseful for his actions. He sings the lyrics of "Athena's Song", and Ariel wakes up. The film ends with Triton restoring music to Atlantica and appointing Sebastian as the new court composer, much to everyone's glee with Ariel and Flounder. Everyone, including Ariel, Sebastian, Flounder, and six older sisters, rejoices except Marina, who has been sent to prison and is constantly blowing her nose. In the original concept for Ariel's Beginning, then known as The Little Mermaid III, Ariel, alongside Sebastian, were supposed to accompany Eric in locating a white whale.
Ariel appeared in the special Sofia the First: The Floating Palace. She was the first princess to be seen twice in an episode. She is summoned to help Sofia with her trouble of saving her mermaid friend and her family's ship in danger and sings "The Love We Share" to encourage Sofia to enlist Cora to help her save Oona. She is seen at the end of the special by the floating palace jumping into the water.
In Ralph Breaks the Internet, Ariel appears as a netizen resident of Oh My Disney. She and the other Disney princesses work as cast members that meet-and-greet net users. When Vanellope von Schweetz is confronted by First Order Stormtroopers, she glitches into the princesses' backstage room; Ariel is seen combing her hair with a dinglehopper at her vanity. The princesses mistake Vanellope for a threat, and charge at her with various weapons at hand; Ariel wields a dinglehopper. Vanellope explains that she's actually a princess, as well, prompting Pocahontas to ask what kind of princess she is. Ariel questions is Vanellope made a deal with an underwater sea witch in exchange for human legs, but to Ariel's relief, Vanellope denies. When Jasmine asks if Vanellope has "daddy issues", she notes that she doesn't even have a mom, to which Ariel relates.
Shortly after, Cinderella takes a liking to Vanellope's casual attire. She asks her mice to seam comfy outfits for each of the princesses. Ariel dons green shorts and a blue shirt that reads lyrics to "Part of Your World". Ariel is overwhelmingly delighted to finally have a shirt, and expresses through song that she's always dreamed of one day wearing one before Vanellope cuts her off. Vanellope questions Ariel's singing, but the other princesses explain that they've all had songs that help them express their desires. They encourage Vanellope to find her song, but the results are not very impressive.
During the climax of the film, Ariel and the Disney princesses spot Wreck-It Ralph falling to his doom. They rally together to rescue him, and do so using their unique skills. Moana summons the ocean, which Ariel dives into. She then swims upward, creating a spiral with the water. When Ariel emerges, she lands on Jasmine's magic carpet, from where Elsa freezes the sea while in its spiral formation, creating a slide for Wreck-It Ralph to safely descend. After Ralph is safe, the princesses formally introduce themselves as friends of Vanellope.
In a trailer for Season 3, Ariel is seen stealing Grumpy's fork and disappears into the sea. She made her debut in Episode 6 titled "Ariel" and was portrayed by Joanna García. In her debut episode she saves Snow White from drowning after Snow jumps off a cliff to avoid The Evil Queen's guards. Ariel tells Snow White that once a year a mermaid can walk on land, though only for the 12 hours between high tides. She then tells Snow White she saved Prince Eric (played by Gil McKinney) a year before and has been in love with him ever since. Snow White knowing what love at first sight is like understands the mermaid and convinces her to go to Prince Eric's ball. At the ball Prince Eric is immediately drawn to Ariel and he asks her to dance with him. While they dance he tells Ariel that he will be leaving the next morning on an adventure to see the world and asks Ariel to go with him.
Ariel relays this information back to Snow White who tells Ariel to be honest with the prince however Ariel is reluctant as she does not want to be rejected by the prince by telling him she is a mermaid. Ariel is later seen at the sea shore asking the Sea Goddess Ursula for guidance. After she seems to have given up Ursula appears in front of Ariel. However this is not the true Ursula this is Regina in a disguise. Regina gives Ariel a magical bracelet that will trade her tail to whomever she gives it to. Ariel gives the bracelet to Snow White thinking if Snow is a mermaid she can escape to the sea and be free from the Evil Queen. Regina then appears and tells Ariel to go her Prince and moves to kill Snow White. Ariel not willing to let that happen attacks the queen with a fork which distracts Regina long enough to get the bracelet off Snow and give her back her tail. Snow and Ariel then dive into the water and swim away from Regina. After Ariel and Snow White have escaped to a near by beach, Snow tells Ariel to go back to the prince and tell him the truth.
Ariel happily listens to Snow White and returns to the dock by Eric's palace as she is about to yell Eric's name her voice vanishes. Regina appears on the dock and tells Ariel that she will not have a second chance at true love and that she took her voice so Ariel can never tell Prince Eric how she truly feels. In tears a muted Ariel heads back to the sea. 29 years later in Never Land, Regina and Mr. Gold are by the banks of a lake. Regina whispers something into a sea shell that causes Ariel to appear. Regina returns Ariel's voice to her and asks her to go to return to Storybrooke so Ariel can retrieve a weapon from Mr. Gold's shop that will be strong enough to stop Peter Pan. Regina then promises Ariel that she can be a human permanently and if she goes to Storybrooke she will find Eric there. Ariel then agrees. Ariel's next appearance in Once Upon a Time is titled "Dark Hollow". This episode immediately picks up after the events of "Ariel".
Mr. Gold explains to Ariel how to get to Storybrooke by using a stick to draw a map. Ariel studies the map and comments that it will be a long journey and that she will need to cross realms but she will be able to get there. Mr. Gold then conjures a sand dollar shell for Ariel to take along and tells her she must find a person named Belle and give it to her. Before leaving Ariel asks about where to find Eric. Regina refuses to tell her until Ariel and says incentives are important and the bracelet will only give her human legs for twenty-four hours. Though hesitant about what Regina said Regina says to Ariel she will need trust her to which Ariel jumps back into the water and makes her way to Storybrooke. Ariel makes it to Storybrooke and sees Leroy. She introduces herself as Ariel and slips on a bracelet which transforms her into a human. She then walks out of the water and approaches to ask Leroy where to find a person named Belle. Leroy takes Ariel to the town diner to meet Belle. Belle questions Ariel as to why she has come to Storybrooke to which Ariel replies she came from Neverland on a mission for Mr. Gold.
Belle is then shocked and relieved Mr. Gold is alive and Ariel tells Belle Mr. Gold needs him to save everyone. The two head go to Mr. Gold's shop where Belle is able to use the Sand Dollar given to her by Ariel from Mr. Gold to find the item capable of defeating Pan. However after finding the item which has turned out to be Pandora's Box the are ambushed by John and Michael Darling now working for Pan and the two of them tie Ariel and Belle up and take the item to destroy it. In order to get out of the ropes Belle removes Ariel's bracelet which allows Ariel to wiggle free from the ropes and undo Belle's bindings. Ariel then puts the bracelet back on and go after John and Michael. Belle and Ariel find Michael and George just before they destroy the box. Belle is able to stop them by activating a mine cart on the tracks, which throws Michael and John off their feet. Using time to her advantage, she grabs the box and kicks their gun away.
John and Michael tell Ariel and Belle that Pan has Wendy hostage and if they don't do his bidding he will kill her. Ariel and Belle promise they will help save their sister. Ariel and Belle then go to the coast where she parts ways with Belle and returns to Neverland with Pandora's Box. Ariel returns to Neverland and is greeted by Regina and Mr. Gold. Regina keeps up the end of her deal and enchants Ariel's bracelet telling her she now become a human whenever she wants. She then gives the two Pandora's Box and before heading back to Storybrooke she tells Mr. Gold and Regina about Wendy that she needs to be rescued too. Regina has no concern but Mr. Gold expresses a willingness to try. Ariel then leaves to return to Storybrooke.
After she permanently becomes human, she finds Eric working as a fisherman. The two of them are then reunited and reconcile. In Episode 17 of Season 3, Ariel returns and yet does not return. She is seen in the missing year to have tracked down Killian Jones and the two of them track down the notorious BlackBeard so that Hook can regain The Jolly Roger. Things do not go as planned and Ariel escapes to find Eric on an island where they are reunited. That is where they still are when Zelena the Wicked Witch of the West impersonates her in Storybrooke after the second curse. The fake Ariel "reunites" with Belle for her actions in Storybrooke.
The mermaid first appears in Power Play when she helps Willa escape Judge Claude Frollo. She then teams up with the Keepers to defeat The Overtakers. It is revealed at the end of the book that she is friends with the captain of the Disney Magic. In the second book Disney at Dawn, Willa approaches a cast member of the park who's dressed up as Ariel for autographs. She tells Willa that Captain Hook was acting strange and leaving his usual meet and greet spot.
The Little Mermaid (upcoming live action film)
The Little Mermaid (1989 animated film)
Part of Your World (Reprise)
Poor Unfortunates Souls (End)
Happy Ending (Swedish Dubbing)
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Just A Little Love
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I Remember (Reprise)
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In the original story, Ariel couldn't kill the prince after she heard that he was engaged. She jumps back into the water and dies. Her soul goes to heaven. A later ending has it that Ariel stays with the prince and his wife after not killing the prince. The prince's wife falls in love with another man. The prince, his wife, his crew and Ariel go sailing and a storm shows up. A bult of lightning hits once of the ship's mast poles and then it starts to fall. The unknown man that the prince's wife fell in love with, saves her lift from the falling pole. She then asks her husband if he'll let them get married. The prince approves. Ariel and the prince are married. Ariel get's her voice back and she then shows her husband her true form. Her husband then carries her into their carrage and drive away.
Ariel's name in the original story was Serena. Serena's name is spelled Sereneta in the book. She also has blonde hair and blue eyes.
She was the first Disney Princess to have red hair.
She was the only Disney Princess to be of mythical species.
She is the only Disney Princess to be a mother in any Disney media.
She was the first Disney Princess to have her own television series.
She appeared in the Peter Pan's Flight ride in Walt Disney World.
Ariel is seen in one of the paintings for Pirates of the Caribbean: on Stranger Tides. She's on a rock with two other mermaids.
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by Survival International / December 8th, 2015
Fires – almost certainly started by logging gangs – are raging across large areas of Maranhão state in Brazil. Despite global calls for action to protect the rare pre-Amazon forest and local uncontacted Awá tribespeople from being wiped out, so far the authorities have done very little to contain the blaze.
The fires were started approximately two weeks ago. Local Awá have made repeated efforts to extinguish them, only to find more fires starting nearby. This pattern indicates conscious human efforts to set the forest alight, rather than natural dry season wildfires. Elsewhere in Brazil, loggers have been known to start fires to try and force Indigenous people from the land.
Many Awá in the region have no contact with the wider world and are highly vulnerable to external threats like disease. © Domenico Pugliese/Survival
This fire follows on from a similar incident in Arariboia Indigenous Territory last month, which was only extinguished long after it had started. It is believed that that fire was also started by loggers on the territory of a group of uncontacted Awá.
One Awá man said: “What will we do with no food and no forest? The fire is destroying our animals, and we are very worried. The loggers are setting our forest on fire – we’ve seen armed loggers! We try to put out the fires in one place and they spring up in another.”
The Maranhão state government has sent only minimal support to the region to save the forest and the local Awá. This is consistent with its past attitudes towards tribes, and may be the result of close ties between some local and regional government officials and the powerful logging mafia.
In a speech to ranchers earlier this year, Maranhão state deputy Fernando Furtado said that Amazonian Indians are “a bunch of little gays” and that they should die of hunger. Racist attitudes of this sort are not uncommon even amongst politicians in Brazil.
Survival International, the global movement for tribal peoples’ rights, is calling on the Brazilian authorities to do more to save the Awá from the fires and to assist them in their efforts to preserve the rainforests. Tribal people are the best conservationists and guardians of the natural world, but when they are abandoned or ignored by those in power, they stand little chance of saving either themselves or their natural environment from destruction.
Survival International, founded in 1969 after an article by Norman Lewis in the UK's Sunday Times highlighted the massacres, land thefts and genocide taking place in Brazilian Amazonia, is the only international organization supporting tribal peoples worldwide. Contact Survival International at: info@survival-international.org. Read other articles by Survival International, or visit Survival International's website.
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Green Bay Packers’ Tailgate Tour includes visit to drilling Wisconsin Guard Soldiers
Written by Spc. John T. Clark
Ty Montgomery, running back for the Green Bay Packers, hands out coins thanking Soldiers of the Wisconsin Army National Guard’s 157th Maneuver Enhancement Brigade headquarters company for their service during an April 14 visit in Milwaukee. The Packers visited on the last day of their Tailgate Tour. Wisconsin National Guard photo by Spc. John T. Clark
MILWAUKEE — Soldiers from the Milwaukee-based 157th Maneuver Enhancement Brigade headquarters received a surprise visit from six green Bay Packers Saturday (April 14) as part of the team’s annual tailgate tour.
The tour, now in its 13th year, gives back to those who support the Packers and allows the players to meet with their fans, according to Green Bay Packers President/CEO Mark Murphy, who was also on the tour. Joining Murphy were current players Kenny Clark, Blake Martinez and Ty Montgomery, along with Packers alumni Antonio Freeman, Bubba Franks and Rob Davis.
Green Bay Packers President Mark Murphy speaks to Soldiers of the Wisconsin Army National Guard’s 157th Maneuver Enhancement Brigade headquarters company during an April 14 visit in Milwaukee. The Soldiers appreciated the Packers reaching out to the unit to set up this visit on their annual Tailgate Tour. Wisconsin Army National Guard photo by Spc. John T. Clark
In addition to thanking Soldiers for their service, Murphy said there are a lot of similarities between the NFL and the military.
"The NFL is a brotherhood too," Murphy said. "Players are encouraged to look out for their teammates."
Sgt. 1st Class Lucas Kramer, an operations noncommissioned officer, asked their thoughts on children playing the game.
“There’s a lot to learn from football,” Franks said. “The life lessons you learn in football are valuable. The team aspect is like the military because you have to rely on your team to work together.
Players and former players of the Green Bay Packers meet with Soldiers of the Wisconsin Army National Guard’s 157th Maneuver Enhancement Brigade headquarters company in Milwaukee April 14. The Packers visited to show support for the military and meet with their fans. Wisconsin National Guard photo by Spc. John T. Clark
“There’s a lot of growing up to do through football,” Franks added.
Murphy went on to explain the ways in which the NFL is continuously trying to make the game safer. He said the helmets are getting better, and new rules are beginning to be put in place for the safety of everyone who plays.
Murphy and the players took the time to personally thank the Soldiers, share Packers memorabilia and sign autographs.
Kramer said, “My oldest and I are Packers fans, and it means a lot to us to have Packer memorabilia.”
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“Coming here shows they are very supportive and appreciative of the military in general,” said Joe Theelkeegan, an operations noncommissioned officer with the MEB, “While I have received many [military] coins, it means something more coming from Blake Martinez. Someone outside the military that appreciates our work as much as our higher level leadership does.”
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April 30, 2015 April 30, 2015 Sue Archer 57 Comments
This is the final post in this month’s Rogue Words series. I’ve had a lot of fun doing these, and I’m sorry to see them go. In fact, I’m thinking about making them a regular feature of my blog. If you have an opinion on whether you’d like me to round up more rogue words in the future, please feel free to leave a comment!
And now, on to today’s word…the deceptively simple-looking zero.
Zero can be used as an adjective, a verb, or a noun.
Zero As an Adjective
When zero is used as an adjective (which is rare), the noun it describes must be plural (or be a non-countable noun, like awareness).
Zachary charged through the door of Professor Z’s office, dragging a girl with him. “Something’s really wrong with Zoe, Professor! I had zero ideas about what to do, so I brought her to you. Can you help?”
Zoe stood where Zachary had left her, in front of Professor Z’s desk. Her hair was scraggly and her face had a grey tinge. She stared at the Professor blankly. It was clear that she had zero awareness of what was going on.
Zero As a Verb
When zero is used as a verb, you sometimes (but not always) need to add an e. Forms of the verb zero include zero, zeroes, zeroed, and zeroing.
“Hmmm,” said Professor Z in her reassuring way. She walked around Zoe, studying her from all angles. Zoe didn’t react at all, even when the Professor poked her in the arm.
“I said to myself, Professor Z is someone who always zeroes in on the problem,” said Zachary. He bounced from foot to foot. “I’ve been thinking…do you think Zoe’s turning into a zombie? That would be so zany, but I’m not sure what else to think!”
“Do you see this?” the Professor asked Zachary. She pointed at Zoe’s watch. Zachary bent to look.
Zero As a Noun
When zero is used a third-person verb, you write it as zeroes. But when zero is used as a plural noun, you don’t use an e: it’s spelled zeros.
The watch was set on a timer, and it was counting down to zero. Only five seconds to go…
“Oh no! In five…no, four seconds, she’s going to turn into a zombie! I knew it!”
“I don’t think so,” said Professor Z.
The time counted down until there were only zeros: 00:00:00. The watch started beeping.
Zoe stirred and blinked. “It’s done? I’m all finished?”
“Yes, dear,” said the Professor gently. You can go to bed now.” Zoe shuffled out of the room.
Zachary stared after her. “What was that about?”
“Just as I suspected,” said the Professor. “It’s now May first. The A to Z Blogging Challenge is over, and Zoe can finally get some sleep.”
Congratulations to everyone who made it through the A to Z Challenge! Thanks so much for reading, liking, and commenting on my posts. 🙂
For those who are new to my blog, I hope you will continue to visit after A to Z. I will be posting my A to Z Reflections post next Monday, and then will go back to my usual weekly posting schedule. I post a mix of creative writing and grammar tips, interviews with others about communication (Conversation Corner), and in-depth reviews of writing resources (DBW Reviews).
See you on the other side! Off now to get some sleep…
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Rogue Words from A to Z: You’re Not a Yutz
Do you feel like a yutz when you have to decide between using your or you’re?
You’re not alone.
There’s a good reason why we struggle with when to use you’re. This word violates all our expectations.
Normally an apostrophe is used to show that someone possesses something, as in “Sue’s yo-yo.”
But if you want to write “your yo-yo,” you need to use the word your without an apostrophe.
You’re with an apostrophe is only used when “you are” is being contracted into one word.
The same rule applies to their / they’re and its / it’s. If you’d like more on these words, you may want to check out my grammar story Night of the Apostrophe Ninja.
To demonstrate this apostrophe rule, here’s a very short story.
Your vs. You’re – Who Will Win the Lady’s Heart?
In days of yore, two knights stood before the Queen, yammering about their quest to slay the yellow yeti.
“Your Majesty,” said the older knight, “I regret to report that we were unable to fulfill your desire. The beast is still alive.”
“What beast?” asked the Queen, bewildered.
“We?” protested the younger knight. “You’re the one who decided it was a good idea to wake the yeti up by challenging it, instead of sneaking up and chopping off its head.”
The Queen flinched. Then her cheeks blossomed in anger. “How dare you-”
“Look how you have offended Her Majesty by your violation of the Knight’s Code of Conduct!” remonstrated the older knight. “You have constantly demonstrated your ignorance of our traditions.” He turned to the Queen, who was clearly in a rage. “Your Majesty, I protest. Your young ‘champion’ is hotheaded and will not listen to reason.”
“Listen to reason? You’re the one who never listens! You’re too busy living in the past, and now we’re stuck with that yeti.”
“You’re the ones who are not listening,” yelled the Queen. “How dare you interrupt me!”
The two knights were immediately silent.
“We gave no command to attack the yellow yeti. Clearly you have been blinded by your pride. We hereby strip you of your titles until you’re willing to act like the knights you should be.”
The former knights slunk away, shamefaced.
After they had left the chamber, the Queen’s form shimmered, and in her place was a yellow yeti.
“Well, that was close,” said the yeti. “Good thing my knights are a bunch of incompetent yahoos, or I would never have heard the end of it from my sisters.”
I can’t believe I’m coming up to the last A to Z post! Stay tuned for the final episode tomorrow, where I will zap the zombified letter Z…
Rogue Words From A to Z: X-Ray Vision Won’t Help You Now
X-ray is an exasperating word because there is a lot of disagreement over how to spell it. Should it have a hyphen? Should the X be capitalized? Is it X-ray, x-ray, X ray, or x ray? All of these variations have been used.
Some people will tell you that X-ray should be hyphenated when it’s used as an adjective (as in X-ray vision or x-ray vision) and not hyphenated when it’s a noun (as in getting an X ray or an x ray). Sounds complicated. No wonder people are confused!
My advice to you is to follow the generally accepted style rule for words that have a letter as a prefix: Capitalize the letter and hyphenate the word (X-ray). You can’t go wrong with this, because it’s consistent with other words in this category (T-shirt). It’s also described as the most common style in Garner’s Modern American Usage.
And now…as I’m sure you have come to expect, I have written you a story to help illustrate this rule. And since we’ve been talking about X-ray vision…
Extra-Special Man was doing his usual flyby over the city when his extra-sensitive hearing caught the sound of maniacal laughter somewhere behind him.
That sounds like someone who is about to execute an evil plan, he thought, and did a U-turn in the air. As he neared the extra-large building that was the source of the sound, he used his X-ray vision to examine the top floor.
He spotted a large shape that was radiating the energy of an A-bomb. Alarmed, he crashed through the nearest window, only to be blinded by the sight of a man with an electric blue mustache wearing a neon pink-and-yellow striped suit and a lime green top hat.
“I should have known it was you, Fashion Nightmare,” said Extra-Special Man. “What exasperating action are you up to this time?”
“Ah, Extra-Special Man! I am happy that an A-list superhero has come to witness my exciting triumph. I have finally completed my V-gun, and it is time to unleash it on this city.”
“A V-gun?” asked Extra-Special Man. “What does it do, exactly?”
“I’m glad you asked. After I press this extra-small button, the entire city will be wearing one of these!” He brandished a scratchy woolen V-neck sweater with a garish picture of a purple moose on it. “It’s my own exclusive design,” he said proudly.
“You can’t force the people of this city to wear that ugly sweater. That would be un-American.”
“This coming from someone who wears tights? And why do you care?” asked Fashion Nightmare. “After all, you’re an alien from Xenon.”
“Well, that was rather xenophobic of you,” said Extra-Special Man, miffed.
“Besides, you’re too late,” said Fashion Nightmare, and pressed the extra-small button.
The V-gun sputtered and exploded, enveloping Fashion Nightmare in a haze of yellow light. When it cleared, Fashion Nightmare’s clothing looked somewhat different.
“A white T-shirt and blue jeans!” he exclaimed in horror. “How exceedingly banal! I can’t possibly wear this!” He tried to rip the shirt off, but it wouldn’t budge. “Someone get this off of me!” He started whimpering.
“Well, I hope you learned your lesson,” said Extra-Special Man. “Exulting in the extreme exercising of evil deeds only leads to execrable results.” He paused. “And there’s nothing wrong with my tights!”
Image of the Crookes X-ray tube from Wikimedia Commons
This post is dedicated to my copy editing instructor, who taught me how to deal with the complexities of hyphens.
Stay tuned for tomorrow’s post, where I will yell about the yellow-bellied letter Y…
Rogue Words from A to Z: The Vicious Viscous Villain
Today’s rogue words story will vanquish two very villainous words: vilify and vicious.
The word vilify is derived from the word vile. It means to talk about something in “an abusively disparaging manner.” It’s often misspelled as villify, because it reminds people of the word villain.
Vanessa was venturing through a vast forest when she encountered the vinetree.
She approached it cautiously, holding her sword out in front of her. She had heard her elders vilifying vinetrees, but when she studied it, she wasn’t sure why. The knot of twisted vines gleamed in the sunlight. It spiraled up in an intricate pattern, bursting out at the top and cascading towards the grass. Silver berries hung from all the vines, creating a jeweled canopy.
How could a tree this beautiful be a villain?
The word vicious (meaning malevolent, savage, or fierce) is sometimes confused with viscous, which describes a sticky liquid that does not flow freely.
Suddenly one of the vines came whipping towards her, wrapping snugly around her waist. Another vine darted down and snagged her by the shoulder. Her sword arm was still free, so she hacked viciously at the vines as she backed away.
Other vines viciously flung silver berries at her face. She could smell the sweet scent of the berries as they burst open on her cheeks.
More vines wrapped around her, but some of them were weakening from her blows. As she sliced through the vines, their viscous sap seeped out and splattered on her. She could feel herself getting stickier and stickier. Some of the sap landed in her mouth. It tasted exactly like maple syrup.
“Vanessa!” shouted a voice. It was her mother.
The fight was becoming desperate. Would she be victorious?
“Vanessa!” came her mother’s voice again. “Stop playing with that spatula, it’s time for dinner.”
Vanessa dropped her sword arm and ran back down the hall towards the kitchen. Blueberry pancakes were her favourite, and she didn’t want them to get cold.
Image of ancient olive tree by Dennis Koutou from Wikimedia Commons
This post is dedicated to my son, who has been invaluable in helping me come up with story ideas. Thanks for reading!
Stay tuned for Monday’s post, where I will whisk away the wishy-washy letter W…
Rogue Words from A to Z: Uncompromising Usage of U
Today, we will witness the epic battle between those who use u in their words and those who don’t.
One of my readers asked whether to use -o or -ou in color / colour. Both of these options are correct. American spelling favors the use of -o, while British spelling favours -ou. As a Canadian, I follow British spelling in my personal writing. But I’m used to seeing American spelling in books (even in some of my grade school spelling textbooks, which caused no end of grief for my teachers). If I were writing something strictly for an American audience, I would use -o.
One of my resource books, Editing Canadian English, has a handy list of all the words that have this -o / -ou difference. This book also points out how the u in -ou is dropped when suffixes like -ize and -ous are added to the end of a word. So we can argue about the spelling of vapor vs. vapour, but vaporize is always spelled without the u. It’s the same thing with humor vs. humour and humorous.
While looking into this question, I found a fascinating article about the origin of -o in American spelling. It seems we can blame Noah Webster of Webster’s Dictionary fame for deliberately introducing this spelling difference as a political statement. It boggles the mind that without the actions of this one man, we might all be spelling these words with -ou today.
And now for the fun part: Today’s story challenge, where I will attempt to use all of these contested words in — what else? — a story of knightly combat.
Sir A and Sir B may have been neighbors, but their demeanor as they faced each other on the tournament grounds was anything but favorable.
Sir A insisted that the harbor was part of his territory. Through the rigor of his labors, he had discovered that Sir B’s claim to this vital port was nothing but vapor.
Sir B complained with fervour that Sir A should not generate false rumours of ownership. He said that if Sir A had endeavoured to be honourable, Sir B would not have been forced to don his armour and prove his claim against Sir A on the battlefield.
As they started to fight, the clamor of the crowd rose, adding to the noise of the colorful pennants that fluttered and snapped in the wind. Many in the audience savored the odor of the meat pies that were being sold with vigor by the bakers to succor them. But they were even more hungry for blood.
Sir A and Sir B fought with valour. Their behaviour was knightly; they laboured to avoid the parlour tricks used by amateurs. As the fight continued, they grew to admire the splendour of each other’s combat techniques. Their ardour to confront each other waned. They realized that they were a perfect match for each other, and that there would be no winner in this fight.
Eventually Sir A called for a halt. “I cannot defeat you,” he said to Sir B with admirable candor.
“And it seems I cannot defeat you,” said Sir B with humour.
“Shall we conclude, then, that there is no glamor in this fight, and we should both withdraw?” asked Sir A.
“Gladly,” said Sir B.
The crowd booed and swelled down from the stands like a tumor, clearly meaning violence. Luckily the Queen was the saviour for the knights that day, and declared that honour was satisfied.
Sir A and Sir B decided to settle their remaining differences among the arbour, over a grand picnic lunch purchased at a discount from the disgruntled bakers.
Image from Wikimedia Commons
This post is dedicated to Nimmi. Thanks for reading!
Stay tuned for tomorrow’s post, where I will vivisect the villainous letter V…
Rogue Words from A to Z: There’s a Whole Lot of Blogging Going On…
Anyone else feeling a bit overwhelmed by the trials and tribulations of writing twenty-six posts for A to Z?
Lately I’ve been feeling like there’s too many things on my plate.
I mention this to the Spirit of Blogging Present, who laughs at all my comedic posts, even when I feel they are trite.
“I think you mean there are too many things on your plate,” he points out, a little too jovially for my taste.
“You know what I mean. Isn’t there something you can do to help me out here?”
“Well, you could say ‘There’re too many things on my plate,’ if that’s any better for you.” He eyes the self-pity cookies on my desk. The Spirit of Blogging Present is always hungry.
“You know there’re‘s a ridiculous-looking word! And I didn’t mean helping me out with my grammar.”
“Why not? I’m just as qualified to help with grammar as you are. And I notice you make this mistake all the time. I figured you were doing it on purpose to entertain me. Didn’t you notice me laughing every time it happened?” he asked innocently.
“Yes, of course that was my master plan,” I say. “I make mistakes too, you know. It’s not surprising when you think about it. Writing a blog is a lot like having a conversation, and when people speak they say there’s all the time, even when the subject is plural, because they don’t know where the sentence will be going. And I usually don’t know where my posts are going, either.”
“True, but you’re supposed to be some kind of grammar expert. Not to mention an editor. Shouldn’t you be paying more attention?” He smiles apologetically.
“Hey, I try, but I don’t always catch that one. It’s my personal grammar nemesis. Even Shakespeare didn’t catch it. So there. Besides, haven’t you noticed the times I’ve tightened up the sentence and gotten rid of there’s altogether, like saying ‘I have too many things on my plate’? I thought you liked my posts!”
“Of course I do,” said the Spirit of Blogging Present, radiating good cheer.
“Then can you please help me with all the things on my plate before I get too overwhelmed?”
“Sure!” He scoops up the plate of cookies on my desk and shoves all of them in his mouth. Except one.
“Now there’s only one thing on your plate. Have fun with the blogging challenge!” He disappears.
Just see if I ask him for help again.
Yummy image of chocolate chip cookies by Sarah Fleming from Wikmedia Commons, CC-BY-2.0
This post is dedicated to all of you A to Z bloggers and readers. Thanks for keeping me motivated to write!
Stay tuned for tomorrow’s post, where I will uncover the uncanny letter U…
Rogue Words From A to Z: Separating Siblings With Apostrophe S
One of my readers has asked me how to successfully sort out plurals and possessives for words ending with the letter s. Stupendous idea! Let’s see if we can solve through storytelling all the different situations where s can cross us.
Once upon a time in another star system, there lived two clone siblings named Silas and Simon Sassafras.
Pluralizing Family Names
Neighbours had no idea what to do with “those Sassafrases” because they couldn’t tell the two of them apart.
When you are referring to more than one family member with a last name that ends in s, you add -es.
Showing Possession for a Singular Word
Silas’s smile was exactly the same as Simon’s.
Simon’s laugh was exactly the same as Silas’s.
If a word is singular, you add apostrophe s to the end of the word to indicate possession, even when the word ends with an s (Silas’s smile, Silas’s laugh).
Note: In the past, exceptions have been made for names that were considered special (like Jesus). In these rare cases, the apostrophe was used without an s (Jesus’). However, today’s trend (which is simple) is to always use apostrophe s for singular words.
Showing Possession for a Plural Word
The clone siblings’ eerie sameness was getting on everyone’s nerves. (Even if they were both very friendly.)
If a word is plural and ends in s, you add an apostrophe at the end without an s (siblings’).
Showing Possession For a Pair of People
Silas and Simon’s stubborn tendency to stump their neighbours would soon be over.
When you are referring to something that belongs to both people in a pair (tendency), you add an apostrophe s at the end of the second name.
In desperation, the community forced Silas and Simon to go to a barber shop and get different haircuts.
Silas’s hair was now short.
Simon’s hair was now not so short.
Silas’s and Simon’s hairstyles were so different that they could be seen as completely separate beings. The neighbours sighed in satisfaction as Silas and Simon sobbed.
When both people in a pair own different kinds of the same thing (like different hairstyles), then you need to put an apostrophe s at the end of both names.
The next morning, everyone in the neighbourhood woke up to find a clone sleeping next to them. Mass panic ensued. When they tried to get haircuts, their hair grew back. When they put on different clothes, the clothes instantly changed to become the same. They all ran to the Sassafrases’ house, but no one was home.
They later found out that Silas and Simon had left on a spaceship to become famous intergalactic movie stars who paid off all their new neighbours’ mortgages.
Bonus Word: Separate
Separate (like definitely) is one of those super tricky words to spell. Here’s a quick tip to help you remember that separate has a “par” in the middle (instead of a “per“): When you separate things, they are now apart.
This post is dedicated to Ameena and Nicole Roder. Thanks for reading!
Stay tuned for tomorrow’s post, where I will taunt the troublesome letter T…
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Top 10 Academy Awards Best Picture Winners
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Now, it’s no secret that the Best Picture winners are sometimes anything but. A lot of winners have faded from the public eye (“Tom Jones” and “A Beautiful Mind” come to mind), some winners are truly baffling (“Crash”??), a few films were robbed of the award (“Pulp Fiction,” “Star Wars,” and “Citizen Kane”), and there are many instances in which the best films didn’t even get nominated for Best Picture (1933’s “King Kong,” “The Dark Knight,” and much more). With all of that said, sometimes the Academy gets it right and that’s what this top 10 list is about. Continue reading →
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It Comes at Night oozes paranoia and dread
June 7, 2017 · by the newt · in scary movies. ·
ORIGINALLY POSTED ON STRAIGHT.COM, JUNE 7, 2017
First you had the awesome Get Out blowing scary-movie fans away with its shockingly sly take on racism in America. And now you’ve got It Comes at Night and its gloomy commentary on the Trump-inspired fear of outsiders.
Socially reflective horror is back bigly, baby!
But while Get Out took some blackly comic jabs at people’s perceptions of racial inequality, It Comes at Night offers no such witty relief. It is one dark and downbeat mofo of a movie.
The film opens with Sarah (Carmen Ejogo) saying her final goodbyes to her father. He’s covered in scabs and gravely ill; she’s wearing a gas mask to avoid ending up the same. Her tense husband Paul (executive producer Joel Edgerton, from The Gift) and teenage son Travis (Kelvin Harrison Jr.) carry the dying man outside in a wheelbarrow, shoot him in the head, and burn his body in a shallow grave.
That’s about as lighthearted as things get.
The mixed-raced trio–along with much-loved mutt Stanley–goes about its life in a big wooden house in the woods, having taken shelter from an unnamed plague that has apparently ravaged the world. But one night stranger Will (Christopher Abbott) breaks in and is taken captive by the ever-vigilant Paul, who eventually decides that–like himself–Will is just a good man desperately trying to keep his family alive. He agrees to take in these refugees–including Will’s young wife and toddler son (Riley Keough and Griffin Robert Faulkner)–in part because they have a supply of food (goats, chickens, canned goods) that his own family is in dire need of.
Once the two clans get settled in the fuse is lit on a slow-burning exercise in psychological dread, as the wary Paul must fight his gnawing fear that the outsiders aren’t really what they seem. The dingy house (no electricity) becomes a claustrophobic playground of paranoia, and what comes at night is not a horde of plague-infested invaders but man’s primal fear of the unknown, in this case the uncertain intentions of others.
Prepare to be disturbed.
Tags: Carmen Ejogo, Christopher Abbott, claustrophic, disturbing, fear of outsiders, Get Out, It Comes at Night, Joel Edgerton, Kelvin Harrison Jr., paranoia, racism, Trump
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NEW YEARS EVE GRATEFUL DEAD PARTY
by Dogs in a Pile - 1 month ago
Grateful Dead cover band Dogs in a Pile will host a show at the Knights of Colombus Hall on Avenue I in Redondo Beach on New Years Eve 2019. The doors open at 8, band starts at 9 till 12:30am. There is a full bar with Stella Artois for $6 and Top Shelf liquor for $12. The KofC Hall has a game room with pool and darts.
Dogs in a Pile feature Garrett Deloian from Jerry's Middle Finger as Jerry with his crisp rich tone and delicate notes of harmony. JMF is touring all over the State in big clubs and carrying on the tradition of fun groovy music with a strong keyboard, funky bass, and great back up singers. Nick Sandoval, as Bobby, has performed throughout the State in various Grateful Dead cover bands and often plays with Stu Allen & Mars Hotel. Nick's tone matches the gear and style of Bob and he uses midi similar to the originals. Steve Davis mans the helm of the keyboard, and the band typically likes the late 80's dead with Brent Mydland, and Steve does a great job with his sound. Paul Scannell is a veteran drummer whom has primarily been influenced by Bill Kreutzman and Mikey Hart. Jason Buck is the Phil Lesh of this line up and has enjoyed playing this music for 20 years. Visit https://dogsinapile.yapsody.com/event/index/503791/grateful-dead-band-dogs-in-a-pile
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Management of prostatic abscess in patients with human immunodeficiency syndrome
Stephen J. Trauzzi, Chester J. Kay, David G. Kaufman, Franklin C. Lowe
Objective. To review and assess the management and evaluation of prostatic abscess in patients with the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (human immunodeficiency virus [HIV)). Methods. Retrospectively reviewed 7 cases of prostattc abscess in HIV-positive patients treated at our institution. Results. All 7 patients presented with fever and irritative voiding symptoms. Only 1 patient had a positive initial urine culture; 3 of 5 operative cases only had positive intraoperative culture. Organisms cultured were Staphylococcus aureus, enterococcus, Mycobacterium tuberculosis, and Mycobacterium avium. Conclusions. Transrectal ultrasonography is the imaging modality of choice for diagnosing this condition; it also directs the appropriate surgical approach. Transurethral unroofing should be attempted whenever significant extension outside the prostate is not found. Intraoperative cultures for aerobes, anaerobes, fungi, and mycobacteria must be obtained.
Mycobacterium avium
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Trauzzi, S. J., Kay, C. J., Kaufman, D. G., & Lowe, F. C. (1994). Management of prostatic abscess in patients with human immunodeficiency syndrome. Urology, 43(5), 629-633. https://doi.org/10.1016/0090-4295(94)90176-7
Management of prostatic abscess in patients with human immunodeficiency syndrome. / Trauzzi, Stephen J.; Kay, Chester J.; Kaufman, David G.; Lowe, Franklin C.
In: Urology, Vol. 43, No. 5, 1994, p. 629-633.
Trauzzi, SJ, Kay, CJ, Kaufman, DG & Lowe, FC 1994, 'Management of prostatic abscess in patients with human immunodeficiency syndrome', Urology, vol. 43, no. 5, pp. 629-633. https://doi.org/10.1016/0090-4295(94)90176-7
Trauzzi SJ, Kay CJ, Kaufman DG, Lowe FC. Management of prostatic abscess in patients with human immunodeficiency syndrome. Urology. 1994;43(5):629-633. https://doi.org/10.1016/0090-4295(94)90176-7
Trauzzi, Stephen J. ; Kay, Chester J. ; Kaufman, David G. ; Lowe, Franklin C. / Management of prostatic abscess in patients with human immunodeficiency syndrome. In: Urology. 1994 ; Vol. 43, No. 5. pp. 629-633.
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Zoolog.", Jan., 1851), briefly gives his reason for believing that specific characters "sont fixés, pour chaque espèce, tant qu’elle se perpétue au milieu des mêmes circonstances: ils se modifient, si les circonstances ambiantes viennent à changer." "En résumé, l’observation des animaux sauvages démontre déjà la variabilité limitée des espèces. Les expériences sur les animaux sauvages devenus domestiques, et sur les animaux domestiques redevenus sauvages, la démontrent plus clairment encore. Ces mêmes expériences prouvent, de plus, que les différences produites peuvent être de valeur générique."" In his "Hist. Nat. Générale" (tom. ii, p. 430, 1859) he amplifies analogous conclusions.
From a circular lately issued it appears that Dr. Freke, in 1851 ("Dublin Medical Press", p. 322), propounded the doctrine that all organic beings have descended from one primordial form. His grounds of belief and treatment of the subject are wholly different from mine; but as Dr. Freke has now (1861) published his Essay on the "Origin of Species by means of Organic Affinity", the difficult attempt to give any idea of his views would be superfluous on my part.
Mr. Herbert Spencer, in an Essay (originally published in the "Leader", March, 1852, and republished in his "Essays", in 1858), has contrasted the theories of the Creation and the Development of organic beings with remarkable skill and force. He argues from the analogy of domestic productions, from the changes which the embryos of many species undergo, from the difficulty of distinguishing species and varieties, and from the principle of general gradation, that species have been modified; and he attributes the modification to the change of circumstances. The author (1855) has also treated Psychology on the principle of the necessary acquirement of each mental power and capacity by gradation.
In 1852 M. Naudin, a distinguished botanist, expressly stated, in an admirable paper on the Origin of Species ("Revue Horticole", page 102; since partly republished in the "Nouvelles Archives du Museum", tom. i, p. 171), his belief that species are formed in an analogous manner as varieties are under cultivation; and the latter process he attributes to man's power of selection. But he does not show how selection acts under nature. He believes, like Dean Herbert, that species, when nascent, were more plastic than at present. He lays weight on what he calls the principle of finality, "puissance mystérieuse, indéterminée; fatalité pour les uns; pour les autres, volonté providentielle, dont l'action incessante sur les êtres vivantes détermine, a toutes les époques de l'existence du monde, la forme, le volume, et la durée de chacun d'eux, en raison
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Regular Article - Experimental Physics
Exclusive electroproduction of two pions at HERA
The ZEUS Collaboration
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1 Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, IL, 60439-4815, USA
2 Andrews University, Berrien Springs, MI, 49104-0380, USA
3 INFN Bologna, Bologna, Italy
4 University and INFN Bologna, Bologna, Italy
5 Physikalisches Institut der Universität Bonn, Bonn, Germany
6 H.H. Wills Physics Laboratory, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK
7 Department of Physics, Panjab University, Chandigarh, India
8 Physics Department and INFN, Calabria University, Cosenza, Italy
9 Institute for Universe and Elementary Particles, Chonnam National University, Kwangju, South Korea
10 Jabatan Fizik, Universiti Malaya, 50603, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
11 Nevis Laboratories, Columbia University, Irvington on Hudson, NY, 10027, USA
12 The Henryk Niewodniczanski Institute of Nuclear Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences, Krakow, Poland
13 Faculty of Physics and Applied Computer Science, AGH-University of Science and Technology, Krakow, Poland
14 Department of Physics, Jagellonian University, Cracow, Poland
15 Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY, Hamburg, Germany
16 Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY, Zeuthen, Germany
17 INFN Florence, Florence, Italy
18 University and INFN Florence, Florence, Italy
19 Fakultät für Physik der Universität Freiburg i.Br., Freiburg i.Br., Germany
20 School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK
21 Department of Engineering in Management and Finance, Univ. of the Aegean, Chios, Greece
22 Institute of Experimental Physics, Hamburg University, Hamburg, Germany
23 High Energy Nuclear Physics Group, Imperial College London, London, UK
24 Institute of Particle and Nuclear Studies, KEK, Tsukuba, Japan
25 Institute of Physics and Technology of Ministry of Education and Science of Kazakhstan, Almaty, Kazakhstan
26 Institute for Nuclear Research, National Academy of Sciences, Kyiv, Ukraine
27 Department of Nuclear Physics, National Taras Shevchenko University of Kyiv, Kyiv, Ukraine
28 Center for High Energy Physics, Kyungpook National University, Daegu, South Korea
29 Institut de Physique Nucléaire, Université Catholique de Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium
30 Departamento de Física Teórica, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Madrid, Spain
31 Department of Physics, McGill University, Montréal, Québec, Canada H3A 2T8,
32 Faculty of General Education, Meiji Gakuin University, Yokohama, Japan
33 Moscow Engineering Physics Institute, Moscow, Russia
34 Institute of Nuclear Physics, Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia
35 Max-Planck-Institut für Physik, München, Germany
36 NIKHEF and University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands
37 Physics Department, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, 43210, USA
38 Department of Physics, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
39 INFN Padova, Padova, Italy
40 Dipartimento di Fisica dell’ Università and INFN, Padova, Italy
41 Department of Physics, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, 16802, USA
42 Polytechnic University, Sagamihara, Japan
43 Dipartimento di Fisica, Università ‘La Sapienza’ and INFN, Rome, Italy
44 Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Chilton, Didcot, Oxon, UK
45 Raymond and Beverly Sackler Faculty of Exact Sciences, School of Physics, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel
46 Department of Physics, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo, Japan
47 Department of Physics, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
48 Department of Physics, Tokyo Metropolitan University, Tokyo, Japan
49 Università di Torino and INFN, Torino, Italy
50 Università del Piemonte Orientale, Novara, and INFN, Torino, Italy
51 Department of Physics, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5S 1A7,
52 Physics and Astronomy Department, University College London, London, UK
53 Faculty of Physics, University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland
54 National Centre for Nuclear Research, Warsaw, Poland
55 Department of Particle Physics and Astrophysics, Weizmann Institute, Rehovot, Israel
56 Department of Physics, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, 53706, USA
57 Department of Physics, York University, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M3J 1P3,
* e-mail: levy@alzt.tau.ac.il
The exclusive electroproduction of two pions in the mass range 0.4<M ππ <2.5 GeV has been studied with the ZEUS detector at HERA using an integrated luminosity of 82 pb−1. The analysis was carried out in the kinematic range of 2<Q 2<80 GeV2, 32<W<180 GeV and |t|<0.6 GeV2, where Q 2 is the photon virtuality, W is the photon-proton centre-of-mass energy and t is the squared four-momentum transfer at the proton vertex. The two-pion invariant-mass distribution is interpreted in terms of the pion electromagnetic form factor, |F(M ππ )|, assuming that the studied mass range includes the contributions of the ρ, ρ′ and ρ′′ vector-meson states. The masses and widths of the resonances were obtained and the Q 2 dependence of the cross-section ratios σ(ρ′→ππ)/σ(ρ) and σ(ρ′′→ππ)/σ(ρ) was extracted. The pion form factor obtained in the present analysis is compared to that obtained in e + e −→π + π −.
Elastic and p ro ton-dis so ci a ti ve $\rho^0$ photoproduction at HERA
Eur. Phys. J. C 2, 247 (1998)
Can we get deeper inside the pion at the LHC?
Studies of Continuum Physics at KLOE/KLOE-2
Exclusive meson photoproduction with a leading neutron at HERA — H1 Collaboration
Exclusive electroproduction of $\rho^0$ and $J/\psi$ mesons at HERA
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Project acronym 2D-4-CO2
Project DESIGNING 2D NANOSHEETS FOR CO2 REDUCTION AND INTEGRATION INTO vdW HETEROSTRUCTURES FOR ARTIFICIAL PHOTOSYNTHESIS
Researcher (PI) Damien VOIRY
Summary CO2 reduction reaction (CO2RR) holds great promise for conversion of the green-house gas carbon dioxide into chemical fuels. The absence of catalytic materials demonstrating high performance and high selectivity currently hampers practical demonstration. CO2RR is also limited by the low solubility of CO2 in the electrolyte solution and therefore electrocatalytic reactions in gas phase using gas diffusion electrodes would be preferred. 2D materials have recently emerged as a novel class of electrocatalytic materials thanks to their rich structures and electronic properties. The synthesis of novel 2D catalysts and their implementation into photocatalytic systems would be a major step towards the development of devices for storing solar energy in the form of chemical fuels. With 2D-4-CO2, I propose to: 1) develop novel class of CO2RR catalysts based on conducting 2D nanosheets and 2) demonstrate photocatalytic conversion of CO2 into chemical fuels using structure engineered gas diffusion electrodes made of 2D conducting catalysts. To reach this goal, the first objective of 2D-4-CO2 is to provide guidelines for the development of novel cutting-edge 2D catalysts towards CO2 conversion into chemical fuel. This will be possible by using a multidisciplinary approach based on 2D materials engineering, advanced methods of characterization and novel designs of gas diffusion electrodes for the reduction of CO2 in gas phase. The second objective is to develop practical photocatalytic systems using van der Waals (vdW) heterostructures for the efficient conversion of CO2 into chemical fuels. vdW heterostructures will consist in rational designs of 2D materials and 2D-like materials deposited by atomic layer deposition in order to achieve highly efficient light conversion and prolonged stability. This project will not only enable a deeper understanding of the CO2RR but it will also provide practical strategies for large-scale application of CO2RR for solar fuel production.
CO2 reduction reaction (CO2RR) holds great promise for conversion of the green-house gas carbon dioxide into chemical fuels. The absence of catalytic materials demonstrating high performance and high selectivity currently hampers practical demonstration. CO2RR is also limited by the low solubility of CO2 in the electrolyte solution and therefore electrocatalytic reactions in gas phase using gas diffusion electrodes would be preferred. 2D materials have recently emerged as a novel class of electrocatalytic materials thanks to their rich structures and electronic properties. The synthesis of novel 2D catalysts and their implementation into photocatalytic systems would be a major step towards the development of devices for storing solar energy in the form of chemical fuels. With 2D-4-CO2, I propose to: 1) develop novel class of CO2RR catalysts based on conducting 2D nanosheets and 2) demonstrate photocatalytic conversion of CO2 into chemical fuels using structure engineered gas diffusion electrodes made of 2D conducting catalysts. To reach this goal, the first objective of 2D-4-CO2 is to provide guidelines for the development of novel cutting-edge 2D catalysts towards CO2 conversion into chemical fuel. This will be possible by using a multidisciplinary approach based on 2D materials engineering, advanced methods of characterization and novel designs of gas diffusion electrodes for the reduction of CO2 in gas phase. The second objective is to develop practical photocatalytic systems using van der Waals (vdW) heterostructures for the efficient conversion of CO2 into chemical fuels. vdW heterostructures will consist in rational designs of 2D materials and 2D-like materials deposited by atomic layer deposition in order to achieve highly efficient light conversion and prolonged stability. This project will not only enable a deeper understanding of the CO2RR but it will also provide practical strategies for large-scale application of CO2RR for solar fuel production.
Project acronym AArteMIS
Project Aneurysmal Arterial Mechanics: Into the Structure
Researcher (PI) Pierre Joseph Badel
Host Institution (HI) ASSOCIATION POUR LA RECHERCHE ET LE DEVELOPPEMENT DES METHODES ET PROCESSUS INDUSTRIELS
Summary The rupture of an Aortic Aneurysm (AA), which is often lethal, is a mechanical phenomenon that occurs when the wall stress state exceeds the local strength of the tissue. Our current understanding of arterial rupture mechanisms is poor, and the physics taking place at the microscopic scale in these collagenous structures remains an open area of research. Understanding, modelling, and quantifying the micro-mechanisms which drive the mechanical response of such tissue and locally trigger rupture represents the most challenging and promising pathway towards predictive diagnosis and personalized care of AA. The PI's group was recently able to detect, in advance, at the macro-scale, rupture-prone areas in bulging arterial tissues. The next step is to get into the details of the arterial microstructure to elucidate the underlying mechanisms. Through the achievements of AArteMIS, the local mechanical state of the fibrous microstructure of the tissue, especially close to its rupture state, will be quantitatively analyzed from multi-photon confocal microscopy and numerically reconstructed to establish quantitative micro-scale rupture criteria. AArteMIS will also address developing micro-macro models which are based on the collected quantitative data. The entire project will be completed through collaboration with medical doctors and engineers, experts in all required fields for the success of AArteMIS. AArteMIS is expected to open longed-for pathways for research in soft tissue mechanobiology which focuses on cell environment and to enable essential clinical applications for the quantitative assessment of AA rupture risk. It will significantly contribute to understanding fatal vascular events and improving cardiovascular treatments. It will provide a tremendous source of data and inspiration for subsequent applications and research by answering the most fundamental questions on AA rupture behaviour enabling ground-breaking clinical changes to take place.
The rupture of an Aortic Aneurysm (AA), which is often lethal, is a mechanical phenomenon that occurs when the wall stress state exceeds the local strength of the tissue. Our current understanding of arterial rupture mechanisms is poor, and the physics taking place at the microscopic scale in these collagenous structures remains an open area of research. Understanding, modelling, and quantifying the micro-mechanisms which drive the mechanical response of such tissue and locally trigger rupture represents the most challenging and promising pathway towards predictive diagnosis and personalized care of AA. The PI's group was recently able to detect, in advance, at the macro-scale, rupture-prone areas in bulging arterial tissues. The next step is to get into the details of the arterial microstructure to elucidate the underlying mechanisms. Through the achievements of AArteMIS, the local mechanical state of the fibrous microstructure of the tissue, especially close to its rupture state, will be quantitatively analyzed from multi-photon confocal microscopy and numerically reconstructed to establish quantitative micro-scale rupture criteria. AArteMIS will also address developing micro-macro models which are based on the collected quantitative data. The entire project will be completed through collaboration with medical doctors and engineers, experts in all required fields for the success of AArteMIS. AArteMIS is expected to open longed-for pathways for research in soft tissue mechanobiology which focuses on cell environment and to enable essential clinical applications for the quantitative assessment of AA rupture risk. It will significantly contribute to understanding fatal vascular events and improving cardiovascular treatments. It will provide a tremendous source of data and inspiration for subsequent applications and research by answering the most fundamental questions on AA rupture behaviour enabling ground-breaking clinical changes to take place.
Project acronym ACAP
Project Acency Costs and Asset Pricing
Researcher (PI) Thomas Mariotti
Host Institution (HI) FONDATION JEAN-JACQUES LAFFONT,TOULOUSE SCIENCES ECONOMIQUES
Summary The main objective of this research project is to contribute at bridging the gap between the two main branches of financial theory, namely corporate finance and asset pricing. It is motivated by the conviction that these two aspects of financial activity should and can be analyzed within a unified framework. This research will borrow from these two approaches in order to construct theoretical models that allow one to analyze the design and issuance of financial securities, as well as the dynamics of their valuations. Unlike asset pricing, which takes as given the price of the fundamentals, the goal is to derive security price processes from a precise description of firm’s operations and internal frictions. Regarding the latter, and in line with traditional corporate finance theory, the analysis will emphasize the role of agency costs within the firm for the design of its securities. But the analysis will be pushed one step further by studying the impact of these agency costs on key financial variables such as stock and bond prices, leverage, book-to-market ratios, default risk, or the holding of liquidities by firms. One of the contributions of this research project is to show how these variables are interrelated when firms and investors agree upon optimal financial arrangements. The final objective is to derive a rich set of testable asset pricing implications that would eventually be brought to the data.
The main objective of this research project is to contribute at bridging the gap between the two main branches of financial theory, namely corporate finance and asset pricing. It is motivated by the conviction that these two aspects of financial activity should and can be analyzed within a unified framework. This research will borrow from these two approaches in order to construct theoretical models that allow one to analyze the design and issuance of financial securities, as well as the dynamics of their valuations. Unlike asset pricing, which takes as given the price of the fundamentals, the goal is to derive security price processes from a precise description of firm’s operations and internal frictions. Regarding the latter, and in line with traditional corporate finance theory, the analysis will emphasize the role of agency costs within the firm for the design of its securities. But the analysis will be pushed one step further by studying the impact of these agency costs on key financial variables such as stock and bond prices, leverage, book-to-market ratios, default risk, or the holding of liquidities by firms. One of the contributions of this research project is to show how these variables are interrelated when firms and investors agree upon optimal financial arrangements. The final objective is to derive a rich set of testable asset pricing implications that would eventually be brought to the data.
Project acronym AEROFLEX
Project AEROelastic instabilities and control of FLEXible Structures
Researcher (PI) Olivier Pierre MARQUET
Host Institution (HI) OFFICE NATIONAL D'ETUDES ET DE RECHERCHES AEROSPATIALES
Summary Aeroelastic instabilities are at the origin of large deformations of structures and are limiting the capacities of products in various industrial branches such as aeronautics, marine industry, or wind electricity production. If suppressing aeroelastic instabilities is an ultimate goal, a paradigm shift in the technological development is to take advantage of these instabilities to achieve others objectives, as reducing the drag of these flexible structures. The ground-breaking challenges addressed in this project are to design fundamentally new theoretical methodologies for (i) describing mathematically aeroelastic instabilities, (ii) suppressing them and (iii) using them to reduce mean drag of structures at a low energetic cost. To that aim, two types of aeroelastic phenomena will be specifically studied: the flutter, which arises as a result of an unstable coupling instability between two stable dynamics, that of the structures and that the flow, and vortex-induced vibrations which appear when the fluid dynamics is unstable. An aeroelastic global stability analysis will be first developed and applied to problems of increasing complexity, starting from two-dimensional free-vibrating rigid structures and progressing towards three-dimensional free-deforming elastic structures. The control of these aeroelastic instabilities will be then addressed with two different objectives: their suppression or their use for flow control. A theoretical passive control methodology will be established for suppressing linear aeroelastic instabilities, and extended to high Reynolds number flows and experimental configurations. New perturbation methods for solving strongly nonlinear problems and adjoint-based control algorithm will allow to use these aeroelastic instabilities for drag reduction. This project will allow innovative control solutions to emerge, not only in flutter or vortex-induced vibrations problems, but also in a much broader class of fluid-structure problems.
Aeroelastic instabilities are at the origin of large deformations of structures and are limiting the capacities of products in various industrial branches such as aeronautics, marine industry, or wind electricity production. If suppressing aeroelastic instabilities is an ultimate goal, a paradigm shift in the technological development is to take advantage of these instabilities to achieve others objectives, as reducing the drag of these flexible structures. The ground-breaking challenges addressed in this project are to design fundamentally new theoretical methodologies for (i) describing mathematically aeroelastic instabilities, (ii) suppressing them and (iii) using them to reduce mean drag of structures at a low energetic cost. To that aim, two types of aeroelastic phenomena will be specifically studied: the flutter, which arises as a result of an unstable coupling instability between two stable dynamics, that of the structures and that the flow, and vortex-induced vibrations which appear when the fluid dynamics is unstable. An aeroelastic global stability analysis will be first developed and applied to problems of increasing complexity, starting from two-dimensional free-vibrating rigid structures and progressing towards three-dimensional free-deforming elastic structures. The control of these aeroelastic instabilities will be then addressed with two different objectives: their suppression or their use for flow control. A theoretical passive control methodology will be established for suppressing linear aeroelastic instabilities, and extended to high Reynolds number flows and experimental configurations. New perturbation methods for solving strongly nonlinear problems and adjoint-based control algorithm will allow to use these aeroelastic instabilities for drag reduction. This project will allow innovative control solutions to emerge, not only in flutter or vortex-induced vibrations problems, but also in a much broader class of fluid-structure problems.
Project acronym AIME
Project An Inquiry into Modes of Existence
Researcher (PI) Bruno Latour
Host Institution (HI) FONDATION NATIONALE DES SCIENCES POLITIQUES
Summary "AIME is an inquiry to make more precise what is lumped together into the confusing word ""modernization"". The work done in the field of science studies (STS) on the progress and practice of science and technology has had the consequence of deeply modifying the definition of ""modernity"", resulting into the provocative idea that ""we (meaning the Europeans) have never been modern"". This is, however only a negative definition. To obtain a positive rendering of the European current situation, it is necessary to start an inquiry in the complex and conflicting set of values that have been invented. This inquiry is possible only if there is a clear and shareable way to judge the differences in the set of truth-conditions that make up those conflicting sets of values. AIME offers a grammar of those differences based on the key notion of modes of existence. Then it builds a procedure and an instrument to test this grammar into a selected set of situations where the definitions of the differing modes of existence is redefined and renegotiated. The result is a set of shareable definitions of what modernization has been in practice. This is important just at the moment when Europe has lost its privileged status and needs to be able to present itself in a new ways to the other cultures and civilizations which are making up the world of globalization with very different views on what it is to modernize themselves."
"AIME is an inquiry to make more precise what is lumped together into the confusing word ""modernization"". The work done in the field of science studies (STS) on the progress and practice of science and technology has had the consequence of deeply modifying the definition of ""modernity"", resulting into the provocative idea that ""we (meaning the Europeans) have never been modern"". This is, however only a negative definition. To obtain a positive rendering of the European current situation, it is necessary to start an inquiry in the complex and conflicting set of values that have been invented. This inquiry is possible only if there is a clear and shareable way to judge the differences in the set of truth-conditions that make up those conflicting sets of values. AIME offers a grammar of those differences based on the key notion of modes of existence. Then it builds a procedure and an instrument to test this grammar into a selected set of situations where the definitions of the differing modes of existence is redefined and renegotiated. The result is a set of shareable definitions of what modernization has been in practice. This is important just at the moment when Europe has lost its privileged status and needs to be able to present itself in a new ways to the other cultures and civilizations which are making up the world of globalization with very different views on what it is to modernize themselves."
Project acronym ALFA
Project Shaping a European Scientific Scene : Alfonsine Astronomy
Researcher (PI) Matthieu Husson
Summary Alfonsine astronomy is arguably among the first European scientific achievements. It shaped a scene for actors like Regiomontanus or Copernicus. There is however little detailed historical analysis encompassing its development in its full breadth. ALFA addresses this issue by studying tables, instruments, mathematical and theoretical texts in a methodologically innovative way relying on approaches from the history of manuscript cultures, history of mathematics, and history of astronomy. ALFA integrates these approaches not only to benefit from different perspectives but also to build new questions from their interactions. For instance the analysis of mathematical practices in astral sciences manuscripts induces new ways to analyse the documents and to think about astronomical questions. Relying on these approaches the main objectives of ALFA are thus to: - Retrace the development of the corpus of Alfonsine texts from its origin in the second half of the 13th century to the end of the 15th century by following, on the manuscript level, the milieus fostering it; - Analyse the Alfonsine astronomers’ practices, their relations to mathematics, to the natural world, to proofs and justification, their intellectual context and audiences; - Build a meaningful narrative showing how astronomers in different milieus with diverse practices shaped, also from Arabic materials, an original scientific scene in Europe. ALFA will shed new light on the intellectual history of the late medieval period as a whole and produce a better understanding of its relations to related scientific periods in Europe and beyond. It will also produce methodological breakthroughs impacting the ways history of knowledge is practiced outside the field of ancient and medieval sciences. Efforts will be devoted to bring these results not only to the relevant scholarly communities but also to a wider audience as a resource in the public debates around science, knowledge and culture.
Alfonsine astronomy is arguably among the first European scientific achievements. It shaped a scene for actors like Regiomontanus or Copernicus. There is however little detailed historical analysis encompassing its development in its full breadth. ALFA addresses this issue by studying tables, instruments, mathematical and theoretical texts in a methodologically innovative way relying on approaches from the history of manuscript cultures, history of mathematics, and history of astronomy. ALFA integrates these approaches not only to benefit from different perspectives but also to build new questions from their interactions. For instance the analysis of mathematical practices in astral sciences manuscripts induces new ways to analyse the documents and to think about astronomical questions. Relying on these approaches the main objectives of ALFA are thus to: - Retrace the development of the corpus of Alfonsine texts from its origin in the second half of the 13th century to the end of the 15th century by following, on the manuscript level, the milieus fostering it; - Analyse the Alfonsine astronomers’ practices, their relations to mathematics, to the natural world, to proofs and justification, their intellectual context and audiences; - Build a meaningful narrative showing how astronomers in different milieus with diverse practices shaped, also from Arabic materials, an original scientific scene in Europe. ALFA will shed new light on the intellectual history of the late medieval period as a whole and produce a better understanding of its relations to related scientific periods in Europe and beyond. It will also produce methodological breakthroughs impacting the ways history of knowledge is practiced outside the field of ancient and medieval sciences. Efforts will be devoted to bring these results not only to the relevant scholarly communities but also to a wider audience as a resource in the public debates around science, knowledge and culture.
Project acronym ANAMORPHISM
Project Asymptotic and Numerical Analysis of MOdels of Resonant Physics Involving Structured Materials
Researcher (PI) Sebastien Roger Louis Guenneau
Summary One already available method to expand the range of material properties is to adjust the composition of materials at the molecular level using chemistry. We would like to develop the alternative approach of homogenization which broadens the definition of a material to include artificially structured media (fluids and solids) in which the effective electromagnetic, hydrodynamic or elastic responses result from a macroscopic patterning or arrangement of two or more distinct materials. This project will explore the latter avenue in order to markedly enhance control of surface water waves and elastodynamic waves propagating within artificially structured fluids and solid materials, thereafter called acoustic metamaterials. Pendry's perfect lens, the paradigm of electromagnetic metamaterials, is a slab of negative refractive index material that takes rays of light and causes them to converge with unprecedented resolution. This flat lens is a combination of periodically arranged resonant electric and magnetic elements. We will draw systematic analogies with resonant mechanical systems in order to achieve similar control of hydrodynamic and elastic waves. This will allow us to extend the design of metamaterials to acoustics to go beyond the scope of Snell-Descartes' laws of optics and Newton's laws of mechanics. Acoustic metamaterials allow the construction of invisibility cloaks for non-linear surface water waves (e.g. tsunamis) propagating in structured fluids, as well as seismic waves propagating in thin structured elastic plates. Maritime and civil engineering applications are in the protection of harbours, off-shore platforms and anti-earthquake passive systems. Acoustic cloaks for an enhanced control of pressure waves in fluids will be also designed for underwater camouflaging. Light and sound interplay will be finally analysed in order to design controllable metamaterials with a special emphasis on undetectable microstructured fibres (acoustic wormholes).
One already available method to expand the range of material properties is to adjust the composition of materials at the molecular level using chemistry. We would like to develop the alternative approach of homogenization which broadens the definition of a material to include artificially structured media (fluids and solids) in which the effective electromagnetic, hydrodynamic or elastic responses result from a macroscopic patterning or arrangement of two or more distinct materials. This project will explore the latter avenue in order to markedly enhance control of surface water waves and elastodynamic waves propagating within artificially structured fluids and solid materials, thereafter called acoustic metamaterials. Pendry's perfect lens, the paradigm of electromagnetic metamaterials, is a slab of negative refractive index material that takes rays of light and causes them to converge with unprecedented resolution. This flat lens is a combination of periodically arranged resonant electric and magnetic elements. We will draw systematic analogies with resonant mechanical systems in order to achieve similar control of hydrodynamic and elastic waves. This will allow us to extend the design of metamaterials to acoustics to go beyond the scope of Snell-Descartes' laws of optics and Newton's laws of mechanics. Acoustic metamaterials allow the construction of invisibility cloaks for non-linear surface water waves (e.g. tsunamis) propagating in structured fluids, as well as seismic waves propagating in thin structured elastic plates. Maritime and civil engineering applications are in the protection of harbours, off-shore platforms and anti-earthquake passive systems. Acoustic cloaks for an enhanced control of pressure waves in fluids will be also designed for underwater camouflaging. Light and sound interplay will be finally analysed in order to design controllable metamaterials with a special emphasis on undetectable microstructured fibres (acoustic wormholes).
Project acronym ANGI
Project Adaptive significance of Non Genetic Inheritance
Researcher (PI) Benoit François Pujol
Summary Our ability to predict adaptation and the response of populations to selection is limited. Solving this issue is a fundamental challenge of evolutionary ecology with implications for applied sciences such as conservation, and agronomy. Non genetic inheritance (NGI; e.g., ecological niche transmission) is suspected to play a foremost role in adaptive evolution but such hypothesis remains untested. Using quantitative genetics in wild plant populations, experimental evolution, and epigenetics, we will assess the role of NGI in the adaptive response to selection of plant populations. The ANGI project will follow the subsequent research program: (1) Using long-term survey data, we will measure natural selection in wild populations of Antirrhinum majus within its heterogeneous array of micro-habitats. We will calculate the fitness gain provided by multiple traits and stem elongation to plants growing in bushes where they compete for light. Stem elongation is known to depend on epigenetic variation. (2) Using a statistical approach that we developed, we will estimate the quantitative genetic and non genetic heritability of traits. (3) We will identify phenotypic changes caused by fitness that are based on genetic variation and NGI and assess their respective roles in adaptive evolution. (4) In controlled conditions, we will artificially select for increased stem elongation in clonal lineages, thereby excluding DNA variation. We will quantify the non genetic response to selection and test for a quantitative epigenetic signature of selection. (5) We will build on our results to generate an inclusive theory of genetic and non genetic natural selection. ANGI builds on a confirmed expertise in selection experiments, quantitative genetics and NGI. In addition, the availability of survey data provides a solid foundation for the achievement of this project. Our ambition is to shed light on original mechanisms underlying adaptation that are an alternative to genetic selection.
Our ability to predict adaptation and the response of populations to selection is limited. Solving this issue is a fundamental challenge of evolutionary ecology with implications for applied sciences such as conservation, and agronomy. Non genetic inheritance (NGI; e.g., ecological niche transmission) is suspected to play a foremost role in adaptive evolution but such hypothesis remains untested. Using quantitative genetics in wild plant populations, experimental evolution, and epigenetics, we will assess the role of NGI in the adaptive response to selection of plant populations. The ANGI project will follow the subsequent research program: (1) Using long-term survey data, we will measure natural selection in wild populations of Antirrhinum majus within its heterogeneous array of micro-habitats. We will calculate the fitness gain provided by multiple traits and stem elongation to plants growing in bushes where they compete for light. Stem elongation is known to depend on epigenetic variation. (2) Using a statistical approach that we developed, we will estimate the quantitative genetic and non genetic heritability of traits. (3) We will identify phenotypic changes caused by fitness that are based on genetic variation and NGI and assess their respective roles in adaptive evolution. (4) In controlled conditions, we will artificially select for increased stem elongation in clonal lineages, thereby excluding DNA variation. We will quantify the non genetic response to selection and test for a quantitative epigenetic signature of selection. (5) We will build on our results to generate an inclusive theory of genetic and non genetic natural selection. ANGI builds on a confirmed expertise in selection experiments, quantitative genetics and NGI. In addition, the availability of survey data provides a solid foundation for the achievement of this project. Our ambition is to shed light on original mechanisms underlying adaptation that are an alternative to genetic selection.
Project acronym ARBODYNAMIC
Project Coupling dynamic population immunity profiles and host behaviours to arboviral spread
Researcher (PI) Henrik SALJE
Host Institution (HI) INSTITUT PASTEUR
Summary Arboviruses infect millions of people each year, however, mechanisms that drive viral emergence and maintenance remain largely unknown. A combination of host factors (e.g., human mobility), mosquito factors (e.g., abundance) and viral factors (e.g., transmissibility) interconnect to drive spread. Further, for endemic arboviruses, complex patterns of population immunity, built up over many years, appear key to the emergence of particular lineages. To disentangle the contribution of these different drivers, we need detailed data from the same pathogen system over a long time period from the same location. In addition, we need new methods, which can integrate these different data sources and allow appropriate mechanistic inferences. In this project, I will use the most globally prevalent arbovirus, dengue virus, as a case study. I will focus on Thailand where all four dengue serotypes have circulated endemically for decades and excellent long-term data and isolates exist, to address two fundamental questions: i) How do population-level patterns of immunity evolve over time and what is their impact on strain dynamics? I will use mechanistic models applied to historic serotype-specific case data to reconstruct the evolving immune profile of the population and explore the impact of immunity on viral diversity using sequences from archived isolates from each year over a 50-year period. ii) How do human behaviors, vector densities interact with immunity to dictate spread? I will work with geolocated full genome sequences from across Thailand and use detailed data on how people move, their contact patterns, their immunity profiles and mosquito distributions to study competing hypotheses of how arboviruses spread. I will compare the key drivers of dengue spread with that found for outbreaks of Zika and chikungunya. This proposal addresses fundamental questions about the mechanisms that drive arboviral emergence and spread that will be relevant across disease systems.
Arboviruses infect millions of people each year, however, mechanisms that drive viral emergence and maintenance remain largely unknown. A combination of host factors (e.g., human mobility), mosquito factors (e.g., abundance) and viral factors (e.g., transmissibility) interconnect to drive spread. Further, for endemic arboviruses, complex patterns of population immunity, built up over many years, appear key to the emergence of particular lineages. To disentangle the contribution of these different drivers, we need detailed data from the same pathogen system over a long time period from the same location. In addition, we need new methods, which can integrate these different data sources and allow appropriate mechanistic inferences. In this project, I will use the most globally prevalent arbovirus, dengue virus, as a case study. I will focus on Thailand where all four dengue serotypes have circulated endemically for decades and excellent long-term data and isolates exist, to address two fundamental questions: i) How do population-level patterns of immunity evolve over time and what is their impact on strain dynamics? I will use mechanistic models applied to historic serotype-specific case data to reconstruct the evolving immune profile of the population and explore the impact of immunity on viral diversity using sequences from archived isolates from each year over a 50-year period. ii) How do human behaviors, vector densities interact with immunity to dictate spread? I will work with geolocated full genome sequences from across Thailand and use detailed data on how people move, their contact patterns, their immunity profiles and mosquito distributions to study competing hypotheses of how arboviruses spread. I will compare the key drivers of dengue spread with that found for outbreaks of Zika and chikungunya. This proposal addresses fundamental questions about the mechanisms that drive arboviral emergence and spread that will be relevant across disease systems.
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Project acronym BeStMo
Project Beyond Static Molecules: Modeling Quantum Fluctuations in Complex Molecular Environments
Researcher (PI) Alexandre TKATCHENKO
Summary We propose focused theory developments and applications, which aim to substantially advance our ability to model and understand the behavior of molecules in complex environments. From a large repertoire of possible environments, we have chosen to concentrate on experimentally-relevant situations, including molecular fluctuations in electric and optical fields, disordered molecular crystals, solvated (bio)molecules, and molecular interactions at/through low-dimensional nanostructures. A challenging aspect of modeling such realistic environments is that both molecular electronic and nuclear fluctuations have to be treated efficiently at a robust quantum-mechanical level of theory for systems with 1000s of atoms. In contrast, the current state of the art in the modeling of complex molecular systems typically consists of Newtonian molecular dynamics employing classical force fields. We will develop radically new approaches for electronic and nuclear fluctuations that unify concepts and merge techniques from quantum-mechanical many-body Hamiltonians, statistical mechanics, density-functional theory, and machine learning. Our developments will be benchmarked using experimental measurements with terahertz (THz) spectroscopy, atomic-force and scanning tunneling microscopy (AFM/STM), time-of-flight (TOF) measurements, and molecular interferometry. Our final goal is to bridge the accuracy of quantum mechanics with the efficiency of force fields, enabling large-scale predictive quantum molecular dynamics simulations for complex systems containing 1000s of atoms, and leading to novel conceptual insights into quantum-mechanical fluctuations in large molecular systems. The project goes well beyond the presently possible applications and once successful will pave the road towards having a suite of first-principles-based modeling tools for a wide range of realistic materials, such as biomolecules, nanostructures, disordered solids, and organic/inorganic interfaces.
We propose focused theory developments and applications, which aim to substantially advance our ability to model and understand the behavior of molecules in complex environments. From a large repertoire of possible environments, we have chosen to concentrate on experimentally-relevant situations, including molecular fluctuations in electric and optical fields, disordered molecular crystals, solvated (bio)molecules, and molecular interactions at/through low-dimensional nanostructures. A challenging aspect of modeling such realistic environments is that both molecular electronic and nuclear fluctuations have to be treated efficiently at a robust quantum-mechanical level of theory for systems with 1000s of atoms. In contrast, the current state of the art in the modeling of complex molecular systems typically consists of Newtonian molecular dynamics employing classical force fields. We will develop radically new approaches for electronic and nuclear fluctuations that unify concepts and merge techniques from quantum-mechanical many-body Hamiltonians, statistical mechanics, density-functional theory, and machine learning. Our developments will be benchmarked using experimental measurements with terahertz (THz) spectroscopy, atomic-force and scanning tunneling microscopy (AFM/STM), time-of-flight (TOF) measurements, and molecular interferometry. Our final goal is to bridge the accuracy of quantum mechanics with the efficiency of force fields, enabling large-scale predictive quantum molecular dynamics simulations for complex systems containing 1000s of atoms, and leading to novel conceptual insights into quantum-mechanical fluctuations in large molecular systems. The project goes well beyond the presently possible applications and once successful will pave the road towards having a suite of first-principles-based modeling tools for a wide range of realistic materials, such as biomolecules, nanostructures, disordered solids, and organic/inorganic interfaces.
Project acronym CartiLube
Project Lubricating Cartilage: exploring the relation between lubrication and gene-regulation to alleviate osteoarthritis
Researcher (PI) Jacob KLEIN
Summary Can we exploit insights from the remarkably lubricated surfaces of articular cartilage, to create lubricants that may alleviate osteoarthritis (OA), the most widespread joint disease, affecting millions? These, succinctly, are the challenges of the present proposal. They are driven by our recent finding that lubrication of destabilised joints leads to changes in gene-regulation of the cartilage-embedded chondrocytes to protect against development of the disease. OA alleviation is known to arise through orthopedically suppressing shear-stresses on the cartilage, and a central premise of this project is that, by reducing friction at the articulating cartilage through suitable lubrication, we may achieve the same beneficial effect on the disease. The objectives of this project are to better understand the origins of cartilage boundary lubrication through examination of friction-reduction by its main molecular components, and exploit that understanding to create lubricants that, on intra-articular injection, will lubricate cartilage sufficiently well to achieve alleviation of OA via gene regulation. The project will examine, via both nanotribometric and macroscopic measurements, how the main molecular species implicated in cartilage lubrication, lipids, hyaluronan and lubricin, and their combinations, act together to form optimally lubricating boundary layers on model surfaces as well as on excised cartilage. Based on this, we shall develop suitable materials to lubricate cartilage in joints, using mouse models. Lubricants will further be optimized with respect to their retention in the joint and cartilage targeting, both in model studies and in vivo. The effect of the lubricants in regulating gene expression, in reducing pain and cartilage degradation, and in promoting stem-cell adhesion to the cartilage will be studied in a mouse model in which OA has been induced. Our results will have implications for treatment of a common, debilitating disease.
Can we exploit insights from the remarkably lubricated surfaces of articular cartilage, to create lubricants that may alleviate osteoarthritis (OA), the most widespread joint disease, affecting millions? These, succinctly, are the challenges of the present proposal. They are driven by our recent finding that lubrication of destabilised joints leads to changes in gene-regulation of the cartilage-embedded chondrocytes to protect against development of the disease. OA alleviation is known to arise through orthopedically suppressing shear-stresses on the cartilage, and a central premise of this project is that, by reducing friction at the articulating cartilage through suitable lubrication, we may achieve the same beneficial effect on the disease. The objectives of this project are to better understand the origins of cartilage boundary lubrication through examination of friction-reduction by its main molecular components, and exploit that understanding to create lubricants that, on intra-articular injection, will lubricate cartilage sufficiently well to achieve alleviation of OA via gene regulation. The project will examine, via both nanotribometric and macroscopic measurements, how the main molecular species implicated in cartilage lubrication, lipids, hyaluronan and lubricin, and their combinations, act together to form optimally lubricating boundary layers on model surfaces as well as on excised cartilage. Based on this, we shall develop suitable materials to lubricate cartilage in joints, using mouse models. Lubricants will further be optimized with respect to their retention in the joint and cartilage targeting, both in model studies and in vivo. The effect of the lubricants in regulating gene expression, in reducing pain and cartilage degradation, and in promoting stem-cell adhesion to the cartilage will be studied in a mouse model in which OA has been induced. Our results will have implications for treatment of a common, debilitating disease.
Project acronym COMPECON
Project Complexity and Simplicity in Economic Mechanisms
Researcher (PI) Noam NISAN
Summary As more and more economic activity is moving to the Internet, familiar economic mechanisms are being deployed at unprecedented scales of size, speed, and complexity. In many cases this new complexity becomes the defining feature of the deployed economic mechanism and the quantitative difference becomes a key qualitative one. A well-studied example of such situations is how the humble single-item auction suddenly becomes a billion-times repeated online ad auction, or even becomes a combinatorial auction with exponentially many possible outcomes. Similar complexity explosions occur with various markets, with information dissemination, with pricing structures, and with many other economic mechanisms. The aim of this proposal is to study the role and implications of such complexity and to start developing a coherent economic theory that can handle it. We aim to identify various measures of complexity that are crucial bottlenecks and study them. Examples of such complexities include the amount of access to data, the length of the description of a mechanism, its communication requirements, the cognitive complexity required from users, and, of course, the associated computational complexity. On one hand we will attempt finding ways of effectively dealing with complexity when it is needed, and on the other hand, attempt avoiding complexity, when possible, replacing it with ``simple'' alternatives without incurring too large of a loss.
As more and more economic activity is moving to the Internet, familiar economic mechanisms are being deployed at unprecedented scales of size, speed, and complexity. In many cases this new complexity becomes the defining feature of the deployed economic mechanism and the quantitative difference becomes a key qualitative one. A well-studied example of such situations is how the humble single-item auction suddenly becomes a billion-times repeated online ad auction, or even becomes a combinatorial auction with exponentially many possible outcomes. Similar complexity explosions occur with various markets, with information dissemination, with pricing structures, and with many other economic mechanisms. The aim of this proposal is to study the role and implications of such complexity and to start developing a coherent economic theory that can handle it. We aim to identify various measures of complexity that are crucial bottlenecks and study them. Examples of such complexities include the amount of access to data, the length of the description of a mechanism, its communication requirements, the cognitive complexity required from users, and, of course, the associated computational complexity. On one hand we will attempt finding ways of effectively dealing with complexity when it is needed, and on the other hand, attempt avoiding complexity, when possible, replacing it with ``simple'' alternatives without incurring too large of a loss.
Project acronym CoupledNC
Project Coupled Nanocrystal Molecules: Quantum coupling effects via chemical coupling of colloidal nanocrystals
Researcher (PI) Uri BANIN
Summary Coupling of atoms is the basis of chemistry, yielding the beauty and richness of molecules and materials. Herein I introduce nanocrystal chemistry: the use of semiconductor nanocrystals (NCs) as artificial atoms to form NC molecules that are chemically, structurally and physically coupled. The unique emergent quantum mechanical consequences of the NCs coupling will be studied and tailored to yield a chemical-quantum palette: coherent coupling of NC exciton states; dual color single photon emitters functional also as photo-switchable chromophores in super-resolution fluorescence microscopy; electrically switchable single NC photon emitters for utilization as taggants for neuronal activity and as chromophores in displays; new NC structures for lasing; and coupled quasi-1D NC chains manifesting mini-band formation, and tailored for a quantum-cascade effect for IR photon emission. A novel methodology of controlled oriented attachment of NC building blocks (in particular of core/shell NCs) will be presented to realize the coupled NCs molecules. For this a new type of Janus NC building block will be developed, and used as an element in a Lego-type construction of double quantum dots (dimers), heterodimers coupling two different types of NCs, and more complex NC coupled quantum structures. To realize this NC chemistry approach, surface control is essential, which will be achieved via investigation of the chemical and dynamical properties of the NCs surface ligands layer. As outcome I can expect to decipher NCs surface chemistry and dynamics, including its size dependence, and to introduce Janus NCs with chemically distinct and selectively modified surface faces. From this I will develop a new step-wise approach for synthesis of coupled NCs molecules and reveal the consequences of quantum coupling in them. This will inspire theoretical and further experimental work and will set the stage for the development of the diverse potential applications of coupled NC molecules.
Coupling of atoms is the basis of chemistry, yielding the beauty and richness of molecules and materials. Herein I introduce nanocrystal chemistry: the use of semiconductor nanocrystals (NCs) as artificial atoms to form NC molecules that are chemically, structurally and physically coupled. The unique emergent quantum mechanical consequences of the NCs coupling will be studied and tailored to yield a chemical-quantum palette: coherent coupling of NC exciton states; dual color single photon emitters functional also as photo-switchable chromophores in super-resolution fluorescence microscopy; electrically switchable single NC photon emitters for utilization as taggants for neuronal activity and as chromophores in displays; new NC structures for lasing; and coupled quasi-1D NC chains manifesting mini-band formation, and tailored for a quantum-cascade effect for IR photon emission. A novel methodology of controlled oriented attachment of NC building blocks (in particular of core/shell NCs) will be presented to realize the coupled NCs molecules. For this a new type of Janus NC building block will be developed, and used as an element in a Lego-type construction of double quantum dots (dimers), heterodimers coupling two different types of NCs, and more complex NC coupled quantum structures. To realize this NC chemistry approach, surface control is essential, which will be achieved via investigation of the chemical and dynamical properties of the NCs surface ligands layer. As outcome I can expect to decipher NCs surface chemistry and dynamics, including its size dependence, and to introduce Janus NCs with chemically distinct and selectively modified surface faces. From this I will develop a new step-wise approach for synthesis of coupled NCs molecules and reveal the consequences of quantum coupling in them. This will inspire theoretical and further experimental work and will set the stage for the development of the diverse potential applications of coupled NC molecules.
Project acronym DeepFace
Project Understanding Deep Face Recognition
Researcher (PI) Lior Wolf
Host Institution (HI) TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY
Summary Face recognition is a fascinating domain: no other domain seems to present as much value when analysing casual photos; it is one of the few domains in machine learning in which millions of classes are routinely learned; and the trade-off between subtle inter-identity variations and pronounced intra-identity variations forms a unique challenge. The advent of deep learning has brought machines to what is considered a human level of performance. However, there are many research questions that are left open. At the top most level, we ask two questions: what is unique about faces in comparison to other recognition tasks that also employ deep networks and how can we make the next leap in performance of automatic face recognition? We consider three domains of research. The first is the study of methods that promote effective transfer learning. This is crucial since all state of the art face recognition methods rely on transfer learning. The second domain is the study of the tradeoffs that govern the optimal utilization of the training data and how the properties of the training data affect the optimal network design. The third domain is the post transfer utilization of the learned deep networks, where given the representations of a pair of face images, we seek to compare them in the most accurate way. Throughout this proposal, we put an emphasis on theoretical reasoning. I aim to support the developed methods by a theoretical framework that would both justify their usage as well as provide concrete guidelines for using them. My goal of achieving a leap forward in performance through a level of theoretical analysis that is unparalleled in object recognition, makes our research agenda truly high-risk/ high-gains. I have been in the forefront of face recognition for the last 8 years and my lab's recent achievements in deep learning suggest that we will be able to carry out this research. To further support its feasibility, we present very promising initial results.
Face recognition is a fascinating domain: no other domain seems to present as much value when analysing casual photos; it is one of the few domains in machine learning in which millions of classes are routinely learned; and the trade-off between subtle inter-identity variations and pronounced intra-identity variations forms a unique challenge. The advent of deep learning has brought machines to what is considered a human level of performance. However, there are many research questions that are left open. At the top most level, we ask two questions: what is unique about faces in comparison to other recognition tasks that also employ deep networks and how can we make the next leap in performance of automatic face recognition? We consider three domains of research. The first is the study of methods that promote effective transfer learning. This is crucial since all state of the art face recognition methods rely on transfer learning. The second domain is the study of the tradeoffs that govern the optimal utilization of the training data and how the properties of the training data affect the optimal network design. The third domain is the post transfer utilization of the learned deep networks, where given the representations of a pair of face images, we seek to compare them in the most accurate way. Throughout this proposal, we put an emphasis on theoretical reasoning. I aim to support the developed methods by a theoretical framework that would both justify their usage as well as provide concrete guidelines for using them. My goal of achieving a leap forward in performance through a level of theoretical analysis that is unparalleled in object recognition, makes our research agenda truly high-risk/ high-gains. I have been in the forefront of face recognition for the last 8 years and my lab's recent achievements in deep learning suggest that we will be able to carry out this research. To further support its feasibility, we present very promising initial results.
Project acronym FAFC
Project Foundations and Applications of Functional Cryptography
Researcher (PI) Gil SEGEV
Summary "Modern cryptography has successfully followed an ""all-or-nothing"" design paradigm over the years. For example, the most fundamental task of data encryption requires that encrypted data be fully recoverable using the encryption key, but be completely useless without it. Nowadays, however, this paradigm is insufficient for a wide variety of evolving applications, and a more subtle approach is urgently needed. This has recently motivated the cryptography community to put forward a vision of ""functional cryptography'': Designing cryptographic primitives that allow fine-grained access to sensitive data. This proposal aims at making substantial progress towards realizing the premise of functional cryptography. By tackling challenging key problems in both the foundations and the applications of functional cryptography, I plan to direct the majority of our effort towards addressing the following three fundamental objectives, which span a broad and interdisciplinary flavor of research directions: (1) Obtain a better understanding of functional cryptography's building blocks, (2) develop functional cryptographic tools and schemes based on well-studied assumptions, and (3) increase the usability of functional cryptographic systems via algorithmic techniques. Realizing the premise of functional cryptography is of utmost importance not only to the development of modern cryptography, but in fact to our entire technological development, where fine-grained access to sensitive data plays an instrumental role. Moreover, our objectives are tightly related to two of the most fundamental open problems in cryptography: Basing cryptography on widely-believed worst-case complexity assumptions, and basing public-key cryptography on private-key primitives. I strongly believe that meaningful progress towards achieving our objectives will shed new light on these key problems, and thus have a significant impact on our understanding of modern cryptography."
"Modern cryptography has successfully followed an ""all-or-nothing"" design paradigm over the years. For example, the most fundamental task of data encryption requires that encrypted data be fully recoverable using the encryption key, but be completely useless without it. Nowadays, however, this paradigm is insufficient for a wide variety of evolving applications, and a more subtle approach is urgently needed. This has recently motivated the cryptography community to put forward a vision of ""functional cryptography'': Designing cryptographic primitives that allow fine-grained access to sensitive data. This proposal aims at making substantial progress towards realizing the premise of functional cryptography. By tackling challenging key problems in both the foundations and the applications of functional cryptography, I plan to direct the majority of our effort towards addressing the following three fundamental objectives, which span a broad and interdisciplinary flavor of research directions: (1) Obtain a better understanding of functional cryptography's building blocks, (2) develop functional cryptographic tools and schemes based on well-studied assumptions, and (3) increase the usability of functional cryptographic systems via algorithmic techniques. Realizing the premise of functional cryptography is of utmost importance not only to the development of modern cryptography, but in fact to our entire technological development, where fine-grained access to sensitive data plays an instrumental role. Moreover, our objectives are tightly related to two of the most fundamental open problems in cryptography: Basing cryptography on widely-believed worst-case complexity assumptions, and basing public-key cryptography on private-key primitives. I strongly believe that meaningful progress towards achieving our objectives will shed new light on these key problems, and thus have a significant impact on our understanding of modern cryptography."
Project acronym LIBPR
Project Liberating Programming
Researcher (PI) David Harel
Summary We propose to provide the theoretical, algorithmic and methodological foundations, and build the supporting tools, to bring about a major, paradigmatic, revolutionary change in the way software and systems are programmed and executed, based on the idea of liberated programming, a sweeping extension of the scenario-based play-in/play-out approach to program design and execution that I and my group have done around the language of live sequence charts (LSCs). Play-in is a new way of software programming, combining the ideas of showing and teaching, instead of telling, relying on friendly advanced user interfaces, and using intuitive yet formal and expressive visual languages. Play-out is a general name for the technologies of executing played-in programs using powerful tools such as model-checking and synthesis. Our proposed work is divided into four main threads: (1) play-in, the development of new languages and interaction techniques; (2) play-out, the development of new execution technologies; (3) domain specific adaptations and applications; and (4) integration and tools. The play-in techniques proposed include the translation of systems requirements given in natural language into an executable artifact, the use of novel and dynamic human machine interaction techniques, relying on visual languages as target languages. The play-out execution methods proposed include the use of model-checking and synthesis algorithms, compilation, and execution environments that learn. Domain specific applications proposed include web services, tactical simulators, embedded systems, and biological modeling. Finally, we propose to build prototype tools that will allow the evaluation of the new technologies and their dissemination into the academic community and industry.
We propose to provide the theoretical, algorithmic and methodological foundations, and build the supporting tools, to bring about a major, paradigmatic, revolutionary change in the way software and systems are programmed and executed, based on the idea of liberated programming, a sweeping extension of the scenario-based play-in/play-out approach to program design and execution that I and my group have done around the language of live sequence charts (LSCs). Play-in is a new way of software programming, combining the ideas of showing and teaching, instead of telling, relying on friendly advanced user interfaces, and using intuitive yet formal and expressive visual languages. Play-out is a general name for the technologies of executing played-in programs using powerful tools such as model-checking and synthesis. Our proposed work is divided into four main threads: (1) play-in, the development of new languages and interaction techniques; (2) play-out, the development of new execution technologies; (3) domain specific adaptations and applications; and (4) integration and tools. The play-in techniques proposed include the translation of systems requirements given in natural language into an executable artifact, the use of novel and dynamic human machine interaction techniques, relying on visual languages as target languages. The play-out execution methods proposed include the use of model-checking and synthesis algorithms, compilation, and execution environments that learn. Domain specific applications proposed include web services, tactical simulators, embedded systems, and biological modeling. Finally, we propose to build prototype tools that will allow the evaluation of the new technologies and their dissemination into the academic community and industry.
Project acronym MDDS
Project Mechanism Design for Data Science
Researcher (PI) Moshe TENNENHOLTZ
Host Institution (HI) TECHNION - ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
Summary The way data science algorithms and techniques, central to the Internet and on-line media, are designed need to be revolutionized. Current designs ignore participants' strategic incentives. Our vision is the establishment of an entirely new repertoire of incentive-compatible data science algorithms and techniques, obtained through pioneering the application of game-theoretic mechanism design for data science. Game theory is the branch of mathematics dealing with the modeling and analysis of multi-agent interactions. Mechanism design is the part of game theory that deals with the design of protocols/algorithms for environments consisting of self-motivated participants. Mechanism design has been central to bridging computer science and game theory. It has been widely applied to electronic commerce, advertising and routing networks, and led to significant contributions. On the other hand, data science is flowering, with major applications in search and information retrieval, on-line recommendation systems, clustering and segmentation, and social networks analysis. Quite surprisingly, although the incentives of publishers/firms/customers in such data science contexts are of great importance, mechanism design in the related settings has been almost completely neglected. The proposal aims at building theoretical foundations, providing algorithms, as well as validating through experiments, a fundamental bridge between mechanism design and data science. The ultimate success of this research would be the replacement of classical relevance ranking, segmentation, on-line explore \& exploit, and influencers' detection algorithms by incentive-compatible ones, creating the next generation of data science algorithms..
The way data science algorithms and techniques, central to the Internet and on-line media, are designed need to be revolutionized. Current designs ignore participants' strategic incentives. Our vision is the establishment of an entirely new repertoire of incentive-compatible data science algorithms and techniques, obtained through pioneering the application of game-theoretic mechanism design for data science. Game theory is the branch of mathematics dealing with the modeling and analysis of multi-agent interactions. Mechanism design is the part of game theory that deals with the design of protocols/algorithms for environments consisting of self-motivated participants. Mechanism design has been central to bridging computer science and game theory. It has been widely applied to electronic commerce, advertising and routing networks, and led to significant contributions. On the other hand, data science is flowering, with major applications in search and information retrieval, on-line recommendation systems, clustering and segmentation, and social networks analysis. Quite surprisingly, although the incentives of publishers/firms/customers in such data science contexts are of great importance, mechanism design in the related settings has been almost completely neglected. The proposal aims at building theoretical foundations, providing algorithms, as well as validating through experiments, a fundamental bridge between mechanism design and data science. The ultimate success of this research would be the replacement of classical relevance ranking, segmentation, on-line explore \& exploit, and influencers' detection algorithms by incentive-compatible ones, creating the next generation of data science algorithms..
Project acronym NTSC
Project New Techniques for Secure Computation
Researcher (PI) Yuval Mordechai ISHAI
Summary Secure computation is a general-purpose tool for processing sensitive data without compromising its confidentiality or integrity. In recent years, significant research efforts have been invested in optimizing and implementing secure computation protocols and related cryptographic primitives such as fully homomorphic encryption and program obfuscation. The proposed project will explore new techniques for secure computation and related primitives. The new techniques are expected to enhance the asymptotic and concrete efficiency of current solutions and extend the known relations between secure computation and other problems in cryptography and computational complexity theory. The research will span the following directions: • Succinct secure computation via homomorphic secret sharing, exploring new research directions that were opened by recent works of the PI; • Protecting protocols against malicious parties, with relevance to efficient general-purpose program obfuscation; • Protecting protocols against general information leakage
Secure computation is a general-purpose tool for processing sensitive data without compromising its confidentiality or integrity. In recent years, significant research efforts have been invested in optimizing and implementing secure computation protocols and related cryptographic primitives such as fully homomorphic encryption and program obfuscation. The proposed project will explore new techniques for secure computation and related primitives. The new techniques are expected to enhance the asymptotic and concrete efficiency of current solutions and extend the known relations between secure computation and other problems in cryptography and computational complexity theory. The research will span the following directions: • Succinct secure computation via homomorphic secret sharing, exploring new research directions that were opened by recent works of the PI; • Protecting protocols against malicious parties, with relevance to efficient general-purpose program obfuscation; • Protecting protocols against general information leakage
Project acronym OPREP
Project Operator Based Representations for Geometry Processing
Researcher (PI) Mirela Ben-Chen
Summary Geometric data is prevalent in many areas of science and technology. From the surface of the brain to the intricate shapes of free-form architecture, complex geometric structures arise in many fields, and problems such as analysis, processing and synthesis of geometric data are of great importance. One major challenge in tackling such problems is choosing an adequate discrete representation of the geometric data. Traditionally, surface geometric data is treated as an irregularly sampled signal in three-dimensional space, yielding a representation as either a point cloud, or a polygonal mesh. Further analysis and manipulation are done directly on this discrete representation, resulting in algorithms which are often combinatorial, leading to difficult numerical optimization problems. The goal of this research is to explore a fundamentally different approach of representing geometric data through the space of scalar functions defined on it, and representing geometric operations as algebraic manipulations of linear operators acting on such functions. We will investigate the basic theory behind such a representation, addressing questions such as: what are the best function spaces to work with? Which operators can be consistently discretized, leading to discrete theorems analogous to continuous ones? How should multi-scale processing of geometric data be treated in this novel representation? To validate our approach, we will explore how this representation can be leveraged for devising efficient solutions to difficult real-world geometry processing problems, such as numerical simulation of intricate phenomena on curved surfaces, surface correspondence and quadrangular remeshing. By shifting the focus from geometry-centric representations and considering instead shapes through the lens of functional operators, we could potentially lay the ground for a fundamental change in the way that geometric data is treated and understood.
Geometric data is prevalent in many areas of science and technology. From the surface of the brain to the intricate shapes of free-form architecture, complex geometric structures arise in many fields, and problems such as analysis, processing and synthesis of geometric data are of great importance. One major challenge in tackling such problems is choosing an adequate discrete representation of the geometric data. Traditionally, surface geometric data is treated as an irregularly sampled signal in three-dimensional space, yielding a representation as either a point cloud, or a polygonal mesh. Further analysis and manipulation are done directly on this discrete representation, resulting in algorithms which are often combinatorial, leading to difficult numerical optimization problems. The goal of this research is to explore a fundamentally different approach of representing geometric data through the space of scalar functions defined on it, and representing geometric operations as algebraic manipulations of linear operators acting on such functions. We will investigate the basic theory behind such a representation, addressing questions such as: what are the best function spaces to work with? Which operators can be consistently discretized, leading to discrete theorems analogous to continuous ones? How should multi-scale processing of geometric data be treated in this novel representation? To validate our approach, we will explore how this representation can be leveraged for devising efficient solutions to difficult real-world geometry processing problems, such as numerical simulation of intricate phenomena on curved surfaces, surface correspondence and quadrangular remeshing. By shifting the focus from geometry-centric representations and considering instead shapes through the lens of functional operators, we could potentially lay the ground for a fundamental change in the way that geometric data is treated and understood.
Project acronym OPTISTIM
Project Patterned optical activation of retinal ganglion cells
Researcher (PI) Shy Shoham
Summary Direct activation of retinal ganglion cells is a promising approach for treating blindness resulting from degenerative diseases of the outer retina. Current neuro-retinal stimulation interfaces being developed use electrical currents from micro-electrode arrays, but future systems could use light patterns to create spatio-temporally complex activity patterns. We will develop, optimize and test different concepts allowing patterned optical stimulation of large populations of retinal ganglion cells based on emerging methods for light-based neuro-stimulation, including glutamate uncaging and ectopic expression of the light-sensitive ion channel Channelrhodopsin II. A series of in vitro and in vivo experiments will examine basic questions regarding the efficacy and safety of this general approach. Our experiments will define the major engineering requirements and constraints towards the development of a light-based approach for restoring vision in individuals with outer-retinal degenerative diseases.
Direct activation of retinal ganglion cells is a promising approach for treating blindness resulting from degenerative diseases of the outer retina. Current neuro-retinal stimulation interfaces being developed use electrical currents from micro-electrode arrays, but future systems could use light patterns to create spatio-temporally complex activity patterns. We will develop, optimize and test different concepts allowing patterned optical stimulation of large populations of retinal ganglion cells based on emerging methods for light-based neuro-stimulation, including glutamate uncaging and ectopic expression of the light-sensitive ion channel Channelrhodopsin II. A series of in vitro and in vivo experiments will examine basic questions regarding the efficacy and safety of this general approach. Our experiments will define the major engineering requirements and constraints towards the development of a light-based approach for restoring vision in individuals with outer-retinal degenerative diseases.
Project acronym SHIFTIDES
Project Shifting the oligomerization equilibrium of proteins: a novel therapeutic strategy
Researcher (PI) Assaf Friedler
Summary The aim of my project is to establish a multidisciplinary platform for quantitative biophysical analysis of protein-protein interactions in health and disease as a basis for drug design: (1) Analyzing protein-protein interactions at the molecular level in healthy systems; (2) Understanding what goes wrong in disease at the molecular level; (3) Development of drugs that will restore the biological system to its healthy conditions. My team will apply this approach to establish the concept of shifting the oligomerization equilibrium of proteins as a therapeutic strategy. I will expand the concepts of allosteric inhibitors and chemical chaperones, and develop the “shiftides”: peptides that shift the oligomerization equilibrium of a protein to modulate its activity, as a new and widely applicable methodology for drug design. I will apply this concept for: (1) inhibiting a protein by binding preferentially to the inactive oligomeric state and shifting the oligomerization equilibrium of the protein towards it; I have demonstrated the feasibility of this approach and developed promising anti-HIV peptides that inhibit the HIV-1 integrase and consequently HIV-1 replication in cells by shifting the integrase oligomerization equilibrium from the active dimer to the inactive tetramer. My team will further develop these peptides, and apply the same approach to inhibit the HIV proteins reverse transcriptase and protease; (2) Activating a protein by binding preferentially to the active oligomeric state and shifting the oligomerization equilibrium towards it: This will be applied for activation of the tumor suppressor p53, by shifting its oligomerization equilibrium from the inactive dimer to the active tetramer. Such shiftides will serve as anti-cancer lead compounds. My project will open new doors in the field of drug design, and at the end of the five-year period will result in a general new methodology to affect protein function for medical purposes.
The aim of my project is to establish a multidisciplinary platform for quantitative biophysical analysis of protein-protein interactions in health and disease as a basis for drug design: (1) Analyzing protein-protein interactions at the molecular level in healthy systems; (2) Understanding what goes wrong in disease at the molecular level; (3) Development of drugs that will restore the biological system to its healthy conditions. My team will apply this approach to establish the concept of shifting the oligomerization equilibrium of proteins as a therapeutic strategy. I will expand the concepts of allosteric inhibitors and chemical chaperones, and develop the “shiftides”: peptides that shift the oligomerization equilibrium of a protein to modulate its activity, as a new and widely applicable methodology for drug design. I will apply this concept for: (1) inhibiting a protein by binding preferentially to the inactive oligomeric state and shifting the oligomerization equilibrium of the protein towards it; I have demonstrated the feasibility of this approach and developed promising anti-HIV peptides that inhibit the HIV-1 integrase and consequently HIV-1 replication in cells by shifting the integrase oligomerization equilibrium from the active dimer to the inactive tetramer. My team will further develop these peptides, and apply the same approach to inhibit the HIV proteins reverse transcriptase and protease; (2) Activating a protein by binding preferentially to the active oligomeric state and shifting the oligomerization equilibrium towards it: This will be applied for activation of the tumor suppressor p53, by shifting its oligomerization equilibrium from the inactive dimer to the active tetramer. Such shiftides will serve as anti-cancer lead compounds. My project will open new doors in the field of drug design, and at the end of the five-year period will result in a general new methodology to affect protein function for medical purposes.
Project acronym SMALLOSTERY
Project Single-molecule spectroscopy of coordinated motions in allosteric proteins
Researcher (PI) Gilad HARAN
Summary Critical for the function of many proteins, allosteric communication involves transmission of the effect of binding at one site of a protein to another through conformational changes. Yet the structural and dynamic basis for allostery remains poorly understood. In particular, there is no method to follow coordinated large-scale motions of domains and subunits in proteins as they occur. Since the subunits of allosteric proteins often contain multiple domains, any such method entails probing the dynamics along several intra-protein distances simultaneously. This proposal aims at ameliorating this deficiency by creating the experimental framework for exploring time-dependent coordination of allosteric transitions of multiple units within proteins. Our methodology will rely on single-molecule FRET spectroscopy with multiple labels on the same protein and advanced analysis. We will explore fundamental issues in protein dynamics: relative motions of domains within subunits, propagation of conformational change between subunits, and synchronization of these motions by effector molecules. To investigate these issues, we have carefully selected three model systems, each representing an important scenario of allosteric regulation. While the homo-oligomeric protein-folder GroEL conserves symmetry in a concerted transition between major structural states, the symmetry of the homo-oligomeric disaggregating machine ClpB is broken via a sequential transition. Symmetry is attained only after binding to DNA and ligands in the third system, the family of RXR heterodimers. This exciting project will provide the very first catalogue of coordinated and time-ordered motions within and between subunits of allosteric proteins and the first measurement of the time scale of the conformational spread through a large protein. It will enhance dramatically our understanding of how allostery contributes to protein function, influencing future efforts to design drugs for allosteric proteins.
Critical for the function of many proteins, allosteric communication involves transmission of the effect of binding at one site of a protein to another through conformational changes. Yet the structural and dynamic basis for allostery remains poorly understood. In particular, there is no method to follow coordinated large-scale motions of domains and subunits in proteins as they occur. Since the subunits of allosteric proteins often contain multiple domains, any such method entails probing the dynamics along several intra-protein distances simultaneously. This proposal aims at ameliorating this deficiency by creating the experimental framework for exploring time-dependent coordination of allosteric transitions of multiple units within proteins. Our methodology will rely on single-molecule FRET spectroscopy with multiple labels on the same protein and advanced analysis. We will explore fundamental issues in protein dynamics: relative motions of domains within subunits, propagation of conformational change between subunits, and synchronization of these motions by effector molecules. To investigate these issues, we have carefully selected three model systems, each representing an important scenario of allosteric regulation. While the homo-oligomeric protein-folder GroEL conserves symmetry in a concerted transition between major structural states, the symmetry of the homo-oligomeric disaggregating machine ClpB is broken via a sequential transition. Symmetry is attained only after binding to DNA and ligands in the third system, the family of RXR heterodimers. This exciting project will provide the very first catalogue of coordinated and time-ordered motions within and between subunits of allosteric proteins and the first measurement of the time scale of the conformational spread through a large protein. It will enhance dramatically our understanding of how allostery contributes to protein function, influencing future efforts to design drugs for allosteric proteins.
Project acronym THE MR CHALLENGE
Project Expanding the horizons of magnetic resonance in sensitivity, imaging resolution, and availability
Researcher (PI) Aharon Blank
Summary "We propose to develop and implement advanced magnetic resonance detection and micro-imaging techniques that will benefit many biophysical, chemical, physical, and medical applications. Magnetic resonance (MR) is one of the most profound observation methods in science. MR includes Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) and Electron Spin Resonance (ESR). It has a variety of applications ranging from chemical structure determination to medical imaging and quantum computing. From a scientific standpoint, MR was the main focus of at least seven Nobel prizes in physics, chemistry, and medicine. From an industrial standpoint, MR is a multibillion industry focused on a range of medical (MRI) and chemical applications (MR spectrometers). Despite the fact that magnetic resonance was discovered more than 60 years ago, there is still plenty of room for new methodologies and applications. This research will confront some of the most challenging issues that this field has yet to offer, which also contain the greatest potential benefits. This is what we call “The MR Challenge”. We will focus on three key MR issues: sensitivity, image resolution, and affordability. Our first goal is to substantially improve the sensitivity of MR spectroscopy and the resolution of MR micro-imaging. We will put most of our efforts on ESR spectroscopy and on the detection of NMR information through an ESR signal (ENDOR). At ambient conditions our goal is to achieve a sensitivity of ~10^4 electron spins and a resolution of 1 micron; at low temperatures we will approach single electron spin sensitivity and image resolution as high as 10nm. In terms of affordability, our goal is to introduce a small probe that is capable of acquiring NMR spectra from samples located outside the magnet (an ""ex-situ"" probe). We will also design and construct a new family of hand-held 3D NMR imaging probes. The new capabilities would be applied in the field of single cell imaging and biophysics, materials science, and medicine."
"We propose to develop and implement advanced magnetic resonance detection and micro-imaging techniques that will benefit many biophysical, chemical, physical, and medical applications. Magnetic resonance (MR) is one of the most profound observation methods in science. MR includes Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) and Electron Spin Resonance (ESR). It has a variety of applications ranging from chemical structure determination to medical imaging and quantum computing. From a scientific standpoint, MR was the main focus of at least seven Nobel prizes in physics, chemistry, and medicine. From an industrial standpoint, MR is a multibillion industry focused on a range of medical (MRI) and chemical applications (MR spectrometers). Despite the fact that magnetic resonance was discovered more than 60 years ago, there is still plenty of room for new methodologies and applications. This research will confront some of the most challenging issues that this field has yet to offer, which also contain the greatest potential benefits. This is what we call “The MR Challenge”. We will focus on three key MR issues: sensitivity, image resolution, and affordability. Our first goal is to substantially improve the sensitivity of MR spectroscopy and the resolution of MR micro-imaging. We will put most of our efforts on ESR spectroscopy and on the detection of NMR information through an ESR signal (ENDOR). At ambient conditions our goal is to achieve a sensitivity of ~10^4 electron spins and a resolution of 1 micron; at low temperatures we will approach single electron spin sensitivity and image resolution as high as 10nm. In terms of affordability, our goal is to introduce a small probe that is capable of acquiring NMR spectra from samples located outside the magnet (an ""ex-situ"" probe). We will also design and construct a new family of hand-held 3D NMR imaging probes. The new capabilities would be applied in the field of single cell imaging and biophysics, materials science, and medicine."
Project acronym TORMCJ
Project Thermal, optical and redox processes in molecular conduction junctions
Researcher (PI) Abraham Nitzan
Summary Much of the current intense study of molecular conduction junctions is motivated by their possible technological applications, however this research focuses on fundamental questions associated with the properties and operation of such systems. Junctions based on redox molecules often show non-linear conduction behavior as function of imposed bias. Optical interactions in molecular junctions pertain to junction characterization and control. Issues of heating and thermal stability require a proper definition of thermal states (effective temperature) and the understanding of heat production and thermal conduction in non-equilibrium junctions. This proposal focuses on theoretical problems pertaining to these phenomena with the following goals: (a) Develop theoretical methodologies for treating non-equilibrium molecular systems under the combined driving of electrical bias, thermal gradients and optical fields; (b) provide theoretical tools needed for the understanding and interpretation of new and ongoing experimental efforts involving thermal, optical and redox (charging) phenomena in molecular junctions, and (c) use the acquired insight to suggest new methods for characterization, functionality, control and stability of molecular junctions.
Much of the current intense study of molecular conduction junctions is motivated by their possible technological applications, however this research focuses on fundamental questions associated with the properties and operation of such systems. Junctions based on redox molecules often show non-linear conduction behavior as function of imposed bias. Optical interactions in molecular junctions pertain to junction characterization and control. Issues of heating and thermal stability require a proper definition of thermal states (effective temperature) and the understanding of heat production and thermal conduction in non-equilibrium junctions. This proposal focuses on theoretical problems pertaining to these phenomena with the following goals: (a) Develop theoretical methodologies for treating non-equilibrium molecular systems under the combined driving of electrical bias, thermal gradients and optical fields; (b) provide theoretical tools needed for the understanding and interpretation of new and ongoing experimental efforts involving thermal, optical and redox (charging) phenomena in molecular junctions, and (c) use the acquired insight to suggest new methods for characterization, functionality, control and stability of molecular junctions.
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Understanding development effectiveness: Concepts, players and tools
In the context of the limited availability of development aid, there is an increased demand for effective results. This means that both developing and richer countries must commit to spending and using aid more effectively. Public funding is not enough to cover all needs, but it can leverage initiatives from civil society and the private sector. The increase in stakeholders and intervention methods, both in terms of numbers and variety, combined with the necessity to address needs in the field more ...
In the context of the limited availability of development aid, there is an increased demand for effective results. This means that both developing and richer countries must commit to spending and using aid more effectively. Public funding is not enough to cover all needs, but it can leverage initiatives from civil society and the private sector. The increase in stakeholders and intervention methods, both in terms of numbers and variety, combined with the necessity to address needs in the field more precisely, has led to a global rethinking of how to assess development. High-level forums and stakeholder networks have helped to fine-tune the main principles of development effectiveness and to shift from a donor-recipient relationship to a more cooperative framework. Methods and tools have improved and led to better planning, implementation and appraisal of development projects. The EU has been closely involved in designing and implementing the effectiveness principles. The European Parliament often refers to them, insisting that they must not be sacrificed for the sake of short-term interests. This briefing is an update of a previous edition from April 2017.
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Reporting on SDG implementation: UN mechanisms and the EU approach
Adopted in 2015 by the United Nations (UN), the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development – 'the blueprint to achieve a better and more sustainable future for all' – clearly links the 17 sustainable development goals (SDGs) it introduced to a series of targets to be reached by 2030. The 2030 Agenda includes a detailed mechanism to monitor progress with regard to these targets. At the core of this mechanism are a number of quantified indicators for each target that are regularly revised by the UN and ...
Adopted in 2015 by the United Nations (UN), the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development – 'the blueprint to achieve a better and more sustainable future for all' – clearly links the 17 sustainable development goals (SDGs) it introduced to a series of targets to be reached by 2030. The 2030 Agenda includes a detailed mechanism to monitor progress with regard to these targets. At the core of this mechanism are a number of quantified indicators for each target that are regularly revised by the UN and other international agencies. These agencies and the EU provide support to national statistical services across the world in collecting data for the SDG indicators in order to gather reliable and comparable datasets. These data feed the voluntary national reports that countries prepare to exchange good practices and advice on tackling the challenges they encounter in implementing their SDG strategies. High-level forums take stock of both progress and weaknesses in implementation, so as to ensure that everybody is on track in pursuing the SDGs. The EU has long experience in collecting consistent data from its Member States. The European Union Statistical Office (Eurostat) has created a set of sustainable development indicators that provide a good overview of progress within the EU; yet, according to analysts, these indicators do not give a clear picture of the risks of not attaining some goals by 2030. EU development cooperation services have devised a framework of indicators to assess how EU support contributes to other countries' implementation of the SDGs. However, the European Parliament and other stakeholders regret that the spill-over effect of EU policies on third countries remains a blind spot in the evaluation of the EU's contribution to the SDGs. Although technical in nature, SDG indicators and data also have a political dimension, as they clearly measure countries' and other stakeholders' achievements against their own commitments.
Understanding the Sustainable Development Goals
In 2015, the United Nations adopted the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), to be attained by 2030, as a follow-up to the Millennium Development Goals (2000-2015) and the Rio+20 Summit (2012). Unlike their predecessors, the SDGs commit both developed and developing countries, and embrace the economic, environmental and social aspects of development. The SDGs and the broader 2030 Agenda for sustainable development of which they form the core, are based on the findings that human activities have ...
In 2015, the United Nations adopted the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), to be attained by 2030, as a follow-up to the Millennium Development Goals (2000-2015) and the Rio+20 Summit (2012). Unlike their predecessors, the SDGs commit both developed and developing countries, and embrace the economic, environmental and social aspects of development. The SDGs and the broader 2030 Agenda for sustainable development of which they form the core, are based on the findings that human activities have triggered dramatic changes in the conditions on Earth (climate change and biodiversity loss), which in turn have contributed to the deterioration of human well being. To reverse the trend, there is an urgent need to simultaneously address the multiple causes and consequences of environmental depletion and social inequalities, by developing synergies and managing trade-offs between the SDGs. Challenges in pursuing the SDGs include the fact that countries do not necessarily have an equal start and, even more importantly, that regardless of their stage of development, they can no longer afford to apply the current development model, where production and consumption happen at the expense of natural resources. According to many observers, such a model creates unsolvable tensions between SDGs, notably between the safeguarding of natural resources and the aspirations for improved well-being. The structural transformation that would bring about the desired change requires a joint effort by the international community, but equally so by natural and public or private legal persons, to urgently speed up the process. The European Union has been a leader in drafting and implementing the SDGs; however, the European Parliament considers the EU could go further in devising a common SDG strategy. This briefing updates an EPRS 'At a glance' note published in November 2017, PE 608.819.
Marta LATEK
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A new neighbourhood, development and international cooperation instrument
In the context of the Commission's proposal for a multiannual financial framework (MFF) for the 2021-2027 period, on 14 June 2018 the Commission published a proposal for a regulation establishing the Neighbourhood, Development and International Cooperation Instrument (NDICI), with a proposed budget of €89.2 billion (in current prices). Parliament adopted its first-reading position in plenary on 27 March 2019. MEPs agreed to accept a single instrument, but called for a stronger role for Parliament ...
In the context of the Commission's proposal for a multiannual financial framework (MFF) for the 2021-2027 period, on 14 June 2018 the Commission published a proposal for a regulation establishing the Neighbourhood, Development and International Cooperation Instrument (NDICI), with a proposed budget of €89.2 billion (in current prices). Parliament adopted its first-reading position in plenary on 27 March 2019. MEPs agreed to accept a single instrument, but called for a stronger role for Parliament on secondary policy choices, through delegated acts, and for the budget for the instrument to be increased by nearly €4 billion, to €93.154 billion. MEPs also specifically called for an increase in the funds allocated to human rights and democracy activities, the percentage of funding that fulfils the criteria for official development assistance, and funds that support climate and environmental objectives. Moreover, Parliament's amendments include the introduction of gender mainstreaming targets, the earmarking of certain financial allocations, the suspension of assistance in case of human rights violations, and the reduction of the emerging challenges and priorities cushion to €7 billion. The Council adopted a partial mandate on 13 June 2019, and an additional mandate – on the European Fund for Sustainable Development (EFSD+) – on 25 September 2019. Following the committees' decision of 8 October 2019 to enter into interinstitutional negotiations on the basis of Parliament's first-reading position, a first trilogue meeting took place on 23 October 2019. The second is scheduled for 5 December 2019. Fourth edition. The 'Legislation in Progress' briefings are updated at key stages throughout the legislative procedure.
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EP ir Tarybos priimami teisės aktai
Beatrix IMMENKAMP
Europos kaimynystės politika
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pasirengimo narystei parama
branduolinė sauga
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Commitments made at the hearing of Jutta URPILAINEN, Commissioner-designate - International Partnerships
The Commissioner-designate, Jutta Urpilainen, appeared before the European Parliament on 01 October 2019 to answer MEPs’ questions. During the hearing, she made a number of commitments which are highlighted in this document. These commitments refer to her portfolio, as described in the mission letter sent to her by Ursula von der Leyen, President-elect of the European Commission, including: Building sustainable partnerships.
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EU support for fighting global poverty: Implementing UN SDG 1 – ‘Ending poverty’
Poverty affects more than a quarter of the world's population, and that is why erasing it is a principal objective for humanity, enshrined as the first of a number of goals (SDGs) in the UN 2030 Sustainable Development Agenda. Poverty is more than just having insufficient income – it is a multidimensional phenomenon closely related to unequal access to education, health and other basic services. Increasingly concentrated in sub-Saharan Africa, extreme poverty destroys the lives of millions through ...
Poverty affects more than a quarter of the world's population, and that is why erasing it is a principal objective for humanity, enshrined as the first of a number of goals (SDGs) in the UN 2030 Sustainable Development Agenda. Poverty is more than just having insufficient income – it is a multidimensional phenomenon closely related to unequal access to education, health and other basic services. Increasingly concentrated in sub-Saharan Africa, extreme poverty destroys the lives of millions through malnutrition, high infant mortality rates and the violence and insecurity it fuels. Poverty eradication is an ongoing objective of EU development policy. It has recently gained new momentum with the incorporation of the SDGs into the 2017 European consensus on development – the framework for EU action in the area of development cooperation. The EU supports, through its different instruments and programmes, key areas, such as education, healthcare, social security and good governance, relevant to poverty eradication in developing countries. The 2018 Africa-Europe Alliance for Sustainable Investment and Jobs has further reinforced the focus on those sub-Saharan countries where poverty is at its highest, through an innovative approach that goes beyond aid and seeks to forge an 'equals alliance'. Its main pillar, the European Fund for Sustainable Development, aims, through EU grants and guarantees, to mobilise massive public and private investment necessary for the economic take-off of the continent, which would provide jobs and access to basic services for the growing African population. Some doubt that using aid to subsidise private investment is the optimal way to tackle poverty, and insist on strict implementation of development objectives, environmental and social standards, and on highlighting human rights in all projects. Others also denounce the diversion of aid to finance migration management in countries of origin and transit of migration from Africa to Europe. A shift towards a post-growth economy is perceived by many as a radical long-term solution for global well-being and sustainability of the planet.
Children's rights and the UN SDGs: A priority for EU external action
The United Nations (UN) 2030 Agenda for sustainable development includes a strong commitment by all states to respect human rights, in line with international law and other relevant international documents, in the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). This covers the rights of the child as enshrined mainly in the UN Covenant on the Rights of the Child and other relevant human rights treaties. No action to implement the SDGs can be detrimental to the rights of the child. More ...
The United Nations (UN) 2030 Agenda for sustainable development includes a strong commitment by all states to respect human rights, in line with international law and other relevant international documents, in the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). This covers the rights of the child as enshrined mainly in the UN Covenant on the Rights of the Child and other relevant human rights treaties. No action to implement the SDGs can be detrimental to the rights of the child. More than a normative framework guiding the implementation of the SDGs, the rights of the child are a fundamental enabling factor for sustainable development and vice versa. Healthy, well-nourished, well-educated children, who are protected from violence and abuse, are the best guarantee of long-term sustainable development. On the other hand, the rights of the child can only be realised in an appropriate environment – peaceful, prosperous, protective of the child and fostering human development. Thus, there is a natural convergence between the SDGs and specific children's rights. The SDGs, through the comprehensive and regular monitoring they put in place, provide an opportunity for an assessment of the state of the most fundamental rights of the child, as enshrined in the Covenant. Most recent data actually warn that many relevant SDGs may not be achieved by 2030. While progress has been steady in certain areas, particularly on health-related issues, in others, progress has been less conclusive. The EU prioritises children's rights and relevant SDGs in its external action. It aims at mainstreaming human rights including children's rights in its development assistance to connect the normative and developmental dimensions. The European Parliament has repeatedly defended the need to protect and promote children's rights through EU external action, and has asked the Commission to propose a strategy and action plan in this sense.
Ionel ZAMFIR
FEMM-DEVE ad hoc Delegation to Nairobi - 12-14 November 2019
This year marks the 25th anniversary of the International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) in Cairo, where 179 governments adopted a landmark Programme of Action which set out to empower women and girls for their sake, and for the benefit of their families, communities and nations. It also marks the 50th anniversary of the founding of the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA). A At the ICPD, diverse views on human rights, population, sexual and reproductive health, gender equality ...
This year marks the 25th anniversary of the International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) in Cairo, where 179 governments adopted a landmark Programme of Action which set out to empower women and girls for their sake, and for the benefit of their families, communities and nations. It also marks the 50th anniversary of the founding of the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA). A At the ICPD, diverse views on human rights, population, sexual and reproductive health, gender equality and sustainable development merged into a global consensus that placed individual dignity and human rights, including the right to plan one’s family, at the heart of development. A quarter of a century later, some progress has been achieved. There has been a 25 per cent increase in global contraceptive prevalence rate around the world. Adolescent births have declined, and the global maternal mortality ratio has fallen. But progress has been slow and uneven. Hundreds of millions of women around the world are still not using modern contraceptives to prevent unwanted pregnancies, and global targets on reducing maternal deaths have not been met. For a more comprenhesive account of the progress made and the remaining challenges ahead, please consult the report Unfinished business - the pursuit of rights and choices for all.
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Project Runway recap: Boobie Monsters
Real women alert! The designers work with men to create looks for their significant others
By Annie Barrett
Updated September 16, 2011 at 03:50 AM EDT
Barbara Nitke/Lifetime
This week, the contestants had to design for those terrifying beasts we all know and love: REAL WOMEN. Aggggghhhh!
Well, some of ’em were excited to work with men on designing looks for their significant others. But Olivier, upon learning that his client’s breasts were a mysterious term called “DD” (short for…Deadly Daggers? Dumb Doughnuts? Don’t you Dare?), completely shut down. “I don’t like women having boobs,” he declared. Oh yeah? Well, I don’t like reality TV contestants constantly tweaking their indeterminate accents in their baby voices. And yet there you are!
Here’s another gem from Olivier, back when the designers thought they’d be creating menswear for some of the schlubbier guys up on the runway with Heidi and her boobs: “In the end, we were only left with fat people,” he whined. “And fat is fine, but not when I’m making clothes.”
Olivier did not approve of any sort of blubbery tissue hanging disgustingly from the defective frames of grotesque human carriers. And get this: He had never worked with a client! (They’re usually human, after all.) “I have a big ego in design,” he admitted. “I want people to wear what I design.” Makes sense. But back to the boobs. “Those boobs, to me, are trouble,” he said before even meeting his client Suzanne, as if narrating the prologue to a particularly salacious caper.
Boobs were everywhere! Bert’s client, who dubbed himself “The Boobie Monster,” resented that his wife, Ariana, had to cover up her assets with any clothes at all. If it were up to him, she’d just be wearing a leaf. The Boobie Monster recalled the onset of their beautiful love story: “That’s how I fell in love with her — her boobs were hanging out. I’m like, she’s hot,” he remembered fondly. “Sometimes I motorboat ’em.”
Why can’t I ever meet awesome men like this? All the good ones are unavailable.
It occurred to me that I’d probably watch an entire spin-off series starring only the Boobie Monster and Olivier — trapped in a giant, hollowed-out boob and trying to swim their way out of a bottomless pool of smaller boobs à la a multicolored ball pit at an amusement park.
Those boobs, to him, were trouble, Olivier’s gravestone would read after episode 1.
NEXT: Another look at the best and worst designs
JOSHUA (CHALLENGE WINNER):
Joshua proved this week that — in his own words — “There is more to me than bedazzling things.” I agreed with guest judge Malin Ackerman that the delicate ‘V’ of lace in the back was an amazing detail. Michael Kors went so far as to call Josh’s model, Charlene, “a modern-day Grace Kelly.” Now let’s work on getting this dress made in all of the colors, guys. I’ll take…a black one!
ANYA:
The judges didn’t have to pretend that the woman wearing the look was a “gallerina” — this one really was! They disagreed on the one sleeve thing: Nina thought the long sleeve overwhelmed the gallerina, but Malin said she’d definitely want to have a sleeve and would wear this on the red carpet. “You could be on the best- or worst-dressed list,” she said, “but I believe this is a statement and you made it in a classy way.”
VIKTOR:
I loved Michael Kors’ sly acknowledgment that Viktor had “probably the most fashion-obsessed couple” to work with after a cut to Viktor and his pink bow-tied client, George, giggling to themselves. George knew his wife’s style so well that when she came in for a consultation, everything Viktor had already made looked exactly like what she was wearing that day. Good short-term memory, hubby! The judges did agree, though, that this over-accessorized look could have been simplified. Maybe lose the glasses. (She’s trying to in this terrible screengrab!)
NEXT: The dregs BERT:
Speaking of terrible screengrabs. At least Bert’s couple had a blast working with him, submerged as they were in an eternally happy haze brought to you by the Boobie Monster’s love and respect for his wife’s boobs. The judges decided this look was “B for boring” (said Michael) and could be bought in a million stores. “A little tight, short, shiny. Just too much,” said Nina.
ANTHONY RYAN:
A.R. attempted to recreate this couple’s “lost red dress at the airport” and give it some sort of vague “retro/vintage” twist at the same time, which may have been a bit overambitious. What we got: “It’s my own cheerleader outfit. Or a cigarette girl,” said Malin. “A really really young girl, or an old lady,” said Heidi. “Superhero ice skater,” said that charming third-timer Michael Kors. “You wanted it to be quirky, but it’s not.” I loved how their critiques got even harsher after the contestants had left the runway. “It’s like…a child’s uniform,” Kors drawled as everyone slowly recoiled in horror.
BRYCE (ELIMINATED):
Janine wanted something structured and tailored that she could wear to a wedding. And maybe she was happy with this, but the judges decided the dress swallowed her up with too many details. Janine and Jovan were my favorite couple, by the way. So nice and understated and smiley! No wonder Bryce became depressed within minutes of meeting them (because they were so in love that he suddenly missed his own lover so much). Hell, if I spent any time with these people, I’d be bawling almost instantly. They were just that top-notch.
Anyway, the judges agreed that they liked the color, but thought the dress was ill-fitting and didn’t understand why a dress should double as a storage space. Janine helpfully offered that she’d love to keep her cell phone in one of her giant pockets, so of course Michael Kors ramped it up a notch or 30. “You can put your whole lunch box in there.” “Lamb chop!” “Beer bottle!” “You could put a dog in there!”
And now that we can rest easy knowing what Michael Kors likes for lunch….
I’ll see you next week, after an episode featuring GUEST JUDGE ADAM LAMBERT!
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BAHA MAR CELEBRATES TWO SPECTACULAR YEARS, THANKS TO OUTSTANDING ASSOCIATES
EconomyApril 24, 2019April 23, 2019 at 4:30 am Eyewitness News
This month marks Baha Mar’s second anniversary since opening its doors on April 21, 2017. Over the last two years, Baha Mar has celebrated grand successes and accomplishments, having introduced three global hotel brands to Nassau, debuted new dining and entertainment concepts, created extensive opportunities for associates, increased its influence within the arts and cultural scenes and firmly established the resort destination on the global hospitality scene. Recognized globally today as the leading integrated resort destination in The Bahamas, Baha Mar continues to redefine the Caribbean vacation experience for contemporary travelers.
“The success of Baha Mar today is because of the tireless hard work and determination of over 5,000 dedicated associates,” said Graeme Davis, President, Baha Mar. “We celebrate two years of Baha Mar today by honoring all of our associates and continue to create a forward-thinking culture where everyone is given the opportunity to succeed and grow. In turn, our guests are able to experience the very best in service and hospitality in the Caribbean.”
Baha Mar is committed to the growth and development of both entry-level and highly-experienced associates. As such, the Baha Mar Academy has graduated more than 450 associates across Security, Housekeeping, Hospitality, Culinary and Lifeguard Academies, providing first-hand, personalized instruction to expand knowledge and increase skills. Alongside the Academy, Baha Mar has also implemented long-term leadership development programs, with several hundred participants, including iLEAD (Innovate, Lead, Engage, Act, Deliver) and iLead+, specifically designed for the Manager and Director levels.
With a focus on the Baha Mar community of more than 5,000 associates, the resort destination has introduced significant initiatives to promote associate wellbeing and healthful lifestyle options. Over the last two years, Baha Mar has launched Azul, an associates-only spa operated by ESPA, opened a dedicated full-service branch of FirstCaribbean International Bank on property, and expanded medical services for associates and their families with an on-site clinic in partnership with the Family Medicine Center. These programs join Baha Mar’s longtime offerings including full-coverage medical benefits for all associates and Bluetique, a convenient general store providing groceries and family necessities at a competitive, often discounted rate.
The next generation of leaders is already making their mark on Baha Mar. Associate Rayne Heastie began her career at Baha Mar as a Recruitment Coordinator in Human Resources, assisting the outreach team in recruiting young talent from universities and colleges. While in this role, Rayne learned new skills including payroll and finance. Her dedication and keen ambition have led to her current position as Director of Payroll, where she now oversees the payroll process. Another young leader, Jessica Knowles, joined the Baha Mar team as Restaurant Manager at Cleo before being tapped to manage the opening of Bungalow Pool and oversee in-room dining at SLS Baha Mar. Most recently, Jessica has been promoted to Assistant General Manager of Cleo and Monkey Bar.
Beyond its commitment to the internal community, Baha Mar has been recognized globally with an extensive record of industry accolades since its arrival. In 2017, Baha Mar’s marketing and advertising campaigns were recognized by HSMAI and Travel Weekly. SLS Baha Mar and Rosewood Baha Mar have landed on the coveted Travel + Leisure’s It List and Condé Nast Traveler’s Hot List. Baha Mar was recently recognized as the 2019 Wedding Property of the Year for The Americas by The Destination Wedding Planner Congress.
Since 2017, Baha Mar has been featured on primetime television including The Bachelorette, Real Housewives of Beverly Hills, The TODAY Show and The Ellen DeGeneres Show. In summer 2019, Baha Mar will host Engage! 2019, the most prominent luxury wedding and event business summit in the industry, as well as ‘The Baha Mar Showdown,’ the annual celebrity golf showcase between leading NFL and NBA players, hosted by Green Bay Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers and Houston Rockets point guard Chris Paul.
In response to this international attention and accolades, travelers are choosing Baha Mar as their vacation destination more than ever. Occupancy levels at Baha Mar for the first quarter of 2019 were at record highs, simultaneous with record-breaking numbers in international arrivals and overall room revenue in The Bahamas, thanks to successful marketing and advertising efforts from The Bahamas Tourism Board and Nassau Paradise Island Promotion Board. Looking ahead to the second quarter of 2019, advanced bookings have already outpaced projected numbers.
Throughout the rest of 2019 and into 2020, Baha Mar will continue to grow local talent, expand guest offerings and contribute to the community, culture and conservation of The Bahamas, while establishing itself as a pioneer property leading the way for the next generation of destination resorts in global travel and luxury hospitality.
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Film Composer Brian Reitzell Teams Up with Kevin Shields and Jim James for New LP
By Josiah Hughes
Though you may not know him by name, you probably know at least some of Brian Reitzell's work. Serving time in Redd Kross and Air, he's since contributed to scores for films from Sofia Coppola and Gus Van Sant, among many others. This summer, he'll release his debut solo album.
Called Auto Music, the album sees Reitzell collaborating with My Morning Jacket's Jim James and My Bloody Valentine's Kevin Shields. Reitzell and Shields previously collaborated together on the soundtrack for Lost in Translation, and you can stream "Last Summer," their new team-up, below.
"I wasn't making a pop record," Reitzell said in a press release, "I was experimenting with sounds to further my knowledge for creating music for my film projects and exploring new ways to make music."
Reitzell reportedly watched films in his studio while recording the album. As such, some songs are inspired by the Spanish art film Spirit of the Beehive and some of Oskar Fischinger's animations that predate Fantasia.
Auto Music will arrive on June 3 via Smalltown Supersound.
Auto Music:
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2. Ozu Choral
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5. Auto Music 1
6. Beehive
7. Oskar
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Category: 2012 Presidential Election
Fast Forward to Tombstone Arizona
Once upon a time, there was a Knight. He was of Claverham Manor in Arlington, Sussex, England.
Many of Sir Thomas Fiennes ancestors were also Knights. A number of his ancestors in the first ten generations were also Lords and Earls, and one was a famous king who was one of the key historical figures in Braveheart.
Sir Thomas married Anne Urswick in about 1482 and is said to have had three sons and four daughters by her. All four of their daughters married.
According to the ancestral history digitally indexed and mapped out in the Family Forest®, their daughter Margaret is an ancestor of some of the most famous lawmen of the American West, the Earp brothers.
This means that five centuries after Sir Thomas and Anne married, their descendants were the key participants in the gunfight at (or near) the O.K. Corral in Tombstone, AZ.
Then, one century later, another one of Sir Thomas and Anne’s descendants, through their daughter Anne, portayed the central figure in the fight in a Hollywood movie. He is the famous Hollywood actor Kurt Russell, and he portrayed his 12c5r (twelth cousin five times removed), Wyatt Earp, in Tombstone.
Wyatt and Kurt have many other famous (or infamous) Family Forest® cousins through their common ancestors Sir Thomas Fiennes and Anne Urswick. Some of them include Janis Joplin and Christopher Lloyd and Anne Hathaway, Susan B. Anthony, Howard Dean, Paul Giamatti, Bing Crosby, General Abner Doubleday, Hon. David Souter, Timothy Geithner, Charlie Dent, Julia Child, Senator John Thune, Edna St. Vincent Milay, Edward Snowden, Sigourney Weaver, Penelope Ann Miller, Tuesday Weld, George Plimpton, John Herbert Adler, Marshall Field V, Anthony Perkins, Senator Lowell Weicker, Jr., Clarence Darrow, Bret Boone, John and Jim Harbaugh, Ed Helms, Dick Clark, Bob Newhart, Archibald Cox, Charles Dana Gibson, William DeWolf Hopper, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Jodie Foster, the Wilson brother of the Beach Boys, Secretary John Kerry, Caresse Crosby, Loudon Wainwright III, Amy Grant, Sarah Palin, Liv Tyler, Governor Mark Dayton, Richard Gere, James Spader, Horatio Gates Spafford, Lloyd, Beau, and Jeff Bridges Fred Gwynne, Secretary Arne Duncan, Vincent Price, and Larry Hagman.
How successful do you think Sir Thomas and Anne could have been in imagining what some of their descendants would be doing in five or six centuries?
How much more successful can you be in imagining what some of your descendants will be doing five or six centuries from now?
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Author FamilyForestPosted on February 15, 2016 February 11, 2017 Categories Ancestral History, Cousins, Descendants, Family Forest, Family Forest® Project, FamilyForest.com, Genealogy, Janis Joplin, Jeff Bridges, John Adams, Julie and Julia, O.K. Corral, Tombstone, Wyatt EarpTags American History, Ancestral History, cousins, FamilyForest.com, Genealogy, O.K. Corral, Tombstone, Wyatt EarpLeave a comment on Fast Forward to Tombstone Arizona
Oh Lord, won’t you buy me ……
I tend to think of from a family ties perspective. Janis Joplin has been in the Family Forest® for awhile, and she has tons of Family Forest® cousins, so I searched for some of her single-digit Family Forest® cousins who might be interested in outbidding their other cousins to own their rock-icon cousin’s Porsche.
You are correct about Janis Joplin, but not about a Mercedes-Benz.
This time it’s about Janis’ classic 1965 Porsche 356c Cabriolet, with a jaw-dropping custom paint job, and it will be auctioned by Sotheby’s on December 10th, 2015 in New York.
Most things I notice, I tend to think of from a family ties perspective. Janis has been in the Family Forest® for awhile, and she has tons of Family Forest® cousins, so I searched for some of her single-digit Family Forest® cousins who might be interested in outbidding their other cousins to own their rock-icon cousin’s Porsche.
Janis’ closest Family Forest® cousin I found so far (6C1R) is Christopher Lloyd. He looked right at home in his DeLorean in the Back to the Future movies, and he should acquire his famous cousin’s Porsche while it’s available.
Next closest is Anne Hathaway (8C). Get Smart’s Agent 99 would be perfect for Janis’ classic 1967 Porsche.
Warren Buffet, one of Janis’ 8C2R, would certainly be noticed in Omaha when he arrives at the next Berkshire-Hathaway meeting in Janis’ Porsche.
Kate Bosworth, another one of Janis’ 8C2R, would probably be even more at home behind the wheel of Janis’ Porsche than she was on a surfboard in Blue Crush.
Some of Janis’ Family Forest® ninth cousins may want to seize this once in a lifetime opportunity before it disappears.
They include Easy Rider Peter Fonda, 2016 Presidential hopeful Jeb Bush, US Secretary of State John Kerry, Hollywood actress Kyra Sedgwick, and singer Amy Grant.
Author FamilyForestPosted on November 30, 2015 Categories Auction, Cousins, Family Forest, Family Forest® Project, Genealogy, Janis Joplin, SothebysTags cousins, Family Forest, Genealogy, Janis Joplin, Jeb Bush, Porsche, Sotheby'sLeave a comment on Oh Lord, won’t you buy me ……
Romney Leads Obama in Presidential Genes
In the Family Forest® National Treasure Mitt Romney is related through birth or marriage to 35 U.S. Presidents
Long before most Americans knew who Barack Obama was, and before most forecasters thought he had a chance of being nominated, we brought you the story of Barack Obama’s Presidential Genes.
So for the 2012 Presidential Election we decided to revisit the subject using a new digital resource that did not exist at the time of the 2008 Presidential Election, the Family Forest® National Treasure.
For a head-to-head comparison, I generated Family Forest® kinship reports(# 10) for both President Obama and Presidential candidate Mitt Romney. In the quantity category, it was a very close race.
In the Family Forest® National Treasure Mitt Romney is related through birth or marriage to 35 U.S. Presidents (one of them is President Obama) and 18 U.S. Vice Presidents. President Obama is related through birth or marriage to 33 U.S. Presidents and 16 U.S. Vice Presidents.
It is in the quality category that Mitt Romney substantially wins over President Obama.
President Obama has only one single digit cousin (9th cousin or closer) who was either a U.S. President or a U.S. Vice President, President Hoover (8th cousin three times removed, 8C3R).
Mitt Romney has 14 single digit cousins who were either a U.S. President or a U.S. Vice President, and eight of them were Presidents.
In order of closeness, they are President Grant (5C4R), President Cleveland (6C3R), Vice President Curtis (6C3R), President Fillmore (6C4R), Vice President Colfax (6C4R), Vice President Morton (6C5R), President Harding (7C1R), President Franklin Roosevelt (8C1R), President Ford (8C1R), Vice President Rockefeller (8C2R), President Taft (8C3R), Vice President Wallace (9C), President Hoover (9C1R), and Vice President Humphrey (9C3R).
The newest release of the Family Forest® was called National Treasure because among other abilities, it is an educational resource that networks more Americans through generation-by-generation family ties to more of the key people, places, and events in U.S. history than any other single digital resource, including Facebook.
Author FamilyForestPosted on February 24, 2012 Categories 2012 Presidential candidate, 2012 Presidential Election, Ancestral History, Facebook, Family Forest National Treasure, Genealogy, Mitt Romney, politics, U.S. Presidents, White HouseTags 2012 Presidential Election, Ancestral History, Barack Obama, Facebook, Family Forest National Treasure Edition, Genealogy, Mitt Romney, politics, u s presidents1 Comment on Romney Leads Obama in Presidential Genes
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Welcome to another start of the week quiz.
Another twenty brain teasing questions to stimulate those old grey cells.
As usual the answers can be found waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay down below, but please NO cheating!
Enjoy and good luck.
Q. 1: Where would you go to look at the Abominable Snowman?
Q. 2: Who was Jacqueline Lee Bouvier’s second husband?
Q. 3: Where were Gregory Peck, Ava Gardner, Fred Astaire and Antony Perkins in the 1959 post apocalyptic movie that they starred in?
Q. 4: What famous magician shares his name with an equally famous Dickens’ character?
Q. 5: In which country is Togariro National park with its three volcanoes, including Mt. Ruapahu?
Q. 6: Very few non Russians appeared on postage stamps in the USSR between 1922 and 1991, but two Americans did. Can you name them? (A point for each.)
Q. 7: This famous actor starred in a movie being himself, who is he?
Q. 8: Who was ‘The Once and Future King’?
a) Elvis b) Arthur c) Idi Amin d) Aragorn
Q. 9: What was the name of the first director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation and who is it’s current chief? (A point for each correct answer.)
Q. 10: What is the name of the river that rises on the Tibetan Plateau of western China and has flooded more often and killed more people than any other?
Q. 11: Why were there no registered births or deaths in England on September 3rd 1752?
Q. 12: The name of which form of literature stems from a Greek word meaning ‘making’?
Q. 13: Which actor won his only Oscar for his role in the western ‘True Grit’?
Q. 14: The old name for which island country stems from the Latin word for beautiful?
Q. 15: What is the real name of The Shark Tank’s ‘Mr Wonderful’?
Q. 16: What is the capital of Equador?
Q. 17: Vincent van Gogh is not only a very famous artist with his works now commanding millions of dollars, but he is also well known for an incident in which he cut off an ear. Which one? (Go on, you have a 50:50 chance on this one!)
Q. 18: What aliases did Hannibal Hayes and Kid Curry use in the long running television series?
Q. 19: Who was hailed as the founder of the Mongol Empire?
Q. 20: What was Elvis Presley’s first number one hit single in the USA?
A. 1: The Himalayas.
A. 2: Greek shipping magnate, Aristotle Onassis.
A. 3: On The Beach.
A. 4: David Copperfield.
A. 5: New Zealand.
A. 6: They were Benjamin Franklin and Mark Twain.
A. 7: He is John Malkovich, who starred in the movie ‘Being John Malkovich’.
A. 8: b) Arthur.
A. 9: J Edgar Hoover was the first, the current director is James Comey.
A. 10: The Yellow River.
A. 11: There was no September 3rd 1752. The British government adopted the Gregorian calendar. It was decreed that the day following September 2nd 1752 should be called September 14.
A. 12: Poetry.
A. 13: John Wayne.
A. 14: Formosa (the modern name is Taiwan.)
A. 15: Kevin O’Leary.
A. 16: Quito.
A. 17: It was his left ear.
A. 18: They were ‘Alias Smith And Jones’.
A. 19: Genghis Khan.
A. 20: Heartbreak Hotel (in 1956).
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Yes folks, this being Christmas week we have a bumper Christmassy edition of the quiz.
All the questions have a Christmas theme and there are plenty of them this week, so this quiz should keep you going over the holidays.
As usual, if you get stuck, you can find the answers waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay down below, but NO cheating please!
Merry Christmas and enjoy.
Q. 1: If you were born on Christmas day, what would be your Zodiac sign?
Q. 2: In which century was Christmas first celebrated?
Q. 3: What significance is holly in celebrating Christmas?
Q. 4: In the familiar song ‘The 12 Days of Christmas’, what is the gift on the fourth day?
Q. 5: In the 1998 movie what actor whilst out Christmas shopping suddenly finds himself an “Enemy of the State”?
Q. 6: Who discovered Christmas Island in 1777?
Q. 7: Who wrote the song “I’m dreaming of a white Christmas”?
Q. 8: Plus or minus one year, how long does it take a Scotch Pine Christmas tree to reach a typical retail height of 6 to 7 feet?
Q. 9: One of the most popular floral gifts at Christmas is the Poinsetta, but what country did Poinsettias originally come from?
Q. 10: At the end of the war in Vietnam, when Saigon fell, the signal for all Americans to evacuate was what song by Bing Crosby being played on the radio?
Q. 11: What was Scrooge’s business partner called?
Q. 12: When exactly is ‘The Twelfth Night’?
Q. 13: Why was Boxing Day so named?
Q. 14: Who composed the music for the festive season ballet ‘The Nutcracker’?
Q. 15: Which Italian cake, popular at Christmas, belongs to Tony?
Q. 16: What job was first taken by James Edgar in 1890?
Q. 17: In which celebrated movie does James Stewart attempt suicide one Christmas?
Q. 18: The Bible doesn’t say when Jesus was born. Pope Julius I made this decision in which year?
a) 50 AD b) 350 AD c) 750 AD d) 1250 AD
Q. 19: Mr and Mrs Hilton had a little boy who was born on Christmas Day 1887, and went on to found of one of the world’s largest Hotel chains, but what was his first name?
Q. 20: The names of which two reindeer mean ‘Thunder’ and ‘Lightning’?
Q. 21: What is the name of the fruit sauce which is a traditional accompaniment to the Christmas Turkey?
Q. 22: The American ad writer Robert L. May invented which colorful Christmas character in 1939?
Q. 23: The German Christmas song ‘Tannebaum’ is translated into English as what?
Q. 24: What does the word ‘Bethlehem’ mean?
Q. 25: Before Pope Julius I decided that December 25th was the day Jesus was born, on which day did early Christians celebrate the birth of Jesus?
Q. 26: Coca Cola made our modern Father Christmas for an advertising campaign, but prior to that, what color robes did he wear?
Q. 27: Which ‘Christmas’ word means ‘turning of the sun’?
Q. 28: Complete the title of each of the following Christmas movies.
a) Holiday… b) We’re No… c) The Bells of… d) It’s A Wonderful…
Q. 29: What was the name of Scrooge’s clerk in a Christmas Carol?
Q. 30: Advent candles are a popular Christmas tradition in many cultures. What does the word advent mean?
Q. 31: Which nickname for Hollywood sounds Christmassy?
Q. 32: Which pudding with a misleading name was banned by English Puritans because it was deemed to be ‘sinfully rich’?
Q. 33: The Greek word for ‘Messiah’ was ‘Xristos’(Christ). What do all of these words mean translated?
Q. 34: In the movie ‘Die Hard 2’, which airport did the terrorist take over on Christmas Eve?
Q. 35: Many people claim that the first unofficial football (soccer) international between Germany and a Scotland-England side was played on a Christmas Day. The pitch or playing field was found between what?
Q. 36: In which country does an ugly old witch named ‘Bafana’ deliver presents on the 6th of December?
a) Australia b) Austria c) Italy d) Mexico
Q. 37: There are two ‘Christmas islands’, in which oceans are they located?
Q. 38: In which city is Kevin left ‘Home Alone’ at Christmas? (the first Home Alone)
Q. 39: “Good King Wenceslas looked out on the feast of Stephan”. What is the name of the country where Wenceslas was king? (Will accept either the ‘old’ or ‘modern’ name of the country.)
Q. 40: Which Christmas tradition, said to have originated in Germany, was banned in the Soviet Union until 1935?
Q. 41: In which country is St. Nick called ‘Sinterklaas’?
Q. 42: Which Christmas gift of the very highest quality, also known as ‘Oil of Lebanon’, comes from Oman?
Q. 43: Why was December 25th chosen as Christmas Day?
Q. 44: Who said, “You’ll want all day tomorrow, I suppose “?
Q. 45: Which popular poem did Clement Clark Moore write for his six children in 1822?
Q. 46: The following all mean ‘Merry Christmas’ in which language? (A point for each!)
a) Hyvaa joulua b) sung tan chuk ha c) froehliche weihnacten
d) mele kalikimaka e) god jul f) boas festas g) kala christouyenna
Q. 47: Superstition dictates that when making mince pies for Christmas one should always stir in which direction?
Q. 48: Which Christmas tradition did the very busy Sir Henry Cole introduce in 1843?
Q. 49: The Christmas movie ‘Miracle on 34th Street’ has been remade many times. Who won a best supporting actor Oscar for the role of Kris Kringle in the original 1947 movie and which two time Oscar winner played Kris in the 1994 remake?
Q. 50: Which song begins with “Are you hanging up your stocking on the wall”?
A. 1: Capricorn.
A. 2: In the 4th century.
A. 3: The early church banned mistletoe, so holly was substituted.
A. 4: 4 Calling Birds.
A. 5: Will Smith
A. 6: Captain Cook.
A. 7: Irving Berlin.
A. 8: 7 years.
A. 9: Mexico.
A. 10: White Christmas.
A. 11: Jacob Marley.
A. 12: The evening of the 5th of January.
A. 13: After the custom of giving Christmas Boxes/Tips to workmen/tradesmen.
A. 14: Tchaikovsky.
A. 15: Panettone. (Anthony or Tone’s bread).
A. 16: He was the first department store Santa.
A. 17: It’s A Wonderful Life.
A. 18: Answer b) 350 AD.
A. 19: Conrad.
A. 20: Donner and Blitzen.
A. 21: Cranberry.
A. 22: Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer.
A. 23: Christmas Tree.
A. 24: House of meat (Arabic) or House of bread (Hebraic)
A. 25: The 6th of January or feast of the epiphany. (Greek for appearance or revelation).
A. 26: Green. (As a sign of the returning Spring.)
A. 27: Yuletide (Yule means wheel in old Norse language).
A. 28: a) …Inn b) …Angels c) …St. Marys d) …Life
A. 29: Bob Cratchit.
A. 30: Arrival.
A. 31: Tinseltown.
A. 32: Plum pudding. (Incidentally, there are no plums in plum pudding, just sugar, raisons, suet, flour and various spices boiled in a bag till ‘plum’)
A. 33: The ‘annointed’ one.
A. 34: Dulles International Airport (Washington DC).
A. 35: Between the trenches in no mans land, Christmas 1914. (No match report is available but it seems the Germans won 3-2.)
A. 36: Answer c) Italy.
A. 37: The Pacific and Indian oceans.
A. 38: Chicago.
A. 39: Bohemia, now known as the Czech Republic.
A. 40: Christmas trees.
A. 41: Holland.
A. 42: Frankincense.
A. 43: To compete with a pagan celebration.
A. 44: Scrooge to Bob Cratchit in Dicken’s ‘A Christmas Carol’.
A. 45: A visit from St. Nicholas (The night before Christmas) “It twas the night before Christmas when all through the house……”
A. 46: Answers a) Finnish b) Korean c) German d) Hawaiian e) Norwegian
f) Portugese and, g) Greek
A. 47: In a clockwise direction.
A. 48: The sending of Christmas wishes on mass produced Christmas cards. The first cards depicted a family toasting an absent friend with the words “Merry Christmas and a happy New Year to you”.
A. 49: Edmund Gwenn and Richard Attenborough.
A. 50: Slade’s Merry Christmas Everybody.
First Quiz For December. Let’s See How You Do.
December 2, 2013 December 1, 2013 fasab Tests 1607, actors, agricultural pest, Air Force One, Airport, American diva, American state, assassinated, Audrey Hepburn, Australia, ban Mozart's music, Batman, battle of Waterloo, best selling UK heavy metal release, Cambodia, Cartwright family, city, country, cross the English channel with an airplane, Dallas, Danny DeVito, day before he was killed, dubbed, education, english, Entertainment, Ezra Lieberman, famous television series, fences, first person, first public demonstration of television, general knowledge, Geography, history, I’m not worried about anything. I’m not fearing any man, invaded, Jewish Nazi hunter, Joker, Judd Hirsch, Julie Andrews, long running television show, Marilu Henner, Marni Nixon, married, Misc, Miscellaneous, movie, movies, music, musical movie, Name, nanny, November 22nd 1963, Oscar, outback, Pilot, President Kennedy, questions, quiz, quizzes, Rex Harrison, Robin, Roman Catholic Church, ruler, science, Scottish engineer, settle, singing, song, suicide missions, Sultan of the Ottoman Empire, Survivor, television, test, tests, Texas, town, troops, Turkey, whirlwind romance, world war ii, Yul Brynner, Yun Fat Chow
First of the Monday quizzes for December.
As usual the answers can be found waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay down below – but NO cheating please.
Enjoy, and good luck!
Q. 1: In which American state did the English first settle in 1607?
Q. 2: What name was given to a pilot who flew suicide missions in World War II?
Q. 3: Whish of these is the name of a town or city in Turkey?
a) Batman b) Robin c) Joker
Q. 4: Who was the first person to cross the English channel with an airplane?
Q. 5: Fifty years ago, on November 22nd 1963, President Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas, Texas but what was the name of the airport where Air Force One landed on that fateful journey?
Q. 6: Why did the Roman Catholic church ban Mozart’s music?
Q. 7: Australia built fences across outback areas to contain what agricultural pest?
Q. 8: Which country’s troops invaded Cambodia in 1979?
Q. 9: Who played an aging Jewish Nazi hunter named ‘Ezra Lieberman’ and in what movie? (A point for each answer.)
Q. 10: In which country is the site of the famous battle of Waterloo?
Q. 11: Which American diva got married after a whirlwind romance, in 2008?
Q. 12: What were the first names the four members of the ‘Cartwright family’ and what long running television show they were in? (Character’s names, not their real names and you can have a point for each.)
Q. 13: What do the actors Rex Harrison, Yul Brynner and Yun Fat Chow all have in common?
Q. 14: Who noted the day before he was killed in 1968: “I’m not worried about anything. I’m not fearing any man”?
Q. 15: What famous television series starred Marilu Henner, Judd Hirsch and Danny DeVito?
Q. 16: In which 1964 musical movie was Audrey Hepburn’s singing dubbed by Marni Nixon?
Q. 17: In which country, until 1922, was the Ruler referred to as ‘Sultan of the Ottoman Empire’?
Q. 18: Which nanny did Julie Andrews win an Oscar for playing?
Q. 19: Which Scottish engineer gave the first public demonstration of television in 1925?
Q. 20: Which song by Survivor is the best selling UK heavy metal release of all time?
A. 1: Virginia.
A. 2: Kamikaze.
A. 3: a) Batman (Doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo….)
A. 4: Louis Blèriot.
A. 5: Love Field.
A. 6: He joined the Freemasons.
A. 7: Rabbits.
A. 8: Vietnam.
A. 9: Laurence Olivier in ‘The Boys From Brazil’.
A. 10: Belgium.
A. 11: Mariah Carey.
A. 12: Ben, Adam, Eric (Hoss), and Joesph (Little Joe) in Bonanza.
A. 13: They have all played the King (King Mongkut) in film. Harrison (‘Anna and the King of Siam’, 1946) Brynner (‘The King and I’, 1956), Chow (‘Anna and the King’, 1999).
A. 14: Martin Luther King.
A. 15: Taxi.
A. 16: My Fair Lady.
A. 17: Turkey.
A. 18: Mary Poppins.
A. 19: John Logie Baird.
A. 20: Eye of the Tiger.
The Rise And Fall Of An Opportunist.
November 3, 2013 October 30, 2013 fasab Crime, Current Events, Factoids, Politics, Rants 2012 Presidential election campaign, activist group, advertising, advertising campaigns, Al Gore, Alliance for Climate Protection, An Inconvenient Truth, awarded, cause, climate, climate change, Climate Reality Project, college roomy, cruise to Antarctica, Current Events, discredited, documentary, donors, education, effects of Global Warming, employees, exaggerated claims, facts, failed Presidential candidate, financial donations, fooled, fools, global warming, Gore's organization, gullible celebrities, hero to zero, highly paid lobbyists, hindsight, idiots, leading advocate, man-made climate change, Misc, Miscellaneous, morons, multi-millionaire, Nobel Peace Prize, nonpartisan global movement, offices, Opinion, Opportunist, Oscar, peace, People, political climate, political lobbying, politician, politicians, politics, PR, publicity, publicity stunts, rain, Random, Rants, reality, Rise And Fall, scientifically based, scientists, state offices, stupid, stupid people, stupidity, Thoughts, Tommy Lee Jones, unproven, US states, Vice President, wars, Washington
This Sunday Sermon was inspired by a recent post on things I love recently. Thanks for the idea Alex.
Cast your mind back to 2006, when failed presidential candidate and former Vice President Al Gore was searching for a new ’cause’.
He chose Global Warming and for a while he fooled a lot of people.
He won an Oscar for a largely unproven ‘scientifically based’ documentary “An Inconvenient Truth” that made wildly exaggerated claims about man-made climate change. With hindsight perhaps “A Convenient Lie” would have been a better title. Then he was awarded the much discredited Nobel Peace Prize – although just what climate has to do with peace was never properly explained, after all people do fight wars in the rain!
He went on to found an ‘activist group’ and to create a new nonpartisan global movement around climate change that he misleadingly called the ‘Climate Reality Project’ – misleading because it had very little to do with reality.
Yes, Gore was in the ascendency and was now the world’s leading advocate of Global Warming….brrrrrr …ooops… make that Climate Change would you.
As lately as last January Gore took his old college roomy Tommy Lee Jones and a contingent of other gullible celebrities, donors and scientists on a cruise to Antarctica. Ostensibly they were there to see for themselves the effects of Global Warming, but the real purpose was probably to try to attract more publicity for Gore’s Climate Change crusade. When I say he ‘took them’ of course I meant the multi millionaire Gore was kind enough to let them pay for their trip themselves!
But last gasp publicity stunts or not, things haven’t been going so well recently for the Gore crusade. In fact if you look at the numbers, which I always like to do, you will see that the downward spiral has been a steep one.
For example, at its zenith just a few years ago Gore’s organization could spend the best part of $30 million on PR, advertising and political lobbying. It had offices in over half the US States, sometimes more than one office per state, and employed over 300 people.
Today those 300 employees have become just 30 or so, and all its state offices have been shut. There are no more hefty advertising campaigns and no more highly paid lobbyists in Washington. Not surprisingly financial donations have also dropped, by around 80 percent. And so cold a political potato is Climate Change nowadays that in the 2012 Presidential election campaign question sessions it wasn’t even mentioned!
Now Gore is going to call it the “Alliance for Climate Protection”, probably a recognition that all the claptrap he was formerly spouting has been largely discredited – a bit like himself.
The climate does change, Al, there’s no doubt about that. But the only climate man changes is the political climate where you can go from hero to zero when enough people catch on to the fact that you really don’t know what you are talking about!
Cheers Al
Or should that be Cheerio???
How Smart Do You Feel Today?
July 15, 2013 July 4, 2013 fasab Questions, Tests 1313 Mockingbird Lane, 18th century Siberia, actor, Alamo, autogiro, Beau Maverick, best actress, Bret Maverick, brief case, buried, cake, Challenger Space Shuttle, citizens, coined the term, collect, concrete, country, currency, dead head, dirty weekend in Paris, education, English cousin, Entertainment, France, Franklin D Roosevelt, French city, French town, funeral, funerals, General Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna, George V, helicopter, hotels, incendiary weapon, investigation, Krishna, large vehicle, leaves, Lord of the Universe, maverick, men, Misc, Miscellaneous, Molotov Bread Basket, Molotov Cocktail, mourner, national dance, nickname, nominated, nuclear codes, omphalo, Oscar, Paris, phrase, pie shaped, Pink Floyd album, pompous, President of Mexico, president’s limo, puzzle, puzzles, quarter, quarter coin, questions, quiz, quizzes, radio stations, Random, record, Scottish woman, ship, sophisticated, Soviets, spider’s bite, star, suave, sun, test, tests, The Wind in the Willows, TV family, two bits, two minutes of silence, US president, US television series, USA, vehicle, Victor Hugo, visitors, wedge, World War I, wreckage
So how smart do you feel today?
Smart enough to try your hand at today’s quiz?
I hope so. And remember if you get stuck the answers can be found waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay down below – but NO cheating!
Begin any time you are ready – and enjoy.
Q. 1: What superseded the autogiro (or autogyro) in the late 1940s?
Q. 2: What kind of leaves were often used as currency in 18th century Siberia?
Q. 3: In the USA, what is (you can have a point for each correct answer)
a. the nickname for the president’s limo
b. the nickname for the brief case with the nuclear codes
c. the name of the helicopter that transports the US President
Q. 4: What kind of star is our sun? (2 words)
Q. 5: Which Pink Floyd album is also a chapter in ‘The Wind in the Willows’?
Q. 6: Which national dance can apparently cure a spider’s bite?
Q. 7: In Paris, where would you find Franklin D Roosevelt, Victor Hugo and George V?
Q. 8: What do many men collect in an ‘omphalo’?
Q. 9: The original ‘two bits’ (quarter coin) looked like a cake or pie shaped wedge and was one quarter of what?
Q. 10: General Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna (of Alamo fame) had two funerals. The first one took place while he was President of Mexico and he himself was a mourner. What was put to rest in this pompous ‘funeral’?
Q. 11: After the investigation, why was all the Challenger Space Shuttle wreckage buried under 50 tons of concrete?
Q. 12: On a ship, what is a ‘dead head’?
Q. 13: A Scottish woman was nominated six times for the Oscar for best actress and came away empty handed each time. A record. Who was she?
Q. 14: The name for which vehicle probably stems from a World War I phrase for a dirty weekend in Paris?
Q. 15: Which TV family lived at 1313 Mockingbird Lane?
Q. 16: Which suave and sophisticated actor played the role of Beau Maverick, Bret Maverick’s English cousin in the US television series Maverick?
Q. 17: Paris attracts the most visitors in France each year. Which French town attracts 5 million visitors a year and has more hotels than any other French city except Paris?
Q. 18: Which large vehicle is also a name for Krishna meaning ‘Lord of the Universe’?
Q. 19: Why did many radio stations around the world observe two minutes of silence in late July, 1937?
Q. 20: Citizens of which country coined the term ‘Molotov Cocktail’ or ‘Molotov Bread Basket’ to describe their incendiary weapon used against the Soviets in 1939?
A. 1: The Helicopter
A. 2: Tea leaves
Q. 3: In the USA, what is
A. 3: Three Answers
a. “The Beast”
b. “The Football”
c. “Marine One”
A. 4: Yellow dwarf
A. 5: The Piper at the Gates of Dawn
A. 6: The Tarantella
A. 7: In the Paris Metro. They are all Metro stations.
Q. 8: What do many men collect in an omphalo?
A. 8: Fluff (The omphalo is the belly button)
A. 9: The Spanish silver dollar, the dollars were called pesos de ocho (pieces of eight).
A. 10: His amputated leg.
A. 11: To prevent the parts being sold as souvenirs.
A. 12: Some people think it’s a broken toilet but actually it is a non paying passenger.
A. 13: Deborah Kerr
A. 14: Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
A. 15: The Munsters
A. 16: Roger Moore
A. 17: Lourdes
A. 18: Juggernaut
A. 19: A tribute to Marconi after his death.
A. 20: Finland
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Planet Labs Turned Its Interns into Company Leaders with This Program
It was a beautiful, sunny day — perfect conditions for the launch of a PhoneSat — that's right, a large balloon carrying a smart phone into space. That day, Planet Labs CTO and Co-founder Chris Boshuizen smiled up at the sky, accompanied by Ben Howard, who helped design the craft's structure, and Mike Safyan, who souped up the phone's radio. Together they proved that a phone could indeed act as a satellite — and NASA picked up where they left off.
What you may not have guessed is that two of these three aerospace pioneers were interns at the time. Things are very different today. Howard runs the system engineering team, and Safyan is now director of launch and regulatory affairs, navigating the complex web of radio spectrum licenses required to get satellites off the ground. As for Boshuizen, he's all about finding the next crop of brilliant interns and helping them fly.
At First Round’s recent CTO Summit, he described how Planet Labs has built its internship program from the ground up to yield extraordinary talent for the company. Here, he shares tips for finding, training and retaining great interns, and the one key lesson that has made the biggest difference.
Throw Out the Rule Book
For starters, ditch the notion that there’s a prescribed ratio of interns to full-time employees. If you have meaningful work to do and the time and ability to mentor junior staff, don’t limit yourself.
“For a while, interns were half of our headcount, at times they were 200% of the employee count,” Boshuizen says. “Interns are a great way to do short-term projects, get something up and running, and get something started — and, of course, to find really amazing talent that could become core of your company.”
Less important than the number of interns you hire is the culture you create around their position in the company. Interns at Planet Labs do not make coffee. They don’t spend days on inconsequential busywork, or run errands at employees’ whims. There's no time for this between crafting satellites and becoming experts in FCC policies.
Boshuizen's secret to a remarkably productive internship program is enlisting interns to work on mission-critical tasks, and then giving them as much trust, freedom, and information as they need to succeed.
“When you say, ‘We're going to trust you with the core of the company,’ people are able to perform at the highest level, whether they're an intern or a full-time employee,” Boshuizen says. Planet Labs interns are treated as essential team members so that they have the potential to produce valuable results.
If I have one key message, it would be this: immerse interns in the core of what you're doing.
Take Alex Wen (pictured above). When Planet Labs was manufacturing its first product, the team faced the herculean task of building 30 satellites on a tight schedule. When some crucial hardware came in late, that schedule got even tighter. “Production got backed up and backed up. We needed to build a team that could help us scale,” Boshuizen says.
Undaunted, he returned to the intern pipeline that had already served him so well. “Our technical advisor said this was crazy, and that the satellites should be built by the experts who designed them,” he says. “We chose to ignore all of that advice, and we hired Alex and several other interns to build all of the satellites by themselves. We set up some software to walk them through how to build a satellite, and we gave it to Alex.” He and his team cranked out 26 of those first 30 units — and put any further intern nay-saying to bed.
This model treats interns like insiders — and they enjoy access to all the information that comes with that status. From all-hands meetings to company off-sites, Planet Labs’ interns go where the team goes; when they’re working on a product, they know what the team knows.
“This is risky, definitely. There are downsides for sure,” Boshuizen acknowledges. But that trust pays big dividends, which are well worth it in the long run —particularly if and when you bring an intern on board permanently. “When you share everything, interns feel like you've respected them and treated them with a massive level of confidence from the beginning. In my experience, they reward the company for that with their own trust and willingness to go that extra mile, and they continue to produce amazing results.”
This begs the question: How do you find people you're willing to put this much faith in? How do you find people capable of what Ben, Mike and Alex made possible?
Ben Howard at work on one of Planet's Dove satellites.
Tips for Casting a Wide Net
Like hiring of any kind, intern recruiting is an expensive and time-intensive process. It can't be an afterthought. You need to give it plenty of attention if you want your program to pay off. Last year, one of Planet Labs’ lead engineers managed intern recruiting, and Boshuizen estimates it took two-thirds of her time for about three months. This year they’re bringing two dedicated people on board to run the process.
To really do internships at scale, it takes a lot of high-touch labor.
When it’s time to start hiring interns, Boshuizen recommends making diversity a top priority. From its headquarters in San Francisco, Planet Labs certainly recruits heavily from Stanford and Berkeley — but they also make it a point to look around the country for the widest and strongest pool of available talent. Career fairs can be particularly valuable. Boshuizen estimates he gets 300 to 400 resumes at each one.
But before you head out on a tour of universities, spend some time crafting your value proposition and making it come alive. You want to build a booth that looks and feel different than what everyone else will have, and think of ways you can draw prospective interns to your product. The Planet Labs team, for example, brings a model of their 'Dove' satellite.
“Seeing the actual hardware there really excites people when they come around,” Boshuizen says. You know that you’re working on game-changing solutions — the trick now is to convince bright new talent that they can and will have a meaningful role in that work as well. You want to come armed with tons of examples and compelling stories about what past interns have had the chance to do and what they've been able to build. This is your best weapon for standing out. If you can bring some visuals of what work and life is like during the program — showing off how hands-on interns get to be — that's even better.
Another pro tip:
“Don't take physical resumes at your booth. It's a little too easy, and then you end up with a stack of paper you have to process when you get home.”
Add one more filtering mechanism by requiring candidates to submit their resumes online after they've met with you in person at a career fair. You’ll have fewer to review and, as an added benefit, you'll get a more coherent statement of interest from your candidates. You'll also get a clearer signal through the noise by only considering the people who were willing to take the extra step to get on your radar.
Finally, stay open to interns who come to you through unexpected channels. Remember Ben, Planet Labs’ head of engineering? When Boshuizen met him, he was actually a film intern for Silicon Valley’s Singularity University, handling its recorded lectures. It turned out his degree was in mechanical engineering and he wanted to put that to use. Now with 75 satellite launches to his name — more than almost anyone else on Earth — he's been a huge find for Planet Labs, and proof that it's important to interact with and have meaningful conversations with as many people as you can, even if they don't fit a pre-set profile.
Management is the Lynchpin — Even for Just a Summer
So, you sold an exciting opportunity during the recruiting phase — now it’s time to make good on that promise. If you have the resources and a robust program, it’s absolutely 100% worth hiring an internship coordinator. If that’s not in the cards, you can certainly make do without one.
Just remember that the happiest and highest-performing interns are the ones who have a positive, thoughtful experience — and creating that experience depends heavily on them having one, tremendously influential and organized person to look to. More on that later.
To successfully onboard and manage the sudden influx of talent that tends to happen every summer, Boshuizen has a few pointers:
DON’T: Expect free labor. “Particularly in California, you have to pay minimum wage. We've always paid our interns, and you should too,” Boshuizen says. In fact, Planet Labs goes well beyond minimum wage, typically around $27 an hour, give or take. “It's still cheaper than a full-time employee, but you also have different expectations and a different guarantee of output.”
DO: Provision interns appropriately. Here, too, you need to take care of your new team members, however long they’re expected to be with you. That means they need to have, at a minimum, a fresh laptop and a clean, spacious place to work, along with whatever other tools and software they need to be successful at their daily responsibilities.
DO: Welcome unexpected culture shifts. If you hire interns in batches — say, a class of summer interns — your office culture is likely to benefit from their shared experience. You can’t plan for it, but when it’s nurtured, that camaraderie will help shape your company’s culture far beyond one summer. For Planet Labs, the mark interns have left is on display every Tuesday — Tutu Tuesday, that is, the brainchild of last summer’s class. Most of those interns are now gone, but everyone in the company still has their tutus (and puts them to use!).
“In terms of building a team and enriching the office environment, we found that bringing in interns and treating them like part of the family is really important.”
DON’T: Drop your end of the bargain. Give it time and energy, and your intern program could be your secret weapon for scaling quickly, or for tackling one-off projects that will supercharge product development. In exchange, you owe interns the guidance that attracted them to the opportunity.
Before they even set foot in the office, make sure your mentorship structure is clearly outlined, and that full-time team members understand your expectations.
A common failure mode I've seen is when the mentor or the supervisor for an intern is chronically unavailable Interns suffer as a result.
Even if you don’t see obvious red flags, keep lines of communication with your interns open. “It's very important to check in regularly to make sure that their projects are going well, and that they find them meaningful.”
How to Hire the Future of Your Company
Whether verbalized or not, there will always be one question hanging in the air over every intern you employ: "When this is over, will you have a job for me?"
Boshuizen’s interns have run the gamut, from undergrads in-semester to grad students completing their master’s projects at Planet Labs, from recent grads to more seasoned professionals working in a contract-to-hire capacity. But it’s ultimately the latter category that inspired the company’s intern hiring philosophy. “I'd say the intern programs that we've been running are more like contract to hires for everybody,” Boshuizen says.
An internship is the best possible technical interview that you can have. Afterward, you'll know for sure whether you want to work with that person again.
You need to carefully manage expectations accordingly. “If you bring in 40 interns for a summer, you can't realistically hire them all,” Boshuizen says. He gets ahead of this issue by stating very clearly at the outset of each intern class that there's no guarantee of a job at the end, and consistently reinforcing that message. “We're not always entirely successful at that, but it's very important that you don't mislead people about what their prospects are to join the company.”
If interns do “pass” their internship-as-technical-interview, though, keep them moving through a modified hiring funnel. “We do a lightweight final internship interview — really it's just the founder interview to make sure they're a cultural fit, and then a team leader interview to actually see if there's a role,” Boshuizen says.
Hiring an intern should look a lot like hiring any other candidate. Create a job description and make sure that the role is accounted for in your staffing and financial plans. “It's very important that you actually have a real job when you bring somebody in like this,” Boshuizen says. Not only does your new hire need and deserve that clarity, it’s important for your organization’s overall morale that you not appear to hire people simply because you think they’re fun.
But at the end of the day, whether an intern is hired or not — whether they’re with your company for three months or three decades — you have an opportunity to give your industry’s burgeoning talent a one-of-a-kind education. Planet Labs interns leave their experience with a pretty great snapshot of their own: An image taken from space thanks to something they’ve built. When you put this level of thought and care into your program, your chances of hiring the best are vastly increased, and even those who don't get a spot will walk away as fans wishing they had.
“I think getting a photograph like that is pretty awesome,” Boshuizen says. “If you put interns right into the hearts and souls of your company, you can share similarly epic experiences with them, too.”
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Boosting women in seafood and ending gender inequality. A call to the seafood community: time for commitment and change is now!
Andres Loubet Jambert
Chairman and Co-Founder of FIS - Fish Information & Services
Andrés Loubet-Jambert’s reply to Undersecretary of Fisheries and Aquaculture Dr. Nestor Miguel Bustamente
I would like to thank you for the lengthy letter in response to my article, as having received five sheets written by you show that my comments have touched you deeply.
I understand that I must clarify several points raised in it to try to make it clear who is the one that incurs inaccuracies and falsehoods as you indicate.
First of all, I must respectfully ask you not to underestimate me, nor to assume that I do not know the laws and files which I have been monitoring weekly. I do not live in Argentina, so it is obvious that I will not be the one who can request and ask for reports, but I handle better information than you suppose. I also believe that you are underestimating many people from the Argentine fishing industry that knows you and that has extensive knowledge of the various irregularities that are happening under your management.
I consider it important to highlight that the specific message of the letter is to try to disqualify me as a specialist in particular fisheries issues and, on the other hand, you shift responsibility background theme to other officials. So once again, you assume no concrete role in this story, which is also mentioned by FIS referring to your "absence" when the Federal Fisheries Council (CFP) had to deal with issues affecting several Argentine companies for millions in dollars.
I also want to clarify that in May you declared that the legal area must be the one defining who the enforcement authority was: whether the CFP or Mr. Delgado, who you refer to as responsible for the issue. Therefore, if it was not clear for you who was going to solve this within your own organization, from then on you can imagine how unclear it would be for people experiencing this from outside like me.
I am some years ahead of you, not only in age but also in experience in the fisheries sector, since I started some time before you. Therefore, I not only know many people and companies in the Argentine sector, but also the background several of them have.
As it is obvious that you do not know about certain definite events related to the issue, I believe it is necessary to comment to you that I had a meeting with Alicia Castro at the Argentine Embassy in London soon after she took office, and then I had several meetings at the Chancellery in Buenos Aires to discuss The Falklands issues and to be in touch with the people involved. At the time, there was a presidential decision to appoint certain people in strategic positions within a centralized policy related to The Falklands issues. I do not want to extend the topic but beyond that, I had a meeting at the time with the second person in importance in the former SIDE (secret service), and as a result of all that I wrote the article that I entitled “Falkland Islands (Malvinas): Argentina strengthens management. What could be improved?” (22 January, 2014), which directly affected your management.
I do not know if you had the opportunity to read my article and the response I later received from Mr. John Barton, but it caught my attention you never expressed your opinion on this important issue that directly affects the area for which you are responsible, and that is directly related to the fishing activity in the Falkland Islands, South Georgia and South Sandwich Islands and the surrounding maritime areas in the South Atlantic.
You're a lawyer and you can probably describe the interpretation of laws and historical facts since the French Revolution to date better than I do. But I have never questioned the laws or procedures, only some officials who withhold information, or manipulate it, with interests that are outside of what is supposed to be the responsibility as a public official. As you well know, Nissui Group has committed a crime that has been confirmed in a file. They were raided pending a sanction on 5 August 2015. You also know that Pesantar still belonged to Nissui Group when these events occurred. And you are aware that there was an "arrangement" between Newsan Group and Nissui Group for the former to purchase a company that had been punished with suspension for fishing. You also know perfectly well that from the moment Newsan took over Pesantar, not only were all sanctions magically vanished, but it was finally "rewarded" with an additional Patagonian toothfish quota. This was granted in a questionable meeting of CFP, of which you are the president but for reasons that you tried to justify as "casual", you were not present although you were well informed about the topics to be addressed.
Can you really suppose that a sensible person will believe in the version you are trying to show? Don't you think it seems a bit more realistic to assume that the people who have some years in this business interpret that this has been an orchestrated maneuver in coordination with the Newsan Group because of your "special relation" with the government of Tierra del Fuego and some national and/or provincial authorities? That this group has been allowed to have a business of more than USD 25 million for operating a vessel that was not authorized to fish is the result of the implementation of certain "political" decisions and the nod of certain officials like you.
This is a reality that no matter the laws or paperwork you present now, it is a concrete fact, which is unthinkable in a normal country. All the procedures that you describe have only allowed Pesantar to work for a year and also receive a special prize, which is likely to serve it to pay the fine when finally the sanction is implemented. In other words, thanks to this gift bestowed under your management, natural resources of all Argentine citizens will be those paying for the party. That is to say, a scam to the Federal Government.
Because of all this I have mentioned quickly and shortly, I publicly question you as an officer and as a person. I'm not interested in administrative excuses but in facts. You do not face the issues personally and instead, as it is typical of some lawyers, you let others sign files like that of Nissui or minutes of meetings such as the one of the CFP. Therefore, I understand that it is not only I that was misinformed but you yourself confirm to me that the only thing that interests you is not to take direct responsibilities and take some personal benefits from this.
Take the example of Mr. Juan Benegas, since from the very beginning his career and his photos attracted my attention. If you pay attention, in all of them he always put the Argentine flag in front, and in yours I've always seen it in the background. Besides, Mr. Benegas has not only lost his job and his source of income, but has never been congratulated on or mentioned by you, or by any other Argentine official, as a public example for having filed a complaint with irrefutable evidence on a topic that is so important for Argentine international politics. While you are hiding behind laws or bureaucratic arguments to put yourself to one side, Mr Benegas continues to lead his struggle for the firm to obtain a sanction without even worrying about getting a new job or ensuring a source of income. What a difference, Mr. Bustamente!
With respect to you, I think that in Argentina everybody knows where you come from and where you will go. You have never been an "independent" person and it is noteworthy that in other countries, where codes of ethics are respected, an advocate of a business group would have never accepted your position. When I spoke of your resignation, I just meant the conflict of interest between the responsibility that you have to fulfill with your official position and "lobby" for few.
At present I do not doubt that at the end of your mandate you will return to your home as you explain in your letter, as those politicians who belong to your inner circle have lost all chance in the recent elections, so it would be almost impossible for you to continue in the civil service. Time will tell if those who once moved to CEPA to hold public office will return to work for this business group from Mar del Plata.
Perhaps Newsan Group has a better proposal.
Chronological summary of events so far:
• On 22 December, 2014 Mr. Juan Benegas formalizes the complaint at the Argentine Chancellery and the Undersecretariat of Fisheries of the Nation
• On 23 December, 2014 the governor of Tierra del Fuego, Antarctica and South Atlantic Islands, Maria Fabiana Rios, suspends the fishing permits to Pesantar, owner of the ship Echizen due to Benegas’ allegations.
• On 29 December, 2014 J. Benegas provides evidence to the ambassador Daniel Filmus, Secretary of Affairs Related to the Falkland Islands, South Georgia and South Sandwich Islands and the surrounding maritime areas in the South Atlantic.
• On 1 January, 2015 J. Benegas delivers a note to the Ambassador of Japan in Argentina asking for his help. The response he obtained was: "Thank you for your information."
• On 4 January, 2015 J. Benegas sent an e-mail to the managers of NISSUI Head Office (Tokyo), in which he informed them on all the above mentioned actions, including his letter to the Japanese ambassador. On that occasion J. Benegas asked the managers of NISSUI (Tokyo): "What Japanese people from NISSUI would betray the sovereignty of Japan?"
• On 5 January, 2015 the first news article is published in the newspaper La Nacion.
• On 5 January 2015 J. Benegas is dismissed without a cause, after 26 years of dedication to NISSUI Group.
• On 9 January, 2015 NISSUI sells PESANTAR SA to Newsan Group, knowing it was doing so with suspended fishing licenses due to Juan Benegas’ complaint since 23 December, 2015.
• On 16 January, 2015 the suspension of provincial fishing permits of PESANTAR SA is lifted, previously suspended by the provincial government of TDF (Tierra del Fuego) on 23 December, 2014.
• On 22 January, 2015 the first concrete statement is made by Undersecretary of Fisheries of the Nation, Miguel Bustamante: "It is doubly proven that NISSUI Group fished in Malvinas (The Falklands)," Revista Puerto (magazine).
• On 10 March, 2015 the sanction notification is released: http://www.marypescanoticiaspatagonicas.com/2015/03/notifican-a-pesantar-para-que-presente-su-descargo-por-la-denuncia-por-presunta-violacion-a-la-ley-federal-de-pesca/#more-63
• On 29 April, 2015, more than four months after the complaint, J. Benegas’ witnessing statement was taken by Carlos Rivelle, director general of Fisheries and Aquaculture Development of Tierra del Fuego, at this point the Undersecretariat of Fisheries of the Nation had everything checked. (?)
• Newsan was involved with the consequences of the announced sanction to Nissui by Dr. Bustamante, further investigation on the company San Arawa and its equity relation with Nissui also starts.
• On 5 August, 2015 Nissui (Japan) gave a presentation through its legal representative in Argentina and the charges are settled.
• On 1 October, 2015 Undersecretary of Fisheries Dr. Miguel Bustamante reports and states to the media that, once the investigation comes to an end and without loopholes in the file, the assessment of the penalty is in the legal department of the Undersecretary of Fisheries.
• On 21 October, 2015 J. Benegas claims the penalty announced by Bustamante in the report no. 20 (20th report: Complaint on illegal fishing in the Falkland Islands by the fishing company Pesantar-Nissui) aimed at National and Provincial Authorities, Senators, Representatives, Lawmakers from Tierra del Fuego, Entrepreneurs, the Media.
• On 26 October, 2015 J. Benegas requests in his usual reports, this time no. 21, that the future quota allocations for the valuable Patagonian toothfish remain unchanged from the Federal Fisheries Council, considering that one of the four companies benefitting from them is Newsan and the other one is San Arawa, both with possible consequences due to their involvement with Nissui.
• On 29 October, 2015 J. Benegas, in the report no. 22, proves that the CFP disregarded all the statements of the president of this organization, Dr. Bustamante, and with the file held by Dr. Pederiva for her decision on the complaint against Nissui, in Act 41, granted a huge Patagonian toothfish quota to Newsan and San Arawa.
The magazine Revista Puerto dated 1 November, 2015 highlights the great contradiction generated in Act no. 41 of the CFP.
• On 2 November, 2015 Dr. Pederiva ends the decision for Dr. Gabriel Delgado to rule.
• On 4 November, 2015 J. Benegas expresses Dr. Delgado that he is looking forward to Nissui’s sanction since it was raided on 5 August, 2015. Regardless of the other consequences that should be taken by Emdepes from Chile, Newsan from Argentina and San Arawa from Argentina. Dr. Delgado expressed to J. Benegas: “The penalty should not be stained.”
• On 17 November, 2015 Dr. Bustamante personally informed J. Benegas that Foreign Ministry will be ordered to intimidate Emdepes from Chile for it to conduct their defense, as Dr. Pederiva understands that it is the only thing missing to implement the penalties.
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Flash Fiction: J.S. Bach: Goldberg Variations – Variation 14
Posted on November 18, 2015 by Henry
This is goofy. I’m writing a new piece of flash fiction from Chuck Wendig’s usual challenge (I’ve skipped a few, my apologies), and, well… I’m not sure what to do. The challenge involves using a random song as both your title and as inspiration for the piece itself. I’ve done that before; so far, so good.
I shuffled until I got a named track (my first result was “Track 9” from an untitled trance album), and now (as you can see) I’m writing a story called J.S. Bach: Goldberg Variations – Variation 14.
In case you don’t know what that sounds like, here’s a video (the piece is roughly two minutes, though the video continues afterwards). I’ve tried embedding it, but the time-specific feature doesn’t seem to be working.
My version is played by Glenn Gould, at roughly twice that speed, clocking in at 59 seconds. Please excuse me while I stare into space and figure out what the hell this means story-wise.
Right. Got it. This might be a little odd, but I think it works. Enjoy!
Every eye turned as the chandelier’s cable separated with the sound of a plucked guitar. The drop was marvelously silent, a shimmering instant as the crystalline lace hung in the air. Then, a shattering crash and screams. There was another pair of plucked notes, and the demi-chandeliers cascaded towards the floor as well. That was the signal for Marcel to join Michelle, hidden by the ensuing panic. But neither of them had considered how chaotic the party would become.
The mercenaries hired by Marcel and Michelle took their opportunity for profitable side-business. Cries of “My jewels!” and “Thief!” echoed around the room as the thick crowd began to churn. Michelle, standing on the low balcony overlooking the hall, had completely lost sight of Marcel.
“Thieves, at my party! Come Michelle.” Her mother grasped Michelle’s wrist like a vise. “It isn’t safe for you here. Killian, deal with these disruptors. Harshly.” Michelle’s father nodded and strode down the broad stairs to the hall’s main floor. The household guards followed close behind.
Michelle struggled to keep her footing and not be dragged further into her family’s apartments. “But Mother,” she cried, “what about—” she barely stifled ‘Marcel’ and found safer words, “—our guests?”
“Our guests will appreciate,” Michelle’s mother’s tug emphasized the word, “having the young lady in whose honor this party is being held be kept safe!” Her glare could have stripped paint.
Michelle struggled to find words and gaped like a fish.
“Well?” Her mother’s eyebrow had the perfect arch, the very height of disdain. It was the same one that Michelle could remember from her grandmother.
Michelle could see all her plans crumbling before her. She needed to escape, and this had been her chance. But it was being crushed just like all her other dreams had been: mercilessly, in the iron grip of her mother’s cold, cold hands. She exhaled, something between a sigh and a sob, and trailed after her mother like a wayward duckling dragged on a leash. Her last sight of the party hall was a mess of flickering lamplight, swirling figures in their finest coats and dresses stumbling about in the dim chaos. Marcel was nowhere to be seen.
Michelle rubbed her wrist and glared at her mother’s back. Her mother was double-checking the house’s vaults to ensure that the thieves at the party below hadn’t had other plans as well. Several of the family’s footmen stood around them in regimented array, watching down the various hallways. Michelle could hear urgent footsteps echoing through the vast spaces of her family’s estate, but the yelling and shouts from the party were much quieter here. Not quite gone, but muted and oddly full of echoes.
“Yes, very good.” Satisfied, Michelle’s mother turned to her favorite manservant. “That shall be all, Remy. Set guards on the chambers, and we shall see you in my receiving room.” She didn’t even look around as she strode further into the house, towards the family’s private wing. “Come along Michelle.”
Michelle followed, rushing the first few steps to make sure she wasn’t left behind. If she had learned anything by growing up in this family, it was that giving her mother another excuse for displeasure could only make things worse. Their heeled boots clopped on the stone floors. Apart from that, they were silent. Echoes of the disintegrating party warped oddly around them.
They arrived in the apartments and Michelle was pointed towards a chaise-lounge while her mother picked up a crossbow from underneath her desk. She cocked it very matter-of-factly.
“Are you satisfied with yourself Michelle?”
The crossbow wasn’t leveled at her, but the question struck her like a bolt. She twitched. “What do you mean, Mother?”
“Your little stunt this evening.” Michelle’s mother cocked her head sideways, listening. “Are you satisfied with yourself?”
Michelle worked hard to control her breathing. “No.” How did she know?
“Good. You shouldn’t ever be.” Michelle’s mother turned around slowly, facing towards the window instead of the door. It was open, the garden moonlit beyond it. “That’s been your problem. I don’t know why I didn’t see it earlier. You’re too satisfied with yourself, with not taking up the reins of this family’s business.”
Michelle swallowed. Maybe her mother hadn’t known about her plan with Marcel?
She saw a figure pull itself up to the edge of the window, silhouetted in moonlight, and barely had enough time to scream.
The crossbow made a flat, unmusical plunk. A bolt stuck out of the face of Marcel. He fell away from the window towards the ground below. Michelle heard him hit the ground. She didn’t hear him cry out.
She stared at her mother, mouth open, feeling faint.
“Scratch one thief.” Michelle’s mother cocked the crossbow again. “What? It was only a thief. Not even a very good one.” The room was silent, faint sounds of the party’s decaying hubbub still drifting across the grounds.
“Michelle. Look at me.” Michelle’s mother walked over to her, grasping her chin firmly in her left hand. She tugged Michelle’s face up to meet her gaze. “They’re beneath us. And if you’re going to inherit our business, you have to be willing to put others in their place.” Something in her face softened for a moment. “I know, dear, that it can be hard to watch someone die for the first time. But you can’t make an omelet without breaking a few eggs. And we make very big omelets.” She patted Michelle on the shoulder. Her inexperience showed.
She cleared her throat, then strode back to the desk and checked the room again. “Your father will finish with the thieves soon, and then the party will recommence.” She smiled. “I’m sure you’ll make me proud.”
Michelle choked back a sob and nodded.
Farewell Marcel. Farewell dreams.
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Ethics Complaint Filed Against CCSD Superintendent Demond Means
By Blake Aued@BlakeAued | May 8, 2019 4:59pm
Photo Credit: Austin Steele/file
Clarke County School Superintendent Demond Means.
An ethics complaint filed against Clarke County School Superintendent Demond Means alleges that he plagiarized part of a letter to colleagues, accepted an inappropriate gift and may have lied about his dissertation on his job application.
Patrick McKee, a Newnan lawyer, filed the complaint with the Georgia Professional Standards Commission, which certifies educators, on May 3. McKee formerly represented the PSC as a senior assistant attorney general and currently is general counsel for the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools, an accrediting body.
McKee told Flagpole that he “represents a group of parents and taxpayers” in Athens, but would not say who. “At some point, the group will become more visible,” he said.
When asked to list his publications, including dissertations, on his online application, Means listed his doctoral dissertation, “Is the Role of the Superintendent Political?” (He has also referred to the title as, “What Is the Political Aspect of the Superintendency?”) However, the dissertation is not available on any websites, such as ProQuest, where graduate students usually submit their dissertations. A librarian at Georgia State University whom McKee asked for help was also unable to find it.
McKee also reached out to the library at Cardinal Stritch, the Milwaukee university where Means received his master’s degree and doctorate in education. A librarian told him Means “finished, defended and graduated,” but that the library did not have a copy. Although university libraries usually bind and keep dissertations, the education department may not have required Means to submit it to the library at the time he received his doctorate in 2005, the library director wrote.
The district has never asked Means for a copy of his dissertation, CCSD’s attorney, Michael Pruitt, wrote to Atlanta lawyer Greg Feagle in response to a June 2018 open records request that is included in McKee’s complaint.
A Cardinal Stritch spokesperson confirmed to Flagpole that Means did receive his doctorate, and that the university does not have a copy of his dissertation.
The dissertation “is not published as represented and may or may not exist in a form Means wishes to be made public,” McKee wrote in the complaint.
According to the complaint, Means also violated ethical standards by not disclosing that he had an ongoing relationship with AVID when he recommended last June that the board spend $511,000 to send teachers for training in the instructional method. Means mentioned that he taught a class for AVID in response to a question from a board member last month. When questioned later, Means told Flagpole that he was paid $500, below the threshold in his contract requiring board approval for consulting work.
Board President Jared Bybee and Vice President Linda Davis defended Means in an Apr. 29 letter to “CCSD community members,” writing that Means had been clear that he had worked with AVID at his previous district in Wisconsin, and that he left the decision to adopt AVID up to individual schools. Bybee and Davis also wrote that, “for the sake of clarity,” Means would donate his $500 stipend to CCSD.
“Dr. Means continues to act with the highest level of professional integrity in leading our district,” they wrote.
Accepting personal payment from a district vendor violates state ethical standards and gives the appearance of a conflict of interest, according to McKee.
In addition, the complaint accuses Means of lifting a paragraph in a Mar. 9 letter to teachers districtwide from the 2014 book You Are the Opportunity You Were Waiting For: The Philosophy of Success in 21 Timeless Principles, by Luis E. Romero. The passage reads:
The word opportunity comes from the Latin term opportunitas, which is composed of two other terms: ob, meaning ‘toward’, and portus, meaning ‘port’. This word came about in the realm of navigation, where sailors used the phrase ob portus to denote the best combination of wind, current, and tide to sail to port. However, the only way to seize such weather conditions was if the vessel’s captain had already sighted the port of destination. Knowing the weather conditions without knowing the destination was useless. Therefore, a ship was in a state of opportunitas when its captain had decided where to go and knew how to get there. Later, however, the word evolved in a different direction to denote only external conditions while excluding the individual who would seize them.
In Means’ letter, it is not attributed to Romero or anyone else.
“A seventh grade student who submitted such blatantly plagiarized material in a research paper would be failed for such dishonesty,” McKee wrote in the complaint. “This dishonest conduct cannot be tolerated in a superintendent.”
When asked for comment, CCSD’s communications director, Mary Walsh Wickwire, said that “the information regarding the allegation has been received by the district [but] because it is a personnel matter, the district cannot and will not respond.”
The 18-member Professional Standards Commission, made up mostly of teachers, has the power to reprimand Means or suspend or revoke his certification. If the commission rules against him, Means could accept its decision or ask for a hearing before an administrative law judge.
However, McKee said he isn’t seeking any particular punishment. “We expect the questions would be answered,” he said.
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To set minimum standards for basic cognitive and technical skills used in performing laparoscopic procedures
To provide surgeons practicing laparoscopy with standardized didactic information on the fundamentals of laparoscopic surgery and a tool to assist in development of judgment and manual skills
To create an objective quantifiable measure to assess knowledge, judgment and manual skills in basic laparoscopic surgery
To make available to hospitals and institutions a validated tool to measure the knowledge and skills fundamental to the performance of laparoscopic surgery
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Great song intros
A really good intro to a song can make the difference on whether you may want to listen to the song further or not (well, maybe it doesn't, but it doesn't hurt to have something that grabs your attention)
one of my favourites has to be "Scars in the Landscape of God" by Abigor
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Q-r-eDC5D0
the female vocals are quite the contrast to the rest of the song, but also give a preview of the dark haunting atmosphere which follows in the rest of the song.
So, what are some of your favourites, and why do they appeal to you?
Oden's Ride Over Nordland/A Fine Day To Die. Although 'ORON' is a track in its own right, it is hard to imagine the album opening with A Fine Day To Day, without that intro. It just wouldn't sound right. It's perfectly executed.
Mysticaloldbard
I'd consider the airy, acoustic intro to A Fine Day to Die itself. The hooves of the horses fade with a whinny, and the guitar slows to a trot for a moment, only to be swept off by the ethereal voice of Quorthon. The acoustic rallentando falters like a music box, then you're suddenly cast from the clouds down the mountainside where "scattered
by the campfires awaiting the dawn, two times a hundred men in battles, tried by the steel in the arrow axe and the sword." A polar but beautiful way to start the song.
That's actually what I came here to add, but another cool one is the intro to Blind Guardian's Ashes to Ashes. It's not a long intro nor an extraordinary one, but it's really odd and excites me for the song. It sounds like a goblin crawling around in a well, and complements the dark feeling I get from the song. Short and off-the-wall, but I like it.
I'll think of a better example after some sleep.
Every thread is secretly a Manowar thread.
katatonia47
The intro riff for Dismember's Override of the Overture is one of my favourites.
"Work for pay, pay for freedom, fuck 'em all we don't need 'em" - Acid Bath
MalignantTyrant
Songs like Warheart or Crown of Horns that have movie clip intros can pretty sick if done properly
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reven
Location: Dubrovnik , Croatia
The intro solo for Dismember's Dreaming in Red is amazing as well.
And I almost forgot, Destroyer 666's I am the Wargod has one of the best intros ever, it's flawless.
Crypt Infektor
Iced Earth - Angels Holocaust
As soon as the song opens up, you're treated a good deal with some choir ass-kicking...add in some power chords, and you're pretty much the guy on the album cover (the original album cover, not the horrid comic book art one), ready to slaughter poseurs. Pretty simple intro, but it opens into what I think is Iced Earth's magnum opus album (plus no gay-ass Gene Adam to be seen)
ANationalAcrobat wrote:
Viking metal and pagan metal aren't legitimate sub-genres. People need to get over themselves and admit that.
ministry - just one fix
soundgarden - room a thousand years wide
i like them because there is screaming
CF_Mono
Dark Angel - Hell's On Its Knees. This kind of thing was big back in the early thrash days. A lot of bands did really shitty acoustic intros for thrash songs but a few stuck out. Probably the best was Metallica's One, but again that's just something else they ripped off from Dark Angel. My Atonement by Sodom also comes to mind, but I've been on a huge thrash buzz lately. I know there are more examples in Black Metal I could give. Conjuration, while not an intro to any specific song, is the culmination of deep earthy and mystical black metal in a one minute interlude.
Don't worry about my opinion.
MrMcThrasher II
Candlemass - Demons Gate
The intro just has an epic, evil feel that I think helps set up the song.
Murtal wrote:
In flames became MeloDICK Death Metal
TheDefiniteArticle wrote:
Also hopefully they take it as a sign they're not meant to make more albums.
Kevbo
This goes back a bit, but the very first intro I can remember being in love with was the creepy bit at the beginning of Ozzy's "Mr. Crowley". I still dig it more than the rest of the track, which is damn good regardless.
Too many others to bother listing, but very few bands work an intro the way Cradle of Filth do.
...if you go for that sort of thing, of course.
"Those that know what's best for us, must rise and save us from ourselves."
Blizk
There's a few that instantly come to mind. It's usually a fantastic melodic intro riff (or riffs) that sets the mood for a somewhat long track.
The Darkest Grace by Constantine
Not Unlike the Waves by Agalloch
In Parting by Be'lakor
Intro to Not Unlike the Waves has fingerprint quality similar to the likes of Smoke on the Water. You'd just make no mistake on that if they were more popular.
Blizk wrote:
Can't forget Final Ritual by Dark Funeral
reven wrote:
Zodijackyl
63 Axe Handles High
The first riff in "Left Hand Path" by Entombed is really heavy, it's quick and crushing, then it goes into a solo. Sets the tone for that album perfectly.
"The Sorceress" by Fates Warning feels mystical, it makes you wonder what's coming next since it isn't the tone of the whole song.
"Sun Poison and Skin Cancer" by The Acacia Strain has a good intro riff that hooks you into the song, it's probably the strongest part of the song too.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VBdPewl1Ix0
Ira Divina
I love Dimmu's opening on The Sacrilegious Scorn which fits into the style the video to it was made.
Flammandus et contemptus
Seyn Todt in Schwartz!
Fast_Kill
Brocas Helm - Cry of the Banshee
Just how the bass starts tapping this awesome melody. Next the guitar joins and and when they are about to fade, just as the drumms jump in, theres a slight change in the melody and a whole feeling of power being restrained and needs just needs to explode. And then it explodes.
I also agree with Destroyer 666´s I am the Wargod. Fucking great song.
The intro to Bitter Peace by Slayer has always given me a bit of a stiffy. It was quite creepy listening to it as a 13 year old who was completely unfamiliar with Slayer, aside from their slightly falsely propagated reputation as the epitome of everything dark and evil in metal.
~Guest 69485
Gorguts - "Condemned to Obscurity"
The piano intro is awesome. It's so fluid and adds such an atmosphere of mystery to the song, especially when it comes back later.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CYTpR3VhzUk
Testament - "Beginning of the End"
The album intro to Souls of Black fades in with intense, shredding acoustic guitars before the thrashing "Face in the Sky". I love the twist on the acoustic intro and how quick it all comes and goes.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fnNk7fej8PQ
IanThrash
Both intros from Battery and Damage Inc by Metallica are flawless...just perfect
Can´t touch this
Dude: If you tour, will you bring out other musicians? Use tapes? Clone yourselves?
Fenriz: I am up for cloning, but with less tinnitus and more chest hair, please.
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One of the greatest intros on an album in my opinion is on Sinisters album Hate. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O6l4BkW5B3w It creates this perfect setup for the entire album.
Liquid_Braino
Umbersun wrote:
Yeah, I always liked this one...eerie and melancholy.
A couple of others:
Atrocity's "introduction" track that leads into "Sky Turned Red" off of Todessehncucht remains a favorite to this day. Haunting as all hell.
Sentenced - "Awaiting The Winter Frost". Nice blend of keys & acoustic guitar sets the icy tone.
Necronipple
I always loved the intro leading into Angela on Frightmare's "Bringing Back the Bloodshed". The Vestron movie intro fits the album perfectly since every song is about a 70's/80's slasher flick.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bp95O4XtuFE
Axalcathu
This http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8YaHvuP6A30 simply brilliant
Axalcathu wrote:
the intro was really cool imo, but the heavy part that kicked in didn't fit with it at all
that's one thing metal bands hardly EVER get right
I'm gonna have to say Manowar's Warriors of the World United, it isn't the greatest intro out their but it always, always gets me pumped and ready for the song. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AJ0sW7KOFhU I can't hear this and not start head banging and pumping my fist.
Favorite of all time: Manowar - Guyana
More jizz-inducing intros:
Queensryche - Queen of the Reich and Take Hold of the Flame
Judas Priest - Hellion/Electric eye and Painkiller
Paradise Lost - As I Die
Slayer -South of Heaven and Hell Awaits
Black Sabbath - E5150/Mob Rules and Iron Man
Sepultura - Refuse/Resist
Ozzy - Mr. Crowley
Death - The Philosopher
Metallica - For Whom the Bell Tolls and Fight Fire With Fire
Flotsam and Jetsam - No Place For Disgrace
Dio - Jesus, Mary & The Holy Ghost
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MrMcThrasher II wrote:
Speaking of Candlemass : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LnFJJfwiwb4
everything is sexist, everything is racist, everything is homophobic and you have to point it all out
TrooperEd
Slayer-Chemical Warfare
Iron Maiden- Caught Somewhere In Time
I add Dark Embrace by Violation:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7hzCbVSSuOM
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gravlagtieljudne
Blazon Stone by Running Wild immediately comes to mind. Also Bathory's Lake of Fire. Both amazing song (and album) openers. Epic.
'One Rode To Asa Bay'. And why? Because it's epic!
Ba Zuulizx Karoth
Weakling - Dead As Dreams. Its like 3:00 long! Course the song is over 20 minutes, so its understandable. Very well done.
Bathory - One Rode to Asa Bay. It sets the mood perfectly.
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FreeHealth.io EHR
en:community:guidelines
Guidelines proposal
We should use English as much as possible. Contributors will not feel like they belong to this community if we start speaking other languages. English is the language of international free software projects. How do you feel when you stumble upon answers written in a language that you don't understand in the middle of a support forum? The answer is here, but you cannot use it because someone didn't make the effort to use English. I am not a native speaker either, but I am ready to make this effort for the success of the project.
Let's make FreeHealth an Evidence Based Health Record:
Research literature before implementing a new feature or chart
Quote references using PubMed DowuWiki plugin
Add link to full text article on FHio Zotero group or external url.
code should be 100% English
variables, strings, comments, documentation
non-English acronyms, proper nouns, brand names should be explained in English and used in comments and code documentation only eg: “Carte Vitale” is a smartcard used in France for health insurance and identification, variables, members functions could be named “InsuranceSmartCard” or “SmartCard” but not “CarteVitale”. This code could be reused for other countries or purposes.
make the code easily forkable
avoid hardcoding branding, project names, url: eg let's use “EHR_UPDATE_URL” instead of “FREEHEALTH_UPDATE_URL” for the constant and “/ehr-update.txt”, not “freehealth-update.txt” for the update check url
FreeHealth is about free and open source software. Private initiatives that respect the GPL license and that are committed to share their improvements or additions to the code will get full support from us.
You are free to fork and modify the code and to make profit out of it, as long as you respect the GPLv3 (this includes publishing the source code online if your software is available online).
If you want active help and support from FreeHealth devs, you will also have to share code with upstream, on our public repositories. FreeHealth institutional and private users need professional services. Businesses that provide those services are adding value to the platform. Individual developers or companies that contributed significantly to FreeHealth will be listed on the website and users will be encouraged to contact those significant contributors for professional services and support.
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Border Break: Sega Network Robot Wars
This third-person shooter developed and published by Sega for the arcade includes 10 v 10 multiplayer matches played online.
Border Break was first shown at the AOU Show in February 2009.
Border Break is a 10 v 10, 3rd-person, class-based, arcade shooter game. The game is controlled through a mouse and analogue stick combination, with the mouse used for aiming and the analogue stick used for movement. This makes the game feel like a hybrid of shooter games on PC and console, with the accuracy of aiming the mouse offers and the fidelity of movement conveyed through the analogue stick. In addition, the cabinet features a touch-screen for manipulating the user interface, including choosing a class and picking a spawn location.
Since this is a Japanese giant robot game, there is also a boost mechanic. The boost is activated is 2 different ways with the left hand using 2 buttons mounted on the analogue stick grip. A horizontal boost grants increased movement speed as though one were sprinting, while a vertical boost conveys a gain in height, as if to jump.
The game feature a persistent character profile like Call of Duty 4 or Rainbow Six Vegas 2, as the player spent time playing the game, the player unlock robot parts, weapons, camo paints or cosmetic item to purchase. And these player stats are recorded on an IC card which must be bought and inserted into the cabinet prior to starting the game. However, the game does allow players to sign in as guests if desired, though they will be limited to the starting condition of only having the choice of the assault class with only 2 weapons unlocked: Sub Machine Gun and Grenade.
The gameplay is a blend of the battlefield series and the overload game type of Quake 3: Team Arena. A tower structure named core is stationed inside each team's base, and players can reduce enemy core's health by killing enemies, capturing control points or attacking the core directly. A match ends when a team's core destroyed or the 600 seconds time limit is reached.
Each team's player can choose between four classes: Assault, Heavy, Support, and Snipe, and player can customize their equipment, parts and painting during the intermission time before the player choose to start matchmaking.
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Forgotten human rights tragedy: A response
By Mustapha Khalfi, Special to CNN
Editor’s note: Mustapha Khalfi is minister of communication and spokesman of the government of the Kingdom of Morocco. The views expressed are the writer’s own.
Kerry Kennedy’s ‘A forgotten human rights tragedy’ article last month reproduces old, doubtful and distorted allegations and accusations on the human rights situation in the Moroccan Sahara. The article also omits to discuss the serious violations of human rights in Tindouf camps that have been confirmed by many international organizations.
First, regarding human rights protection in the Sahara Province, Morocco is making significant progress. In 2011, the National Council of Human Rights (CNDH), an independent national human rights body with enhanced investigative powers, established two regional commissions in the Moroccan Sahara, in Dakhla and Laayoune, which independently monitor the human rights situation, investigate complaints, and issues special reports.
In this regard, the U.N. Security Council welcomed, through its resolution 2044 of 2012, the installation of these regional commissions and did not see it appropriate to establish any other mechanism for human rights monitoring because it has recognized the strides made by Morocco with the Council, as well as other human development initiatives and concrete reforms undertaken on many levels. The election of Morocco at the U.N. Human Rights Council last November, after a vote of the 163 states members of the General Assembly of the United Nations, is another international recognition of the efforts made by Morocco in the promotion and protection of human rights.
Second, stating that MINURSO is the only mission of peacekeeping that doesn't have a control mandate for human rights is a false assertion. Besides MINURSO, five out of 14 other U.N. missions don't have a human rights mandate – UNMOGIP, installed between India and Pakistan, UNFICYP in Cyprus, UNDOF in the Golan Heights, UNIFIL in Lebanon, and UNISFA in Abyei, Sudan.
Editor’s note: Kennedy’s article points to “modern” peacekeeping missions, specifically calling for the U.N. to extend to the mission in Western Sahara “the same international human rights standards it has applied to every other peace-keeping operation since 1991.” UNMOGIP, UNFICYP, UNDOF and UNIFIL predate 1991. UNISFA was established late, although U.N. Security Council Resolution 2104 (2013) stresses “the need for effective human rights monitoring.”
The article also claims the Moroccan Sahara is closed to journalists and human rights organizations. Facts refute this allegation, as since 2000, 14 U.N. delegations came to Morocco, four in 2012 and 2013, including a delegation of the U.N. Working Group on Arbitrary Detention in 2013, as well as the special rapporteur on torture in 2012. In his report he stated that Morocco is witnessing “an emergence of a human rights culture,” and IWMF organized two trips for women journalists to the region.
Editor’s note: The commentary did not say that Moroccan Sahara is closed to journalists and human rights organizations. It said the area is “routinely closed” to them. That would mean that it is sometimes open.
The article fails to highlight human rights violations in the Tindouf camps. In a report published in 2008, Human Rights Watch criticized the persistence of slavery practices, the prohibition of freedom of expression, association and assembly and of the right to return for the Polisario dissidents. The case of Mustapha Ould Salma, former head of the Polisario Front, is still deprived from the right to return to his children and family in the camps. There is also the case of Sahraoui artist Allal Najem El Gareh, who was tortured and prevented from meeting the U.N. Secretary General’s personal envoy, Christopher Ross. These are just two examples that the R.F. Kennedy Center never defended.
We also mention the case of the alleged death of four young people from the southern provinces between May and September 2013, in the Aït Melloul prison. In fact, the deaths concern two young Sahrawi, which occurred in the hospital Hassan II in Agadir, and not in the prison. They were caused by health complications, contrary to Kennedy article. In addition, these two cases were unrelated. Kennedy also mentioned the discovery of the remains of eight disappeared people in the Sahara region. In fact, CNDH declared in September 2013 that these cases had already been processed by the Equity and Reconciliation Commission (IER), which conducted numerous public hearings and conducted field investigations about them. The CNDH also indicated that the eight cases mentioned have been the subject of an ongoing exchange between the Moroccan government and several international organizations, including the ICRC, which has made eight trips to Morocco. It was during this work that burial sites were identified. The families of the victims were compensated. The IER, established in 2004, has received and processed approximately 5,000 demands from victims of past human rights violations (1956-1999), and allocated $72 million to the claimants and for social programs for victims.
The article misrepresents the advisory opinion of the International Court of Justice, dated October 16, 1975, which confirmed that “the materials and information presented to the court show the existence, at the time of Spanish colonization, of legal ties of allegiance between the Sultan of Morocco and some of the tribes living in the territory of Western Sahara.”
Editor’s note: The opinion also states that: “Spain suggested in the second place that the questions submitted to the Court were academic and devoid of purpose or practical effect, in that the United Nations had already settled the method to be followed for the decolonization of Western Sahara, namely a consultation of the indigenous population by means of a referendum to be conducted by Spain under United Nations auspices. The Court examines the resolutions adopted by the General Assembly on the subject…[and] concludes that the decolonization process envisaged by the General Assembly is one which will respect the right of the population of Western Sahara to determine their future political status by their own freely expressed will.”
Finally, The Moroccan plan for large autonomy within the Moroccan Sovereignty, as political solution to this conflict, has gained an increasing support as credible, serious and realistic solution.
Post by: CNN's Jason Miks
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Moroccan and sahrawi
the region called western sahara beginning from 1970 ( spanish sahara just before that )was moroccan under the idrissid dynasty almoravid dynasty almohad dynasty marinid dynasty saadian dynasty and alaouite dynasty until 1884 when it was occupied by spain.
The ¨” western sahara”is a colonial creation , some french and spanish guys sat on a table and cut the region with a pen
Finally if the region called western sahara today wasnt moroccan why did the european powers wait all these centuries ;until 1884; to occcuy it with its long coasts while they occupied most of the world hundreads of years before???? Were they afraid of 900 camel nomads all these years ???? WELL MY DEAR MOROCCO WAS A SOVEREIGN NATION AND IT WAS A PART OF ITS TERRITORY , try to find any world map of before 1884 ANY and you will find the borders of morocco with the sahara and other regions included ,
when spain wanted to leave ( after un and morocco put pressure not because they wanted) they first wanted to create a proxy state that would be only a post colonial slave of spain , however morocco is not some new created country you could fool , we recovered our territory by force just like we recovered sidi ifni from spain in 1968 , tarfaya in 1959 , and just like we will recover ceuta and mellila in the very next decades
Before spain left , morocco had a border war of algeria ( 1963) because of lands cut by france to include them in french algeria , president of algeria boumediene took his army to western sahara in 1976 ( google battle of amgala) with soviet missiles and all ( it was all filmed) , 200 algerian sldiers in west sahara ( thousands of miles from their country ) were killed , 100 captured, algerian weapons shown to the press , the biggest proof algeria is the problem is that in the year 1990 a civil war began algeria , one year later the polisario front ( algeria proxy) asked for ceasefire , algeria dont eve allow a census in the tinduf camps , because most of the inhabitants are from south algeria mali or mauritania and were nomads not sedentaries , eventhough morocco allow them to return , but algeria wants the conflict to remain because thy want an independant state , they can wait for centuries , because algeria itself was created by france 50 years ago
SaharaMarocainB
Morocco will reject any attempt, orchestrated by Algeria, to expand the mission of MINURSO by including monitoring human Rights in Western Sahara, the Reports prepared in advance, use as a pretext some isolated incidents to accuse Morocco,
Algeria is far from being an example in human rights. While all international organizations of human rights work freely in Morocco, they are forbidden to access on Algerian soil including the Saharawi camps Tindouf.
http://t.co/Kv81MyRT4a
The issue of Western Sahara has been unresolved for too long, it’s time for serious negotiations on the only credible solution Autonomy under Moroccan sovereignty.
To those in the camps who do want a realistic solution based on true local autonomy, now we must move the negotiations on this formula, US has supported this solution through tree presidential Administrations : Bill Clinton,W. Bush and Obama.
Mohammed Lebbadi
I find all the "Editor's notes" interesting. Was the Minister's response submitted to Ms Kennedy for corrections or what? "Kennedy’s article points to “modern” peacekeeping missions; the commentary said the area is “routinely closed” to them, that would mean that it is sometimes open!" And then the restating of the Court's opinion! Funny "Editor's notes" indeed! Why can't people be honest, balanced, what is it that makes Ms Kennedy so anti-Moroccan?
exactly if only the article of kennedy was submitted to , there would be lots of notes with sources , guess being a kennedy makes you have privileges in every domain in the usa , SHAME IN A DEMOCRACY
j. von hettlingen
Jason Miks had my comment deleted, just because I didn't agree with what the author wrote!
rachrafi
The Polisario are nothing but a relic of the Cold War and are being kept on Life Support by Algeria as a way to undermine Morocco. Morocco is the most stable and open of all North African nations and is a leading example for all African nations to follow.
It is unbelievable how somebody can defend what is undefedeble!!! Mr. Minister the only truth and fact is that Polisario had opened the camps and called for the UN mission to monitor human rights there while your government (and it's agents commenting here) get really nervous anytime somebody calls for a human rights monitoring in the are your county occupy from Western Sahara.
In spite of the rethoric and empty words spread by millions of dollars in DC lobbying your king shoud stop the beatings of defenseless women and children and accept and human rights monitoring. Kerry Kennedy is not the only one who denounce this tragedy. AI, HRW, State Department and freedom house calls your regime on of the "worst of the worst" human rights violators worldwide.
The saharawis deserve freedom and dignity and this tragedy caused by a feudal king who wants to have more subjects by
force will have an end as all injustices and oppression come to an end.
Listen Mr the spanish whose country occupied the sahara in 1884 and refused to go out until morocco sent thousands of civilians , listen my dear , there was no state in the sahara , never in the history , it was always a moroccan territory or an empty territory with nomads , CEUTA IS MOROCCAN MELLILA IS MOROCCAN AND GIBRALTAR IS ENGLISH. AND YOUR LOSER COUNTRY SURVIVED THE CRISIS ONLY BECAUSE OF EUROPEAN HELP
Brahim.Sahrawi.
Minister of Communications: Ms. Kennedy daughter of democracy and she does not lie.
Why deleting my comment Miks,because I criticised your edits??
congratulate CNN for your north korean spirit
Ahmed Salem Amr Khaddad
My posts were deleted ad many others where unionism is mentionned!!! Is it a problem to say that unionism represent the large majority in the Western Sahara Territory? Is it a problem to say that the international community should support the monitoring of Human Rights by MINURSO BUT in the 5 tindouf gulags in algeria and not only in one gulag, the one where everything is under control? Is it a crime to say that on behalf of the unionist western saharawi, we are fed up of the interfering of algeria in our local affairs? Is it a crime to say that retaining people in gulags to justify a state claim doesn't make sense!!! Is it a crime to say the truth finally?
Unionist Western Saharawi – Internet Activist
A.BENDAOUD
The Sahara is Moroccan and will remain Moroccan for ever.Mrs Kerry Kennedy as well as the editor have no clues what Morocco is up against.They seem to forget the murder by terror groups sent from Algeria of more than 20 members of authorities .The truth is Algeria wants to occupy the Sahara and strangle Morocco.Our borders with the rest of Africa will be closed and we will be held hostages by the military dictators of Algeria. Moroccans have to defend every inch of their land by any means necessary. People living in El Ayoune or Dakhla have a lot better quality of life than people living in Algiers or Oran .Open the borders for few days and you will see an invasion of Algerian tourists to those areas.
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Simpson-Golabi-Behmel syndrome
Simpson-Golabi-Behmel syndrome is a condition that affects many parts of the body and occurs primarily in males. This condition is classified as an overgrowth syndrome, which means that affected infants are considerably larger than normal at birth (macrosomia) and continue to grow and gain weight at an unusual rate. The other signs and symptoms of Simpson-Golabi-Behmel syndrome vary widely. People with mild cases often live into adulthood.
People with Simpson-Golabi-Behmel syndrome have distinctive facial features including widely spaced eyes (ocular hypertelorism), an unusually large mouth (macrostomia), a large tongue (macroglossia) that may have a deep groove or furrow down the middle, a broad nose with an upturned tip, and abnormalities affecting the roof of the mouth (the palate). The facial features are often described as "coarse" in older children and adults with this condition.
Other features of Simpson-Golabi-Behmel syndrome involve the chest and abdomen. Affected infants may be born with one or more extra nipples, an abnormal opening in the muscle covering the abdomen (diastasis recti), a soft out-pouching around the belly-button (an umbilical hernia), or a hole in the diaphragm (a diaphragmatic hernia) that allows the stomach and intestines to move into the chest and crowd the developing heart and lungs.
Simpson-Golabi-Behmel syndrome can also cause heart defects, malformed or abnormally large kidneys, an enlarged liver and spleen (hepatosplenomegaly), and skeletal abnormalities. Additionally, the syndrome can affect the development of the gastrointestinal system, urinary system, and genitalia. Some people with this condition have mild to severe intellectual disability, while others have normal intelligence.
About 10 percent of people with Simpson-Golabi-Behmel syndrome develop cancerous or noncancerous tumors in early childhood. The most common tumors are a rare form of kidney cancer called Wilms tumor and a cancerous tumor called a neuroblastoma that arises from developing nerve cells.
What is the prognosis of a genetic condition?
Genetic and Rare Diseases Information Center
The incidence of Simpson-Golabi-Behmel syndrome is unknown. At least 250 people worldwide have been diagnosed with this disorder.
Mutations in the GPC3 gene are the most common cause of Simpson-Golabi-Behmel syndrome. This gene provides instructions for making a protein called glypican 3, which blocks (inhibits) a developmental pathway called the hedgehog signaling pathway. This pathway is critical for cell growth and division (proliferation), cell specialization, and the normal shaping (patterning) of many parts of the body during embryonic development. Researchers believe that glypican 3 also helps establish the body's shape by causing certain cells to self-destruct (undergo apoptosis) when they are no longer needed.
GPC3 gene mutations prevent glypican 3 from inhibiting the hedgehog signaling pathway. The resulting overactivity of this pathway leads to an increased rate of cell growth and division starting before birth. This increased cell proliferation accounts, at least in part, for the overgrowth that occurs in Simpson-Golabi-Behmel syndrome. It is unclear how changes in hedgehog signaling contribute to the other abnormalities that can occur with this disorder.
Some individuals with Simpson-Golabi-Behmel syndrome do not have an identified mutation in the GPC3 gene. Mutations in other genes have been studied as possible causes of this condition, but most of these genetic changes have been described only in single families or have not been confirmed in subsequent studies. In some cases, the cause of the condition is unknown.
Researchers have described a disorder with features overlapping those of Simpson-Golabi-Behmel syndrome, which they designated as Simpson-Golabi-Behmel syndrome type 2 (SGBS2). The signs and symptoms of this disorder are more severe than those that typically occur with Simpson-Golabi-Behmel syndrome, and affected individuals live only into infancy. This more severe disorder likely has a different genetic cause. Because of these differences, many researchers now consider SGBS2 to be a separate condition, distinct from Simpson-Golabi-Behmel syndrome.
Learn more about the genes associated with Simpson-Golabi-Behmel syndrome
GPC3
OFD1
PIGA
This condition is inherited in an X-linked pattern. A condition is considered X-linked if the mutated gene that causes the disorder is located on the X chromosome, one of the two sex chromosomes in each cell. In males (who have only one X chromosome), one altered copy of the gene in each cell is sufficient to cause the condition. Because females have two copies of the X chromosome, one altered copy of the gene in each cell usually leads to less severe health problems in females than in males, or it may cause no signs or symptoms at all.
Some females who have one altered copy of the GPC3 gene have distinctive facial features including an upturned nose, a wide mouth, and a prominent chin. Their fingernails may be malformed and they can have extra nipples. Skeletal abnormalities, including extra spinal bones (vertebrae), are also possible in affected females. Other females who carry one altered copy of the GPC3 gene do not have any health problems associated with Simpson-Golabi-Behmel syndrome.
Genetic Testing Registry: Simpson-Golabi-Behmel syndrome
Genetic Testing Registry: Simpson-Golabi-Behmel syndrome, type 2
Other Diagnosis and Management Resources (3 links)
GeneReview: Simpson-Golabi-Behmel Syndrome Type 1
MedlinePlus Encyclopedia: Diastasis Recti
MedlinePlus Encyclopedia: Macrosomia
DGSX
mental retardation-overgrowth syndrome
SDYS
SGBS
SGBS1
Simpson dysplasia syndrome
Simpson-Golabi-Behmel syndrome type 1
Simpson syndrome
Encyclopedia: Diastasis Recti
Encyclopedia: Hernia
Encyclopedia: Macrosomia
Health Topic: Congenital Heart Defects
Health Topic: Craniofacial Abnormalities
Health Topic: Neuroblastoma
Health Topic: Wilms Tumor
National Cancer Institute: Kidney Cancer
National Cancer Institute: Neuroblastoma Home Page
MalaCards: simpson-golabi-behmel syndrome, type 1
Orphanet: Simpson-Golabi-Behmel syndrome
Orphanet: Simpson-Golabi-Behmel syndrome type 2
AmeriFace
Children's Craniofacial Association
CureSearch: National Childhood Cancer Foundation
National Organization for Rare Disorders (NORD)
SIMPSON-GOLABI-BEHMEL SYNDROME, TYPE 1
Medical Genetics Database from MedGen (1 link)
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Book Review: The Vampire Combat Field Guide (Coloring/Activity Workbook) By Roger Ma
By Empress Eve | @ | Wednesday, October 14th, 2015 at 10:00 pm
The Vampire Combat Field Guide
A Coloring and Activity Book For Fighting the Bloodthirsty Undead
Written by Roger Ma
Illustrations by Kurt Miller
Berkley Group | Penguin Random House
In 2012, the Institute for Undead Combat Studies published the The Vampire Combat Manual: A Guide to Fighting the Bloodthirsty Undead, a survival guide to coming face-to-face with the ever-popular supernatural beings. The manual, written by Roger Ma, begins with the history and common myths of vampires before moving on to the beings’ anatomy, weaknesses, and vulnerabilities. Then, it gets to the good stuff — how to fight a vampire: the training, weapons, strategies, and techniques. By the time you’re done, you should be able to battle alongside Buffy.
But, going up against a powerful creature like a vampire shouldn’t be done lightly. That’s why, when you’re done following the prep and training from the manual, you should brush up on what you’ve learned with its new ancillary, The Vampire Combat Field Guide: A Coloring and Activity Book For Fighting the Bloodthirsty Undead. That’s right, it’s a coloring book!!!
And what types of things will you be coloring? Items like an axe, stakes, and some garlic, as well as the undead themselves — like the memorable snarling minidress-clad vamp — and the badass vampire hunters that combat them.
Now, maybe you think you’re too old for a coloring book. Well, I’m here to tell you, you’re totally not. My review copy came with a pack of crayons, and do you know what happens when you give an adult some crayons? THEY COLOR!!!
As far as the activities go, author Ma creates quizzes and areas to make preparation lists, along with crucial tips, while Kurt Miller contributes helpful illustrations that show how to do some of the maneuvers from the The Vampire Combat Manual (Miller also did the art for the Manual).
In case this isn’t obvious, The Vampire Combat Field Guide activity book is pure fun for adults. On its own, it is a quick study for anyone who finds themselves up against a fanged creature of the night, or for the experienced fighters who need to brush up on their skills. It’s also a nifty supplement to the The Vampire Combat Manual, and when the two are combined along with some crayons, it makes a perfect bundle for prospective vampire slayers, especially with the Halloween season upon us.
Happy hunting … and coloring!
In The Vampire Combat Manual, Roger Ma, the nation’s preeminent expert in undead warfare, prepared the average citizen to defend against a brutal vampire attack. But without appropriate training, even the most adept slayer of bloodsuckers can be left vulnerable.
Therefore, the Institute for Undead Combat Studies has once again created an essential practice handbook for anyone seeking to avoid serious injury, infection, or death at the hands of a vampire. This comprehensive guide includes:
*Detailed illustrations to aid in identifying various types of the undead and their vulnerabilities, as well as anatomical drawings you can color to promote knowledge retention
*Interactive mental and physical exercises that will teach invaluable fighting techniques and prepare you for battle
*Work pages to hone weapon selection, defensive and offensive techniques, and precise staking strategies
*and much more!
With the proper preparation, no one need fear death by exsanguination or an eternity spent in darkness. Learn to ward off these bloodthirsty creatures while you can—or say good-bye to your days in the sun…
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Will the Mass Arrests Start with Pelosi and The Obamas?
September 4, 2012 Geopolitics101 2 Comments
According to the latest update from Drake [MP3], the following are to be arrested any day from now:
Michelle and Barack Obama
George HW Bush
It was said that of the eight listed above, Nancy Pelosi has been arrested already according to the arresting officer himself. This is yet to be confirmed.
Meanwhile, over in Italy, Cabalists are killing each other, according to the latest report by Benjamin Fulford.
We also need to watch the upcoming activation of an International Common Law Court that will hear complaints against the Crown, Big Pharma and the Vatican on September 15, 2012.
One of the significant sources of funds for the Cabal is the healthcare industry which registered a whopping $2.7 trillion in 2011, and is projected to soar to $3.6 trillion in 2016, in the US alone. We believe that this is just a conservative figure.
You can join the fight against the Dark Cabal and accelerate its demise just by boycotting Big Pharma. You can effectively do this by downloading “Towards Healthcare Emancipation“, a fully illustrated do-it-yourself instructional eBook that will help you in implementing all eClinik methods that would negate the use of expensive medicine, avoid radioactive diagnostics and treatments in completely defeating cancer, AIDS and all other parasitic diseases. These methods, when faithfully followed, work 100% all the time. Find out more about this here.
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Drums Are Rumbling, Patriots Ready to Shutdown the System
August 22, 2012 Geopolitics101 Leave a comment
NEIL KENNAN UPDATE THRU DRAKE
In addition to the previous significant update from Neil Kennan, this just came in… ___ News from Neil Keenan:
To Drake from Neil Keenan…
[1:46:30 PM | Edited 1:46:40 PM] Neil Keenan: Notice: The drums are rumbling from far away. Seems as though they are all ready to move to change the climate. It is what we have been waiting for.
[1:47:08 PM] Neil Keenan: Am not allowed to say anything more.
[1:47:14 PM] Neil Keenan: Pay attention
Drake: Enough is enough.
Drake | August 21, 2012 at 10:42 am | Categories: News | URL: http://wp.me/p2tRr3-li
Additional update from Drake: Jacque Fresco of the revolutionary futuristic concept, The Venus Project, is now working with the Patriots. Download the weekend update [MP3].
Additional documents that need to go viral with everyone’s help.
Frenzy of murder, attempted murder and threats of mass terror are all part of cabal death throes
On August 10th, Dr. Michael Van de Meer, AKA Dr. Michael Meiring, died in his sleep in extremely suspicious circumstances. Dr. Meiring was a very private individual who had to change his name to Van de Meer a few years ago after getting unwanted publicity when his legs were blown off by a bomb he says was placed by agents of George Bush senior and his Nazi cabal.
Dr. Van de Meer died immediately after being sent $750 billion worth of bonds from the same batch as the $134.5 billion worth that was illegally seized from two Japanese diplomats in June of 2009. He was planning to cash them on behalf of their Asian owners in order to finance a new international economic planning agency. De Meer was in robust health and full of plans for the future in a conversation with a White Dragon Society representative that took place only hours before his sudden death.
africaanonymousbailoutbank ceo arrestbank of americabank resignationsbanker resignbankers resignbarclaysbefore and afterben fulfordbig pharmablack handbnyboabricsbushcanadian lawsuitchurchcobracorruptionscrowndisclosuredrakeearthquake machineeuroeurozoneextortionfannie maefascismfascistfiat dollarfireworksfulfordglobal financial crisisgnosticgoldman sachsgreecegreen lighthaarpindependence dayjacque frescojapan tsunamijesuitjuly 4kony 2012lifemafiamafiosomanmade disastermartial lawmass resignationsmassive arressmassive resignationsmedvedevnational emergencynazinazismnesaranet-based governancenew economynwoobamaoccupy wall streetonline democracyoperaion vpentagonpriestputinrevolutionrussiarussian revolutionsettlementssuicidetsunamiufovaccinevaticanvatican scandalvenus projectwhite hatswhitehatsworld bank presidentzeigeist movement
Cease & Desist Order for the Dark Cabal [Neil Keenan Papers]
August 17, 2012 Geopolitics101 5 Comments
One of the final documents that will bring down the Dark Cabal in charge of the world economy for centuries is about to be served. You are all enjoined to spread the most important document of the 21st Century.
Unlike the Obama Birth Certificate, the evidence below is absolutely unimpeachable.
The recovery of Asian Treasures will be used for the financing of massive worldwide development, as it was intended to be from the very beginning and up to the time of Soekarno and Kennedy, through the release of all suppressed technologies including free energy, anti-gravity and teleportation, organ and limb regeneration, replicators and all other exotic knowledge hidden from ordinary mortals.
The legitimate owners of these stolen properties are fully aware that once all these technologies are fully and responsibly implemented, the use of any currency will become irrelevant.
December 2012 is not the end of our world. It is the end of the world of the Dark Cabal hiding behind the deception of religion in all its forms including politics, envelope journalism, and show business. It is the beginning of the Golden Age that the writers of the old have predicted. They knew we‘ve been in this juncture before. But our past inaction and miscalculations led to a nuclear war thousands of years ago.
You are therefore encouraged to spread this information to a wider audience as possible. We must do this thing right this time. Spreading this knowledge to a wider audience will prevent another nuclear holocaust.
We, through the use of the internet, are the new mainstream media now. This is our responsibility. This will be our token contribution to save humanity from itself.
Source: http://americannationalmilitia.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Cease-Desist-UBS-BIS-+-Evidence-05-14-12.pdf
NOTE: This is the reason dates don’t seem right. – Drake
The Green Hilton Agreement was not implemented until 1968 (this is why the dates differ between Kennedy’s signature and the dates of the assets) when Soekarno fell from office and when Global Trade made it imperative that the world have a Global Currency.
As the Gold had been transferred to the US Treasury in 1968, a series of Bonds known as Kennedy Bonds were issued in order to honor the terms of the Green Hilton Agreement made between Kennedy and Soekarno, the 1968 terms of the gold delivery to the United States being different than made in 1934.
When after 30 years, interest had not been paid as promised, a reissue of the bonds in an increased number were issued as commemorative notes and were accepted by the owners of the Gold, the Dragon Family being held by the Soekarno Trust, the Indonesian Elders, Holders and Gatekeepers.
The Soekarno Trust held mostly all assets throughout Asia.
THE BLOODLINES
Blue Book established the blood lines. Queen E and Bill C are in it…Most of the Royal Families are in it. They have kept the money amongst the families from the very beginning.
source: http://wp.me/p2tRr3-kT
CRUCIAL for all those seeking answers to the engineering of the global banking/economy meltdown. Please see/read, esp.the 1963 docs. enclosed (note all ultimately signed 1 wk. before JFK assassination).
A crucial read, in view of current events having global cartel teetering on the brink of total banking, etc. takeover. It is also key to know that the Vatican bank was/is used by CIA to funnel fund$$ to political puppets, mercenaries masquerading as demonstrators/protestors’ who morph into ‘rebels..then freedom fighters…then..in current scenario…in Syria..the Free Syria Army’.
A must read (see the documentary) is “The Man Nobody Knew’ on CIA’s William Colby, by his son.
Very enLIGHTening ..from $$ conduits to Vietnam assassination programs). Colby told the truth, was removed by Nixon, who then put George Bush I in charge of CIA. [later allegedly murdered just before retirement – wanted to reveal ETs. ~J]
Another must read to connect the dots is “Murder in the Vatican” by Lucien Gregoire (on the strange death of Pope John Paul I, who ordered a complete accounting of the Vatican bank and of all the Vatican’s treasures, on his first day in office, and died 33 days later.) And absolutely read ‘The Family: The Secret Fundamentalism at the Heart of American Power”, by Jeff Sharlet. By Namaste. B On Jeanie Haines site…..
Drake | August 18, 2012 at 4:07 pm | Categories: News | URL: http://wp.me/p2tRr3-lb
Thanks a lot, Drake and Neil.
Maj. Gen. Vallely – Dishonorable Disclosures
August 17, 2012 Geopolitics101 1 Comment
This video needs to go VIRAL FAST! PLEASE POST IT ON YOUR WEBSITE A.S.A.P.!
Video JUST released – Major General Paul E Vallely in OPSEC VIDEO “Dishonorable Disclosures” – MUST SEE 22 minutes.
Please ‘Share’ this video far and wide.
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Drake | August 16, 2012 at 12:40 pm | Categories: News | URL: http://wp.me/p2tRr3-kD
Obama Willing to Live in Exile, Countries Refused to Provide Safe Haven
WATERGATE REVISITED
The beginning of the end of the Obama Presidency has begun. The only questions that remain are:
How will the charade play out before the American public and the rest of the world?
How many will the cabal sacrifice to keep their agenda alive?
Will an insider FINALLY come forward, turn Patriotic…and reveal all the secrets?
When will it all begin?
The most likely starting volley in this unfolding historic process could very well be the resignation of Vice President of the United States, Joseph Robinette Biden, Jr. Whether he uses a fabricated medical condition, or if they make more out of the “slaves and chains” comment he fumbled through the other day, the political machine has to come up with a very convincing reason for his exit. The White Hats believe the brain tumor story, which has come to the forefront again, would be a very good reason for the comments he has been making. Most of our counterparts in the international intel circles see the handwriting on the wall and say expect it this mid-week … and we are there … right now. What does this mean in the big picture? Obama is in serious trouble … on multiple fronts.
One of the significant sources of funds for the Cabal is the healthcare industry which registered a whopping $2.7 trillion in 2011, and is projected to soar to $3.6 trillion in 2016, in the US alone. We believe that this is just a conservative figure. You can join the fight against the Dark Cabal and accelerate its demise just by boycotting Big Pharma. You can effectively do this by downloading “Towards Healthcare Emancipation“, a fully illustrated do-it-yourself instructional eBook that will help you in implementing all eClinik methods that would negate the use of expensive medicine, avoid radioactive diagnostics and treatments in completely defeating cancer, AIDS and all other parasitic diseases. These methods, when faithfully followed, work 100% all the time. Find out more about this here.
Financial Crisis, Solutions
Advisory: GET YOUR MONEY OUT NOW!
The latest update from Ben Fulford suggested that there are only two options for our brothers and sisters in America:
“One is for the US to issue a devalued treasury dollar in exchange for a one-off debt write off. The other is to wait for US income levels to fall to Chinese levels. Either of these two choices will make the US real economy once again competitive.” more
Meanwhile, Neil Kennan, who represents the Lien Claimants for the Global Settlement Accounts, sent an email to Drake Bailey indicating that all bank deposits are now in peril.
As they say, ’tis better to err on the side of caution. So here’s the latest from Drake…
From: Neil Keenan
To: Drake Bailey
Tuesday, August 14, 2012 12:58 PM
Subject: An Informational Warning Letter Arrived Today. This article may be helpful. Read all below.
Subject: An Informational Warning Letter Arrived Today. This article may be helpful but I do not yet know Ms Barnhardt’s reliability. Take it as an “advisement” for now perhaps.
Warning: Get Your Money Out: “All Legal Bank Deposit Protections Are Now Officially Gone”
Former moneyx Ann Barnhardt, who in November of 2011 made the decision to cease operations of her brokerage firm and return funds to her customers citing “systemic” problems within the entire financial industry, has issued a new warning about the stability of US banks and the safety of individual deposit accounts.
The warning, stemming from a recent federal appeals court ruling surrounding customer funds lost during the 2007 collapse of Chicago futures broker Sentinel, indicates that individuals who lose deposited funds because a financial institution improperly manages that money, even if those funds are supposed to be “segregated” from other operations of the firm, are essentially left with no recourse if the firm goes belly-up. According to the court, a misallocation of those customer funds, “is not, on its own, sufficient to rule as a matter of law that Sentinel acted ‘with actual intent to hinder, delay, or defraud’ its customers.”
The implications of the ruling, according to Barnhardt, will affect the monies of all private individuals who have seen their deposit accounts wiped out in the collapse of firms like John Corzine’s MF Global and put all deposit account holders in the country at risk should their bank be faced with a financial windstorm:
The NFA in collusion with the banksters, government and judiciary have achieved their goal. The entire concept of “customer segregated funds” is officially, completely, legally dead.
Guys, it is OVER. I know that many of you are still cowering in normalcy bias, unable to deal with reality, unable to face the world as it is, but you have GOT to snap out of it. The marketplace is DESTROYED. You CANNOT be in these markets. All legal protections are now officially gone.
The federal appeals court ruled yesterday that not only does BNYM stay at the front of the line, but that using customer segregated funds as collateral is NOT a crime, and that co-mingling customer segregated funds with proprietary funds is NOT fraud.
What this means is that even if Jon Corzine is somehow dragged into court by private citizens, because you know damn good and well that the Justice Department will never, ever touch him, Corzine now has a legal precedent, likely from a bribed or otherwise coerced Federal Appeals Court, explicitly stating that an FCM can use customer deposits to pay its debts, and that the customers themselves are subjugated and have basically no legal right to their own monies, no matter what the law says, or what legal assurances, claims or guarantees are made to that customer about their funds held with an FCM or any other brokerage or depository institution. The “secured” party at the front of the line will always be the mega-bank who made the fraudulent loan using the stolen customer funds as collateral.
In other words, all customer funds in the United States are now the legal property of JP Morgan, Goldman Sachs, BNYM, or whichever megabank is the counterparty on the loans the FCM or depository institution takes out in order to fund its mega-levered proprietary in-house trading desks.
Source: Ann Barnhardt via Steve Quayle
The ruling is specifically designed to protect large financial institutions that have (purposefully) mismanaged customer funds and used the hard-earned life savings of Americans to gamble on equities, commodities and bond markets. If those firms happen to make the wrong bet, as MF Global, Sentinel and a handful of others have recently done, depositors who have placed funds with the banks under the belief that their bank account is securely protected from trading liabilities are now completely exposed and liable for the incompetence and negligence of those who engage in market trading.
This latest ruling combined with recent actions by the Federal Reserve and other government regulators suggests a massive fraud has taken place and the financial system itself is under extreme strain with the potential to make the financial collapse of 2007/2008 look like just a training exercise.
In recent days, for example, it’s come to light that the government has secretly called on the country’s five major banks to prepare themselves for collapse by creating stress recovery plans to be used in the event of worst case scenarios.
A few weeks ago, the Federal Reserve also implemented a new policy for money market funds held by financial institutions. Per the new policy, money market funds, which account for some $2.7 trillion in deposits across the United States, can be frozen in the event of an emergency or financial panic. This means that if and when the system does go into a tailspin, at exactly the time people will want to pull their money out of their bank account, they will be restricted from doing so.
These latest actions by government regulators, judges and financial institutions point to one thing: that we have an unprecedented financial collapse in the making. If such a financial crisis comes to pass it is clear that the policies and procedures now in place will transfer the legally owned deposits and money market savings of individual Americans into the hands of the banks at which those funds are kept.
Get Your Money Out.
Consider alternate, collapse-centric investment strategies and what is money when the system as we know it falls apart.
Drake | August 14, 2012 at 11:39 am | Categories: News | URL: http://wp.me/p2tRr3-kg
Western Dream, Eastern Reality
August 1, 2012 Geopolitics101 1 Comment
In America, the American Dream is still alive and kicking, i.e. they can still dream dreams and dreamers they still are. But in Iran they are already living those dreams.
Iran is a country that is far beautiful than what Hollywood could paint about it.
And they are sending those who are responsible for the current economic misadventure directly to the gallows.
Speaking to reporters here in Tehran on Monday, Iran’s Prosecutor-General and Judiciary Spokesman Gholam Hossein Mohseni Ejeii said that the court has finished probe into the case and the judge has issued verdicts for 39 suspects.
He said that four of the 39 suspects have been sentenced to death, two people have been sentenced to life imprisonment and the remaining inmates have received 10, 20 and 25 years prison terms.
Ejeii noted that a number of other suspects have received lighter sentences.
The official further noted that in addition to the aforementioned decrees, the court has ordered the convicts to return the assets.
Iran has so far arrested and tied tens of suspects over a $2.6 billion bank corruption which was described as Iran’s biggest case of embezzlement ever.
This is probably one of the reasons why the bankers of the West are trying to pin down Iran through economic and military embargo. This obsession to Iranians’ demise has led to the escalation of “civil unrests” across the Arab region. Through NATO and UN, democracy is indeed flourishing in these countries after the dictators were overthrown.
Fabricated Al Qaeda Jihadists can always get the job done in so short a time.
Radical Islamists with “British accents” are among the coalition forces looking to topple Bashar Assad, says Jeroen Oerlemans, a photographer who was held hostage in Syria for a week. The UK Foreign Office has launched an investigation.
Oerlemans, a famous Dutch photo journalist, and John Cantlie, another photographer from the UK, were captured by a group of between 30 and 100 anti-Assad fighters when crossing the Syrian border from Turkey last week. They were then blindfolded.
“One of the black jihadists freaked out and shouted: ‘These are journalists and now they will see we are preparing an international jihad in this place.‘” Oerlemans told NRC Handelsblatt newspaper. He said that none of the fighters was Syrian.
“They all claimed they came from countries like Pakistan and Bangladesh and Chechnya and they said there was some vague ’emir’ at the head of the group.”
About 40 per cent of the militants spoke English. In fact, several apparently talked with recognizable regional British accents, from Birmingham and London.
A group of top Syrian opposition figures took courses in governing a country in Berlin. The training, partially sponsored by the US State Department, is meant to come in handy after the Bashar al-Assad regime falls.
The group consisted of over 40 individuals, including Syrian defector generals and members of the Muslim Brotherhood. They learned economics, law, security practices and other areas of governance, which would be needed in the transition period.
“We created a framework that basically made it possible for Syrian participants to focus on the kinds of challenges that would emerge in the course of a transition in each of those issue areas,” Senior adviser at the US Institute of Peace, Steven Heydemann told ABC explaining the program.
Part of the training involved a visit to the German authority responsible for the files of Stasi, according to a Haareеtz report. The Soviet-era secret police was dismantled and several of its officials prosecuted after the reunification of the country. The experience may be useful for the Syrian rebels, should they be required to decide how to deal with the numerous secret service organizations currently existing in Syria.
Lost Libyan Paradise in the Desert of Africa
The Libyans under Muammar Gaddafi were living that dream before the Cabalists thru NATO and United Nations decided to murder him just like what they did to Saddam. The West was claiming that both dictators were killing their own people by:
nationalizing the banking system and issuing debt-free and interest-free loans to its citizens;
providing free decent housing;
providing high quality education, and healthcare [local treatment or abroad];
free farming lands, seeds and implements
subsidizing the procurement of cars and fuel costs
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You should download that video to show everyone how fucked up we really are.
Russians Are Moving Away From US Dollar, Too
The Putin Leadership in Russia is moving towards the right direction which the rest of the world could only gaze at with envy. Months ago, he announced his desire to allow online public legislative participation that would usher new era of Online Democracy. Now, a party member wants to ban the US dollar from the Russian economy for good.
An MP who represents the United Russia majority party has prepared legislative amendments that would make the Russian ruble the only valid currency in the country, and put an end to dependency on the US dollar and the Euro.
Yevgeniy Fyodorov described the initiative in an interview with the Izvestia daily newspaper. He promised that the proposed bill would be made public in autumn, and declined to provide any details before then. Fyodorov said that the bill could require changes to the constitution, and that “currently the rouble is tied to the dollar and therefore cannot be the national currency.”
Fyodorov has a degree in economics, but has been a politician since the late 80s. He is currently a member of the Supreme Council of the United Russia party, and the chairman of the State Duma Committee for Economic Policy and Entrepreneurship.
Russia’s State Duma is considering a bill banning foreign banks from opening their branches in Russia, only allowing bank subsidiaries to operate in the country.
The reason of for the new bill is that branches of foreign banks, unlike subsidiaries, are not subject to Russian jurisdiction.
Hence they are not fully controlled by Russian regulators.They don’t have to make deductions to Russia’s reserve funds or submit statements based on international or Russian accounting standards to the Central Bank.
In the same vein, Putin is more than smart enough to get rid of pseudoNGOs that only serve as internal propagandists for the interests of the Cabalists by instigating civil unrest all throughout Eastern countries.
President Vladimir Putin says that by adopting the law labeling foreign-funded nonprofits involved in politics ‘foreign agents’, Russia, just like the US, wants to protect itself from external influence.
The Russian leader sees nothing wrong in requiring organizations that get funding from other countries to be registered as foreign agents.
“If foreigners pay for political activity, apparently they are expecting to get some result from that,” he noted speaking at an annual pro-Kremlin youth forum, Seliger.
The way we see it, Putin is more than qualified to lead the BRICS140 countries towards a FiatDollar-free world economy, a transition necessary which would pave the way towards a completely non-monetary based system, thru the release of free energy technologies.
It is very interesting to note that both China and Japan have already retooled their industrial sector to make way for these highly advanced scientific know-how, and have in fact covertly manufacturing these devices in mass for worldwide distribution later on.
Course of Action
Ironically, most of the visitors of this humble blog are Americans, and the rest of the English-speaking countries who are mostly suffering from this Global Mess that we are in right now. I mean no offense but my questions to all of you guys:
What exactly are you waiting for?
Do you really think that waiting for the Ninjas to assassinate the Cabalists is a good thing?
Is there an iota of dignity left if someone else will do the housecleaning for you?
Do we still need to see if the Keenan Lawsuit will prosper in these Corporate Courts?
Your bogus governments are systematically pinning you down each minute of everyday day. And still you do nothing.
I would rather be happy losing all page views just because you are gone doing something concrete beyond mere occupation of the streets and are all moving towards the ending of your Corporate Control Matrix.
Are all of us afraid of dying?
Although that question seems to be for the kids but nevertheless there’s a need to address that question if only to serve the kids in all of us…
The truth is: nothing really dies in this world. Dying is simply a transition to a higher plane but it is what we do right now and in this reality that would make us a Better Spirit. We would retain all memories and mindset after the “dying” part because the Spirit is eternal. It is made up of the same energy that the whole of Nature is truly made of.
We are here to learn and haven’t we learned enough?
So when you go to sleep tonight, think not of yourself but the fate of your own children and theirs.
What would life be 25 years from now, here on Earth, if it is inaction we must choose?
Until we see the likes of Bernanke, Bushes, Clintons, the Rothschilds and the Rockefellers, the whole criminal gang in Washington, United Nations, Vatican and elsewhere, hanging on the gallows, the American Dream will still live on.
Sending these animals to where they could not cause mayhem anymore is our only option and the only thing left undone. The price for doing such would be more than living that dream that you’ve been having all your life.
The technological advances that are already here but misused would turn this planet into a Living Paradise that you were only promised to have in the afterlife. All promises that could only happen in the afterlife are just a way to delay and take away what is definitely yours right now.
There’s no afterlife for we won’t really die. And there’s no heaven there for there does not really exist. Heaven is right here, right now, if action must you take.
You are the jury and the judgment is yours.
The Eastern World is waiting…
Eve of the Last Revolution
July 27, 2012 Geopolitics101 1 Comment
EUROPEAN REVOLUTION » Policemen in front of the congress, removed their riot helmets and support the protest. No television is allowed, please spread it, leaving no one in Spain not knowing what is happening. Something is changing.
We were in the thick and thin of our research into alternative energy sources and technologies. It was when we began to question why such technologies were never put to good use in spite of the grave condition that they said the planet is falling into. We could not reconcile the inconsistencies between the behavior of the governments with regards to these technologies and the perception that they wanted to induce into our collective consciousness, i.e. threat of global warming due to carbon emissions.
Then, out of the blue, a Caucasian Japanese came into the picture, claiming first-hand interaction with the underworld. It was our first confirmation and exposure to Secret Societies that are closer to home. But the most astonishing message was that these Asian occult groups had decided to confront other secret societies based in the West which, as web data would suggest, are responsible for the total deterioration of the living conditions of the majority on the people of this planet.
2007 was the year we first heard of the name Benjamin Fulford. The subsequent first interview he gave to Project Camelot gave us the glimpse of the idealistic mindset of the independent spokesman for what is now known as the White Dragon Society [WDS]. According to this man, the turning point for Asians was the bioweapon attack known as the SARS virus aimed at eradicating the Asian Genome on the face of the Earth. But unlike the AIDS injection in Central Africa, the SARS attack was quickly and effectively neutralized.
Following that year, we were briefed on a weekly basis about the actions being taken against the Dark Cabal and the countermeasures they must overcome with minimal public disruptions as much as possible. However, it was time in 2008, that the grandest Ponzi Scheme must be wholly exposed for what it really is. The worthless Fiat Dollar should never be allowed to continue deceiving its bearer which could eventually lead to the total enslavement of the world’s population, if it’s not there already.
The Federal Reserve must be brought down to its knees if only to shake up the Land of the Free and the Home of the Brave, starting with the Lehman’s Crash in 2008. But the deception continued through a $15 Trillion US taxpayer’s bailout under the banner of “Change We Can Believe In.”
Then the world was forced to witness what evil is really made of, and how far it is willing to go. As the war on terror slowly dissipates, the threat of nuclear radiation made a grand reintroduction through the flooding of the Fukushima Nuclear Power Complex in 2011. The misuse of HAARP and suitcase nuke to induce earthquake and tsunami has rekindled the Japanese Nightmare derived from the bombing of Nagasaki and Hiroshima after they had formally surrendered to the Allied Forces in 1945.
The people of the world can’t take these abuses anymore. The awakened Asians, for their part, are afraid no more. These experiences have hardened their spirit and resolve to work hand in hand with all peoples of the Earth in the final takedown of those responsible for their misery.
The last five years were more than like a roller coaster ride. It was a combination of short-lived optimism and periodic frustrations. A lot of deadlines came and went, windows of opportunity were missed, and critical actions postponed. But as more people have known what was really going on behind the scenes which the highly-biased mainstream media refused to report, the higher the expectations for the next Fulford Update have become.
WE ARE THE NEW MAINSTREAM MEDIA NOW
When we were able to compile, among others, about an avalanche of Bankers’ Resignation back in mid-February of this year, we, in the alternative media, effectively became the new and more reliable source for real-time research and has a very unique ability of connecting the dots that the mainstream media would only deliver by piece meal. Surveys had indicated later on that about 50% of those who watch TV for their daily dose of BS have adapted the modest weblogs as their primary source of useful insights and are now actively participating in some online interactive social networks.
No longer was there a monopoly of opinion by paid hacks, but the ability of the people to choose and verify what could be more plausible is helping shape the New Consensus. At last, genuine critical thinking is made possible; constant and direct interactions have made issues more crystal clear to the individual no matter which side of the debate he was in. We are no longer mere consumers of information but have become active purveyor of ideas.
Update 27 july 2012: This just in… CNN Chief Jim Walton just can’t take that shameful ratings anymore…
In the next few days, we will be witnessing the formal admission of the Failed Euro.
IT”S MORE THAN FREEDOM THAT IS SO CLOSE AT HAND
Once the less informed realizes the true cause of the never ending austerity measures being legislated on a weekly basis, a well-coordinated global revolution never before seen in human history will erupt. The Cabalists will have nowhere to hide. By then, peaceful resolution would be an impossible consequence. Evil will be chased down and wiped out on this planet for good. But this is only the beginning.
Whether one is aware of it or not, the massive change in the level of consciousness is truly a collective effort that can only continue to increase as each day passes by. Each of us now is looking forward to that Great Event that we profoundly feel is definitely forthcoming.
Like we have stated before, the Golden Age is already a forgone conclusion no matter which perspective you are looking it from. And without doubt, it’s made possible by Tesla’s World System as manifested in the new tool for communication — the internet.
Armed with nothing but the Truth and inspired by the muted cries of the children seeking justice, we welcome the Eve of Our Last Revolution.
Make no mistake about it – this will be one that is Multi-Dimensional and Perpetual.
* Photos from my FB friends. Thanks a lot!
You Really Want A Piece of the Dark Cabal?
July 24, 2012 Geopolitics101 5 Comments
Realizing the folly of filing charges against the Crown and Church thru an agency of the Corporation known as the Federal Court of Canada, the Council of Elders of the International Tribunal into Crimes of Church and State [ITCCS] decided to convene a genuine Common Law Courts, and indictments and juries to be established by September 15, 2012.
You want a piece of the Dark Cabal?
Here’s your opportunity…
A Call for Citizen Participation
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The Legal Advisory Group of the ITCCS Central Office has completed a list of specifications, indictments and defendants in a global class action lawsuit to be brought against the institutions responsible for centuries of genocide, torture and human trafficking.
The material will be submitted on September 15, 2012 to de jure Common Law courts which shall be officially convened on the same day to receive the application for proceedings.
These courts shall convene on traditional territories under Natural Land Law jurisdiction. An initial roster of confirmed judges for these courts has been approved.
September 15 is also the deadline issued by the ITCCS to the Vatican and Crown of England by which time they must respond to a program of ten measures or face prosecution and permanent disruption.
Today, the ITCCS Council of Elders is issuing a public call for all citizens to participate in these proceedings as witnesses and jurors.
Citizen Jury members will be duly sworn in and given instructions by the judges of these courts, and will be expected to serve on a free, volunteer basis for an indefinite period of time.
Witnesses to crimes against humanity are encouraged to come forward with their affidavits and testimonies, and be duly sworn as witnesses at the court proceedings.
The common law courts will be initially established in Canada, the United States, Ireland, England and Australia, in some cases in conjunction with sponsoring tribal elders.
The Court will be presented the indictments and evidence by trained Citizen Prosecutors, and arrest warrants and summonses against the named defendants will be issued and enforced by duly sworn Common Law Peace Officers employed by the Court.
“The Court is going ahead” said ITCCS field worker and public spokesman Kevin D. Annett today.
“We are proceeding with the public prosecution of the churches and states responsible for centuries of slaughter. The time for talk has ended. This is the first step in our dismantling of the worst criminals in human history.”
The complete identity of the Common Law court judges as well as the Elders of the ITCCS will be made public on the opening day of the court proceedings at a global media conference.
To volunteer for one of the Common Law juries in your country, or to submit a deposition to the Court, contact the ITCCS at this email: genocide tribunal at yahoo.ca
ITCCS Communique 23 July 2012
Issued by the ITCCS Elders Council
Brussels – London – Ottawa
Source: http://itccs.org/2012/07/23/the-case-against-the-crown-the-vatican-and-other-agents-of-genocide-common-law-courts-indictments-and-juries-to-be-established-by-september-15-2012/
PUBLIC NOTICE issued to all Clergy of the Roman Catholic Church, Inc.
Posted on June 15, 2012 by itccs
You have 90 Days from today to Cease and Desist from colluding in the Criminal Conspiracy to harm children and obstruct justice known as Crimen Sollicitationis
You may face citizen’s arrest and banning from the community unless you take the following public oath no later than September 15, 2012:
I, (name), do solemnly, publicly and unconditionally swear before God to defend and protect all children in my parish, church and community from any person or group that might harm them, and to immediately report and disclose to the police and the community any person or group that preys on or who has raped or violated any child.
I, (name), do further swear before God that I refuse to aid or abet or otherwise collude in the protection of child rapists or other criminals in my parish, church and community, or to help conceal assaults on children by any of my fellow clergy, parishioners or church officials; nor will I assist in the obstruction of justice or investigations by the police and community into such crimes.
I, (name), make this binding oath before God and according to my conscience, freely and without coercion, ulterior motive or reservation.
(To be signed, witnessed and dated)
If you do not agree to this public oath to protect the sanctity and welfare of children, you are declaring that you are in fact part of a criminal conspiracy to harm, exploit and traffic in children; and accordingly, you will be declared a public enemy and a threat to our community and its children.
You will then be subject to expulsion, defrocking and permanent banishment from your church and the community.
This is your only warning.
Issued by the local Child Protection Action Group* and members of your parish and wider church
*Affiliated to the nine-nation International Tribunal into Crimes of Church and State (www.itccs.org) and Not in Our Name, a coalition of concerned Catholic and Protestant Clergy
For information contact the ITCCS at hiddenfromhistory1@gmail.com
Source: http://itccs.org/2012/06/15/public-notice-issued-to-all-clergy-of-the-roman-catholic-church-inc/
Bringing Down Evil One Priest at a Time
Monsignor William Lynn faces three-and-a-half to seven years in prison on a conviction of felony child endangerment.
PHILADELPHIA — A Roman Catholic official convicted of child endangerment will remain behind bars until his sentencing later this month, a judge ruled Thursday, denying a defense request for house arrest.
Monsignor William Lynn has been in custody since a jury convicted him June 22 of the charge, which stemmed from his handling of sex abuse claims at the Philadelphia archdiocese.
Lynn, 61, is the first U.S. Catholic church official convicted in the cover-up of child sex-abuse complaints. He faces 3 1/2 to seven years in prison.
“After due consideration, the motion is denied,” Common Pleas Judge M. Teresa Sarmina, who presided over Lynn’s three-month jury trial, said at the brief hearing that was packed with the monsignor’s friends and family. She did approve a defense request to move up Lynn’s sentencing date from Aug. 13 to July 24.
European Central Bank Could Be Out of Business Soon
“As you know the phony Euros printed by the European Central Bank are in our possession in Indonesia . These notes are outright fraud and we have all the answers back to us from the system. They have no value but they made them as payment for the interest on the Gold from the Global Accounts. Once submitted as frauds the European Central Bank could be out of business. If not then I will go back and bring back millions of Euros and let the ECB accept them and validate them or get out of business. Then you have the end of this atrocity called the European Commission headed by some Eastern European Mummies from Hungary (Soros Boys).”
The Spaniards Are Revolting [as not seen on TV]
More images of the Spanish Revolution 2012 right here.
Libor Scandal is So Big, Mainstream Media Snub No More
Pushing Dark Agenda with Surgical Precision
July 22, 2012 Geopolitics101 Leave a comment
Days ago we have been informed that a UN resolution to implement worldwide gun control that would impinge on the 2nd Amendment of the United States Constitution will be signed into a treaty by the 27th of this month, the start of the London Olympics. Once the information leaked into the alternative media, furor rages. But they have a well-established method of pushing their agenda all the way through, and it has worked every time.
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When they wanted to invade your privacy, among other purposes, they brought the World Trade Center down to ashes. Now they have CCTVs in our neighborhood, surveillance and strike drones up in the sky, and have transformed everyone to become spies, among others, thru the Patriot Act.
When they want you to enter FEMA concentration camps, they manipulate the weather, drugged a few to become zombies, murder blacks to fuel racial animosities and gang wars, and declare a national emergency.
Whenever they want to curtail freedom of speech and assembly, they would organize their own strikes, demonstrations, and instigate a riot later on with substantial damage to private and public properties.
When they want us to die at a predetermined period and pay for the cost of our own demise, they spread deadly viruses in the guise of immunization; air, water and food contamination; bribe a not so few doctors or collectively send them to conventions with all luxurious accommodations fully paid for after they have spoken on Big Pharma’s behalf.
When they wanted to establish a central banking system, they simulated an economic meltdown. Now we have a close-knit financial system that is so efficient in stealing our hard earned pennies without public accountability.
In the old days, when they didn’t want you to snoop over their meetings and occult rituals, which usually happened at night, they invented witchcraft. Those witchy stories surely raised some hairs. In like manner, when they wanted you to behave as they desire you to be without them costing anything, they invented the concept of hell. The thought of being burned in perpetuity made us all angels. Silly by now, yet very effective back then.
Now that they want our guns and ammunitions, all they needed to do is to send a lone nut, always a lone nut, to penetrate a crowd with rifle bullets or a grenade, and create as much chaos and deaths as possible.
This formula always work:
identify a need;
if the need is non-existent, create one, and;
the people will ask and demand for the solution which happen to be the prime objective of the whole operation.
This formula is very similar to a false flag operation.
We must be reminded all the time that we need the security of the State. We must be reminded all the time that we can’t be trusted to provide our own security. We must be reminded that we are not disciplined enough to own guns and ammunitions. We must be reminded that we are all idiots and they know better. We must therefore demand for gun control and have a peaceful society. It’s good for everyone.
They will strike fear into our hearts and minds, to confine us into what little domain we have left with, and so that they can perpetually bombard us with their canned shit through that black box we love to call the TeeVee.
The Nut Who Called Himself the “Joker”
‘Calculation and deliberation’: Colorado killings planned months in advance
Published: 22 July, 2012, 11:57
Law enforcement officers put a container filled with blue liquid to use in an explosion at the apartment where suspect James Eagan Holmes lived in Aurora, Colorado July 21, 2012 (Reuters / Joshua Lott)
The Colorado cinema massacre that left 12 people dead was the product of meticulous planning, say US police. The killer had stocked up on ammunition and bomb-making materials months before the attack.
American authorities described suspect James Holmes’ apartment as a deathtrap, rigged with booby traps to kill“whoever entered it.” Police disposed of the explosive materials Holmes’ had stashed in his flat in controlled explosions on Saturday.
The PHD honors student had been receiving deliveries of ammunition and bomb-making materials up to four months prior to the attack, according to a preliminary police investigation.
Investigators suspect that Holmes had been stockpiling weapons in his apartment. Officers found about 6,000 rounds of ammunition and several magazines, including a drum magazine capable of firing 50 to 60 rounds per minute at the scene of the shooting.
What does that article indicate?
Do you really think that a medical student still has a few thousand bucks to spare buying all those materials and exotic military equipment to single-handedly stage his one-night Dark Nut Rampage?
Some answers to those questions can be found here.
The lone nut below also staged the same lonesome tantrum exactly a year ago.
The Nut Who Called Himself A “Banzai”
The Nut Who Considers Himself An “American” and a “President”, too!
The Nutzi Who Considers Himself A “Patriot”
Peace can be achieved:
by disarming governments, not civilians;
by putting a halt to state sponsored gun-running;
by stopping global arms sale;
by preventing the transfer of advance military technology;
by shutting down military industrial complex;
by sending all the lone nuts and Nazis to FEMA camps and Gitmos
by changing the economic system from monetary into a resource-based economy as modeled by the Venus Project
Removing the incentive and motivation for doing evil is the only sensible way for humanity to move forward. We all need to do something.
A different call to action …CRITICAL INFORMATION!
First agenda item: Over the last week we have heard of many different types of “calls to action”. The “calls” have to do with militia style activism and, although we do not discourage these actions, we realize how difficult it will be. First and foremost, Brother Drake has been putting the word out to a lot of folks during his weekly broadcasts. We have heard many of his shows and his briefings are informative and the depth of knowledge is heart warming to all of us here at the White Hats. The clear and precise message is “be informed” and “take action” when required to do so. The folks in the hallowed halls are listening to the thunder clouds of a pissed off nation and world, clearly approaching the steps of the Capital. So, to all of our “friends” in the Washington D.C. beltway, listen carefully, soon the people will be on your door step, taking you away. It’s not just Obama they will be after … it’s you.
Powerful Bloodlines Behind the Dark Cabal
July 20, 2012 Geopolitics101 56 Comments
With the recent arrest of a Nazi remnant hiding in Hungary, we are reminded of the holocaust from the last century which cost millions of lives, and all for the glory of the bloodlines.
The failure to understand this subject stems from the presumption that these people protecting their bloodlines think the same way as we do. The bloodlines look at time periods in thousands of years, not in days, hours and minutes. They outline their agenda, plot their strategies, and formulate their actions in terms of what could be possible in 50 years, in a century or in a millennium. In contrast, we think of what we will do tomorrow, or next week and make it sure if it jives harmoniously with our goals and objective of the current fiscal year. We even use software, e.g. Microsoft Outlook, for this purpose, while the primitive bloodlines are using astrology, and exotic technologies from black budgeted projects.
They sow intrigue to foment wars like what’s happening now in Syria and continues to instigate nuclear war with Iran. They literally live and breathe through fear and sufferings of everyone else except themselves. The goal to exterminate 6.5 billion planetary inhabitants is first and foremost in their minds. The weapons used to achieve this goal range from economic to military, science, mass media and religion. We are at their mercy until the internet came along.
Now, we are seeing the true image of evil and the monstrosity of its schemes. The complexity of the Control Matrix it’s been able to put together is beyond anybody’s grasp, only the persistent may be able to decipher. They are responsible for all the holocausts of the last millennium to say the least.
What we believed to be on the side of the good is in fact the true definition of miscreation.
Who are the men behind the puppeteers?
All politicians, bankers and other so-called shakers and movers, report and submit themselves to the will of the Vatican. The Pope administers his dominion from the golden throne of Papal Archbasilica of St. John Lateran. The White Pope is himself subservient to the highest ranking Jesuit Generale known as the Black Pope. But the Black Pope is not at the top of the pyramid either.
We received this update below from Drake…
The Jesuit Vatican New World Order
Ptolemaic Papal bloodlines:
Breakspear
Aldobrandini
Somaglia
All controlled through the Jesuit Order and their Knights of Malta & Teutonic Knights all based in missile protected Borgo Santo Spirito in Rome.
Pepe Orsini – Italy
Henry Breakspear – Macau, China
This is the true power finally.
This is the Guelph and the Ghibelline power over mankind.
The Cecil family were controlled by the powerful Jesuit family known as the Pallavicini.
Maria Camilla Pallavicini is far more powerful than Queen Elizabeth II.
The Queen and Prince Philip are totally subordinate to the Papal Bloodline the Breakspear Family and their Jesuit UKHQ at 114 Mount Street.
Please go and study who funded Elizabeth I that astronomical amount of money to fight the Spanish, yes Pallavicini.
The most powerful man right now in the conspiracy over this World is a Roman by the name of PEPE ORSINI of the powerful Roman Papal Bloodline the Orsini also known as Orso and the ancient Maximus family.
There is no one more powerful than this figure who is really the Grey Pope.
The Papal Bloodlines are the secret shadow hieracy of the Jesuit Order even behind the Black Pope touted at the #1.
These powerful bloodlines are the Breakspear, Somaglia, Orsini, Farnese & Aldobrandini.
You’ll notice David Rothschild marrying into the Aldobrandini with the pretty, Princess Olimpia Aldobrandini.
Another real head of this is Henry Breakspear who resides now in Macau in China.
Many of the Papal Bloodline heads now live in Asia and India. What does that tell you?
The current Black Pope, Adolfo Nicholas was bought forward for the position due to the Jesuits bringing about of Asia as the next power player of the agenda.
Both this Black Pope and the white Pope aren’t of Papal Bloodline, they are both commoners.
I’ve named the most powerful families on the planet. I’ve named the Grey Pope the one inbetween the white and black but unseen
Saturnalian Brotherhood – The Real 13 Zoroastrian Bloodlines of the Illuminati
House of Borja
House of Breakspeare
House of Somaglia
House of Orsini
House of Conti
House of Chigi
House of Colonna
House of Farnese
House of Medici
House of Gaetani
House of Pamphili
House of Este
House of Aldobrandini
These Egyptian Ptolemaic Dynasty Rulers are in Full Control of the Company of Jesus, High Grey Council of Ten, and the Black Pope
This is some good info on the Black Pope:
The ‘Black Pope’, Superior Jesuit General (The President of the World), speaks at Loyola ‘Military Fortress’ University in his un-ratified 14th Amendment ‘Little Rome’ D.C United States Corporation.
A corporation under International Maritime Admiralty Law (Uniform Commerical Code) based upon Vatican Canon Law and perfected by the Roman Empire.
He lies about his power, he’s over the Pope as of 1814.
He only serves and works with the shadow Jesuits being the Papal Bloodline Orsini’s, Breakspear’s, Aldobrandini’s, Farnese’s, Somalgia’s.
Adolfo is not of Papal Bloodline, some Black Pope’s have been.
The next in power beneath the Jesuits is the Bourbon, King Juan Carlos of Spain. The Roman Monarch of the World, The King of Jerusalem and SMOM Military Navigator.
This is the true World’s power system right now.
Adolfo serves as a military General protecting the Zoroathrianism and Mithraism mystery schools.
The Jesuits were created by the Papal Bloodline Farnese during the reign of Farnese Pope Paul III.
Loyola was commissioned by Alessandro Cardinal Farnese.
[Last Edited by Open Your Eyes on 6/15/2010 at 12:37 AM]
The Borgia crime family created the Jesuits!!
After the terrible reign of Pope Alexander VI, the Romans were disgusted with the Spanish and vowed that there would never be another Spanish Pope. This animosity toward the Spanish was further aggravated by the Sack of Rome in 1527 in order to prevent the divorce of Henry VIII from Catherine of Aragon.
The Borgia answer to this Spanish animosity was the creation of the order of Jesuits—a quasi religious/military strike force whose members were totally dedicated to their Spanish leader who bore the military title of general.
Like the White Pope, the general is elected for life and the Jesuit dynasty is a parallel or pseudo Papacy….Of course, the general is content to run the show from behind the scenes so as not to arouse the age-old Italian hatred for the Spanish.
The Jesuit general is referred to as the ‘”Black” Pope at the Vatican because he always dresses in black.
The Jesuits were officially founding in 1540 by Pope Paul III. Ignatius LIEola became their first general.
Don Francis Borgia was the great-grandson of Pope Alexander VI, and co-founder of the Jesuits. On his mother’s side he was descended from King Ferdinand of Aragon.
The Spanish control the Vatican through the Jesuits.
For the past 500 years, the Spanish Inquisition has controlled the Vatican by means of the Jesuits. All the Jesuits answer to their general in Rome, and he in turn is content to run the show from behind the scenes, without any publicity or public acclaim so as not to arouse the age-old Italian hostility to the Spanish…
Posted by ALAN LAMONT
http://vaticannewworldorder.blogspot.com/2011/12/ptolemaic-papal-bloodlines-orsini_21.html
Source: http://www.rumormillnews.com/cgi-bin/forum.cgi?read=246105
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CIA Scores Big Time vs. BRICS in Syria
BREAKING NEWS: Huge explosion rocked Damascus. Wifi and 3G services are cut-off…
Syria Defense Minister General Daoud Rajha was killed an hour ago by a suicide bomber working as a bodyguard within the National Security Headquarters in Central Damascus.
Syrian Defense Minister Gen. Daoud Rajha was killed by a suicide bombing attack at a national security building in Damascus. His deputy – Assad’s brother-in-law Assef Shawkat – has also been mortally wounded by the blast.
Another prominent governmental figure targeted by the attack is Syrian intelligence chief Hisham Bekhtyar. Bekhtyar is currently undergoing surgery for injuries sustained in the blast, a security source told Reuters.
The bomber worked as a bodyguard for President Bashar Assad’s inner circle, the news agency reports its sources as saying.
It also cites a Facebook statement by Liwa Al-Islam, a Syrian rebel Islamist group which has claimed responsibility for the attack.
A meeting of Syrian ministers and security officials was taking place on the premises at the time of the blast, Syrian State TV reported. Several top Syrian officials have been badly wounded by the bombing.
The area around the national security building in Rawda district has been cordoned off.
The CIA-backed instability in Syria is definitely worsening in spite of the efforts towards peace by Putin and the rest of the BRICS nations.
Below, is proof enough that those who ousted and killed Gaddafi are the same animals that are now swarming the Syrian capital of Damascus.
Drake Updates
Just like Ben Fulford, Drake Bailey deserves a section in this blog, like so:
Among the latest updates we received early today is a message from Neil Kennan expounding on the reasons behind the withdrawal of the lawsuit against the Cabal. Here’s an excerpt of that email:
URGENT Neil Keenan Press Release
by Drake
Neil Keenan has given Drake permission to spread this press release. Please share
To: ‘Drake Bailey’
Sent: Friday, July 13, 2012 9:57 AM
Subject: Answers
Dear Drake,
Nice to know we are both alive brother. Last thing I remember is my reading I am dead. Hahahah.
As you know I do not like interviews and always toss someone else into the middle of them but let me explain this for you Drake. You keep asking me when will I refile and what date and to this there is no answer!!!
When I compile all the information I need in which I can kick the financial system in the ass and straighten it out then I will file. My main concern is Jurisdiction which is what the Judge also made mention of and clearly stated that he would throw the case out if we did not prove we have it. In order to do this I am going to expose the illegal banking system. Let them then tell me when the Federal Reserve Bank of NY is shown to be part and parcel to the theft. I will have the information to prove this.
We will be posting every update from Drake from hereon in this section.
For your guidance.
Time for Action – Drake
Just more than an hour ago, I received this advisory from Drake (ANMilitia)
We are at the point where everyone needs to take the Patriotic Stand they say they believe in.
Contacting County Sheriff, F.B.I., State Sheriff, and ALL other Law Enforcement Personnel.
The idea is to form into a single unit to effect the arrests.
Do so in a lawful/legal manner.
Enough talking and some direct action is called for.
The fact that our show was cut off should be proof that the bad guys do NOT want any of this to happen.
I offer that ALL take action as quickly as possible.
~ Drake ~
Download link to the show that’s been cutoff » http://www.blogtalkradio.com/global-voice-2012-radio-network/2012/07/15/gvr–drakes-vital-weekend-update–sunday.mp3
Drake and Minuteman called for the FBI, the Police and the citizens to make arrests then their radio show got shut down so that they could not speak anymore.
Cobra Update:
Layers of Conspiracy
At the core of the physical Cabal there is a group of 13 Archons that keep controlling our planet for the last 26,000 years. They are responsible for the fall of Atlantis, for the collapse of peaceful Goddess worshipping neolithic cultures 5000 years ago and for the destruction of the mystery schools in late antiquity. They are the ones that maintain the quarantine and keep humanity hostage so that the positive ETs could not intervene until now. They are mostly incarnated into key positions inside the Italian black nobility.
Their leader was arrested in Rome on May 5th, removed from this planet and taken to the Galactic Central Sun immediately. He was the one that many members of the Cabal were worshipping in their distorted rituals, so now they are worshipping something that does not exist any longer.
About 2500 years ago, the Archons created a special task group and infiltrated it into the Ptolemaic dynasty in Egypt:
This task group was responsible for mind programming and mass control of humanity through organized religions in the last 2500 years. After the death of Cleopatra, their power was transferred from Ptolemaic bloodline towards Julio-Claudean dynasty in Rome, then to Flavians, then to Constantinian dynasty, then to Theodosian dynasty and then to Byzantine Giustiniani family. After the middle ages, members of this group incarnated mostly into positions of power within the Italian black nobility families. The Resistance has taken strong actions against this group in 2010 and it lost a lot of its power then.
Anyway, this group has created the Jesuits and Jesuits are running the show on this planet for the last 500 years as you can read in this fairly accurate, although a little outdated report:
http://www.whale.to/b/pope.html
http://www.whale.to/b/phelps4.html
Please note that Hans Kolvenbach is the old black Pope, the new one is Adolfo Nicolas.
This is how the Jesuits run the USA corporation:
http://www.theoilage.com/ptolemaic-dynasty-bloodlines-t2854.html
Rothschilds are the bankers for the Jesuits in the last two centuries. The most influential are: Jacob de Rothschild, Evelyn de Rothschild, David de Rothschild and lately also Nathaniel Philip de Rothschild.
The Rockefeller / Illuminazi faction is a Jesuit creation of the 20th century with a purpose to hinder and misuse the technological and scientific progress of humanity:
http://www.humanresonance.org/veil.html
The key players of the Rockefeller / Illuminazi faction are: David Rockefeller, Henry Kissinger, George Herbert Walker Bush (George Scherf Jr.), Dick Cheney, Jay Rockefeller, Donald Rumsfeld, Karl Rove and Paul Wolfowitz.
Posted by Cobra at 3:37 PM
Recent commentary:
WhiteHats Update: Nomenclature of Financial Thievery
Nomenclature of Financial Thievery
“I don’t understand, where does all this come from? How do you get funding for something like this?”
“You don’t actually think they spend $20,000 on a hammer, $30,000 on a toilet seat, do you?”
-From the movie, Independence Day, an exchange between the President and a civilian when the President enters Area 51 for the first time after the alien invasion.
“Where does all (that money) come from?” We are on a quest to uncover the trail of deceit, deception, corruption and thievery in the financial arena. Where does the money come from, where has it gone, and what is it being used for? The answer to that question could be the biggest secret of our time. But let us begin to connect the dots with some background on the methods used to steal from the people to finance the NWO.
Lord James started the ball rolling on February 16th in London’s House of Lords. We’re going to pick up the trail from there and bring it forward. It cannot be said enough that Lord James took a historic and brave step in revealing to the world the corrupted underbelly of the financial system. History, real history, will record Lord David James of Blackheath as a hero for humanity. This fact cannot be emphasized enough. There is a time to step forward and be counted and Lord James came up all aces. Who will join him?
Enemies of the Republic
Drake requested this document from the Minuteman to go viral. Please help out in any way you can…
Please download & forward to every freedom-loving American you know!
Here’s a great idea a friend just sent me! Please copy and paste these Enemy lists into an e-mail and send them to everyone in your address book and then ask them to do the same.
We absolutely have to get this information in front of every voter before the elections if we have any hope at all of taking our country back!
Remember…we only need to win 4 more Senate seats to repeal OBAMATAX!
It never ceases to amaze me how some people can take something totally out of context, when everything is in plain sight. I am referring, of course to the list of members of the American Communist party and all those who have betrayed their Oath to the U.S. Constitution.
The list is not unlike other lists that have been circulated defining those who need to be legally removed from office at the polls.
To any detractors who may have implied this list is anything other than what it is, you’re part of the problem in this country. Get over it!
NOWHERE is there anything expressed or implied that the list is anything other than this. For those of you who cannot decipher plain English, it is a list of members of both Houses who need to be voted out of office. Any implication on your part that it is anything other than this tells me you are communicationally dysfunctional.Get over it!
WE CAN & WE MUST WIN THIS BATTLE AND TAKE OUR COUNTRY AND OUR CONSTITUTION BACK! GOD BLESS THE U.S.A.
HERE IS MY ENEMY LIST #1 HERE IS A LIST OF THE KNOWN MEMBERS OF THE SOCIALIST PARTY OF AMERICA. THESE FOLKS NEED TO BE TARGETED AND WE MUST GIVE A VERY SPECIAL EFFORT TO SEE THAT THEY ARE KICKED OUT OF CONGRESS!
THERE ARE 70-80 ADMITTED SOCIALISTS-COMMUNISTS IN CONGRESS THAT MUST BE TAKEN OUT AS WELL! LET’S START NAMING ALL THOSE LIBERAL COMMIES THAT NEED TO BE DEFEATED COME THIS NEXT ELECTION AND START TARGETING THEM FOR DEFEAT!
The Socialist Party of America announced in their October 2009 newsletter that 70 Congressional democrats currently belong to their caucus.
This admission was recently posted on Scribd.com:
American Socialist Voter–
Q: How many members of the U.S. Congress are also members of the DSA?
A: Seventy
Q: How many of the DSA members sit on the Judiciary Committee?
A: Eleven: John Conyers [Chairman of the Judiciary Committee], Tammy Baldwin, Jerrold Nadler, Luis Gutierrez, Melvin Watt, Maxine Waters, Hank Johnson, Steve Cohen, Barbara Lee, Robert Wexler, Linda Sanchez [there are 23 Democrats on the Judiciary Committee of which eleven, almost half, are now members of the DSA].
Q: Who are these members of 111th Congress?
A: See the listing below
Hon. Raúl M. Grijalva (AZ-07)
Hon. Lynn Woolsey (CA-06)
Hon. Diane Watson (CA-33)
Hon. Sheila Jackson-Lee (TX-18)
Hon. Mazie Hirono (HI-02)
Hon. Dennis Kucinich (OH-10)
Hon. Bernie Sanders (VT)
Hon. Neil Abercrombie (HI-01)
Hon. Tammy Baldwin (WI-02)
Hon. Xavier Becerra (CA-31)
Hon. Madeleine Bordallo (GU-AL)
Hon. Robert Brady (PA-01)
Hon. Corrine Brown (FL-03)
Hon. Michael Capuano (MA-08)
Hon. André Carson (IN-07)
Hon. Donna Christensen (VI-AL)
Hon. Yvette Clarke (NY-11)
Hon. William “Lacy” Clay (MO-01)
Hon. Emanuel Cleaver (MO-05)
Hon. Steve Cohen (TN-09)
Hon. John Conyers (MI-14)
Hon. Elijah Cummings (MD-07)
Hon. Danny Davis (IL-07)
Hon. Peter DeFazio (OR-04)
Hon. Rosa DeLauro (CT-03)
Rep. Donna F. Edwards (MD-04)
Hon. Keith Ellison (MN-05)
Hon. Sam Farr (CA-17)
Hon. Chaka Fattah (PA-02)
Hon. Bob Filner (CA-51)
Hon. Barney Frank (MA-04)
Hon. Marcia L. Fudge (OH-11)
Hon. Alan Grayson (FL-08)
Hon. Luis Gutierrez (IL-04)
Hon. John Hall (NY-19)
Hon. Phil Hare (IL-17)
Hon. Maurice Hinchey (NY-22)
Hon. Michael Honda (CA-15)
Hon. Jesse Jackson, Jr. (IL-02)
Hon. Eddie Bernice Johnson (TX-30)
Hon. Hank Johnson (GA-04)
Hon. Marcy Kaptur (OH-09)
Hon. Carolyn Kilpatrick (MI-13)
Hon. Barbara Lee (CA-09)
Hon. John Lewis (GA-05)
Hon. David Loebsack (IA-02)
Hon. Ben R. Lujan (NM-3)
Hon. Carolyn Maloney (NY-14)
Hon. Ed Markey (MA-07)
Hon. Jim McDermott (WA-07)
Hon. James McGovern (MA-03)
Hon. George Miller (CA-07)
Hon. Gwen Moore (WI-04)
Hon. Jerrold Nadler (NY-08)
Hon. Eleanor Holmes-Norton (DC-AL)
Hon. John Olver (MA-01)
Hon. Ed Pastor (AZ-04)
Hon. Donald Payne (NJ-10)
Hon. Chellie Pingree (ME-01)
Hon. Charles Rangel (NY-15)
Hon. Laura Richardson (CA-37)
Hon. Lucille Roybal-Allard (CA-34)
Hon. Bobby Rush (IL-01)
Hon. Linda Sánchez (CA-47)
Hon. Jan Schakowsky (IL-09)
Hon. José Serrano (NY-16)
Hon. Louise Slaughter (NY-28)
Hon. Pete Stark (CA-13)
Hon. Bennie Thompson (MS-02)
Hon. John Tierney (MA-06)
Hon. Nydia Velazquez (NY-12)
Hon. Maxine Waters (CA-35)
Hon. Mel Watt (NC-12)
Hon. Henry Waxman (CA-30)
Hon. Peter Welch (VT-AL)
Hon. Robert Wexler (FL-19)
ALSO, EVEN THOUGH THEY ARE NOT LISTED IN THIS GROUP…I THINK IT IS VERY SAFE TO SAY WE CAN ALSO ADD NANCY PELOSI AND HARRY REID AS WELL AS MY 2 SENATORS FROM WASHINGTON STATE…PATTY MURRY AND MARIA CANTWELL. CANTWELL IS UP FOR RE-ELECTION AND ABSOLUTELY MUST BE DEFEATED! IF YOU KNOW OF ANY OTHER REPS THAT HAVE VOTED WITH OBAMA-PELOSI AND REID ON EVERYTHING, PLEASE FEEL FREE TO ADD THEM TO THE LIST!
PLEASE SHARE THIS LIST WITH EVERYONE YOU KNOW AND EVERY GROUP YOU BELONG TO! THESE PEOPLE MUST BE DEFEATED. ALSO WE MUST DO EVERYTHING IN OUR POWER TO SEE THEM DEFEATED. THAT INCLUDES FINANCIALLY AND WITH OUR TIME, EVEN IF IT MEANS MAKING PHONE CALLS THESE COMMIES MUST GO!
ENEMY LIST #2
HERE IS A LIST OF THE 60 SENATORS WHO VOTED FOR OBAMATAX. 17 ARE UP FOR RE-ELECTION THIS YEAR AND IF WE ARE TRULY GOING TO TAKE THIS COUNTRY BACK AND ONCE AGAIN BECOME A REPUBLIC OF “WE THE PEOPLE” THESE SENATORS MUST BE DEFEATED. PLEASE PAY SPECIAL ATTENTION TO SANDERS OF VT. HE IS ALSO A SWORN CARD CARRYING MEMBER OF THE SOCIALIST PARTY OF AMERICA.
Akaka (D-HI)
Baucus (D-MT)
Bayh (D-IN)
Begich (D-AK)
Bennet (D-CO)
Bingaman (D-NM)
Boxer (D-CA)
Brown (D-OH)
Burris (D-IL)
Byrd (D-WV)
Cantwell (D-WA)
Cardin (D-MD)
Carper (D-DE)
Casey (D-PA)
Conrad (D-ND)
Dodd (D-CT)
Dorgan (D-ND)
Durbin (D-IL)
Feingold (D-WI)
Feinstein (D-C
Franken (D-MN)
Gillibrand (D-NY)
Hagan (D-NC)
Harkin (D-IA)
Inouye (D-HI)
Johnson (D-SD)
Kaufman (D-DE)
Kerry (D-MA)
Kirk (D-MA)
Klobuchar (D-MN)
Kohl (D-WI)
Landrieu (D-LA)
Lautenberg (D-NJ)
Leahy (D-VT)
Levin (D-MI)
Lieberman (ID-CT)
Lincoln (D-AR)
McCaskill (D-MO)
Menendez (D-NJ)
Merkley (D-OR)
Mikulski (D-MD)
Murray (D-WA)
Nelson (D-FL)
Nelson (D-NE)
Pryor (D-AR)
Reed (D-RI)
Reid (D-NV)
Rockefeller (D-WV)
Sanders (I-VT)
Schumer (D-NY)
Shaheen (D-NH)
Specter (D-PA)
Stabenow (D-MI)
Tester (D-MT)
Udall (D-CO)
Udall (D-NM)
Warner (D-VA)
Webb (D-VA)
Whitehouse (D-RI)
THE 17 UP FOR RE-ELECTION ARE:
Daniel Akaka, Hawaii
Jeff Bingaman, New Mexico.
Sherrod Brown, Ohio.
Joe Manchin, West Virginia.
Maria Cantwell, Washington
Benjamin Cardin, Maryland
Thomas Carper, Delaware.
Robert Casey, Jr., Pennsylvania
Kent Conrad, North Dakota
Diane Feinstein, California
Kirsten Gillibrand, New York.
Amy Klobuchar, Minnesota.
Herb Kohl, Wisconsin.
Claire McCaskill, Missouri
Robert Menendez, New Jersey.
Ben Nelson, Nebraska.
Bill Nelson, Florida.
Debbie Stabenow, Michigan.
Jon Tester, Montana
Jim Webb, Virginia.
Sheldon Whitehouse, Rhode Island
Here are the two independents:
Joseph Lieberman, Connecticut.
Bernard Sanders, Vermont, Socialist.
PLEASE SHARE THIS LIST WITH EVERYONE YOU KNOW AND EVERY GROUP YOU BELONG TO! THESE PEOPLE MUST BE DEFEATED. ALSO WE MUST DO EVERYTHING IN OUR POWER TO SEE THEM DEFEATED. THAT INCLUDES FINANCIALLY AND WITH OUR TIME, EVEN IF IT MEANS MAKING PHONE CALLS ! THESE COMMIES MUST GO!
Here is a list of members of the House who voted to shove OBAMATAX down our throats! Let’s show them how much we appreciate it by voting them out of office this coming November!
To all concerned citizens… the Democrats day is coming. For those who are interested and looking for a list of members of Congress who voted to pass the current health care bill, a full violation of individual and states rights, here are those members if you wish to contact them and raise some hell of your own:
STATE – DISTRICT
Kirkpatrick, Ann
Arizona-1
Pastor, Ed
Mitchell, Harry
Grijalva, Raúl
Giffords, Gabrielle
Snyder, Vic
Arkansas-2
Thompson, Mike
California-1
Garamendi, John
California-10
McNerney, Jerry
Speier, Jackie
Stark, Pete
Eshoo, Anna
Honda, Mike
Lofgren, Zoe
Farr, Sam
Cardoza, Dennis
Costa, Jim
Capps, Lois
Sherman, Brad
Berman, Howard
Schiff, Adam
Waxman, Henry
Becerra, Xavier
Chu, Judy
Watson, Diane
Roybal-Allard, Lucille
Waters, Maxine
Harman, Jane
Richardson, Laura
Napolitano, Grace
Sanchez, Linda
Baca, Joe
Sanchez, Loretta
Matsui, Doris
Filner, Bob
Woolsey, Lynn
Pelosi, Nancy
Lee, Barbara
DeGette, Diana
Colorado-1
Polis, Jared
Salazar, John
Markey, Betsy
Perlmutter, Ed
Larson, John B.
Connecticut-1
Courtney, Joe
DeLauro, Rosa
Himes, Jim
Murphy, Chris
Castor, Kathy
Florida-11
Meek, Kendrick
Boyd, Allen
Florida-2
Wasserman Schultz, Debbie
Klein, Ron
Hastings, Alcee
Kosmas, Suzanne
Brown, Corrine
Grayson, Alan
Scott, David
Georgia-13
Bishop, Sanford
Georgia-2
Johnson, Hank
Hirono, Mazie
Hawaii-2
Rush, Bobby
Illinois-1
Halvorson, Debbie
Illinois-11
Costello, Jerry
Foster, Bill
Hare, Phil
Jackson Jr., Jesse
Gutiérrez, Luis
Quigley, Mike
Davis, Danny
Bean, Melissa
Schakowsky, Jan
Visclosky, Pete
Indiana-1
Donnelly, Joe
Carson, André
Ellsworth, Brad
Hill, Baron
Braley, Bruce
Iowa-1
Loebsack, David
Boswell, Leonard
Moore, Dennis
Kansas-3
Yarmuth, John
Kentucky-3
Pingree, Chellie
Maine-1
Michaud, Mike
Ruppersberger, Dutch
Maryland-2
Sarbanes, John
Edwards, Donna
Hoyer, Steny
Cummings, Elijah
Hollen, Chris Van
Olver, John
Massachusetts-1
Delahunt, Bill
Massachusetts-10
Neal, Richard
McGovern, Jim
Frank, Barney
Tsongas, Niki
Tierney, John
Markey, Ed
Capuano, Mike
Stupak, Bart
Michigan-1
Levin, Sander
Michigan-12
Kilpatrick, Carolyn Cheeks
Conyers, John
Dingell, John
Kildee, Dale
Schauer, Mark
Peters, Gary
Walz, Tim
Minnesota-1
McCollum, Betty
Ellison, Keith
Oberstar, Jim
Thompson, Bennie
Carnahan, Russ
Missouri-3
Cleaver, Emanuel
Berkley, Shelley
Nevada-1
Titus, Dina
Shea-Porter, Carol
New Hampshire-1
Hodes, Paul
Andrews, Rob
New Jersey-1
Payne, Donald
New Jersey-10
Holt Jr., Rush
Sires, Albio
Pallone, Frank
Pascrell, Bill
Rothman, Steve
Heinrich, Martin
New Mexico-1
Luján, Ben R.
Bishop, Tim
New York-1
Towns, Ed
New York-10
Clarke, Yvette
Velázquez, Nydia
Maloney, Carolyn
Rangel, Charles
Serrano, José
Engel, Eliot
Lowey, Nita
Hall, John
Israel, Steve
Murphy, Scott
Tonko, Paul
Hinchey, Maurice
Owens, Bill
Maffei, Dan
Higgins, Brian
Slaughter, Louise
McCarthy, Carolyn
Ackerman, Gary
Meeks, Gregory
Crowley, Joseph
Nadler, Jerrold
Weiner, Anthony
Butterfield, G. K.
North Carolina-1
Watt, Mel
North Carolina-12
Miller, Brad
Etheridge, Bob
Price, David
Pomeroy, Earl
North Dakota-At Large
Driehaus, Steve
Ohio-1
Kucinich, Dennis
Ohio-10
Fudge, Marcia
Sutton, Betty
Kilroy, Mary Jo
Boccieri, John
Ryan, Tim
Wilson, Charlie
Kaptur, Marcy
Wu, David
Oregon-1
Blumenauer, Earl
DeFazio, Peter
Schrader, Kurt
Brady, Bob
Pennsylvania-1
Carney, Chris
Pennsylvania-10
Kanjorski, Paul
Schwartz, Allyson
Doyle, Mike
Fattah, Chaka
Sestak, Joe
Murphy, Patrick
Rhode Island-1
Langevin, Jim
Spratt, John
South Carolina-5
Clyburn, Jim
Cooper, Jim
Tennessee-5
Gordon, Bart
Cohen, Steve
Hinojosa, Rubén
Texas-15
Reyes, Silvestre
Jackson-Lee, Sheila
Gonzalez, Charlie
Rodriguez, Ciro
Doggett, Lloyd
Ortiz, Solomon
Cuellar, Henry
Green, Gene
Johnson, Eddie Bernice
Green, Al
Texas-9
Welch, Peter
Vermont-At Large
Connolly, Gerry
Virginia-11
Scott, Robert
Virginia-3
Perriello, Tom
Moran, Jim
Inslee, Jay
Washington-1
Larsen, Rick
Baird, Brian
Dicks, Norm
McDermott, Jim
Mollohan, Alan
West Virginia-1
Rahall, Nick
Baldwin, Tammy
Wisconsin-2
Kind, Ron
Moore, Gwen
Obey, Dave
Kagen, Steve
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When the White Hats started on this little excursion with Report #1, it was to support the Global Settlements. At that time, we really didn’t know everything we should have about the alternative media, the internet. Over the course of almost two years, we have recruited many individuals with talent and have become quite adept in the alternative media world.We started the Reports because we knew that the Global Settlements would help save the world and assist in the rebuilding and strengthening of the world economy. As we all now know, the battle still rages between us and them for control of the money we will put forth to save the world. It’s shocking to realize the funds are still here in the United States and that none of those funds are being used to save the financial systems of the world even though we have committed to numerous plans to do just that. To a prudent person it would seem that trillions from a rainy day fund to keep America strong would be a good thing; especially when those funds came from a place that did not want to help America.
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Moving Forward With or Without Pentagon Fireworks
July 7, 2012 Geopolitics101 Leave a comment
We have heard the yellow alert, celebrated the green light and are now waiting in much heightened anticipation for the Pentagon Fireworks. The fifty dollar question right now is this: will the US Military rise to the occasion of putting an end to the global dominion of the Nazi Jesuit Cabal?
On the other hand, do we really need the US Military to bring down the Control Matrix and provide the final blow against the Dark Cabal for good?
Can’t we ignite our own fireworks and light up the sky of freedom?
I strongly believe we can.
Canadian Filed Class Suit Against Church, Crown And The Corporation
Issued by Kevin D. Annett, ITCCS and others on July 1, 2012
The biggest criminal conspiracy in history is being confronted this week in a federal court house in Toronto.
On Wednesday July 4, our friend and ally, Jason Bowman of The Association of Citizen Prosecutors (ACP), will be filing the first class action lawsuit in history against the Vatican, the Crown of England, the government and churches of Canada, and pharmaceutical corporations for crimes against humanity and criminal conspiracy.
Anyone who has suffered at the hands of these groups can come forward and join our action.
For instance, for a century doctors and clergy of both the Roman Catholic and United Church of Canada sterilized and experimented on countless aboriginal people – many of them children who died as a result – under agreements with the Crown of England and prominent pharmaceutical companies with ties to the military.
In 1995, when as a west coast United Church clergyman I began to uncover the grisly evidence of such practices as testing drugs for these companies on children at United Church facilities like the R.W. Large Hospital in Bella Bella, B.C., I was targeted for personal and professional destruction by that Church and its friends in government.
Across Canada, there are many such cases of criminal conspiracy to silence the truth and truth tellers. Now, for the first time, there’s a chance for these crimes to be brought to light and those responsible made to publicly account.
That opportunity commences Monday, July 9, when Jason Bowman will argue our application before a Federal Court judge.
Besides the historic “McLibel” lawsuit in England during the 1990’s when two people singlehandedly took on the McDonald’s Corporation, I can’t think of a bigger case of David confronting Goliath in the courts. For in our suit, we are naming the biggest actors in global genocide as having conspired to commit and conceal centuries of pillage, murder and corruption.
Our phones have been flooded already by dozens of people who want to support us and bring forward their own cases, and by media outlets wanting interviews. Clearly, we have struck a chord.
Class Action Lawsuit against Church, State and Big Pharma is given Green Light
Posted on July 04, 2012 by itccs
History was made yesterday when the Association of Citizen Prosecutors (ACP), headed by Jason Bowman, took the first step towards in exposing Vatican, Crown of England and other parties, and in holding these cartels to account in the Federal Court of Canada.
A Federal Court in Toronto examined Bowman’s materials and essentially outlined the framework by which this unprecedented undertaking shall now proceed in Federal Court.
Jason Bowman et al filing documents in Federal Court, July 5, 2012.
The result granted leave for a full application to be filed, and still provides the applicants with the opportunity to file additional motions for directions if, and as required.
According to Bowman, who acted on behalf of both the ACP and ITCCS,
“We expected to simply file a motion … Instead, the Court directed that we file not only the ex-parte motion materials, but also our entire Application a full week earlier than we were expecting. Naturally, I was elated.”
A crowd of supporters accompanied Bowman to the Federal Court and were present as the Court’s outline was explained in great detail.
Afterwards, the group held a press conference nearby and was harassed at least one agent provocateur – a ‘blogger’ known as “Greg Renouf”, who tried to incite violence and discredit both Bowman and ITCCS founder and co-applicant Kevin Annett. Renouf has since then posted a derogatory and untruthful you tube posting about the event.
An attempted live stream broadcast of the event was inexplicably disrupted, although blog media activists who were present reported the news extensively on the internet.
None of the “mainstream” media in Toronto attended the press conference.
BRICS Offensive Bearing Fruits
The BBA, the UK banking lobby group that is also responsible for setting Libor, said it was calling a board meeting and will make a further announcement in due course.
Last week the BBA said it was “shocked” by the regulator’s report about the manipulation of Libor. Barclays was fined a record £290m last week for attempting to manipulate the interbank lending rate, Libor, between 2005 and 2009.
Chief City regulator, the Financial Services Authority, said on Monday that Barclays was not an isolated case in the authorities’ investigation of banks rigging a key interbank interest rate.
“I wish I could say this was an isolated case … You will hear more on this in due course,” the FSA’s acting director of enforcement, Tracey McDermott told the watchdog’s annual enforcement conference.
UK Military is Feeling the Crunch Too
Imagine when all the guns of the world are silenced, and the cries of the weak are finally heard.
Squeezing the Puppets
Will the clown below be next?
That’s up to the good people of America.
NOTICE TO THE WORLD WAS DELIVERED TO THE OFFICE OF PRIVATE INTERNATIONAL LAW OF THE HAGUE
We the people, the flesh and blood inhabitants, of the several nation states on the continent of North America, known as the united states of America, hereby declare and give Notice to the World herewith that;
We have assembled in our individual states and given Notice that by the authority of jural assembly in each state, having ratified a sovereign constitution for its own governance, declaring its own civil authority of independence, freedom and every power, jurisdiction and right which is not expressly delegated to the united states in honourable Congress assembled, by the will of the people.
We have assembled as a majority of the states with the purpose to return our Nation to its original design according to the true belief and intention of the free people under the Articles of Confederation, the original Constitution for the united states of America, the Declaration of Independence, the Northwest Ordinance, and the Bill of Rights, whereby we are a nation by the people, for the people and of the people.
http://americannationalmilitia.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/148-NOTICE-to-the-world.pdf
Everybody’s losing their source of income… the only job left is to walk the streets of everywhere..
“The largest public protests, rallies and demonstrations that the world has ever seen are happening right now – with almost no media coverage. Not only is … there a blackout on these events in the media, but YouTube is frequently removing footage of these mass rallies and events when requested to do so by governments:
– THE TRUTH IS OUT THERE, SOMEWHERE? 30 NASA secret photos from the Moon (IN MEMORIAM OF RAY BRADBURY)
July 1, 2012 Geopolitics101 1 Comment
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A Time for ALL patriots to Get Off The Couch
June 30, 2012 Geopolitics101 Leave a comment
A reference needs to be made to the American Constitution
A vote by We The People.
(99.4% Stated in our short vote that we do want freedom)
I offer that it will be time for ALL patriots to get off the couch, and help those of us who have given back your freedom.
I suggest a national referendum for freedom.
Support for the 1787 U.S. Constitution, Articles of Confederation, Bill of Rights, AND The Declaration of Independence.
Read the last link.
~ Drake
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GREEN LIGHT 2.0: Protocol & Resistance Update
It was expressed to me through ‘channels’ to state the following :
A – The Cavalry is coming.
B – If needed we will be contacted.
C – Sit back and watch the fireworks
There are two parts to this:
First are the actions to be taken by our military in support of FREEDOM. This will be extraordinary in all ways. It does involve extremes in tactical as well as logistical implementation. You may see some troop movement and supporting roles in public. There may be minor delays in the usual traffic flows. The design is to make sure as much as possible is taken care of without problems.
Second was the statement made that all of us are to be on full Alert. Engage drones and any troops under U.N. insignia. This is still in effect. Be absolutely sure of your target. Do not engage our military.
IF needed our military will contact us. In the field this will be a couple of troops, an NCO, and an officer, lieutenant, captain, major, or colonel. They should be saying hello, or some other greeting, telling you they are there and want to talk.
Otherwise, sit back and watch the fireworks.
I suggest we remain fully alert and vigilant just in case.
According to the information that has been given, we beat their time table. Plus it seems that our military has won its battle/argument internally, the good guys won and are now in charge.
The three items above are what was given to me to broadcast.
The last item was the call of GREEN LIGHT.
There are TWO green lights. One as stated about the above (tactical) and the other deals with financials. Two commands, both acting according to what was decided as the best way to handle both.
Each being as complicated as they are, separation of these two was the best tactical maneuver because of the acceleration or move up of our enemies’ plans of execution. This had been considered before, but left alone because both were to take place at the same time. Obviously that changed according to the enemy moving their plans ahead of their original schedule.
I was told that a tactical GREEN LIGHT was to be called if asked about it, and I did so. We are still waiting for the secondary GREEN LIGHT of finance. I look for this very soon.
Those who are experienced should be followed, as it is these people who demonstrate calm and cool under extremely intense situations. This can be anyone with this ability. Military personnel offer the ability to operate effectively under extremes and know how to offer the structure for success where any objective or mission is possible. Pay attention to them.
What we have before us is the awesome responsibility of freedom. Most have no idea as to the changes this will bring about at all levels, personal, social, and publicly. Everyone will discover that we all need each other, talents, professionally, and personally. Some hard places to get past are defined as race, creed (beliefs), and superiority.
I have never been prejudiced, as I didn’t see a lot of difference between people. Sure, some people are different looking than me, but, other than that, the person inside was the same. Most people I’ve ever gotten to know, all had their own personal beliefs, no matter what church they attended. A sort of peace made between a person and their belief in a superior entity.
Superiority is going to be directed by what a person is able to do. A specific talent should be respected in that the person who knows and works with it, should be given a superior respect within that area.
Due to the changes in operation and the outing of this information, it should be obvious that plans of any kind need to be fluid in order to remain viable. Just as a football play may be changed on the field, tactics change to maintain advantage. Bear in mind that this is our last chance and all of us need to make sure we win.
Source: ANMilitia
Operation Omega Phoenix
I have contacted my sources and this is what they said:
The infiltration of the Positive Military group has been completely removed. The Positive Military is now ready for action. Also, the Resistance Movement and the Pleiadians are ready to back them up with their support.
However, I did not receive direct confirmation for the Green Light or that the sweep period has already started. If the Positive Military wants to confirm the Green Light or if they want me to distribute any message to the public, they can contact me at cobraresistance@gmail.com .
The Resistance Movement will have its own role in the Event and this is known under the codename Operation Omega Phoenix. This operation has two parts.
The First part of Operation Omega Phoenix has just been declassified and I can speak a little bit about it. At the time of the Event, a certain number of Resistance operatives will emerge from their subterranean bases to the surface. They will be wearing plain civilian clothes and not military uniforms. They will closely monitor the mass arrest process and will help the Positive Military and civil authority in the arrests themselves when necessary. Members of the Cabal that will be arrested by the Resistance operatives will be taken to undisclosed locations and later released into the hands of Positive Military / civil authority. The only exception for this are a few members of the Cabal that have committed crimes beyond this planet in their past and must appear before the Galactic Court. Most of those will be later returned to Earth for humanity to determine their destiny, but a fraction of them will be taken to Galactic Central Sun immediately.
Top people inside the Positive Military have been notified about Operation Omega Phoenix and they fully agree with it.
source: http://2012portal.blogspot.com/2012/06/normal-0-microsoftinternetexplorer4_28.html
Drake: Green Light is On; Cavalry is Coming!
June 28, 2012 Geopolitics101 3 Comments
“Sit back, relax, and enjoy the fireworks.
Cavalry is coming!
We want to stay relevant.”
Those are the words of the US Military, according to one of the great messengers of our time, the articulate Drake.
Download the just concluded teleconference right here » http://www.blogtalkradio.com/global-voice-2012-radio-network/2012/06/27/gvr–drake-mid-week-update–wednesday-1.mp3
Hillary Clinton wrote the Future We Want [Agenda 21] distributed during RIO+20 Summit
Obama EOs prelude to “State of Emergency” or Martial Law
US Military wants to give us the best 4th of July we have ever had… the happening is happening right NOW!
Central Banking will be closed; IRS must go
Execution for Dick Cheney, George Bush, et al
This is Green Light!
Obama Declares National Emergency
In an unprecedented move to avoid the complete collapse of the Dark Cabal, Obama declares a national emergency and issued EO against Russian interests on all US controlled territories. This could be interpreted as an act of war against the Russians if they choose to.
As we may already know, Putin is at the forefront of the fight against the Dark Cabal. So far, his reforms are towards a more participative Open Russian government which the western countries trumpeted but never do. Overall, Putin’s government is set to uplift the life of everyone in that country. This is in stark contrast compared to the West where the current buzzword is “Austerity”.
Whatever the case may be, the war against the Dark Cabal has entered a new dimension.
Full text of Executive Order…
Office of the Press Secretary
Letter–Russian Highly Enriched Uranium
TEXT OF A LETTER FROM THE PRESIDENT TO THE SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES AND THE PRESIDENT OF THE SENATE
Dear Mr. Speaker: (Dear Mr. President:)
Pursuant to section 204(b) of the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA), 50 U.S.C. 1703(b), I hereby report that I have exercised my authority to declare a national emergency to deal with the threat posed to the United States by the risk of nuclear proliferation created by the accumulation in the Russian Federation of a large volume of weapons-usable fissile material.
In Executive Order 13159 of June 21, 2000, the President found that this same risk constituted an unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security and foreign policy of the United States and declared a national emergency to deal with that threat. The United States and the Russian Federation had entered into a series of agreements that provide for the conversion of highly enriched uranium (HEU) extracted from Russian nuclear weapons into low enriched uranium (LEU) for use in commercial nuclear reactors. There were concerns that payments due to the Russian Federation under these agreements may be subject to attachment, garnishment, or other judicial process, in the United States, which could put implementation of such agreements at risk. In Executive Order 13159, the President therefore ordered blocked all property and interests in property of the Government of the Russian Federation directly related to the implementation of the HEU Agreements so that it would be protected from the threat of attachment, garnishment, or other judicial process.
In the Executive Order I have issued today, I find that the risk of nuclear proliferation created by the accumulation in the Russian Federation of a large volume of weapons-usable fissile material continues to constitute an unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security and foreign policy of the United States. I therefore declared a national emergency to address this threat and to continue the blocking of all property and interests in property of the Government of the Russian Federation directly related to the implementation of the HEU Agreements.
A major national security goal of the United States is to ensure that fissile material removed from Russian nuclear weapons pursuant to various arms control and disarmament agreements is dedicated to peaceful uses, subject to transparency measures, and protected from diversion to activities of proliferation concern. The United States and the Russian Federation entered into an international agreement in February 1993 to deal with these issues as they relate to the disposition of HEU extracted from Russian nuclear weapons (the “HEU Agreement”). The HEU Agreement provides for 500 metric tons of HEU to be converted to LEU over a 20-year period. This is the equivalent of 20,000 nuclear warheads.
Additional agreements were put in place to effectuate the HEU Agreement, including agreements and contracts on transparency, on the appointment of executive agents to assist in implementing the agreements, and on the disposition of LEU delivered to the United States (collectively, the “HEU Agreements”). Under the HEU Agreements, the Russian Federation extracts HEU metal from nuclear weapons. That HEU is oxidized and blended down to LEU in the Russian Federation. The resulting LEU is shipped to the United States for fabrication into fuel for commercial reactors.
The HEU Agreements provide for the Russian Federation to receive money and uranium hexafluoride in payment for each shipment of LEU converted from the Russian nuclear weapons. The money and uranium hexafluoride are transferred to the Russian Federation executive agent in the United States.
The executive branch and the Congress have previously recognized and continue to recognize the threat posed to the United States national security from the risk of nuclear proliferation created by the accumulation of weapons-usable fissile material in the Russian Federation. This threat is the basis for significant programs aimed at Cooperative Threat Reduction and at controlling excess fissile material. The HEU Agreements are essential tools to accomplish these overall national security goals. The Congress has repeatedly demonstrated support for these agreements.
Payments made to the Russian Federation pursuant to the HEU Agreements are integral to the operation of this key national security program. Uncertainty surrounding litigation and the possible attachment, garnishment, or other judicial process that could impede these payments could lead to a long term suspension of the HEU Agreements, which creates the risk of nuclear proliferation. This is an unacceptable threat to the national security and foreign policy of the United States.
Accordingly, I have concluded that all property and interests in property of the Government of the Russian Federation directly related to the implementation of the HEU Agreements should remain protected from the threat of attachment, garnishment, or other judicial process. I have, therefore, exercised my authority and issued an Executive Order that provides:
except to the extent provided in regulations, orders, directives, or licenses that may be issued pursuant to the order, or that were issued pursuant to Executive Order 13159 of June 21, 2000, all property and interests in property of the Government of the Russian Federation directly related to the implementation of the HEU Agreements that are in the United States, that hereafter come within the United States, or hereafter come within the possession or control of any United States persons, including any foreign branch, are blocked and may not be transferred, paid, exported, withdrawn, or otherwise dealt in;
unless licensed or authorized pursuant to the order, any attachment, judgment, decree, lien, execution, garnishment, or other judicial process is null and void with respect to any property or interest in property blocked pursuant to the order; and
that all heads of departments and agencies of the United States Government shall continue to take all appropriate measures within their authority to further the full implementation of the HEU Agreements.
The effect of this Executive Order is limited to property that is directly related to the implementation of the HEU Agreements. Such property will be clearly defined by the regulations, orders, directives, or licenses that will be issued pursuant to this Executive Order. I have delegated to the Secretary of the Treasury, in consultation with the Secretary of State, the authority to take such actions, including the promulgation of rules and regulations, and to employ all powers granted to the President by IEEPA as may be necessary to carry out the purposes of the order. All agencies of the United States Government are directed to take all appropriate measures within their authority to carry out the provisions of the order.
I am enclosing a copy of the Executive Order I have issued.
Source: http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2012/06/25/letter-russian-highly-enriched-uranium
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This is it !
June 25, 2012 Geopolitics101 1 Comment
“This coming week, the pundits of the world, i.e. the rulers, are going to vote on a UN resolution to globalize all of our countries. This apparently has been going on for a little bit of a time. It has to do with G20 meeting… Apparently, what we got is a situation where we are going to have to take action, both from the civilians and the military. I would prefer that the military do whatever it has got to do like [right] now.
My further understanding is that there are also measures coming that will subjugate the financial capability of the central banking system because the Bank of International Settlements has been closed due to Neil Keenan’s filing of a lien against it. The IMF and the Treasury have been shooting money everywhere. They’re trying to strip us, basically, of wealth. Now, the problem with what they’re doing is that it doesn’t have a lawful standing to take place. Consequently, it’s all fraudulent. The other part of it is that the funds used are printed after a certain acceptable date, meaning that the printing press’s extra exercise has not been acceptable in terms of the funds that have been produced. This deals with a lot of international exchange.
Now, when they said next week, it is this coming week… You’ll know, by the end of Monday or Tuesday, whether or not the military is for real about this. If they are, I strongly suggest they give me a green light. There are several million people to back them up.
This is taking place through UN meetings of the globalists in varying places. The problem we’ve got is we’re going to have to take our action now. The people who are responsible for this have to be arrested, and their actions negated. The United Nations is in a precarious position of believing that they can lord it over the United States people. I, for one, won’t have that.
I know that everybody has been looking for something to jump on. Believe me, this is it.
As far as I am concern, I’ll be looking for some validation either late tonight or early tomorrow morning that actions are commencing.”
Listen to the full Drake interview at Global Voice Network last June 25, 2012 »
http://www.blogtalkradio.com/global-voice-2012-radio-network/2012/06/24/gvr–drakes-vital-weekend-update–sunday.mp3
References mentioned during this interview:
PDF – Future We Want – Final
Jo Anne Moretti
Agenda 21 – Nations Reach Agreement
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Polarized Intentions
West wants war; East wants peace.
Western governments are trying their best to go to war with Iran and Syria while the BRICS are trying to establish a stable world economy for everyone. Both intentions are expressed in very concrete terms.
The Above Actions Are Meant To Extract Concessions for Their Ailing Economy
BRICS Plan Of Action
But If Need Be, This Eastern Alliance Is Always Ready For Any Eventualities We Hope Would Never Come…
Eurozone is Dying
Although we were expecting this thing to happen, we still can’t imagine that such would be possible. The Eurozone is gasping for its last breath. The Eurozone is about to formally declare itself as insolvent.
At this point in time putting the Eurozone into the intensive care unit known as Germany will not do the job. The rest of the world knows that.
Moreover, we know what they did with US $16 Trillion bailout which only benefitted the bankers but not the people. Even if that bailout actually involved just numbers in their computer screens, the perennial intention to fool everyone but themselves is there. They don’t have the moral ascendancy to steer, whatever is left of, the economy forward.
Undoing Evil 3.0: ET Intervention
Foot dragging.
That is how the visitors have described the behavior of the Pentagon with regards to the final takedown of the Dark Cabal. And we reluctantly share that view.
At this point in time, most, if not all, of those who have awakened themselves to the Greatest Plague that infected humankind agreed that the Dark Cabal must go NOW. But those who have sworn to protect the “Land of the Brave; Home of the Free” are not as enthusiastic as the Constitutional Militias spread across the United States.
Maybe this is the reason why…
No, those are the Mercenaries of The Corporation.
The ordinary foot soldiers are just like us. They have tasted the crunch, too. They have suffered and are still suffering, as we all are.
The only reason we can think of the cause of these suicides is the failure to identify a better alternative to the present reality.
We must, therefore, reach out to these people and keep them up to date.
According to the Pleidians, the most uncontrollable variable is humanity itself. They still could not figure out how exactly most of us will react if they intervene in our behalf. But nevertheless, they have decided to do so based on the representative poll results done days ago. Otherwise, we will be walking through a different timeline which would led to an extinction event like what is portrayed in 2012, the movie.
The visitors are committed to never allow the disappearance of the human species in spite of the brainwashed majority. And all cabalists will be dealt with accordingly, with or without the help from the Pentagon.
Humanity is running out of time. Let’s all do something.
Please listen to the Drake update last June 16, 2012 »
http://www.blogtalkradio.com/global-voice-2012-radio-network/2012/06/17/drake-vital-updates–june-16-2012.mp3
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“Never underestimate the power of a few committed people to change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.”
~ Margaret Meade
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Microsoft May Finally Launch Dual-Screen Device at Oct. 2 Surface Event
August 29, 2019 administrator 10th Generation, computing, Core, cpus, Gen 11, Ice Lake, Intel, Microsoft, microsoft surface, surface, Surface Book, Surface event, Surface Hub, Surface Laptop, Surface Pro
Microsoft is holding its next Surface event in New York City on October 2 and rumors are buzzing that the company could launch its long-rumored, never-shipped dual-screen device, codenamed Centaurus. It would be a significant change of approach if the company did. After initially leading the way with a series of impressive products, Surface has been quiet (in brand terms) for the past few years. Designs like the Surface Book have been refreshed, but the last major product to be introduced under the Surface brand was the Surface Laptop. (The Surface Hub is technically branded as a Surface product, but it sells for vastly more money and isn’t really consumer-oriented.)
Microsoft has demoed Centaurus at internal events, indicating that the device may be nearing completion. We’ve seen Intel push OEMs to create some dual-screen devices — the company demoed its Honeycomb Glacier concept at Computex this year, which drew some praise (and eyeballs) for its unusual design:
That’s what Honeycomb Glacier looked like when folded flat, and it’s not necessarily all that appealing. Open, however, the laptop reportedly offered a second display that worked rather well for at least some use-cases:
Intel has also created prototypes like Tiger Rapids, a folding dual-display concept with a conventional display on one side and an e-ink panel for inking and writing on the other. That concept has been commercialized as the Yoga Book C930 from Lenovo. One major question about the new Surface devices would be this: Are they intended to be general-purpose machines for regular users, or specialty devices that appeal to narrow market segments?
Since it launched Surface, Microsoft has devoted time to both market groups. The initial Surface Pro and Surface were an attempt to push PCs into tablet form factors, with detachable keyboards, fanless operation (some models), and an emphasis on weight and battery life. Later, Microsoft branched out into more niche concepts like the Surface Book (2-in-1 tablet, but with a discrete GPU), Surface Hub (corporate presentations), and Surface Studio (focused on creatives and featuring Surface Dial). Other products, like the Surface Laptop, were initially intended for users who wanted a stripped-down and limited version of Windows before Microsoft changed strategies and decided to market the system primarily to ordinary users.
Complicating this scenario is the fact that Microsoft has never actually shown Centaurus or its rumored predecessor, Andromeda, to the public. Some Surface products that have been rumored for years simply never materialize. Remember the Surface Phone? It was rumored to be right around the corner for several years, even as Microsoft tore up its plans for Windows 10 Mobile. There were even a few rumors that the company would still launch Surface Phone after shutting down its phone division, or that it would partner with a third-party company to create some kind of product. Nothing ever materialized.
Right now, the rumor mill seems to think dual screens are the juicy feature on tap for the event; if Microsoft has anything else in the till that it hasn’t shown off the company has been quiet about it. The new launch may feature products from Intel’s 10th Generation CPU family, but Surface has been historically slow to adapt cutting-edge Intel parts — it isn’t unusual for Microsoft to tap older hardware for its various updates. Ice Lake’s 10nm chips are expected to be a huge leap forward for Intel integrated graphics, however, and it would make a lot of sense for Microsoft to tap those CPUs for the Surface Pro and Surface Book. A new Surface Book might feature Intel Gen 11 graphics for the CPU, with a Turing GPU option available via a partnership with Nvidia, for example, improving both integrated and discrete performance.
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Microsoft’s next Surface event is October 2 – gpgmail
August 27, 2019 administrator Hardware, Microsoft, microsoft surface, surface, windows 10
Microsoft just sent out invites for its next big event. Set for October 2 in New York, the unveiling comes exactly a year after the company’s last major Surface hardware launch. The timing is certainly right for one last major product push ahead of the holidays, as well.
Last year’s big event featured the launch of the Surface Pro 6 hybrid, Surface Studio 2, some software announcements and the launch of the Surface Headphone line. There are plenty of entries in Microsoft’s line that are due for a refresh, including Surface laptop and miniature Surface Go tablet.
The company also likes to launch at least one new product line at these things. As the Verge notes, the company’s long-rumored dual-screen tablet certainly seems overripe at this point, which at least two years of product research under its belt.
The above save the day invite, which was sent out to reporters today, subtly alludes to the inclusion of several convertible form factors, while paying homage to the Windows 10 logo.
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Microsoft Confirms Some Surface Pro 6, Surface Book 2s Are Running at Pentium II Speeds
August 16, 2019 administrator BD PROCHOT, computing, cpu, Intel, PROCHOT, surface, Surface Book, Surface Book 2, Surface Pro, throttling
If you own a Surface Pro 6 or Surface Book 2 and you’ve noticed slower-than-expected performance lately, we’ve got good news: You aren’t imagining it. We’ve also got bad news: Currently, there is no fix, though Microsoft is reportedly working on one. There have been reports on Reddit from users who saw their CPU speeds falling to as low as 400MHz, even on systems plugged into the wall. What makes this issue a little curious, however, is that some of these reports go back for several years.
TechRepublic contacted Microsoft, who said: “We are aware of some customers reporting a scenario with their Surface Books where CPU speeds are slowed,” a Microsoft spokesperson told TechRepublic. “We are quickly working to address via a firmware update.”
While this quote doesn’t reference the issue with Surface Pro, some of the Reddit threads focus on that platform rather than the Surface Book or Surface Book 2. In this case, however, it appears that the issue has been flying along under the radar for a while — long enough that people have found their own fix. There’s a third-party utility called ThrottleStop. It can be used to disable a specific CPU instruction called BD PROCHOT.
What’s a BD PROCHOT?
BD PROCHOT stands for “Bidirectional processor hot.” ‘Bidirectional’ refers to the fact that this signal can be thrown by the CPU itself (to lower its own temperature) or by another component as a means of protecting that part from overheating. Imagine, for example, that your GPU was going to overheat and damage itself due to high operating temperature. The GPU can throw this flag to reduce the CPU’s frequency, reducing the processing work that was causing an overheat in the first place.
It is not clear exactly which components can use the BD PROCHOT function. It was introduced at a time when individual components paid less attention to their own thermal conditions and performed less clock throttling overall, though that intelligence has been baked into mobile hardware at various times and in various ways. Some modern systems measure skin temperature and use it as part of determining their operating frequencies, for example.
Because BD PROCHOT is bidirectional, there’s a potential risk here. The flag can be thrown by a different component that isn’t the CPU, which means (in theory), you’re overriding a component that’s trying to preserve its own functionality by telling the CPU to slow down. But this does not seem to be an explanation for what’s going on with Surface devices. Customers report these problems on products that show no signs of any overheat, and some customers who have used the ThrottleStop utility to turn the BD PROCHOT function off have gone on to use their products for a year or more without any problems.
There are non-Surface users who have reported BD PROCHOT issues as well over the years, so this isn’t a Microsoft-specific instruction or capability, though the issue does seem to be hitting Surface in particular right now. Users who need to use ThrottleStop to restore normal functionality can probably attempt doing so. If you do, be cautious. Don’t disable BD PROCHOT and then run the ugliest thermal workload you can find — turn the flag off and let the system sit at idle or run a YouTube video. See if you notice any inappropriate behavior or hot spot formation on the device. If you run into problems, you can use the utility again to restore default functionality.
Devices like the Surface Book and Surface Pro 6 are thin, which means any significant source of inappropriate heat is likely to migrate to the surface (no pun intended) of the device. So before you disable BD PROCHOT, if you’re concerned about the impact, take a moment to familiarize yourself with how hot your Surface Book or Surface Pro 6 feels to the touch now. Then disable BD PROCHOT and run the same check after giving the system time to warm up. If the machine stays stable and you have no other problems, you’re probably fine to use it. Just keep an eye out for a fix from Microsoft.
If your machine feels hotter to the touch than it ought to, or the heat is building up in an unusual spot for your machine, we advise against disabling PROCHOT until more information is available. People reporting this issue seem to be experiencing a bug rather than a genuine problem but that is not a guarantee. If you experience any instabilities or thermal issues after disabling BD PROCHOT via third-party utility, re-enable it immediately and contact Microsoft for additional service instructions.
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"The need is becoming ever more present in light of the en masse extinction of London's music venues" - Sam Speiaght on why London needs a music conference
House | Monday 8th October 2018 | Arren
London Music Conference
This week could well see London’s nightlife industry change forever, as the debut London Music Conference kicks off for three days from Thursday.
Shining a spotlight on the capital's nightlife scene, the LMC will host a range of talks, showcases, and masterclasses in several venues across London with industry figureheads.
The event aims to bring the huge London scene together that the organiser, Sam Speaight “hopes to revitalise ... through community, education, exploration and engagement.” Ahead of it’s debut, we had a chat with Speaight about the conference, why London’s scene needs one and what to expect if you get down there.
Hey, what was your first thought this morning?
Please no, not another email about London Music Conference!
What’s got you motivated right now? What's it motivating you to do?
We're motivated by success, we're addicted to it, and we're all about empowering the artists and fans we work with to make music business and the culture that surrounds it thrive.
You’re the director of the London Music Conference, which will start its debut year next week. The first question for this is, why?
In my humble opinion the music business in London has needed an event like this for a long time, however, the need is becoming ever more present in light of the en masse extinction of London's music venues, gentrification of artistic districts and the disintegration of culture this causes along with the exacerbating effect of the internet age slowly eroding the revenues that artists have traditionally relied on to survive. London Music Conference is an answer to this ever-increasing disruption to our industry and hopes to revitalise it through community, education, exploration and engagement.
In an article you wrote about the issue of London nightlife you quote community as a sort of saviour of the scene. This idea of community is, you say, at the core of the conference’s ‘why’. What is the London music community lacking and how will the conference bridge this gap?
The phenomenon that truly characterises the lack of community in the UK music scene is its failure to pro-create. It took the intercession of Boris Johnson, a hard line Tory conservative and someone who represents the opposite outlook of most people in the industry, to step in and save Ministry Of Sound from closure. Across the city, venue after venue breathes a last gasp and goes under while we as an industry stand aside and look like rabbits in the proverbial head lights. The captains of any other industry faced with this travesty would band together, create a strategy to win and fight tooth and nail to protect their patch because, as we all know, together we are strong. Not so in the music business. The inherent lack of close community ties makes truly effective cooperation outside the 'tribe' or immediate network groups seemingly impossible. A notable example I've seen that defies this trend is Shoreditch House. I’ve been a member there for about 6 years. I have made some of my most important contacts in this space that have led to my accessing some very important business opportunities, simply by being an active and vocal part of this community. I believe that if you can harness the spirit of unity that exists around the love of music that we all share and help foster it within the industry at large, everyone will benefit. The industry as a whole will sustain itself and life in music business, which is challenging at the best of times, will be a much better thing than it is today for fans and artists alike.
Amy Lamé, London's appointed Night Czar.
London has been trying to stop the current trend in its cultural circles, appointing a Night Czar as example. Clearly this hasn’t been enough though, what can City Hall do to help preserve and grow London’s cultural centres?
There's certainly a will to change at a government level but we need to be the agents of this change if we're to redefine the status quo. When Sadiq Khan took office he set out an ambitious plan to develop Creative Enterprise Zones across London, parts of the city where artist studios and creative spaces would be preserved and financially fortified by rules laid down by the GLA. Quoting Mr Khan's press release "this ground-breaking new initiative will help creatives put down roots, establish themselves in local areas, attract new artists and creative businesses, and develop skills in local people". This is a good (yet woefully inadequate) example of what London needs if its creative soul is to avoid being scoured away by the whitewashing effect of gentrification. I feel that the industry as a whole needs to mobilise at a government level to protect our venues, businesses and culture before it’s too late. Cities like Paris and Amsterdam make vast investments in the sustenance of creative culture because the creative communities in these cities demand it. Yet London, Europe's greatest cultural spawning ground, seems to be letting its artists rot and fade into obscurity while the local authorities bow down to the developers and roll out the corporate red carpet for fat cat capitalists to steam roll the city's creatives with yet another new built tower block nightmare. Before the recent closure of the longest established venue in Shoreditch, Bedroom Bar, the landlord doubled the rent on the business owners who ran the venue, overnight. This would never happen in a city like Amsterdam, where rents are strictly controlled to safeguard the prosperity of artisans. As a result the Dutch music business is thriving, and has produced more successful music exports than any other city in Europe but London. It’s about time we let the politics know that our business community has helped to define Britain's national identity by its creative output and that this sort of thing can’t go on any longer.
There are already lots of electronic music conferences, ADE, Sonar, IMS, WMC, even the Brighton Music Conference - London’s late to the party, in your mind why is that?
Again I think this comes about as lack of healthy approach to cooperation and self-sustenance. Amsterdam Dance Event is like a city-wide celebration where everyone who works in the local industry celebrates their oneness by coming together and creating something amazing. You can feel the sense of oneness and price in their community when you speak to the locals about their involvement in it. London has all this potential and much much more, that stiff upper lip just needs to get a little softer.
Has the city missed opportunities as it doesn’t have a conference?
To quote a famous British rock star, "don’t look back in anger". We've had such a phenomenal response from London's music community to this event that the future potential of this project is far too exciting to think about what might have been lost in the past.
What will be happening at the LMC?
We have 65 events included in the conference schedule, we just added 2 more today even though we said no more a week ago! We've genuinely tried to develop a wide range of conference content that is immediately useful to artists and industry professionals, events that we hope will have an instant effect on improving their businesses, helping them to make better music and create closer networks.
The schedule for the three days is pretty packed! Full of quality stuff, are there any talks, showcases or events that you are particularly looking forward to or think will be interesting?
The Virtual Reality Jam panel will unveil some crazy new technology that will blow your mind and could redefine the very concept of a live music performance. The 'Secrets To Success: Artist Management' panel with Nick Halkes (he signed The Prodigy) and Mike Gillespie (he manages Underworld) is another 'must see' panel event.
Why is London’s nightlife so important to you?
As a young DJ and club promoter growing up in Sydney every cultural trend that influenced the music I made and played came from London. London was revered as the Mecca of music, the Eldorado of EDM. Every Saturday morning bright and early I’d be waiting at the local record store (we only had vinyl back then) for the store clerks to unbox the latest shipment of wax from London so I could get my greedy little mits on it. Years later I brought dozens of British DJ's to Australian shores as a music agent and became ever more enthralled by the cultural explosion that was erupting from London (and to a lesser degree, Brighton and Bristol) and landing on my doorstep. By this time in my life Sydney music culture had become almost like a mirror for what went on here. When I finally arrived in the city just under 10 years ago to set up the London branch of my little Aussie music company it was like arriving at the gates of heaven. Since then I’ve felt a sense of humble, almost daunted admiration for the stunning depth of musical talent that exists here, not just in the electronic music scene but right across the musical spectrum. As a music lover and culture junkie, there simply is no other place for me to be.
What were/are your favourite events / venues / clubs in the city? What are you favourite memories from them?
Ewer Street Warehouse raves from promoters likes Spectrum and Pryda. The old Cable Nightclub, UKF's DnB parties circa 2016. Drumcode's Halloween parties at Tobacco Dock, Suffolk Street Warehouse (too many to name!) NTS parties in East London, I could go on but I don't want to play favourites!
Describe how you’d like to see London’s nightlife in 5 years’ time?
Party paradise.
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May 8, 2017 / duncanwilsonauthor / 0 Comments
In the waning years of the galactic Empire of Man, in a remote archival station on a distant mining planet, a young bureaucrat, twelfth level, rediscovered a word. A single word of power and importance such that it had been removed with great passion by fire and death from human memory over the course of several millennia.
When the great and bloated departments of the Government of Man decayed from within and broke into more primitive forms of tribalistic territorialism, when the Empire ever more irreversibly cascaded from de facto to de jure then through nomine tenus, finally coming to rest in memoriam, the young bureaucrat, twelfth level, learned the word. Spreading it to others he knew and trusted, he soon encountered resistance to its very existence. This did not deter him, as the resistance was sparse and unorganized, as those offering it were much more thoroughly occupied trying to not lose their heads in the midst of the empire’s collapse.
As such, the ranks of the adherents to the word of power quickly swelled, as they latched onto what appeared to be a growing movement of strength in the face of looming chaos and hardship. Many of these new recruits had little understanding of the true meaning of the word, having never encountered it or its fruits in their short lifetimes. Thus lacking a reference to guide them, they often engaged in actions in direct opposition to the true meaning of the word. Yet, even these well-intentioned fumblings added to the power of the word, as their actions served to draw more attention to the word and thus bolstered their numbers against the now strengthening resistance to its return to the course of human events. This resistance was most readily embraced by those who had most directly benefited from the old order, as well as those factions rising up to take its place.
Violence inevitably broke out between these two sides, and the young discoverer perished while championing the word to his followers. The passion with which these same disciples struck back shocked any who observed it. Simple brutality and skirmishes escalated almost instantly into pitched warfare, as both sides elected martyrs and heroes from amongst their own ranks and those of their opponents. Soon, those factions previously not aligned with either side found themselves swept along into the heightening conflict, as the forces of the word and the forces who wished the word had remained forgotten turned world after world into a battlefield on which they tried their best to obliterate their enemies.
As their vague causes turned into far more single-minded crusades, logic and wisdom fled before the unforgiving warzone, seamlessly replaced by fanatical devotion and sacrifice. Those that dared question the intent of their leaders suffered for their lack of faith in manners designed to dissuade others from following suite. Even the higher orders of those who followed the word with blind loyalty dared not speculate on the actual meaning of the word itself, as to do so would be to challenge the now certain interpretation of the word as a weapon uniting them against their foes. So it was that the intent of the word was lost in the swelling wave of its standard bearers.
Eventually, many centuries of bloodshed and destruction later, with their grand civilization, that had taken millenia to build up, in ruins about them, finally those few who remained who were capable of research began investigating this cursed word, disregarding the still not inconsiderable danger this presented to their persons. Against the condemnation of the established priesthood of the word, these rogue scholars presented their findings to the galaxy. The uproar of anger against those who had so fervently co-opted the word for the exact opposite of its defined purpose made short work of the remaining forces of the word. The equally exhausted opposition forces stood little chance of resisting the populist groundswell of the common people, who had tired of both factions long ago as their loved ones died for causes that ultimately meant nothing and served no purpose other than to kill the opposing side.
While this final tumultuous upheaval against the dying movements which had drug mankind back down into destitution ran its course, smaller regional governments began to form, applying the word in its true form to their governance, finding success as they did so. Peace returned as the word of power finally took hold. Mankind recovered gradually, rebuilding what the oppressive empire had so methodically erected before, this time in more gentle and natural forms. And so it was that a word so long obliterated from human memory realized its power to alleviate misery and ignorance wherever it was spoken with understanding and without fear of the consequences.
Once again mankind embraced the word ‘freedom’.
A Brief History of Thought – A Short Story
April 30, 2017 / duncanwilsonauthor / 0 Comments
When the world first asked, “Why?”, it was barely in its inception, newly wrought from the flames of creation. Yet even then men stood up and inquired amongst them, “For what purpose are we here? If all eventually fades, why do we be?” It was from this first thought that myriad lines of questioning arose to confound each other and divide mankind into many divergent camps, all despite the driving central question being the same throughout. It was not enough for any that they had found an answer they believed in, they felt it necessary to prove the others wrong, or at least vulnerable to steel.
Into this maelstrom of bickering ideologies, a few attempted to extricate themselves of the issue entirely by asking “How did we come into being? The why will be answered by the how, surely.” These dedicated themselves to observation and reasoning, and yet even these, once they had reached conclusions in their varied methodologies, decided that the others were wholly inept and had to be ridiculed or even persecuted for this. The argument was born, which in turn spawned more than enough stupidity to reverse all of the previously achieved observations and reasoning.
From this stupidity, many emerged wondering, “When and Where are we then? Surely these must be relevant to the other questions!” Which of course, they were not. The less said of these people the better.
Finally, from the chaos of human reasoning arose those who finally realized the central question of their existence. These chose finally to question, “What are we? What makes us able to ask these other confrontational and unsolvable questions? What are we that we can make war on each other over concepts and theories?” These did much thinking and pondering on this subject. There was, of course, only one probable conclusion that they could come to, and this in itself answered the other questions entirely, if not entirely satisfactorily for the others. The answer, you see, was “We are an anomaly.”
With that, the others set upon the ‘What’s and committed many a justifiable anomaly.
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HCLS Chapters-of-Our-Lives Time Capsule Installation Ceremony
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On Monday, December 21, HCLS President & CEO Valerie J. Gross, HCLS Board of Trustees Chair Andy Dalal, special guest County Executive Allan Kittleman, HCLS Chapters-of-Our-Lives Time Capsule Guardians, elected officials and members of the community gathered to mark the grand finale of HCLS’ 75th Diamond Anniversary! At that time the sealed 2015 container along with the yet to be filled and sealed 2040 and 2065 containers were situated into a beautiful new circular seating feature in the lobby of HCLS Central Branch. A plaque mounted on the bench’s backrest reads:
HCLS Chapters-of-Our-Lives Time Capsule
Within this bench rests a Time Capsule that captures the essence of Howard County Library System (HCLS) in 2015, our 75th Anniversary. Its contents reflect our unwavering heritage as a 20th and 21st century educational institution with a mission to deliver equal opportunity in education for everyone through a curriculum that comprises Three Pillars: Self-Directed Education, Research Assistance & Instruction, and Instructive & Enlightening Experiences.
Symbolic of our timeless mission, this Time Capsule is a collection of three containers, all part of a 75-year plan:
To connect our past, present, and future, HCLS appointed 136 Howard County middle school students to serve as Guardians. On October 24, 2015, they pledged to champion the HCLS legacy, keeping it safe for the next 25 years.
October 27, 2040 – The Class of 2015 will reconvene to pass on the role of Guardian to the next generation (Class of 2040). Together, the two generations will open and reseal the 2015 container, then fill the 2040 container.
October 24, 2065 – The Class of 2040 will gather to pass on the role of Guardian to the Class of 2065. Together, they will open and reseal the 2015 and 2040 containers, then fill the 2065 container.
October 21, 2090 – The Class of 2065 will gather on the occasion of Howard County Library System’s sesquicentennial (150th) anniversary to open the Time Capsule.
Dedicated this 24th day of October, 2015 to the always forward looking citizens of Howard County, Maryland.
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Malik Kafur – Love story with Alauddin Khilji, betrayal and Death
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Born in a Hindu family and later converted to Islam, not an African origin as claimed by some historians, Malik Kafur a.k.a. Taj al-Din Izz al-Dawla was a famous personality in history during the 13th century for being an eunuch slave, wise counsellor and military commander fallen madly in love with Kafur. Born in a Hindu family and later converted to Islam, not an African origin as claimed by some historians, Malik Kafur a.k.a. Taj al-Din Izz al-Dawla was a famous personality in history during the 13th century for being an eunuch slave, wise counsellor and military commander.
Alias Taj al-Din’Izz al-Dawla, Malik Na’ib, Hazar-Dinari, al-Alfi
Spouse Khatyapalli, widow of Alauddin
Profession Slave under Delhi Sultanate ruler Alauddin Khilji
Battles fought Mongol invasion in 1306, Battle of Amroha in 1305, Siege of Devagiri in 1308, Siege of Warangal in 1301, Siege of Dwarasamudra in 1311 and Pandya Kingdom raids in 1311
At the very youth age Kafur became a slave of Khwaja of Khambhat, a place in Gujarat known for being important trading center. He was bought for 1,000 dinars from his original master for having great physical beauty.
During the 1299 invasion of Alauddin’s general Nusrat Khan in Gujarat he was captured and presented to the Sultan in Delhi. Soon he became a favored one for his counsel that always turned perfect for occasions. He was promoted to an official position and by 1306 he became barbeg, a rank of a chamberlain, and served as a military commander. He reached to the rank of tax farming of Rapri by 1309-10.
Malik Kafur’s role in Delhi Sultanate military
HIs military career was first tested in 1306 when Alauddin Khilji sent under him an army to Punjab to stop expedition of Mongol invasion, which was defeated a year ago in the Battle of Amroha by force of Delhi Sultanate led by Malik Nayak.
He emerged victorious and thereafter was sent for several great military raids into the Deccan as commander in 1307 and by 1309 he was sent to the Kakatiya kingdom in South India with capital in Orugallu (now as Warangal).
Kafur organized a month-long siege and breached the outer fort. Ruler Prataparudra surrendered but was not removed from the throne. He was forced to pay annual tribute to Delhi.
Kafur thereafter returned to Delhi and brought with him good amount of wealth including 20,000 horses and 100 elephants, and among the loot was the famous Koh-i-Noor diamond, one of the largest cut diamonds in the world that later became part of the British Crown Jewels.
Finding southernmost regions to be very wealthy Kafur led an expedition in 1310 with the permission of Alauddin and reached extremity of peninsular India. In early 1311 he besieged Swarasamudra, capital city of Hoysala. Defending ruler Veera Ballala III surrendered and was offered two choices, whether to accept Islam or to pay annual tribute to the Delhi Sultanate. He chose to pay tribute.
From here kafur proceeded to an ancient Tamil dynasty called the Pandya kingdom, but he quit his plans to pursue the ruler and returned back to Delhi. However, he obtained a good number of treasures, elephants and horses.
In 1313 Kafur led an expedition to Devagiri to subdue Ramachandra’s successor Singhana and stayed as governor of the territory for about two years. He was called back to Delhi following deteriorating health of Alauddin. He handed over the charge of the region to military commander Ayn al-Mulk Multani.
During the last days of Alauddin he became the de facto ruler of Delhi Sultanate. He started distrusting other officers and reserved all the power in the hands of his family and slaves. He resuffled administrators, executed minister Sharaf Qa’ini and abolished office of wazir. Alauddin had greater trust on him comaperd to other officers as he had no family or followers.
Malik Kafur and Alauddin Khilji
The two had deep emotional bond. It is said Alauddin was in fact infatuated with Kafur and hence placed him at highest place in his regards.
Muslim political thinker of the Delhi Sultanate Ziauddin Barani once wrote, “In those four or five years when the Sultan was losing his memory and his senses, he had fallen madly in love with the Kafur. He entrusted on him all the official responsibilities as well as the controls on servants to this ungrateful, Useless, ingratiate, sodomite.”
Based on his description further studies reveal Alauddin and Kafur were in a homosexual relationship. Another historian however believes the closeness of the two was not sexual.
Gay Affair – Malik Kafur and Alauddin Khilji Relationship
Not much is known about Malik Kafur’s romance with Alauddin but historian Ziauddin Barani (1285 – 1357 CE) writes after Alauddin’s health deteriorated the control of Kingdom passed on Kafur. During those days the intimate relationship of the two was whispered in corridors of Delhi. However, there is no such evidence as he has written from he has heard from his uncle, who was a courtier in the Khilji court.
Chennai-based historian Abraham Eraly howevre writes Barani was biased against Kafur in his work and his version cannot be considered as credible.
Abalahabad based historian BP Saxena wrote in during the last few years Alauddin was infatuated with Kafur but no element of homosexuality could be found in his character. Alauddin had greater trust on Kafur compared to other officers as he had no family of followers.
The true nature of their relationship can never be known but it is true the closeness did not prevent Kafur from betraying Alauddin and taking the throne.
Malik Kafur and Alp Khan
Alauddin’s brother-in-law Alp Khan emerged as a threat to Kafur and so he had convinced the Delhi Sultanate for Khan’s murder in the royal palace.
Alp Khan’s two daughters were wedded to Alauddin’s sons Khizr Khan and Shadi Khan. Khizr was banished from court to Amroha and thereafter imprisoned in Gwalior. Shadi Khan too was put behind the bars.
Stories goes this way that Khizr Khan, his mother and Alp Khan conspired to poison the sultanate with the intention to make Khizr the new Sultan. All the three were executed by Alauddin.
Alauddin Khilji’s death
On 4 January 1316 Alauddin died and his body was taken from Siri Palace to the mausoleum, which was earlier built. His body was buried here. A day later he read out the will and named Shihabuddin as successor even though all the powers were held by him. A historian writes he had wedded Alauddin’s widow, Shihabuddin’s mother Jhatyapalli to legitimize his power.
Did malik kafur kill alauddin khilji ?
There are some versions that say Kafur murdered Alauddin Khilji and There are people which claim that his Sexuality led To His Brutal kiling!
Alauddin Khilji’s untold paedophile and bisexual story
In India people are not comfortable talking about sexuality freedom. Such things did exist in past and one of those is homosexual relationship of Alauddin Khilji’s with Indian-born general Malik Kafur.
Alauddin Khilji’s sexuality is much argued and many historians have written that he was paedophile and bisexual.
Folklore of Jayasi mentioned heterosexual personality of Alauddin Khilji while praising beauty of Queen Padmavati. He further described sexual passions of Alauddin Khilji that his harem had about 70,000 males, females and children. It is also learned 30,000 females in it were the widows of men whom he had killed in just single day.
Alauddin Khilji had a strategy to attack Chittor and get 7,000 women including Padmavati who can become his royal consort. All the women however committed Jauhar, custom of mass self-immolation to avoid capture.
Personal life of Malik Kafur has been guarded by historians until very lately. He was a slave and Alauddi Khilji purchased him from the famous slave market in Gujarat called Baccha Bazi. It is learned the sultanate was mesmerised by his beauty and acquired at a price of 1,000 dinar. This is the reason Malik Kafur is also addressed as Hazaar Dinari.
During the era the foreign invaders bought to India men dancers who were dressed like women. The purpose was just for entertainment and pleasure.
Historians write the jauhar of Queen Padmavati and all other women of Chittor impacted Alauddin’s mental health. Taking advantage of the situation Malik Kafur tried taking control of the palace, rulings and policies. Official advisors interfered saying Alauddin’s sons must take the throne.
As an aftermath Malik Kafur throned 3-year-old son Shihab-ud-Din Umar and silently worked as a ruler. He conspired Alauddin’s death.
Malik Kafur’s death
Kafur’s actions against the family of Alauddin were disapproved by former bodyguards of the sultanate. All the four decided to kill him. Becoming suspicious about their plan he summoned one of them to his room but unfortunately he was wounded with knife and other three associates entered the room, beheaded him.
Malik Kafur’s tomb
His grave is not known but in the autobiography of Firuz Shah the mausoleum existed and was repaired by Sultan Firuz Shah Tughlaq.
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‘Compostable’ sheets for college students
Carol Britton Meyer
Sep 20, 2012 at 12:01 AM Sep 20, 2012 at 8:11 PM
It’s not that they have anything against 300 thread-count traditional bed sheets or throwing in a load of laundry. Rather, it’s about “rethinking laundry” – a process that led to the creation of their company, Beantown Bedding, LLC, last December. Their product, “bedsox,” is an environmentally friendly, compostable alternative to cloth or linen bed sheets – the perfect solution for college students who are too busy to launder the “real thing.”
Hingham residents Joan Ripple and Kirsten Lambert facetiously refer to themselves as the “laundry rebels.”
Eliminating loads of laundry has strong appeal for harried students who understandably have their minds on other things — upcoming exams, guests, or extracurricular activities. “They offer a convenient alternative when there’s just no time for washing sheets,” Lambert said.
Ripple noted with a smile that college students “are very conscious of how they look and will commit time to washing their clothes, but sometimes sheets don’t enter into that equation!”
Bedsox look and feel much like conventional sheets, but they aren’t. These twin sheets (other sizes will be available soon) are not only convenient, they are also comfortable – good for short-term use by busy people. They also come in handy when hosting overnight guests, attending summer camp, or traveling.
Ripple is quick to point out, “Bedsox aren’t meant to take the place of traditional sheets. They are meant as backups during mid-terms and other particularly busy times or when a student is ill and can’t wash his or her regular sheets.”
The partners have a lot in common – both are mothers of college students and decided to turn their lives as empty-nesters into “anything but empty,” according to Ripple. They both have yellow labs, Sunshine (Ripple’s dog) and Fenway, and both of their husbands are named John.
Looking back, Ripple and Lambert both sent their teenagers off to college at the same time – two in 2009 and another two in 2011.
“After living in Hingham for more than 20 years and being a stay-at-home mom for all that time, I was absolutely dreading the prospect of being ‘fired’ from the job I loved,” Ripple said. “In an attempt to stay close to our children who were far away, Kirsten and I regularly talked about what was going on in their lives.”
Responsible alternative
The two friends quickly learned that their teens (two girls and two boys) rarely washed their bed sheets. “We joked about sending them the paper rolls that doctors use so that they could sleep on something clean,” Ripple recalled with a smile. “Our joking turned more serious as we decided to pursue the possibility of creating comfortable bedding that could be disposed of responsibly instead of washed.”
After more than a year of research and brainstorming while taking walks together in Bare Cove Park, Lambert and Ripple started Beantown Bedding and introduced their line of semi-durable but ultimately disposable laundry-free bed sheets. The name refers to the fact that the company is based in Hingham, a suburb of Boston (nicknamed “Beantown”).
Bedsox can be used for a few weeks or sometimes longer and then discarded in a trash or compost bin — thereby saving time, energy, detergent, and water, Lambert said. They are certified as biodegradable and compostable,
Ripple has a human resources and management background and Lambert has one in marketing and market research, which came in handy when brainstorming, creating, testing, and marketing their product.
Passed the test
Bedsox have passed muster not only with students who have tried them but also with a prestigious West Coast university’s conference center as compared with traditional sheets. The college-aged testers found that over a four-week period bedsox out-performed laundry-service sheets in comfort, feel, durability, and even freshness.
Positive feedback included: “It makes Earth happy”; “They were fitted and soft . . . but not too hot”; and “They were a neutral color, environmentally friendly, chemical/bleach-free, and allergen resistant.”
More than three-quarters of the students from 22 universities nationwide who participated in a product test were also satisfied with the comfort bedsox provide.
Third woman played a role
Ripple and Lambert are quick to share the praise with their friend and fellow Hingham resident Carol Prendergast, a graphic designer who designed their website.
“She really captured the right “feel’ for our business,” Ripple said. “Just days after the launch of the site, we received national recognition when Amazon featured us as their website of the week. These days websites can be the first impression we make to the world, and therefore it is critical to have a good one.”
Bedsox made their debut this summer at various university-hosted overnight camps. The overall positive response so far comes as no surprise to the two entrepreneurs. “Anything that makes life easier and cleaner in an environmentally friendly way is sure to be a hit,” Ripple said.
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Welcome to the web: Becki Percy, Vicky Ash, & the UK SRA pushers
We’ve said this before, but the web of those who push the Satanic ritual abuse narrative within the UK is both relatively small and very close-knit.
For example, when we were looking into the story of SRA claimant Becki Percy, we learned that although she began her career of allegations by claiming that her father had sexually abused her, and later expanded that to her mother trafficking her, she didn’t really get rolling with her abuse claims until she’d discovered a woman named Victoria (Vicky) Ash.
Off to a good start
Becki contacted blogger Fenna Vlekke in early 2015, “because she wanted to raise awareness on the topic of childhood sexual abuse”. In the interview she not only claimed that she was locked into the loft at her parents’ home with “only a dog bowl filled with water for company”, but she described what happened after she allegedly told a teacher in January 2010 that her father had been sexually abusing her:
That night, a police woman and a social worker came to mums house. My dad was still at work so it was only my mum and me. They explained everything to her and she started with the crocodile tears. She pretended she had no clue this had been happening. Of course, they believed her tears. My dad came home and, for my own safety, the police woman told me to go upstairs so I did. I could still hear everything. She told my dad he would have to find somewhere else to live because he wasn’t allowed near me. He was angry. Saying that I’d made it up and that he hasn’t ever touched me. Lies. Thankfully the police made him go and he did. He left.
So…a 13-year-old girl reports sexual abuse, the police show up, and instead of arresting her father for questioning, they simply tell him he has to leave the home…and then they toodle off themselves, job done?
In this interview, Becki says she went to live with her uncle, but worse luck, guess what? He was involved in her parents’ child trafficking ring too! When she reported this in March 2010, she was sent to live in foster care, followed quickly by emergency residential care, and finally “a lovely placement” where she was living at the time of the interview.
There’s no mention of her uncle or parents ever having been arrested or prosecuted for their alleged crimes; they just fade out of the picture.
Asked whether she had help dealing with the emotional effects of her abuse, Becki’s response is telling:
In terms of social services, they don’t believe a word that comes out of my mouth. They think I’ve lied about the abuse. I’ve been referred to CAMHS countless times but they’re totally useless.
Shifting narratives
Interestingly, in a December 2016 YouTube video, the story changes somewhat:
I lived with Xxxx ([mother’s] brother) until May 7th. I disclosed to the same school teacher about him sexually abusing me. I was placed in foster care
I was in that foster care placement for around a month in which time the male foster carer was sexually abusing me. I, again, disclosed to a school teacher and was placed into an emergency children’s home
I was there for a further month then placed in a more permanent children’s home.
From July 2nd 2010 to April 21st 2015 I live in the second children’s home. In that time I went through a cycle of CPS wanting me to see Ann, I would have contact with her then she would abuse and traffick me, I would eventually tell someone. The police would ‘investigate’ but then come back and say they wasn’t going to prosecute which is when the cycle would start over.
A few things are notable here:
Becki adds an allegation of sexual abuse against her male foster carer;
She states that her social workers wanted her to see her mother, a strange choice for a teen who was allegedly being sexually abused and trafficked;
The police would investigate, but refused to prosecute—again, a strange choice if there was any evidence whatsoever that Becki was being sexually abused or trafficked; and
Nowhere in any of the above does she mention Satanic ritual abuse, nor her devotion to evangelical Christianity, which will become leitmotifs of her current internet fame.
And then along came Vicky Ash
In January 2017, however, Becki posted this video to YouTube:
We’ve discussed this video before: it’s the one in which she states, then tries to retract, that she has done a great deal of research into SRA. The main thrust of the video is that while she knew she’d been abused as a child, it wasn’t until about six months earlier that she’d come to the stunning realisation that she had been a victim of SRA.
At 05:52 she mentions that her role model in this is “a very courageous woman named Vicky Ash”. Becki expresses admiration for Vicky:
I really find her story and her courage inspiring and she was the push that I needed spiritually—she’s a Christian—to continue doing these videos….To hear from another survivor that has experienced similar things to myself speak about it with such…she was so graceful about it, and she was calm. She looked like she was at peace. And I’m thanking God that she has found God, and she is strong in her faith, and I know that God has already started healing her, which I’m thankful for also.
Unfortunately, the video Becki refers to has been removed from YouTube for violating its terms of service.
On Voat, Becki gushes about how Vicky helped her understand that the alleged abuse she’d suffered was actually SRA.
We don’t know that Becki and Vicky ever communicated directly. However, it seems quite clear that Vicky’s various online interviews helped Becki shape and hone her SRA story, as it shifted from “my parents abused me” to “my parents trafficked me and locked me in the loft with a dog bowl of water” to “my parents and other unnamed people chased me through the forest full of dead children hung from the trees like Christmas ornaments, and each time they raped me they took another item of my clothing”.
Who is Vicky Ash?
Although the specific video Becki references is no longer available, Vicky Ash has given many interviews over the years. In this undated interview with Wilfred Wong, she describes the familiar litany of “Satanic” practices:
I was also forced by my Satanist abuser to watch pornography, which included Bestiality. In addition I was forced to ‘play games‘ during which I was sexually abused and told that I was the ‘star of the show‘. Photographs were taken of this abuse.
I was drugged with a drink and taken out at night to tunnels and other locations with everyone wearing black hooded cloaks. I heard screaming and witnessed Satanist rituals with animals and children being murdered. There was lots of chanting. I was impregnated and my baby was aborted and offered as a sacrifice to Satan. Abortion is the modern form of Child Sacrifice. Bible-believing Christians ought to take careful note of this and become much more actively Pro-Life.
(Yes, she does say, “Abortion is the modern form of Child Sacrifice”. You were not imagining it. Sorry.)
With the help of her MP Geoffrey Dickens, Vicky’s case was investigated by police twice, but no one was ever charged, despite her persistence. However, she claims “there is plenty of hard evidence that SRA exists in the UK, including the several successfully prosecuted SRA cases in our nation”.
This is blatantly false: in Prof Jean La Fontaine’s 1994 study of over 200 allegations of SRA in the UK, only three cases were substantiated, and they were found to have been “pseudosatanic”—sexual abuse was the main motivation of the abusers, and the ritual elements were incidental.
However, like most SRA pushers, Vicky does not let mere facts stand in the way of her belief.
A former beauty salon operator who now describes herself as a “beauty therapist”, she runs a “Holistic Christian Ministry called ‘Christoria’. Its work includes helping other SRA survivors and warning people that some beauty treatments on offer are Occultic”.
Vicky’s ties to UK SRA pushers
In addition to Wilfred Wong, Vicky Ash is closely linked to others within the UK SRA-pushing community.
In November 2015, we find her being interviewed by Brian Gerrish, an interview which was promoted on David Icke’s website.
Interestingly, in addition to referencing Geoffrey Dickens, she talks about her affiliation with Dianne Core of Childwatch. Ms Core was an enthusiastic promoter of the SRA narrative in the 1990s, who managed to straddle the fundamentalist/evangelical Christian / radical feminist divide, and worked on The Cook Report at the time when it was pushing SRA heavily. She is probably worthy of a post on her own, but it’s interesting that Vicky Ash says she was helped by her.
We found that Sabine McNeill has featured Vicky on her National Inquiry into Organised, Orchestrated, and Historic Child Sexual Abuse blog. In a post on 8 May 2017, Sabine featured Vicky speaking at the “Perth Conference on Full Spectrum #ChildSexualAbuse”.
That event, described by our own YdychyncachuTracey as “a shitfest of complete utter fuckwittery”, turns out to have been the founding event of none other than the Scottish Fresh Start Foundation, which we’ve been tracking for the past several months. In addition to Vicky Ash, speakers included the aforementioned Wilfred Wong, Robert Green, Sandy Smith, Shirley P. Cooper, and Andrea Sadegh, with Brian Gerrish, David Icke, and Kevin Annett making video appearances. Hail, hail, the gang’s all here!
Once again, we have no idea what Vicky actually said at the event, as that particular Fresh Start Foundation YouTube channel seems to have taken down for “multiple infractions” of YouTube’s terms of service. Quelle surprise.
We find it fascinating, though, that despite being located so far from the UK, an SRA claimant like Becki Percy, looking for validation of her own stories, somehow seems to have hooked into the UK SRA-believers’ community so seamlessly.
23/06/2018 in Witch hunters. Tags: Becki Percy, Brian Gerrish, Fresh Start Foundation, Kevin Annett, Robert Green, Sabine McNeill, Satanic ritual abuse, UK Column, Wilfred Wong
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108 thoughts on “Welcome to the web: Becki Percy, Vicky Ash, & the UK SRA pushers”
Very interesting post EC. I see that the MP Geoffrey Dickens was mentioned and he was the MP that first bought allegations of high-level paedophiles to attention. All rubbish of course but interesting to see that he was in contact with Vicky Ash.
Yes, it’s amazing how interlinked they all seem to be. If I didn’t know better I might call it a “conspiracy”.
Perish the thought EC 😉
Here’s a link to a BBC report about Dickens and his dossier.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-28141531
Thanks, Arthur! Good thinking. 👍🏻
Geoffrey Dickens talking about SRA.
Wow, a veritable who’s who!
So she’s citing referrals to a mental health service as proof that she wasn’t a lying fantasist?
Good work on finding all those inconsistencies in Becki’s ever-changing story, EC.
Apparently!
Thanks! This just scratches the surface, I’m afraid.
I watched the video with Vicky Ash talking to Brian Gerrish and i wondered does she really believe in what she is saying due to a mental illness or is she straight out lying?
That’s an excellent question and I’ve wondered that about all the SRA myth promoters, tbh. One could almost do a pie chart for each of them to show the differing proportions of lies to fantasy.
Can I just let people know about this comment from OMG?
https://hoaxteadresearch.wordpress.com/2018/06/22/angela-barks-up-the-wrong-tree-again/comment-page-1/#comment-110658
S/he clearly put a lot of time and effort into it but sadly it was found languishing in the spam folder and ended up in the dead zone that is the tail end of the last post.
Incredibly, the article that OMG links isn’t from a 1980s tabloid but from yesterday’s Metro!
Thanks for re-posting OMG’s comment as I may have missed it otherwise. Those sort of articles do no good at all apart from encouraging belief in such nonsense. I wonder if the journalist really did meet that woman or did she just make the story up?
Who would have thought that a man offering to massage your ‘yoni’ would turn out to be a pervert? It’s the perfect job for a pervert wanting to feel up any woman daft enough to visit him.
Thanks, Scarlet, and thanks OMG. That first story sounds as if it was written 30 years ago. I find it depressing that this nonsense is being peddled again as if it were real.
I think it’s an important question. This is worth addressing in more detail, but I believe the short answer would be “it depends”. I think that “recovered memory therapies” can make people believe that these terrible things really did happen. Then there are the fakers, who create the stories as they go, in order to gain attention, money, or both. Even they, though, can come to believe some of their own lies, as they repeat them so often they begin to feel true.
Yoni massage is featured in the film ‘The Road to Wellville’ which is hilarious.
‘ Its work includes helping other SRA survivors and warning people that some beauty treatments on offer are Occultic”.’
OMG. I’m going to be careful next time I have a pedicure. You never know do you!
OMGnotthisoldshiteagain says:
It does sound very 1980s except for the fact that the narrative has been updated to try to bypass the activism of the various posters here and on other sceptical blogs and news sites who point out there have been no actually proven cases of SRA. The article in the Metro has a section titled “What is a pseudo-cult?” that is definitely worthy of careful reading and reflection. I perceive it as evidence that this blog and other similar, sceptical blogs are making a difference and that the SRA promoters’ narratives are changing to adapt to the new scepticism.
Also re the “vagina massage” articles, the first is effectively an advertisement that recommends female readers to submit to vagina massages from a convicted sex offender, while the second article includes a multiple choice questionnaire in which readers can share their enthusiasm, or lack thereof, for spending money on vagina massages.
I was wondering what company or organisation developed the questionnaire? Given that, in the age of the internet, criminals and cults harvest compromising information from people in order to identify people vulnerable to blackmail and exploitation, I always am very careful and cautious around online multiple choice questionnaires.
It seems to me that the Metro are being extremely negligent with their readers’ safety by publishing these articles.
The only thing I can think of in their defence is that many much more reputable news sites have also published completely uncritical articles promoting dodgy cults, fake shamans and assorted new age grifters.
Actually there is another redeeming feature of the Metro and that is that, when Gwyneth Paltrow’s dodgy website Goop was advocating that women heal their sex lives by pushing jade eggs up their vaginas, Metro ridiculed the idea and actually published a lot of sane reasons why this was a potentially dangerous practice. If only they could extend the same level of sanity and scepticism to SRA / DID and vagina massages the world would be a safer place.
I call shenanigans on your use of the word “journalist”
Grobnob says:
Can’t wait for becki to get her dumb ass booted out of America and see how she settles into life in the UK without an adoptive clan of over wealthy and underwise buffoons to support her. These fakes are parasites who belittle genuine victims in their lust for attention. Maybe she’ll find a spare room in Highgate, though I feel her true spiritual home would be among the tiny tears and unicorns of golders green. Imagine those two idiots together . . . . Scented candles, my little ponies and wanky rainbows all round.
Well, you wouldn’t want to put your foot in it, Miss Camden.
Actually Vicky Ash’s narratives that some beauty treatments are “occult” is extremely interesting to me.
Many of the disgusting cults that exploit vulnerable people as human assets encourage the said vulnerable people to start their own businesses.
Some of these businesses are running workshops in “yoni massage” / “sexual awakening” etc. Some are multi-level marketing (MLM) businesses selling quack products and remedies. Some are MLM businesses selling the cuts books, workshops / retreats, DVDs etc promoting the cult and quite a lot are people selling beauty creams and other beauty products.
I think that one of the main reasons why criminals encourage people to work hard as new age entrepreneurs is that is creates a large community within which multiple revenue streams can be used as layers to obscure dirty money that can be laundered. Of course the criminals want their victims to work hard and build large, successful businesses because, at the end of the day, they will relieve people of their assets and own the businesses themselves.
I wondered why so many of the businesses include beauty products and I believe there is one very obvious answer (not the only answer though) and the obvious answer is that even corporate producers of beauty products deal in woo.
The Advertising Standards Authority is always rapping the knuckles of various corporate beauty brands for making false claims in advertisements. If you watch an advertisement for face cream or other product with the volume turned off you will see that models put animated cartoons of scientific vignettes on their faces. When a women applies a moisturiser to her face she is not applying just a moisturiser, she is applying ideas, concepts and dreams.
In fact if one considers some of the most noticeable products promoted by cults and criminals, they are the very same products that snake oil sellers have sold for millennia, quack cancer cures, cures for erectile dysfunction, weight loss remedies and face creams to make you look 10 years younger.
Back to Vicky Ash, I have not researched her particular issues with “occult” beauty treatments, but it seems to me that whenever criminals and cults do something dodgy, some conspiraloon turns up with a batshit crazy conspiracy theory that identifies the grift but that is encased in a layer of insanity that obscures the reality at the core of the narrative.
Interesting piece in the Telegraph today
“The Church of England disregarded dozens of allegations in its inquiry into child sexual abuse and then downplayed the issue to protect its reputation, a critical report has found.
A report by former Barnardo’s chief executive Sir Roger Singleton found that close to 100 cases were whittled down to just a handful for a review released in 2010.
Inconsistent and overly specific criteria reduced the number of cases they reported for the Past Cases Review, leading it to conclude after examining 40,000 files that just 13 cases of alleged child sexual abuse merited formal action.
Sir Roger, who was commissioned to complete an inquiry into the review, said he believed the Church “downplayed” the issue in public statements to avoid reputational damage.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/06/22/church-england-excluded-child-abuse-allegations-inquiry-downplayed/
Further down in the article it reports that:
“In a case in Exeter Diocese, there was “concern about obsessional interest in satanic ritual abuse and conduct generally” by a retired priest, which it was decided would be dealt with by the Archdeacon.”
I am detecting a theme here.
Thanks Scarlet 🙂
I sometimes get inspired to post late at night / early in the morning. I appreciate you reposting it here
Thanks for that, hadn’t seen it before, great video
Agreed 100%
We have to be very careful not to fall into binary thinking, the issue is nuanced and complex
Firstly, love the spider web photo. This is my update on the Becki Percy case.
My plan to go-fund an assistance dog for Becki Percy as an incentive to report her allegations to the police has fallen through, there are no such assistance dogs in the UK for those with PTSD except ones for emergency and military personnel. I could not therefore cost the project to launch a Go-Fund. As you might remember, the incentive was that the money would be given to police in Hull, and if they found a case to bring charges against those Becki accused of crimes, she would get her dog, otherwise the funds would go to Childline.
As these allegations by Percy have not been tested by a police investigation, I am treating it as an active crime scene until the police have come to their conclusions. It appears the personal sex abuse claims by Percy have been looked at by the police and the evidence was not strong enough to bring charges. In her own words Percy said the police and the four social workers who dealt with her case considered her an “allegation maker”.
The newest allegations that Percy makes appears to have manifested around the time she arrived in the USA in 2015. There is no mention of SRA allegations in her internet postings pre 2015. These new allegations have not been tested by a police investigation, so I have in recent days been lobbying Percy and her supporters to contact the UK police to initiate an investigation. Percy has been frustrating, despite her many internet postings about her alleged SRA experiences, plus her concerns for the dead and abused children of her alleged abusers, she did not and seems unwilling to report these latest horrific alleged murders to the police. Her response to me is block me on Twitter, and when her supporters thought my suggestion that she should contact the UK police was a good idea, her only response was “he is a Satanist.” It is beyond bizarre that Percy is posting away on her two Twitter accounts promoting her candle business, yet does not and is unwilling to put any effort or time into contacting the police to bring about justice for her alleged victims and to safeguard future children from harm. Percy has been selfish in my opinion, complaining about her own misfortunes, promoting her candle business, promoting Trump and her Gofund projects … she has no motivation to help the alleged thousands of victims in Hull … it is moments like that when I want to bang my head on my keyboard.
According to Percy, apart from one teacher, everyone she has shared her abuse claims with have not believed her. She has been passionate enough about her claims to get herself put into care for five years, and a further 14 months in jail in the USA as an illegal immigrant. It is strange that Percy has not shared all her story with the authorities, rather, it has been in bits, thus she claimed her father sexually abused her, he was asked to leave the home; she then said her mother sexually abused her, she was sent to live with an uncle; she then said her uncle sexually abused her, she was sent to live with a faster carer; she then said the foster carer sexually abused her; she was sent to a care home. Why Percy has not shared the whole abuse story right at the start rather than bits and pieces that are growing ever wilder over the years is a mystery.
Because Percy has been unwilling to bring her allegations to a conclusion through a police investigation, rather wanting a type of internet circus to emerge where she encourages her gang of supporters to fund her many gofund campaigns, buy candles, and attack her abusers, I have been very assertive to the point of harrassment in getting her to report these allegations to the UK police. I however have always been polite and encouraging to her, and my actions fall under the prevention and investigation of crime legal defense for UK harrasment legislation.
Some might be critical of my strategy, but one has to take into account I have to keep in harmony with the law on harrassment, and it is better to have an open communication with Percy and her supporters to bring about a police investigation, since there might have been crimes committed. For legal reasons I won’t be contacting the real family of Becki Percy.
Percy has currently claimed political asylum to the USA from Britain because she says her family will kill her. Her family are ordinary working class people, her mother is a pillar of her local community. They are hardly sophisticated or that well connected to be capable of killing thousands of children in Hull over ten years without someone noticing. Percy has made no efforts to involve the UK police in investigating her SRA allegations or to protect her in their witness program, which is going to be noted by Homeland Security and the courts dealing with her asylum case. She will be deported.
Such is our frustration that Percy refuses to contact the UK police, that my associate “Ajax” contacted the police in Hull and made them aware of the allegations of Becki Percy. Now that we have an official record on file “Record C732 22-06-18” we now have an anchor point to drive this matter to a police investigation and a conclusion.
As I did with the Hampstead case, I have done objective due diligence during an analysis of the Percy SRA allegations. Unlike the Hampstead case, the Percy allegations have yet to be tested with a police investigation, so this is where my goal is focused, to bring about a police investigation.
Ajax is far from happy that he has had to go to so much trouble to contact the police in Hull because of the refusal of Percy to do so. The Percy case shows that I, Ajax and others involved in cases such as this which involves contact with the police, media and other interested parties, means we have to be more formally organised. We are starting a new group called the Arachne Project. I will deal with the internet communications, Ajax deals with the police etal, others will deal with other aspects of the project. This also allows us to bring into play a technology to examine the complex eco-system or web of information that those who allege or promote SRA leave all over the internet, to output that information in a form that crime victims, lawyers and the police will find useful.
One way or another, there is going to be a police investigation, and if there is a crime, someone is going to end in court.
…aka Tony Does Yoni
For ‘Whores, the lot of them’, read ‘Why didn’t the bastards invite me?’
Well done SV. I will be paticularly interested to know where these alleged woods and tunnels were the abuse took place are. BP has been very vague so far.
From the underground crypt at St Giles
Came a scream that resounded for miles…
LOL, i was feeling generous at the time. 🙂
Except that it wasn’t all rubbish at all
As so often happens in these cases there were truthful allegations against a real, disgusting child abusing cult, the notorious Children of God
I believe that what happened was that Dickens had an initial dossier containing allegations against the Children of God, an extremely dangerous and well networked cult that was engaged in prostitution and sex trafficking, the sexual abuse of children from birth onwards, producing films and photographs depicting the sexual abuse of children and the infiltration of the military and judiciary of various territories internationally.
Dickens’ initial dossier was followed up and, to some extent obscured by, a subsequent dossier making allegations of SRA and elite paedophile rings
yet again I detect a theme
We may not see eye to eye on some things SV but, on this particular issue, I have to say that I like the cut of your jib. 🙂
Issy T. says:
I would dearly love to know what sort of mindset lies behind the fabrication and promoting of these myths.
I do know there is a huge industry out there selling such screeds to the unsuspecting public, someone came up with the term “emotional pornography” to explain why it sells so well….apparently we like to read about others’ misfortunes, perhaps it makes us feel less unlucky.
If you type “magazines which buy personal stories of abuse in UK” into your chosen search engine you’ll be given a list of rag mags willing to pay you up to 300 sterling for your ‘true story’.
I think “attention-seeking” will rank high on the list of reasons why people invent these stories. I’m not sure where “monetary gain as a motivating factor” would rank.
I do suspect that some individuals who latch onto the whole “I was abused as a child by satanists” or “I am a victim of MK Ultra programming” are trying to explain away/justify their own inadequacies and failings and want pity rather than blame.
Also the movie “Hysteria” and the TV series “Masters of Sex”, which was a partly fictionalised account of the work of Masters and Johnson.
Interestingly there is a Masters and Johnson link to a satanic panic in the US relating to multiple abuses of vulnerable people at the notorious Castlewood Treatment Centre by Mark Schwartz and Lori Galperin.
“Previous to being clinical director at Castlewood, Mark Schwartz and his wife Lori Galperin were directors of the Masters and Johnson Trauma units at Two Rivers Psychiatric Hospital in Kansas City and also at River Oaks Hospital in New Orleans.”
http://www.fmsfonline.org/?news2013update=Castlewood%20Lawsuits%20Dismissed.
Masters and Johnson were the first sexologists to use “sexual surrogates”, that is to say people who have sex with patients in order to heal them of sexual problems. Whatever the ethical issues surrounding such a controversial practice back in the days when Masters and Johnson pioneered the practice, nowadays it is difficult to find a “sexual surrogate” who is not involved with a sinister cult.
Galperin and Schwartz also have multiple personal and business links to the disgraced paedophile former rabbi Marc Gafni.
As I have said before, scratch the surface of the satanic panic and you will find a network of paedophiles, perverts, predators, pimps and traffickers all attempting to deflect the collective gaze away from their nefarious activities by pointing and screaming “oh look Satanic Ritual Abuse!”
I read your exchange with another twitterer on the tweet machine under one of Ms. Percy’s tweets and he seemed horrified that the murders of all those babies had not yet been reported to the police, that’s when Becky interjected and advised the man concerned that you are a Satanist – I laughed when I read that but an angel came to your rescue.
Ms. Percy is interesting in that she appears to apply the KISS principle quite well in her words….we are not her target audience – she knows exactly that non-believers are of no consequence to her as long as a certain number of unquestioning believers continue to support her. Has she been trained by someone?
Under Trump’s regime she may well get to remain in the USA.
Also worth reading on the subject of the Children of God is the book the Dirty Squad by Michael Hames the Detective Superintendent in the Metropolitan Police, head of the Obscene Publications Branch from 1990 until his retirement in 1994.
In the book Hames is sceptical of SRA allegations stating clearly that his team never encountered any evidence of SRA.
However Hames and his team did, as reported in the book, receive autogenic therapy (a form of self-hypnosis) from the notorious SRA promoter the late Vera Diamond and her husband Malcolm Carruthers.
Obviously this is concerning.
Towards the end of the book Hames reports receiving a dossier of information about the Children of God, a fact that I read with interest and I was very much looking forward to reading what he made of a real, as opposed to imaginary, CSA cult.
Unfortunately, pretty much immediately after receiving the dossier, Hames suffered a coronary and the book ends, with no reporting at all about the investigation into the CoG.
can my typo please be corrected
Whatever the ethical issues surrounding such a controversial practice back i note days when Masters and Johnson pioneered the practice
Whatever the ethical issues surrounding such a controversial practice back in the days when Masters and Johnson pioneered the practice
@ Fairly Sane.
I have asked Becki Percy to send to me locations and maps of the wood and where she thinks bodies are buried. Ajax will pass these onto the police. She has been given my e-mail.
What’s missing from Becky’s tale is a remembrance of a Black Magic ceremony with a black cloaked & hooded figure (with ghastly bleached blonde hair sticking out and accompanied by the pungent smell of a cigar) intoning “now then, now then, how’s about that folks ?”.
Get with the program Becky- you need a celebrity in your tale and what better than a dead one if you want to crack the Sunday newspapers (Hell, it worked for Angela Power-Disney)
On the subject of Fruit Loopery I know Hoaxtead contributors are aware of the brilliant “creator” of The Voice (bloody Dutch- known plagiarists) , The X Factor (as if Simon Cowell could come up with that idea on his own!) Star War films. Bugs Bunny cartoons, Meet the Press, Coronation Street and ‘Roseanne’ and who was the inspiration for Walt Disney’s (via a psychic seance) Mickey Mouse, one Charles Seven who won a High Court action against all these programs for plagiarism and a $Billion damages remedy award but as usual, the Rothschild Cult & Rupert Murdoch with Ted Turner’s help have bribed the judges to claim they dismissed her legal action.
Despite a TV producer claiming he recalls Ms Seven (I keep telling Mr Soros “why do you perpetuate horrendous actions like 9/11 & 7/7 -think about it- it all adds up to 7- to frighten the gallant Mizz Seven , wouldn’t it be easier to just assassinate Charles herself?”, but he rudely just says “you stick to your broom closet and just worry about emptying the bins”)…said producer says he recalls Ms Seven attending a public event at his TV network and casually saying “wouldn’t it be nice if peoiple danced on TV?” and thus Dancing With The Stars was born albeit, Seven being ripped off yet again of one of her brilliant creative ideas.
Now Charles Seven is joined in her heroic actions against the evil British Media Empire (BBC) by Rainetta Jones, the true Inventor of the iPod and Kindle. Well I have news for Rainetta. A very early paparazzi snap of me (below) with my prototype Ipod in 1957 powered by Organite & dubbed the Quantum Ear Gearbox (or QEG) and it was ME who had the idea first.
https://ascensioncorner.wordpress.com/2015/01/26/sevengate-massive-uk-intellectual-property-theft-coverup-connection-to-some-false-flags/
@ Issy T.
When I read the “he is a Satanist” statement, I had a need to start banging my head against the desk. A yellow jelly baby came to the rescue.
I am forcing Becki Percy to make choices. If she really believes in her allegations, she will contact the police in Hull, if not, then her contrary choices will work against her, since I won’t let her off the hook.
I get the impression that Trump is hostile to all non-Americans. The guys who have to enforce the borders in the USA won’t be keen to be allowing every youngster through to become an American citizen based upon a weak claim that their parents are going to kill them due to an unproven narrative. If this was the case, every kid in Britain will be heading to the USA and claiming political asylum.
This is brilliant, SV. Given that Becki Percy seems to believe so strongly in online campaigning to raise awareness of child sexual abuse, one would think she would welcome your efforts to open a police investigation to help bring justice to those she accuses.
Nor would you wish for your sole to be so exposed, which reminds me, my plan for today was to exfoliate my Achilles’ heel. So much hard skin…so little time!
You would have thought so EC rather than me having to force the issue.
“Drug-fueled orgies?”.
Christ you had me frightened there for a minute and I thought they had busted us at the Tuesday “Grandma’s Getting Frisky” Bingo session at the East Freemantle Probus Club.
# no prizes for guessing which one is moi.
The very thought of it could give one diabetes.
This is a great piece overall but I have to say that I disagree with the opening sentence
“’I’ve said this before, but the web of those who push the Satanic ritual abuse narrative within the UK is both relatively small and very close-knit.”
In my experience there is a huge network of scammers and quacks promoting SRA, including many mental health professionals working in the NHS.
Obviously dubious organisations such as the Fresh Start Foundation, Izzy’s Promise and the like are just the foetid pimple on the arse of a much larger beast.
Scamming conspiratards like Becki Percy, Angela Power Disney and the like are highly visible and easily debunked, however there is an ocean of apparently properly qualified psychotherapists, counsellors, psychiatrists and psychologists who are promoting the satanic panic amongst populations of extremely vulnerable adults. Most of these people appear to have no connection to SRA conspiracy theories unless, like me, you have had first hand experience of their bullshit.
Then you have the ocean of life coaches, yoga therapists, energy healers, past life regression therapists, hypnotherapists / NLP practitioners and the like who specialise in recovering memories of historic abuse and in separating vulnerable people from their assets and their families.
It is a terrifying situation.
There’s a lot of it about
I was very concerned by this news article and also for the welfare of the 2 teenagers involved in caring for their DID diagnosed mother
https://www.bbc.com/news/av/uk-41713725/radio-1-awards-the-teen-heroes-caring-for-mum
“I get the impression that Trump is hostile to all non-Americans.”
Well if he ain’t, all of us non-Americans are hostile to him except for Kim Jong Un so out of spite he might let her stay. To me, Trump’s politics revolve around him validating his worthiness by being the biggest bitchiest bitterest of bullies doling out punishment to all who dare question everything and anything about him.
I reckon he could decide Becky is welcome with open arms to remain in the America he has made less than great again just to put our noses out of joint….we’ll all be johnpatersonned someday soon!
I’ll be nick-naming you “Thunder Thighs” from now on
For the likes of me I cannot see what the problem is with the police not arresting Becki’s father until Becki had been formally interviewed. Teacher tells police. Police start an investigation.
According to Becki, she has a reputation with the police and social workers as an “allegation maker”.
The horrible reality is that some people who are genuine survivors of multiple real abuses and violations are likely to end up being classified as “allegation makers” amidst the SRA hysteria.
Try going to the police to report a real sexual assault or violation (or several) once one of the satan hunting quacks has control of your narrative and has dismissed your accurate and true allegations as delusional (whilst the same quack cherishes a belief in SRA) and justice becomes inverted and perverted.
Anyone subsequently deciding to scam or take advantage of such a survivor can do so with relative impunity. Should the police become involved the likelihood of a thorough investigation will be compromised if not thwarted if the survivor’s true allegations have been dismissed as delusional.
I am not talking about Becki Percy’s obviously false claims but speaking of experience of something much closer to home.
Time and time again the satan hunters not only cause misery and distress to innocent, falsely accused families but also do untold damage to real survivors.
You paint a depressing a picture to this inexperienced naive mind but also a a salutory and empowering awareness.
Much of what you write causes moments for me of the penny-dropping and jaw-dropping kind. I must have an affiliation with business minded sorts (my parents were shop-keepers), I can see from your contributions here that there is a viable opportunity …a perceived one from unscrupulous types – to exploit people for money far too easily.
Like with the “pink pound” or college students ability to spend their study grants wily-nily, it seems that women only’s expendable income is rife for rifling also and it’s been a thing for decades, centuries even but I’m just understanding now how very sinister and completely undermining of women the sales techniques, the forced direction, the dictactorial way in which women are sold products ultimately designed to rob them of their power is….
It was more obvious years ago and I thought that sexism was done and dusted already but now my feminist heckles have been raised once again – as consumers we are still enslaved!
Anyway, having studied web design I found the the subject of attention economics very interesting.
Absolutely, and this is one important reason we’re so strongly opposed to those who promote SRA hysteria. Not only does it destroy innocent lives of falsely accused people, it keeps abuse survivors who truly need help from receiving it.
Yes, David Berg was a disgusting individual.
Can someone please call 999? Angie’s pants are on fire again.
Angela Power Disney, if you are wearing flammable knickers, don’t play with matches.
I really like the approach you have taken with Becki Percy. I’m most impressed SV.
Aw, pity!
JakeBlake says:
LOL! Cat was streaming live from a restaurant/bar where Green was being interviewed, spewing his nonsense around the other diners until the Manager told them to stop. Then they moved out onto the street to Mercat Cross. There didn’t seem to be anyone there or interested in them. Only themselves. 😀
Uhh? I thought it was Angie who said she flogged her kids with a lump of wood?. Is she now denying it?. And why would that terrify her daughter?
I reckon they may have Skyped but were actually having a good laugh.
Perhaps it should be noted that any comment with more than two links in it will be held for moderation as well, plus wordpresses usual random glitches can cause comments to be randomly held up
Not everyone may be aware of that Scarlet, I wasn’t at first either (although I must say the ones held up usually get pushed through quite quickly in most cases)
Thumbs up from me for all the good work
I agree that is one of the worst aspects of these SRA promoters, I recently mentioned Fiona Bartlett’s recent attempts and even partial success(?) in getting her abuse claims separated from her fantasy claims in the recent investigations here. There may or may not be any truth in her allegations, but I am now of the opinion that any investigation into her claims should include her entire ‘body of work’ so that any investigators are aware of just unreliable anything she says as a ‘witness’ about her own case is not totally reliable (i.e. is she lying about an aspect of claimed abuse or not?) unfortunately in her case, it is better to say yes she is unless extremely strong evidence is present to confirm any claim she makes.
This is one of the worst aspects of the various people pushing the SRA side of things, in that it tars any survivors claims and once the various false memory experts and the like get involved, a true survivor of CSA can find their case irreversibly tainted , even to the extent that innocent people can be jailed, and guilty ones left free to continue
That has already happened (multiple times) and it is why IMHO that the hoaxers need to be stamped on much more quickly and successfully than they have been, already the newer pizzagate/pedogate type hoaxes have had notable ‘success’ in getting a following in the less stable ‘conspitards’ of the world. It wouldnt matter so much except that the more unstable/gullible have been known to start harassing innocent people, both online and in real life, and things can quickly escalate into incidents with truly tragic results
Fascinating about Dickens and the CoG cult, OMG. Would you happen to know any links I could read on this? It’s an angle I’d never heard of.
Looks like Ogilvy’s forgotten FSF weren’t wanted in Inverness either.
It’s certainly a convenient loophole for a number of people.
In Becki’s case, I noticed that early on, before she’d really got into the “my parents were evil abusers” line, she was attempting to raise awareness of mental health issues, particularly autism, on Twitter. I wondered whether she might have been diagnosed on the ASD, but from what she tweeted, it seemed that one of her friends was in that situation, and Becki was trying to support her.
This is only a hypothesis, but that did make me wonder whether she got a bit of attention for her efforts, it felt good, and so she started changing the story, a bit at a time, each time finding that she got a bit more public admiration. It’s entirely possible that the internet, in a sense, helped to shape and mould her story into what it has now become.
False memories, if you ask me.
While I agree that Berg was undoubtably a disgusting person, I think that possibly the most horrifying aspect of the cult, and there were many, was Berg’s ability to persuade apparently perfectly ordinary people that sexual activity with children, including parents with their own children, was a wonderful, divinely inspired practice. In the CoG the practice of sexual activity was euphemistically referred to as “sharing”.
In the video in the below link a couple of adult cult members enthuse about “sharing” between a young lad and his stepmother (both are in the video). Prior to that part, at 4.15 minutes in, the stepmother says she was “FFing” (flirty fishing) using sex to recruit new cult members. To anyone who doesn’t understand what “sharing” and “FFing” means the video looks fairly innocent and appears to be just a deeply religious family talking about prayer.
The “Dad” addressed in the video is David Berg
https://www.xfamily.org/index.php/Report_to_Dad_and_Maria_from_Australia
(obviously there is no illegal or sexually explicit material in the video)
Good spot, JB!
I recently moved home and have books all over the place in various locations but I think it might have been in the Dirty Squad, but I’m not entirely sure. It might also have been in a video. I’ll see what I can find and get back to you.
Jumpin' Jack Harrison says:
I wonder in what sense he means they were banned. Were they sent packing by the Jurys Inn and have to relocate to the bar, I wonder?
Cat Snot’s three videos from today’s washout can be seen here (if you fancy a snooze):
https://www.pscp.tv/calamiTcat/1mrGmnVYyLBJy
https://www.pscp.tv/calamiTcat/1YqJDQvygEkxV
https://www.pscp.tv/calamiTcat/1yNxaXjvMNRJj
Some time back this blog ran an exposé on a former CoG member called Zen Gardner. I don’t know if you’re familiar with him but he had a leadership role, I believe. Suffice to say Angela latched on to him and did one of her cringey, sycophantic Skype interviews with him.
https://hoaxteadresearch.wordpress.com/2016/08/24/angela-gives-zen-gardner-a-free-pass
According to Richard Bartholomew there was an article in the Sunday Times re Dickens and the CoG
This whole blog post is interesting and relevant to your question
It suggests that Dickens possessed and passed on a dossier re the CoG cult and some other complaints re possible grooming of young males but nothing about SRA or VIP paedophile rings. Most or all of the complaints not relating to the CoG were dismissed by the police as having insufficient evidence to proceed.
Later on in the blog post there is reporting of Dickens’ SRA allegations, I’m just too tired to read it and think about it immediately, but hopefully you can make some sense of it
http://barthsnotes.com/2015/02/01/some-notes-on-leon-brittan-geoffrey-dickens-and-the-media
I just find it very interesting that more attention was given to fraudulent accounts of SRA than to real concerns about the sexual exploitation of children by members of a real cult.
I feel your pain, OMG, having recently moved house myself. I found it a great opportunity to have a bit of a clearout and gave a load of my old books to a charity shop. (Don’t tell Debs, though. She frowns on that sort of thing.)
I remember watching a documentary about the history of comics and annual books for girls. Apparently when they were first published the comics didn’t sell well and so researchers were sent to schools to consult girls about what kind of stories they liked and why they didn’t buy the comics that had been specially created for them.
The researchers were shocked to discover that tales of happy girl guides rescuing puppies and groups of clever girls thwarting the plans of megalomaniacs planning world domination was not what girls wanted to read.
What girls really wanted to read about were stories about aspiring ballerinas who suffered appalling accidents and were left unable to follow their dreams, tales of abused step-daughters forced into domestic slavery by wicked stepmothers and the like. What the girls really wanted was to experience a reverie of vicarious misery. The story writers and comic publishers listened and adjusted their business plans accordingly and the comics sold like hot cakes.
I also recently read an article about the various true crime channels on freeview and who watches them. You can usually identify the demographic by the products advertised in the commercial breaks. In this instance Tenna Lady incontinence pads feature prominently. The main demographic of viewers for “Wives with Knives”, “Kids who Kill”, “Killer Clergy” and the like are older females of the same generation who loved to read about crippled ballerinas and Cinderella type domestic slavery.
This is the generation of women who made the book Flowers in the Attic a best seller back in the day. Misery memoirs are still massive business and it seems as though some older females especially just can’t get enough of the people’s tales of abuse and exploitation.
Aha, so they were given the heave-ho by the Jurys Inn. Go to 2:30 in the top video on Cat Snot’s Periscope page. Just after Gandalf introduces Green, he says: “Unfortunately, we’ve had a mishap with two consecutive bookings and we find ourselves out on the street.”
Her snoozefest… sorry “roadshow” videos can also be seen on her twitter page.
The restaurant/bar located in the Jurys Inn matches her videos. So I guess they never got use of the Inn’s Meeting Room.
Is that Ogilfail in the baseball cap in the Facebook video?
It doesn’t just prevent abuse survivors from getting help it puts us at increased risk of being abused repeatedly and with impunity. It takes away our voices, our power and our credibility.
One of the reasons why I have spent so much time posting here is because your blog is doing a great job educating people and long may it continue to do so.
This evil has to be exposed for what it is and it feels great to be part of the battle against it.
Janine Runny says:
So to summarise:
1. The first booking (the station Hotel) was cancelled due to (cough cough) “flooding”.
2. The second one (the Jurys Inn) barred them from using their meeting room.
3. They then tried to hold it in the bar and got chucked out of there as well.
So all in all, another successful day for the mighty FSF 😂
I thought that too. Not sure though.
@Tinribs
I remember your posts about Zen Gardner very well. The whole issue is nteresting yet disturbing and very consistent with the concept that if you scratch the surface of an SRA promoter you will find some extremely dodgy associates including paedophiles and child abusers.
(love the user name by the way 😀 )
In a nutshell! LOLOLOL!
Cat must be watching. She’s taken down the Facebook video. But fret ye not, hehe:
Green & Co-Conspirators in Aberdeen, 22.06.18
Thanks, both 🙂
So not so much a roadshow as a pavement show 😀
the documentary about comics was called Comics Brittania – episode 2 Girls and Boys
Sadly,while episodes 1 and 3 are on youtube, episode 2 is not.
There is a review here though
http://danowen.blogspot.com/2007/09/comics-britannia-girls-boys.html
includes the text
“Heading into the 1970s, I was very surprised to learn that our modern era of serious-minded “graphic novels” came about because of the girls comics! Market research revealed teenaged girls wanted to feel emotion when they read comics, so a male-dominated industry began pumping out shocking tales of home abuse, work violence and heartwrenching melodrama, in publications like Tammy.
One Tammy strip, “Slaves Of War Orphan Farm”, best encapsulated the vogue for downbeat storylines. “Cinderella Spiteful” and “Little Miss Nothing” were other examples of cruelty and misery being used as “entertainment” for girls of the period… and they lapped it up!”
I used to occasionally buy my elderly neighbour’s favourite magazine for her, Take A Break. A veritable smorgasbord of mini misery memoirs, as you can see here
https://takeabreak.co.uk
EC’s posts rather than mine. I can only dream of attaining such giddy heights 🙂
Just an idea, but I wonder whether their preference for that sort of story was at least in part because it made their own drab or limited lives seem pretty good by comparison?
I agree OMGNTOSA, I looked into the COG a few years ago.
The Story of Davidito was an awful publication and the boy who featured in it and suffered the abuse (Ricky Rodriguez) killed one his childhood abusers before committing suicide when he was 29.
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Actually make up and beauty stuff is a form of witchcraft. Just study the origin of the word glamour.
She was born two or three decades too late to find a social worker to believe her hunger games of rape and forest adorned with corpses stories. The fact she had to skip of to americky to find willing supporters says it all. I’m looking forward to her return and want to see how that works out for her
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A Few of Us Among the Few of Them : Endangered Birds of Hawaii
March 31, 2019 grizjohnson Leave a comment
If there were 800 humans left on the entire earth you might feel a bit uncertain about their survival. So many things could happen to 800 humans – disease, fire, tsunami, starvation – that would cause them to go extinct. In fact, 800 is such a small number it seems almost likely to happen. 800, 1000, 2000, those are the populations of some Hawaii’s most endangered native birds. They have been pushed to the brink of extinction by human activity and will certainly go extinct unless we intervene to undo our damage.
When Europeans first discovered the islands of Hawaii in 1778 they were drawn to their paradise-like attributes. Lush forests, diverse reefs, plentiful fish, rainbows, no mosquitoes, and a thriving population of Native Hawaiian Islanders. It was the land of opportunity and plenty. Among the forests were 142 species of birds found nowhere else in the world (call endemics). 95 of those species have gone extinct and some of the remaining 47 are on the verge of extinction and will disappear in your lifetime unless action is taken to preserve their habitats.
The most diverse bird group on the Big Island of Hawaii were the Hawaii Honeycreepers. Over 56 species were on the islands of Hawaii at European Contact and only 18 are left now. Many of these birds are specialists highly adapted to their native forests and fill many niches (places to live or types of food they eat). For instance, the I’iwi’s (pronounced ee-ee-vee) curved bill fits perfectly into flowers which have adapted their shape to fit that bird and vice versa. The ʻakiapōlāʻau ( pronounced akia-pola-ow) only eats grubs from the wood of Koa trees. All of these birds evolved without predators and with very few disease. When those things are introduced the birds are very naïve to predation and susceptible to disease leading to large losses in their populations.
This I’iwi is one of the most resplendent and dramatic Honeycreepers found in Hawaii
Step in to the Forest
Hakalau Forest National Wildlife Refuge resides at 6,500 feet on the side of Mauna Kea and contains remnants of Hawaii’s old growth forests. On most days mist and fog shapeshift through the landscape during their wind-driven passage. The morning we stepped into it, bird song of exotic honeycreepers filled the air making me reflect on how those woods must have sounded when none of them had gone extinct. Old growth Hawaiian forests do not look tropical, although you may envision palms and ferns in your mind. Rather, ancient ʻŌhiʻa trees with small round leaves and bright red blossoms twist their pompom-clusters of branches and leaves into the canopy in search in light. The largest ʻŌhiʻa in this forest existed during the Byzantine Empire and during the rise of Tikal; they are over 1,500 years old. Throughout the woods broad Koa trees stand covered in fur-like green lichen with their unique, blade-shaped leaves turned vertically to soak up the sun. It’s a magical place that only a few hundred people get to visit each year. Most people visit it to see it suite of endemic birds as the refuge is maintained specifically for the protection of native species and their habitat through removal of non-native feral animals and plants for over 35 years.
This old growth O’hia tree is about 60” at the base and is about 1,500 years old! Once Hawaiian old growth forests are gone we will never see their like for another thousand years.
Lichen grown in a carpet on the bark of Koa trees. They absorb moisture from the frequent fog and rain on the slopes of Mauna Kea.
Hakalau is ideally positioned for native forest birds trying to get away from mosquitoes which infect them with Avian Malaria. As our (highly recommended) guide Jack Jeffrey explained, on the slopes of Mauna Kea the weather is consistently too cold for mosquitoes to thrive. However, climate change is impacting the warmth of tropical regions, too, and mosquitoes are slowly migrating up slope to put more pressure on the birds. Some birds are showing signs of slight resistance to Avian Malaria, but most die within 2-3 weeks of a bite from a single infected mosquito.
Looking uphill at the Hakalau Forest. The spread-out trees do not look “tropical” or like how you imagine Hawaii. Many of the species that you associate with Hawaii were introduced
Some of The Extraordinary Residents of Hakalau Forest and the Big Isle
There are so many amazing birds on the Big Island. I’m going to focus mostly on the Honeycreeper family to show off some of the diversity and beauty of these unique finches!
Hawaii Akepa
There are only three truly orange birds in the world and the Akepa is one of them. This species is down to a population of 2,000 birds. They do not reach maturity until after 2 years which is unusual for their size (small birds usually breed more). This makes them susceptible to population loss.
A Hawaiian Akepa feeds in O’hia blossoms
The Hawaiian Akepa is one of only 3 truly orange birds in the world!
Hawaii Creeper (Alawi) – 2000 birds
This small birds was placed on the endangered species list in 1975. At that time it was estimated that 12,500 birds were in the wild. Latest surveys suggest there are 2,000 left in the wild. I loved their fast movements to scout bugs from inside lichen and under bark.
Hawaiian Creepers are adapted to cling onto trees in search of small bugs
A Hawaiian Creeper browses through the lichen on a Koa branch
Akiapola’au
This incredible bird has been reduced to nearly 800 individuals on the Big Island of Hawaii. Species similar to this birds have gone extinct on other Hawaiian islands. They reproduce very slowly and are reliant on Koa forests to feed. Their unique bill is used to awl into wood with the bottom portion and extract grubs with the top. Our day in Hakalau was a VERY special one with this species. We were able to watch it feed its fledgling. The young chick called with a chipping voice for the adult constantly which browsed the branches for food to deliver.
Akiapola’au has an amazing bill! Their bottom bill is used to awl into Koa wood and the top bill is used to extract grubs and insects from the hole. Amazing evolution!
On top of their amazing bill, the Akiapola’au are a gorgeous shade of yellow!]
An Akiapola’au scoops a grub from the hole it made in this Koa tree
The Palila is one of the last members of the “finch-billed” honeycreepers. They only, and I mean ONLY, eat the immature seeds of the mämane. This shrub-like tree is in the legume family and produces small pea-like fruit. Being with Jack Jeffrey put the plight of this bird in perspective. When he began surveying them in the late 70s there were 20,000 Palila. There are just 1,000 Palila left. He suspects this will be a bird that goes extinct in his lifetime adding to the list of 7 or 8 Hawaiian birds he has seen go extinct. Change is happening very quickly and can be seen in your lifetime.
I was reminded of Grosbeaks when I saw the Palila. Here it poses in the leaves and fruit of the mämane which is its sole food source
I’iwi
I’iwi are truly spectactular. They were once common throughout all of the islands of Hawaii, but the Hakalau forest now contains 70% of their population. I’iwi are VERY susceptible to Avian Malaria – 90% of birds die from a single infected mosquito bite. We were so fortunate that our day at Hakalau was filled with unbelievable and close views of these birds. We watched them feed on various flowers and watched several go through their mating ritual where the female begs for the food. It’s up to the male to impress her! We saw one successful male copulate – hopefully that means the population will be at least 1 bird larger soon!
An I’iwi uses its curved bill to extract nectar from a flower
This I’iwi really showed off it’s colors and bill shape!
Apapane
Apapane are one species of Hawaiian Honeycreeper that have been to resistant to change and disease. Their populations are still pretty large. They mostly commonly feed on the flowers of O’hia giving a dazzling display of red-on-red. Often times you could hear the woosh of their wings before seeing the bird.
An Apapane checks out an O’hia flower for nectar
Hawaii Amakihi
The Hawaii Amakihi eats insects and flowers making it a “generalist”. This fact has allowed them to adjust to changing forest conditions. Not a lot is known about their populations, but they seem to be pretty secure at this time. We ran into one researcher while watching them and she said there is evidence that lower-elevation birds are more resistant to Avian Malaria.She was trying to determine why that is. I hope I have a chance to see the results of her work and see how it may help this species in the future.
A Hawaii Amakihi perches momentarily on a mämane
Some of The Extraordinary Residents of Kauai
I want to switch away from Hakalau Forest to show you a couple of Honeycreepers from the island of Kauai. They are suffering from the same pressures as Honeycreepers on other islands.
Kauai Amakihi
The Kauai Amakihi is genetically different than the Hawaii Amakihi, although is very similar in its appearance. In Kokee State Park in Kauai we found a banded one! I hope to find out some information on this bird, how old it is, and what they were studying by reporting the band colors.
The Kauai Amakihi has a distinct black mask. It was cool to see this banded bird!
Anianiau
The Anianiau (pronounced awnee-awnee-ow) is in decline and can only be found in upland, wetland forests in Kauai. They are the smallest honeycreeper at just 0.35 ounces! That’s the weight of ½ tube of chapstick! These birds are a brilliant yellow and we fortunate enough to discover them in Kokee State Park.
An adult Anianiau shows off its brilliant yellow colors
I’m not sure if this Anianiau is a female or a juvenile, but it is still a beautiful specimen!
So What? Who Cares?
Like so many conservation issues (climate change, loss of rain forest, extinction of species every day, plastic in our water, and so much more) we are disconnected geographically and visually from what is happening. The reality is the native birds of Hawaii need your help, but why does that matter? Creating habitat that supports these birds supports many other species as well. Thinking about the holistic health of the forest increases the benefit of every dollar spent to conserve a single species. If you are interested in donating, please visit The Friends of Hakalau Forest to learn how you can help. I would recommend a trip to see these incredible Hawaiian Birds and highly recommend Jack Jeffrey as your guide. He will connect you to that place in an unforgettable way. Establishing that connection will give you empathy not only for these amazing Hawaiian birds, but also for the plight of animals and ecosystems worldwide suffering from human pressure and change.
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The new brand, voco, is slated to add more than 200 hotels for IHG over the next decade, with the first voco hotel opening late this year…
InterContinental Hotels Group (IHG®) has launched voco™, a new upscale hotel brand, which prides itself on being ‘reliably different’.
voco, inspired by the meaning ‘to invite’ or to ‘come together’ in Latin, will combine the informality and charm of an individual hotel, with the quality and reassurance of a global and respected brand.
Speaking at the exclusive press launch in London yesterday, Karin Sheppard, Managing Director – Europe, explained how the voco-branded properties will very much inject the character and personality of each hotel’s location through the use of clever interiors and artwork. “voco is an upscale, unstuffy brand that will treat all guests as individuals,” she said. “The environment [within each voco hotel] will live through the morning latte right through to the evening night cap.”
The brand will focus primarily on conversion opportunities and will strengthen IHG’s offer in the $40 billion upscale segment, which is expected to grow by a further $20 billion by 2025. Working with high-quality individual and locally branded hotels, the distinctive brand will offer owners the ability to drive higher returns through delivering a compelling guest experience and leveraging IHG’s powerful systems.
Keith Barr, Chief Executive Officer, IHG, commented: “We’ve talked about the significant growth opportunity we see for IHG in upscale and voco will help us deliver against this. We’ll work with owners of attractive properties, who appreciate the power and expertise that a global business can bring to the table. Guests will be able to enjoy the appeal of a more individual hotel, alongside the reassurance of a name above the door that they trust. The versatility of the brand, means a voco hotel can retain and celebrate all of the elements that make that existing hotel successful.
“With voco, the recent addition of Regent Hotels & Resorts in the luxury space, the launch of avid™ hotels in the Americas, and the work we’re doing to enhance our existing brand portfolio, we’re making great progress with our ambitious plans to accelerate growth.”
The voco brand promises guests an experience that is reliably different, brought to life through a bold, distinctive identity, informal service style and thoughtful touches along the guest journey. Three critical moments (symbolised by three different birds) on the guest journey have been identified through deep customer insight. In each of these moments, voco can create a compelling guest experiences. These include:
Come on in (symbolised by the finch) – a signature welcome experience, swift and simple check-in with an unexpected, locally-influenced treat to kick-off a guest’s stay.
Me time (symbolised by the owl) – encouraging guests to take a moment for themselves with extra cosy beds and bedding, quality bathroom amenities, rejuvenating aerated showers, a variety of viewing content on Smart TVs and excellent connectivity in every room.
voco life (symbolised by the flamingo) – vibrant and sociable bar and lounge spaces that work for different moments of the day, so that guests always have space to relax and enjoy themselves – from offering a great coffee to start the day or shareable and classic dishes in the evening that provide something to talk about afterwards.
The roll-out of voco will begin in IHG’s Europe, Middle East, Asia & Africa (EMEAA) region, with plans to take it to the Americas and Greater China over time. The new brand will drive significant incremental growth for IHG, with an expectation to open more than 200 voco hotels in attractive urban and leisure locations over the next 10 years.
IHG announced plans last month to expand its luxury and upscale estate in the UK through a conditional agreement with Covivio (formerly Foncière des Régions) to rebrand and operate 12 high quality open hotels and one pipeline hotel into its portfolio across the UK. This deal will establish an important presence for voco in the UK with a number of these properties converting to the new brand in the coming months.
Today, though, IHG has confirmed the first signing for the voco brand outside of Europe will be the Watermark Hotel & Spa Gold Coast, Surfers Paradise, Australia. The 388-room hotel is located at the heart of Surfers Paradise, a few steps away from the beach, and offers guests two swimming pools and 800swm of meeting space. The property is shortly to be acquired by IHG’s long-standing partner, SB&G, which currently owns five other IHG hotels in Australia. The hotel is due to open under the voco flag in late 2018.
Hamish Kilburn / 12.06.2018
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by Seth Colaner — Wednesday, January 30, 2013, 03:05 PM EDT
AMD Fusion S-Series “Richland” CPU Series Specs Leaked, Faster Clock Speed, Same Power Consumption
After struggling as of late in the market, AMD is mounting an offensive against very stiff competition, and part of that effort is the next generation of the company’s APUs. Codenamed “Richland”, we knew that these chips will be built on Piledriver CPU cores just as the last generation Trinity APUs are, and that Richland APUs will have an updated graphics core.
VR-Zone published a table of leaked specs that show more details. Assuming this information is correct, there will be at least six SKUs ranging from an A4 to an A10 with a mix of dual- and quad-core chips bearing 6000-series numbering. That “updated graphics core” turns out to be HD 8000-series graphics.
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Comparing Trinity APUs to the leaked Richland APUs, you can see that the comparable SKUs in each demonstrate that the Richland clock speeds will be higher, but the chips won’t consumer any more power. For example, the A10-5800K (Trinity) pulls 100W at 3.8/4.2GHz, while the A10-6800K also pulls 100W at 4.1/4.4GHz; and that’s not taking into consideration the new Richland GPU capabilities.
AMD A10 and A8 APUs
It’s a much-needed step forward for AMD, and it makes one even more curious to get a peek at the Kaveri APUs that will succeed Richland later this year.
Tags: AMD, Processors, APU, Trinity, Richland, NYSE: AMD
Via: VR-Zone
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BST HyperTEK Electric Motorcycle
The limited edition electric motorcycle has a battery range of 186 miles thanks to a water-cooled motor and lightweight carbon fiber frame.
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The BST HyperTEK Electric Motorcycle combines the best in carbon fiber technology with features that will undoubtedly change the future of the industry. This all-electric bike is a limited edition with a carbon fiber frame. It sits atop a DHX Hawk water-cooled motor that delivers 107 hp and offers a battery range of up to 186 miles. There’s a built-in sound generator so the bike will idle once it’s started. Recharging takes just 30 minutes thanks to a super-fast DC/DC quick charger.
Outfitted with convenient features like Hill Stop and Cruise Control, the rider can also rev the motor when using the clutch. There’s no instrumentation located on the all-electric bike itself. Instead, it’s all integrated into the Heads Up Display (HUD) helmet designed by Cross so that information is always at the front and center of the rider’s purview.
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December 26, 2019 / 8:52 AM / 24 days ago
Economic slowdown will not change China environment policies - ministry
Min Zhang, Tom Daly
BEIJING (Reuters) - China will maintain its environmental protection goals and will not ease off on trying to achieve them even as the economy slows, an environment ministry official said on Thursday.
A building is pictured through trees amid heave smog on a polluted day in Beijing, China December 2, 2018. REUTERS/Jason Lee/Files
The cabinet last year issued a guide for some important anti-pollution targets up to the end of 2020 and there will be no adjustments of them, said Xu Bijiu, director general of the general office at the Ministry of Ecology and Environment.
“It’s like ... rowing a boat against the current,” Xu told a media briefing in Beijing.
“We have no other choice but to go forward.”
China’s gross domestic product (GDP) growth slowed to 6.0% year-on-year in the third quarter, the weakest in at least 27-1/2 years amid a bruising trade war with the United States, and business owners in industrial areas like Henan province say they are being hit hard by the environmental crackdown.
“The environment and the economy are not opposites” but can move in the same direction, Xu said, pointing out that GDP had grown from 59 trillion yuan ($8.43 trillion) in 2013 to 90 trillion yuan in 2018, while air pollution had been reduced over that time.
There we still some places seeing fluctuating air quality this year, ministry spokesman Liu Youbin told the same briefing, with the amount of hazardous particulate matter of 2.5 microns or less, known as PM2.5, rising in areas such as Hunan in south-central China.
The ministry would maintain its pollution controls precisely and scientifically, implementing special audits in areas with obviously worsening air quality and strengthening assistance for non-key areas, he said.
Xu said the ministry would promote preferential environmental protection tax policies for private firms that face financing difficulties, adding that a national green development fund would be launched in 2020.
China is heading into the sixth year of its “war on pollution” to try to reverse damage from over three decades of untrammelled economic growth and allay public disquiet about the state of the country’s air, soil and water.
Reporting by Min Zhang and Tom Daly
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Effects of acamprosate on sensitization to the locomotor-stimulant effects of alcohol in mice selectively bred for high and low alcohol preference
Julia A. Chester, N. J. Grahame, T. K. Li, L. Lumeng, Janice Froehlich
Sensitization to the locomotor-stimulant effects of drugs is thought to play an important role in the development of drug-seeking behaviour. We hypothesized that the ability of acamprosate to reduce alcohol relapse rates in recovering alcoholics, and alcohol consumption in rodents, may be related to its ability to reduce sensitization to the locomotor-stimulant effects of alcohol. The purpose of the present study was to determine whether acamprosate reduces the expression of sensitization to the locomotor-stimulant effects of alcohol in lines of mice selectively bred for high (HAP) and low (LAP) alcohol preference. Mice were given six intraperitoneal (i.p.) injections of alcohol (3 g/kg) or saline at 48 h intervals. The test for sensitization to the locomotor-stimulant effects of alcohol consisted of a challenge dose of 2 g/kg i.p. alcohol followed immediately by assessment of locomotor activity for 20 min. Mice were pretreated with either saline or acamprosate (400mg/kg) at 14 h and again at 2 h before the alcohol challenge. Both HAP and LAP mice showed sensitization to the locomotor-stimulant effects of alcohol. Acamprosate reduced the expression of sensitization to the locomotor-stimulant effects of alcohol in HAP but not LAP mice. These data suggest complex effects of acamprosate on alcohol-stimulated locomotor activity that depend on genotype.
Behavioural Pharmacology
Drug-Seeking Behavior
Alcohol Drinking
Alcohol preference
Locomotor activity
Sensitization
Strain difference
Chester, J. A., Grahame, N. J., Li, T. K., Lumeng, L., & Froehlich, J. (2001). Effects of acamprosate on sensitization to the locomotor-stimulant effects of alcohol in mice selectively bred for high and low alcohol preference. Behavioural Pharmacology, 12(6-7), 535-543.
Effects of acamprosate on sensitization to the locomotor-stimulant effects of alcohol in mice selectively bred for high and low alcohol preference. / Chester, Julia A.; Grahame, N. J.; Li, T. K.; Lumeng, L.; Froehlich, Janice.
In: Behavioural Pharmacology, Vol. 12, No. 6-7, 2001, p. 535-543.
Chester, JA, Grahame, NJ, Li, TK, Lumeng, L & Froehlich, J 2001, 'Effects of acamprosate on sensitization to the locomotor-stimulant effects of alcohol in mice selectively bred for high and low alcohol preference', Behavioural Pharmacology, vol. 12, no. 6-7, pp. 535-543.
Chester JA, Grahame NJ, Li TK, Lumeng L, Froehlich J. Effects of acamprosate on sensitization to the locomotor-stimulant effects of alcohol in mice selectively bred for high and low alcohol preference. Behavioural Pharmacology. 2001;12(6-7):535-543.
Chester, Julia A. ; Grahame, N. J. ; Li, T. K. ; Lumeng, L. ; Froehlich, Janice. / Effects of acamprosate on sensitization to the locomotor-stimulant effects of alcohol in mice selectively bred for high and low alcohol preference. In: Behavioural Pharmacology. 2001 ; Vol. 12, No. 6-7. pp. 535-543.
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N2 - Sensitization to the locomotor-stimulant effects of drugs is thought to play an important role in the development of drug-seeking behaviour. We hypothesized that the ability of acamprosate to reduce alcohol relapse rates in recovering alcoholics, and alcohol consumption in rodents, may be related to its ability to reduce sensitization to the locomotor-stimulant effects of alcohol. The purpose of the present study was to determine whether acamprosate reduces the expression of sensitization to the locomotor-stimulant effects of alcohol in lines of mice selectively bred for high (HAP) and low (LAP) alcohol preference. Mice were given six intraperitoneal (i.p.) injections of alcohol (3 g/kg) or saline at 48 h intervals. The test for sensitization to the locomotor-stimulant effects of alcohol consisted of a challenge dose of 2 g/kg i.p. alcohol followed immediately by assessment of locomotor activity for 20 min. Mice were pretreated with either saline or acamprosate (400mg/kg) at 14 h and again at 2 h before the alcohol challenge. Both HAP and LAP mice showed sensitization to the locomotor-stimulant effects of alcohol. Acamprosate reduced the expression of sensitization to the locomotor-stimulant effects of alcohol in HAP but not LAP mice. These data suggest complex effects of acamprosate on alcohol-stimulated locomotor activity that depend on genotype.
AB - Sensitization to the locomotor-stimulant effects of drugs is thought to play an important role in the development of drug-seeking behaviour. We hypothesized that the ability of acamprosate to reduce alcohol relapse rates in recovering alcoholics, and alcohol consumption in rodents, may be related to its ability to reduce sensitization to the locomotor-stimulant effects of alcohol. The purpose of the present study was to determine whether acamprosate reduces the expression of sensitization to the locomotor-stimulant effects of alcohol in lines of mice selectively bred for high (HAP) and low (LAP) alcohol preference. Mice were given six intraperitoneal (i.p.) injections of alcohol (3 g/kg) or saline at 48 h intervals. The test for sensitization to the locomotor-stimulant effects of alcohol consisted of a challenge dose of 2 g/kg i.p. alcohol followed immediately by assessment of locomotor activity for 20 min. Mice were pretreated with either saline or acamprosate (400mg/kg) at 14 h and again at 2 h before the alcohol challenge. Both HAP and LAP mice showed sensitization to the locomotor-stimulant effects of alcohol. Acamprosate reduced the expression of sensitization to the locomotor-stimulant effects of alcohol in HAP but not LAP mice. These data suggest complex effects of acamprosate on alcohol-stimulated locomotor activity that depend on genotype.
KW - Acamprosate
KW - Alcohol preference
KW - Craving
KW - Locomotor activity
KW - Relapse
KW - Sensitization
KW - Strain difference
JO - Psychiatric Genetics
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by Joel Makower, Chairman and Executive Editor
Over the past few days, nearly everyone within arm’s reach of a keyboard seems to have weighed in on the Green New Deal, an ambitious framework for future congressional legislation. It aims to build a clean economy and eliminate the U.S. carbon footprint, while creating jobs and opportunity across the economic spectrum.
And what a response! Thousands of articles that, variously, celebrate the GND’s bold aspirations, criticize it for its lack of specifics, skewer the sheer impractical audaciousness of getting it enacted or analyze each of its myriad components.
I’ll spare you from doing the media scan I did over the weekend. It was, in sum, predictable, mildly amusing and frustrating. Progressives and liberals loved the idea, if not all the specifics. Conservatives berated the GND as socialism or worse and seemed to lick their collective chops at the notion of making it part of the political discourse during the 2020 election cycle.
In The New York Times, op-ed columnist Ross Douthat pointed out that the plan confirmed every Republican suspicion of what global-warming alarm is really all about — “the seizure of the economy’s commanding heights in order to implement the most left-wing possible agenda.” The Competitive Enterprise Institute and other right-leaning groups compared the plan to the Fyre Festival, the ill-fated Bahamian "luxury music" event that led to fraud charges for its organizers.
Wired magazine rode in with an analysis of the GND’s transportation component — “it won’t work for everyone,” it offered, backing up that thesis with a dizzying critique of the inequities of driving, bicycling, even public transit.
Even the estimable Dave Roberts, who once led the editorial team at Grist but now opines over at Vox, denigrated the “eyebrow-raising doozies” amid the GND's lengthy agenda, such as “guaranteeing a job with a family-sustaining wage, adequate family and disability leave, paid vacations and retirement security to all people of the United States.”
(My co-author Patrick Doherty proffered a far more constructive critique, explaining how we might actually pull off and pay for a Green New Deal in a way that “does not need Washington to act.” Refreshing.)
Washington Post satirist Tom Toles put all the naysayers in their place with a wry and withering parody, overlaying today’s political zeitgeist onto John F. Kennedy’s iconic 1961 man-on-the-moon speech, where he committed the United States to that audacious goal within a decade:
“This is a nice-sounding idea, but it is not fully fleshed out. There are scant details about how Kennedy proposes to actually achieve this, nor is there any evidence of widespread public demand for it. The time frame he outlines — 10 years! — sounds wildly over-optimistic, and arbitrary in any case. Even he admits that it will be expensive, but he doesn’t say exactly how expensive or how we will pay for it.”
Most of these analyses seemed to miss the bigger point: Suddenly, and seemingly out of nowhere, there’s a national conversation taking place about sustainability, in all its many forms.
I mean, could you have imagined this conversation taking place just three months ago?
It’s not as if these ideas are new. The notion of a Green New Deal has been bandied about for a dozen years. New York Times columnist Tom Friedman broached the concept in 2007. Activist and commentator Van Jones picked up the thread a year later in his book “The Green Collar Economy.” Also in 2008, the U.N. Environment Program executive director Achim Steiner proposed a Global Green New Deal, “a fundamental restructuring of economies weaning away dependence on oil and towards cleaner and more sustainable sources of energy.” A Green New Deal was the central plank of Jill Stein's two Green Party presidential platforms, in 2012 and 2016.
But timing is everything, in politics as in life. The latest iteration — spearheaded by freshman New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and veteran Massachusetts Sen. Ed Markey — comes at a time when Americans are both frustrated and sensing the fierce urgency of now, and might actually be ready for some fresh ideas that cut through partisanship, create not just jobs but wealth, distribute opportunity more equitably and tackle the climate crisis at the scale and speed warranted.
Moreover, the 2019 edition of the GND folds in another concept that, up to now, had been loitering at the political margins: a “just transition” — a set of principles, processes and practices that build economic and political power amid the shift from a polluting, extractive economy to a clean and regenerative one. While that term had been gaining currency within the environmental and economic justice crowds, it is suddenly becoming part of the national discourse.
Like I said, who could have imagined this conversation taking place at this weird American moment?
Which is why most of the critiques of the Green New Deal strike me as small-minded and myopic. Yes, it’s a grand vision that’s vague on details. No, it’s not likely to be enacted in its current form. Yes, it can be improved in any number of ways. No, it’s not going away any time soon — both the left and right seem to want to keep it alive, each for its own reasons.
It’s a big idea, born of common sense, that potentially empowers and engages all Americans. We haven’t had an adult conversation about America's future in a long, long time. Let’s explore it and figure out how some version of it can come to pass.
So, please stop for a second and celebrate the moment. After toiling for years in the veritable backwaters of society and the economy, sustainability — economic, social and environmental — is finally on the national agenda.
Then, after your all-too-brief celebration, get back to work. It’s time to dig in. This is our moment.
On another note: Today, we're launching the nomination window for our 2019 "30 Under 30" honorees. Know any rising stars in the field of sustainable business? We'd love to know about them. The nomination period extends to April 5. Details here.
Why the Green New Deal needs a grand strategy
Patrick Doherty
America's new foray into sustainability could use some strategic thinking — and some historical context.
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How to File a Copyright Application With the U.S. Copyright Office
By Victoria McGrath
As the author of an original creative work, you automatically acquire basic copyrights as soon as you create the work and fix it in a tangible form. A tangible form refers to physical documentation, from a pencil drawing on a cocktail napkin to a first draft of a screenplay or an audiovisual recording of an opera. When you file a copyright application, you claim ownership of the material. Once the copyright office processes your application, it makes your copyright registration information public through its federal database of U.S. copyrights. Copyright registration requires a certified application, filing fee and deposit of the original material.
Type of Copyrightable Work
You file your copyright registration application with the U.S. Copyright Office by completing an electronic or paper application. The application requires you to select the type of work to be registered. You choose between eight categories of copyrightable works: literary works, dramatic works, musical works, choreographed works, sculptural works, architectural works, sound recordings, and audiovisual recordings and motion pictures. Some application forms combine a few of the eight categories into more general categories. For example, the Form CO Copyright Registration Application contains a broad category for "performing arts" that includes musical and choreographed works, but not sound recordings. This application also contains a broader category for "visual arts" that includes graphic, pictorial, sculptural and architectural works, but not motion pictures or audiovisual recordings. Choose the category that best describes your original work.
Year of Completion and Date of Publication
You complete each section of the application, providing detailed information about the work, author and claimant. With the type of work to be registered, you include the title of the work, date of publication, nation of publication and year of completion. Provide the earliest and most accurate year of completion possible in case anyone else stakes a claim as the owner of the copyrightable material; you want to show that you created the work, fixed it in a tangible form, published it and registered it with the Copyright Office well in advance of any other claimant.
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Author and Claimant Information
In most cases, the author and claimant are the same person. In some cases, the author creates the work as an employee within the scope of his employment or as a commissioned artist under a written contract. If the author creates the original work as a work-for-hire, the company that employs him, or person that commissions him, generally owns the copyright. The application requires you to include the author's name and contact information, and claimant's name and contact information. If the claimant did not author the work, state how the claimant acquired copyright ownership from the author. These rights transfer by written agreement, will or inheritance, or other means. Specify the other means if applicable.
Licensing, Permissions and General Correspondence
Before you file the application, you detail any limitations of the claim. Specify any parts of the copyrightable material that you do not own, such as artwork or audiovisual, music or sound recordings. Provide the names and contact information for the persons to contact regarding licensing and permissions, general correspondence and the registration certificate. The Copyright Office will mail a certificate to the claimant, license and permissions contact, or the correspondence contact. You name the individual or organization to receive the certificate.
Application Certification, Fees and Deposit
When you complete the application, you sign the certification section to verify the truth and accuracy of all information provided in the application. The application must be certified by the author, claimant, exclusive copyright owner or an authorized agent of a rightful claimant. You submit your application with the filing fee, and deposit a copy of unpublished material or two copies of published material to the U.S. Copyright Office. If you file online through the Electronic Copyright Office or use a legal document service provider to help you prepare the application, you can pay your registration fees and upload your deposited material electronically. In addition to the electronic deposit, you must deposit two hard copies of a published work within three months of its U.S. publication or be subject to fines.
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How Rappers Copyright Their Work
Rappers, producers and record labels need to protect their hip-hop music, rap lyrics and musical beats from unauthorized use, including sampling by other artists. A rapper or producer automatically secures a copyright in both the lyrics and the beat of a rap once it is created and fixed in a tangible form. Tangible forms include written song lyrics, sheet music and audio-visual recordings. Copyrights apply to both scripted lyrics with keyboard beats produced in a studio and improvisational raps with spontaneous instrumentals created live. However, a live performance must be captured in a tangible form to secure a copyright. Federal copyright registration provides a legal presumption of copyright ownership.
A List of Copyright Rules & Procedures
Copyrights protect original literary, dramatic, musical and artistic works. They prohibit anyone other than the author from copying or performing the work without the author's permission. Violation of a copyright is called infringement. If your copyright has been infringed, you may be entitled to damages. These protections are provided by the U.S. federal government. They are embodied in Title 17 of the U.S. Code. State protections also exist, but these vary from state to state.
What Are the Copyright Laws for Images?
Digital cameras and social networking sites have led to an increase in the volume of images across the media. Anyone who uploads images to a website, or who downloads or copies images created by others, should be aware of the importance of copyright. Copyright laws protect the creators of original works from unauthorized reproduction or copying and penalize those who fail to respect others’ copyrights. Chapter 17 of the United States Code contains the Copyright Act and the relevant laws.
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Designing a Collection of Trials
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About ICTR
The National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) has established the Innovative Clinical Trials Resource (ICTR) program to provide infrastructure and expertise to support awardees of the NHLBI “Catalyzing Innovation in Late Phase Clinical Trial Design and Statistical Analysis Plans Initiative” (U34/X01). The U34/X01 initiative will provide funding support for planning activities for late phase (phase II and beyond) single-site or multi-site investigator-initiated clinical trials (see NOT-OD-15-015 for NIH clinical trial definition) that address critical clinical questions within the mission of the NHLBI. Applicants to the U34 and X01 Funding Opportunity Announcements (FOAs) will propose a late phase clinical trial (Phase II and beyond) to address a priority research question in heart, lung, blood, or sleep (HLBS) science that require a non-standard rather than a traditional design because a randomized controlled approach to the study question is inadequate, limited, or suboptimal with the opportunity for statistical novelty and/or innovation.
Clinical trials are a key strategy used by the NHLBI to improve prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of heart, lung, blood, and sleep disorders. Clinical trials also represent a significant investment of human and material resources. Effective planning, oversight, and high standards for the safe, timely, and efficient conduct of clinical trials are integral to maximizing their scientific impact and return on investment. For the majority of clinical trials, traditional designs adequately power the statistical analysis plan. Some key features of traditional clinical trial designs are subject randomization, blinding (masking) of subjects and researchers to the study intervention(s), the use of a control comparison group, and a classic intent-to-treat analysis.
However, as noted in the 2001 IOM Report on Small Clinical Trials, clinical trials conducted in limited populations may not be able to use traditional clinical trial designs to achieve adequate statistical power, and that designing and planning trials using new innovative statistical design and analysis plans requires specific expertise that may be difficult to locate and access. Scientific areas identified across NHLBI, in which such trials might be required include, but are not limited to, studies of rare diseases and/or therapeutics in which sample size limitations provide a challenge to the statistical power of traditional randomized clinical trial designs; studies in sub-populations of more common diseases, e.g. precision medicine trials; and late-stage implementation research. Other examples could include trials for the study of interventions in a non-randomized study setting and clinical trials in which a meaningful or optimal treatment control arm may be difficult to implement.
In May, 2018, NHLBI awarded Berry Consultants a contract to provide services as the ICTR contractor. Berry Consultants will serve as a Statistical Consultative Resource for the Catalyzing Innovation in Late Phase Clinical Trial Design and Statistical Analysis Plans Initiative” (U34/X01) awardees to provide the necessary facilities and equipment, and the administrative, regulatory, IT and statistical expertise necessary to assist in developing novel/innovative clinical trial designs and appropriate statistical analysis plans. The ICTR contractor shall also provide guidance to the U34/X01 awardee on regulatory issues related to innovative late phase clinical trials and develop and provide an education program on the application of non-traditional clinical trial design and analysis of clinical trials targeted to the NHLBI research community.
Berry Consultant’s support as the ICTR contractor is not intended to replace the activities conducted by investigators developing their trials, but serves as a resource for expert scientific and statistical advice, review of protocols and study materials, and training in areas relevant to the design or implementation of innovative clinical trials. The services provided might include:
clinical trial design and recruitment strategy studies in rare diseases and pediatrics
biostatistical support
site and subject recruitment strategies
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preparing clinical protocol, manual of procedures, training materials, consent forms and data safety monitoring plan
planning a multi-site clinical trial, including multiple-site IRB approval and contracting
preparation of agreements for industry collaborations
identifying and establishing collaborations
investigator-targeted education in clinical trials methodology
data capture and data management systems.
In addition, the ICTR infrastructure provides this web-based communication platform with a public environment that facilitates the training of any interested investigator on non-traditional clinical trial design and analysis.
To contact the ICTR Team, please email the Project Manager at Berry Consultants, Doray Sitko.
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Android vs iOS - which platform to build an app for first?
The question of "which platform to build an app for first" has been a popular one for the past five years. Now with the rise of startups the questions has become even more pertinent and paramount.
With Windows and Blackberry practically out of the picture when compared to Android app development and iOS app development, the fight to the top has broken down to only two contenders.
In this comparative article, I will address to certain features of both platforms adjacently so that understanding which platform to choose for mobile app development becomes simple.
Android App Demographics vs iOS App Demographics
Android currently has the largest global platform share, with a particular prominence in lower income areas and developing nations. Comparatively, iOS users typically have higher income, higher education levels, more engagement, and spend more per app. That obviously does not mean that those who have those same characteristics won't carry an Android device. Rather, this data is indicative of the general Android population.
Android App Revenue Models vs iOS App Revenue Models
The revenue models behind Android and iOS are somewhat representative of the approaches of Google and Apple. Android has a higher percentage of ad-supported apps where comparatively, paying for apps is still more common on iOS. There's ample data that shows iOS apps earn more revenue, with that number being 70% more in the last quarter of 2015.
Android Release Cycles vs iOS Release Cycles
Android regularly lags behind iOS in terms of adoption rate of its latest OS version. As of today, more than 70% of users on iOS are on some version of iOS 9, which came out in September 2015. By comparison, less than 5% of all Android users are on Marshmallow and about 25% on Lollipop, which first started appearing in June 2014.
This means that on iOS, you can focus on supporting the newest versions of the operating system with relative certainty your app will still have a broad reach. That focus allows developers to build against newer APIs, stop supporting older devices sooner, and generally, reduces testing and development cycle times.
Android Enterprise Apps vs iOS Enterprise Apps
Over time, iOS has been able to penetrate the workplace, supplanting Blackberry in particular as a top option for enterprise-wide deployment. Along with other barriers for enterprise adoption, the more locked-down iOS compared to "open" Android has helped push iOS to be known as the more secure option. MDM providers have more sophisticated tools for managing iOS devices and apps. Apple also has had a number of programs for some time that are focused on businesses, including the iOS Developer Enterprise Program and its Volume Purchase Program. Last year Apple also announced a partnership with IBM for mobile enterprise apps.
Android Tablet Apps vs iOS iPad Apps
It's at least worth mentioning the absolute dominance of iOS in the tablet market, especially for business users. While tablet sales may have slowed, you'll be hard pressed to find an Android tablet in a meeting room or on the desk of any executive. Anecdotally, only fairly technical people seem to have Android tablets.
It's not uncommon that someone may have an Android smartphone but use an iPad as their preferred tablet. So with the study of these points I believe, as a startup, you can point your finger towards which platform you would want to pick for mobile app development. But every business is different, every product or service your offer to your customer is relevant to many factors which are not purely string tied to mere technological features. So understand your business and most importantly understand your customers before your opt for either Android or iOS app development.
It is crucial here to also mention a few misconceptions that spawn in the way of startup entrepreneurs in their quest towards building a great app.
Android App Development Speed vs iOS App Development Speed
Misconception "Speed to market is always a consideration when building an app. Android apps take on average 2-3 times longer to build."
Wrong! This is not a consideration and certainly does not hold true. Development speed on both iOS and Android is more or less the same.
Though on the other hand, speed element can only be considered when related to release and approval times. Apple's approval process means an app on average can possibly get updated 3-4 times per month. In theory, an update can be pushed that same number of times per day on Android. So while an iOS app can get to market faster, which is arguably the more important criteria, Android apps allow you to get regular updates to users more quickly.
Android App Cost vs iOS App Cost
Misconception "Android apps usally take a longer time to build and thus result in higher costs"
Wrong! again. As development time is more or less the same, the cost stands as another factor that does NOT determine which development you should chose.
In my next article, I will talk about the ideal situations when a startup is ready to opt for either Android, iOS or dual platform mobile app development. Till then stay updated with the blog for the latest news around technologies that run the world.
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Trailer Frenzy
The First Trailer For Deadpool 2 Is Hidden in a Bizarre Tribute to Bob Ross
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Our first look at Deadpool 2 in action is finally here. But you’re going to have to get through a totally weird, and pretty hilarious, skit to get to it.
Ryan Reynolds has just dropped the first footage from Deadpool 2, but at first you might not realize it. Because the video starts—and goes on for an alarming amount of time—as an extended skit where Reynolds, in character as Deadpool, is... in character as beloved art icon Bob Ross?
Yeah, this is the way to do it. The whole skit is a retro delight, but the trailer itself is all brief snippets of what we can expect from the movie. There’s our first brief look at Zazie Beetz’s Domino, a new look for Negasonic Teenage Warhead, Wade smashing his way through a car,and actually no Cable... but there are guns. Lots of guns, naturally. For added hilarity, here is Fox’s new synopsis for the film:
After surviving a near fatal bovine attack, a disfigured cafeteria chef (Wade Wilson) struggles to fulfill his dream of becoming Mayberry’s hottest bartender while also learning to cope with his lost sense of taste. Searching to regain his spice for life, as well as a flux capacitor, Wade must battle ninjas, the yakuza, and a pack of sexually aggressive canines, as he journeys around the world to discover the importance of family, friendship, and flavor – finding a new taste for adventure and earning the coveted coffee mug title of World’s Best Lover.
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The Circular Study
Publication date September 27, 2015
Dimensions 0.41 by 6 by 9 in.
Amazon.com description: Product Description: Anna Katharine Green (November 11, 1846 â April 11, 1935) was an American poet and novelist. She was one of the first writers of detective fiction in America and distinguished herself by writing well plotted, legally accurate stories. Green has been called âthe mother of the detective novel.â Green is credited with shaping detective fiction into its classic form, and developing the series detective. Her main character was detective Ebenezer Gryce of the New York Metropolitan Police Force, but in three novels he is assisted by the nosy society spinster Amelia Butterworth, the prototype for Miss Marple, Miss Silver and other creations. She also invented the âgirl detectiveâ: in the character of Violet Strange, a debutante with a secret life as a sleuth. Indeed, as journalist Kathy Hickman writes, Green âstamped the mystery genre with the distinctive features that would influence writers from Agatha Christie and Conan Doyle to contemporary authors of suspenseful âwhodunits.â In addition to creating elderly spinster and young female sleuths, Greenâs innovative plot devices included dead bodies in libraries, newspaper clippings as âclews,â the coronerâs inquest, and expert witnesses. Yale Law School once used her books to demonstrate how damaging it can be to rely on circumstantial evidence. Written in 1878, her first book, The Leavenworth Case: A Lawyerâs Story, sparked a debate in the Pennsylvania Senate over whether the book could âreally have been written by a woman.â Green was in some ways a progressive woman for her timeâsucceeding in a genre dominated by male writersâbut she did not approve of many of her feminist contemporaries, and she was opposed to womenâs suffrage.
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About: Anna Katharine Green (November 11, 1846 â April 11, 1935) was an American poet and novelist.
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No Reason to Talk About It: Families Confront the Nuclear Taboo
Examines the impact of the threat of nuclear war on family life through interviews with parents and their children
By David S. Greenwald and Steven J. Zeitlin
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What's the link between being unjust to orphan girls and having up to four wives in verse (4:3)?
In surat an-Nisaa' we read (4:3):
And if you fear that you will not deal justly with the orphan girls, then marry those that please you of [other] women, two or three or four. But if you fear that you will not be just, then [marry only] one or those your right hand possesses. That is more suitable that you may not incline [to injustice].
It seems as if there's something missing here the verse jumps from the fear for being unjust to orphan girls -which was also discussed earlier in the surah- to marrying up to four women. I wonder what this missing information is!
One also may notice that much later in the same surah we may find a resumption of the topic of orphan girls this time in context of marrying them (I'm unclear whether there's a link between both verses):
And they request from you, [O Muhammad], a [legal] ruling concerning women. Say, " Allah gives you a ruling about them and [about] what has been recited to you in the Book concerning the orphan girls to whom you do not give what is decreed for them - and [yet] you desire to marry them - and concerning the oppressed among children and that you maintain for orphans [their rights] in justice." And whatever you do of good - indeed, Allah is ever Knowing of it. (4:127)
What is the link between marrying up to four women/girls and fearing to deal unjustly with orphan girls?
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The link is that in the pre-Islamic times, the people used to marry orphan girls and unjustly take their wealth. This (unjustly taking their wealth) was made forbidden by Allah.
But the problem is that if a person marries an orphan girl, the orphan might feel indebted to their husband and accept any dowry because of that. But that is also unjust. So, God told men to marry other woman rather than orphan girls if they fear that injustice would happen.
This is explained in the tafsir of Ibn Kathir:
Allah commands, when one of you is the caretaker of a female orphan and he fears that he might not give her a dowry that is suitable for women of her status, he should marry other women, who are plenty as Allah has not restricted him. Al-Bukhari recorded that `A'ishah said, "A man was taking care of a female orphan and he married her, although he did not desire to marry her. That girl's money was mixed with his, and he was keeping her portion from her.
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I don't know much about the link here, but there are some explanations for it on: https://www.englishtafsir.com/Quran/4/index.html#sdfootnote4sym
The commentators ascribe three meanings to this:
(a) Hadrat 'A ' ishah says that this was revealed to remedy an evil that was prevalent in the days of "Ignorance." The guardians of the orphan girls used to marry them for their wealth and beauty, with the intention of keeping them under their power because they had no one to defend their cause; then they treated them unjustly without any fear. Therefore when they became Muslims, they had misgivings about marrying orphan girls. Accordingly, the Qur'an advised them to marry women of their choice other than orphan girls in their charge, if they feared that they would not be able to do justice to them. Verse 127 of this Surah also supports this comment.
(b) In commenting on this, Hadrat Ibn-i-Abbas and his discipleIkrimah assert that this Commandment was given to eradicate an injustice that was prevalent at that time. In pre-Islamic days, there was no limit to the number of wives and some people would marry even a dozen of them but when they could not meet the increasing expenses, they were forced to grab the property of their orphan nephews and other helpless relatives. Therefore, Allah restricted the maximum number of wives to four, and enjoined that this too, was subject to the condition that one should do justice to all of them.
(c) SaÆid bin Jubair, Qatadah and some other commentators declare that this Command was given to safeguard the interests of wives. They say that even before the advent of Islam, injustice to the orphans was looked upon with disfavor, but in regard to wives, it was different; they would marry as many as they liked and would treat them cruelly and unjustly without any fear of the society or pangs of conscience. Therefore Allah warned them that they should refrain from doing injustice to their wives as they did in the case of the orphans. Therefore they should not marry more than four wives and that too, only if they would do justice to them.
And Allah knows better.
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If you could elaborate on this I might consider accepting this answer, as is this looks like a 99% copy-paste with an empty introduction of your own. – Medi1Saif♦ Sep 18 '18 at 6:18
i always understood this this way: orphan(s) should be, naturally, somewhat like first candidates to marry, because it is likely hard for the people who look after them to take care of them. but whenever man fears he cannot deal correctly with an orphan wife, he should consider other options to marry.
so, now i have seen that probably the options are listed in order of from most hard to be just to the least hard to be just. orphan wifes are harder than 2, 3 or 4 wifes; 2, 3 or 4 are harder than 1 wife; 1 wife is harder than slave wife. i am not sure whether 2 wifes are harder than 3, and 3 than 4, but i think it is quite possible.
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The new sign for the Brickhouse Grill & Bar at the corner of Water and Simcoe in downtown Peterborough (photo: Brian Henry)
The restaurant at the corner of Simcoe and Water Streets in downtown Peterborough, previously The Works, is now reopened with a new name — Brickhouse Grill & Bar.
Owners Steve and Heidi Stewart are still running the restaurant, but no longer as franchisees of The Works. The new restaurant will still serve premium burgers, but as part of a new menu and a new concept.
“Our team worked around the clock to freshen the inside and develop this new concept,” Steve Stewart says. “Acting on feedback from our customers, we have installed a new bar and have created a new express lunch menu.”
The restaurant will be open daily from 11:00 a.m. until 10:00 p.m. The menu is available online at www.brickhousegrill.ca.
“We are happy that Steve and Heidi are continuing to invest in the downtown,” says Peterborough DBIA Executive Director Terry Guiel. “This new concept will be a welcome addition.”
The Works originally opened in the former Trasheteria building in downtown Peterborough in July 2012
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Rehabilitation exercise assessment using inertial sensors: a cross-sectional analytical study
Oonagh M Giggins1,
Kevin T Sweeney1,2 &
Brian Caulfield1,2
Journal of NeuroEngineering and Rehabilitation volume 11, Article number: 158 (2014) Cite this article
Accurate assessments of adherence and exercise performance are required in order to ensure that patients adhere to and perform their rehabilitation exercises correctly within the home environment. Inertial sensors have previously been advocated as a means of achieving these requirements, by using them as an input to an exercise biofeedback system. This research sought to investigate whether inertial sensors, and in particular a single sensor, can accurately classify exercise performance in patients performing lower limb exercises for rehabilitation purposes.
Fifty-eight participants (19 male, 39 female, age: 53.9 ± 8.5 years, height: 1.69 ± 0.08 m, weight: 74.3 ± 13.0 kg) performed ten repetitions of seven lower limb exercises (hip abduction, hip flexion, hip extension, knee extension, heel slide, straight leg raise, and inner range quadriceps). Three inertial sensor units, secured to the thigh, shin and foot of the leg being exercised, were used to acquire data during each exercise. Machine learning classification methods were applied to quantify the acquired data.
The classification methods achieved relatively high accuracy at distinguishing between correct and incorrect performance of an exercise using three, two, or one sensor while moderate efficacy scores were also achieved by the classifier when attempting to classify the particular error in exercise performance. Results also illustrated that a reduction in the number of inertial sensor units employed has little effect on the overall efficacy results.
The results revealed that it is possible to classify lower limb exercise performance using inertial sensors with satisfactory levels of accuracy and reducing the number of sensors employed does not reduce the accuracy of the method.
Exercise rehabilitation after a lower limb surgical procedure, such as total hip arthroplasty or total knee arthroplasty or in the treatment of lower limb musculoskeletal conditions such as osteoarthritis (OA), is accepted as standard and essential treatment [1–3]. Traditionally, rehabilitation exercise is delivered in a hospital or clinic environment; however, recent years have witnessed an increasing demand for more efficient health care delivery which has resulted in an increase in home based rehabilitation. However, many patients encounter various difficulties when performing their rehabilitation exercises at home. For instance, without the supervision of their therapist, patients may execute their exercises incorrectly [4]. Incorrect alignment during exercise, incorrect speed of movement and poor quality of movement may have an impact on the efficacy of exercise and may therefore result in a poor outcome [4]. Patient adherence is also a major problem associated with home based rehabilitation exercise. Up to 65% of patients report being non adherent or only partially adherent to their exercise programmes, with over 10% failing to complete their programmes [5]. The degree to which patients adhere to their exercise programme may also influence the success of rehabilitation. Accurate assessments of adherence and exercise performance are therefore required in order to ensure that patients both adhere to and perform their exercises correctly.
Recent research has explored ways in which technology can be used to enhance home exercise by providing feedback and encouragement to patients. Biofeedback systems have been advocated as they can provide important information on exercise technique and accuracy, allowing patients to correct their movements in real-time. They can also provide patients with an incentive to exercise. Electromyography and real-time ultrasound biofeedback systems have shown potential in rehabilitation [6, 7]; however, the expense of these systems and the expertise required to operate them means that they are inappropriate for patient use in the home. Commercial videogames, such as the Nintendo Wii and the Kinect from Microsoft, have recently gained a lot of interest as rehabilitation tools as they are in-expensive alternatives, that can be operated in the home [8–15]. The Nintendo Wii uses a wireless, accelerometer-enabled controller, which the user holds to track their movement, while the Wii Fit uses a balance board to measure movement. These interfaces can only measure gross body movements and are not suitable to track the subtle movements that occur during most rehabilitation exercises. The Kinect consists of an RGB (red-green-blue) camera and a depth sensor, which provide full-body three-dimensional (3D) motion capture and joint tracking capabilities. The accuracy and reliability of the Kinect system at measuring joint angles has been shown to be comparable to motion capture [16]. However, the accuracy of the Kinect decreases as the distance from the camera increases, and it also struggles with occluding body parts or objects in the scene, [17] which is a significant drawback to its use in the home environment.
Inertial sensors have been proposed as a means of tracking movement during exercise and providing information on technique and accuracy. The small size and unobtrusive nature of these sensors makes them an ideal solution to measure movement and therefore deliver feedback to patients as they perform their exercises. In addition, the low cost and the usability of these sensors has resulted in a number of researchers developing inertial sensor-based systems to address the problems associated with home exercise therapy, with commercially available systems, such as Xsens MVN being proposed to aid rehabilitation [18].
Research in this field has evaluated the use of multiple inertial sensors to evaluate exercise quality [19, 20]. In [19], five body worn accelerometers and machine learning classification were used to distinguish correct from incorrect performance of three lower limb exercises performed by healthy college students. More recently, the same group evaluated the use of five sensor nodes and multi-label machine learning classifiers to assess exercise performance in patients with knee OA [20]. However, using multiple sensors to track exercise performance can be overly cumbersome, which may limit the usability of an inertial sensor based biofeedback system. Reducing the number of sensors that are required to deliver biofeedback would not only reduce the cost of the system but make it more user-friendly for patient use in the home. Preliminary research has provided support for the use of a single sensor approach to evaluating exercise performance during a range of rehabilitation exercises [21]. More recent work investigated whether reducing the number of sensors utilised to evaluate exercise performance, from three to two, to one, had a detrimental impact on classification efficacy scores [22]. The results obtained in this study revealed that not only is it possible to classify exercise performance using inertial sensors with reasonably high levels of accuracy, but a single sensor placed on the lower limb can provide sufficient information on exercise performance to accomplish this, removing the requirement for multiple sensor units. While these results provide support for a single sensor approach to exercise performance evaluation and biofeedback, these investigations were performed with young, healthy participants. Therefore further research was required to investigate whether a single inertial sensor can be used to accurately evaluate exercise performance in a clinical cohort.
The objective of this study was to determine whether lower limb exercise can be evaluated in a cohort of patients using data from inertial sensors and machine learning classification methods. This study also sought to investigate whether using a single sensor can provide sufficient information to accurately evaluate and classify exercise performance. This work seeks to provide further evidence to support the use of a single inertial sensor as an input to an exercise biofeedback system.
A cross-sectional analytical study was conducted to examine two research questions; 1) whether lower limb exercise performance in a clinical cohort can be accurately classified using a machine learning classifier and data obtained from three inertial sensors, and 2) whether a reduction in the number of sensors used has a significant impact on the classification accuracy scores. The protocol of this study was approved by the Committee of Human Research Ethics in University College Dublin and informed consent was obtained from all study participants.
All data acquisition for this study took place in a local physiotherapy clinic. A sample of convenience of suitable participants was selected for this study from the clinic. The inclusion criteria were; male or female patients who were attending the clinic, aged between forty and eighty years, and who had performed or were performing lower limb exercises for a musculoskeletal or orthopaedic condition or injury. The exclusion criteria were; a lower limb injury that would limit ability to perform the exercises under investigation, poor functional balance or mobility, any other medical condition that would limit ability to participate in exercise, or cognitive or language difficulties. A screening questionnaire was used prior to enrolment to ensure that each participant was suitable for inclusion in this study.
Participants performed ten repetitions of each of the seven lower limb exercises studied. Three of these exercises were performed in standing (hip abduction, hip flexion and hip extension), one exercise was performed in sitting on a standardised chair (knee extension) and three exercises were performed while lying supine on a plinth (heel slide, straight leg raise (SLR), inner range quadriceps (IRQ) using a rolled towel under the knee). These exercises were studied as they are commonly prescribed to patients following a lower limb injury or surgery [22, 23] and are fully described in [21]. Participants were given standardised verbal instructions and a demonstration by the investigator on how to perform each exercise correctly and were allowed a practice trial of each exercise. The exercises were performed using the participants’ affected limb only. Where there was bilateral pathology, as was the case with participants with bilateral knee or hip OA, the exercises were performed using the more affected side, provided the participant was comfortable to do so.
Three inertial sensors units (Shimmer, Dublin, Ireland) were secured to the leg that was being exercised for data collection; one on the anterior aspect of the thigh, one on the anterior aspect of the shin and one on the dorsal aspect of the foot (Figure 1). The inertial sensors on the thigh and the shin were secured using a neoprene strap, which contained a pouch to house the sensor, while the foot sensor was secured using athletic tape. The orientation and positioning of each sensor was kept consistent on each participant. Each sensor contained both a tri-axial accelerometer and a tri-axial gyroscope sampling at 102.4 Hz.
Inertial sensors secured to thigh, shin and foot.
The Shimmer 9DOF Calibration Application (Shimmer, Dublin, Ireland) was used to calibrate the accelerometer and gyroscope sensors of each inertial sensor prior to data collection each day. The Multi Shimmer Sync application for Windows (Shimmer, Dublin, Ireland) was used to capture synchronised inertial sensor data over Bluetooth from the three sensors during each of the exercises. The raw inertial sensor data captured were saved onto a computer for off-line post-processing and analysis.
In this study, exercise performance was evaluated and designated as correct or incorrect. A correctly performed exercise is one in which the exercise is executed with correct alignment, speed and quality of movement. If there is an error in one of these features of performance, the exercise is deemed to be incorrect. During data collection, the investigator, who is a physiotherapist, observed each participant as they performed each repetition of each exercise. The investigator rated each repetition of each exercise and labelled the exercises as correct or incorrect. Where an exercise was performed incorrectly, an error label (how the exercise was performed incorrectly) and a severity score on a ten-point scale were given. Where two or more errors occurred during an exercise, the investigator selected the error which had the largest severity measure attributed with it as the label for that exercise. The possible error labels studied for each exercise are outlined in Table 1. Intra-rater reliability was not established in this study.
Table 1 Error labels studied for each exercise
Following data recording and labeling, post analysis was performed using MATLAB (2012, The MathWorks, Natwick, USA). Six signals were obtained from each sensor for analysis; acceleration X, Y and Z, and gyroscope X, Y and Z. From these six signals, three additional signals were calculated; overall acceleration magnitude, pitch and roll. The nine available signals were then filtered using a 4th order low-pass Butterworth filter with a cut-off frequency of 20 Hz. In order to train and test the classifier, the following features were then extracted from each of the available signals; signal mean, standard deviation, skewness, kurtosis, signal energy, level crossing rate, signal range, 25 percentile, 75 percentile and the variance of the wavelet coefficients using the Daubechies 5 mother wavelet to level 6.
Although each of these features could be useful to represent the data, it is not good practice to employ a large number of features when only a small number of trials are available as, by doing so, it is possible to over-fit the model, producing very good classification results during training but significantly poorer results during testing. In order to reduce the number of employed features principle component analysis (PCA) was performed [24]. PCA converts the set of features from a 126 dimensional matrix, with possibly correlated variables, into a set of principle components which are linearly uncorrelated. During analysis, the components which accounted for 99% of the variance were selected as the features. However, these new “features” no longer have any physical meaning (such as max, min etc.). It should also be noted that this process of feature selection using PCA is only performed on the training data, with the test data remaining unseen to the setup to refrain from biasing the system. The test data is reduced using the coefficients found using the training data.
In order to allow for multi-class analysis, in which the classifier attempts to specify which error occurred, the author selected the error from each trial which had the largest severity measure attributed with it. Similarly, any trials with errors which were deemed un-classifiable were also removed. An example of such a deviation is lateral trunk flexion during the hip flexion exercise. This deviation is un-classifiable as there were no sensors positioned above the thigh and so movement of the trunk cannot be detected. Following these steps, each trial had a corresponding class label which described the most severe error observed. It should also be noted that the exercise being performed was known a priori by the classifier. Therefore the classifier model did not have to determine which exercise was being performed but instead had to determine whether the known exercise was being performed correctly or not.
A logistic regression classifier was used to perform classification. Logistic regression is a discriminative probabilistic classification model that operates over real-valued vector inputs. The probabilities describing the possible outcomes of a single trial are modelled, as a function of the explanatory (predictor) variables, using a logistic function. Logistic regression therefore measures the relationship between a categorical dependent variable and one or more independent variables, which are usually (but not necessarily) continuous, by using probability scores (value between 0 and 1) as the predicted values of the dependent variable. The advantages of this classifier include its low complexity and its robustness against over-fitting compared to some other classification techniques [25]. During analysis several other types of classifiers were also tested including k-nearest neighbours, SVMs and naïve Bayes classifiers, however none were shown to provide significantly improved results on this dataset for the increased computational time required. For the multi-class classification problem a bank of one-versus-all classifiers were employed, where one of the possible deviations is set as the positive class and all other trials are set as the negative class. This was then repeated with each possible deviation set as the positive class. The final output class was chosen as the deviation which, when set as the positive class, resulted in the highest probability score. In the unlikely event of two deviations having the same probability score, the deviation which had the highest occurrence in the training set was chosen. Each classifier was trained and tested using leave-one-subject-out cross-validation (LOSOCV) and results were presented using the accuracy, sensitivity and specificity metrics. Accuracy measures the overall effectiveness of a classifier and is computed by taking the ratio of correctly classified examples and the total number of examples available. Sensitivity measures the effectiveness of a classifier at identifying a desired label, while specificity measures the classifiers ability to detect negative labels [19]. For each exercise, efficacy scores were calculated using the data from the foot, shin and thigh sensors individually as well as the various combinations of sensors (i.e. foot and shin, foot and thigh, shin and thigh, and foot, shin and thigh).
Fifty-eight participants (19 male, 39 female, age: 53.9 ± 8.5 years, height: 1.69 ± 0.08 m, weight: 74.3 ± 13.0 kg) took part in this investigation. The clinical information of the sample of participants is presented in Table 2. One study participant only performed the three exercises in lying due to time constraints, three subjects were not able to perform the SLR exercise and data were lost for one participant during the heel slide exercise and for another during the knee extension exercise due to sensor failure. This resulted in a total of 570 trials for the heel slide exercise and the three exercises in standing, 550 trials for the SLR and IRQ exercises, and 560 trials for the knee extension exercise.
Table 2 Clinical information regarding the presenting condition of the study participants
The results of the paper are presented in Table 3 and Table 4. Table 3 presents the efficacy scores obtained using binary classification (correct or incorrect) for each of the individual sensors as well as all combinations of sensors. Relatively high average efficacy scores were achieved using binary classification. Using three sensors, an average accuracy of 81%, sensitivity of 70%, and specificity of 70% were achieved at classifying an exercise as correctly or incorrectly performed. Using two sensors, an average accuracy of 82%, sensitivity of 83% and specificity of 70% were achieved, while using a single sensor achieved an average accuracy of 83%, sensitivity of 82%, and specificity of 72% at classifying an exercise as correctly or incorrectly performed.
Table 4 outlines the results using multi-label classifiers. Multi-label classifiers were not employed for the hip flexion, knee extension or SLR exercise, as only one error label was studied for these exercises and therefore binary classification was sufficient to quantify the data obtained during these exercises. Moderate efficacy scores were achieved using multi-label classification. Using three sensors, an average accuracy of 63%, sensitivity of 45%, and specificity of 79% were achieved at correctly classifying the error that had occurred. Using two sensors, an average accuracy of 61%, sensitivity of 44% and specificity of 77% were achieved, while using a single sensor achieved an average accuracy of 63%, sensitivity of 49%, and specificity of 77% at correctly classifying the error that had occurred.
This research has explored whether lower limb exercise performance can be classified in a cohort of patients using data from inertial sensors and machine learning classification methods. The results obtained revealed that it is possible to correctly classify lower limb exercise performance using inertial sensors with satisfactory levels of accuracy. In addition the results revealed that reducing the number of sensors used, from three to one, does not appreciably reduce the accuracy of this method of classifying exercise performance. In fact, for some exercises, a single sensor approach is more accurate at correctly classifying exercise performance, than two or three sensor on the lower limb. One possible reason for this anomaly may be that the increase in the data available, due to the increased number of sensors utilized, causes the model to over fit the training data thus causing poorer results on the test data. Also, for many of the exercises, one sensor is sufficient to provide information regarding the movement or deviation. The addition of a second, or third, sensor does not provide sufficient additional information and thus can introduce additional noise into the system. Future advances of the employed technique may aid to alleviate these problems. These results provide further evidence to support the use of a single inertial sensor as an input to an exercise biofeedback system.
Machine learning classification techniques were used to quantify the inertial sensor data acquired during the seven exercises studied. These classifier techniques allow for real-time, objective quantification of data, which is essential in an intelligent exercise biofeedback system. Binary classifiers (correct or incorrect) and multi-label classifiers (which determine which error in a set of errors) were employed and the efficacy of these classifiers were quantified using three efficacy scores; accuracy, sensitivity, and specificity. Binary classification of the inertial sensor data revealed that it is possible to classify performance of an exercise as correct or incorrect with relatively high accuracy, sensitivity and specificity. The average scores across all seven exercises revealed that a single sensor on the thigh is the best approach to identify whether an exercise is performed correctly or incorrectly, achieving higher efficacy scores than the various two sensor approaches or all three sensors together. Analysing each exercise individually, a single sensor on the thigh yields the best efficacy scores for classifying five of the seven exercises studied as correct or incorrect (heel slide, hip abduction, hip extension, IRQ, and knee extension exercise). Two sensors (thigh and foot) give the best efficacy scores for classifying the SLR exercise as correctly or incorrectly performed. However, reducing to a single sensor on the thigh did not markedly change the efficacy scores (5% difference in accuracy, 5% in sensitivity, and 6% in specificity). Likewise for the hip flexion exercise, two sensors (foot and shin) gave the best efficacy scores at classifying correct or incorrect exercise performance, however reducing to a single sensor, this time on the shin, did not exceptionally decrease the efficacy scores (2% decrease in accuracy, 1% in sensitivity, and 2% in specificity).
A significant feature of an exercise biofeedback system is for it to be able to identify when an exercise is being performed correctly or incorrectly. The system needs also to be able to detect and recognise the error that has occurred, to give effective feedback on performance to the user. Therefore, multi-label classifiers were applied to the data acquired in this study in an attempt to classify the error that had occurred. As multi-label classifiers were only required when more than one error had occurred, the knee extension, SLR and the hip flexion exercises were not quantified using multi-label classifiers. Multi-label classification of the inertial sensor data revealed that it is possible to identify the error that had occurred with moderate accuracy, sensitivity and specificity. The average scores across all four exercises revealed that a single sensor on the thigh is the best approach to identify the error that had occurred. Analysing each exercise individually, a single sensor on the thigh yields the best efficacy scores for identify the errors during the heel slide exercise. For the hip abduction exercise a single sensor on the shin yielded the best efficacy scores, while a single sensor on the foot yielded the best scores for the hip extension exercise. For the IRQ exercise, while all three sensors achieve the best efficacy scores, a single sensor on the thigh achieved comparable classification efficacy scores at identifying the errors that occur (accuracy scores equal, 3% difference in sensitivity, and 1% difference in specificity).
Comparing the results of the binary and multi-label classifier, there is an appreciable drop in the accuracy scores for the hip abduction (40% for three sensors, 19% for two sensors, and 41% for one sensor) and the hip extension (38% for three sensors, 41% for two sensors, and 43% for one sensor) exercise. The accuracy scores also drops for the heel slide (9% for three sensors, 5% for two sensors and one sensor) and the IRQ (2% for three, two and one sensor) exercise, however the difference is not as large. A reduction in accuracy scores is expected when comparing the binary and multi-label classification scores, as it is a more complex task to identify the range of errors that may occur during the exercise. However, an average accuracy score of at least 60% was achieved across all exercises using multi-label classification methods (when using data from three sensors, the various combinations of two sensors, or from a single sensor).
The results obtained in this study are comparable to previous research that has evaluated the use of inertial sensors and machine learning methods to quantify exercise performance [19, 20]. The ability of the classifier presented in this study to detect when an exercise is performed incorrectly is comparable to that presented in [19]. However less favourable results were obtained in this current study when the multi-label classifiers were employed as compared to that presented in [20]. However this is as expected as LOSOCV was used in this study as compared to the 10-fold cross validation that was performed in [20]. In addition, a balanced dataset were used in [20], where there was an equal number of error labels as correct labels. Using a balanced dataset helps to improve the efficacy scores obtained but in an unrealistic manner. Another possible explanation for the lower efficacy scores in this study is the variations in the way different subjects produce the same errors. Though two patients may produce the same error in exercise performance, each may have committed the error in a different way. Nevertheless, the results obtained in this study are important as they provide further evidence to suggest that a single sensor can provide sufficient information on exercise performance, and therefore can be used as a viable input to an exercise biofeedback system. A single sensor approach is desirable as not only does it reduce the cost of the system but also avoids cumbersome set up and calibration procedures.
These findings therefore prompt the development of a simple biofeedback system using a single inertial sensor to monitor exercise performance in the home. By developing a system that can provide biomechanical feedback to patients, it is hoped that patients will perform their exercises at home more accurately. In addition, it is hoped that patient motivation to perform exercises will be increased, which may enhance rehabilitation and recovery.
There are a number of limitations to this study which need to be considered. Firstly, the data gathered in this study were gathered in a clinical environment, where the exercises were performed under controlled conditions. In this study, participants performed the exercises wearing appropriate clothing for exercise, and in a clutter free environment. These conditions may differ from what may occur in reality in the home. Furthermore, the errors in exercise performance observed in this study differ from what is reported as commonly occurring deviations for these exercises (26). In reality, further deviations in performance may occur if a larger sample or a different population were studied or if a different study environment were used. Another limitation of this study is that the sample selected was not a homogenous group. The sample of participants taking part in this study were attending the physiotherapy clinic for rehabilitation for a multitude of musculoskeletal conditions. As the sample was not large enough, it was not possible to sub-divide the sample into groups to investigate whether the classifier performed differently for different populations. While the results cannot be generalized to a specific population, the heterogeneity of the sample increases the external validity of the results.
The complex dataset also provided limitations for the study. As the participants’ movements were not corrected during each trial, the datasets for the various exercises were often highly unbalanced. For example, one exercise could have 50% more correct trials than incorrect. The examination of the multi-label classifier would then further exacerbate this unwanted data unbalancing to the point where some deviations would have too few trials to allow for classification. At least forty examples of each label were required to train and test the model sufficiently, so trials that had error labels with less than forty examples were excluded. The number forty was empirically chosen to ensure that there was always sufficient data available and therefore ensure that a deviation did not occur in the test case which had not been seen previously in the training of the model. This unbalanced nature of the datasets caused some of the exercises to present lower sensitivity or specificity scores than the more naturally balanced datasets. It should be again noted that this work only seeks to provide evidence to support the use of single inertial sensors as an input to an exercise biofeedback system. Further work is required to develop the system and improve the overall classification results to levels acceptable for use in rehabilitation. A further limitation is that, for each exercise, only the error labels with the largest severity attributed to it were included in the analysis. Failing this simplification, the number of possible classes would grow exponentially with the number of possible deviations. Preliminary evaluations also suggested that error labels that involved contralateral limb or upper body movements could not be classified. For this reason, any trials with errors that were deemed un-classifiable (e.g. trunk flexion) were removed. Future work should endeavour to overcome the data unbalancing problem and examine and classify all potential errors, which will be important as researchers develop inertial sensor based exercise biofeedback systems.
Poor adherence and poor performance of rehabilitation exercises motivates the need for exercise biofeedback systems to monitor the performance of rehabilitation exercises in the home. Inertial sensors have previously been advocated due to their relative low expense and the fact that they can be readily deployed in the home. Current systems using inertial sensors rely on multiple sensors to track movement and evaluate performance during lower limb exercises. However, using multiple sensors increases both the cost and the setup time required and thus reduces the likelihood of full patient adherence. This research therefore sought to answer two separate research questions: 1) whether inertial sensors can classify exercise performance in patients performing lower limb exercises and thus be used in the development of an exercise biofeedback system, and 2) whether a reduction in the number of sensors employed in the feedback system would have a significant detrimental effect on the efficacy results.
Machine learning classification methods were applied to quantify the data gathered in this study and the results revealed that it is possible to distinguish between correct and incorrect performance of an exercise using three, two, or one sensor(s), with an average accuracy of 81%, 82%, and 83% respectively. The results also revealed that it is possible to not only identify that the movement was performed incorrectly but, more specifically, which error was performed within each exercise. Moderate average efficacy scores were obtained across all seven exercises (average accuracy = 63% for three sensors, 61% for two sensors, and 63% for one sensor), however for some exercises the efficacy scores achieved were low. Nevertheless these results provide an answer to our first research question above in that inertial sensors can indeed be used to classify exercise performance in patients performing lower limb exercises. Further work is required to improve the accuracy and robustness of the system prior to implementing in a feasible biofeedback system.
This work also sought to determine whether a single sensor placed on the lower limb can provide sufficient information to classify performance. Reducing the number of sensors, from three to one was found to not have a considerable impact on the accuracy of the proposed technique, and in some cases, a single sensor performs better at evaluating exercise performance than the various combinations of two and three sensors. These results allow for the development of an inertial sensor based biofeedback platform, which aims to guide and enhance rehabilitation exercise performance in the home.
Red-Green-Blue
3D:
SLR:
Straight leg raise
IRQ:
Inner range quadriceps
9DOF:
9 degrees of freedom
PCA:
Principle Component Analysis
LOSOCV:
Leave-one-subject-out-cross-validation.
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This work was supported by Science Foundation Ireland.
School of Public Health, Physiotherapy and Population Science, University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland
Oonagh M Giggins
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INSIGHT, University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland
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Correspondence to Oonagh M Giggins.
OMG was responsible for data recording and labelling and drafted the manuscript. UMP, KTS conducted the analysis. KTS and BC contributed concepts and edited and revised the manuscript. All authors read and approved the manuscript.
Giggins, O.M., Sweeney, K.T. & Caulfield, B. Rehabilitation exercise assessment using inertial sensors: a cross-sectional analytical study. J NeuroEngineering Rehabil 11, 158 (2014) doi:10.1186/1743-0003-11-158
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1186/1743-0003-11-158
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The Japan Studies program is an interdisciplinary program that provides concentrated Japanese language and area training. The core curriculum is offered through the Jackson School and is supplemented by numerous classes on Japan in Political Science, History, Literature, Linguistics, Art, Art History, Architecture, Law, and Business. This opportunity for well-rounded study is enhanced by specialized training in areas of individual interest, allowing students to develop their academic skills and to pursue their professional goals.
The MAIS degree in Japan Studies gives students in-depth knowledge of many facets of Japan and familiarity with Japanese society and culture. Coursework helps prepare students for careers in business, government, journalism, secondary-school teaching, and a variety of other professional fields. The Japan Studies Master’s program is specifically designed for students with BAs who need language and interdisciplinary training on Japan to pursue their career goals, as well as for preparation for PhD work in an academic discipline involving Japan for students who have had little or no training on Japan or in the language. The MAIS in Japan Studies may also be pursued concurrently with a Master of Business Administration or a Master of Public Affairs. Japan Studies MAIS students are encouraged to explore the QUAL Initiative to expand qualitative research design and methods in their graduate training.
Because of the crucial importance of language skills in understanding Japan, students in the Japan Studies program are strongly encouraged to study Japanese to as advanced a level as possible.
Variety and depth are added to regular coursework by Japan Colloquia and by occasional special symposia, where recent research findings and discussions of significant contemporary topics are presented by specialists from the United States, Japan, and elsewhere. The program strives to offer students the opportunity to study all aspects of Japan—through the number and variety of courses offered, the research activities of faculty members, Japan Colloquia, and in the fact that the most important academic journal in the field, The Journal of Japanese Studies, is published here at the University of Washington. These contribute further to the intellectual environment of the program, giving students the benefit of learning about research done by scholars at the forefront of the Japan field.
The University of Washington has a long-standing commitment to the study of Japan, and its programs on East Asia are consistently ranked among the best in the nation. Japan-related curricula are offered in many of the University’s departments and professional schools. Similarly active programs focusing on other world regions make the University of Washington a rich environment for study and enable students to gain a comparative international perspective.
Applicants must meet the basic Graduate School requirements, which include a 3.00 grade point average for the last 90 quarter (60 semester) graded credits, a baccalaureate degree from an accredited institution, and submission of test results from the general Graduate Record Exam (GRE). Applicants must also meet all application requirements and deadlines set by the Jackson School and described in its application guidelines. Meeting minimum standards, however, does not ensure admission. At least one year of prior training in Japanese language is strongly recommended. Applicants to concurrent degrees must also meet all application requirements and deadlines for the MBA program in the Business School or the MPA program in Public Policy and Governance.
All students must complete at least 52 credits in addition to fulfilling the language requirement. Generally, this program is completed within two years. Concurrent programs require at least three years. Those enrolled concurrently in other programs must meet the requirements of both the other program and Japan Studies; however, some course work is counted for both degrees.
Students must attain competency in the Japanese language through at least the third-year level. This competency may be demonstrated either by results from the UW proficiency test or through coursework. Students are strongly encouraged to take language throughout their studies at the University of Washington. Those who enter the program with proficiency beyond the third-year level may continue language study through classes in fourth-year and classical Japanese, or a variety of literature courses based on Japanese-language texts. Summer courses in intensive language training are offered at lower levels only.
JSIS A 555 Introduction to Modern Japanese Studies (5 credits) Introduction to the study of Japan, analysis of primary and secondary materials, and writing.
One modern Japanese history course (5 cr.) chosen from JSIS A/HSTAS 423/History of Modern Japan, JSIS A/HSTAS 424/Emergence of Postwar Japan, or JSIS 584/HSTAS 521H/Modern Japanese History.
Minimum of 15 credits of course work chosen from an approved list
JSIS 483 Asian Regionalism (5)
JSIS 584 Hiroshima and Nagasaki (5)
JSIS 584/HSTAS 521* Modern Japanese History (5)
JSIS A/HSTAS 423* History of Modern Japan (5)
JSIS A/HSTAS 424* Emergence of Postwar Japan (5)
JSIS A/POL S 435 Japanese Government and Politics (5)
JSIS A 536/POL S 429 Political Parties in Japan and East Asia (5)
JSIS A 537POL S 424 International Relations in Japan (5)
JSIS A 449/ANTH 443 Anthropology of Japan (5)
JSIS A 539/HSTAS 540 Japanese History in Ecological Perspective (5)
JSIS A/LAW B 540 Japanese Law (4)
JSIS A 543 Japan, U.S., and New Orders in Asia (5)
JSIS A 548 National Security of Japan (5)
JSIS A 551/POL S 539 International Relations of NE Asia (5)
JSIS A 581/I BUS 561 Science, Technology, Innovation Policy in Japan (5)
JSIS A 573 Political Economy of Postwar Japan (5)
JSIS A 574 Civil Society in Japan and East Asia (5)
JSIS A 577 Political Economy of Japan and NE Asia (5)
JSIS A 578/I BUS 562 Japan Business and Technology (5)
JSIS A 587/POL S 418 Japanese Trade Politics (5)
*If not taken as the required Japanese history course
Other Courses:
27 credits of elective course work chosen from approved lists,* including at least 18 credits at 500 or 600 level. Up to 15 credits from advanced Japanese-language courses may be counted toward these 27 additional credits.
ARCH 441 Visions of the Japanese House (3)
ARCH 453/ART H 419 Japanese Architecture (3)
ART H 420 Art of the Japanese Print (3)
ART H 421 Topics in Art and Visual Cultures: Japan (5)
ART H 515 Seminar in Japanese Art (5)
ASIAN 498 Foreign Language Teaching Methodology (5)
ASIAN 503 Seminar on Japanese 2nd Language Acquisition (5)
JSIS 483/ARCH 498 Asian Cities: History, Theory, Practice (3)
JSIS 584 Alternative Japan (5)
JSIS 584 Education, Work, and Family in Japan (5)
JSIS 584 Japan’s Changing Generations (5)
JSIS 584 Media and Popular Culture in Japan (5)
JSIS 584 Religion in Japan (5)
JSIS 594 International and Area Studies (2)
JSIS D/LAW B 549 Government Regulation of Business in Japan (3)
JSIS 600 Independent Study or Research (Maximum 5 credits)
Maximum of 15
credits chosen from:
JAPAN 405 History of the Japanese Language (5)
JAPAN 421-23 Fourth-year Japanese (5-5-5)
JAPAN 428 Advanced Oral Communication (3)
JAPAN 429 Advanced Writing in Japanese (3)
JAPAN 431-33 Readings in Modern Japanese Literature (5-5-5)
JAPAN 434 Seminar in Premodern Japanese Literature (5)
JAPAN 435 Seminar in Modern Japanese Literature (5)
JAPAN 440 Introduction to Japanese Linguistics (5)
JAPAN 460 Topics in Japanese Culture (5)
JAPAN 471 Introduction to Classical Japanese (5)
JAPAN 472-73 Readings in Classical Japanese Literature (5-5)
JAPAN 505 Kambun (5)
JAPAN 531-33 Adv. Readings in Modern Japanese Literature (5-5-5)
JAPAN 561 No and Kyogen (5)
JAPAN 580 Development of Modern Japanese Fiction (5)
JAPAN 590 Seminar in Japanese Literature (5)
JSIS C 547 Readings on Japan in the Social Sciences (5)
Final Papers and Oral Exam
Students take an Oral Exam after having completed two research papers or an Essay of Distinction.
The University of Washington’s Japan collection is one of the most important of its kind in the nation. The East Asia Library and the Gallagher Law Library together house over 140,000 volumes of Japanese-language materials. The libraries on campus maintain an up-to-date collection of English- and European-language works in the humanities, social sciences, and art and a good collection of prewar and nineteenth-century books and periodicals.
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