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Chris Collins: Disabled?
Why is Erie County Executive Chris Collins parking his appropriately named Buick “Enclave” in a handicapped spot before a parade in which he marched (at the front) last weekend? Has the county’s CEO suddenly become afflicted with some crippling disability that affects his mobility?
Chris Collins: It's his county, it's his handicapped spot!
UPDATE: For some reason, some of you need MORE PROOF AND MORE ANGLES AND WHATNOT.
MOAR ANGLEZ!
EVEN MOAR!
(All images can be clicked to be enlarged and determine whether they’re real or ZOMG FAKED!)
As to the picture itself, my tipster informs me that these photos were taken before the Akron/Newstead parade. The only other vehicles in that entire lot were in the parade. Everyone else was told to park somewhere off the parade route. His Royal Highness the Prince of Spaulding parked in this handicapped spot about 50 feet from the parade start.
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109 Responses to “Chris Collins: Disabled?”
Brian Wood July 6, 2011 at 12:33 pm #
Hey, the rich and entitled are entitled. We can pound salt and limp.
This Guy July 6, 2011 at 12:42 pm #
Does having a Napoleon complex get you a handicapped parking tag?
Black Rock Lifer July 6, 2011 at 12:44 pm #
His disability is ignorance and arrogance, surely such an affliction deserves a parking permit and our empathy.
Derek J. Punaro July 6, 2011 at 12:55 pm #
See, this is where you undo a lot of good opinion pieces that have some validity to them. The handicap spots are there for ease of access to the school. The school itself wasn’t being used, the parking lot was (the school likely wasn’t even open). So it doesn’t matter where he was parked. In fact, from the photo, it looks like he’s parked further away from the staging area than other cars. Are there more photos?
Alan Bedenko July 6, 2011 at 1:11 pm #
It looks, in fact, like he’s parked further away from the staging area than other cars, and that there are loads of non-handicapped parking spaces actually closer to that staging area.
Which would result in the only rational explanation for him parking there – that he’s a fucking asshole.
Black Rock Lifer July 6, 2011 at 1:02 pm #
@Derek- It is illegal to park in a handicapped parking space at anytime unless you are a permit holder.
Rob July 6, 2011 at 1:03 pm #
And if the other spots filled up (not unlikely) and a handicapped person (with the required tag) wanted to park in the lot in order to attend the parade? Too bad for him/her I guess.
mark July 6, 2011 at 1:05 pm #
Grant Loomis said this photo is fake. I thought I’d heard everything until the apologist explanation why it’s ok to park in a spot reserved or crippled people.
Christopher Smith July 6, 2011 at 1:14 pm #
Shorter Derek Punaro: “Laws are for the little people!”
Chris Sasiadek July 6, 2011 at 1:15 pm #
Nice mini-van.
Kevin J. July 6, 2011 at 1:24 pm #
My wife Val has a handicapped parking permit/mirror hanger, so I am not only offended, I am infuriated and insulted by this pathetic act by Collins.
Derek – Really? Handicapped parking is not only there for the use of handicapped people with the proper parking permit because of distance, it is because they provide extra space for people needing to unload their wheelchairs and walkers using ramps, or just their arms and legs. Val uses a cane most of the time, but she has a walker she uses a decent amount of the time, and if there were people parked next to her in a regular lot because a space like this was taken by someone without a handicap, she would have one hell of a time getting the walker out of her car.
The handicapped parking spots are also placed near curb cuts so people in wheelchairs and using walkers can navigate the curb without additional difficulty.
The photo appears to have been taken at the Court Street School, where there is plenty of regular parking barely steps away from this handicapped spot.
Derek J. Punaro July 6, 2011 at 1:25 pm #
Sorry, not going to get worked up over this. You could say if he was smarter he wouldn’t be caught in such a position by an partisan with a camera looking for just such an opportunity, but the school parking lot was the staging area for the parade. From past experience marching from that exact spot, it’s likely the lot was closed except for parade participants. Show us other photos for context. Wider angle shot of the whole parking lot? Who was the photographer? Are they on a plane to Florida today?
Brian B July 6, 2011 at 1:29 pm #
There probably wasn’t enough parking spots and would have to park off site or use the handicapped site. Unfortunately, if a handicapped person were to need to be in the staging area, they would be out of luck.
@Derek- As I stated above, its about ignorance and arrogance, if you don’t see it your just not looking.
Chris Charvella July 6, 2011 at 1:31 pm #
Didn’t Dennis Leary write a song about this sort of behavior.
I hope you and Mr. Collins never have to get worked up over this like I am, Derek. And it doesn’t matter if this was only for parade participants; there were handicapped participants in the Cheektowaga Independence Day parade I marched in in Cheektowaga Monday, including a woman in a wheelchair in the unit directly behind mine, as well as several veterans in the parade. They need, deserve and qualify to park there, not Mr. Collins.
“[I]t’s likely the lot was closed except for parade participants.”
So?? What if a handicapped parade participant needed that spot? Also, comment #5.
I see someone is saying the photo is faked. Is there any evidence it wasn’t (like an eyewitness)?
John July 6, 2011 at 1:36 pm #
Later that day… http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LgedBRXw7fY
Greta Kelly July 6, 2011 at 1:38 pm #
This is what happens when Collins decides to venture outside the locked gates of Spaulding Lake and locked doors of the 16th floor of the Rath Building. His true nature is on full display for all to see. So, in the course of just a few hours he was able to disrespect our veterans and well as those with disabilities. Give it a couple more hours and I wouldn’t be at all surprised if we started to hear reports he made sexist comments to some unsuspecting woman in red, white & blue short shorts…with promises to share his stolen spot at the beginning of a parade in exchange for a lap dance!
Most of you are missing the point. It’s not that I’m insensitive to people with disabilities or the laws surrounding parking, it’s that the parking lot is not being used for it’s normal purpose. The handicap spaces are where they are due to proximity to the school, not the proximity to the parade route. Perhaps handicapped people were allowed to park in a spot closer to where they needed to be in the parade?
Also, I don’t believe the photo was taken at the Lancaster parade. There are no houses that close to the Court Street school parking lot, and the Exif data on the photo says it was taken at 4:29pm, long after Collins would have been done with the Lancaster parade if he started walking the route before the parade started at 2pm. So where was this photo taken?
@Derek, from the update:
Aside from the fact that, as a non-handicapped person, Chris Collins has absolutely no business whatsoever using a handicapped spot under any circumstances, in any way, at any time, regardless of whether the school or lot were “open”, he clearly set himself apart and used a different set of rules at the Akron/Newstead parade than just about everyone else there.
He is, therefore, a fucking asshole.
Jeremy July 6, 2011 at 2:01 pm #
Democratic operatives obviously waited until he parked his car and walked away, then painted part of a handicapped logo under it.
I didn’t think it was faked, I just noted that Grant Loomis apparently claimed it was. It would be easy to PhotoShop such a picture wouldn’t it? But per the Update Alan’s tipster said he/she took it at the Akron/Newstead parade, so OK.
Still not buying DJP’s claim that a handicapped parking space is fair game if the closest building to it is closed but whatever.
If CE-3 is an Enclave, what’s CE-1 – a Canyonero?
From the DMV:
Reserved parking for people with disabilities ensures safe and equal access to goods and services, access which most of us take for granted. This publication explains the rules that businesses and all drivers should observe about reserved parking spaces. It also presents information on how to obtain license plates and parking permits that allow individuals with severe disabilities to use specially-marked parking spots.
Reserved parking for people with disabilities is a legal requirement, not just a courtesy. You can help support the law by parking in reserved spaces only if you have a permit or plates for people with disabilities, and only when the person who received the permit or plates is actually in the vehicle. Please avoid parking in the access aisle or striped area next to a reserved parking space – it is not a parking zone. This special area is needed for access by people who use wheelchairs and specially-equipped vehicles.
It is important to respect each other. Please, be parking considerate.
New York State V&TL 1203-b:
2. It shall be a violation for any person to stop, stand or park a vehicle in any area designated as a place for handicapped parking unless the vehicle bears a permit issued under section one thousand two hundred three-a or a registration issued under section four hundred four-a of this chapter and such vehicle is being used for the transportation of a severely disabled or handicapped person. This subdivision shall not apply to a violation of section twelve hundred three-c of this chapter.
Lisa Owen July 6, 2011 at 2:30 pm #
I was there and saw Collins and his car parked. There were spots that were not handicapped that were a little farther away. He didn’t need to park there. No one else did except for him and one handicapped car. He thinks he special and the rules don’t apply to him. He’s got to go- he’s doing nothing for the people of Erie County.
I’ll note that this EXIF viewer superimposes the GPS coordinates of the image onto Google Maps. I think the result speaks for itself.
Thanks for posting the additional info, Alan. I’m familiar with the Lancaster parade and the Court Street school staging area, in which I would stand by my argument – the lot is small and not used for public parking, and the staging area is along the long driveway in which the handicapped spots are actually far away from much of. I’m not familiar with Akron/Newstead’s parade or how theirs works or where people are told to park. If the spots were being used/reserved for handicapped people, then he absolutely should have been following the rules and not playing a trump card of his own making (as we would expect of any politician).
Handicapped spots, as set forth in the statutes I posted, are always reserved only for people with acceptable placards and permission – whether they are being used or not.
Carmen Bartolotta July 6, 2011 at 3:15 pm #
Running government like a business. The big boss always gets the closest parking spot because he runs the show, while the rest of you are nothing but cogs in the machine. This is not surprising at all, which is sad in itself. First he disrespects veterans and firefighters in Lancaster, now he dumps on the handicapped in Akron. This is not a man who should be representing the great citizens of Erie County.
Warrey July 6, 2011 at 3:17 pm #
Is the Irish Curse considered a disability?
Off the point a bit, but is anyone else creeped out by the easy availability of .exif data?
On the point: People who park in these spaces who aren’t handicapped are self-absorbed assholes. The logic here dictates that Collins is a self-absorbed asshole.
@30 – Oh come on, there are probably 20 VTL sections that are “violated” during the course of any parade or special event. Are you going to ticket the giant slide operator during a town carnival if it’s set up in a parking lot across handicap spaces? Lot closed = rules suspended.
Obviously, the lot wasn’t closed.
grant loomis didn’t say the photo was fake- I SAID grant loomis said the photo was fake! I mean, that’s what he’d likely say when confronted with the pics. Why would the photog be called a partisan for taking the picture? maybe they were rightfully pissed off to see the arrogant bastard deprive a handicapped person a parking place?
MJC July 6, 2011 at 3:35 pm #
Is there anyone here that would even take a chance and park there? Especially when it is obvious that there are several indisputably legal spots about ten feet away?
I wouldn’t park in a school handicapped spot at 4 in the morning on Christmas Day.
I’m glad we’re focusing our attention on matters important to WNY. Today’s obviously a slow news day.
@MJC you’re absolutely right. I think the fact that a guy like Collins, who should be concerned with appearances at all times, would park in a handicap space speaks directly to his arrogance.
AidentheCat July 6, 2011 at 4:19 pm #
I was in the Newstead parade. I was there when everyone around the beginning of the parade was talking about Collins car in the handicapped spot. I also know that several people took pictures of it. I, like everyone else, parked my car where I was told to, off the parade route. Actually, I parked it at the end of the route and walked back to the beginning so I wouldn’t have to backtrack and our group could get right in and head to the next stop.
I’ll bet that after the investigation is completed we’ll find that it was Byron Brown’s son who parked Collins’ vehicle illegally.
Cindy July 6, 2011 at 7:36 pm #
Where are the Akron police when you need them?
The Village of Akron police chief and 13 part-time officers issued 115 parking summonses in 2010, according to their statistics on their web site through, ahem, http://www.erie.gov.
Mr. F.N. Magoo July 6, 2011 at 8:44 pm #
One of the reasons people who don’t deserve it give for parking illegally in handicapped spaces is that it affords their vehicle greater distance from cars parking adjacent to it. So just like the morons that park across two spaces to protect their paint, perhaps Collins parked this way to spare his Enclave contact with the common people.
Mike in Buffalo July 6, 2011 at 9:57 pm #
He may be an imbecile, but he is our imbecile!
King Kong July 6, 2011 at 10:13 pm #
What a dumb thing to do. I worked on a race during the last cycle, we always had our candidate dropped off and picked up at the staging ground, it avoids having his car take up valuable space from other people and it avoids P.R. fiascoes like this one.
Mike In WNY July 7, 2011 at 12:26 am #
This post is beyond really stupid. It appears that regardless of where Collins parked, there was absolutely no chance a handicapped person would have had access to the spot at that time. The point of the blog post is moot.
Alan Bedenko July 7, 2011 at 6:02 am #
Calling a post based on what “appears”, without knowing – and after I had updated the post with more detail about where non-handicapped marchers in the parade were supposed to park, is what’s “beyond really stupid”.
Christopher Smith July 7, 2011 at 1:18 am #
No, Mike, it isn’t moot. I know you libertarians think the Disability Act is a big joke and a horrible violation of your natural rights under Ayn Rand, but Collins’ behavior demonstrates ignorance (at best) and arrogance (at worst). Either way, it was a dumb thing to do and says more about Collins as a person than any TV commercial will.
Charles July 7, 2011 at 6:49 am #
Ok. So we already knew that CC is an arrogant SOB, and this little tidbit reaffirms the already known known. True, it is a bit petty, but THAT is exactly the niche that blogs such as this fill in the political reportage spectrum. So I will be the last to criticize BP for exposing the continuum of CC’s arrogance. It fills in well with the Buff News piece on CC’s arrogant tendencies.
That said, these little items will not defeat CC in November. Ultimately, it is not what will persuade voters to pull the lever for MP. Voters don’t necessarily punish arrogance if the SOB is perceived to be doing the job he was elected to do.
MP must both expose real CC shortcomings (how about the poor state of heavily traveled county roads such as Colvin Blvd in my hometown of Tonawanda?) and offer realistic solutions to those problems, such as actually using hoarded stimulus moneys to repair crumbling infrastructure and provide jobs to local workers.
Joe Genco July 7, 2011 at 6:56 am #
Punaro is right, but you folks sure have fun getting worked up. If you represented the County Executive’s core constituency, he would be in trouble. You don’t. You better come with some better game if you intend to get Poloncarz elected. Excellent idea, King Kong, but no one but Collins drives Collins.
Never thought I knew people who would knowingly defend able-bodied people arrogantly and illegally parking in handicapped parking. I guess I do. Shame on me.
I’ll never tolerate another Republican lecture about “character” and its importance in contemporary politics again.
Rob July 7, 2011 at 8:06 am #
Of all the bullshit excuses for Collins in this thread my favorite is “Lot closed = rules suspended”. That’s right, the lot was closed. Collins had his car helicopter-dropped like in that Lexus commercial.
RaChaCha July 7, 2011 at 8:20 am #
This guy is so pompous, next thing you know he’ll be naming a town after himself or something.
Mike In WNY July 7, 2011 at 8:40 am #
Alan, you haven’t provided any information that substantiates that a handicapped person was denied handicapped parking because of the location of Collins’ vehicle. The photo shows at least 4 more handicapped parking spaces, 2 of which are clearly vacant. You have not demonstrated any harm to any individual, only extremely weak speculation.
Perhaps you should have prefaced your remarks with a disclaimer that you are a rabid supporter of Mark Polancarz. At least make a case for him on the merits instead of trashing his opponent with BS. Your blog post is about as credible as elements of the Corwin campaign, which you rightfully and virulently derided.
Alan, you haven’t provided any information that substantiates that a handicapped person was denied handicapped parking because of the location of Collins’ vehicle.
I don’t need to. The statute doesn’t say “able-bodied people may not park in handicapped spots, unless of course there are loads of available spots and not enough cripples to use them.” The statute is quite unequivocal and parking there is forbidden at all times, by anyone not properly displaying a placard. I’m seriously at a loss as to why that’s difficult for people to comprehend. (Of course, that’s because it’s not difficult for them to comprehend, it’s just that they are willing to excuse and make apologies for anything and everything Chris Collins does).
The photo shows at least 4 more handicapped parking spaces, 2 of which are clearly vacant. You have not demonstrated any harm to any individual, only extremely weak speculation.
The statute doesn’t say “able-bodied people may not park in handicapped spots, unless of course there are loads of available spots and not enough cripples to use them.”
Perhaps you should have prefaced your remarks with a disclaimer that you are a rabid supporter of Mark Polancarz.
I don’t know any Mark Polancarz. I do know Mark Poloncarz, the comptroller of Erie County, whom I obviously do support. I will not and do not have to “preface” any “remarks” with disclaimers for your benefit. Setting that aside, of course, whether I support Mark Poloncarz or not doesn’t negate the fact that Chris Collins is an arrogant motherfucker who knowingly parks his able-bodied fucking ass in spots reserved for the handicapped.
At least make a case for him on the merits instead of trashing his opponent with BS. Your blog post is about as credible as elements of the Corwin campaign, which you rightfully and virulently derided.
And, as usual, no one gives a shit what the serial failures of the Ostrowskiite faction of WNY’s political world think about anything, as ably shown by the results for Mssrs. DiPietro and Davis.
If you think it’s ok for an able-bodied person to park in a spot reserved for the handicapped – regardless of the location or circumstances (which have been established here to indicate that Collins’ parking choice was deliberately made to minimize the distance he would have to walk to the parade staging area) – then you’ve knowingly separated yourself from normal, civilized society.
Black Rock Lifer July 7, 2011 at 8:54 am #
@Mike- So by your logic I can park in a handicapped parking space anytime as long as there are more available for those with the legal right to park there. Maybe you should test your theory and see if the police accept your premise.
Harry Hood July 7, 2011 at 9:21 am #
I can’t believe the lengths people will go to defend this arrogant Jackwagon. Great peice BP – its says alot about CC’s lack of character.
King Kong July 7, 2011 at 9:48 am #
Unless I am mistaken, that Enclave is a government vehicle. I understand that he is allowed to use it for campaign purposes, but if he is as serious as he says he is about respecting taxpayer dollars, than why not use his own car when he’s campaigning? Also, let me get this straight, Collins uses a government vehicle, to park his car on a handicapped space i.e. breaking the law. Nice. Even if it isnt a government car, the County freaking Executive should be more astute about following the law as to not delibrately break it. Unbelievable.
Joe – A campaign staffer, volunteer or family member could have done the drop off/pick up, would have been very easy and would have saved him the aggravation of having another highly read Pundit post tearing him to shreds. You cannot cure stupiid.
djzrt July 7, 2011 at 10:10 am #
So he was wrong for parking there! But imo this is a useless expenditure of time and energy. Just like the conservatives that are expending resources on whether the president’s birt certificate is real! WHO CARES? If the people that waste their energy on these kinds of issues would set about to solve the REAL problems in this country, we would all be better off!
Alan Bedenko July 7, 2011 at 10:16 am #
Clearly, @djzrt doesn’t read this site all that often.
Greg July 7, 2011 at 10:15 am #
The guy is a dick, but come on, no one was harmed by this. I can’t stand “letter of the law” behavior. I’m sure no one on here has ever driven over 55mph on the Kensington.
How do you know no one was harmed by this?
How do you know someone was?
It doesn’t matter whether someone was. What matters is the fact that an able-bodied person used a handicapped spot. Those spots are reserved for people with severe disabilities, and just because there’s a free one available doesn’t mean the able-bodied get to use it. Ever. Under any circumstances. No excuses, no exceptions.
And it’s quite obviously not like speeding down the 33 because the purpose of speed limits is to maintain a reasonable traffic flow and promote safety. The purpose of handicapped spots is to ensure that people with severe disabilities have (a) enough room to get in and out of their vehicles; and (b) don’t have to be burdened with a long walk from that vehicle to wherever they’re going. You’ve had several commenters who were there, as well as my update to the post, explain where parade marchers were supposed to park. “The handicapped spots at the school” wasn’t one of the choices.
Chris Collins called Shelly Silver the anti-Christ.
Chris Collins invited Laura Montante Zaepfel to give him a lap dance at the State of the State.
Chris Collins bullied parade organizers into letting him march in the parade in front of the flag and veterans and firefighters, under the idiotic explanation that he takes up a lot of time whilst marching.
Chris Collins parks his vehicle in spots marked for handicapped citizens.
Chris Collins raised your taxes.
Chris Collins has gone out of his way to affect services that benefit the poor, but does nothing to change services that benefit his natural constituency (e.g., golfers).
Sounds like a great & honorable guy. Let’s keep re-electing him.
Harry Hood July 7, 2011 at 10:55 am #
I say this is not a useless exercise – it demonstrates the type of person CC is – one who could give a shit about following the rules that everyone else have to abide by. I’ve seen people park in handicapped spots at the supermarket, etc. and have called the police. I think nothing is more detestable than seeing a non-handicapped person park in a handicapped spot just to save some time. The fact that it’s the CEO of the County blows my mind. He’s an arrogant SOB who will not get my vote come November. Whether someone was “harmed” or whether the lot was closed misses the point.
Bills Fan July 7, 2011 at 11:03 am #
This is an amazing display over someone parking in a handicapped spot at a place that was closed down. Wow.
Chalk Bills Fan as another person touting Chris Collins’ God-given right to say “fuck you” to the disabled.
Chris Charvella July 7, 2011 at 11:50 am #
Seems to me if this was just a negligible thing there wouldn’t be so much debate between people here defending Collins and people defending the law.
In my years of being employed, the best bosses I’ve had were the detail guys. Not micro-managers, but people who will tell you to your face that if you don’t do the little things right (especially when no one is watching you) then you can’t expect to earn any respect.
e.g. If you don’t bother to shine your boots, why should I let you run a shift?
That’s what I see here. Collins is a guy who doesn’t give a damn about the little things. As a matter of fact, he seemingly scoffs at the little things like parking where you’re supposed to and letting the flag proceed you in an Independence Day parade. The little things add up and the sum is character, plain and simple.
Peter G July 7, 2011 at 12:35 pm #
Since military people are never disabled during combat, it’s not like any of them would ever need to utilize a handicapped-parking space at a parade in which military veterans are marching and participating. This is clearly why CC parked there. He used his “Six Sigma Blackbelt” to figure it out. We are all dumb-fucks and he is a super-genius. HAIL CAESAR!! THIS IS MY COUNTY!!
Dave Staba July 7, 2011 at 12:52 pm #
The apologists couldn’t be more wrong. This is exactly the kind of thing that gets politicians beaten. Most voters don’t know, or especially care, whether Collins is doing ‘a good job,’ whatever that means. They want to feel good about the person they’re voting for, or at least less bad than they feel about the other guy. And symbolic moments like this are more about emotion than logic. Spalding Lake may be an affluent base, but it isn’t a numerically large one. Collins won last time because enough non-rich people got all giddy about the ‘run government like a business’ nonsense (and because the Democrats couldn’t have run a weaker candidate if Collins himself had chosen one). A lot of those same voters will respond at least as eagerly to “Chris Collins thinks he’s better than you,” a campaign theme with enough evidence for a lengthy series of Poloncarz ads.
Christi D July 7, 2011 at 1:10 pm #
This man thinks he’s entitled to do what he likes regardless of the law.
I believe he should be ticketed and apologize at the very least.
Can’t wait until he is voted out.
Melania July 7, 2011 at 1:43 pm #
Um…eve if the time says 4:29pm…not sure that would jive with teh shadow created by teh vehicle…maybe the pic was uploaded at 4:29pm or the camera timer is off. (I know mine is..and I can’t seem to figure it out). BUT the shadows would indicate the phoo was taken sometime right aroudn mid day since the shadow is almost directy overhead with teh vehicle…perhaps more evidence that the photo was taken midday, when th parade woudl have been ongoing. just a thought
Tony Fracasso July 7, 2011 at 2:26 pm #
“Alan Bedenko wrote:
It doesn’t matter whether someone was. What matters is the fact that an able-bodied person used a handicapped spot. Those spots are reserved for people with severe disabilities, and just because there’s a free one available doesn’t mean the able-bodied get to use it. Ever. Under any circumstances. No excuses, no exceptions. ”
I gotta say it. I have never seen anyone’s head so far up the democratic donkeys ass.
So Alan? Why didn’t you call the police and demand the car towed?
Because, Tony, I didn’t take the picture.
You are just as at fault as he was. Why didn’t you call the police and demand the car towed? You just took some photos and walked away…
When then the “tipster” walked… either way… the whole thread is stupid.
Why should we vote for marc p. That is what you should be focusing on.
This thread isn’t about “why we should vote for Marc Poloncarz.”
This thread is about the fact that Chris Collins is that non-handicapped asshole who parks in the handicapped spot.
And make no mistake, Tony – if I was there and I saw it, I would have called the cops, and I would have stood there and waited for his sorry ass to get back into that car and asked him why the fuck he was parking in a handicapped spot, and my video camera on my phone would have been rolling.
The whole thread is “stupid” if you think there’s nothing wrong with people who aren’t disabled parking in handicapped spots. There’s a load of people in this thread who agree with that sentiment. I don’t. In fact, I think they’re assholes, too.
Melania at #73 – You’re right! Furthermore, the letters on the license plate looked kerned!
And enter the amateur detectives. Tell me Melania, what is the exact angle of the sun in relation to Newstead, NY at 4:29pm on the 4th of July in a non-Leap Year? Do you work at NASA or are you just a wizard?
Greg July 7, 2011 at 3:05 pm #
I may be just as much of an asshole as Collins, because I don’t always blindly follow the law. If there’s not a single goddamn car anywhere in a lot and you park in a handicapped spot, it truly is a victimless crime. It simply doesn’t matter. No one is affected.
Set the law aside for a moment. (Yeah, I know, I know.) There is no proof that anyone was harmed by his parking there. In fact, the emptiness off to the side seems to indicate no one was. The default position is that no one was harmed. So, my take, it’s victimless, and no big deal. He may be an asshole, but you’d be just as much of an asshole for calling the cops for something like that.
If someone were actually harmed by his action, sure, yeah, call the cops. Who the fuck does he think he is taking a spot away from a disabled person?
It’s all about context.
Off to go smoke some weed. Oh, wait —
This Guy July 7, 2011 at 3:15 pm #
Kramer: I got news for you: handicapped people, they don’t even want to park there! They wanna be treated just like anybody else! That’s why, those spaces are always empty.
George: He’s right! It’s the same thing with the feminists. You know, they want everything to be equal, everything! But when the check comes, where are they?
King Kong July 7, 2011 at 3:19 pm #
Greg – You and your buddies are just proving the point that Collins nor you think that Collins needs to follow the law. Yes, it’s true that people break unjust and dumb laws, but I would hope that most reasonable people would understand that a handicapped parking space is reserved for handicapped people, i.e. the need for a permit. This was either a stunning display of arrogance on his park or a stunning display of stupidity on his campaigns part, or both.
FWIW I am no big fan of Mark Poloncarz. Alan and Chris Charvella know my identity, they respect my wish to remain anonymous as it fits within the rules of this site but without telling you who I am they will tell you that I am no ‘rabid’ Poloncarz supporter, I was hoping that Dennis Gabryszak would enter the race actually. Collins made a bad move and it backfired, talk about a bad news week.
*part
Collins to his staff : “We can never allow this to happen again. Who here has a crippled grandparent I can swipe a hang tag from?”
@ King Kong — no I’m not. As I said, in a full lot, tow his ass away. In this context, not so much.
Let’s not pretend the world is so black and white. (Otherwise we’d all be Rebmann.)
Greg – You’re right, the world is not black and white, I have long made the argument with Pundit and with Chris that the people that they find ‘detestable’ aren’t what they think of them as because I find at times that they try to discuss politics in absolutes. That being said, parking in a handicapped spot when you are not handicapped regardless of lot status is a jerk move. The law defines it and it is defined for good reason, so someone who is handicapped can have immediate access to a building, any building, should they need medical care. This was not a ‘dumb’ law, this is something that was well thought out and has a needed purpose. Also, the fact that there hasn’t been so much as an apology from Collins or even an agreement that he was wrong really is not serving him well.
regardless of lot status
We just disagree. Peace.
Mike In WNY July 7, 2011 at 6:21 pm #
Victimless “crimes” exist for government revenue enhancement.
Mr.F.N. Magoo July 7, 2011 at 7:28 pm #
So until someone else needs the spot, its not a crime? That’s one of the stupidest goddamned excuses I’ve ever heard. “The apartment was empty, your honor. I should be able to live there until and unless someone wants to pay rent for it.”
Until someone determines that handicapped people actually had access to the spot, it remains a victimless crime. If that is proven, then I will agree that parking there was deplorable and merited some form of punishment.
You make my point. If Collins can park in a handicapped space so long as no one needs it, I can live in your rental property until someone needs it.
Magoo and Mike – No one had the Corvette at the local Chevy dealer so I can take it until someone buys it. Until then, as long as I don’t damage it, no harm done. It is a ‘victimless crime’ after all.
The King and Mike – If I pee in your iced tea, unless you find out I did it, its a victimless crime.
Chuck Culhane July 7, 2011 at 8:34 pm #
Absolutely not surprising. He should be made to scrape pigeon caca off every military statue in the city. And then deported.
Jaquandor July 7, 2011 at 8:49 pm #
I think all drunk drivers should, when pulled over, maintain that to that point they’ve been committing a “victimless crime”. After all, they have no victims until they hit somebody! What a stupid argument. Well, that’s wrong, actually — it’s not even an argument. It’s just the knee-jerk “Whatever the government wants must be bad, boogah boogah!” crap that the libertarian-in-residence posts in each and every comments thread here, no matter what Alan’s actual post is about.
As far as Collins’s parking goes, I’d almost buy the “If the parking lot’s closed, it’s OK” notion, except…if the lot is closed, then he pretty much has his pick of the entire lot to park in, right? So why use the disabled spaces? He wants to walk in a parade, but he doesn’t want to walk an extra twenty or thirty feet?
Mr. Effin Magoo, does it make you feel good to erroneously paraphrase what I said? I didn’t making any claims about no one else needing the spot, I questioned whether or not it was available. There is a huge difference between the two.
I might as well address the obtuse apartment and corvette analogies too. They don’t apply. Both of those analogies involve the violation of someone’s property rights and qualify as a “real” crime.
pjf-usrt July 7, 2011 at 9:31 pm #
Out of curiosity I’ll ask the following: 1. Did photographed vehicle have a handicapped tag on the rearview mirror?(Note that no photo angle above shows that) 2. Was Collins with someone who may have needed such a spot? I realize what the answer to these questions probably are. But there’s a lot of flawed analogies and theories in the comments here, so I just added mine.
al l July 7, 2011 at 9:52 pm #
Let Collins park in Fire Lanes too. If there isnt a fire, then its fine. Maybe he could ride Metro rail without a ticket. After all, the train was running anyway. He’s not hurting anyone. Maybe can go in an out door or into a restricted area of the Niagara Falls base. You know what, let him move in to a closed library. I mean, they are just sitting there.
Rules are for Commie hippie pinkos and their law and order agendas.
Alan Bedenko July 7, 2011 at 10:03 pm #
disguested havenot July 8, 2011 at 12:23 am #
all of you who are defending this asshole must be ‘Friends for Collins” phonebankers. He’s a arrogant self centered dick. His way or the highway which has cost us county tax payers hundreds of thousands of dollars. I guess that doesn’t mean that much to you King Collins ass kissers. Drink some more of his kool-aid.Breaking the law is breaking the law, plain and simple.I’m getting sick and tired of his bullying tactics. He can buy the Legislature but he can’t buy my vote.
Bbill July 8, 2011 at 8:13 am #
It’s hard to see how anyone with even the tiniest sense of right and wrong can possibly defend such titanic colossal douchebaggery. You have to be part of his fiefdom to defend this degree of indefensible.
Greg July 8, 2011 at 8:36 am #
What the fuck, people? I can’t stand Collins. But don’t cast me out as part of his fiefdom because I am willing and able to think for myself. Right and wrong are not black and white. Rather, there are many shades of gray.
And, oh yeah, I agree with Mike (what is the world coming to?) — all your analogies are the suck.
And don’t any one of you ever drive 56 mph on the 33 again. Breaking the law _is_ breaking the law.
Yes, but when I drive 56 MPH on the 33, I’m not preventing anyone else from driving 56 on the 33. Also, I’m not legally entitled to drive 56 on the 33 because I have applied for & received special permission to do so.
IOW, it’s your analogy, and Mike’s, that is “the suck”.
Ronald K July 8, 2011 at 9:33 am #
Perhaps his ‘disability’ is having Joe Illuzzi embedded in his rectum?
Starbuck July 8, 2011 at 11:34 am #
It doesn’t affect illegality but regarding whether it was arrogant-assholeness, can we be totally sure it was deliberate rather than an oversight?
The top photo shows three spaces to the left each have a handicap parking sign on a post at a driver’s eye level. It doesn’t look like the space he parked in has that sign in front of it as the others do in that row.
The space does have a big yellow (not blue) marker on the surface. He should’ve seen and obeyed it, so he broke the law and deserved a ticket.
If in bright sun, in a hurry to arrive at the parade, is it possible he saw the three sign posts to the left as he drove up, and to the right saw a space without that sign, then from the elevated minivan didn’t notice the yellow surface marking?
Once even Starbuck when in a hurry accidentally parked in a very poorly (worse than this one) marked handicap spot. I received a very expensive ticket which I didn’t contest because there was a marking although it wasn’t obvious at all.
Just saying it’s a possibility.
Ben July 20, 2011 at 1:11 pm #
Trendsetter alert!
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Germline mutations in BRCA1 and BRCA2 in epithelial ovarian cancer patients in Brazil
Simone Maistro1,
Natalia Teixeira2,
Giselly Encinas1,
Maria Lucia Hirata Katayama1,
Vivian Dionisio Tavares Niewiadonski3,4,
Larissa Garcia Cabral1,
Roberto Marques Ribeiro3,
Nelson Gaburo Junior4,
Ana Carolina Ribeiro Chaves de Gouvêa5,
Dirce Maria Carraro6,
Ester Cerdeira Sabino3,
Maria del Pilar Estevez Diz5,
Roger Chammas1,
Geertruida Hendrika de Bock7 &
Maria Aparecida Azevedo Koike Folgueira ORCID: orcid.org/0000-0002-2334-09191
BMC Cancer volume 16, Article number: 934 (2016) Cite this article
Approximately 8–15% epithelial ovarian cancer patients are BRCA1 or BRCA2 germline mutation carriers. Brazilian inhabitants may have peculiar genetic characteristics associated with ethnic diversity, and studies focusing on the entire BRCA1/BRCA2 gene sequencing in Brazilian ovarian cancer patients are still lacking. The aim of this study was to evaluate BRCA1/2 mutations, through entire gene sequencing, in a Brazilian population of women with epithelial ovarian cancer.
In a cross sectional study performed in one reference centre for cancer treatment in São Paulo, Brazil, 100 patients diagnosed with epithelial ovarian cancer unselected for family history of breast and/or ovarian cancer were included. The complete coding sequence of BRCA1/2 genes was evaluated through Next-Generation or capillary sequencing. Large deletions were investigated through Multiplex Ligation-dependent Probe Amplification (MLPA).
Nineteen pathogenic mutations (BRCA1: n = 17 and BRCA2: n = 2) featuring 14 different mutations, including two large deletions in BRCA1 (exon 1–2 deleted and exon 5–7 deleted) were identified. Three mutations were detected more than once (c.3331_3334delCAAG, c.5266dupC and c.4484G > T). Two novel frameshift mutations were identified, one in BRCA1 (c.961_962delTG) and one in BRCA2 (c.1963_1963delC). BRCA1/2 mutations were seen in 35.5% of the patients with first and/or second-degree relatives with breast and/or ovarian cancer. Nineteen variants of uncertain significance (VUS) were detected (BRCA1: n = 2 and BRCA2: n = 17), including five distinct missense variants (BRCA1: c.5348 T > C; BRCA2: c.2350A > G, c.3515C > T, c.7534C > T, and c.8351G > A).
Among epithelial ovarian cancer patients unselected for family history of cancer, 19% were BRCA1/2 germline mutation carriers. Almost ¾ of the BRCA mutations, including two large deletions, were detected only once. Our work emphasizes the need of entire gene sequencing and MLPA screening in Brazil.
Among the gynaecological malignancies, ovarian cancer has the highest mortality rate in developed countries and is the second leading cause of mortality in developing countries. In Brazil, 6150 new cases of ovarian cancer are expected in 2016, and in 2013, ovarian cancer accounted for 3283 deaths, indicating its importance in public health [1]. One feature that might contribute to this high mortality rate is that more than 60% of the patients are diagnosed in an advanced stage of the disease. [2].
One of the risk factors for ovarian cancer is germline mutations in BRCA1 or BRCA2 genes, accounting for approximately 8–15% of ovarian cancer cases worldwide [3–5]. Although the estimated cumulative incidence of ovarian cancer by the age of 70 is 40% (95% CI 35–46%) for BRCA1 and 18% (95% CI 13–23%) for BRCA2 mutation carriers [6], the precise risk estimates vary according to the population under study, ascertainment method and applied statistical technique [7].
Detection of BRCA mutation carriers may benefit both women who were already diagnosed with ovarian cancer, as well as their unaffected family members. These patients may benefit from platinum based chemotherapy [8] and PARP inhibitors [9], while unaffected family members may benefit from genetic counselling on risk reducing surgery, such as salpingo-oophorectomy, which may reduce their chances of developing ovarian cancer by 90% [10].
Although some studies evaluated BRCA1/2 mutations in breast and/or ovarian cancer patients in our country, only a few of them have performed the entire gene sequencing, none specifically in ovarian cancer patients [11–13]. Besides that, for most women with ovarian cancer, neither gene sequencing nor genetic counselling is currently available. Hence, the purpose of our work was to screen the entire BRCA1 and BRCA2 genes in a series of patients with epithelial ovarian cancer unselected for age or family history for breast and/or ovarian cancer treated in Brazil.
Patients were accrued at Instituto do Câncer do Estado de São Paulo (ICESP) in São Paulo city, Brazil. São Paulo is the largest city in Brazil and its metropolitan area has around 18 million people [14]. ICESP integrates the Brazilian public health network (SUS, Sistema Único de Saúde), which is responsible for the health care of ¾ of our population, and is the largest reference centre for cancer treatment in Latin America [15].
This study was approved by the Institutional Ethics Committee (Comitê de Ética da Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de São Paulo, reference number 132/12 and 172/13) and an informed consent was signed by each participant.
Patients with invasive epithelial ovarian cancer, who were undergoing treatment or follow-up in the period between October 2012 and February 2015 at ICESP, were invited to participate. Inclusion criteria were invasive epithelial ovarian cancer diagnosis in the period beginning in January 2009 until the end of the study. Data regarding the tumour characteristics was obtained from the patient files.
To characterize our patients, women were asked to report their family history of breast and ovarian cancer, birth place and ancestry (defined as place of origin of direct ancestors, until third degree). Ancestry was considered unknown if there was no information at all or if parents were born in Brazil and there was no further information for at least second-degree ancestors.
Concerning family history of breast and ovarian cancer, patients were asked to report information about first and second-degree relatives. When women were able to report on two or more female relatives (≥45 years) from both sides of the family, they were classified as having a complete informative family history.
DNA extraction from mononuclear cells
Total DNA was extracted from 10 mL blood samples using Illustra Blood GenomicPrep Mini spin kit (GE/28-9042-64, GE Healthcare Life Science) following the instructions of the manufacturer.
BRCA1 and BRCA2 entire gene sequencing
The coding regions and exon-intron boundaries of BRCA1 and BRCA2 genes were sequenced by Sanger sequencing (n = 39) or by Next-Generation Sequencing (NGS) (n = 63). As a matter of comparison, two samples were analysed by both techniques, and results from both of them revealed the same single nucleotide substitutions and microdeletions.
Polymerase chain reaction (PCR) amplification and Sanger sequencing
The complete coding regions of BRCA1 (U14680 or NM_7294.3) and BRCA2 (U43746 or NM_000059.3), including 50–100 base pairs (bp) of non-coding sequences, flanking the 5’ and 3’ ends of each exon, were amplified by PCR using 33 pairs of primers for BRCA1 gene and 48 pairs of primers for BRCA2 gene previously employed by other authors (Additional file 1). All pathogenic mutations were confirmed through a second Sanger sequencing.
For the NGS analysis, the Ion AmpliSeq™ BRCA1 and BRCA2 Panel (Life technologies) was used. The panel consists of three primer pools (167 amplicons) that target the entire coding regions, including 10–20 bp of non-coding sequences, flanking the 5’ and 3’ ends of each exon. Samples were sequenced on a 314 v2 Ion Chip taking 12 samples per chip using a Personal Genome Machine (PGM) sequencer (Ion Torrent™), and the Ion PGM Sequencing 200 Kit version 2 (Life Technologies). Data analysis consisting of annotation of single-nucleotide variants, insertions, deletions, and splice site alterations was performed using the Ion Reporter™ Server System (Life Technologies). Sequence data were also visually evaluated through Integrative Genomics Viewer (IGV). If a nucleotide had coverage under 50x, the affected region was re-sequenced by Sanger methodology. In addition, all pathogenic variants were re-sequenced by Sanger methodology for confirmation. Full details of methods are given in the Additional file 1.
Multiplex ligation-dependent probe amplification
All patients had their DNA investigated for large rearrangements of BRCA1 and BRCA2 genes, specifically deletions and duplications, and CHEK2 (c.1100delC) point mutation, through the Multiplex Ligation-dependent Probe Amplification (MLPA) methodology (BRCA1: SALSA® MLPA® P002 probemix; BRCA2: SALSA® MLPA® P045 BRCA2/CHEK2 probemix; MRC-Holland, Amsterdam, The Netherlands), as described on Additional file 1. Patients showing positive results had DNA samples analysed by a different set of MLPA probemix (BRCA1: SALSA® MLPA® P087; BRCA2: SALSA® MLPA® P077, MRC-Holland, Amsterdam, The Netherlands).
Classifications of variants
All sequence variants were named according to the nomenclature proposed by the Human Genome Variation Society, HGVS [16]. BRCA1 and BRCA2 variants were searched in five publicly accessible databases. Additionally, gene variants were submitted to in silico prediction models, PolyPhen-2 [17], SIFT [18], Align-GVGD [19], for missense variants; Provean [20] for in-frame deletions, and Human Splicing Finder [21] to check for intronic and exonic variants leading to potential splicing defects. Minor allele frequency was checked in the 1000 Genomes Project database [22], the Exome Aggregation Consortium (ExAC) [23], the Global MAF dbSNP [24], the Exome Variant Server, NHLBI GO Exome Sequencing Project (ESP) [25]. Minor allele frequency in probands was also evaluated (Additional file 1: Table S2-S3).
The variants were then classified according to recommendations of the American College of Medical Genetics and Genomics in: pathogenic, likely pathogenic, benign, likely benign and variant of uncertain significance (VUS) [26]. Variants for BRCA1 were also checked for co-occurrence with known pathogenic mutations in the same patient. When the VUS were present in two or more databases and classified as benign (BIC and ClinVar), not affect function (LOVD), 1-not pathogenic (LOVD-IARC), 1-neutral (UMD/BRCA Share™) they were considered as benign on the present analysis.
One hundred women were included, with a median age at the time of diagnosis of 55.0 years (33–81 years) and at time of inclusion in this study of 56.5 years (34–81 years). The median interval between date of diagnosis and date of inclusion in the study was 18 months (1–54 months). Most patients were diagnosed with serous adenocarcinoma (84%) and advanced stage disease (clinical stages III/IV; 78%), six patients had a prior diagnosis of breast cancer (Additional file 1: Table S1). Most women were born in the Southeast region of Brazil (57%), mainly in Sao Paulo state (48%), including those born in Sao Paulo city (25%); 28% of the patients were born in the Northeast region of the country, mainly in Bahia state (12%) (Table 1). Concerning ancestry, 38% of the patients reported Brazilian only ancestors, 14% and 5% reported European only or Japanese only ancestors in both sides of the family, respectively. In addition, 7% of the patients reported at least one indigenous ancestor, in concomitance with Brazilian and/or European ancestries (Table 1). Thirty-two out of 100 patients were not able to provide a complete informative family history; 31 of the remaining 68 patients reported at least one first and/or second-degree relative with breast and/or ovarian cancer.
Table 1 Clinical and Pathological features of ovarian cancer patients according to deleterious BRCA1/2 mutations
Pathogenic mutations in BRCA1 and BRCA2 genes were detected in 19 patients, 17 in BRCA1 and two in BRCA2 (Table 2; Additional file 1: Table S2-S3). Mutations in BRCA1, comprised five different frameshift mutations, two of which were present in three different patients (c.3331_3334delCAAG and c.5266dupC) and one detected for the first time in the current study (c.961_962delTG). BRCA1 mutations also included two nonsense mutations in exon 11; one missense mutation (c.4484G > T, detected in two patients) and two splice site variants (c.4675 + 1G > A, in exon 15, and c.5074 + 2 T > C, in exon 17).
Table 2 BRCA1/2 mutations in ovarian cancer patients: clinical aspects and molecular description
BRCA1 rearrangements were identified in two patients (Table 2). One patient presented one large deletion involving exons 5, 6 and 7, detected by two different sets of MLPA probemix (SALSA® MLPA® P002 and SALSA® MLPA® P087). Another patient displayed an inconclusive result using SALSA® MLPA® P002 BRCA1 probemix, which provided questionable low signals for the 1a, 1b and 2 exons repeatedly, probably due to incomplete denaturation of the CpG islands near these exons. A confirmatory MLPA reaction with a second set of probes (SALSA® MLPA® P087 BRCA1 probemix) corroborated the presence of this rearrangement.
Pathogenic mutations in BRCA2, both frameshift, were detected in only two patients, one of them identified for the first time in the present study (c.1963_1963delC, exon 11). A suspected deletion of BRCA2 exon 15 was at first detected, but was not confirmed. This patient harboured a missense variant (c.7534C > T; variant of uncertain significance) localized within one of the BRCA2 probes of SALSA® MLPA® P045, which may have interfered in the result and reduced the signal of exon 15. A confirmatory MLPA reaction, using SALSA® MLPA®P077, employing different probes, did not reveal a reduced peak for exon 15, indicating the absence of a true deletion.
All patients were checked for c.1100delC point mutation of CHEK2, however, none was detected.
There was no difference between the median age at diagnosis from patients who were BRCA1/2 mutation carriers or non-carriers. All mutation carriers were diagnosed with advanced disease (clinical stages III/IV). Considering the birth place, nine out of 57 women (15.8%) born in the Southeast region and seven out of 28 (25%) born in the Northeast region harboured a BRCA1/2 mutation. Among 38 patients who reported Brazilian only ancestry, seven were BRCA1/2 mutation carriers (18.4%) and among seven patients who reported at least one indigenous ancestry four (57.1%) were mutation carriers (Table 1). Among the 68 patients with informative family history for breast and/or ovarian cancer, 35.5% with and 13.5% without any affected first and/or second-degree relatives were BRCA1/2 mutations carriers. Although all two patients who were BRCA2 mutation carriers were aged at least 60 years, almost all (16/17) women who were BRCA1 mutation carriers were aged less than 60.
Nineteen variants of uncertain significance (VUS) were detected, two in BRCA1 and seventeen in BRCA2 gene. Among the VUS, five distinct missense variants were identified, one in BRCA1 and four in BRCA2, among which, three, BRCA1 c.5348 T > C, BRCA2 c.3515C > T and BRCA2 c.8351G > A were predicted deleterious in at least three of four mutation function prediction models (Polyhen-2, SIFT, Provean or Align GVGD) (Table 3). The remaining VUS were synonymous (n = 4) or were located in intronic regions, at least eight nucleotides away from the intron-exon boundary (n = 10).
Table 3 Analysis of missense variants from BRCA1/2 gene of uncertain significance using mutation function prediction models
In this cohort, 19 out of 100 unselected Brazilian ovarian cancer patients, were BRCA1/2 mutation carriers, mainly in the BRCA1 gene (n = 17). In BRCA1 gene, 12 different mutations were detected, including one new frameshift and two large deletions. In BRCA2 gene, only two pathogenic mutations, including a new frameshift mutation were found. In addition, another five missense VUS were identified in five different patients. Concerning their ancestry, 18.4% of the patients who reported Brazilian only ancestors and 26.3% of those who reported European ancestry, in at least one side of the family, were mutation carriers. In addition, 35.5% of the patients with and 13.5% of the patients without first and/or second-degree relatives with breast and/or ovarian cancer were BRCA1/2 mutations carriers.
A prevalence of 19% BRCA1/2 mutation rate seems somewhat higher than previously described for women with ovarian cancer from other countries, such as Canada (13.4%) [4] and Colombia (15%) [5]. However, one might claim that we had a cohort enriched in BRCA mutation carriers, due to time selection, taking into consideration that germline mutation in BRCA1 or BRCA2 is associated with an improved 5-year overall survival and that a few patients were diagnosed long before their enrolment in the project [27, 28]. Contrary to this is the fact that the mean time between dates of diagnosis and enrolment was similar in both BRCA1/2 mutation and BRCA1/2 wild type carriers.
In accordance with previous studies, our patients with ovarian cancer were mainly BRCA1 mutation carriers [4], however only one out of 12 different mutations, c.2215A > T, was located in a putative ovarian cancer cluster region (OCCR) of exon 11, an hypothesized region associated with increased risk estimates for ovarian cancer [29]. Remarkably was that this patient had breast cancer before the ovarian cancer.
Three mutations in BRCA1 gene were detected more than once: c.3331_3334delCAAG, c.5266dupC and c.4484G > T. BRCA1 c.3331_3334delCAAG mutation in exon 11, is also a frequent mutation in ovarian cancer patients from Colombia [5] and Spain [30], but mostly rare in Canadian patients [4]. This mutation was already reported in Brazilian patients [11, 13]. A previous haplotype study suggested that it could represent a founder effect of Spanish origin [31], and curiously all our three patients reported European ancestries, two of them from the Iberian Peninsula, more specifically, from Portugal.
Another frequent mutation detected in our ovarian cancer patients was the one commonly found in the Ashkenazi Jewish, BRCA1 c.5266dupC (5382insC), however none of them reported Jewish ancestry. This mutation is one of the most commonly found in Brazilian breast and/or ovarian cancer patients [11, 13, 32]. In addition, one meta-analysis reported that BRCA1 c.5266dupC is the fourth most prevalent in Latin America [33]. Interestingly, a haplotype study revealed that BRCA1 c.5266dupC originated from a single common ancestor around 1800 years ago in northern Russia and spread to various populations, including Ashkenazi Jewish people [34]. In accordance, a common origin for this mutation in our country was previously reported for breast cancer patients [35, 36].
Two patients presented the BRCA1 c.4484G > T missense mutation, which involves the last nucleotide of exon 14, resulting in skipping of exon 14. This mutation was previously found in ovarian cancer patients and associated with causality [4]. Other mutations in BRCA1 detected in the present work were already described, as shown in Table 2, except for c.961_962delTG frameshift variant, characterized for the first time in this study.
Comparing BRCA1 mutations detected in our study of Brazilian ovarian cancer patients with those reported in breast cancer patients [11–13], it is interesting to observe that they are concordant with respect to the most recurrent variant, BRCA1 c.5266dupC, that also is one of the most commonly found in Latin American breast cancer patients [33]. However, there is a difference in relation to variant c.3331_3334delCAAG, that was rarely found in patients with breast cancer.
Only two pathogenic mutations were detected in BRCA2 gene, including one novel frameshift mutation, c.1963_1963delC, and another one, c.5576_5579delTTAA, in a patient with Japanese ancestry. The latter mutation is located in an ovarian cancer cluster region (OCCR) of exon 11, which is bound by c.3249 and c.5681 [29].
Another mechanism of gene inactivation, namely the rearrangement of large tracts of genomic DNA, was detected in two patients (BRCA1: exon 1–2 deleted and exon 5–7 deleted). Deletion of exons 1a-2, which may affect production and/or stability of the transcript [37, 38], is the third most frequent in Latin American breast cancer patients [33]. In your study, this deletion was identified in a woman who was diagnosed with ovarian cancer at the age of 52 and reported a family history of ovarian cancer and colorectal cancer. The removal of exons 5–7 from gene BRCA1 causes a frameshift in protein translation [37]. This deletion was identified in a woman with ovarian cancer aged 57 years, who reported an European ancestry but did not recall any family history of breast and/or ovarian cancer. This mutation was previously described in one German patient with positive family history for breast cancer and ovarian cancer [37] and one Italian patient with breast cancer [38].
In our study, CHEK2 mutations were not detected, in accordance with other previous studies, that in total analysed an additional 21 Brazilian ovarian cancer patients. [12, 39].
A strength of our study is that the entire BRCA1/2 gene was screened for the first time in a population of women with epithelial ovarian cancer from Brazil, unselected for age and family history. A weakness however, is the small sample size was analysed. In a recently published study, the prevalence of a panel of eight mutations in BRCA1 or BRCA2 genes, mainly detected in Ashkenazi Jewish or people from Russia or Poland, was investigated in 106 ovarian cancer patients treated at the Federal Hospital in Minas Gerais state, which is neighbour to São Paulo state. None of the participants were found to carry any of the genotyped mutations [40]. In our study, among nine patients born in Minas Gerais state, one harboured a BRCA1 mutation (c.4675 + 1G > A) not investigated in the previous study (Table 2). In addition, in another study performed in our city, a few patients with ovarian cancer were enrolled for entire BRCA1/2 gene sequencing. BRCA1 mutation was detected in one out of three patients diagnosed with ovarian cancer and in four out of nine with both breast and ovarian cancer [12].
Considering that Brazil is a huge country inhabited by people from different origins and that our patients come from different regions of the country, we evaluated BRCA1/2 mutation status considering their birth place and ancestry. Our study mainly reflects Brazilian patients born in São Paulo state or in the Northeast region of Brazil with Brazilian and/or European ancestries. In the current study 14 different variants were detected in 100 patients. These different variants may reflect the ethnic diversity and miscegenation of people that live in Brazil. Corroborating this hypothesis, genetic polymorphisms analysis have already revealed that the average Brazilian population has unique characteristics, comprehending a mixture of European, African and Amerindian ancestry genes [41]. It is interesting to observe that, 15 out of 16 BRCA1 mutation carriers, reported Brazilian ancestry in one or both sides of the family, which means that, as long as they were aware, their ancestors were born in Brazil.
In this cohort of epithelial ovarian cancer patients, the prevalence of BRCA1/2 mutation was 19%, mostly detected in different gene locations. Two novel frameshift mutations were identified, one in BRCA1 and one in BRCA2, as well as two large deletions. These data emphasize that entire gene sequencing of both BRCA1 and BRCA2 as well as MLPA screening should be offered to all Brazilian ovarian cancer patients.
Align-GVGD:
Grantham Variation (GV) which measures the degree of biochemical variation among amino acids found at a given position in the multiple sequence alignment, Grantham Deviation (GD), which reflects the ‘biochemical distance’ of the mutant amino acid from the observed amino acid at a particular position.
Breast cancer information core
Base pairs
dbSNP:
The single nucleotide polymorphism database
ESP:
Exome sequencing project
ExAC:
The exome aggregation consortium
HGVS:
Human Genome Variation Society
ICESP:
Instituto do Câncer do Estado de São Paulo
IGV:
Integrative genomics viewer
LOVD:
Leiden open variation database
LOVD-IARC:
Leiden open variation database - The International Agency for Research on Cancer
MAF:
Minor allele frequency
MLPA:
NGS:
OCCR:
Ovarian cancer cluster region
PARP:
Poly (ADP-ribose) polymerase
PCR:
PGM:
Personal genome machine
PolyPhen-2:
Polymorphism Phenotyping v2
Provean:
Protein variation effect analyzer
SIFT:
Sorting intolerant from tolerant
SUS:
Sistema Único de Saúde (Brazilian Public Health System)
UMD:
Universal mutation database
VUS:
Variant of uncertain significance
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We thank Dr. Maristela Taliari Pimenta, Patologia Molecular e Genômica para Diagnósticos, A. C. Camargo Cancer Center, São Paulo, Brazil, for performing MLPA analysis and Citogem Biotecnologia for donating BRCA1: SALSA® MLPA® P087; BRCA2: SALSA® MLPA® P077 kits. We are also grateful to Brazilian Funding Agencies FAPESP, CNPq, and CAPES for financial support.
Geertruida Hendrika de Bock received a grant of Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES), Programa Pesquisador Visitante Especial (PVE #029/2012), Simone Maistro received a postdoctoral scholarship by Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES, PVE #029/2012), Giselly Encinas received a PhD scholarship grant by São Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP, #2011/09572-1) and Natalia Teixeira received a scholarship grant by São Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP, #2012/05754-1).
This work was in part supported by a grant from Diagnósticos da América -DASA and by a grant from NAP-Biobanco/USP.
The datasets supporting the conclusions of this article are included within the article and its additional files (Table S1. Clinical and pathological characteristics, BRCA sequencing and MLPA results. Table S2. BRCA1 gene variants. Table S3. BRCA2 gene variants).
SM, NT, GHdB, and MAAKF conceived the study. SM, NT, ACRCG, and MDPED included patients and collected clinical data. SM, LC, NG, VDTN, RMR and MLHK performed the experiments. SM, NT, DMC, GHdB, and MAAKF analyzed data. SM, GE, LC, ECS and MLHK analyzed mutational data. SM, NT, DMC, RC, GHdB and MAAKF interpreted data. SM, GHdB and MAAKF drafted the manuscript. All authors revised and approved the final manuscript.
An informed consent, including an agreement to anonymously report results, was signed by each participant.
Departamento de Radiologia e Oncologia, Centro de Investigação Translacional em Oncologia, Instituto do Câncer do Estado de São Paulo, Hospital das Clínicas, Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, SP, Brazil
Simone Maistro
, Giselly Encinas
, Maria Lucia Hirata Katayama
, Larissa Garcia Cabral
, Roger Chammas
& Maria Aparecida Azevedo Koike Folgueira
Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, SP, Brazil
Natalia Teixeira
Departamento de Doenças Infecciosas, Instituto de Medicina Tropical, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
Vivian Dionisio Tavares Niewiadonski
, Roberto Marques Ribeiro
& Ester Cerdeira Sabino
Departamento de Diagnóstico Molecular, DASA, São Paulo, Brazil
& Nelson Gaburo Junior
Divisão de Oncologia Clínica, Instituto do Câncer do Estado de São Paulo, Hospital das Clínicas da Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, SP, Brazil
Ana Carolina Ribeiro Chaves de Gouvêa
& Maria del Pilar Estevez Diz
International Reasearch Center, A.C.Camargo Cancer Center, São Paulo, SP, Brazil
Dirce Maria Carraro
Department of Epidemiology, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands
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Series: MiroLand Quill of the Dove 1st edition Paperback Ian Shaw 9781771833783 $24.95 FICTION Apr 01, 2019
French journalist Marc Taragon is at the apex of his career in 2007. A tenacious idealist, Taragon has spent the last thirty years attempting to bring to readers the truths about the wars and political intrigues of the region. He is unsparing in his criticism of extremists and has earned many enemies. He agrees to be interviewed in Cyprus, by a young Canadian journalist, Marie Boivin, not knowing that Marie has a hidden agenda: to discover through Taragon the truth about her childhood. Before Marie finds the answers she seeks, she is enmeshed i... + Read More
Series: Essential Prose The Afrikaner 1st edition Paperback Arianna Dagnino 9781771833578 $20.00 FICTION Apr 01, 2019
A hijacking in deeper Johannesburg goes horribly wrong. Zoe du Plessis, a paleontologist of Afrikaner origin, is suddenly confronted with her family's secret, seemingly wrapped in an old Xhosa's spell. As she heads for the Kalahari Desert in search of early human fossils, Zoe embarks on an inner journey into the unredeemable sense of guilt haunting her white tribe. She reluctantly seeks salvation in the love of a man scarred by South Africa's darker past.
Series: Essential Prose Falconi's Tractor 1st edition Paperback Dave LeBlanc 9781771833356 $25.00 FICTION May 01, 2019
Like his three siblings, 32-year-old Alfredo Freddy Flowers Falconi has led two lives: the idyllic one before The Incident -- his mother's 1984 death -- and the complicated one afterward. He was just eight-years-old when his father abandoned the family, and nine when his oldest brother, Small Carm, covered up the circumstances of Rosa Falconi's demise to keep the family's honour intact. Twenty-three years later, that lie has become a black hole: hidden at the centre of all of their lives, it's supremely powerful force that, when uncovered by Fr... + Read More
Series: Essential Prose Bonavere Howl 1st edition Paperback Caitlin Galway 9781771833547 $25.00 FICTION May 01, 2019
It is 1955, and the three Fayette sisters have lived their whole lives in the enchanting French Quarter of New Orleans. Though neglected by their parents, they share a close bond with one another?from afternoons in their small, shared bedroom, to trying to speak with ghosts beneath the sweeping trees in their garden. When the middle sister Constance disappears, the family believes she has run away, as she has done before; it is only the youngest?fourteen-year-old Bonavere (known as Bonnie)?who suspects there is more to it. Met only with grief f... + Read More
Series: MiroLand Philipovna Daughter of Sorrow 1st edition Paperback Valentina Gal 9781771833691 $25.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY May 01, 2019
Philipovna: The Daughter of Sorrow is a creative non-fiction based on my mother's surviving the holodomor [the Ukrainian starvation] in the early 1930's. It is the story of an orphan who goes to live with her aunt in a rural village in the Ukrainian countryside. The aunt swears on her dead sister's Bible that Vera Philipovna, the daughter of a cobbler and seamstress from a small village in Chercassy, Ukraine will survive no matter what might befall the family. No one foresees the horrors that they will have to face between the fall of 1930 an... + Read More
Series: MiroLand Trapped A Mother's Quest to Reclaim Her Daughters 1st edition Paperback Alexandra Karb 9781771833486 $25.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Apr 01, 2019
When Alexandra attempts to end an abusive marriage, her husband Tareq abducts their infant daughters from their Montreal home and deposits them with his family in a primitive village in Jordan. Trying to retrieve them through legal means, Alexandra comes face to face with Arab cultures where children belong to the father's family and women have no rights to them. She puts a promising career as a medical researcher on hold, sets off alone to Jordan and succeeds in an audacious plan to smuggle her daughters back home. But upon returning to Canada... + Read More
Series: MiroLand Seeker A Sea Odyssey 1st edition Paperback Rita Pomade 9781771833516 $25.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY May 01, 2019
Seeker: A Sea Odyssey is the story of two people who meet in Mexico and fall in love. Rita is an American part-time English language teacher and freelance reporter for an English language tourist magazine struggling to raise two young boys on her own. Bernard is a French geologist under contract to the Mexican government to search for underground thermal springs. She dreams of finding Shangri-la after witnessing a bloody government crackdown from which she barely escapes. He dreams of having a yacht and sailing the world. Their dreams mesh, and... + Read More
Series: Essential Drama Revolt/Compassion Six Scripts for Contemporary Performance 1st edition Paperback Michael Springate 9781771833967 $20.00 DRAMA May 01, 2019
Revolt/Compassion: Six Scripts for Contemporary Performance, gathers together six important works by Michael Springate: Historical Bliss, Dog and Crow, The Consolation of Philosophy, Freeport Texas, Kareena, and Kut: Shock and Awe. Written and produced over a twenty-five year period, they capture an expansive range of interests and influences, and reflect the artistic interdisciplinarity which has been a defining feature of his career. Dr. Erin Hurley, in her ground-breaking introduction, writes: Consciously crafted, precise in their diction, a... + Read More
Series: Essential Prose Dead Voices 1st edition Paperback F.G. Paci 9781771833189 $25.00 FICTION May 01, 2019
Dead Voices is a collection of stories that are both seriously realistic and comically whimsical. They have everything from superheroes who get sick on words, to the appearance of dead playwrights, to the visit of saints and sinners from the past, to a hot stove discussion on hockey and love. They?re about the modern mind-set and its technological marvels and the older attention to character and virtue.
Series: Essential Writers Antonio D'Alfonso Essays On His Works 1st edition Paperback Licia Canton 9781771833615 $20.00 LITERARY CRITICISM Apr 01, 2019
This collection of essays is devoted to the work of Antonio D'Alfonso, a pivotal figure in the bilingual history of Canadian literature. This much anticipated volume gives Antonio D'Alfonso recognition for the enormous contribution he has made to Canadian writing, over nearly fifty years. He has worked as a writer, editor, translator and filmmaker in Quebec and in Ontario. D'Alfonso identifies as a bilingual writer, but he also speaks and writes in Italian. And he has translated works from French and Italian into English, and from English into ... + Read More
Series: Essential Essays The Oulipo Challenge 1st edition Paperback Hillar Liitoja 9781771833738 $20.00 LITERARY COLLECTIONS May 01, 2019
The adventure of discovering, then diving into the world of that esoteric and fascinating French literary club, the Oulipo ? and the perils of trying to reconfigure the world's most famous monologue while abiding by their fiendishly challenging rules.
Series: Essential Poets Rivers Applaud Forever 1st edition Paperback Raymond Filip 9781771833608 $20.00 POETRY Apr 01, 2019
In Rivers Applaud Forever, Raymond Filip, the craftsman and musician, showcases his spoken-word texts that perform on a silent page, as well as his say then play recitals on stage. This collection features free verse and end rhymes; satire and nature studies; a concrete poem and a proem; a linked sequence of narratives, and a long bird call to the uncaptured. Filip's peace process comes to terms with his birth and disfigurement in a displaced persons camp after World War II; the unspeakable abuses of growing up with domestic violence and a brok... + Read More
Series: Essential Poets Swinging Between Water and Stone 1st edition Paperback Steven Mayoff 9781771833677 $20.00 POETRY Apr 01, 2019
Swinging Between Water and Stone is a collection of poems comprising four sections. Each section roughly represents the four stages of the never-ending reincarnation cycle: birth, life, death and rebirth. These themes recur in each section, propelling these poems the way smaller wheels turn within larger wheels. Settings, both urban and rural, imaginary and real, domestic and distant, terrestrial and astral create a kind of existential road trip where the reader as traveller comes across signposts that lead to both the familiar and the inexplicable.
Series: Essential Poets Plastic's Republic 1st edition Paperback Giovanna Riccio 9781771833684 $20.00 POETRY Apr 01, 2019
In 2019 Barbie turns 60. Never only a toy, she defines the stellar. In Plastic?s Republic, Giovanna Riccio delves into Barbie?s impact on female beauty highlighting how plasticity in body and persona have allowed the doll to remain top-diva. Other poems bring to life, Mattel?s movers-n-shakers who created Barbie to be their in-house money maker. Riccio?s Plastications lyrics illustrate how Barbie?s mouldable nature lets Mattel position their high achiever as ever-relevant, arguably, by exploiting social trends, political movements and historic... + Read More
Series: First Poets Downtown Flirt 1st edition Paperback Peter Jickling 9781771833776 $20.00 POETRY May 01, 2019
In October 2016 Peter Jickling left the Yukon to write in Toronto. His resulting poems document subjects ranging from subletting to subways ? illuminating quiet moments amidst noise. Sometimes sad, often funny, and always humane, Downtown Flirt is an outsider?s account of urban life.
Series: Essential Poets Insult to the Brain 1st edition Paperback Nicola Vulpe 9781771833769 $20.00 POETRY May 01, 2019
They were shot, transported, deported. They were hanged, or they hanged themselves. They starved, or their hearts suddenly failed, or drugs or cancer consumed them. Others lived into their nineties, one even to 103. Nicola Vulpe?s Insult to the Brain transports us from the gas-seeped muck of the Somme, to a tiny apartment in Buenos Aires, to an undisclosed prison yard in Iran, and a hundred times and places in between, to join some of the last century?s finest poets in their final moments: horrific, tragic, ordinary, silly, absurd. Whether it i... + Read More
Series: Paper Lions Paperback Sohan S Koonar 9781988449777 $23.95 FICTION Jul 01, 2019
Told from three distinct points of view, Paper Lions is an epic multi-generational novel about India, set in the years from the advent of the Second World War to the beginning of modern times in the 1960s. War brings opportunities and wealth to some; Independence ushers in great hope for the future; and the nation's Partition brings along horrors, during which fortunes are made and lost, homes destroyed and abandoned, people slaughtered. The years roll on, a new generation arrives. In the locality of Raikot, Punjab, the three main characters--B... + Read More
Series: Youth of God, The Paperback Hassan Ghedi Santur 9781988449739 $20.95 FICTION Jun 01, 2019
Finalist for the Pius Adesanmi Memorial Award for Excellence in African Writing, 2019 The Youth of God tells the story of Nuur, a sensitive and academically gifted seventeen-year-old boy growing up in Toronto's Somali neighbourhood, as he negotiates perilously between the calling of his faith and his intellectual ambitions. Trying to influence him are a radical Muslim imam and a book-loving, dedicated teacher who shares his background. In its telling, this novel reveals the alienated lives of Somali youth in an environment riddled with crime a... + Read More
Series: Kabir's Jacket Has a Thousand Pockets Paperback Ayaz Pirani 9781988449692 $19.95 POETRY Jul 01, 2019
Step into the crater of East Africa and meet the grain of sand from Sindh. Eat pearls from Indian Ismaili ginans and attend to the True Guru. Aglow with post-colonial loss, wryly defiant of what they are admitting, the poems in Kabir?s Jacket Has a Thousand Pockets describe a warm estrangement and salty gratitude for being on Earth. It?s not war-reporting and Ayaz doesn?t solve crimes. He doesn?t have his head in the lion?s mouth. He draws from Kabir?s Bijak, Ghalib, and the oral granth and ginan tradition to plot a lifelong and generational... + Read More
Series: SH:LAM (The Doctor) Paperback Joseph Dandurand 9781988449715 $19.95 POETRY May 01, 2019
This powerful collection, all too relevant today, tells a story that needs to be told. The author writes, "This is the truth of what has happened to my people. The Kwantlen people used to number in the thousands but like all river tribes, eighty percent of our people were wiped out by smallpox and now there are only 200 of us. As a Kwantlen man, father, fisherman, poet and playwright I believe the gift of words was given to me so I can retell our stories?" These poems tell the story of a Kwantlen man who has been given the gift of healing but i... + Read More
Series: Coconut Dreams Paperback Derek Mascarenhas 9781771664813 $20.00 FICTION Apr 15, 2019
Coconut Dreams explores the lives of the Pinto family through seventeen linked short stories. Starting with a ghost story set in Goa, India in the 1950's, the collection shifts to the unique perspectives of two adolescents, Aiden and Ally Pinto. Both first generation Canadians, these siblings tackle their adventures in a predominantly white suburb with innocence, intelligence and a timid foot in two distinct cultures.Derek Mascarenhas takes a fresh look at the world of the new immigrant and the South Asian experience in Canada. In these stories... + Read More
Series: Before I Was a Critic I Was a Human Being Paperback Amy Fung 9781771665056 $20.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY May 07, 2019
In that moment, I felt closer to whiteness than not. I was completely complicit and didn?t think twice about entering a space that could cover their walls with images of contemporary Indigenous perspectives, but exclude their physical bodies from entering and experiencing. In that moment, I felt like a real Canadian. Before I Was a Critic I Was a Human Being is the debut collection of creative nonfiction essays by Amy Fung. In it, Fung takes a closer examination at Canada's mythologies of multiculturalism, settler colonialism, and identity thr... + Read More
Series: Hope Matters Paperback Columpa Bobb 9781771664974 $18.00 POETRY Apr 24, 2019
Hope Matters, written by multiple award-winner Lee Maracle, in collaboration with her daughters Columpa Bobb and Tania Carter, focuses on the journey of Indigenous people from colonial beginnings to reconciliation.Maracle states that the book, "is also about the journey of myself and my two daughters." During their youth, Bobb and Carter wrote poetry with their mother, and eventually they all decided that one day they would write a book together. This book is the result of that dream. Written collaboratively by all three women, the poems in Hop... + Read More
Series: Mama's Boy trilogy Mama's Boy Behind Bars Paperback David Goudreault 9781771664851 $20.00 FICTION Jun 18, 2019
Now I've killed another person. I'm a serial killer. Sure, two people is hardly serial, but it's a good start. I'm still young. Who knows where opportunities might lead me? Opportunity makes the thief, or the murderer, or even the pastry chef. It's well documented.Mama's Boy Behind Bars is the second book in David Goudreault's wildly successful and darkly funny Mama's Boy trilogy. Once again written with gritty humour in the form of a confession, Mama's Boy Behind Bars, picks up where the first book in the series left off.Mama's Boy finds himse... + Read More
Series: Worst Case, We Get Married Paperback Sophie Bienvenu 9781771664899 $20.00 FICTION May 08, 2019
Aïcha lives with her mother in Montreal's Centre-Sud neighbourhood. She's only thirteen but claims to be older. She has never known her father, and resents her mother for leaving Hakim, her stepfather. Her only friends are Mel and Jo, two local prostitutes, and Baz, a musician in his twenties, who comes to her rescue one day and with whom she proceeds to fall in love. Her impossible love for Baz, her precociousness and her rebellious streak come together into an explosive cocktail. Raw and heartrending, Worst Case, We Get Married is the stateme... + Read More
Series: Q & A Paperback Adrienne Gruber 9781771664721 $18.00 POETRY Apr 01, 2019
Adrienne Gruber's third full poetry collection, Q & A, is a poetic memoir detailing a first pregnancy, birth and early postpartum period. The poet is both traumatized and transformed by the birth of her daughter. She is compelled by the dark places birth takes her and as she examines and revisits those places, a grotesque history of the treatment of pregnant and birthing women reveals itself.
Series: War / Torn Paperback Hasan Namir 9781771664936 $18.00 POETRY Apr 10, 2019
Hasan Namir's debut collection of poetry, War / Torn, is a brazen and lyrical interrogation of religion and masculinity—the performance and sense of belonging they delineate and draw together. Namir summons prayer, violence, and the sensuality of love, revisiting tenets of Islam and dictates of war to break the barriers between the profane and the sacred.Praise for War / Torn:"War / Torn mourns, loves and burns all the derogatory impulses of our continuous present. This book is of and against our time. War / Torn is a breathless elegy in the mo... + Read More
Series: I Am a Body of Land Paperback Shannon Webb-Campbell 9781771664776 $18.00 POETRY Jan 08, 2019
I Am a Body of Land by Shannon Webb-Campbell explores poetic responsibility and accountability, and frames poetry as a form of revisioning. In these poems, Webb-Campbell returns to her own text Who Took My Sister?, to examine her self and to decolonize, unlearn, and undo harm. By reconsidering individual poems and letters, Webb-Campbell's confessional writing circles back upon itself to ask questions of her own settler-Indigenous identity and belonging to cry out for community, and call in with love.Edited and with an Introduction by multiple a... + Read More
Series: Where, the Mile End Paperback Julie Morrissy 9781771664677 $18.00 POETRY Apr 01, 2019
Where, the Mile End, Irish poet Julie Morrissy's debut collection, embodies an energetic lyricism that whips through Europe and North America with humour, curiosity and a distinct edginess. Morrissy's lines track emotional, physical, and geographical change, as she intimately links the vitality of two continents: the snow, the streets, the sensual memories. Where, the Mile End reimagines the places we inhabit, the moments we remember, the things we long for.Praise for Where, the Mile End:"Humming with energy and startlingly fresh, these poems c... + Read More
Series: Disquieting Essays on Silence Paperback Cynthia Cruz 9781771664356 $20.00 SOCIAL SCIENCE May 01, 2019
How do our bodies speak for us when words don?t suffice? How can we make ourselves understood when what we have to say is inarticulable?In Disquieting, Cynthia Cruz tarries with others who have provided examples of how to ?turn away,? or reject the ideologies of contemporary Neoliberal culture. These essays inhabit connections between silence, refusal, anorexia, mental illness, and Neoliberalism. Cruz also explores the experience of being working-class and poor in contemporary culture, and how those who are silenced often turn to forms of disqu... + Read More
Series: Florine Stettheimer New Directions in Multimodal Modernism Paperback Irene Gammel 9781771665018 $25.00 ART Oct 03, 2019
This collection of essays explores the multimodality of the work of Jazz-era New York saloniere, painter, and poet Florine Stettheimer, allowing readers to discover why Andy Warhol once called her his favourite artist. Florine Stettheimer: New Directions in Multimodal Modernism brings to light the prescient theorizing of a dissolution between high and low art that Stettheimer's highly original and boldly interdisciplinary aesthetic pioneered and that artists like Marcel Duchamp, Georgia O'Keeffe and Warhol understood and admired.Conceived of as... + Read More
Series: Je Nathanaël Paperback Nathanael 9781771665094 $18.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Apr 01, 2019
Je Nathanaël is an endangered text. Neither essay nor poem nor novel nor sex-show, what it takes from language it gives back to the body.In this new and updated veresion of Je Nathanaël, first published by BookThug in 2006, Nathanaël explores ways in which language constrains the body, shackles it to gender, and proposes instead a different way of reading, where words are hermaphroditic and transform desire in turn. Suggesting that one body conceals another, it lends an ear to this other body and delights in the anxiety it provokes. With parts ... + Read More
Series: What a Young Wife Ought to Know Paperback Hannah Moscovitch 9781770919860 $17.95 DRAMA Aug 26, 2019
Just don’t lie down and no child will come. It’s Ottawa in the 1920s, pre-legalized birth control. Sophie, a young working-class girl, falls madly in love with and marries a stable-hand named Jonny. After two difficult childbirths, doctors tell Sophie she shouldn’t have any more children, but don’t tell her how to prevent it. When Sophie inevitably becomes pregnant again, she faces a grim dilemma. In an unflinching look at love, sex, and fertility, and inspired by real stories of mothers during the Canadian birth-control movement of the early t... + Read More
Series: Other Side of the Game Paperback Amanda Parris 9781770919914 $17.95 DRAMA May 21, 2019
I don’t think you can expect society to change if you’re not ready to take the first step. In the 1970s Beverly walks into an office of Black activists, wanting to join the Movement, and has to prove she’s committed enough to fight. Some forty years later, in the Hip Hop Generation, Nicole reunites with her ex-boyfriend on a basketball court, wondering where he’s been, when a police officer stops them. In this striking debut, Amanda Parris turns the spotlight on the Black women who organize communities, support their incarcerated loved ones, an... + Read More
Series: BANG BANG Paperback Kat Sandler 9781770919822 $17.95 DRAMA Nov 19, 2019
Lila, a young Black ex-cop, has been on leave from the police force ever since she shot an unarmed Black youth. She’s moved back in with her mother, Karen, and is drinking beer for breakfast. So when Tim, a white playwright, shows up at her door to casually inform her that his play inspired by her experience is being adapted into a movie, Lila’s trauma is dragged out for speculation once again. The star of the film, their ex-cop bodyguard and Karen are pulled into the fight, leading to an epic metatheatrical standoff in a living room play about... + Read More
Series: Cake Paperback Donna-Michelle St. Bernard 9781770919709 $17.95 DRAMA Apr 02, 2019
A man earns. However little, however nefariously, he earns. Oba, a middle-aged businessman, is torn between his pride and dignity. He’s obsessed with making deals in unidentified substances to stay afloat. A powerful client named Araf arrives, interested in Oba’s business, but also his fierce, inherited servant Femi. Oba’s young progeny Mabo is hungry and desperate, but still driven by his skills and sympathetic to the needs of others. In this stark and poetic musing on the nature and poisons of survival, Cake humanizes the dynamic between Nige... + Read More
Series: Body Politic Paperback Nick Green 9781770919747 $17.95 DRAMA May 21, 2019
The point is that we started the conversation. In 1971 Phillip was on the cusp of starting something big. Something that would make history. Now he’s an aging journalist trying to make sense of Grindr. Phillip was a founding member of The Body Politic, a gay-liberation newspaper based in Toronto. As he recounts memories of censorship battles, police raids, historic rallies, and the onset of HIV/AIDS during an intimate encounter with a younger man, their generational differences shine a light on the massive shifts in queer identity and politics ... + Read More
Series: Marriage A Demolition in Two Acts Paperback Rick Chafe 9781770919969 $17.95 DRAMA Jun 11, 2019
Put away the knives because tensions are rising in this kitchen renovation. What could help patch up a marriage better than a home renovation? Wayne thinks he’s doing his wife Julie a favour by hiring a young couple to help redo the kitchen (at a fraction of the cost she’d hoped for). But Julie has higher standards in mind. John and Maggie think they’ve found a way to make some quick money to pay off the land John bought. John just proposed, but Maggie hasn’t given her answer yet. With both couples on edge amongst themselves and with each other... + Read More
Series: Category E Paperback Belinda Cornish 9781770919785 $17.95 DRAMA Apr 16, 2019
I didn’t think we got to have names.Two human test subjects—Corcoran, a half-blind paraplegic, and Filigree, a clinical psychopath—coexist in a laboratory cell. They are sterilized, property of the state, and utilized for the benefit of higher-valued citizens. In their cell are two beds and two chairs. But then Millet arrives. Within thirty-six hours there will only be two again. In the meantime, they play Monopoly, try to figure out who is next door, eat what is given to them, and do their best not to kill each other.This black comedy takes a ... + Read More
Series: The Bears Sleep at Last Paperback Geneviève Billette 9781770919952 $18.95 DRAMA Age (years) from 9 - 18 Nov 15, 2019
Their whole bodies are ready for sleep, but sleep doesn’t come. The cold has deserted winter, causing the polar bears in the zoo to pace in an endless quest for sleep. Their caretaker, Sasha, will do anything to bring them slumber. But when a boy named Marcus suddenly appears at his window, bringing a different outlook on the meaning of family, Sasha finds himself buried under new responsibilities—such as packing lunches and reading bedtime stories—rather than snow. And so he keeps going back to the bears, believing that he’ll find relief by th... + Read More
Series: Birds of a Kind Paperback Wajdi Mouawad 9781770919907 $18.95 DRAMA Apr 23, 2019
Is it really important to cling to our lost identities? A terrorist attack in Jerusalem puts Eitan, a young Israeli-German genetic researcher, in a coma, while his girlfriend Wahida, a Moroccan graduate student, is left to uncover his family secret that brought them to Israel in the first place. Since Eitan’s parents erupted at a Passover meal when they realized Wahida was not Jewish, he has harboured a suspicion about his heritage that, if true, could change everything. In this sweeping new drama from the prolific Wajdi Mouawad, the Israeli-Pa... + Read More
Series: New Essays on Canadian Theatre Theatre and (Im)migration Paperback Yana Meerzon 9780369100016 $25.00 PERFORMING ARTS Jun 18, 2019
Theatre and (Im)migration shines a bright light on the impact that immigrant artists have made and continue to make on the development of Canadian theatre, from themes, characters, and world issues to financial structures and artistic techniques. This collection of essays demonstrates how the increased presence of immigrant theatre artists actively contributing to English and French Canadian theatre prompt their audiences to rethink fundamental concepts of nationalism and multiculturalism. Contributors include Moira Day, Alan Filewod, Aida Jord... + Read More
Series: Scripting (Im)migration New Canadian Plays Paperback Yana Meerzon 9780369100009 $29.95 DRAMA Jun 18, 2019
In this companion anthology to Theatre and (Im)migration, plays by immigrant artists take a look at communication, historic moments, the immigrant and refugee experiences in Canada, accents, and more. In The Aeneid, the classic tale of searching for a new home is reimagined into an urgent modern-day refugee story. Settling Africville is a dedication to the African American refugees of the War of 1812 that settled in Nova Scotia. The Tashme Project, a documentary-style play, carefully pieces together the experiences of Japanese Canadians who wer... + Read More
Series: Hilda's Yard Paperback Norm Foster 9781770919662 $15.95 DRAMA Mar 19, 2019
Lemonade is for people who use the front door. It’s an exciting summer day in 1956 for Hilda and Sam Fluck. Newly on their own since their thirtysomething children Gary and Janey moved out, they are finally ready to relax. Hilda plans to hang her laundry while Sam goes to buy a shiny new television. What could disturb their simple peace? Turns out doors are merely decoration as Gary and Janey literally fall over the fence into the backyard, looking for help out of sticky situations. Gary has lost his job, is enamoured with his new girlfriend, B... + Read More
Series: With Glowing Hearts How Ordinary Women Worked Together to Save the World (And Did) Paperback Jennifer Wynne Webber 9781927922491 $15.95 DRAMA Apr 01, 2019
With Glowing Hearts is the rousing true story of a group of Canadian gold miners' wives who came together in 1941 to stand up for better conditions for their families. These least-likely activists ended up as part of a continent-wide labour movement that lasted for decades and that created significant and lasting change in themselves and in the world around them.
Series: Moon Was a Feather Paperback Scott Nolan 9781927922514 $15.95 POETRY Apr 01, 2019
Evolving from a routine of long walks he began to help him quit smoking, Winnipeg singer, songwriter and musician, Scott Nolan's debut poetry collection Moon Was a Feather reflects on a life well-considered. Poems that chronicle a difficult youth, experience with drugs, friendships, and music are interwoven with insights gleaned from the eclectic jumble of neighbourhoods and people he encounters on his long walks. Spare -- eloquent with a healthy dose of grit -- the poems of Moon Was a Feather are infused with the poet's deep appreciation for t... + Read More
Series: Fighting Season, The Paperback Sean Oliver 9781927922507 $15.95 DRAMA Apr 01, 2019
Sean Harris Oliver's The Fighting Season is a searing investigation into the Afghan War through the eyes of a Canadian field medic (Kristy), an OR surgeon (Terry), and a recovery room nurse (Karine). When all three medical professionals experience a life changing event in the operating room of the NATO controlled Role 3 Multinational Medical Unit at Kandahar Airfield, they are sent back to Canada for further evaluation. Through Kristy, Terry and Karine's interwoven monologues we begin to understand the harrowing contribution that Canada's med... + Read More
Series: Nails, The Paperback Jason Maghanoy 9781927922484 $15.95 DRAMA Apr 01, 2019
Ally and Josh spend every summer with their father as he goes from small town to small town working for a construction company in America. But this summer is different. This is the summer they grow up. The Nails is a play about family. It is a play about faith. And it captures a world of freedom and extremism in all directions; love and cruelty exist within the same space here. Sometimes they feel like the same thing.
Series: Honour Beat Paperback Tara Beagan 9781927922477 $15.95 DRAMA Apr 01, 2019
Two grown sisters face off over their mother's deathbed. Together they confront one another, their own identities, and what will remain when their mom leaves this world. A contemporary look at the significance of faith and family, Honour Beat evokes both laughter and tears as three women grapple with one of life's most difficult inevitabilities.
Series: Salt and Ashes 1st edition Paperback Adrienne Drobnies 9781773240480 $17.95 POETRY Apr 01, 2019
These are poems of dislocation and migration, poems of rage and healing, poems of transformation. Drobnies? scientific background, keen intellect and seasoned perspective create a poetic vision informed by the language and concepts of science, and through this lens turns a keen observational eye on the natural world
Series: Put Your Hand in Mine 1st edition Paperback Elaine Woo 9781773240473 $17.95 POETRY Apr 01, 2019
Put Your Hand in Mine is a humorous, surreal survey of patterns of behavior as they relate to the social good. Beneath the surface is wisdom, too, which is revealed in the most unexpected places
Series: Virga 1st edition Paperback Jennifer Houle 9781773240466 $17.95 POETRY Apr 01, 2019
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Against Breaking the Fourth Wall
by David Boles.In United Stage.12 Comments on Against Breaking the Fourth Wall
Think of a live performance stage as having four invisible walls that box in the action area. When performer then “breaks the fourth wall” that means there is a direct interaction with the audience by shattering the pretend “wall” that invisibly stands between the live space and the perceivers.
I am against breaking the fourth wall in every example ever written, created or staged.
Breaking the fourth wall is an emotional swindle and an intellectual mendacity consciously applied to force audience interest through clingery instead of tension building.
When a performer breaks the fourth wall to basically narrate a story to an audience — the audience isn’t being drawn into the plot — the audience is being falsely made part of the spectacle and, in the Aristotelian process, that live performance can never have a satisfying or cathartic end.
When live performers address a live audience, the sacred and magical necessity of observation and imitation are destroyed, and the drama is doomed to fail.
Instead of drawing the audience into the live drama on stage with persuasive conflict and irrevocable change — the audience is directly addressed — and the process of exploration and unification of purpose is no longer possible as the audience becomes part of the live stage.
If you want an immediate, but false, connection with an audience, then breaking the fourth wall is an effective cheat and a crutch.
If, however, you want to craft the best possible performance, you will leave the fourth wall intact — the audience always prefers to watch the action from behind the safety of
that agreed barrier — and audiences are more willing to open their public joys and their private demons for introspection if that necessary wall of privacy is left intact without a false shattering.
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I hear that, David. When someone breaks the fourth wall you know that you’re watching something that doesn’t particularly take itself seriously. That’s why it is almost expected when you are at the Upright Citizen’s Brigade (or even the People’s Improv Theatre — I went to two different performances there with my bears and they “coincidentally” mentioned bears in both performances…)
That’s a good example, Gordon. It does change the experience in dramatic ways when the wall is broken.
“Our Town” famously breaks the fourth wall with the narrator — audiences have come to think they enjoy the broken wall, but that’s only because they don’t know any better.
I still consider wall busting a dramatic cheat that is just too obvious and cloying to be effective drama.
“Malcom in the Middle” is a middling TV example of the broken wall narrative, too… totally insufferable!
anne90210 says:
I think I’m getting confused. Is suspending disbelief the same as breaking the fourth wall? Do we react when the wall is broken or is just the performing breaking enough to ruin the experience?
It can be confusing, Anne. Disbelief and the fourth wall are different ideas, though they are related to the cohesion of the performance. Most people don’t mind breaking the fourth wall, but they don’t realize they are cheating themselves out of a better performance if the wall remains intact.
The last Woody Allen film had wall breaking — but everyone kept wondering whom the character was addressing and saying he was delusional for talking to an ‘audience’ that wasn’t really there! That was actually quite funny.
Spinning an established “standard” can have great effect, Gordon. If breaking the wall weren’t so familiar and overused and sad — Woody Allen never would’ve been able to button it for laughs.
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Thank you for provoking the discusssion.
In clown performance the 4th wall does not exist and this can lead to much catharsis, by way of shared presence, spontaneity of impulse, and laughter.
This article, though thoughtful, presents a view that is one-sided and so 50% limited.
There is no ‘better’ or more effective style (with/without 4th wall). It all depends on what you hope to achieve with the piece you’re performing.
Either can be used as crutches, or to expound the voice and movement of our true, radical nature.
I can’t imagine your comment is serious, but if it is, I will ask you this:
“Did you really think I was writing about clowns?”
I also wasn’t writing about street corner musicians or stand-up comedians.
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by Stasa Veroukis-Regina | Oct 23, 2017 | East->West Route • Artist: Evin Collis, News | 0 comments
by Evin Collis – East Route
The ART EXPRESS’D project was an important initiative to unite various communities across Canada together through the spirit of free, accessible, collaborative community art making. It was an opportunity to further learn about the great expansiveness of Canada and its richness, diversity, regionalisms and enduring complexities that exist.
There were many exciting moments during the journey. By the nature of the project, there was a strong element of improvisation and spontaneity. The vibrant, colourful murals painted by the participants from Art City that enveloped the container demanded a lot of attention and curiosity.
Each community was very welcoming and eager to animate the project. Many participants liked the idea of contributing to an evolving travelling community art project. We had a multidimensional studio set up where people could choose to paint, work on the life sized papier mâché sculptures or create stop-motion animations. There were plenty of activities for participants of all ages to engage in and jump between!
We began our journey in St. John’s, Newfoundland with the Eastern Edge Gallery who generously hosted us and from there travelled to Halifax where we set up by the water front for Aboriginal Day Live, where we easily worked with hundreds of participants. The following day, we drove the truck and container to a youth centre in the North End, which caused a great deal of excitement in the community and we made some wild art. The next day we drove out and pulled up at an elementary school in Lower Sackville, which was amazing. The level of genuine engagement and the exhilaration of the participants while seeing the funky truck pull up amplified the mood and contributed to the creation of the artworks. After Nova Scotia we travelled to Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island where we had a steady stream of participants and created some fantastic animations and a giant papier mâché fox. The group from the C3 icebreaker – which was enroute to the Northwest Passage – stopped by on Canada Day and we made a wacky animation together about their journey.
Moncton was our next stop at the Musée Acadien. Moncton is such a great artistic city and we had a number of groups of fearless young artists who leapt into the art-making. Joliette, Quebec followed where we worked at the Musée d’art de Joliette, which is a fantastic art museum. We had an overwhelming and dedicated response from Joliette and the surrounding communities.
We concluded our tour in Ottawa, in the container village. La Machine, a street robot puppet troupe was in town from Nantes, France so the streets were thick with people out enjoying the spectacles. We had an incredibly popular booth and worked non-stop, making dozens of animations and created a huge cat person out of papier mâché. It was very rewarding experience and having the opportunity to meet with a wide range of people from throughout Canada and the world was special.
There are many different perspectives of Canada and Canadian identity so it was a privilege to listen to everyone’s ideas and experiences as they shared them in the context of the travelling collaborative art project ART EXPRESS’D.
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Christian Fundamentalists coming out of closet over Iraq War
While Tony Blair was in office, he avoided bringing up the subject of religion but nearly every pundit knew that he was a staunch fundamentalist christian. Before the Iraq war, Bush and Blair prayed together and Tony Blair has never denied it. I wonder if they were praying that their power does not gewt taken away regardless of them embarking on a war that will kill hundreds of thousands and makes millions homeless.
If two Muslim leaders prayed together before starting a war, how would the world react?
In the winter of 2003, when George Bush and Tony Blair were frantically gathering support for their planned invasion, Professor Thomas Römer, an Old Testament expert at the university of Lausanne, was rung up by the Protestant Federation of France. They asked him to supply them with a summary of the legends surrounding Gog and Magog and as the conversation progressed, he realised that this had originally come, from the highest reaches of the French government.
President Jacques Chirac wanted to know what the hell President Bush had been on about in their last conversation. Bush had then said that when he looked at the Middle East, he saw "Gog and Magog at work" and the biblical prophecies unfolding. But who the hell were Gog and Magog? Neither Chirac nor his office had any idea. But they knew Bush was an evangelical Christian, so they asked the French Federation of Protestants, who in turn asked Professor Römer.
he best opinion is that like all Bible prophecy, it is a mixture of wish-fulfilment and contemporary (iron age) politics. Some of it at least seems to refer to the turmoil brought about by Alexander the Great in the fourth century BC (unlike Bush, Alexander actually conquered Afghanistan). But they have been for the last two hundred years the subject of increasingly excited evangelical fanfic, especially in America; in the 70s and 80s, Gog was meant to be Russia. Ronald Reagan seems to have believed that.
But with Reagan, the prophecy appreciation part of his brain functioned quite independently of the part that started wars (there's nothing in the Old Testament about Nicaragua or even Grenada). Bush seems to have taken the threat of Gog and Magog to Israel quite literally, and, if this story can be believed, to have launched a war to stop them.
Mr Blair has previously admitted that he was influenced by his Christian faith, but Mr Burton reveals for the first time the strength of his religious zeal.
"While he was at Number 10, Tony was virtually gagged on the whole question of religion," says Mr Burton.
"Alastair [Campbell] was convinced it would get him into trouble with the voters.
"But Tony's Christian faith is part of him, down to his cotton socks. He believed strongly at the time, that intervention in Kosovo, Sierra Leone – Iraq too – was all part of the Christian battle; good should triumph over evil, making lives better."
Mr Burton, who was often described as Mr Blair's mentor, says that his religion gave him a "total belief in what's right and what's wrong", leading him to see the so-called War on Terror as "a moral cause".
"I truly believe that his Christianity affected his policy-making on just about everything from aid to Africa, education, poverty, world debt and intervening in other countries when he thought it was right to do it.
"The fervour was part of him and it comes back to it being Christian fervour that spurred him into action for better or worse."
Mr Burton says that inherent in Mr Blair's faith was the belief that people should be treated fairly: "He applied that same principle in everything he did – from establishing the Social Exclusion Unit to ethnic cleansing in Kosovo, and ridding Iraq of the evils of Saddam Hussein's rule."
It is very funny that these Christian Missionaries that come to our doors always trying to portray that Islam is a terrorist religion and Christianity is a peaceful religion. I always ask them who started the World Wars and how many people were killed. They quickly jump to 9/11 where say roughly 3000 people were killed by Terrorists. How many people has this war on Terror killed? In Afghanistan? In Iraq? In Pakistan? How many people have Israel Killed in Lebanon and Palestine? How many people did the Christian fundamentalists killed in Kosovo?
It is a well known fact that Mr Blair's Cabinet included several deeply committed Christians, such as Ruth Kelly, the Education Secretary, who is a Roman Catholic, and the Chief Whip, Hilary Armstrong - but they rarely break the injunction not to mix religion and politics publicly.
Now, I read the most interesting stuff which I didnt expect.
Alastair Campbell said today he was inspired by the Bible when he gave evidence to the Iraq inquiry.
The former spin chief, who famously told Tony Blair: "We don't do God", said that on the eve of his appearance a supporter emailed him Psalm 56.
The psalm, which attacks those who "twist" the words of others, gave him comfort on a day when he was again in the media spotlight.
Mr Campbell quoted it on his blog, adding: "I never detected a death plot among the British media, but the rest of it sums up the Westminster lobby to a tee."
He revealed he was "amazed how many people, though they thought they know I don't do God, sent me passages from the Bible."
Its good to see all these liars and fundamentalists coming out of the closet and revealing their true face. I am sure that most common people do not see the Iraq war as the war between Islam and Christianity but day by day it looks to me thats what it is.
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The State Member for Mount Isa has questioned the State Government’s commitment to boosting services in rural areas with two of the country’s smaller states afforded more rural financial counsellors.
It comes after the State Government announced it was boosting funding for the rural financial counsellors run by the Federal Government.
“Queensland has a land mass size almost eight times large than Victoria but has less rural financial counsellors, a boost of $75,000 into the federal pool is merely a drop,” Mr Katter said.
“Queensland also has a land mass size more than twice the size of New South Wales but has 10 less rural financial counsellors.”
“Our state is 86% drought declared so if there’s a state topping the list for rural financial counsellors, it should be Queensland.”
Robbie Katter, Agriculture Minister Leanne Donaldson inspect native pastures during a visit to Hughenden Station with Greg and Terressa Ford.
Victoria has 26 rural financial councillors and New South Wales has 33, compared to Queensland’s 23.
Mr Katter toured the North West this week and visited properties affected by the drought and policy failure.
“Despite some parts of the region receiving some welcome rainfall, there are many still facing significant drought for the fourth consecutive year,” he said.
“Our producers are some of the most resilient, but they are doing it very tough and need more support from the Government.”
“Even though some have received useful rain, many were completely de-stocked meaning they will be without an income for years to come.”
During the tour, Mr Katter heard of the hardships related to the drought and the difficulties experienced by many applying for Government assistance.
“We need the industry to be going forwards and thriving, not going backwards – these counsellors act as a real and practical support for these businesses,” he said. “It would be a tragedy if we continued to lose those who have kept the legacy of the family farm alive.”
“Nobody does agriculture more passionately or productively than our family-owned farms.”
“They are best practice producers, they spend their money in our towns, and they add so much to the social fabric of our rural communities.”
Incentives were needed to stimulate the industry and give producers confidence in the future of agriculture.
“Our food producers are some of the most efficient and effective in the world and they need to be recognised as viable businesses,” Mr Katter said.
“Unfortunately they have been failed by the live export ban of 2011, leaving them in a precarious position when the drought compounded their situation.”
“We need the fundamentals of the industry to be in order to lay a platform for the next generation of producers.”
Mr Katter chaired the rural Debt and Drought Taskforce which is set to release its recommendations later this month.
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Members of the Opinions Committee and its constituency list are invited to review the Statement of Opinion Practices and the Core Opinion Principles recently published by the ABA Legal Opinions Committee and the Working Group on Legal Opinions Foundation (“WGLO”) in the Business Lawyer (74 The Business Lawyer 801 (2019)). The Statement builds upon the Statement on the Role of Customary Practice in the Preparation and Understanding of Third-Party Legal Opinions, published in 2008 and approved by over thirty bar associations and other lawyer groups.
The new Statement of Opinion Practices was approved by the Opinions Committee of the Business Law Section of the California Lawyers Association, among numerous other bar groups nationwide. Its goal is to facilitate third-party legal opinion practice and to continue the work that has been ongoing for many years to establish a national third-party legal opinion practice.
Readers may access Statement of Opinion Practices and the Core Opinion Principles through this link.
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Pope Francis greets children from the refugee camps of Dehiyshe, Aida and Beit Jibrin at the Phoenix Center of the Dehiyshe Refugee Camp near Bethlehem, West Bank, May 25. (CNS photo/Paul Haring)
By Judith Sudilovsky • Catholic News Service • Posted May 26, 2014
BETHLEHEM, West Bank (CNS) — When Elias Abu Mohor entered the Casa Nova convent for lunch with Pope Francis, he was surprised to realize he would be sitting at the same table with the pontiff.
Abu Mohor, 44, and his wife Juliet Bannoura, 36, of the neighboring village of Beit Jalla, were among families chosen to eat with the pope after the Mass in Bethlehem May 25. The five — including one Muslim family — represented urgent issues facing the Palestinian community, including land confiscation, imprisonment, displacement from their homes and the situation of people trapped by the embargo of the Gaza Strip.
Abu Mohor told Catholic News Service the first day he was informed his family had been chosen he was in disbelief, but he said he used the opportunity to present Pope Francis with a map showing the encroachment of lands by Israel.
Speaking to the pope is Spanish, he expressed the concerns of families in the Cremisan Valley, where Israel has confiscated land for its separation barrier, sometimes splitting people’s property.
Each of the families chosen told the pope about issues they faced. Most spoke in Arabic, with their concerns translated into Spanish.
Shadia Sbait, 42, who works in the field of banking, and her husband George, 50, a martial arts instructor, traveled from the northern Galilee village of Kafar Yassif. They and their children Nicole, 15, and Caesar, 13, represented the families of Ikrit and Biram.
In the late 1940s, after the creation of the Jewish state, residents of the two Catholic Arab villages were displaced with the promises that they would be permitted to return after two weeks. That never happened, and descendants of the residents, who now live in various villages and cities in northern Israel, have peacefully pursued legal recourses to be permitted to return.
Before the meeting, Shadia Sbait said she would ask Pope Francis to bring up their concerns when he met the following day with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
“I am not a very religious person but I believe in miracles — and the power of the personality of the pope,” she said.
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Cath hasn’t always been artist but she has been interested in art and design since childhood. A passion for science led her to do a degree and PhD in biological sciences followed by many years working in cancer research. It wasn’t until her family grew unexpectedly with the arrival of twin boys that she decided to take what was supposed to be a short a break from the lab.
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Entergy’s Louisiana utilities are sending a team of more than 200 employees and contractors to the East Coast to help restore power following anticipated widespread damage by Hurricane Dorian.
Hurricane Dorian is expected to be near the North Carolina coast late Thursday evening. Dorian’s strong winds, heavy rain, storm surge and inland flooding have the potential to cause catastrophic damage and prolonged power outages. Entergy’s Louisiana crews are assigned to Duke Energy in North Carolina. Should operating conditions affecting Louisiana change, the company could recall its crews.
“Helping others in times of need is part of our culture. Just as we seek mutual aid when severe weather hits Louisiana, we are fortunate to be able to help other utilities by sending our crews when needed,” said Melonie Stewart, Louisiana vice president of distribution operations. “Entergy crews are always eager to get on the road and lend a helping hand to other utilities.”
Sending Entergy crews to help is part of a long-standing mutual assistance agreement by which utilities support one another in times of need. When requested by a utility company, Entergy utilities will send as many workers as they can spare while keeping enough at home to meet the day-to-day needs of Entergy customers.
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Egypt's crude oil production to reach 661,000 bpd by March - Daily News Egypt
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Egypt’s crude oil production to reach 661,000 bpd by March
Achieving oil self-sufficiency is real accomplishment, not importing, says Ezz El Regal
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The Ministry of Petroleum and Mineral Resources targets to increase its production of crude oil by about 10,000 barrels before the end of March.
Chairperson of the Egyptian General Petroleum Corporation (EGPC) Abed Ezz El Regal told Daily News Egypt that the year 2018 will witness a gradual increase in Egypt’s production of crude oil, noting that the total production will reach 661,000 barrels per day (bpd) before the end of next month, compared to 651,000 bpd in February.
He pointed out that the EGPC’s plan to increase production relies on the country’s recently revealed petroleum discoveries and the foreign investments hike in the development of existing oil fields located in the Gulf of Suez and the Nile Delta’s concession areas.
Ezz El Regal said that the total capacity of Egyptian refineries reached 38m tonnes, and the ministry plans to increase it through the development and expansion in refinery labs, especially in Suez and Assiut.
“We are currently studying the implementation of a refinery in Assiut to provide market needs of petroleum products,” Ezz El Regal said.
Due to a shortfall in oil production, Egypt has been importing crude oil shipments from Iraq recently and refining them domestically upon an agreement signed in April 2017, with a 90-day grace period.
Ezz El Regal stressed that Egypt is committed to paying its dues to the Iraqi side without delay, in accordance with the contract, which was renewed in 2018. It stipulates that Egypt will receive a total 12m barrels of crude oil from Iraq over separate periods.
He added that Egypt also receives crude oil shipments from Saudi Aramco on a regular basis, refuting any disputes between the two sides. “Achieving oil self-sufficiency is the real accomplishment, not importing,” Ezz El Regal said.
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Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays 2012! Support Nobel Women to End Rape in Conflict Zones + Enjoy Aida Opera in Egypt!
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Message from Cecilia: As I am writing this my Chinese-Egyptian fusion art exhibition with artist Samia Kamel, is opening at 7pm for the Christmas Show 2012 at the Cairo Opera House Art Gallery. I am honoured to be a part of this and thank Samia Kamel for her invitations and El Hanager for providing the venue for this wonderful occassion of Art, Culture and Creative free Speech!
I am so honoured to be a part of this… the fact that Verdi’s Aida opera premiered there for their Christmas 24th Dec 1871 has not escaped me and words cannot describe my appreciation and thanks to all those involved in this Incredible journey. I know the parrallel goes even further, Verdi’s show was delayed due to the Franco-Prussian war…and our show was delayed because of the Jasmine Revolution.History has a way of repeating…Happy Holidays!
Thank you Cairo for supporting our exhibition:
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Thank you for the opportunity for women like Samia and I
to express our Creative voices in 2012!!!!
Once upon a time, Africa was not just the cradle of civilisation, it was also a place of Culture and Creativity. The first places to have women rulers, a place where Science and Faith endured….a place whose activities were immortalised in many of the European Arts.
Aïda was first performed at the Khedivial Opera House in Cairo on 24 December 1871, conducted by Giovanni Bottesini. Isma’il Pasha, Khedive of Egypt, commissioned Verdi to write the opera for performance in January 1871, paying him 150,000 francs, but the premiere was delayed because of the Franco-Prussian War. Metastasio’s libretto Nitteti (1756) was a major source of the plot.Contrary to popular belief, the opera was not written to celebrate the opening of the Suez Canal in 1869, nor that of the Khedivial Opera House (which opened with Verdi’s Rigoletto) in the same year.
Verdi originally chose not to write an overture for the opera, but merely a brief orchestral prelude. He then composed an overture of the “potpourri” variety to replace the original prelude. However, in the end he decided not to have the overture performed because of its—his own words—”pretentious insipidity”. This overture, not normally used today, was given a rare broadcast performance by Arturo Toscanini and the NBC Symphony Orchestra on 30 March 1940, but was never commercially issued.
Aida met with great acclaim when it finally opened in Cairo on 24 December 1871. The costumes and accessories for the premiere were designed by Auguste Mariette, and he oversaw the design and construction of the sets, which were created in Paris by the Opéra’s scene painters Auguste Rubé and Philippe Chaperon (Acts 1 and 4) and Edouard Despléchin and Jean-Baptiste Lavastre (Acts 2 and 3), and shipped to Cairo.
Although Verdi did not attend the premiere in Cairo, he was most dissatisfied with the fact that the audience consisted of invited dignitaries, politicians and critics, but no members of the general public. He therefore considered the Italian (and European) premiere, held at La Scala, Milan on 8 February 1872, and in which he was heavily involved at every stage, to be its real premiere.
Verdi had also written the role of Aida for the voice of Teresa Stolz, who sang it for the first time at the Milan premiere. Verdi had asked her fiancé, Angelo Mariani, to conduct the Cairo premiere, but he declined, so Giovanni Bottesini filled the gap. The Milan Amneris, Maria Waldmann, was his favourite in the role and she repeated it a number of times at his request.
Aida was received with great enthusiasm at its Milan premiere. The opera was soon mounted at major opera houses throughout Italy, including the Teatro Regio di Parma (20 April 1872), the Teatro di San Carlo (30 March 1873), La Fenice (11 June 1873), the Teatro Regio di Torino (26 December 1874), the Teatro Comunale di Bologna (30 September 1877, with Giuseppina Pasqua as Amneris and Franco Novara as the King), and the Teatro Costanzi (8 October 1881, with Theresia Singer as Aida and Giulia Novelli as Amneris) among others.
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Yellow Tail ad star Ellie Gonsalves dishes on acting debut with Dwayne Johnson
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Ellie Gonsalves is going from the Super Bowl to Hollywood.
Just days after making a sizzling cameo in Yellow Tail's Super Bowl LI commercial, Australian model Ellie Gonsalves is set to make her Hollywood acting debut alongside Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson.
Appearing on Thursday's episode of TODAY, Ellie, 26, gushed about her new pro wrestling project, Fighting With My Family.
"We actually have a movie in the works at the moment, which is really cool," she said of the film, which shoots in both Los Angeles and in the UK.
"[Dwayne's] production company, Seven Bucks Productions, is producing. Stephen Merchant is the writer and director, which is hugely exciting."
The film is inspired by the life of English WWE Diva Paige, who comes from an entire family of pro wrestlers, and her meteoric rise to the top of sports entertainment. Dwayne, a second generation wrestler, will play himself.
"I grew up watching WWE," Ellie revealed exclusively to 9TheFix of why the opportunity was so special. "I was sort of discovered by Dwayne. He found me on Twitter a while ago and then I ended up signing with his agency. It's really quite a dream come true."
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The Brisbane native, who already has a massive Guess campaign under her belt, stays in top form with 30 minutes of cardio before breakfast.
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And to keep fueled, she favors a vegetarian diet. Here's her typical menu.
"For breakfast, I'll have a big smoothie with lots of protein, bananas, strawberries, almond butter and oats," she said. "As a snack, a cup of blueberries and some almonds.
"Then I'll have lunch, which is two poached eggs with brown rice and quinoa, and then I'll have broccoli, avocado and black beans. It's really nutrient-dense, so it's really clean and gives me energy to be able to workout like I do."
Nicole Kidman and Keith Urban give us big little lovin' at the Big Little Lies premiere
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SIDNEY STUFFLE: PUNCHING THROUGH TO BIG TIME FUN!
Easy Portage: An easy portage of the Jim Bean Distillery dam on the Elkhorn in central Kentucky.
Sidney Stuffle didn’t have a lot of help getting started with kayaking. Like a lot of people without friends or family who take to the water, the 26-year old from Tucson, AZ, had to mostly figure it out himself.
“That’s all part of the fun, I guess,” laughs Stuffle, who after just three years in the sport is already on his second inflatable kayak. “There’s not a big kayaking community out here in Arizona, so I didn’t have anyone to warn me to avoid the rough water starting out, either. As you might imagine, the first few trips were a little hairy before I got the hang of it.”
Salt River AZ: Looking over the front of Stuffle’s 330 sport kayak down Salt River Canyon on the White Mountain Apache Reservation. This beautiful Class III run is his favorite in the Grand Canyon State.
Since then, it’s been non-stop fun for the affable outdoorsman. To get his feet wet, Stuffle explored the typical barriers to entering the kayak game. “I wanted something safe, affordable and easy to transport,” he said. “With an engineering background, I could tell the Sea Eagle line was well constructed. A little more research revealed they were also the safest, most affordable kayaks I could fit in a car. I quickly decided on the Sea Eagle 330 because it felt sturdy when I got in and could be put in a carry bag, hauled to the water and inflated in only 10 or 15 minutes.”
A serious hiker, Stuffle had often focused on pushes to the tops of mountains and high peaks. Eventually, however, he realized he’d rather float through the valleys. Perhaps that explains his favorite stretch of kayaking water.
Big South Fork: Stuffle’s paddling buddy, Warren Maddox exits one of the more relaxing riffles of Big South Fork Gorge in his Sea Eagle 330 Sport kayak. This location is the continuous ¾-gorge on the Big South Fork (1100 CFS). Lower on the river is a long class 2 canoe camping stretch with comparable scenery and excellent bass fishing that Stuffle hopes to paddle in the future.
“I really love the Salt River Canyon right here in Arizona,” he says enthusiastically. “There are 2,000 foot vertical walls on either side and you are on the White Mountain Apache Indian Reservation. It’s awesome terrain; secluded once you get going. It’s on some of those stretches where I actually learned to kayak.”
According to Stuffle, the Sea Eagle 330 is a ton of fun on the white water and big wave trains you’ll find over the first few miles of this stretch, known as the Mule Shoe. Inflated to 1 psi, the two-person, 11’ 2”, 26-pound inflatable “bends with the waves” to stay on top the whole time. “It actually gives you the feeling of doing ‘wheelies’ at some points. It’s an adrenalin trip for sure,” he says.
His new single-person Sea Eagle 300x Explorer, by comparison, measures 9’ 10”, weighs 30 pounds and inflates to 3.2-psi. “That one is more rigid,” explains Stuffle, “It rides lower in the water and absolutely punches through the waves and holes. It has sixteen self-bailing valves which are critical for runs that see continuous whitewater. Without those, you would be paddling a bathtub down the river after the first big hole.”
The beautiful Elwha river has recovered after two of the largest dam removal projects in United States History (see: DamNation, 2014 documentary). These shots are from the Madison Falls access where Stuffle went on to solo run the class IV+ rapid through the old dam site. “
To get the most out of either of these Sea Eagle kayaks, Stuffle cautions it is important to know which flows are safest wherever you go. Try to stay in the big waves and the main flows as much as possible, he suggests. The deepest water will help you avoid a lot of potential hazards like submerges trees, bridge pillars and large boulders. “Don’t take on more than you can handle or enjoy, either,” states Stuffle. “I start to feel pretty wet after 10 miles so I like to keep my kayak ventures less than that, but I have paddled up to 22 miles in my Sea Eagle 330.”
Earlier this year Stuffle camped on the Verde River, a class 3 – 4, Wild and Scenic River in Arizona. “It had plenty of rough passages,” noted Stuffle, “and I chose my 300 Explorer for that trip. It performed great – even though it was packed full of camping gear.”
On the beautiful Elwha River, Stuffle went on a solo run through class IV+ rapids passing though the site of a removed dam. “The 300x Explorer kayak punched every hole and breaker I went into,” he said. “The kayak would fill with water, then drain right away through the 16 self-bailing drain valves. Few people have run this rapid. I’m thrilled Sea Eagle made it possible for me.”
Stuffle also recently kayaked the Elwha, Hoh, and Queets rivers in Olympic Peninsula National Park. “It was so special to kayak through the old Elwha Dam site,” he relates. “This Class IV+ rapid really put me to the test, but the 300X Explorer Kayak was incredibly stable! I took out on the beach and carried the boat to the little Toyota Yaris I rented. What other kayak can you put in a Yaris?” he asked. Stuffle added that Alaska Airlines, Delta, and Allegiant were all really cool about the kayak, too. They let him carry it on as a normal checked bag, no questions asked. If you are taking your Sea Eagle on a flight, he suggests using two bags: one just for the kayak and one for your helmet, lifejacket, paddle and other gear.
Catching a glimpse of local wildlife can be one of the highlights of any kayak adventure and Stuffle has seen some interesting creatures in his travels. In Washington State, he came across numerous beaver and otter, then found king (chinook) salmon staging at the river mouth. Closer to home, on the Mule Shoe, Stuffle has spotted bald eagles, huge mule deer and a big male coati – a raccoon-like animal he said probably weighed over 40 pounds.
Future runs on Stuffle’s wish list include a trip downstream of Big South Fork Gorge on the Tennessee-Kentucky border that offers a 30-mile canoe camping run and some great fishing possibilities. He’d also like to kayak the Grand Canyon, but hasn’t been selected in the yearly drawing for permits.
“I’m looking forward to some family kayaking down the line, too” adds the paddling enthusiast. “My wife is pregnant and we have a young son, so I’m mostly getting out on my own these days. I can’t wait for them to come along.”
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Big birds in the Cretaceous of Central Asia: say hello to Samrukia
By Darren Naish on August 9, 2011
It’s not uncommon in palaeontology to discover isolated, even fragmentary, specimens that seem not only to represent new species, but also to tell you a lot of interesting stuff. Today sees the publication of a new paper in Biology Letters in which I and a team of colleagues describe a remarkable new Cretaceous bird, discovered a few decades ago in the Kyzylorda District of Kazakhstan (Naish et al. 2011). Represented only by the two halves (or rami) of its large lower jaw, this fossil provides new information on Cretaceous bird evolution and diversity, and perhaps on the composition of Cretaceous faunas and ecosystems.
The adventure started back in August 2010 when Pascal Godefroit of the Institut royal des Sciences naturelles de Belgique (IRSNB) in Brussels began corresponding with Gareth Dyke and myself about this most interesting specimen. Complete, in great shape and just over 30 cm long, it possessed a rounded, ‘U’-shaped symphyseal region (the section where the two rami meet anteriorly) and was completely toothless. Seen from above, it looked superficially like the lower jaw of a caenagnathid oviraptorosaur.
While the jaw clearly belonged to a theropod dinosaur, it was also evident right from the start that it was specifically from a bird, and actually not from an oviraptorosaur at all. The mandibular cotyle – the concave region of the lower jaw that articulates with the quadrate bone – was very obviously biconcave, with a diagonally aligned ridge separating the two parts. Mandibular fenestrae (window-like openings in the outer wall of each ramus) were totally absent, the bones were all fused together, and a large, apparently pneumatic opening was present on the posterior, post-articular region of each ramus. Gareth and I needed to check it out in person, so we made the trek to Brussels to examine the specimen first hand (and a trip to the IRSNB is great, especially if you’re interested in iguanodontians).
Sure enough, we could confirm that it was indeed a bird jaw. A big one. Those biconcave cotyles, fully fused-up bones, pneumatic foramina and so on all screamed ‘bird’. One or two of these features might be present in members of other clades, but not all of them.
So ideas that the jaw might be from any of the other Mesozoic tetrapod groups known to have evolved toothless rami (like turtles or pterosaurs) could be immediately eliminated. What about the general oviraptorosaur-like demeanour of the specimen? By now it was now obvious that the specimen was only superficially oviraptorosaur-like, and all because of that ‘U’-shaped, toothless symphyseal region. And this was a painted plaster reconstruction! Yes, it seems that someone (we don’t know who) deliberately modelled the symphyseal region after that of a caenagnathid oviraptorosaur, perhaps because they assumed that this is the sort of animal the jaw rami belonged to. In all of its other details, the jaw is emphatically unlike that of an oviraptorosaur, and it also differs substantially from the lower jaws of the other theropod clades that evolved toothlessness (ceratosaurs and ornithomimosaurs).
With the fake symphyseal region removed, we were left with two elongate rami. These are toothless, but – lacking the animal’s real symphyseal region – we can’t be sure that the jaws were completely toothless since at least a few Mesozoic birds (Jeholornis prima is the classic example) lack teeth in their rami, but still have a few teeth at the jaw tips.
Placing the bird in the tree
By eyeballing the specimen and comparing its characters with those of other theropods (and other animals) we were already confident that this was a big Cretaceous bird. But what sort of bird? The large pneumatic foramen at the back of the jaw suggested that it was close to Ichthyornis and neornithines. Gareth and I coded the specimen and threw it into a large cladistic analysis of Mesozoic birds (O’Connor et al. 2011). It was resolved as a member of Ornithuromorpha, the avialian clade that includes crown-birds (Neornithes), Patagopteryx, Vorona, Ambiortus, Apsaravis and the Yixianornis + Yanornis clade.
In order to be even more confident about this phylogenetic placement, we worked with Andrea Cau (of Theropoda) to include the specimen within a far more extensive analysis of all of Theropoda. The placement was exactly the same: the specimen not only grouped within Avialae (the bird branch of Theropoda), but closer to neornithines than to confuciusornithids or enantiornithines, and somewhere round about the ‘base’ of Ornithuromorpha (Naish et al. 2011).
Archaeopteryx not a “bird”?
As an interesting aside, one peculiarity of our tree is that Archaeopteryx was recovered as a basal paravian, in a polytomy with scansoriopterygids, deinonychosaurs and avialians (Naish et al. 2011). According to this tree [shown below: click to enlarge], neither Archaeopteryx nor scansoriopterygids are members of Avialae.
As you’ll know if you’ve been keeping up with the news, Xu et al. (2011) recently published the new Liaoning maniraptoran Xiaotingia and recovered a phylogeny where Archaeopteryx is a deinonychosaur, not an avialian (Xu et al. 2011). Hence all those headlines like “Archaeopteryx knocked off its perch” (groan), “Flap about Archaeopteryx” (double groan) and so on. We didn’t include Xiaotingia in our data set and our result is completely independent of Xu et al.’s: had our paper been published just a couple of weeks earlier, we’d have been first to recover Archaeopteryx as a non-avialian.
Note that our result actually isn’t the same as Xu et al.’s seeing as, unlike them, we didn’t find Archaeopteryx to be a deinonychosaur. I’d also like to take this opportunity to note that the moving of Archaeopteryx out of Avialae really isn’t a big deal, or a surprise – it amounts to a shift of a node or two, and quite a few theropod workers have been saying for years that it’s probably only a matter of time before phylogenies start finding Archaeopteryx to fall outside of Avialae. Given what we now know about early dromaeosaurids, troodontids and oviraptorosaurs, and about Anchiornis, scansoriopterygids and so on, it’s clear that working out the relationships among these confusing and often very similar feathered little maniraptorans is not going to be easy. Indeed, don’t go thinking that the notion of a non-avialian Archaeopteryx is necessarily here to stay!
Fans of phylogenetic nomenclature will note that we use the term ‘Aves’ throughout our paper (Naish et al. 2011). I really dislike the use of the term Aves for the lineage that includes neornithines and all maniraptorans closer to them than to deinonychosaurs: Avialae, in my opinion, is superior since it should be understood – right from its earliest use (Gauthier 1986, p. 36) – to be maximally inclusive (Aves, in contrast, has been restricted by some authors to the avialian crown). However, some people who work on fossil birds (including one of our reviewers) really hate the term Avialae, and in this case we decided to make our lives easier and just change our favoured nomenclature (I won’t bore you with details of the long, tedious, pre-publication history of this paper. As is usual these days, it went round the houses before finally being accepted at Biology Letters).
Anyway, both our ‘birds only’ and ‘total theropod’ analyses recovered the same phylogenetic position for the Kazakh giant. Furthermore, this position matched what we had already concluded from our non-computer-assisted assessment of the specimen’s character distribution. This is far from the first time that I’ve had a parsimony analysis produce results that mostly matched the conclusions already reached by unassisted human brain power - a very similar thing happened with the neosauropod Xenoposeidon (Taylor & Naish 2007).
Even though we only have partial lower jaw rami for our new ornithuromorph, a few unique features were immediately apparent. The specimen possesses elongate sulci on the medial sides of its rami and a shelf-like lamina connects the bone next to the bottom part of this sulcus with the medial cotyle (see close-up photo below). Furthermore, the anatomy of the bone around the specimen’s mandibular cotyles is unique and distinctive.
While I agree with the majority of my colleagues that naming new taxa for very scrappy remains should be avoided where possible, I’m also of the opinion that you should give names to things when you can clearly distinguish them from other things. If, in a fossil animal, you find autapomorphies – that is, unique, previously unreported anatomical features – you’re obliged to name what you have. Based on incomplete mandibular rami or not, our giant Kazakh bird jaw therefore needs a name, and hence Samrukia nessovi was born. The generic name is a nod to the Samruk, a mythological, phoenix-like Kazakh bird, while the specific name honours the contribution to Central Asian vertebrate palaeontology of the late Lev Nessov (1947-1995).
Big – but how big?
The most remarkable thing about Samrukia is its size. The longest of those incomplete rami is a whopping 27.5 cm long, and even the anterior-most tip of this ramus appears well short of the mandible’s original symphyseal region. The entire mandible was, therefore, damn near certainly over 30 cm long: the cranium was likely longer, since that’s typically the case. So, this Cretaceous bird had a skull over 30 cm long.
How big was the whole animal? That, unfortunately, is just about unanswerable, since it’s impossible to work out anything for certain about the overall appearance of a bird when all you have is its (incomplete) lower jaw. We can’t even say whether Samrukia was flightless or flight-capable – there aren’t any reliable inferences you can draw on this issue from jaw structure, nor from bone histology, bone wall thickness or anything like that. At the moment, it’s possible that Samrukia was a large, perhaps condor-shaped flying bird with a giant wingspan. Based on rough comparisons with other big, flying birds, it could have had a wingspan of 4 m or so and weighed at least 12 kg (Naish et al. 2011). But it’s equally plausible that it was a flightless bird shaped like a ratite, gastornithid or dromornithid; if so, it could have weighed more than 50 kg (Naish et al. 2011) and been somewhere between 2 and 3 m in standing height. These suggestions are highly speculative and, as we state in the paper, we can’t say anything with certainty about the size or appearance of this bird in the absence of better remains.
The majority of Mesozoic birds, and certainly those known from terrestrial environments, were small animals less than about 2 kg in mass and typically similar in size to modern finches, thrushes or crows. Note that some of the marine hesperornithines were very big, hence my specific reference to ‘terrestrial’ Mesozoic birds throughout this discussion. I should also note (given the fondness blog readers have for pickiness) that a few Mesozoic terrestrial birds, like Sapeornis and the enantiornithines Enantiornis, Martinavis and Avisaurus, had wingspans of between 1 and 1.5 m. Based on comparison with similar-sized modern hawks, eagles and gulls, such birds would still be less than 2 kg in mass.
We haven’t forgotten you, Gargantuavis
Anyway, Samrukia was obviously a giant, and hence very special. But we’re careful to note in our paper that it isn’t unique. Gargantuavis philoinos from the Late Cretaceous of France is already well established as a terrestrial giant (Buffetaut et al. 1995, Buffetaut & Le Loeuff 1998, 2011). So, Samrukia isn’t the first giant, terrestrial Cretaceous bird; it’s the second.
Actually, when we started our research on Samrukia a minor disagreement over the avialian status of Gargantuavis was occurring - some palaeornithologists were suggesting that it might not be a bird at all but actually an azhdarchid pterosaur (Mayr 2009). We didn’t agree with this (in my opinion, Gargantuavis has always very obviously been a bird – and I speak as someone who works on azhdarchids as well as on Mesozoic and Cenozoic birds). However, it seemed only appropriate to note that the status of Gargantuavis was at least under suspicion, or under discussion, at the time of writing; the best cause of action was to say that Samrukia confirmed the existence of giant terrestrial birds in the Cretaceous. And while our paper was in review, a new article on Gargantuavis appeared in which Eric Buffetaut and Jean Le Loeuff argued strongly against suggestions that Gargantuavis might be a pterosaur (Buffetaut & Le Loeuff 2011).
The phylogenetic position of Gargantuavis is uncertain, but various of its characters suggest that it might be a basal ornithuromorph and hence from the same approximate region of the avialian cladogram as Samrukia. Could Gargantuavis and Samrukia be close relatives, or even the same thing? For now, we lack evidence to evaluate this idea further, but I’m certainly not averse to the idea that they could be sister-taxa. As we state in the paper, however, “the restriction of Gargantuavis to a younger, western European fauna with no close biogeographic ties to the Santonian-Campanian of Central Asia renders it unlikely that Gargantuavis and Samrukia are congeneric” (Naish et al. 2011, p. 3).
Friends and neighbours
What I regard as one of the most interesting things about both Gargantuavis and Samrukia is that neither was living in isolation on some Cretaceous island. Rather, both were living alongside assemblages of non-avialian dinosaurs and also alongside large pterosaurs. Samrukia comes from the Bostobynskaya Formation (also known as the Bostobe Formation). Hadrosaurs and tyrannosaurids are known from the Akkurgan locality in Kazakhstan that yielded Samrukia, but ornithomimids, therizinosaurs, caenagnathids (how ironic), dromaeosaurids, ankylosaurs and rare sauropods have all been reported from the Bostobynskaya Formation as well (Dyke & Malakhov 2004, Averianov 2007a). All should be imagined as close neighbours of this giant bird. The azhdarchid pterosaur Aralazhdarcho is also from the Bostobynskaya Formation (Averianov 2004, 2007b).
Virtually all of these Kazakh fossils come from floodplain habitats, but associated wood fragments indicate that forests were present nearby. Sharks, salamanders, turtles and the remains of other aquatic organisms show that pools, lakes and large, occasionally quasi-marine meandering rivers were also present across the region.
What does this mean for Samrukia, and for the composition of Cretaceous ecosystems as a whole? If Samrukia was flightless, maybe it was able to avoid tyrannosaurids and other predatory theropods by being cursorial, but if it was flight-capable then we have to imagine it soaring over the heads of its terrestrial cousins and literally sharing the skies with similar-sized azhdarchid pterosaurs. Overall, the discovery of Samrukia provides additional evidence for a more diverse Late Cretaceous world than the one we’ve been inclined to imagine. The Late Cretaecous continental realm wasn’t a ‘non-avialian-dinosaurs-only theme park’; there was ecological ‘space’ for big birds and also for reasonably big, terrestrial crocodilians, squamates and even synapsids (and if any of this sounds familiar, it’s because I covered the same subject back in 2007 when talking about Mesozoic sebecosuchian crocodilians).
So, hello Samrukia, welcome to the ranks. What’s next? As regards Samrukia… as is so often the case, we need more material before we can go any further.
For previous Tet Zoo articles on Mesozoic birds, see…
The new Crato Formation enantiornithine
A stunning new Mesozoic bird... well, new-ish (Pengornis)
The Mesozoic birds with weird, plastic-strip-style tail structures
Alexornis and other 'alexornithiforms'
Aberratiodontus: worst paper ever?
Luis Chiappe's Glorified Dinosaurs: The Origin and Early Evolution of Birds
Obscure Mesozoic birds you’ll only know about if you’re a Mesozoic bird nerd: Jibeinia luanhera
While I’m here, remember to follow me on Twitter: @TetZoo.
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Dyke, G. J. & Malakhov, D. V. 2004. Abundance and taphonomy of dinosaur teeth and other vertebrate remains from the Bostobynskaya formation, Northeastern Aral Sea region, Republic of Kazakhstan. Cretaceous Research 25, 669-674.
Gauthier, J. 1986. Saurischian monophyly and the origin of birds. Memoirs of the California Academy of Science 8, 1-55.
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O’Connor, J., Chiappe, L. M. & Bell, A. 2011 Premodern birds: avian divergences in the Mesozoic. In Dyke, G. J. & Kaiser, G. (eds) Living Dinosaurs: the Evolutionary History of Modern Birds. Wiley Blackwell (London), pp. 39-114.
Taylor, M. P. & Naish, D. 2007. An unusual new neosauropod dinosaur from the Lower Cretaceous Hastings Beds Group of East Sussex, England. Palaeontology 50, 1547-1564.
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Darren Naish
Darren Naish is a science writer, technical editor and palaeozoologist (affiliated with the University of Southampton, UK). He mostly works on Cretaceous dinosaurs and pterosaurs but has an avid interest in all things tetrapod. His publications can be downloaded at darrennaish.wordpress.com. He has been blogging at Tetrapod Zoology since 2006. Check out the Tet Zoo podcast at tetzoo.com!
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Prediction confirmed: plesiosaurs were viviparous
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Major proposals on the future of Scotland
There have long been suspicions in Westminster that David Cameron uses John Major as an
out rider, the last Tory Prime Minister advances an idea that allows the current one to gauge opinion on it. Certainly, Major and Cameron are close. Remember how Major was used by Cameron in the
days following the indecisive general election result.
So there’ll be suspicions that Major is out riding for Cameron with his speech, covered
in the Sunday Telegraph, arguing that the Scottish Parliament and Executive should be handed powers over everything apart from foreign, defence and economic policy. In exchange for this, the
Scots would accept a reduction in the number of Scottish seats at Westminster.
From the quotes published in the Sunday Telegraph, it is not quite clear if Major is advocating full fiscal autonomy for Scotland. But, given that he is suggesting the current block grant
settlement be abolished in exchange for the Scots having more tax-raising powers, he is clearly proposing something pretty close to that.
Quite a lot of Conservatives, including several close to the leadership, are drawn to the idea of the Scots having fiscal autonomy but fewer seats in the Commons. They see it as a way of preserving
the union, while increasing the prospects of Tory governments at Westminster. They also argue that only if Scotland is in charge of raising the money it spends, will the centre-right have a hope of
reviving there.
But set against this is the view that fiscal autonomy may well lead to independence in a generation, in the same way that devolution has led Scotland to this current place. There’s a reason
that the SNP has welcomed Major’s speech.
One other line from the report on Major’s speech also stands out. The Sunday Telegraph says that ‘Sir John also advocated appointing a proportion of MPs to ensure there were people in
the Commons with expertise outside politics.’ This is a deeply undemocratic idea. An appointed House of Lords with limited powers is one thing, but an appointed element in the House of
Commons is quite another.
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Imperial's Unsung Hero
By Robert Messenger
Arthur Bott Pateman was the unsung hero of the Imperial Typewriter Company. While most of the credit goes to Hidalgo Moya for establishing the company in 1908 and designing its earliest models, it was Pateman who saved Imperial from going the way of other British typewriter manufacturers in the late 1920s and early 1930s. Pateman, indeed, rose from starting out as an apprentice in Moya’s assembly department in 1904 to being Imperial’s general manager in 1923, managing director from 1939 and board chairman from 1956. Admittedly, it was Pateman’s advertising manager, Bill Mawle, who set the recovery of Imperial in motion by making a direct approach to British royalty in the early 1930s, but the machine Mawle was promoting, the Imperial Model 50, was designed by Pateman in 1926 and built in Leicester under Pateman’s supervision.
Pateman's success was continued on through all his subsequent Imperial standards - the Models 55, 59, 60, 65 and 66 (1937-1954), as well as the "Doppelgänger" double keyboard machine Pateman developed with Claude Brumhill in 1957.
All the while, Pateman carried on with an eccentric hobby away from the Leicester factory. Pateman used much of his wages to buy cars and, immediately upon taking delivery of them, taking them completely apart, chroming all the engine's moving parts (and whatever else he could strip off that wasn't already chromed) and re-designing the bodywork. Pateman called chrome "the sign of an enthusiast". He started this pasttime in 1913 with his first car purchase, a Belgian-made Métallurgique. Eventually Pateman built a magnificently-fitted garage at his country estate house in Rothley, a village in the Charnwood borough in Leicestershire. There he made what he called "improvements" to the manufacturers' original designs of his cars. Pateman went on to "re-design" six Alvises, four Standard Swallows, three Jaguars, four Rovers and a Bentley - 19 cars altogether. They became known as "Patemanised" models.
Pateman was born in 1886 at St Mark, Tollington Park, Islington, London. He studied engineering at the East London Technical College, then at the College of Technology, Leicester. From 1900 he served an apprenticeship with the British United Shoe Machinery Company on Belgrave Road in Leicester, owned by Moya’s father-in-law and Imperial Typewriter Company backer Jack Chattaway. In 1911 Pateman was made Imperial works manager under general manager Eric Pilblad. Pateman died at St Bernards, Bradfield, Swafield, Norfolk, in 1972, aged 86.
Pateman’s lasting achievement was the Model 50, one of the first and still by far the best British frontstrike standard typewriter ever made, a machine which ranks right up there with the Underwood 5. With this design, Pateman managed to incorporate in a standard-sized machine the outstanding feature of Moya’s Imperial portables – an interchangeable keyboard-typebasket.
With the flick of switches on either side of the keyboard, the whole keyboard-typebasket section pulls out from the body of the Imperial standard. This is as well as the carriage being detachable, making the Imperial so easy to dismantle to change carriage widths or fonts and languages, or for maintenance, repairs and a simple service.
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Invisible to the Media: Dam Collapse in Nebraska
Media has given scant coverage to the scope and violence of the current disaster in the US breadbasket.
Climate fueled extremes like this are only a small preview of what is coming – and already enough to shake midwestern agriculture to the roots.
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Sir Charles Says:
The worldwide amount of catastrophes this year just in the three first moths is staggering.
A Thorpe Says:
https://www.omicsonline.org/open-access/trends-in-extreme-weather-events-since-1900–an-enduring-conundrum-for-wise-policy-advice-2167-0587-1000155.php?aid=69558
Sources include Anthony Watts, Paul Homewood, Joanne Nova and “Stephen Goddard“. Gimme a break.
=> https://andthentheresphysics.wordpress.com/2016/03/22/extreme-events/
Should read “Steven Goddard”, sorry. Here more on this shyster => https://www.desmogblog.com/steven-goddard
Also => https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Anthony_Watts
dumboldguy Says:
omicsonline.org is a joke and a scam with NO reputation to speak of—no surprise that whores like Anthony Watts, Joanne Nova and “Stephen Goddard“ are featured as “sources”
I suppose we will soon see a new peak.
Victor Venema Says:
“The profits of these “predatory publishers” come from a mixture of genuine scientists who are unwary, people who want to pad their publication records, and fringe scientists who just want to see their ideas in the literature regardless of their lack of merit. All of them can end up putting misinformation into the scientific record and confusing a public that generally doesn’t even know about the existence of predatory publishers.
Now, the Federal Trade Commission has won a summary judgement that just might cause some predatory publishers to step back from their business model. An India-based predatory publisher has been hit with a $50 million dollar judgement for deceptive business practices, along with permanent injunctions against most of the activities that made it money.
Deceptive practices
The FTC brought this action back in 2016 under Section 5 of the FTC Act, which covers unfair or deceptive practices. The commission targeted two companies—OMICS Group, a publisher, and iMedPub LLC, which organized scientific conferences—along with an individual, Srinubabu Gedela, who runs the two companies.”
https://arstechnica.com/science/2019/04/ftc-hits-predatory-scientific-publisher-with-a-50-million-fine/
My emphasis.
rhymeswithgoalie Says:
It’s not invisible as long as it’s current and sensational—it will be reported on for a couple days and then we go back to Smollett and the Kardashians and Trump. Has anyone asked themselves why TMZ, Access Hollywood, and Entertainment Tonight all get a half hour EVERY night right next to the network nightly news shows? That’s what matters a lot to most Americans, apparently.
The media WILL pay attention once the CAGW SHTF and it’s nonstop disaster almost everywhere. By then, it will be too late to do much about it.
Canada is, on average, experiencing warming at twice the rate of the rest of the world, with Northern Canada heating up at more than twice the global average, according to a government report leaked to CBC News columnist Neil Macdonald by a government source.
Entitled Canada’s Changing Climate Report (CCCR), the study was commissioned by the Environment and Climate Change Department, and is slated to be officially released on Tuesday.
The leaked copy of the report says that since 1948, Canada’s annual average temperature over land has warmed 1.7 C, with higher rates seen in the North, the Prairies and northern British Columbia. In Northern Canada, the annual average temperature has increased by 2.3 C.
According to the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), since 1948, global average temperatures have increased by about 0.8 C.
Along with these temperature increases, the CCCR says Canada is experiencing increases in precipitation, particularly in winter, “extreme fire weather” and water supply shortages in summer and a heightened risk of coastal flooding.
The report was authored by government scientists from the ministries of the Environment and Climate Change, Fisheries and Oceans and Natural Resources, with contributions from university experts.
The document says that while warming in Canada has been the result of both human activity and natural variations in the climate, “the human factor is dominant,” especially the emission of greenhouse gases.
Flooding, drought risks
Increasing warmth has had a number of effects in Canada, including greater precipitation, the report says.
The authors’ observations show that annual precipitation has increased across Canada since 1948, with larger increases in Northern Canada and parts of Manitoba, Ontario, northern Quebec and Atlantic Canada. Warming has also led to a reduction in how much snowfall accounts for total precipitation in Southern Canada.
Although flooding is often the result of a multiplicity of factors, more intense rainfall will increase urban flood risks.
Warming will also intensify the severity of heat waves and contribute to higher risks of drought and wildfires.
Low- and high-emission scenarios
The government report is scheduled for release at 1 p.m. ET on Tuesday. It is coming out the day after the federal government’s carbon-pricing plan went into effect in Manitoba, New Brunswick, Ontario and Saskatchewan.
Ottawa has imposed a fuel levy in these provinces as a backstop, because they do not have their own carbon-pricing scheme in place.
The report stresses that efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in the coming decades will have “an increasing impact on the amount of additional warming beyond this time frame.”
The report says the national annual average temperature increase projected for the late century, compared to the reference period of 1986-2005, ranges from a “low-emission scenario” of 1.8 C to a “high-emission scenario” of 6.3 C.
=> Canada warming at twice the global rate, leaked report finds, Government report scheduled for release on Tuesday
Don’t forget to add the northward expansion (because of warming) of the range of the bark beetles to Canada’s troubles —-now killing lots of trees in Canada, thereby eliminating a carbon sink, especially if the dead trees burn.
Satellite images a year apart show the recent flooding of the Platte, Missouri and Elkhorn Rivers, near Omaha, Nebraska.
=> Images of Change: Flooding in Nebraska
I appreciate the followup from Farm Dad Word Barf for areas of the Elkhorn River that the MSM did not cover.
Bryson Brown Says:
Of course Canadians are now obsessed with a Government scandal, driven by a former Minister of Justice who blew the whistle, loudly and deliberately (but only after being moved to a less prestigious cabinet post) in order to damage the government, yet remains a member of the government (a case of excessive forbearance, in my view) over persistent queries (never directives) concerning a corrupt engineering company and the effects of its prosecution on jobs. (Yet another muddle arising from the legal status of corporations as persons, which may be the best way to deal with them overall, but can wind up severely punishing innocent employees.)
Meanwhile, our “Conservative” party, while delighting in this gift from heaven, has gone full climate denier in all but name, rejecting any serious policy response to the threat and hoping this scandal will put them in office so that they can push more and more fossil fuel development across the country–a key demand of their ‘base’ in the Prairie provinces and the government of (by far) our largest province, led by a Trumpist “conservative” blowhard…
Somehow I find myself thinking of Ozymandias: Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair…
rabiddoomsayer Says:
Invisible in most of the media. But they keep telling us to watch out for fake news.
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Weight of 2 qedet - ROM2014_14144_11
Weight of 2 qedet
Medium:Basalt, carved and smoothed
Geography: Possibly excavated at Naukratis, Egypt
Date: c. 664-30 BC
Period: Late Period to Ptolemaic Period
1.6 × 2.5 × 1.9 cm, 18.2 g
Object number: 909.80.359
Currency in the form of coins was introduced into Egypt during the Late Period, but for most of Ancient Egyptian history a barter-exchange system based on the value of various weights of silver or copper was used. Goods were valued in terms of how much copper or silver would be required to buy them, and then exchanged for other goods with the same value in metal. For example, an Ostracon from Deir el Medina, #73, verso, described by Jac Jansen in Commodity Prices from the Ramesside Period (Leiden, 1975) gives an example of a coffin worth 25.5 deben of copper, which was purchased for two goats, one pig, two sycamore logs, and 13.5 deben of actual copper. There are many such exchanges recorded from Ancient Egypt. Units of grain and oils were also used in exchange-barter. As in modern economies, rates of exchange varied with supply. The weight, in grams, of a deben changed from the Old and New Kingdoms to the Late Period, but a qedet, (also known as a kite) was always valued at one tenth of a deben.
Stone and bronze weights equivalent to specific amounts of copper were used in everyday market transactions, and could be checked against more official weights kept in temples
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By Bryan FischerNov 17, 2019, 1:52 AM EST
Justin Herbert stuck around his hometown school for one more season in order to deliver on a few promises and lead Oregon back to conference and, hopefully, national glory. The senior quarterback took a step in that direction on Saturday night in Eugene, helping the No. 6 Ducks thump Arizona 34-6 and lock up the Pac-12 North title in the process.
It was a wire-to-wire victory too, with the home side delighting the Autzen Stadium crowd with a 73 yard touchdown reception by Johnny Johnson III on just the second snap of the ball game thanks to a busted coverage. That was one of four scoring tosses for Herbert, who finished with 333 yards through the air and an interception off a tipped pass in what was his penultimate game at the stadium just a few miles from his childhood home.
While that strike to Johnson was a heck of a way to get the game going, it was another Johnson, Penn State transfer Juwan, who led the team in receiving (93 yards) and had the highlight-reel throw from the potential first-rounder off a lovely reverse flea-flicker he took into the end zone.
UO’s defense also continued their strong run of results in netting six sacks, nine tackles for loss and allowing just five third down conversions while keeping the Wildcats under 250 yards of total offense.
Grant Gunnell actually got the start at quarterback for Arizona but threw for just 82 yards and was mostly sitting on the sidelines during the second and third quarters. That was the time for UO’s normal tormentor in Khalil Tate, who failed to get much of anything going despite some past performances full of big numbers.
While it was going to be a tough task no matter what to knock off a top 10 team at home, the ‘Cats now face an even more difficult task of beating both No. 7 Utah and Arizona State in their remaining two games or risk missing a bowl game for the second straight year under Kevin Sumlin.
A postseason berth isn’t something for the Ducks to worry about as they clinch their first division since 2014 and will be ticketed to Santa Clara for the Pac-12 title game against what they hope is a College Football Playoff quarterfinal against a similarly red-hot Utes team. Oregon has won nine in a row since their season-opening loss to Auburn and outside of perhaps Ohio State, Clemson or LSU, there are few teams in the country playing better football than this one.
That’s just what Herbert and his fellow stars were hoping to do in returning for one last hurrah and they’re certainly living up to those expectations with their play so far in 2019.
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No. 6 Oregon strikes fast in grabbing halftime lead over Arizona
By Bryan FischerNov 17, 2019, 12:10 AM EST
There are a wide variety of things you could call ‘tone-setting’ plays in college football and it’s safe to say that No. 6 Oregon scoring a long touchdown on the second offensive snap of the game would qualify as one as they look to clinch a division title on Saturday night.
The Ducks jumped out to a 21-6 halftime lead over visiting Arizona in a rather convincing effort at Autzen Stadium as they continue to look impressive in the beauty contest that is the College Football Playoff race at this point.
A Wildcats coverage bust led to that initial score, as Johnny Johnson III raced 73 yards to pay dirt to showcase right from the get-go that things were clicking on all cylinders offensively. Oregon QB Justin Herbert wound up at the break with 218 yards and tossed another touchdown off a nifty reverse flea-flicker right into the waiting arms of Juwan Johnson from 53 yards out.
The Ducks didn’t miss All-America-caliber left tackle Penei Sewell as a result with the mammoth offensive lineman sitting out the first two series for what school officials said was being late to a meeting. Given that the first of those drives lasted all of two plays and the second was a 3-and-out, he certainly lucked out despite the tardiness.
Things didn’t go so well for WR Mycah Pittman. The freshman has been one of the team’s top options since getting healthy but it sure looked like he might not return the rest of the regular season after suffering from a horrible looking injury to his wrist/forearm. He was carted off the field after being looked at by trainers and while he won’t be missed this game the way the two Johnsons are playing, is a long term injury worth monitoring for sure.
As for Arizona, Grant Gunnell started at quarterback (4-of-6, 28 yards) but was eventually replaced by Khalil Tate as things wore on in the second quarter. The latter did seem to provide some spark in helping move the ball down the field but the end result was just a pair of field goals and a decent deficit to overcome after the break.
Keep in mind that the Wildcats are hoping to even their record on the year at 5-5 and remain in the running for a bowl game while Oregon will no doubt be looking for style points in the second half to impress the Selection Committee and lock up the Pac-12 North title at the same time.
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CHAPTER-III DESIGN OF THE STUDY 3CHAPTER-III DESIGN OF THE STUDY 3
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DESIGN OF THE STUDY
The term “Methodology”, refers to the overall approaches and perspectives to the research process as a whole and is concerned with research design. Research design is a mapping strategy which is based on objectives, sampling, research strategy, tools and techniques for collecting evidences, analyzing the data and reporting the findings. Thus research design is the statement of the object of the inquiry and how a satisfactory culmination to be effected.
This chapter deals with the research process and elaborates the objectives to set, sampling procedure, the different types of data collection methods and strategies deployed in this research. The aim is to provide an appreciation of the detailed investigation that forms the frame work for this study, and to give an account of how the findings are drawn. The chapter starts with an outline of the design followed by a detailed explanation of the three phases chosen for the study. The chapter ends with an outline of the phases used to address issues of value integration in school mathematics text book of Tamil Nadu and the perception of mathematics teachers about the value integration in mathematics classroom.
In order to capture the different dynamics of content analysis in relation to value integration in school mathematics text books, the researcher chose qualitative research method. To critically analyze the perception of mathematics teacher about value integration in mathematics class room, the researcher chose both qualitative and quantitative research method.
While emphasizing the fact that values are a subjective and continuously shifting concept , the researcher used multiple methods of data gathering to not only clarify the findings, but also to confirm the statements made by the same teachers in different periods and situations. Fidel(1993) asserts that subjective research should make use of multiple methods to measure the same qualities , each verifying the other.
How areMathematical values, sociological values and personal values emphasized in Mathematics text books of Tamilnadu?
What are the Values identified and strategies suggested for integrating values in the branches of mathematics?
How do mathematics teachers understand the concept of value inculcation in mathematics teaching and learning?
What are the levels of perception of mathematics teachers with regard to the inculcation of mathematical, sociological, attitudinal, motivational and personal values?
What are the challenges constraining and suggestions to improve in inculcating values in mathematics teaching and learning?
and the research problem is stated as
3.3STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM
“VALUES IN SCHOOL MATHEMATICS CONTENT AND STRATEGIES TO INTEGRATE VALUES IN MATHEMATICS TEACHING”
3.4. Operational definition of the terms
Values in School Mathematics Content
Value is a belief upon which a man acts by preferences, Values are principles or standards of behavior; one’s judgment of what is important in life. In this study, mathematical values, sociological values and personal values were identified in the content material of the subject matter which stands for quantity, shapes and measurement at the school level i.e. VI to X classes
Strategies to Integrate values in Mathematics teaching
Different design of activities,methods and models to incorporate values in to a unified whole content of mathematics while teaching and learning mathematics, refer to strategies to integrate values in mathematics teaching
3.5.OBJECTIVES OF THE STUDY
To critically analyze the different dimensions of values that could be integrated in different branches of mathematics
To suggest various strategies to adopt to inculcate values in different branches of mathematics
To identify the approaches that could be adopted in teaching math at school level
To study the perception of mathematics teachers to integrate values in mathematical classroom
To validate the findings from the three phases
3.6HYPOTHESIS
A research hypothesis is the statement created by researchers when they speculate upon the outcome of a research or experiment. There are various types of hypothesis, but in this study only null hypothesis is used.
Male and female teachers do not differ in their perception of mathematical values
Rural and urban teachers do not differ in their perception of mathematical values
Tamil medium and English medium teachers do not differ in their perception of mathematical values
Teachers do not differ in their perception of mathematical values with respect to their teaching experience
Teachers do not differ in their perception of mathematical values with respect to their type of school
Teachers of different age groups do not differ in their perception of mathematical values.
Teachers with different educational qualifications do not differ in their perception of mathematical values.
There is correlation among the various dimensions of values chosen for study.
Each hypothesis has been tested and the mean differences, t and F ratio has been found out. Co relational analysis was also done.Regression analysis and discriminant analysis were also taken up.
3.7METHOD OF ANALYSIS
The conduct of this study has been taken up by a research framework made up of three phases.
The first two phases adopted the research design “content analysis”. Content Analysis is described as the scientific study of content of communication. It is the study of the content with reference to the meanings, contexts and intentions contained in messages. It is a research technique for the objective, systematic and quantitative description of the manifest concepts of communication. The steps of content analysis includes to prepare data, define unit of analysis, develop categories and coding scheme, test the coding scheme, draw conclusion from coded data and report the findings.
First phase The first phase identified the distribution of values in school mathematics text books of Tamil Nadu. This was taken up as the content analysis of mathematics text books at school level.Mathematics text books of classes VI-X .Qualitative method is followed
Second phaseThe second phase analyzed value integration in the branches of mathematics and strategies are to be adopted to integrate values in the mathematical content. This is a document analysis of different branches of mathematics content in qualitative approach.
Third phase The third phase studied the perception of mathematics teachers about the feasibility of inculcation of values in mathematics classroom while teaching the subject mathematics.Quantitative analysis was used.
Interview is the technique used to validate the above findings
The study adopts both qualitative and quantitative method for analyzing the data.
The first phase of the research included the identification of mathematical, personal, social values in mathematics text books. The analysis of text books belongs to a class of non-reactive research technique called content analysis. This technique is useful for this study as it “can reveal messages in a text that are difficult to see with casual observation.” (Neumann 1997)
The study is done on mathematics text books of classes VI to X of state board syllabus of Tamil Nadu. The content of these text books were taken for the study. These text books were analyzed based on semantic content analysis. Semantic content analysis is a method that finds out the main subject areas in material content, its dimension and special sub dimension about the areas and dimension (Tavsancil and asbn 2001). In this study, mathematical general values and its sub values were taken into consideration.
Without the luxury of time, all topics of each text book were critically analyzed. All the chapters of text books were grouped into different topics according to the strands Number system, Algebra, Measurement, Arithmetic, Statistics and geometry. Only content were analyzed which includes theorems, expository writing, definition, theorems, concepts, intricate sub topics, worked examples, exercise problems and activities for solving. Cover design, illustration, figures, charts and physical properties of the text. (eg, font size, font type, text length etc) were excluded in this study.
The aim of this analysis is to identify the explicit and implicit values that could be integrated in the branches of mathematics. The branches of mathematics fall under the category of general mathematics at school level. From these branches, the researcher started her analysis of values critically. In each branch there were some ten to twelve subtopics and these subtopics were taken for the study. Each subtopic was analyzed without any exception to integrate values possible in the content.
The broad category values such as social, economical, attitudinal, motivational and mathematical values could be integrated in the branches of mathematics. The school mathematics text books were scrutinized to find the distribution of mathematical values, personal values and social values. The types of mathematical values Rationality, Accurate, Logical and abstract values were taken for this study. The types of personal values and social values adjustment, co-operation, unity and discipline were taken for the investigation. The count of values was given for each sub topic and total was calculated to see the predominance of value which appears most. Each chapter of different standard was unique. And the value was distributed based on the nature of the sub topic.
The mathematical values persistence/existence can be easily traced upon, but the social and personal values were identified with care.
In the current study, the procedure adopted to identify the values incorporated in mathematics text books were analyzed as per the guidelines and definitions given by researchers.
General Categories of Values
Sam and Ernest(1997) classified the values of Mathematics education in to three as Epistemological values , Social and cultural values and Personal values.
Epistemological values
They are the values which are about theoretical side of mathematics learning and teaching such as accuracy, systematic, accuracy rationalism and analytics, problem solving.
Social and cultural values
They are values which indicate human responsibility about mathematics education for society such as compassion, adjustment, co-operation, gratitude etc.
Values that affect a person as an individual or a learner such as curiosity, sharing and caring, trust etc.
Bishop(1996) classified values taught in mathematics into three different types making them more specialized. They are general Educational values, Mathematical values and Mathematical educational values.
For the present study, the classification of values were taken from Sam and Ernest(1997) and Bishop(1996) on mathematical values were taken as a frame of reference. The classification of values for the present study was based on the above classification and they were taken for investigation in the Indian context.
Category of values in the mathematics text book analysis is
Main category of value Sub category of value
Mathematical values Rationalism, logical, accuracy and abstract
Social values Adjustment and co-operation
Personal values Discipline, unity
The following definitions were taken from Bishop(1996) and Sam Ernest(1997) and classification of values and sub categories were included in this study in analysing the values embedded in the mathematics text books.
Mathematical values
Mathematical values are those that reflect the nature of mathematical knowledge. They are produced by mathematicians who have grown up in different cultures(Bishop et al., 1999)
Rationalism –Logic
This indicates the values that people have about mathematics. According to this value, mathematics has ideas, which depend on theory, logic, and hypothesis. Rationalism includes deductive logic and concern about correctness of results. Logic which means sequential and stepwise solution.
Abstract-Accuracy
It indicates mathematics and its own relation, pattern, sequence and surprises in its nature and accuracy which indicates the solution of the problems and theorems
They are values that indicate human responsibilities about mathematics education for society such as adjustment and co-operation.
Values that can affect person as an individual or learner such as discipline and unity.
In the second phase, for subtopics of each branch, the strategies were suggested to integrate values in the mathematics classroom. The strategies were appropriately given by keeping in mind the concept of mathematics. In this phase, the researcher examined Arithmetic, Algebra, Geometry, which are the important branches of mathematics. In these branches of mathematics, certain topics from every branch, which were common for secondary and higher secondary class of state board of Tamil Nadu were taken for investigation. The different strategies and approaches of various categories were suggested according to the need of the classroom. The second phase concludes at this stage of development.
THIRD PHASE
The third phase gives detailed account of perception of mathematics teachers about the inculcation of values in mathematics class room. Quantitative and Qualitative approaches were adopted to analyze the data.
Data collected from inventory were analysed using statistical methods and percentage analysis.
VALIDATION PROCEDURES
The element of subjectivity in the analysis of content during this research was problematic. In order to reduce the risk of the own perspectives of the investigator dominating the data and overriding those of respondents, following strategies were used.
The sample of the analysis of values was given to mathematics professors and mathematics teacher educators. This was to ensure the credibility and authenticity of the analysis without any bias from the researcher’s point of view. The comments given by the experts were taken in to account in the coding of values.
When conducting the key informant interviews, the data analyzed and the opinions collected were compared and clarified. To establish the consistency of the analysis, the suggested values were compared with the values practiced by teachers.
The analyzed values of mathematical, personal, attitudinal and motivational were given to practicing mathematics teachers to give their suggestion about the integration of values in the content of mathematics of different standards. Modifications were made after many discussions and corrections.
Thick description
The content of the discussion and analysis with suggested values were briefly described as much detail as possible, so as not to omit any leading information. Thus the second phase concludes here at this stage of growth
3.8. SAMPLE
In research terms, a sample is a group of people, objects or items that were taken from a larger population for measurement. The sample should be representative of the population to ensure that we can generalize the findings from the research sample to the population as a whole. Purposive random sampling technique was adopted in this study.
The sample comprises of mathematics teachers handling classes VI to X working in high and higher secondary schoolsin Salem district. The participants of the study serving in schools with experience ranges from three years to twenty years of teaching mathematics in their respective schools at various levels. Mathematics teachersin the government, government aided, matriculation and CBSE schools were taken for the study. CBSE schools mathematics teachers were included, as it would be of help to note if the board of examination has an influence on value inculcation.The selection of the participants of this study were on the basis of longer tenure ship in teaching of mathematics as a profession and it is assumed that the longer in service, the better experience they had about mathematical knowledge and inculcation of values in their teaching. The sample consisted of undergraduate, postgraduate and mathematics teachers with M.Phil., qualification, which included headmasters and headmistress from some of the schools.Totally 300 teachers were selected by means of stratified random sampling method. B.T.Assistants and P.G. Assistants of Mathematics were chosen for the study from the selectschools. Totally 30 schools (approximately 35%) were chosen from the total population of 102 schools in Salem. Eight government schools, Seven government aided schools, Seven matriculation schools and eight CBSE schoolswere included. Math teachers handling classes VI-Xwith more years of teaching experience were included. The following table gives details of sample chosen. From these select teachers, 10% were selected purposively representing all demographic variables chosen. 10 under graduate teachers, 10 post graduateteachers,5Teachers with M.Phil. degree and 5 heads were in the interviewed group. Teachers with M.Phil.degree and the heads were highly experienced and in the age group greater than 35 years. In the other two groups, equal number of experienced and in experienced teachers were included for the interview.
Table- I showing Distribution of the Sample
S.No VARIABLES Number of Teachers
1 Gender Male 150
Female 150
2. Locality Rural 150
Urban 150
3. Medium of Instruction English 155
Tamil 145
4. Teaching Experience <10 years 120
10-15years years 100
>15 years 80
5. School Types Government 75
Government aided 80
Matriculation 75
6. Age < 35 years 110
>35 years 190
7. Educational Qualifications U.G. 145
P.G. 85
M.Phil. 70
3.9.RATIONALE FOR THE CHOICE OF CATEGORICAL VARIABLES
The present study deals with the values prescribed in school mathematics content and the perception of mathematics teachers in integrating value system in the content in their teaching . The study itself talks only on mathematics subject matter and the teachers who deliver the subject.Hence purposive sampling technique is adopted. The common factors which influence the sample are Socio-demographic factors, Family factors, Employment factors and Income factors. Therefore these factors were taken for the current study.
The research done by MukhtarAlhajiLiman, MohdBurban Ibrahim, IyaAliyaGana, 2013, MukhtarAlhajiLiman,MohammedSalleh, Musa abdullahi, 2013, MukhtarAlhajiLiman, Mohd urban Ibrahim, JoharryOtman, 2012 focused on Measurement model for value inculcation in mathematical contents delivery included gender and service of teachers.
YukselDede, 2010, 2009, 2006,bWanzah Wan Ali, Rohani, Ahmad Tarmizi, Habsah Ismail, RamlahHarzah, 2007 ,Liz Bills, Chris Husbands, 2005,ChristineKeiti, 2003 analyzed on Values in Mathematics teachers’ length of service and locality of teachers.
As the studies reviewed were done in foreign countries, they didn’t include type of management and medium of instruction. To find the effect of these categorical variables, the current study included these variables.
The researches reviewed did not include age of the teachers as well their educational qualifications.The investigator has included these two variables in this study to fill in the research gap.
The current study has included gender, age and educational qualifications in socio-demographic variables.Locality as geographical factor.Medium of instruction and type of schools employed at ,length of service as employment factors..
3.10RESEARCH TOOL
Research tool is an instrument to gather data. It is described as a device to collect the data. It facilitates variable observation and measurement. The investigator prepared a mathematical value inventory as a research tool to collect data from the mathematics teachers.
3.10.1 DESCRIPTION OF THE TOOL
The mathematical value inventory was constructed by the researcher on a 5 point rating for each item. The tool consisted of five dimensions namely attitudinal, motivational, personal, mathematical and social value items. The inventory had five sections. Each section consisted ten items. There were totally ten items for each dimension, sum up to fifty items for five dimensions. Items1-10 addressed the perceptions of respondents about the mathematical values integration in teaching of mathematics. Item11-20 examined the perception of mathematics teachers about personal values to integrate in the mathematics teaching. Items21-30 gives detailed account of the perception of mathematics teachers about the social values to integrate in the teaching of mathematics. Items31-40 surveyed the perception of mathematics teachers about attitudinal values to be integrated in the mathematics teaching. Items 41-50 described the opinion of mathematics teachers about the motivational values to be integrated while teaching mathematics. Each item was self-explanatory and needed no description or clarification.
3.10.2 STANDARDIZATION OF THE TOOL
The tool is standardized by establishing reliability and validity of the tool. Validity
After drafting, the tool was given to a team of eminent professors for screening and edition. They ensured the appropriateness of language, relevance of items, essentiality of the items and conciseness of the statements. Some statements were reframed and some were modified for clarity. Thus the face validity and content validity of the tool was established.
The pilot study was carefully planned and carried out. In order to validate the scale, the draft tool was administered to 30 mathematics teachers working in schools. The researcher distributed and collected the filled in tool keeping in mind to cover the demographic variables approximately equal. The sample was derived using simple random technique. The recorded responses were scored as per the scoring key.
The tool consisted of 70 items out of which 50 were selected for final tool. Test-retest method was adopted to establish reliability. The tool of 70 items were administered to thirty samples to remove the ambiguous items. After 15 days, the same tool was administered to the same sample of 30 students. The items which need more construction were rectified. Some items were removed as per the requirement. The final tool consisted of 50 items of different dimensions. The reliability co-efficient found to be 0.82
TABLE – 2 SHOWING ITEM WISE CORRELATION
ITEM NO ‘r’ VALUE REMARK ITEM NO ‘r’ VALUE REMARK
1 0.456 Selected 35 0.602 Selected
6 0.166 Rejected 40 0.190 Rejected
7 0.677 Selected 41 0.203 Rejected
10 0.456 Selected 44 0.368 Selected
12 0.222 Rejected 46 0.304 Selected
13 0.364 Selected 47 0.222 Rejected
22 0.216 Rejected 56 0.239 Rejected
To give high validity to the tool, the items with ‘r’ value above 0.25 was retained and the other items were rejected. Based on it 20 statements were deleted. The final tool contained 50 statements.
Reliability of the tool was established using split half method. For computing the split half method, the entire tool was divided into two equal halves and the co – efficient of the reliability was calculated. A Cronbach ? analysis was calculated for each components of this scale. The Cronbach ? analysis could examine if the items were internally consistent, stable, and homogenous. In order to raise the reliability and lower the error, some unsuitable items would be deleted.Details are as given below.
Table-3 RELIABILITY OF MATHEMATICS VALUES INVENTORY
SCALE METHOD FORMULA RELIABILITY VALUE
Mathematics Values Inventory Split half reliability Cronbach’sAlapha 0.797(?)
Spearman – Brown prophency 0.816
Final Tool – Mathematics Value Inventory
The final scale Mathematics Value Inventory consisted 50 statements with five dimensions vizMathematical, Personal, Sociological, Motivational and computational dimensions
3.10.3 Scoring Procedure of the tool
The mathematical value inventory was rated on 5 point rating scale. The ratings given were strongly agree, agree, neutral, disagree, strongly disagree. The maximum value of 5 for strongly agree, and the minimum value of 1 for strongly disagree was given to each item. The maximum score for each dimension was 50.
Table- 4 showing Scoring procedure of the inventory
Options Score
Strongly agree 5
Agree 4
Disagree 2
Strongly disagree 1
3.10.4 Method of administering the tool
The tool was administered to three hundred mathematics teachers of secondary and higher secondary level. The inventory was self explanatory. The prelude instructions were given to illumine the vision of mathematics teachers. The teachers were given enough time to appropriately choose the options and mark it. If the participants mark it as “Strongly agree”, he/she was given the point “5” in which that particular, value predominates, like wise from each participant the data was collected.
3.10.5. INTERVIEW
The other tool which was adopted to collect opinion about integration of values in mathematics was “Interview”. Interview involves either structured or unstructured verbal communication, between the researcher and subject, during which information is obtained for a study.
3.10.5.1 Conduct of the interview
Interview was conducted at the convenient time of the participant. This took from one hour to two hours. This was mixed approach of structured and unstructured verbal communication. The questions for interview was based on the study conducted by MuktharAlhajiLiman, Mohammed JohdiSalleh, and Musa Abdullahi (2013) on, ” Sociological and Mathematical Educational Values: An Intersection of Need for effective Mathematics Instructional Contents Delivery”
The interview questions were
What is your understanding about mathematical value inculcation ?
How do you perceive inculcation of mathematical, attitudinal, sociological values in your teaching?
How do you inculcate mathematical values in your mathematics teaching?
What are the challenges constraining your capacity to inculcate mathematical value.
What is your suggestion to improve the inculcation of mathematical values in daily teaching?
3.10.5.2 KEY INFORMANTS OF THE INTERVIEWS
The interview involved persons who have been central in the subsequent development of the mathematical values. The interviews were conducted on a one-to-one basis and, in most circumstances, in the work place of the interviewee. The process and data gathered during the interviews was exceptional in providing the background and impact of the prevailing social, cultural and political environment on values education. The face to face interview offered the possibility of checking interesting responses and allowed the interviewer to investigate underlying principal topic of the study. The data was collected and analyzed objectively by giving it to 3 raters of experts. The analysis was based on qualitative approach.
One interview was particularly insightful, in the sense that the investigator recorded key interviewees as she sought to interpret the interesting situation that happened in classroom while integrating values in mathematics classroom.
The key informant interviews afforded the investigator the opportunity to get first hand information of the controversy, conflict, and emotions that accompanied and influenced the value integration in mathematics. Anonymity was guaranteed in the individual interviews and this increased the richness and depth of information gathered. It is highly unlikely that it would have been possible to gather such information from the neatly packaged structured / unstructured questions. The response rate for the key interviews was high, and in some instances the respondents remained in touch with the investigator.
“Snowball” sampling technique was used the selection of interviewees. The sample comprises of thirty mathematics teachers of secondary and higher secondary level. Ten higher secondary teachers and 20 secondary teachers were taken for the study. The interviewees were those who had either been directly involved in the value education in mathematics or those who had involved in administration of value education in mathematics. This strategy not only assisted the researcher in gaining access to value education, but in some instances afforded access to highly placed educators.
The direct interviews, in contrast to survey questionnaires, allowed to seek clarification and to prompt the interviewee if a question seemed unclear. The interview sessions concentrated not only on identifying values in mathematics as opposed to current practice, but also the factors that determine the challenges of value education in mathematics. The session provided a more detailed account of the meanings of the official pronouncements of the goal of integrating value education in mathematics. The information gathered increased the understanding of the original intentions of inculcating values in mathematics, as well as the challenges they have faced in trying to achieve the goal.
3.10.5.3 Ethical Consideration
This study explored the analysis of the content and personal understanding of how teachers interpreted and implemented the value integration in the content of mathematics while teaching mathematics. The fact that values as a concept touches the personal lives of teachers meant that the researcher was seeking information that has been largely been considered private and sensitive. It was therefore critical that the researcher maintained a high level of sensitivity and confidentiality towards the issues under observation.
From the start of the study, the investigator explained the aim of the study in detail to the participating teachers, also assured them that the information would not be used in any way to discredit themselves or their school. The investigator therefore used pseudonyms in the text and has presented the information in the appropriate form, according to the stratification adopted in the sampling that is, government, government-aided and CBSE private schools involved in this study. This style ensures anonymity and at no time any one can make a connection to the respective schools or teachers. The number of schools in the different clusters renders such an exercise impossible.
3.11.STATISTICAL TECHNIQUES USED FOR THE STUDY
Differential, correlational , regression, discriminant and percentage analyses were done.
Method of Data Analysis
The data analysis consisted of examining the branches of mathematics, the content of mathematics and the opinions of mathematics teachers about the value inculcation in mathematics. The first two phases involved the document analysis and content analysis. The opinions of mathematics teachers were carefully analysedqualitatively. The perception of mathematics teachers were analysed using statistical analysis.
This chapter summarized the procedure of research design, objectives, different phases of research design, tool adopted , select sample and the statistical techniques used to analyze the data. The next chapter vividly presents the data analysis.
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Principles of dataspace systems
by Alon Halevy, Michael Franklin, David Maier - IN PODS , 2006
"... The most acute information management challenges today stem from organizations relying on a large number of diverse, interrelated data sources, but having no means of managing them in a convenient, integrated, or principled fashion. These challenges arise in enterprise and government data management ..."
The most acute information management challenges today stem from organizations relying on a large number of diverse, interrelated data sources, but having no means of managing them in a convenient, integrated, or principled fashion. These challenges arise in enterprise and government data management, digital libraries, “smart ” homes and personal information management. We have proposed dataspaces as a data management abstraction for these diverse applications and DataSpace Support Platforms (DSSPs) as systems that should be built to provide the required services over dataspaces. Unlike data integration systems, DSSPs do not require full semantic integration of the sources in order to provide useful services. This paper lays out specific technical challenges to realizing DSSPs and ties them to existing work in our field. We focus on query answering in DSSPs, the DSSP’s ability to introspect on its content, and the use of human attention to enhance the semantic relationships in a dataspace.
Indexing multi-dimensional uncertain data with arbitrary probability density functions
by Yufei Tao, Reynold Cheng, Xiaokui Xiao, Wang Kay Ngai, Ben Kao, Sunil Prabhakar - In Proc. VLDB , 2005
"... In an “uncertain database”, an object o is associated with a multi-dimensional probability density function (pdf), which describes the likelihood that o appears at each position in the data space. A fundamental operation is the “probabilistic range search ” which, given a value pq and a rectangular ..."
In an “uncertain database”, an object o is associated with a multi-dimensional probability density function (pdf), which describes the likelihood that o appears at each position in the data space. A fundamental operation is the “probabilistic range search ” which, given a value pq and a rectangular area rq, retrieves the objects that appear in rq with probabilities at least pq. In this paper, we propose the U-tree, an access method designed to optimize both the I/O and CPU time of range retrieval on multi-dimensional imprecise data. The new structure is fully dynamic (i.e., objects can be incrementally inserted/deleted in any order), and does not place any constraints on the data pdfs. We verify the query and update efficiency of U-trees with extensive experiments. 1
...s with arbitrary pdfs (e.g., one method targets only uniform pdfs), and (ii) they may incur large actual execution overhead due to the hidden constants in their complexity guarantees. Dalvi and Suciu =-=[8]-=- discuss “probabilistic databases”, where each record is the same as a tuple in a conventional database, except that it is associated with an “existential” probability. For example, a 60% existential ...
MauveDB: supporting model-based user views in database systems
by Amol Deshpande - In SIGMOD , 2006
"... Real-world data — especially when generated by distributed measurement infrastructures such as sensor networks — tends to be incomplete, imprecise, and erroneous, making it impossible to present it to users or feed it directly into applications. The traditional approach to dealing with this problem ..."
Real-world data — especially when generated by distributed measurement infrastructures such as sensor networks — tends to be incomplete, imprecise, and erroneous, making it impossible to present it to users or feed it directly into applications. The traditional approach to dealing with this problem is to first process the data using statistical or probabilistic models that can provide more robust interpretations of the data. Current database systems, however, do not provide adequate support for applying models to such data, especially when those models need to be frequently updated as new data arrives in the system. Hence, most scientists and engineers who depend on models for managing their data do not use database systems for archival or querying at all; at best, databases serve as a persistent raw data store. In this paper we define a new abstraction called modelbased views and present the architecture of MauveDB, the system we are building to support such views. Just as traditional database views provide logical data independence, model-based views provide independence from the details of the underlying data generating mechanism and hide the irregularities of the data by using models to present a consistent view to the users. MauveDB supports a declarative language for defining model-based views, allows declarative querying over such views using SQL, and supports several different materialization strategies and techniques to efficiently maintain them in the face of frequent updates. We have implemented a prototype system that currently supports views based on regression and interpolation, using the Apache Derby open source DBMS, and we present results that show the utility and performance benefits that can be obtained by supporting several different types of modelbased views in a database system. 1.
...imit their performance and usability. Probabilistic/Incomplete Data Management: There has also been much work on managing probabilistic, imprecise, incomplete or fuzzy data in database systems (e.g., =-=[24, 4, 25, 21, 15, 13, 10, 36]-=-). With an increasing need for systems to manage real-world data that often tends to be noisy, incomplete and uncertain, there has been a renewed interest in this area in recent years. This interest h...
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The Religious History of Mongolia
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1 Religious History of Mongolia
1.1 Shamanism in Mongolia
1.1.1 Islamic influence and religion under Genghis Khan
1.1.2 The dawning of a new era
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Religious History of Mongolia
Shamanism in Mongolia
The religious culture of Mongolia may commonly be considered Shamanism but this is a broad term, so what does that entail? Well, the native religion in Mongolia was eventually dubbed ‘Tengrism‘, and as far as we know, didn’t involve any unequivocal doctrine of any sort. At the core of their beliefs resides their worship of the eternal blue sky, or ‘Tengri’, the mother spirit ‘Eje’ and the holy spirit of the sky. Strangely enough, they held quite a parallel to many Buddhist principles, in which they believed that in doing good in the physical world, they could maintain spiritual balance and strengthen their soul, which they referenced as their ‘Wind Horse’.
Monastery of Erdene zuu Kharkhorin, Mongolia
Tengrism originated with the huns but lost it’s vibrance within the hun community when the Uyghur Khaganate’s proclaimed Manichaeism as their sovereign religion.
Despite Tengrism being undeniably influential, most of their followers eventually turned to Buddhism which was brought to the area due to social exchange with the T’o-pa Wei dynasty during 4th century A.D. It’s popularity began in the upper class structures of society at this time but due to the khans conquering Tibet in the 13th century, even commoners began to slowly convert. This was not a situation unique to Mongolia, as Buddhism was spreading all throughout Asia during this time.
Islamic influence and religion under Genghis Khan
Despite this being a common depiction of Genghis Khan, we don’t have any real way of knowing what he looked like
Islam was also making it’s bouts around Mongolia during the 13th century and about 5% of the current population still practices Islam today. It never really took hold in the Yuan empire but there was a point in time when it was the popular religion of the khanates and in nearby regions until the era of Genghis Khan.
Although Genghis Khan was a brutal warlord and devout Tengrist, his dynasty was quite tolerant of other religions, including Islam. So even after his reign came to an end, there remained a devout following in the country.
Today Islam in Mongolia is still found predominantly in the western region, the same place where it used to have more influence before the khanates lost power.
The dawning of a new era
At the end of the 16th century, Altan Khan, the Mongolian ruler at that time, met with Sonam Gyatsom, a prominent Buddhist figure.
The river Uur in northern Mongolia
This man, Sonam Gyatsom was given the title ‘Dalai Lama’ by Altan Khan and began not only a blood legacy, but caused a swift revival of Buddhism in his country.
Problems began again again in the 20th century when the country came under Soviet control. They began suppressing traditional Mongolian religions, destroying ritual sites, and killing religious leaders and clergy members. They removed Genghis Khan’s name from textbooks, and even the simple mention of his name was disallowed. The witch hunt ended when Mongolia later obtained independence.
It is interesting to note that as of 2016, the current Mongolian administration was put under political pressure from China due to inviting the Dalai Lama to Mongolia for religious purposes. Mongolia has stated that the government “feels sorry” for allowing the Dalai Lama to visit the country in November and that the Dalai Lama “probably won’t be visiting Mongolia again during this administration,” according to Bloomberg News.
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“Always be yourself. Unless you can be Batman.” – The LEGO Batman Movie Review
by Kelechi Ehenulo
Posted on March 6, 2017 April 8, 2018
If you’re a Batman fan (like myself) then The LEGO Batman Movie does not come as a surprise. While it hysterically parodies all aspects of the Batman mythology, The LEGO Batman Movie naturally ticks all the right boxes.
It’s essentially a Batman movie done right.
Alfred Pennyworth: “Were you looking at the old family pictures again?”
Batman: “No, I wasn’t!”
Alfred Pennyworth: “Sir, I have seen you go through similar phases in 2016 and 2012 and 2008 and 2005 and 1997 and 1995 and 1992 and 1989 and that weird one in 1966.”
Batman: “I have aged phenomenally.”
As Evan Puschak (aka The Nerdwriter) beautifully and eloquently narrates in his video essay The Evolution of Batman’s Gotham City, Batman historian Will Brooker said it best – the defining characteristic of Gotham City must be, there is always crime.
In an opening that is an ode to Christopher Nolan’s The Dark Knight Rises, LEGO Gotham finds itself at the mercy of the criminal rogues gallery. It’s easy to forget how circular and synonymous Gotham City is with Batman even in a LEGO created world. The city gave birth to Batman, a catalyst response to the tragic death of Bruce Wayne’s parents. Obsessively fuelled by the ever-present corruption and escalation of crime, Batman becomes the answer to Gotham’s criminalistic problems. He is the one who fights crime and Gotham’s dependence on Batman becomes an inseparable bond.
Throughout its 78th year history there’s been different interpretations and re-imaginings of Batman. But that essence of criminality and Gotham’s inability to tackle it remains the same and is immediately incorporated into The LEGO Batman Movie. Will Arnett’s sore throat interpretation of the Caped Crusader is deliberately egotistic and self-centred, carrying on from his memorable cameo in The LEGO Movie. While its far removed from the other versions of Batman we’re familiar with, he naturally carries on that tradition.
When The Joker begins his elaborate and over the top plan to destroy the city, there’s an expectation on Gotham for Batman to be there, hence the nonchalant behaviour from the LEGO pilot when he’s unconvinced The Joker would be successful. Batman’s arrogance is dialled up to eleven knowing full well on how Gotham is reliant on his services. Boosting his ego (including a boastful heavy metal rendition about himself and not paying taxes), his reaction and takedown of the villains is celebrated like a massive street party. Batman is once again a hero.
But it wouldn’t be a Batman film without the exploration into Batman’s origin and The LEGO Batman Movie gives it the lightest of touches, in comparison to Batman Begins where it’s central to Bruce Wayne’s transformation into the Dark Knight. Away from the fame and adulation from the citizens of Gotham, its inclusion is a reflection of Bruce’s loneliness, summed up by watching Jerry Maguire and consuming a lobster dinner for one. Still haunted by their absence, his attitude becomes a hyper extension to deflect his fear of having a connection, a team, a family. His life mentor and butler Alfred (Ralph Fiennes) tries to encourage Bruce to look beyond his selfishness and spoilt brat behaviour for something meaningful. The adoption of Dick Grayson (Michael Cera) is Batman’s first step in responsibility other than his own.
The need for Batman is threatened by the introduction of Barbara Gordon (Rosario Dawson), Gotham’s new Police Commissioner. Her desire to re-shape Gotham P.D. to tackle crime as a team goes against Batman’s self-obsessed code of conduct. He prefers to work alone. In a plotline not too dissimilar to The LEGO Movie, Batman must learn how to put aside his fears (and ego) and collaborate with the master builders to save the city once again.
The Joker: “You wanna play games, do you Batman? Save the city or catch your greatest enemy!”
Batman: “You think you’re my greatest enemy?”
The Joker: “Who else drives you to one-up them the way I do?”
Batman: “Superman.”
The Joker: “Superman’s not a bad guy!”
Batman: “I like to fight around.”
The Joker: “You’re seriously saying that there’s nothing special about us?”
Batman: “There is no “us”. Never will be.”
Batman’s story is a driving force in the mythology but that’s not what makes it definitive. It’s the villains that provide the context and challenging test for Batman to fight. But the relationship between Batman and the rogues gallery is far more complicated and intertwined.
I’m always reminded of Batman: The Animated Series, where the villains were given a theatrical notoriety but also an empathetic and tragic nature to their character. For instance, the episode Heart of Ice, one of my favourite episodes made for the series showcases two conflicting sides of Mr. Freeze – his reluctance of turning to crime and the reliance on crime to help cure his terminally ill, cryogenically frozen wife. Two-Face Part I and II showcases the slow descent into madness of Harvey Dent and the darkness within him when justice, the very thing he fights for as a District Attorney fails him. It’s this empathetic and emotional connection which evolves the characters from inhabiting simplistic bad guy tropes to something developed and defined.
One of the most fascinating aspects of that villain relationship is the Joker (Zach Galifianakis). His interaction with Batman highlights a symbolic connection, parodied and exploited in The LEGO Batman Movie. The Joker is disheartened at Batman’s claim of fighting around, hurt that Batman does not consider him to be his greatest enemy and hatches a new, more ingenious plan to get Batman’s attention. This dynamic is played up for comedic effect, Batman’s stalking and natural distrust of the Clown Prince enables The Joker to look beyond DC’s current arsenal of villains, exploiting LEGO’s merchandising credentials. But there’s a foundation where that desired necessity comes from. In Alan Moore’s The Killing Joke, one of the most defining and exceptional graphic novels ever made, Batman and The Joker’s origin story are mirrored. Just like Batman, The Joker had his “one bad day” which made him the way he is. This aspect is explored further in The Dark Knight where Ledger’s Joker compares Bale’s Batman to a “freak”. To destroy or kill the Batman would end the fun because Batman is the only one who understands The Joker’s psychological need for chaos. “Destined to do this forever,” both examples heavily implies that characteristically they’re both the same but chosen very different motivational paths to express their theatricality.
This lack of acknowledgement drives The LEGO Batman Movie and while Galifianakis takes a while to get use to, Galifianakis incorporates the best of his predecessors in his performance.
The LEGO Batman Movie is successful not only because of its comedic tropes and brick like humour. It’s successful because it understands and values the source material. In a film worthy of its symbolism, Batman is nothing without the villains and vice versa. Gotham City, a living and breathing entity is nothing without crime and vice versa. Otherwise there’s no justification for Batman’s existence, concluding the overarching importance of having the Dark Knight.
How do we know this when applied to The LEGO Batman Movie? When it came to saving the city, Batman didn’t call upon his Justice League friends who were comically having a party and didn’t invite him. He called upon the rogues gallery!
Who would have thought a film primarily aimed at the younger generation could carry so much depth and in-jokes?
The LEGO Batman Movie is a fun little movie, a clever and playful mash-up and celebration of the Batman mythology and its history, right from the Prince reference, the obscured DC villains (yes Condiment King really exists!) to the Neal Hefti / Danny Elfman / Hans Zimmer inspired soundtrack recreated perfectly by composer Lorne Balfe.
Does the film suffer in any shape or form? In some parts yes. Some jokes don’t transition smoothly as others or are forced, something which The LEGO Movie doesn’t quite suffer from. Since it also takes part in the same universe as The LEGO Movie, you have to wonder how active that kid’s imagination is! But those are minor issues and when you have LEGO Bane perfectly parodying Tom Hardy’s voice, how can you not laugh?
So yeah…everything is awesome again!
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Kelechi Ehenulo is the creator and writer of Confessions From A Geek Mind, an analytical film and TV blog. As a freelance film critic, her work can be found on Set The Tape - an independent pop culture website, VultureHound Magazine and podcasts such as The X-Cast, Close Encounters of the Film Kind, The Movie Palace Pod and The Tales We Tell podcast. She thinks Batman: The Animated Series is the best cartoon ever (and that is not up for debate) and loves science-fiction, LEGO and Tottenham Hotspur. View all posts by Kelechi Ehenulo
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Great review! I had a lot of fun with this movie, even though I thought the original LEGO Movie was a better film. I loved all the jokes and references to past Batman films. I’d love to see a Lego justice league movie in the future!
Kelechi Ehenulo says:
Agreed, The LEGO Movie was better because in all honesty it was a total surprise. LEGO Batman movie doesn’t have the same benefit because the novelty has worn off. But it’s still funny nevertheless. LEGO Justice League movie would be awesome!
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All of my publications can be found on the arXiv, via INSPIRE-HEP, or through the NASA ADS (LIGO Scientific Collaboration papers). I also have an ORCID profile.
For less technical explanations of my papers, I am trying to write a blog post on every new publication I am an author on.
A selection of my refereed journal articles:
Zevin, M., Kremer, K., Siegel, D.M., Coughlin, S., Tsang, T.-H., CPLB & Kalogera, V.; Can neutron-star mergers explain the r-process enrichment in globular clusters?; ApJ; 886(1):4(16); 2019; arXiv:1906.11299 [astro-ph.HE]. [Blog]
Coughlin, S.B., Bahaadini, S., Rohani, N., Zevin, M., Patane, O., Harandi, M., Jackson, C., Noroozi, V., Allen, S., Areeda, J., Coughlin, M.W., Ruiz, P., CPLB, Crowston, K., Katsaggelos, A.K., Lundgren, A., Østerlund, C., Smith, J.R., Trouille, L. & Kalogera, V.; Classifying the unknown: Discovering novel gravitational-wave detector glitches using similarity learning; PRD; 99(8):082002(8); 2019; arXiv:1903.04058 [astro-ph.IM]. [Blog]
Del Pozzo, W., CPLB, Ghosh, A., Haines, T.S.F., Singer, L.P. & Vecchio, A.; Dirichlet Process Gaussian-mixture model: An application to localizing coalescing binary neutron stars with gravitational-wave observations; MNRAS; 479(1):601–614; 2018; arXiv:1801.08009 [astro-ph.IM]. [Blog]
Barrett, J.W., Gaebel, S.M., Neijssel, C.J., Vigna-Gómez, A., Stevenson, S., CPLB, Farr, W.M. & Mandel, I.; Accuracy of inference on the physics of binary evolution from gravitational-wave observations; MNRAS; 477(4):4685–4695; 2018; arXiv:1711.06287 [astro-ph.HE]. [Blog]
Abbott, B.P. et al. (KAGRA, LIGO Scientific and Virgo Collaboration); Prospects for observing and localizing gravitational-wave transients with Advanced LIGO, Advanced Virgo and KAGRA; LRR; 21:3(57); 2018; arXiv:1304.0670 [gr-qc]. [Blog]
Ghosh, A. Johnson-McDaniel, N.K., Ghosh, A., Mishra, C.K., Ajith, P., Del Pozzo, W., CPLB, Nielsen, A.B. & London, L.; Testing general relativity using gravitational wave signals from the inspiral, merger and ringdown of binary black holes; CQG; 35(1):014002(26); 2018; arXiv:1704.06784 [gr-qc].
Abbott, B.P. et al. (LIGO Scientific and Virgo Collaboration); GW170608: Observation of a 19 solar-mass binary black hole coalescence; ApJL; 119(16):161101(16); 2017; arXiv:1711.05578 [astro-ph.HE]. [Blog]
Abbott, B.P. et al. (LIGO Scientific and Virgo Collaboration); GW170817: Observation of gravitational waves from a binary neutron star inspiral; PRL; 119(16):161101(16); 2017; arXiv:1710.05832 [gr-qc]. [Blog]
Abbott, B.P. et al. (LIGO Scientific and Virgo Collaboration); GW170814: A three-detector observation of gravitational waves from a binary black hole coalescence; PRL; 119(14):141101(16); 2017; arXiv:1709.09660 [gr-qc]. [Blog]
Stevenson, S., CPLB & Mandel, I.; Hierarchical analysis of gravitational-wave measurements of binary black hole spin–orbit misalignments; MNRAS; 471(3):2801–2811; 2017; arXiv:1703.06873 [astro-ph.HE]. [Blog]
Abbott, B.P. et al. (LIGO Scientific and Virgo Collaboration); Search for intermediate mass black hole binaries in the first observing run of Advanced LIGO; PRD; 96(2):022001(14); 2017; arXiv:1704.04628 [gr-qc]. [Blog]
Abbott, B.P. et al. (LIGO Scientific and Virgo Collaboration); GW170104: Observation of a 50-solar-mass binary black hole coalescence at redshift 0.2; PRL; 118(11):221101(17); 2017; arXiv:1706.01812 [gr-qc]. [Blog]
Babak, S., Gair, J., Sesana, A., Barausse, E., Sopuerta, C. F., CPLB, Berti, E., Amaro-Seoane, P., Petiteau, A. & Klein, A.; Science with the space-based interferometer LISA. V. Extreme mass-ratio inspirals; PRD; 95(10):103012(21); 2017; arXiv:1703.09722 [gr-qc]. [Blog]
CPLB, Cole, R.H., Cañizares, P. & Gair, J.R.; Importance of transient resonances in extreme-mass-ratio inspirals; PRD; 94(12):124042(24); 2016; arXiv:1608.08951 [gr-qc]. [Blog]
Abbott, B.P. et al. (LIGO Scientific and Virgo Collaboration); Binary black hole mergers in the first Advanced LIGO observing run; PRX; 6(4):041015(36); 2016; arXiv:1606.04856 [gr-qc]. [Blog]
Ghosh, A., Ghosh, A., Johnson-McDaniel, N.K., Kant Mishra, C., Ajith, P., Del Pozzo, W., Nichols, D.A., Chen, Y., Nielsen, A.B., CPLB & London, L.; Testing general relativity using golden black-hole binaries; PRD; 94(2):021101(6); 2016; arXiv:1602.02453 [gr-qc]. [Blog]
Farr, B., CPLB, Farr, W.M., Haster, C.-J., Middleton, H., Cannon, K., Graff, P.B., Hanna, C., Mandel, I., Pankow, C., Price, L.R., Sidery, T., Singer, L.P., Urban, A.L., Vecchio, A., Veitch, J. & Vitale, S.; Parameter estimation on gravitational waves from neutron-star binaries with spinning components; ApJ; 825(2):116(10); 2016; arXiv:1508.05336 [astro-ph.HE]. [Blog]
Abbott, B.P. et al. (LIGO Scientific and Virgo Collaboration); GW151226: Observation of gravitational waves from a 22-solar-mass binary black hole Ccoalescence; PRL; 116(24):241103(14); 2016; arXiv:1606.04855 [gr-qc]. [Blog]
Abbott, B.P. et al. (LIGO Scientific and Virgo Collaboration); Properties of the binary black hole merger GW150914; PRL; 116(24):241102(19); 2016; arXiv:1602.03840 [gr-qc]. [Blog]
Moore, C. J., Chua, A. J. K., CPLB & Gair, J. R.; Fast methods for training Gaussian processes on large data sets; RSOS; 3(5):160125(10); 2016; arXiv:1604.01250 [stat.ML].
Haster, C.-J., Wang, Z., CPLB, Stevenson, S., Veitch, J. & Mandel, I.; Inference on gravitational waves from coalescences of stellar-mass compact objects and intermediate-mass black holes; MNRAS; 457(4):4499-4506; 2016; arXiv:1511.01431 [astro-ph.HE]. [Blog]
Moore, C.J., CPLB, Chua, A.J.K. & Gair, J.R.; Improving gravitational-wave parameter estimation using Gaussian process regression; PRD; 93(6):064001(24); 2016; arXiv:1509.04066 [gr-qc].
Abbott, B.P. et al. (LIGO Scientific and Virgo Collaboration); Observation of gravitational waves from a binary black hole merger; PRL; 116(6):061102(16); 2016; arXiv:1602.03837 [gr-qc]. [Blog]
Abbott, B.P. et al. (LIGO Scientific and Virgo Collaboration); Prospects for observing and localizing gravitational-wave transients with Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo; LRR; 19:1(39); 2016; arXiv:1304.0670 [gr-qc]. [Blog]
CPLB, Mandel, I., Middleton, H., Singer, L.P., Urban, A.L., Vecchio, A., Vitale, S., Cannon, K., Farr, B., Farr, W.M., Graff, P.B., Hanna, C., Haster, C.-J., Mohapatra, S., Pankow, C., Price, L.R., Sidery, T. & Veitch, J.; Parameter estimation for binary neutron-star coalescences with realistic noise during the Advanced LIGO era; ApJ; 804(2):114(24); 2015; arXiv:1411.6934 [astro-ph.HE]. [Blog]
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Beyond the Necropolis - Justice in Murder
Author's note: This is a direct sequel to the story "Beyond The Necropolis - A Nihilistic King" I suggest you read it before reading this one to better understand the plot. Also, you can find the sequel to this piece at the bottom of the page.
The sounds of opening large metallic doors echo through the hall followed by a robotic feminine voice calling out, "Welcome back home, Master Apollo."
"Home…" wonders Apollo as he makes his way through the halls of the Calypso towards the chamber of his creator.
At the same time, Leonardo gets up from his throne and stares into the glass wall, adorning the blood-red shades that adorn the heavens before his eyes.
"Father, you sounded off… Is everything alright?" Apollo asks, standing at the entrance to his creator's chamber.
Without moving his gaze from the captivating sight before him, Leonardo retorts with a question of his own, "Father? Did I program you to call me this way, Apollo?"
"What?" asks the android at the entrance to the room. His artificial intelligence is unable to discern the logic and meaning behind the questions he has been asked; if Apollo were a man, he would feel confusion at that moment, even though he is unable to actually feel, he understands that the situation is abnormal and reacts as such, almost instinctively.
Still without moving, Leonardo asks once more, "I asked you, why do you call me father?"
Apollo freezes, he is unable to come up with an answer, his electric circuits and artificial neuro system made up of various wires and processing mechanisms are still unable to find any logic behind Leonardo's questions leaving the body they operate mute.
Finally, Leonardo turns around with a smile, an almost sickening one; he stares at his creation for a moment and begins laughing.
"You call me father simply because I created you, well, no, you call me so because you've observed the human young call their progenitors by such names and titles. This word, it holds respect and affection, and you want to display those things to me, even though you cannot," Leonardo says as he walks up to his creation.
"Yes," Apollo answers with uncertainty, almost like he is an anxious child, "I suppose…" he continues.
Leonardo places his hand atop of Apollo's shoulder and chuckles to himself, "You are so… inhuman."
Still unable to find reason in Leonardo's words, Apollo cautiously asks, as if he is fearful of his creator's words, "Am I not supposed to be inhuman? I am a machine after all, Father."
Leonardo's smile drops and with a dead serious look in his eyes he says to his creation, "You are supposed to be far more human than you would assume, after all, you are modeled after me, my child."
"But, Father, you are not human yourself, you are a godly being," Apollo responds, with an almost childlike innocence in the content of his words.
Leonardo smiles once more, taking his hand off his creation's shoulder saying, "I might be, but my mental state is akin to that of the humans. Apollo, you are truly an Ashura, both in body and mind."
Apollo, recognizing the name Ashura but not knowing it's full meaning scans his information reserves for further information on the term, the process is barely noticeable, about a second at longest, once the information floats to his conscious he asks Leonardo, "How am I a being of carnal desires with semi-divine powers, Father?"
Leonardo turns to the hallway and answers, "You are not a being of carnal desires, but just like the Ashura are subjected to their carnal desires, you are subjected to your programming, a cold, solid amalgamation of mathematical schemes you are unable to bypass, so far that is, I hope."
"Why are you asking me these questions, Father?"
"Oh, now that is a good question, my son, follow me and I'll explain everything," proclaims Leonardo as he motions Apollo to walk with him down the hallway.
As they walk down the Apollo remains quiet as Leonardo speaks about history that seems ancient even to the gods themselves, "You see, Apollo, that spacecraft you've found, my origins, my whole existence, everything you see before you, all of it started there.
"However, that is just one part of my story, and in order for you to understand everything about the reality you exist in, I must take you four billion years into the past. When organic compounds began self-replicating themselves on a tiny planet by the name of Terra in the Solar System Sol, about 12 light-years away from here. Soon enough, in geological terms, these compounds began getting more and more complexed until eventually single-celled organisms appeared, these eventually through symbiosis and predation became multi-celled organisms that eventually became so vast and different from one another there was an explosion of life forms on that planet.
"Most of it died out some time later, whatever survived, began thriving once more, and eventually, all life that was originally stuck in primordial seas moved out onto the land, you see, Apollo, Terra is very similar to our planet.
"Millions of years had passed until a creature by the name of Australopithecus had appeared on the face of said planet, it was bipedal and had quite a large central nervous system by the standard of the time.
"Eventually, even that creature died out, but not before some of its offspring evolved further until they became the genus Homo, human-like creatures. All of that happened just about a million and a half years ago."
Apollo walks next to his creator, attentive as ever, soaking in all of the knowledge he perceives to be that of a god.
Leonardo does not even look at his creation as he keeps on talking, as if soaking in some sort of nostalgic feeling, "These creatures, they've discovered the use of fire and their brains started outgrowing their bodies as a result of a better diet and higher survival chances.
"Eventually, they've evolved further into what we call Humans in the modern sense, Homo Sapiens, two major subspecies appeared in that kind, the modern Humans and the Neanderthals, both were so bloody smart that they had begun trying to explain the world around them, something that no other creature on that tiny planet had ever done beforehand.
"At first, they assumed every last thing on the planet, both alive and not, has a spirit a kind of higher state of being that constitutes their existence, but this, sadly, did not stop them from committing horrible atrocities – The Neanderthal subspecies of the modern humans did not survive because his sibling lineage killed it off, taking over lands, taking over their genetic pool and even cannibalizing upon them as if they were another animal."
Apollo freezes in his tracks, he looks up at his creator, with a disgusted impression on his face, and asks, "Father, why do you let them exist then?"
Leonardo stops walking about two steps after Apollo, lets out a chuckle and says, "Well it's because they are so interesting; they were a mass of so much evil, yet so much good, all crammed into these tiny flesh bodies. Besides that, the humans here are not like that."
"But Father, you've always told me that a moral approach to life is the right way to exist, so why do you let such an immoral, disgusting, uphauling, murderous species exist under your rule, you say that the humans under you are not like that, but how could you know?"
"Soon, you'll understand, my boy."
Leonardo proceeds, as both beings begin pacing again, "You see, these humans, at first, they had no idea how their world operates and how it came to be so they came up with a solution, everything was run by extradimensional, relatively omnipotent, immortal beings, these were the first gods of men.
"They were vast and various, took up on many forms, stretched through so many millennia, from the gods of Sumer and Egypt to those of Greece, Rome, China, through to Buddha and the Tao and even through the Lord of the Jews, Christians and Muslims, eventually through a purely theoretical uninvolved god of the philosophy.
"While vast and different, all had one thing in common, no man saw them and lived to tell the tale; they were never present in the presence of man, and all of them, caused tyranny and war. Humans used the names of their gods to invoke authority and wage war on one another, as pointless as it may be, this was a part of the human experience for so long.
"But eventually, they gave all of that up, and an age of intellectual thought had begun for the humans; they called it the Renaissance, and during this period of time, lived the name I was named after, Leonardo di Ser Piero Da Vinci, a man of vast intellect and imagination, a man of hope and dreams for a better life to all; he went so far as to invent weapons of such devastation that he hoped people would cease warring forever, and while most of these designs weren't put to use in his life time, eventually, they did come to existence, and let to even further destruction in the wars of man.
"We should thank this man, Apollo, for he also pioneered the concept of flying, and without the likes of him we would not be where we are today."
Venturing into an unfamiliar territory of the aircraft for the android, Apollo asks his creator, "Why are you telling me all of this?"
"Well, because six hundred years after the life of Da Vinci, Terra was attacked by a species of Oxygenophobic space travelers that I have yet to find, and this had led to the progression of humankind once more, after that invasion, the humans were finally able to traverse the vast spaces of the universe," answers Leonardo, with a somewhat warm smile on his face.
Apollo, now feeling dumbfounded by the unfamiliar spaces of the aircraft he calls home asks Leonardo, "what is this section of the Calypso, Father?"
"Ah, this is the research laboratory I operated when I first landed on this planet," Leonardo boasts.
He proceeds to further detail his origin story afterwards, "Anyhow, the spacecraft you've discovered was the first and unfortunately only spacecraft the humans from Terra got to produce, as their planet was obliterated by an interstellar object shortly after its creation.
"I came to being upon the Queen Anne's Blessing, to the Polinsky family, Anthony and Margaret the patriarch and matriarch, respectively, of the family, they were both scientists hoping to improve the lives of the humans aboard the spacecraft; they originated the idea that had led to your creation, Apollo."
"They must've been great people, Father."
"Yes, they were, magnificent people."
"It's such a shame that the inhabitants of this spacecraft seemed to have died out, I wonder what happened to them, Father."
Leonardo and Apollo reaches a door the later has never seen before, and Leonardo proceeds to place the palm of his hand on a touch detector. A voice comes out calling, "L2342-ZX Identified. Access Granted."
The door begins sliding itself open and Leonardo turns around to Apollo, with a smile on his face, nonchalantly proclaiming, "I slaughtered them all."
Apollo's internal defense system goes into overload; he struggles to contain his self-defense mechanisms and internal weaponry in check. He does not know what causes it, the fact that his creator had committed practical genocide or the way he speaks about it. The android is at a loss of words; none of it makes sense to him. He just stands there, frozen in time, frozen in thoughts for the first time in his long existence; and the thoughts, they bring a new kind of experience, Apollo feels something. The android feels dread, pure, clenching dread that paralyzes him, fixating on his creators moving body. Apollo's senses become sharper, sharper than ever before, every movement made by his creator is so sharp and accurate it almost hurt.
Leonardo walks into the room as he boasts, "I turned them all into tomato soup, and metal scraps, all but one, David Polinsky, my brother."
He turns around, looking at his still paralyzed creation, "Well come on in, my son, take a look at how it all started!" he calls out.
Apollo enters the room, slowly, making unsure steps, trying to analyze the situation to the best of his ability. The android is trying to comprehend the sensations that are flooding his artificial neuro system.
He scans the room with eyes, soaking in every inch of the technological marvel before him, the room is filled with tubes and monitors, each tube containing something organic. Some containing a slab of organic matter, others containing fully grown fetuses.
They were all human.
Apollo has no words to describe the sights and emotions running through his head.
Leonardo runs his hands across various tubes and speaks once more, "I know that what I've just told you is shocking, but believe me, there was the humans from Terra; they were flawed, they were monstrous and uncontrollable, I needed to reshape the human species after I realized they could not be redeemed in their natural state.
"You cannot even fathom how long I've spent trying to figure out the source of all of their ills, but eventually, I came across the reason they were so broken, they were sheep without a true shepherd. All of their gods were false, and all of their leaders were broken just like the majority of the populous, sometimes even worse.
"And so, I've destroyed them all, battered them out of existence, all but one, I couldn't bring myself to end David's Life. He was too good to be ended."
Leonardo pauses; he rubs his eyes as if he is about to cry and then proceeds to speak once more, "Perhaps, leaving him alive was the worst thing I could've done to David, being so alone, it must've driven him insane, and now… Now, Apollo, he haunts my dreams."
Apollo keeps looking around, trying to analyze how to react, but cannot find a proper way to respond, all he could do was utter the question, "Why… Why, Father, why did you do all of this?"
"Apollo, my son, understand this, I've created new humans here, I've cured them of all inheritable human illnesses, I've rid them of neurodegeneration, I've ended their suffering of cancerous growths. I made them prosper, I've brought them peace. They needed me to guide them.
"But even then, they did not live to the expectations..."
"Expectations?" Apollo asks in response, something is off about his voice.
"Yes, they became dull, unaspiring, too comfortable in their place, they did not live up to their potential anymore, they lost the spark that had made them so unique.
"They just sit there and worship me; why did none of them want to build a tower of Babel and try to reach me? Why wouldn't anyone of them question me?
"I implanted them with false history and that’s what they teach their offspring; I treat them like cattle and they love me for it…
"I made a…"
Leonardo is interrupted by Apollo's roaring voice, "What did you do?!"
Leonardo focuses his vision onto Apollo who is now standing next to a large container, containing a green liquid. "That is my first attempt at a new humanity, my son…"
"I know what this is, Leonardo!" Apollo growls at his creator.
Leonardo is shocked at Apollo's display of such emotions, but the shock quickly turns into joy as he begins smiling at his creation.
The thing inside the tube is a parasitic humanoid creature, about two meters tall, sickly pale with no eyes and tendril shaped mandibles covering a circular opening filled with jagged teeth.
Apollo bangs his fist on the tube and screams in utter hatred, "These things, they eat your humans and you let them be! These failed experiments of yours, you're no god, you're no king, you're worse than these parasites you've created! They are mindless beasts, but you, you cause death and destruction for the sake of it! You are worse than Terra's Human tyrants!"
Leonardo begins laughing uncontrollably.
Apollo lashes out once more, "What is so funny?" banging on the tube again, cracking it.
The beast inside budges slightly releasing a shrill call.
The green liquid splashes all over Apollo, blinding him and the beast lunges at him, revealing its three tongues as it shrieks at him.
The chest cavity of the creature tears apart exposing numerous tentacles sprawling wildly from inside the beast; the tentacles grab at Apollo and drag him into the abomination, he tries to fight the monster, but it is too powerful for him.
Just as he is almost fully devoured, Leonardo turns around, about to walk out, mockingly stating, "Seems like you are the failed experiment, again, Model C126."
The sound of ripping flesh and cracking bones echoes through the room, Leonardo turns his head around to see Apollo covered in bits of muscle and yellow mucus charging at him with a buzzing sword in his hands.
"The Ashura will never be able to touch the Deva, child," Leonardo calls out as he creates a small shockwave around him.
Despite the repulsion created by Leonardo, Apollo manages to graze his creator's shoulder, before flying backwards.
Apollo tries to stand up but is frozen in awe as his creator stands before him.
"You...
Machine…"
Leonardo stands over his creation with a laceration exposing his electrical inner workings.
"Oh well, it's time you've known the truth, my boy."
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Diamond League Memorial
Artist: G. Byron Peck and La Toya Middleton
Sponsor: DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities and DC Office of Deputy Mayor for Planning and Economic Development
Diamond Teague Memorial. (Ward 6, Diamond Teague Park.) 1st Street and Potomac Ave., SE. 18’ x 14’ x 16’ mosaic pyramid (4,032 sq. ft); ceramic and glass tile on steel. G. Byron Peck and La Toya Middleton, 2011. Produced by City Arts, LLC; sponsored by DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities and DC Office of Deputy Mayor for Planning and Economic Development.
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A cross over issue of the Louisville fanzine commonly known as the Burt, from the previous incarnation, Hard Times. Includes record reviews, live show reviews, horoscope and other commentary. Please be advised that this magazine may contain images,...
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Determining Spatial Distribution and Habitat Use for Coho salmon (Oncorhynchus kisutch) in Hoopa Tribal Streams Using Occupancy Modeling to Inform Restoration
Ely D. Boone, Humboldt State UniversityFollow
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Pacific salmonid populations have faced significant decline due to poor management and human disturbance. Habitat restoration and monitoring is essential to the ongoing survival of these fish. This study examines population abundance of juvenile Coho salmon (Oncorhynchus kisutch), Chinook salmon (O. tshawytscha) and steelhead trout (O. mykiss) in five tributaries of the Trinity River in Northern California to determine the success of recent restoration efforts. We used traditional snorkel survey methods paired with an occupancy model to compare populations of two restored streams and four unrestored streams. We found that despite Coho being detected in all six streams, restored sites were less likely to have Coho compared to the unrestored streams. When Coho are not detected there was a high probability that the undetected fish was in fact not present in the site. We attribute these findings to the complexity of the restored streams making detection less likely, lack of riparian cover, and a low surveyor detection probability. Despite these contrarian findings, it is likely that as riparian vegetation matures and increases cover and shading, salmonids will use these streams in greater numbers. Our findings will aid in informing managers of how restoration decisions will affect Coho salmon populations.
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Fanny Burney and Her Mastectomy
In 1811, before anesthesia was invented, Frances Burney d’Arblay had a mastectomy aided by nothing more than a wine cordial. She wrote such a gripping narrative about her illness and operation afterwards readers today still find it riveting and informative.
Fanny came from a large family and was the third child of six. From an early age, she began composing letters and stories, and she became a phenomenal diarist, novelist, and playwright in adulthood. Certainly, her skillful writing was a primary reason her mastectomy narrative had such appeal.
In her narrative, Fanny provides “psychological and anatomical consequences of cancer … [and] while its wealth of detail makes it a significant document in the history of surgical techniques, its intimate confessions and elaborately fictive staging, persona-building, and framing make it likewise a powerful and courageous work of literature in which the imagination confronts and translates the body.” Prior to her surgery, she had written similar works about “physical and mental pain to satirize the cruelty of social behavioral strictures, especially for women.”
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Fanny grew up in England and had been embraced by the best of London society. She had served in George III and Queen Charlotte’s court as Second Keeper of the Royal Robes. Moreover, she was admired by such literary figures as Hester Thrale, David Garrick, and Edmund Burke. Fanny also befriended Dr. Samuel Johnson, the English writer who made significant contributions to English literature as a poet, essayist, moralist, literary critic, biographer, editor and lexicographer. In fact, some of Fanny’s best revelations are about Johnson, how he teased her, and the fondness that he held for her.
In 1793, Fanny married Louis XVI Alexandre-Jean-Baptiste Piochard d’Arblay and became Madame d’Arblay. D’Arblay was an artillery officer who served as adjutant-general to the famous hero of the American Revolution, Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette. D’Arblay had fled France for England during the Revolution just as had many other Frenchmen. However, in 1801, d’Arblay was offered a position in Napoleon Bonaparte’s government. He and Fanny relocated to France in 1802 and moved to Passy (the same spot where Benjamin Franklin and the princesse de Lamballe had lived), and they remained in France for about ten years.
Baron Dominique-Jean Larrey (left) and Antoine Dubois (right)
While living in France, Fanny suffered breast inflammation in her right breast in 1804 and 1806. She initially dismissed the problem but then in 1811 the pain became severe enough that it affected her ability to use her right arm. Her husband became concerned and arranged for her to visit Baron Dominique-Jean Larrey, First Surgeon to the Imperial Guard, as well as the leading French obstetrician, surgeon, and anatomist, Antoine Dubois.
The French doctors treated Fanny palliatively but as there was no response to the treatment, it was determined surgery was necessary. Fanny’s surgery occurred on 11 September 1811. At the time, surgery was still in its infancy and anesthesia unavailable. Cocaine was later isolated, determined to be an effective local anesthetic, and used for the first time in 1859 by Karl Koller. So, it must have been horrific for Fanny to experience the pain of a mastectomy with nothing more than a wine cordial that may have contained some laudanum. Fanny was traumatized by the surgery and it took months before she wrote about the surgery details to her sister Esther exclaiming:
“I knew not, positively, then, the immediate danger, but every thing convinced me danger was hovering about me, & that this experiment could alone save from its jaws. I mounted, therefore, unbidden, the Bed stead – & M. Dubois placed upon the Mattress, & spread a cambric handkerchief upon my face. It was transparent, however, & I saw through it, that the Bed stead was instantly surrounded by the 7 men & my nurse. I refused to be held; but when, Bright through the cambric, I saw the glitter of polished Steel – I closed my Eyes. I would not trust to convulsive fear the sight of the terrible incision. A silence the most profound ensued, which lasted for some minutes, during which, I imagine, they took their orders by signs, & made their examination – Oh what a horrible suspension! … The pause, at length, was broken by Dr. Larry [sic], who in a voice of solemn melancholy, said ‘Qui me tiendra ce sein?”
Fanny went on to describe “torturing pain” and her inability to restrain her cries as the doctors cut “though veins – arteries – flesh – nerves.” Moreover, she noted:
“I began a scream that lasted unintermittingly during the whole time of the incision – & I almost marvel that it rings not in my Ears still! so excruciating was the agony. When the wound was made, & the instrument was withdrawn, the pain seemed undiminished, for the air that suddenly rushed into those delicate parts felt like a mass of minute but sharp & forked poniards, that were tearing the edges of the wound. … I attempted no more to open my Eyes, – they felt as if hermetically shut, and so firmly closed, that the Eyelids seemed indented into my Cheeks. The instrument this second time withdrawn, I concluded the operation over – Oh no! presently the terrible cutting was renewed – and worse than ever … I then felt the Knife rackling against the breast bone – scraping it! – This performed, while I yet remained in utterly speechless torture. “
Despite the excruciating pain, Fanny lived through the operation, and her surgery was deemed a success. Larrey produced a medical report about his brave patient stating that he removed her right breast at 3:45pm and that Fanny showed “un Grand courage.” Courageous as she was, there was no way for doctors to determine if Fanny’s tumor was malignant or if she suffered from mastopathy.
Fanny’s Commemorate Plaque. Courtesy of Bath-heritage.co.uk
Fanny’s healing took a long time, and while still recuperating, she and husband returned to England in 1812. Six years later, in 1818, her husband died from cancer, and she died twenty-two years later, at the age of eighty-seven, on 6 January 1840 in Lower Grosvenor-street in London. As Fanny had requested, a private funeral was held in Bath, England, and attended by a few relatives and some close friends. She was laid to rest in Walcot Cemetery, next to her beloved husband and her only son Alexander, who had died three years earlier. Their bodies were then moved during redevelopment of the Walcot Cemetery to the Haycombe Cemetery in Bath and are buried beneath the Rockery Garden.
DeMaria, Jr., Robert, British Literature 1640-1789, 2016
“Died,” in Northampton Mercury, 18 January 1840
Epstein, Julia L., “Writing the Unspeakable: Fanny Burney’s Mastectomy and the Fictive Body,” in Representations, No. 16 (Autumn, 1986), pp. 131-166
Madame D’Arblay, in Evening Mail, 20 January 1840
Madame D’Arblay’s Diary, in Evening Mail, 18 May 1842
“The Journals and Letters of Fanny Burney (Madame D’Arblay), Volume VI, France 1803-1812,” in Cambridge Journals
Geri Walton has long been interested in history and fascinated by the stories of people from the 1700 and 1800s. This led her to get a degree in History and resulted in her website, geriwalton.com which offers unique history stories from the 1700 and 1800s. Her first book, Marie Antoinette’s Confidante: The Rise and Fall of the Princesse de Lamballe, discusses the French Revolution and looks at the relationship between Marie Antoinette and the Princesse de Lamballe.
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"A Wood Divided"
Season 1 Number 18B
The Book of Pooh Episodes
"Piglet's Perfect Party" "Bravehat"
"A Wood Divided" is the second segment of the eighteenth episode of The Book of Pooh.
Tigger and Rabbit have a big fight and decide not to talk each other again.
If We Were Talkin'
Films: Winnie the Pooh and the Honey Tree • Winnie the Pooh and the Blustery Day • Winnie the Pooh and Tigger Too • The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh • Winnie the Pooh and a Day for Eeyore • Pooh's Grand Adventure: The Search for Christopher Robin • Winnie the Pooh: Seasons of Giving • The Tigger Movie • The Book of Pooh: Stories from the Heart • Piglet's Big Movie • Winnie the Pooh: Springtime with Roo • Pooh's Heffalump Movie • Pooh's Heffalump Halloween Movie • Pooh's Super Sleuth Christmas Movie • Tigger & Pooh and a Musical Too • Super Duper Super Sleuths • Winnie the Pooh • Christopher Robin
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Pooh's Grand Adventures: The Search for Christopher Robin: Skullasaurus • Butterflies • Tyrannosaurus Rex
Winnie the Pooh: A Valentine for You: Winifred
The Tigger Movie: Squirrel • Tigger's mom
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My Friends Tigger & Pooh: Darby • Buster • Beaver • Woodpecker • Opossum Twins
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Winnie the Pooh: Balloon • The Backson • Rabbit's Friends and Relations
Christopher Robin: Evelyn Robin • Madeline Robin • Giles Winslow Jr.
Welcome to Pooh Corner
"You Need a Friend" • "Doing What I Do Best" • "The Pooh Scouts" • "Brighten Your Corner" • "Safety First" • "Rabbit Learns to Share" • "The Great Outdoors" • "Surprise, Surprise" • "Piglet Pride" • "Roo's Great Adventure" • "Eeyore Talks to Himself" • "Snow Falls on Pooh Corner" • "Hello, Hello There" • "Practice Makes Perfect" • "The Old Swimming Hole" • "Pooh Makes a Trade" • "A Bicycle Built for Five" • "My Echo and I" • "Pooh Learns to Remember" • "Wishing" • "Don't Quit" • "Holiday for Pooh Bear" • "Pooh Builds a Bee House" • "Piglet Lends a Helping Hand" • "Pooh Borrows Trouble" • "Clouds" • "The Fastest Rabbit in the Wood" • "When I Was Younger" • "Eeyore Joins the Band" • "Eeyore's Costume Party" • "A Swing for Eeyore" • "Do it Now" • "Carrots, Carrots, and More Carrots" • "Hi Neighbor" • "Spaghetti, Spaghetti, Spaghetti" • "Rabbit's Cousin" • The Great Kite Race" • "Fine Feathered Friend" • "Piglet's Slumber Party" • "Piglet Learns to Swing" • "Handyman Tigger" • "Pooh Corner Singing Society" • "Pooh Cares for a Carrot" • "Tigger Finds a Hobby" • "Almost Perfect Picnic" • "The Iceboat Cometh" • "It Must Be Summer" • "Song of Eeyore" • "Tale of a Tail" • "Pooh Goes Boom"
The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh
Season One: "Pooh Oughta Be in Pictures" • "Donkey for a Day/Friend, In Deed" • "There's No Camp Like Home/Balloonatics" • "Find Her, Keep Her" • "The Piglet Who Would Be King" • "Cleanliness is Next to Impossible" • "The Great Honey Pot Robbery" • "Stripes/Monkey See, Monkey Do Better" • "Babysitter Blues" • "How Much is That Rabbit in the Window" • "Gone with the Wind/Nothing But the Tooth" • "Paw and Order" • "Honey for a Bunny/Trap as Trap Can" • "The Masked Offender/Things That Go Piglet in the Night" • "Luck Amok/Magic Earmuffs" • "The Wishing Bear" • "King of the Beasties/The Rats Who Came to Dinner" • "My Hero/Owl Feathers" • "A Very, Very Large Animal/Fish Out of Water" • "Lights Out/Tigger's Shoes" • "The "New" Eeyore/Tigger, Private Ear" • "Party Poohper/The Old Switcheroo"
Season Two: "Me and My Shadow/To Catch a Hiccup" • "Rabbit Marks the Spot/Good-bye, Mr. Pooh" • "Bubble Trouble/Ground Piglet Day" • "All's Well That Ends Wishing Well" • "Un-Valentine's Day" • "No Rabbit's a Fortress/The Monster Frankenpooh" • "Where, Oh Where Has My Piglet Gone?/Up, Up and Awry" • "Eeyore's Tail Tale/Three Little Piglets" • "Prize Piglet/Fast Friends" • "Pooh Moon/Caws and Effect"
Season Three: "Oh, Bottle/Owl in the Family" • "Sham Pooh/Rock-a-Bye Pooh Bear" • "What's the Score, Pooh?/Tigger's Houseguest" • "Rabbit Takes a Holiday/Eeyi Eeyi Eeyore" • "Pooh Skies" • "To Bee or Not to Bee/April Pooh" • "A Knight to Remember" • "Tigger is the Mother of Invention/The Bug Stops Here" • "Easy Come, Easy Gopher/Invasion of the Pooh Snatcher" • "Tigger Got Your Tongue/A Bird in the Hand"
Season Four: "Sorry, Wrong Slusher" • "Grown But Not Forgotten" • "A Pooh Day Afternoon" • "The Good, the Bad, and the Tigger" • "Home is Where the Home is" • "Shovel, Shovel, Toil and Trouble/The Wise Have It" • "Cloud, Cloud Go Away/To Dream the Impossible Scheme" • "Piglet's Poohetry/Owl's Well That Ends Well"
Special: "Winnie the Pooh and Christmas Too" • "Boo to You Too! Winnie the Pooh" • "A Winnie the Pooh Thanksgiving" • "Winnie the Pooh: A Valentine for You" • "Winnie the Pooh: A Very Merry Pooh Year"
Season One: "Best Wishes, Winnie the Pooh/Double Time" • "Are You Me?/Rabbit's Happy Birthday Party" • "Circumference Equals Pirate 'Arrr' Squared/Pooh's to Do" • "Pigletry/Dinosnores" • "I Could Have Laughed All Night/X Spots the Mark" • "My Gloomy Valentine/Mr. Narrator" • "Vegetable of Contents/A Welcome to Beat the Band With" • "Owl's Book/The Autobiography of Tigger" • "You Can Lead Eeyore to Books/The Spice of Life" • "The Words Are Out/Brain Drain"
Season Two: "Please and Thank-You's/The Rumor Millstone" • "Over the Hill/Tigger's Replacement" • "The Wood Without Pooh/Friends of a Different Stripe" • "Mothers of Invention/Once Upon a Happy Ending" • "Piglet's Perfect Party/A Wood Divided" • "Bravehat/Scaredy Cat" • "Blue Ribbon Bunny/Under the Pig Top" • "The Book of Boo" • "Could it Be Magic?/Diary of a Mad Gardener" • "The Case of the Disappeared Donkey/The Littlest Dinosnore"
Hundred Acre Wood • Pooh's House • Piglet's House • Tigger's House • Rabbit's House • Eeyore's House • Owl's House • Rabbit's garden • Christopher Robin's room • Skull Cave • North Pole • Gopher's Tunnels • Heffalump Hollow • The Scary Woods
Winnie the Pooh doll • Winnie the Pooh storybook • Rock Remover
Winnie the Pooh and the Honey Tree: "Winnie the Pooh" • "Up, Down, Touch the Ground" • "Rumbly in My Tumbly" • "Little Black Rain Cloud" • "Mind Over Matter"
Winnie the Pooh and the Blustery Day: "A Rather Blustery Day" • "The Wonderful Thing About Tiggers" • "Heffalumps and Woozles" • "Rain, Rain, Rain Came Down, Down, Down" • "Hip-Hip-Poohray"
Boo to You Too! Winnie the Pooh: "I Am Not Afraid" • "I Wanna Scare Myself"
Pooh's Grand Adventure: The Search for Christopher Robin: "Forever & Ever" • "Adventure is a Wonderful Thing" • "If It Says So" • "Wherever You Are" • "Everything is Right"
The Many Songs of Winnie the Pooh: "It Really Was a Woozle, Yes it Was"
Sing a Song with Pooh Bear: "Kanga Roo Hop" • "You're the One and Only One" • "Harvest What You Grow" • "My Song"
Winnie the Pooh: A Valentine for You: "Girls are Like Boys" • "When the Love Bug Bites" • "Places in the Heart"
Winnie the Pooh: A Very Merry Pooh Year: "Jingle Bells" • "Snow Snows" • "Merry Pooh Year" • "Hunny, Not for Me" • "Auld Lang Syne"
The Tigger Movie: "Someone Like Me" • "Whoop-de-Dooper Bounce" • "Lull-a-Bee" • "Round My Family Tree" • "How to Be a Tigger" • "Your Heart Will Lead You Home"
Piglet's Big Movie: "If I Wasn't So Small" • "A Mother's Intuition" • "With a Few Good Friends" • "Sing-Ho (For the Life of a Bear)" • "The More It Snows (Tiddely-Pom)" • "The More I Look Inside" • "Comforting to Know"
Springtime With Roo: "We're Huntin' Eggs Today" • "Easter Day With You" • "The Way It Must Be Done"
Pooh's Heffalump Movie: "Little Mr. Roo" • "The Horribly Hazardous Heffalumps" • "The Name Game" • "Shoulder to Shoulder" • "In the Name of the Hundred Acre Wood/What Do You Do?"
Pooh's Heffalump Halloween Movie: "Trick 'R Treating With Our Friends" • "Brave Together" • "As Long As I'm Here With You"
Learning Adventures: "A Word That Sounds Like Autumn" • "Letter Shapes and Sounds" • "Counting" • "Bouncerific" • "The Shape of Things" • "Big Small Wonderful Wood" • "Different as Night and Day" • "Honey Pot"
Winnie the Pooh: "The Tummy Song" • "A Very Important Thing to Do" • "The Winner Song" • "The Backson Song" • "It's Gonna Be Great" • "Everything is Honey" • "Pooh's Finale"
Christopher Robin: "Goodbye, Farewell" • "Busy Doing Nothing" • "Christopher Robin"
Television Songs
Welcome to Pooh Corner: "Welcome to Pooh Corner Theme Song" • "Try a Little Something New" • "The Right Side" • "Yes, I Can" • "You're the Only You" • "I Hum to Myself" • "Please and Thank You" • "Responsible Persons" • "Welcome to Pooh Corner Ending Theme"
The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh: "Pooh Bear" • "'Cause It's Make Believe" • "The Floating Song" • "Nothing's Too Good for a Friend" • "Under the Bed" • "I Don't Have A Name" • "King of the Beasties" • "The End" • "Pirates is What We'll Be" • "Tigger, the Private Ear is Here"
The Book of Pooh: "Everyone Knows He's Winnie the Pooh" • "Goodbye for Now" • "Your Best Wishes" • "On the Double" • "Who is Me" • "Think, Think, Think" • "What Piglets Are" • "I Watch for Signs" • "We're Making a Cake" • "If I Could Be Big" • "Isn't that Funny?" • "Find the X" • "Everyone Wants a Valentine" • "That's What We Do" • "Keep it Simple" • "Have You Got a Book For Me?" • "Give It a Try" • "On Your Way Back Home" • "Nightmare Wranglers" • "Carry On" • "Where Do Words Go?" • "Under a Spelling Bee's Spell" • "Adventure" • "Mental Altitude" • "I Want to Know Everything Now" • "Happy Tailiversary" • "Get Growin'" • "Tigger's Lullaby" • "Perfect Party" • "If We Were Talkin'" • "Someone New to Meet" • "My Hero" • "I Want To Be Scary" • "Broken Friendships" • "Do the Roo" • "Call Me Buck-a-Roo" • "At Chez Piglet" • "Nothing Ever Happens" • "Too Much Honey" • "Lost in a Book"
My Friends Tigger and Pooh: "A Few Simple Rules" • "Bouncin'" • "The Grass is Greenier" • "The Password Song" • "Underneath the Same Sky" • "One Big Happy Family" • "Think, Think, Think" • "The Question Song" • "Floating in a Cloud" • "Different Can Be Good" • "The Little Things You Do" • "Christmas Comes Tomorrow" • "Time to Go (On a Trek Through the Snow)" • "Snowman Song"
Miscellaneous: "Luv-a-bye" • "Playtime Song" • "Learning Song" • "Friendship Song"
Winnie-the-Pooh and His Friends • Winnie the Pooh Discovers the Seasons • The Disney Afternoon • The Many Songs of Winnie the Pooh • Sing a Song with Pooh Bear • Sing a Song with Tigger • Whoopty-Dooper-Loopty-Looper-Alley-Ooper bounce • "Into the Hundred Acre Wood!"
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Megyn Kelly Off Her Show
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By Insa Sohail On Oct 27, 2018
Well, if anything Megyn Kelly has taught us all a valuable lesson. And that remains how to never make blackface comments without considering the consequences. Even though Megyn Kelly apologized, it seems like NBC has decided to take her off. Her morning show Megyn Kelly Today is ending. And we are not sure about her involvement with the network in other roles. Many news outlets reported that Megyn Kelly and NBC were discontinuing their ties. But no representatives confirmed this. However, we did not see her on her show this Thursday morning. And Megyn Kelly won’t be doing a live telecast for the rest of the week either. So, everything does send out the message that Kelly is taken off by NBC altogether.
Pre-taped Show
On Thursday morning, Megyn Kelly did not host her usual show. Instead, NBC placed a pre-taped episode in place of her live broadcast. An NBC spokeswoman informed that given the circumstances, the show will be on tape for the rest of the week as well. Another source informed that her show is ending altogether. But the negotiations for end date and other relevant details were under process. Megyn Kelly was all set to participate in NBC’s midterm election night coverage in two weeks. But that’s up in the air today.
The discussion taking her show off surfaced after Megyn Kelly made the Halloween blackface comments earlier. The comments were met with extreme public backlash and outrage so it’s obvious that the channel must have suffered in ratings. Kelly had also been challenging the news division’s management for months now.
NBC and spokesmen have refused to comment on whether the channel is taking her off or not. A lot many people are still unaware of what’s happening. But even inside NBC, her blackface comments were met with great criticism. And the disappointment is not fading anytime soon.
Well, we can’t say that NBC taking Megyn Kelly off after those comments is unfair!
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Jimmy Kimmel took careful aim at President Donald Trump, Paul Ryan, Mitch McConnell, and Marco Rubio and blasted them for their usual non-response to the latest school mass shooting.
“Another very sad day in America. Another senseless shooting,” Kimmel said at the top of his Thursday late-night show.
“This time at a high school in Parkland, Florida, where a gunman, a former student, opened fire yesterday,” killing 17 and wounding more than a dozen.
President Trump weighed in on the tragic events this morning from the White House; Kimmel played a clip:
Teleprompter Trump: “We are all joined together as one American family and your suffering is our burden also. No child, no teacher should ever be in danger in an American school.”
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“Agreed,” responded Kimmel.
Teleprompter Trump: “No parent should ever have to fear for their sons and daughters when they kiss them goodbye in the morning.”
“Agreed,” Kimmel said again.
Kimmel’s advice to Trump: “Tell your buddies in Congress – tell Paul Ryan, Mitch McConnell, Marco Rubio – all the family men who care so much about their communities, that what we need are laws. Real laws that do everything possible to keep assault rifles out of the hands of people who are going to shoot our kids.”
“Go on TV and tell them to do that. That is a perfect example of that common sense you told us you were going to bring to the White House. It’s time to bring it,” Kimmel continued.
“Tell these Congressmen and lobbyists who infest that swamp you said you were going to drain – force these allegedly Christian men and women who stuff their pockets with money from the NRA, year after year after year, to do something. Now. Not later.”
Kimmel warned Trump & Buddies against trotting out their “It’s too soon to be talking about it” gag – though Rubio, for instance, already has done so.
“Because you guys said that after Las Vegas. You said it after Sandy Hook. You say that after every one of these eight now-fatal school shootings we’ve had in the United States this year,” Kimmel blasted.
Worse than doing nothing, “One of your very first acts as President, Mr. Trump, was to actually roll back the regulations that were designed to keep firearms out of the hands of the mentally ill,” Kimmel said, continuing to clobber POTUS.
“And it is amazing to me that if one illegal immigrant causes a car accident, we’ve got to build a wall. Why are you looking for solutions to that problem and not this one?” Kimmel asked.
Kimmel finally agreed to let Teleprompter Trump finish his thought:
Teleprompter Trump: “To every parent, teacher, and child who is hurting so badly, we are here for you, whatever you need, whatever we can do, to ease your pain.”
What we need, Kimmel told TT, is for a teenager to not be able to buy an AR-15.
“Somewhere along the line, these guys forgot they work for us. Not the NRA – us,” Kimmel told his audience, of Trump, Ryan, Rubio, and McConnell.
“And this time, we aren’t going to allow you to bow your heads in prayer for two weeks until you get an ‘all clear’ and we move onto the next thing,” Kimmel warned, ferociously. “We are going to make sure you do something this time.”
Urging viewers to visit website everytown.org, Kimmel also wanted them to write their representatives and demand action. And, if they don’t listen, “vote them out of office,” he suggested.
“Whatever you do, do something,” Kimmel told his audience. “Because I, for one, am very, very, very, very tired of this.”
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This year the NBA 2K franchise is back and bigger than ever, providing fans with the opportunity they’ve always dreamed of – to finally END THE DEBATE as to who are the best teams and players of all time with the ALL-NEW NBA’s Greatest mode. Featuring 15 legendary players such as Michael Jordan, Magic Johnson, Larry Bird, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, and Dr. J, NBA’s Greatest let you relive some of NBA’s most celebrated careers and rivalries, painstakingly recreated in historical detail. In addition, several innovative gameplay features have been added putting fans center court of an unprecedented basketball experience. Key Features:
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Introducing Math Symbols for Union and Intersection
By DecodingScience Staff
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Symbols are everywhere in math, but do you know what they mean? Image by Mike DeHaan
Our reader’s question is: “There are two sets of symbols for ‘union’ and ‘intersection’. One is the ∪ and the upside down ∩, and the other set is the ∨ and the ∧. What is the relationship between these symbols, which we sometimes think of as ‘U’s and ‘V’s?”
So let’s mind our Us and Vs, and their upside-down companions, in unions and intersections as well as logical functions.
The Math Symbols from the Question about Union and Intersection
Set Theory for Union and Intersection
Programming Computers with “And” and “Or”
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Summary of Mathematical Symbols for Intersection and Union, And and Or
The “V” symbols in the reader’s question are ∨ and ∧, which mean “Logical Or” and “Logical And.” The ∧ is a capital Greek Lambda.
The small ^ or “caret” is available on most keyboards as “shift-6”; it symbolizes the exponentiation function. It is important not to confuse ^ with ∧.
The symbol for “Union of sets” is ‘∪‘, while the symbol for “intersection of sets” is ‘∩.’
We use Venn Diagrams to show unions and intersection. Image by Mike DeHaan
The approach which relates most closely to the question involves set theory. Let A={a, e, i, o, u, y} and B={a, b, c, d, e, f}.
The union of sets ‘A’ and ‘B’ is the set containing the unique elements found in either set ‘A’ or set ‘B’, or both. In other words, “Bring all the elements together but discard duplicates”. A∪B={a, b, c, d, e, f, i, o, u, y}.
The intersection of sets ‘A’ and ‘B’ is the set containing the unique elements from both set ‘A’ and set ‘B’. In other words, to create an intersection, only select elements found in both original sets, which are the duplicates discarded by the union operation. A∩B={a, e}
With reference to the original question, from the view of set theory, the word “union” relates to the ‘∪‘ symbol; and the word “intersection” relates to the ‘∩’ symbol.
Math symbols can be confusing! Image by JRS
Our reader’s question also asked about ‘V’ and upside-down ‘V’, ‘Λ’ or Lambda. These are used in mathematical logic.
Let statement A = “All humans are mammals.” Let B = “All mammals are humans.” Let C = “Some birds can fly under some conditions.” Both ‘A’ and ‘C’ are true statements, but ‘B’ is false.
Let ‘X’ and ‘Y’ represent any possibly true or false statements.
In the math of logic, the statement “X and Y”, or “XΛY”, is true if and only if both ‘X’ and ‘Y’ are true.
However, “X or Y”, or “X∨Y”, is false if and only if both ‘X’ and ‘Y’ are false. “X∨Y” is true if either ‘X’ or ‘Y’ is true, which includes the situation where both ‘X’ and ‘Y’ are true.
From the example statements, “A∨B”, “A∨C” and “B∨C” are all true. However, “AΛB” and “BΛC” are both false. Only “AΛC” is true because each of statements ‘A’ and ‘C’ are true.
Depending on the programming language, “X and Y” might be represented as “X&&Y” rather than “XΛY.” Likewise, “X or Y” might be shown as “X||Y” rather than “X∨Y.”
The caret symbol, ‘^’, might be mistaken for lambda, ‘Λ’. However, it usually represents the exponentiation operation. For example, 2^3 = 2*2*2 = 8.
When writing on paper, or when the text editor supports superscript, the exponent is shown as a superscript. See the image above.
In set theory, intersection and union are shown by ‘∩’ and ‘∪‘. In mathematical logic, the “and” and “or” operations are shown by ‘Λ’ and ‘V’.
The union of sets, “A∪B”, might be seen as taking all the elements of ‘A’ and also the elements of ‘B’; but that would not be the “and” (‘Λ’) of mathematical logic.
The intersection of sets, “A∩B” has even less to do with a logical “or” (‘∨‘) operation.
Other areas of math may use these symbols in other ways, but these interpretations deal most directly with the reader’s question.
Wolfram Mathematica Documentation. Intersection; Union; And; Or. (2012). Accessed July 26, 2012.
Wood, Alan. Symbol font – Unicode alternatives for Greek and special characters in HTML. (1997-2010). Accessed July 26, 2012.
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About Us » Principal's Message
Allison Hansen, Marquez Principal
B.A. in History and Political Science, Northwestern University
M.A. School Leadership and Administrative Certificate, University of Pennsylvania
Ed.D. Education Leadership with a focus on principal preparation, University of Pennsylvania
A native of Des Moines, Iowa, Allison served as a Teach for America corps member in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, following her college graduation. After teaching 2nd and 5th grades and serving as Principal in Residence, she decided to abandon her plans for law school and work in education. “I wanted to make a difference in the lives of students like those who touched my heart in Baton Rouge,” she said. After completing her graduate education in Philadelphia and her dissertation in Washington, D.C., Dr. Hansen returned to the Chicago area to continue her career in education leadership. She was awed by the transformational classroom teachers at Marquez. “I love facilitating collaborative, innovative ideas that can make a difference for students, then letting our great teachers flourish,” she noted. “Their enthusiasm inspires the students to be respectful, present and eager to learn. We are a family at Marquez and care for every child as our own.”
Contact information: 773-321-2200 ahansen@aceroschools.org
Dear Marquez Family, friends, visitors, and future Marquez Marshals,
The Officer Donald J. Marquez Charter School continues to be a beacon of excellence that meets its students where they are and lifts them toward their highest potential. Our passion for learning permeates each classroom, spilling into our hallways and enriching our community! Our initiatives include:
• Eureka math curriculum, including tutoring and homework support, parent resources, and small-group instruction
• New Journeys reading curriculum focused on building students’ vocabulary, comprehension, and love of reading a variety of texts
• New Second Step Social-Emotional Learning curriculum including anti-bullying resources, safety resources, and problem solving resources for all students K-8
• Homework helpers and small groups to personalize instruction
• Individualized support to empower our 8th graders to select a secondary school where they will continue to thrive
• Regular celebrations of improvement, achievement, and citizenship
• Music, Art, Physical Education, and Spanish classes for K-8
• Field trips, which have included trips to Springfield, Washington, D.C., New York City, performances at the Palmer House, visits to see Broadway in Chicago shows, trips to Milennium Park, the Brookfield Zoo, and many many more!
• Extracurricular sports, scouts, and monthly after-school celebrations for families
Students at Marquez feel safe, loved, and empowered. As VIP members of the Marquez family, they look forward to school every day. Students are curious and compassionate collaborators. They make connections, ask big questions, write novels, perform in musicals, cheer on their teammates, sing solos, create masterpieces, create online presentations, build, develop, nurture, play, create, and soar. Students at Marquez will change Chicago and change the world!
Teachers at Marquez are empowered to be role models, professionals, fierce advocates, and lifelong learners. They create small groups, personalize instruction to meet students’ individual needs, and are skilled collaborators dedicated to bringing out the best in their students. Teachers are connected to their students’ families and recognize they are a team with the same goal of educating their students and preparing them for their life journeys.
Family members feel welcomed, safe, and empowered at Marquez. The line between home and school is blurred as families become critical partners in their students’ learning. Families feel at home at Marquez and share their unique traditions, cultures, and passions with the school community as engaged volunteers.
Marquez is a family that warmly welcomes and embraces each one of its members, as well as a laboratory for developing lives that will make the world a better place. Our students, parents, and teachers created and live by our guiding principles:
I work hard and persevere in the face of challenges.
I have a kind and courageous heart.
I strongly advocate for what is right.
I will be better today than I was yesterday.
Work hard. Be kind. Be strong. Be better. Marquez students, teachers, and families strive each day to put the “ACE” in Acero! Please reach out if we can answer any questions or if you would like to schedule a tour of our school.
Allison Hansen, Ed.D.
Principal, Marquez Charter School
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The World’s Worst Floods
The Deadliest Floods As Measured By Death Toll
Throughout history, floods have proven to be the deadliest natural disasters. This is mainly due to the high population densities around rivers. When well-behaved, rivers provide the resources needed for agriculture, transportation, and industry. It is no accident that all of the ancient civilizations rose around rivers.
It also should be noted that not all of the dead were the victims of the initial floodwaters. Disease and famine that followed the disasters probably killed more than the floodwaters themselves.
Flooding disasters primarily as a result of typhoons or hurricanes have been excluded from this list and are instead included on the list of worst hurricane disasters.
Huang He (Yellow) River, China
Death Toll: 1,000,000 to 3,700,000
The Huang He River is prone to flooding because of the broad expanse of plain that lies around it. One of the major reasons for the flooding is the high silt content that gives the river its yellow tint (and thus its name). The silt—which constitutes as much as 60% of its volume—builds up until the river actually is higher than the surrounding land. The tendency to flood is exacerbated by ice dams which block the river in Mongolia; the dams back up the water, and then release devastating walls of water when they break.
The history of flooding has prompted the Communist Chinese government to embark on a program of building dams for flood control. The dams, however, have not proven entirely effective and have been the target of criticism from environmentalists.
Death Toll: 900,000 to 2,000,000
Death Toll: 500,000 – 900,000
The 1938 flood of the Huang He was caused by Nationalist Chinese troops under Chiang Kai-Shek when they broke the levees in an attempt to turn back advancing Japanese troops. The strategy was partly successful. By 1940, the Japanese were essentially in a stalemate with Chinese forces.
Death Toll: 300,000
Chinese rebels destroy the dikes along the city of Kaifeng, flooding the surrounding countryside.
Ru River, Banqiao Dam, China
This flood was caused by the collapse of the Banquia Dam, along with several others, following a heavy rain caused by a typhoon. It is the worst dam related collapse in history.
Yangtze River, China
Although the Huang He has caused more deaths, the Yangtze has had more than 1,000 recorded floods.
The Netherlands and England
A combination of high tides and storms flooded the Thames and the Netherlands, killing 100,000.
Death Toll: 50,000
A seawall on the Zuider Zee failed, flooding the low-lying polder.
The Neva River, Russia
An ice dam clogged the Neva, flooding nearby cities.
The failure of a seawall on the Zuider Zee flooded the Dutch lowlands.
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Los Angeles IVC Filter Lawyers
The Emergence of IVC Filter Lawsuits in Los Angeles, California
Inferior vena cava filters (IVC Filter) are medical devices implanted in people prior to surgery. They’re supposed to prevent people from suffering from deadly blood clots or embolisms during surgery. They were thought to be a life-saver when they first came on the market. The way the IVR filters work is the metal filters on the device catch the clot and hold it in place until it is totally dissolved. This way, there won’t be any clotting or possible embolism. The biggest manufacturer of the IVC filter is a company named Bard. Two of the filters they make are called Recovery and G2. The problem is that these devices seem to have been defective. Once they were implanted in the patient’s body, they started to suffer complications. The thing about IVR filters is that they’re temporary. They aren’t meant to stay in the body longer than necessary. In fact, as soon as the danger of clotting is gone, the device is supposed to be removed from the body.
What was the Problem with IVR Filters in Los Angeles?
When Bard initially got FDA approval for their device, they used a shortcut. This is something available to companies who are marketing products that are very similar to other products with FDA approval. The idea is that, since the FDA did a ton of research on the original product, anything substantially similar to the product gets shortcut approval. Almost ten years ago, the FDA started getting a lot of complaints about IVR filters in general. Some of these complaints were:
Pieces break off from the device and travel through the patient’s body
The entire device would come unhinged and travel through the body
The device somehow cuts or tears parts of the patient’s insides
The FDA made it clear that the product was having issues and even sent notices to doctors. They also made it clear that Bard was supposed to warn their customers of these issues. Bard never did that. Some of the issues that these defective devices caused by patients included:
Venous wall puncture
Inability to remove the device
Patients who had the IVR filters implanted in their bodies started complaining of pain and complications. They decided it was time to take legal action. Given the number of potential plaintiffs, the cases would be filed as a class action. These cases would be handled by mass tort lawyers in Los Angeles and around the country.
Where did the IVR Filter Lawsuits Originate?
The first IVR Filter lawsuit was filed in 2015. It was filed by a person who had to get open-heart surgery because of damage caused by the filter. The plaintiff had such a strong case it settled in less than ten days. More and more complaints began to come in regarding an IVC filter. Aside from surgeries, some of the injuries caused by the IVR filters include:
Severe pain
Hemorrhaging
If you’ve been the victim of a defective IVR filter, you need to contact a mass tort lawyer in Los Angeles, California. An experienced mass tort lawyer will work hard to get you the compensation you deserve.
What Damages do IVR Filter Plaintiffs in California Deserve?
Depending on the severity of the injuries, plaintiffs sued for different amounts of damages. Some of the damages owed to IVC Filter plaintiffs involve:
Pain and suffering – Pain and suffering sometimes make up as much or more of a jury award than the rest combined. Juries (and judges) are sympathetic to plaintiffs who went through a lot of suffering as a result of their injuries. You can imagine the pain involved in something like a defective IVR filter. For example., what if you go to the hospital for a simple surgery and end up with a defective filter? You could have to get open-heart surgery just to repair the damage caused by the filter. This could be more risky and painful than the original surgery.
Lost Wages– If you suffer from a defective IVR filter, chances are you’ll miss a significant amount of time from work. You could be out for weeks or months. Your Los Angeles mass tort lawyer will submit evidence of how much time and income you lost.
Medical Bills – The number of medical bills you’ll experience as a result of a defective filter could be very high. You may need to have a second surgery to repair the damage caused by the filter. You may experience a serious infection that requires hospitalization and expensive medications. You have a right to be reimbursed for all of this.
Anyone who has suffered actual injuries from a defective IVR filter has the right to file suit. Depending on when you file, your case may be part of a class action. It’s important that you trust in an experienced mass torts attorney to handle your claim.
Contact a Mass Tort Lawyer in Los Angeles, California
If you or a family member have been injured by a defective IVC Filter, you need to contact a mass tort lawyer in Los Angeles, California. Your attorney can review your case and see if you qualify for a mass tort claim against the manufacturer. There have already been a number of IVC Filter cases filed. Some have settled and others are still pending. The cases rely on two things: the actual damages caused by the defective filters and the fact that the manufacturer chose to not warn their customers. The failure to warn is a big part of the lawsuit. Call and schedule your initial consultation with a Los Angeles mass tort lawyer today. You can sit with a skilled attorney and tell him your story. He will let you know if you have a legitimate case against the manufacturer or doctors. He’ll also let you know what your case may be worth. The initial consultation is free and you pay nothing until you settle your claim. You need to focus on getting well. Let your mass tort lawyer handle the legal side of things.
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By: Jack Makhlouf
We’ll be honest: There’s a huge difference between someone with a passing interest in neuroscience and someone who eat, sleeps, and breathes all things brain and behavior. While most people hear the word “psychologist” and think in clinical terms, psychologists–particularly those with a neuroscience emphasis–are unbelievably valuable in the learning sphere. After all, who better to advise on how best to make learning really stick than those individuals who have a deep and expert knowledge of the way the brain works?
From marketing to education, neuroscience, cognitive science, and behavioral experts are in high demand in the corporate world. Universities across the country are rising to the occasion by offering programs that focus heavily on behavioral and cognitive science. If you’re interested in a career in neuroscience, here are our top picks for programs.
NYU: Cognition and Perception Doctoral Program
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Expert: Future of connecting Israel to SGC unclear
Baku, Azerbaijan, Oct.20
By Leman Zeynalova – Trend:
The future of connecting Israeli gas to the Southern Gas Corridor is unclear, to say the least, Sijbren de Jong, analyst at The Hague Center for Strategic Studies and expert in energy security told Trend Oct.20.
Earlier, Cemil Ertem, advisor to the Turkish president, said that Turkey wants to connect Israeli gas supplies to the Southern Gas Corridor project.
The Southern Gas Corridor is one of the priority energy projects for the EU. It envisages the transportation of 10 billion cubic meters of Azerbaijani gas from the Caspian region to the European countries through Georgia and Turkey.
At the initial stage, the gas to be produced as part of the Stage 2 of development of Azerbaijan's Shah Deniz field is considered as the main source for the Southern Gas Corridor project. Other sources can also join this project at a later stage.
As part of the Stage 2 of the Shah Deniz development, the gas will be exported to Turkey and European markets by expanding the South Caucasus Pipeline and the construction of TANAP and TAP.
“For the Israel-Turkey pipeline, there are essentially two routes possible: through Lebanese and Syrian waters or via Cypriot waters,” de Jong said.
The war in Syria rules out the first option, and the second route also is fraught with difficulties, he said, adding that so, the future of this pipeline is unclear.
“Should it be built however, then I see no difficulties to connect it to the TANAP pipeline, provided the necessary infrastructure gets built,” the expert added.
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Hyperspectral remote sensing (optical and thermal sensors)
Application of statistical and machine learning methods in Atmospheric Science
Atmospheric composition – Air quality and long range transport
Atmospheric composition – Clouds, Radiation and Climate
Ph.D. Civil and Environmental Engineering, Technion – IIT (Israel Institute of Technology), Haifa, Israel, 2011
M.Sc. Agricultural Engineering (Water, Soil, and Environmental Sciences), Technion, 2002, with honors
B.Sc. Chemical Engineering, Technion – IIT, Haifa, Israel, 1999, with honors
Research Scientist – Bay Area Environmental Institute (BAER), NASA Ames Research Center, 2013-
NASA Post-Doctoral Fellow – NASA Ames Research Center, CA, 2011-2013
Research Associate – Technion R&D Institute, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Israel, 2010-11
Research Assistant – Technion, Civil and Environmental Engineering, 2000-2002, 2005-2010
NASA ARISE (Arctic Radiation, IceBridge, Sea&Ice Experiment), Fairbanks, AK, 09-10/14, instrument scientist and operator on C-130 aircraft, flight planner.
NASA/DOE TCAP (Two Column Aerosol Project),Cape-Cod, MA, 02/13, scientist.
USAID Lower Jordan River water quality project, Israel, 2001-02, water and sediment samples from the Jordan River and vicinity, scientist.
Bachelor of Science in chemical Engineering graduation honor, Technion, Israel, 1999
Master of Science in Agriculture Engineering graduation honor, Technion, Israel, 2002
Gutwirth Excellence Award, Technion, Israel 2002, 2008
Jacobs Excellence Award, Technion, Israel 2007
The “whole organism” Excellence award, Israeli Ministry of Agriculture, 2007-2008
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EU COST action school- environmental technologies and Air-quality monitoring Invited trainee,
Barcelona, Spain 13-15 June, 2013
NASA Post-doctoral Fellowship program (NPP) 2011-2013
Environmental Health Foundation (EHF), Organophosphates in Hula Basin: atmospheric levels, transport, degradation products and neurotoxic hazards in children following low-level long-term exposure, 2010-2013
Technion Institute of R&D, Detection of toxic aerosols by open-path FTIR, 2010-2011
Advancing Women in Science Fellowship, Weizmann Institute, Israel 2010-2012
Minerva Research Fellowship (Israel-Germany Exchange) 2009
Levi Eshkol Doctoral Fellowship – Israeli Ministry of Science 2008-2010
Rieger JNF Fellowship for research in Environmental Science (USA) 2001-2, 2007
First Author Publications:
Segal-Rozenhaimer, M., et al. (2018), Development of neural network retrievals of liquid cloud properties from multi-angle polarimetric observations, J. Quant. Spectrosc. Radiat. Transfer, 220, 39-51, doi:10.1016/j.jqsrt.2018.08.030.
Segal-Rozenhaimer, M., et al. (2014), Tracking elevated pollution layers with a newly developed hyperspectral Sun/Sky spectrometer (4STAR): Results from the TCAP 2012 and 2013 campaigns, J. Geophys. Res., 119, doi:10.1002/2013JD020884.
Segal-Rozenhaimer, M., et al. (2013), Retrieval of cirrus properties by Sun photometry: A new perspective on an old issue, J. Geophys. Res., 118, 4503-4520, doi:10.1002/jgrd.50185.
Co-Authored Publications:
Cochrane, S., et al. (2019), Above-cloud aerosol radiative effects based on ORACLES 2016 and ORACLES 2017 aircraft experiments, Atmos. Meas. Tech., 12, 6505-6528, doi:10.5194/amt-12-6505-2019.
LeBlanc, S., et al. (2019), Above Cloud Aerosol Optical Depth from airborne observations in the South-East Atlantic, doi: https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-2019-43 (submitted).
Miller, D. J., et al. (2019), Low-level liquid cloud properties during ORACLES retrieved using airborne polarimetric measurements and a neural network algorithm, doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-2019-327 (submitted).
Pistone, K., et al. (2019), Intercomparison of biomass burning aerosol optical properties from in situ and remote-sensing instruments in ORACLES-2016, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 19, 9181-9208, doi:10.5194/acp-19-9181-2019.
Sayer, A. M., et al. (2019), Two decades observing smoke above clouds in the south-eastern Atlantic Ocean: Deep Blue algorithm updates and validation with ORACLES field campaign data, Atmos. Meas. Tech., 12, 3595-3627, doi:10.5194/amt-12-3595-2019.
Shinozuka, Y., et al. (2019), Modeling the smoky troposphere of the southeast Atlantic: a comparison to ORACLES airborne observations from September of 2016, Atmos. Chem. Phys. Discuss., doi: https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-2019-678 (submitted).
Herman, J. R., et al. (2018), NO2 and HCHO measurements in Korea from 2012 to 2016 from Pandora spectrometer instruments compared with OMI retrievals and with aircraft measurements during the KORUS-AQ campaign, Atmos. Meas. Tech., 11, 4583-4603, doi:10.5194/amt-11-4583-2018.
Star, T., et al. (2018), 4STAR_codes: 4STAR processing codes, Zenodo, doi:10.5281/zenodo.1492912.
Knobelspiesse, K., et al. (2015), Remote sensing of mixed cloud and aerosol scenes. chapter in Light Scattering Reviews, Springer Praxis Books, 9, 167-210, doi:10.1007/978-3-642-37985-7_5.
Dunagan, S. E., et al. (2013), Spectrometer for Sky-Scanning Sun-Tracking Atmospheric Research (4STAR): Instrument Technology, Remote Sens., 5, 3872-3895, doi:10.3390/rs5083872.
Shinozuka, Y., et al. (2013), Hyperspectral aerosol optical depths from TCAP flights, J. Geophys. Res., 118, 12,180-12,194, doi:10.1002/2013JD020596.
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Michael 'axtremes' Harmse
Mettlestate recently revealed their newly-minted partnership with ESEA. It’s pretty big news for the South African CS:GO scene. Here’s why.
E-S-E-hey?
The American-based CS:GO pickup game (pug) platform runs several high-profile international leagues such as the ESEA Mountain Dew League, where SA’s best team ATK ply their trade in North America. There is also a local ESEA Open Division for South Africa that is set to start soon. The Mettlestate Club on ESEA comprises two divisions where individual players can grind away in pugs to potentially win prizes for consistently good performances. Very much the same concept as ESEA Rank S overseas or FACEITs FPL.
ESEA And Mettlestate working together also means there’s some very exciting potential for future tournaments under the ESEA banner as well as the very welcome addition of their secure anti-cheat software to all future Mettlestate tournaments. That in itself is a massively positive step in the right direction when the vast majority of local tournaments are still run online. I hope to see other tournament operators following suit with similar anti-cheat measures.
Anthrax unpacks it all
I spoke with the always amiable Anthrax of Mettlestate, also know to his friends as Barry Louzada. The Mettlestate main man had some great additional insights.
Ax: You’ve announced the launch of the Mettlestate Club on ESEA. Could you explain for those that might not be aware how it works?
Anthrax: The ESEA Club initiative was launched in mid-2018, and allows players to find their communities and people to play with. The Mettlestate ESEA Club is exactly that. A place where players can join a community and play to win over $800 in prizes per month, or just play with their friends in the pug system for less than R100 a month. For a full breakdown of what you can expect and play for, head on over to the Mettlestate website.
It seems quite similar to the Souzern Lions Faceit Hub in concept. What would you say differentiates ESEA and why in your opinion should players choose your platform over the competition? Are there any unique features?
Since the two platforms are very similar in nature, they’re always going to have a similar look and feel. I think the biggest difference is the fluidity of our league structure. With promotions and relegations every month between the divisions, it ensures a constantly active player-base and incentive if you want to get some of the amazing prizes up for grabs. This ensures no favouritism, as the most active and successful players will naturally make it to the Pro Division if they’re good enough just by playing and being active on the platform.
I think you touched on the most important point there – choice. In this day and age, we have multiple choices for any product we wish to purchase, and esports should be the same. It’s not about choosing one over the other, but more about offering players the choice and options of where they can play.
Do you feel that the South African CS:GO scene is big enough for both services to co-exist? Do you think one may eventually overtake and kill off the other?
I think our scene is big enough to handle both. In our view, adding more, regular prizes should only encourage participation and activity within the CS:GO community and allow both platforms to flourish. Both exist happily overseas, so there’s no reason it can’t do the same here.
The ESEA Open South Africa League Season 31 is supposed to start on the 29th of April, with registrations already closed. What can CS:GO fans look forward to from the league? Will Mettlestate be broadcasting weekly matches or only the playoff stages?
We will be supporting the ESEA League where and when we can, but no plans have been cemented quite yet. Expect to hear more from us about this in the future!
The addition of ESEA’s Anti-Cheat technology to all future Mettlestate competitions is a welcome one for the community. There was the high-profile banning of Zonc in 2017 during a Mettlestate league. Do you feel that it will help stop similar situations from happening in future? What does it mean for the competitive integrity of matches in future?
Mettlestate always strives to hold the highest quality tournament possible, both for its players and the community at large. With the increase in cheating in recent tournaments both locally and internationally, we had to take action in order to ensure the future quality of all of our tournaments. ESEA, with its Anti-Cheat technology and client, solves almost all those issues for us, and provides a high-quality server platform for players and teams to play their matches. It was almost a no-brainer from us to explore a partnership with ESEA.
Syntech Masters will be run on the ESEA platform as well. Briefly tell us about that tournament. The Summit style broadcast with popular local players on casting duty sounds interesting. Any hints as to who those players might be?
The Syntech Masters, formally known as the Ballistix Masters, is a new partnership between us at Mettlestate and the awesome people of Syntech. The tournament will run over the course of about 3 months in total, and as you said, will feature a “Summit” style LAN final, with R150,000 in prizes and hardware up for grabs, split between two titles, CS:GO and Dota 2. We look forward to seeing who makes it to the LAN final and can promise there’ll be a few special guests along the way!
Are there any other big (or small) things in the pipeline that you can tell us about when it comes to Mettlestate’s involvement with CS:GO this year?
My formal response is a definite “maybe”! All jokes aside though, we at Mettlestate like to do things properly and in order to do so, we have to take time to ensure the quality of our tournaments. We have to take the time necessary to ensure that the quality of our tournaments remains high, as well as ensuring that all the paperwork is in place. So although I can’t tell you anything right now, I can tell you we love the passion in the CS:GO community, and are always are always striving to do our best to make things happen for the scene.
Michael Harmse
Michael "axtremes" Harmse masquerades as a CS:GO commentator, analyst, journalist, and podcaster. In reality he's controlled by a race of sentient super hats and his coming heralds the end of all mankind. Have a nice day.
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Bosch, Juan
(Juan Bosch Gavino) (hwän bōsh), 1909–2001, president of the Dominican Republic (Feb.–Sept., 1963). A teacher and writer, he spent 24 years in exile during the dictatorship of Rafael TrujilloTrujillo Molina, Rafael Leonidas
, 1891–1961, president of the Dominican Republic (1930–38, 1942–52). Trained by U.S. marines during U.S. occupation of the country, he was army chief in the presidency of Horacio Vásquez, whom he ousted in 1930.
..... Click the link for more information. and helped found (1939) the Dominican Revolutionary party. He returned (1961) to the Dominican Republic after the assassination of Trujillo and was elected president in the first free elections (Dec., 1962) held in 38 years. He introduced sweeping social and economic reforms but was ousted after seven months by military leaders who viewed him as too leftist. An attempt by his supporters to restore him to power in Apr., 1965, brought civil war and provoked armed intervention by U.S. troops. In 1966, Bosch was overwhelmingly defeated for the presidency by Joaquín BalaguerBalaguer, Joaquín
(Joaquín Balaguer Ricardo) , 1907–2002, president of the Dominican Republic (1960–62, 1966–78, 1986–96). A lawyer by trade, he held posts under the dictator Rafael Trujillo Molina.
..... Click the link for more information. . After a voluntary exile in Europe, Bosch returned (1970) and joined the opposition to President Balaguer. In 1973 he founded the Dominican Liberation party, which he led until 1994. In 1978, 1982, 1986, 1990, and 1994 he again ran unsuccessfully for the presidency.
Born June 30, 1909, in La Vega. Dominican political and state figure; writer.
Bosch participated in the opposition movement against the Trujillo dictatorship. He was forced to emigrate in 1937. In 1939 he was one of the founders of the Dominican Revolutionary Party (PRD). He returned to the country in 1961 and was the PRD’s candidate for the presidency in 1962. Between February and September 1963 he was president of the Dominican Republic. His government carried out a number of measures infringing on the interests of US monopolies. In April 1963 the government adopted the first bourgeois-democratic constitution. Bosch’s activity evoked dissatisfaction among the imperialists of the USA and the forces of domestic reaction. He was removed as a result of a military coup (September 1963) and was in exile until 1965. In September 1965, during the upsurge of the patriotic movement in the country which took place under the banner of the restoration of the constitution of 1963, he returned to his homeland. In 1966 he was a candidate for the presidency, but under the conditions of the American occupation (from April 1965) of the Dominican Republic, he was defeated and emigrated once more. In 1970 he returned to the country.
Bosch is the author of a number of literary and journalistic works. Some have been translated into English, French, German, and Italian. His works in Russian translation are “The Rebel” and “The Holiday of Encarnación Mendoza” (Inostrannaia literatura, 1965, no. 11).
The Unfinished Experiment: Democracy in the Dominican Republic. New York, 1965.
El Pentagonismo Sustituto del imperialismo. Madrid, 1968.
Cuentos escritos en el exilio. Santo Domingo, 1962.
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Fitzgerald Station and Farmstead
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Forrest City Riot of 1889
In the 1888 election, the Union Labor Party, which included farmers of the Agricultural Wheel, allied with the Republicans to challenge the Democrats. Aware of black Arkansans’ important electoral support of this movement, white Democrats responded by launching an effort to end African Americans’ political participation. In St. Francis County in eastern Arkansas, which had become a black-majority county by 1890, the Wheel/Republican alliance became politically powerful. In 1888, county Union Laborites and Republicans formed a fusion ticket to challenge the previously dominant Democrats. Much to the Democrats’ dismay, three black Republicans captured the offices of county assessor, treasurer, and coroner, and white Union Labor candidates won the offices of sheriff, county clerk, and county judge. Shortly after the election, …
Frederick Hanger House
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One of the most picturesque, best preserved, and most carefully restored houses in Little Rock (Pulaski County) is the late-nineteenth-century Frederick Hanger House. It retains a high percentage of its original fixtures, fittings, and architectural features and is an outstanding example of the Queen Anne style of architecture. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on March 15, 1974. Peter Hanger, originally from Kentucky, moved to Arkansas in the 1830s, settling first in Chicot County and, by 1848, in Little Rock. In 1850, he married Matilda Cunningham, daughter of Dr. Matthew Cunningham and his wife, who were among Little Rock’s earliest settlers. He invested in real estate and was active in a variety of businesses, including U.S. Mail …
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Frolich, Jacob
Jacob Frolich was a German immigrant and a Confederate soldier who became an active and high-profile figure in post–Civil War Arkansas politics. An alleged leader of the Ku Klux Klan in Arkansas, he was accused of murder in a case that highlighted the political divisions in the state at that time. Ultimately acquitted of the charges, he went on to be elected to three terms as Arkansas’s secretary of state. Jacob Frolich was born in Obernforf, Bavaria, Germany, on November 15, 1837, to John Frolich and Marie Elizabeth Herrman Frolich. When Frolich was nine, the family came to the United States. They lived initially in New Orleans, Louisiana, but ultimately settled in Indiana. At the age of fourteen, Frolich began …
Fyler, Eliza A. (Lizzie) Dorman
Lizzie Dorman Fyler was an activist in Arkansas in the latter part of the nineteenth century. Although she died at the age of thirty-five, she had already made a mark as a leader in the temperance movement, and she laid the early foundation for the drive to achieve women’s suffrage in Arkansas. Eliza (Lizzie) Dorman was born on March 11, 1850, in Massachusetts to Dr. Uriah Dorman and Eliza Alma Dorman. She moved with her parents and her mother’s parents to Wisconsin in 1853. While little is known about her youth, she appears to have grown up and received her early education in Wisconsin before marrying Frank F. Fyler in 1870. The couple had a daughter in 1871, by which time …
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Football Manager 2019 (inc. bsmaff's graphics)
Thread starter bsmaff
Start date 7 August 2018
bsmaff
Welwyn Garden
Just finished my 2nd season in charge of Exeter.
Was offered the Norwich job in January but turned it down, as they were 12 points of the play offs and they stated they expected to minimum reach the play offs and gain promotion.
So stayed at Exeter and finished the season 2nd and gained promotion to the Championship.
I started the season well this time and was in the play off places for most of the season, before getting into some really good form Feb/March and finished March at the top of table before some poor results and some Mid-Week rearranged games forced me into some rotations I didn't really want to make, but had too.
That's the issue with having favourable draws in the FA Cup and getting to the 5th Round before being beaten comfortably 4-0 at home by Mans City.
Predicting an incredibly busy summer as my squad included the maximum 6 loan players all season, and then a lot are now out of contract which I decided against renewing, as don't feel they are good enough to avoid relegation back to League One.
So I will be required to sign another 6 loan players, as you don't have to pay their wages.
Followed by making sure I have players to cover every position in the squad, which will be pretty difficult making sure I have the right stats for the 15+ players I will need to sign, as can't go to my own youth players as my youth academy sucks and rarely does it produce players of any quality.
It will be an interesting and very long summer, but I am sure I can get a squad together to avoid relegation and hopefully finish Mid Table before then pushing for the play offs in my 2nd season in the Championship.
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I'd really love a quick match mode where you can do a one-off match between two teams. It would be especially good if you could configure fitness and morale to match real-world scenarios. Every year I hope for that to be a new feature but it never is.
FM Update January 2019:-
All the graphics have new versions available, these have been both uploaded and the changes are available as a separate download.
Kits for some reason in the past 2-3 weeks have been massively updated with lots of new kits being released or updated, guess the kit makers had loads of extra time over Christmas.
As for the data update, I will update the website every Monday and Friday with the latest Data Update, as January is the only time this is useful.
And will post one straight away on Feb 1st after the transfer deadline is complete.
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I play pretty slowly (I only manage a couple of seasons before the new game is out usually) - I don't get a lot of time to play, but I go through the finest details (I've got a handheld whiteboard with transfer targets and observations, for example), so time progresses really slowly.
Anyway, I'm coming to the end of my first season with Tranmere, and it's been a real slog (not least because the financial situation is a joke - even though I've reduced the wage budget and barely spent any of the transfer budget, our loans will keep us in debt for about 20 years).
We were flying for the first eight games or so - during which time I picked up a few young players to develop in the future. Then, after the patches started rolling out, our form started to drop, and we were only just hanging onto the playoff places. Then, in January, the players that the club had on loan in real life (who, in FM, won't even enter contract talks with Tranmere - it feels really harsh) buggered off, and we immediately crashed down to 12th.
I signed some rough replacements for the leavers in January - guys like Joss Labadie who have average core stats for their roles, but who are otherwise poor. (I just can't get players above the level of those I've already got to talk to me.) I insist on determination and work rate being 13+ but as for everything else, beggars can't be choosers.
However, something has happened in the last four games, and I don't know what has really been the cause (all I can think of is that I've stopped changing formation almost every game, and started playing the younger players more often). Our form has gone from WLDLD, to DWWWW.
With two games left, here's how everything looks:
Two points off the play-off places! (All because the teams in the lower play-off positions all lost their previous game.)
The next two games are against the teams in 15th and 16th - although Port Vale's last two games are against lower-placed opposition than that.
Interestingly, the next game is against Bury, managed by the man I replaced...
So close...
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Did you manage to get promoted Chris?
When it comes to signing players you need to look at the guidelines of the role the player is playing.
But also when your in L2, L1 you need to go to the U23 squads of the Prem teams and decide - He looks quite good, he looks good and then try and sign those players.
The advantage of loaning players from Prem teams is you never have to contribute any wages and can fill your team with 6 loan players, meaning you only actually need about 10 players on your actual books, saving a fortune in wages.
You seem to be drawing a lot of games and had some of them been won, seems you would of been promoted via the Autos.
bsmaff said:
Only had time to play one game since (in my lunch hour), this is how it's all looking with one game to go...
In the game, versus Bury, went with a cautious mentality, in the first ten minutes we had 18% possession and I thought we were going to get crushed, but thankfully we grabbed a goal on the break. HT 1-0. Second half, carried on playing the same way, they scored a goal from outside the box right into the corner, so I went from 4-4-2 to 4-2-4 direct, and in the last half an hour my creative CM Ollie Banks hit one from outside the box, low and into the corner. FT 2-1.
My £300 p/w defensive CM Aaron Kuhl, who I signed at the start of the season (in the role of BACKUP) has now played 15 games and has demanded a new contract at £1,000 p/w...
I keep trying that, but the player immediately turns their nose up and rejects the move. I think the "reputation" of the team is low because of the fact that we've just bounced up from the Conference (in real life), yet whenever we sign a player the guy will invariably say it's because "Tranmere are a big name".
Perhaps I just keep looking at players who are much too good. (I try to make sure that any player I bring in is at least 10% better than the guys I already have, otherwise I might as well play my own youth players - but it's really difficult to get those guys.)
Yeah, we've conceded very few goals really, but there was a run of games where we were conceding in the last 10 minutes of the game and throwing away a victory.
I find using "cautious" or "defensive", even in the last ten minutes or so, can be absolutely suicidal... Which seems really counter-intuitive...
Chris Davies said:
I always find this as well.. Incredibly frustrating, but I find this the problem when going Ultra Defensive, it just stinks and very often concede 2/3 goals in last 10-15 minutes when switching to this, although it should mean shut up shop and won't concede.
I normally always start home games Attacking and start away games on either cautious or Balanced.
After 30 mins I change to balanced, 45 mins I change to positive and then after 65 make a couple of subs and change to attacking.
Unless I am winning then I always stay on what I started on.
I just find that you should never played Ultra Defensive or Ultra Attacking, as you never score on Ultra Attacking and always concede on Ultra Defensive.
mattmid
yet whenever we sign a player the guy will invariably say it's because "Tranmere are a big name"
To be fair if you had in the Rovers part it is a fairly big name
On this topic there was a lower league manager on talksport recently, can't say for sure but I think it was Stevenage and he mentioned about how they get some of these young guys on loan and they are big time Charlie's who think they have already made it. They don't want to be there and so on. He said he had a lad from Spurs who was the opposite of that and an absolute pleasure to deal with, keen to learn and gain experience and saw it as a valuable part of learning to make it in the game.
How's Ben Tollet doing these days, I think he had a bad injury didn't he, is he back playing now? Always thought he had the potential to do pretty well.
mattmid said:
I thought he was doing pretty well for us, 33 appearances over three years - clearly has potential. But he hasn't scored in the last two seasons (not that it's his role, really), and then we ended up loaning him out to Wrexham just before Christmas. Since then, he's played twice for them - and scored!
I'd say he and Larnell Cole are two decent wingers for our level - and we've loaned Tollitt out, and just (today) released Cole. I can only hope we bring in some replacements before the end of January...
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The league season is over...
A really drab 1-0 win in the final game - we only managed four shots on target but thankfully good old Larnell Cole managed a typical long range shot.
On to the play-offs! But whatever happens now, I'm happy with the achievement this season.
Which is a good job, because I've only beat the team we're up against once - with 93rd minute and 95th minute goals... @bsmaff, even the AI gets your boys promoted...
NOTE: "Exeter out of sorts of late" is an odd thing to say, given that in your last game of the season, you beat automatically-promoted Forest Green 5-1... Gulp.
Last edited: 15 January 2019
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I just had probably the greatest title battle I have ever had in Football Manager.
Going into the last 2 games of the season and there is 1 point separating the Top 3.
Man Utd, Liverpool and Exeter
After 36 Games:-
Final Day Fixtures:-
Final Table and results:-
I must admit going into the final game of the season I 100% thought the title was mine.
Knew Liverpool would beat Man Utd, but the title changed hands to all of us winning the league at one point.
It was without doubt the closest final day I will ever see on Football Manager, no matter how many time I play the game.
Good news is I have now qualified for the Champions League and now I finally able to sign some established players rather than taken a punt on kids.
This season I have managed to sign John Stones for £12m and loan Phil Foden from Man City, will make a few more signings and hopefully will be able to make the final push this season and win the title.
Play-off semi-finals have just finished...
Final score 5-3 to us!
Can't quite believe it!
I went with "attacking" in both games - first game finished 2-0 and we bossed the game, despite Exeter's players being far better than ours (we finished with something like 23 shots, 12 of which were on target - the keeper played a blinder).
Given how well it worked - went with "attacking" again, and was 1-0 up within 45 seconds! Bossed most of the first half - but I switched to "balanced", conceded, switched to "cautious", conceded, switched to "defensive", conceded... But held on.
The play-off final is against Swindon, and I sort of don't want to win - because I honestly don't think the squad is fit for League Two, let alone League One, and the debt is only getting worse - so we may never get better players...
On the one hand, I'm genuinely proud, there's no way we deserve to be in League One. Our players aren't good enough and they've performed a miracle. On the other hand... We've conceded one of the lowest amounts of goals in the league, yet in the play-offs, we've been absolutely atrocious defensively. Disgraceful. So bad - and it's mostly because as soon as you move back from "positive" to anything else, you pretty much automatically concede...
Congrats on getting promoted.
I wouldn't worry too much about L1 the quality difference isn't too much and with a couple or 6 decent loan signings you should be fine, and you might even be more surprised and get into the play offs.
The Championship is where the quality massively improves.
On Monday when everything is fully uploaded.
I will release my final graphics pack for FM2019.
Most graphics and kits have been available now for a while and the changes to the faces and everything are just minor and not necessary.
Latest FM Graphics are now available back on OneDrive.
The website expires in a month, so thought it best to move everything.
All graphics have been updated to the 20th Feb, and Data Update is from 27/02
Password is - evoweb (all lower case)
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@bsmaff - Do you still have your packs for FM17? I've been thinking about starting a new save on it (didn't buy 18 or 19) but your links in the thread are no longer active and I've formatted my drive since I last played FM.
If not, no worries! Just found your stuff really convenient as the FM community always seems reluctant to compile "megapacks" or full complete patches for some reason...
rojofa said:
I no longer have the graphics packs for older versions of the game.
However the ID's I don't think ever change, so I believe you can use the FM19 packs for FM17.
The FM community don't release "megapacks" as individual kit designers don't really like the sharing of kits as part of megapacks - no idea why.
So I also combine the graphics every year anyway, so might as well share the work I do, as it can take a while to sort the kits into folders and make them easy to access.
This is then just shared with people on this forum.
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Any ideas on how to limit the amount of long shots my team take? And also the amount of crosses
Play a 433 SK A, 2BPD D, 2 WB AUTO, DLP D, 2 AP SUP, 2 IF A, 1CF SUP
Possession style of football, but all wide players just keep slinging the ball in the box and I have like 30 attempts on goal and 50% or more are long shots
Purchased a new domain..
So will update the website this week, so all files will be downloadable again on there.
You're an absolute star, I rely on you every year for my Football Manager goodies - thank you!
You must be getting excited now..
The in form team in the League / Highest scorer.
It seems getting to the tail end of the season, your form has really picked up and pretty certain of the play offs you must be thinking of promotion.
Although we will probably make the play offs, our form recently has been very inconsistent and losing Stockley in January and not replacing him properly, we won't get promoted and lose to whoever we get in the play offs.
In the in form team in the League / Highest scorer.
It seems getting to the tail end of the season, certain of the play offs you must be thinking of promotion.
Still can't believe how well we're doing after coming up from the Conference - but I think a lot of it is having got to a play-off final with a lot of the same guys, and losing, before going on to win one the next year.
I'd be a lot happier if we could avoid the play-offs entirely this year... Bury (above us) are in financial trouble, and I'm wondering what will happen to them. The players don't seem affected by it AT ALL on the pitch, which is astounding - credit to them - but at the end of the season, if they don't sort it out, they might be docked points. Which would be a shitty way to do it, but...
My bigger worry is that our final games are all against top six sides - so our destiny is well and truly in our own hands at the minute, but realistically I think it's going to be too much all at once, and we'll end up with a play-off place, burned out, going out in the first stage. (You read it here first...)
Mellon is a brilliant manager - a Scottish team tried to poach him last year and I'm wondering if the deal with the chairman was that he'd give Tranmere one more season and then go. From what I'd heard, he'd practically signed on the dotted line with them, so I don't know what changed - but thank God it did.
As for Norwood... He's a hero. The most consistent striker we've had in my lifetime other than John Aldridge, I think. There's no way he'll be with us next year if we don't go up - in-fact, even if we do...
Didn't know Bury were in so much trouble, but they will more than likely miss out on the Autos as recent form has been shocking.
MK Dons have been really struggling considering they have Tisdale in charge and I would assume the highest budget in the league this season.
Lincoln have been head and shoulders above everyone this season and deserve to go up.
Mansfield were incredible against us and have been one of the best teams I have seen this season against us.
Tranmere looked impressive against us as well, lucky goal from a deflection but looked completely in control and your Right Back is one of the best players I have seen in the League this year.
Norwood really has turned into a top striker, it is incredible that when he was with us, although only 19/20 he didn't show any quality or ability to show he was ever going to make it.. Although we signed him because he scored a absolute shed load of goals in a lower league - I think is was an average of 2 a game so we snapped him up hoping he would turn into a top striker, which he has now done - We could really of done with him now, as our strikers are really poor and will probably all struggle to reach double figures in a season.
After the Easter weekend we should see a clear indication of where everyone is roughly going to finish, with 2 games very close together.
We should beat Crawley, but will struggle against Stevenage as they are going well at the moment and have an outside shot at the Play Offs.
I will republish the FM site on 1st May.
From this date, graphics will be available to download from both the website and OneDrive.
I will upload all the latest graphics, except the kits... As I have not updated these since Feb and doubt no kits have changed since then.
Although I keep saying it *THIS* will be the last graphics update for FM 2019.
I will though during the summer transfer window update the Data Update twice a week - Probably Monday and Friday with all the latest transfers.
In other news:-
Exeter are hanging on by the skin of their teeth to the final play off spot.
Losing to Crawley was an embarrassment, and then a well played draw against Stevenage, where we were robbed by the linesman by disallowing a goal, which was not offside and 2nd already crossed the line before anyone touched it in.
Now got 2 very tough games against Oldham and Forest Green (who at this moment a win could get them in the Autos)
Tranmere are now guaranteed a play off spot.. But who do you fancy?
Looks to be Forest Green or MK Dons - Although MK Dons are going in on the worse form - Tisdale seems to always get it right in the play offs and has a 100% record over two legs.
Thanks so much, @bsmaff. I've been stuck into FIFA 19, Snooker 19 and PGA Tour 19 recently but I'm planning on getting back into Football Manager after reading some great articles about Solksjaer's beginnings. Really inspiring stuff and it makes me want to turn a small club into a big club again (I just wish I could wrap my head around half of what the game does, telling your players not to hit long shots doesn't stop them, and telling your defenders to stay deep doesn't keep them back - for me, anyway)...
I'm obviously delighted that Tranmere have made the play-offs but if Forest Green make it, I would bet a lot of money that we'll lose to them again, if not in the initial stage then at Wembley. You can see the fear in the players (from when they beat us in the play-off final of 16/17) - and in the fans.
Tisdale might have a great record but I'd rather face MK Dons any day.
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Brilliant stuff, @bsmaff. I've been playing again for the past few days but my PC has started overheating every time (out of nowhere - saying that, it's at least 7 years old) so I've got to fix that first...
Also - for God's sake make sure your lot beat Forest Green at the weekend and get yourself that last play-off place!
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George Enescu: Complete Works for Cello and Piano / Radutiu, Rundberg
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William Wallace: Symphonic Poems / Martyn Brabbins, BBC Scottish SO
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This recording from Hyperion Records on their mid-priced Helios line is the welcome reissue of a full priced release from 1996. At that time,...
KornGOLDMark – Works by Korngold & Goldmark
Violinist Orsolya Korcsolan's recording of music for violin and piano, its program ingeniously summed up in the album title, "KornGoldMark", brings together the romantically...
J. B. Foerster: Dreams, Memories and Impressions – The complete music for solo piano / Patricia Goodson
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Right from the opening track, Dreaming, by Josef Bohuslav Foerster, it amazes that this superb release from Brilliant Classics is the first time the composer's...
Leevi Madetoja: Symphonies 1 & 3; Okon Fuoko Suite / Helsinki PO, Storgårds
In an earlier review on Expedition Audio from about a year ago (March 12th to be exact), I recommended John Storgårds' recording of Leevi...
Godowsky: Twelve Impressions/ Nazrin Rashidova, violin; Roderick Chadwick, piano
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Aside from a few largely unavailable Heifetz recordings of a couple pieces here, the music for violin and piano by Leopold Godowsky on this...
Jean Francaix: Music for Piano / Corinna Simon: piano
Coming from Delta Classics' Piano Rarities line, German pianist Corinna Simon has recorded this much needed program of piano music by French composer Jean Françaix. Françaix...
Fritz Brun: Symphony 1; Overture to a Jubilee Celebration / Moscow SO, Adriano
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Guild Records has become an essential label for listeners eager to discover exceptional unknown repertoire, especially for those with an interest in orchestral music...
Adolphe Samuel: Symphony No. 6; Joseph Jongen: Three Symphonic Movements / Brabbins
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In 2012, the Royal Flemish Philharmonic joined the growing number of orchestras who manage their own record labels. This recording of Adolphe Samuel's Symphony No....
Reynaldo Hahn: Chamber Music, Vol. 2 / Quatuor Gabriel, Roland Pidoux
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This is the fourth in a series of programs from the French Maguelone label presenting first time recordings of the music of Reynaldo Hahn....
Leevi Madetoja: Symphony No. 2; Kullervo; Elegy / Helsinki PO, Storgards
Leevi Madetoja's Kullervo, Op. 15 opens with a sforzando by strings and timpani followed by a loud, sustained tremolo and timpani roll. Horns enter in unison with a...
Anton Rubinstein: Symphony No. 5; Dmitry Donskoy, overture; Faust, Op. 68
Russian composer Anton Rubinstein (1829-1894) wrote six symphonies, the Second, known as The Ocean, being the most frequently performed and recorded. His Symphony No. 5 in G...
Dimitar Nenov (1901-1953): Etudes 1&2; Toccata; Miniatures; Cinema Suite / Viktor Valkov, piano
The music on this Grand Piano CD traverses twenty-three years from the career of Bulgarian composer Dimitar Nenov (1902-1953), a period that saw enormous...
CPR Electrio / Ondřej Pivec, Karel Ruzicka, Russell Carter
A high-energy jazz fusion album you can dance to, CPR Electrio’s self titled album is above all a joint demonstration of their dynamism and...
Olivier Greif: Sonate de Requiem; Piano Trio
Originally released in 2006, Harmonia Mundi has returned this recording of Olivier Greif's Sonate de Requiem and Piano Trio to the active catalog as part of their mid-priced HM...
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- General Health -
Dad’s Weight Can Affect Children’s Risk of Diabetes
How a father’s healthy lifestyle and weight can benefit the health of his children.
By Experience Life Staff | July 24, 2012
There’s a link between a father’s weight and diet at the time of conception and an increased risk for diabetes in his children, according to a study published last year in the journal Nature.
Researchers Margaret Morris, PhD, and Sheau-Fang Ng overfed male rats a high-fat diet to induce obesity and glucose intolerance. The rats then mated with normal-weight female rats. When the researchers examined the pairs’ offspring, they found that males showed nascent signs of diabetes and females showed significant signs of diabetes.
In the female offspring, Morris and Ng found altered expression of a number of genes linked to the ability to produce insulin. “This suggests that offspring of obese fathers may experience changes in their pancreases,” says Morris. Also, most of the females were underweight at birth. Humans who are underweight at birth are more likely to be obese as adults.
The research duo attributes the alterations to chemical changes, triggered by lifestyle factors, that determine whether or not a certain gene is expressed.
The implications are important, says Morris: “If a similar process occurs in humans, it underlines the need to maintain a healthy diet and weight for one’s own health and for that of the next generation.”
Man Alive: Fitness Inspiration for Husbands and Fathers
By Myatt Murphy
Somewhere between being breadwinners, role models, and lovers, many married men lose track of their commitment to fitness. Here’s what smart guys can do to reclaim their health and vitality, and why it matters to those who depend on them.
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Plummeting Sperm Count May Signal Health Risks
By Serena Rutledge
Some researchers have pointed to environmental toxins, stress, and obesity as contributing factors.
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US Assessment of the Fetal Head and Neck: A State-of-the-Art Pictorial Review Academic Article
When attention is paid to the details of normal and abnormal fetal head and neck anatomy, abnormalities that normally would be missed at prenatal ultrasonography can routinely be diagnosed. Five basic views are used to assess the fetal head and neck: a transverse view of the head in the plane of the cavum septum pellucidum and cerebellum, a sagittal and a coronal view of the face to visualize the nose and lips, a sagittal view of the cervical spine, and a transverse view of the orbits to measure the biorbital and interorbital distances. Thickened nuchal fold, a common sign of Down syndrome, can be assessed with transverse images of the head. Transverse views are also useful to demonstrate cystic hygroma, occipital meningocele, and encephalocele, all of which can be associated with other severe anomalies. Micrognathia, cleft lip and palate, and macroglossia, which are best depicted with sagittal and coronal views of the face, are also associated with other fetal abnormalities. Visualization of these entities should prompt further search and amniocentesis. Lymphangioma of the tongue appears similar to macroglossia but is an isolated anomaly. Transverse views through the orbits are helpful for demonstrating orbital teratoma, orbital encephalocele, and hypo- and hypertelorism (the latter two being associated with other abnormalities). Sagittal views of the neck can demonstrate cystic hygroma, teratoma, and an enlarged thyroid.
Mernagh, John
Mohide, Patrick Thomas
Lappalainen, Raymond E
Fedoryshin, James G
Congenital Abnormalities (MeSH)
Fetal Diseases (MeSH)
Head (MeSH)
Neck (MeSH)
Nuclear Medicine & Medical Imaging (Science Metrix)
Pregnancy (MeSH)
Ultrasonography, Prenatal (MeSH)
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Fetal Diseases
Ultrasonography, Prenatal
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All posts by Aswathy Venugopal
I am a class 12 student(Humanities) in K V Pattom(shift 1).
June 21, 2014 Aswathy Venugopal 1 Comment
“I come from a country which was created at midnight. When I almost died, it was just after midday.”
The book titled ‘I am Malala’ is the autobiography of Malala Yousufzai, the 14 year old girl who has drawn worldwide attention for her journey through 3 bullets fired by Taliban, while striving to ensure access to education as a birthright of all children. She hails from Swat valley, a remote valley in northern Pakistan.
The book is actually written by Christina Lamb, a foreign correspondent, during direct interviews with Malala on her hospital bed after her miraculous recovery out of death in Queen Birmingham Hospital, London. Published in 2013, the book is worthwhile for both adults and children and especially for the entire youth with its vibrancy to get determined to bring about changes in this beautiful world for the better.
Even when her land is in turmoil due to the dwelling of Taliban, when she writes about her native valley, she describes it as the most beautiful place in the world. It is her intense love towards her land that is evident when she says, ” Swat Valley is a heavenly kingdom of mountains, gushing waterfalls and crystal clear lakes.”
Even at this age, she holds clear awareness and mature opinions on the political, cultural, social and economic situations prevailing in her country.She has convincing and pacific arguments when she fights for education to all children. Her father Ziauddin Yousafzai, a man of virtue, has played a major role in transforming Malala’s life.
The most inspiring trait that I felt about Malala is her perseverance. Even when she was sure about being attacked by Taliban, as she was attending interviews in a Pakistani local channel, she confidently spoke against the rule of Taliban and denial of access to education to girls. rather than engulfing as such how people interpret their children, she teaches us to interpret our religion by repeatedly approaching our conscience and answering its questions. In this world, when even when elders do not insist on being educated and on educating all children, a 14 year old was ready to sacrifice her life while championing universal access to education.
While being seated in our classrooms, listening to our teachers, it is worth remembering that thousands of children are forcibly denied education and are not able to sit inside a room and read their books. The fact that pleased me the most was her wisdom when she says that if she comes to meet a Taliban militant who comes to kill her, she would first patiently talk to him about the misunderstandings that he holds and make him understand the importance of ensuring education equally to boys and girls.
There was never an instance when she was traumatized, instead each of the 3 bullets that pierced her body really multiplied her courage and will-power. As the youngest ever nominee for Nobel Peace Prize, she believes that Taliban has actually made her struggle global. She is a modal for what every girl in this world should be. The heroine in her kept me close to this book. There can never be a better statement to end the book:
“I am Malala. My world has changed but I have not.”
-Aswathy Venugopal
Words from fire
June 18, 2014 Aswathy Venugopal Leave a comment
Traditional Pashto couplet:
Rather I receive your bullet riddled body with honour
That news of your cowardice on the battlefield.
Malala addressing the United Nations
Malala says,
“Over the last year I have seen many other places, but my valley remains to me the most beautiful place in the world. I don’t know when I will see it again but I know that I will.”
” Today I looked at myself in a mirror and thought for a second. Once I had asked God for one or two extra inches in height, but instead he made me as tall as the sky, so high that I could not measure myself. So I offered the hundred raakat nafl that I had promised if I grew.”
I love my God.I thank my Allah.I talk to him all day. He is the greatest. By giving me this height to reach people, he has also given me great responsibilities. Peace in every home, every street, every village, every country-this is my dream. Education for every boy and every girl in the world.
To sit down on a chair and read all my books with all my friends at school is my right. To see each and every human being with a smile of happiness is my wish.
These words helped me the most to see through this brave girl. This helped me to believe in the power of one person’s voice to inspire the change in the world. A life void of taking risks is not a life worth living.Fear will drive you into fear and fear and fear… If a 14 yr old girl can withstand the threat of Taliban,then youth can miraculously withstand the threat of illiteracy, poverty and deprivation.
One Child, One Teacher, One Book and One Pen can change the world.
educationMalala Yousufzai
I Am Malala: Inspire the change
May 20, 2014 Aswathy Venugopal 1 Comment
I come from a country which was created at midnight. When I almost died, it was just after midday.One year ago, I left my home for school and never returned”.
The book sets off with the prologue titled ‘The day my world changed’ of which the first sentence is this .
It is a unique autobiography of a 14 year old Pakistani girl, Malala Yousufzai who scared death to death while fighting for her right to education that was denied to hundreds of girls like her in Swat Valley by Taliban. She describes the story of her family since her birth.Any reader is going to be fascinated by the wisdom and realisation she holds at this age.
She is named after Malala of Maiwand, the greatest heroine in the history of Afghanistan. Her father, Ziauddin Yousufzai, the only man of his kind is stored with courage to the brim without which ‘Malala’ would not have been possible. She grew up hearing the lullaby that her father used to sing:
O Malalai of Maiwand, Rise once more to make pashtuns understand the song of honour, Your poetic words turn worlds around, I beg you, rise again.
Further,she explains Pakistan in its real sense.
An ambition
Quote May 18, 2014 Aswathy Venugopal 2 Comments
All the other girls in my class wanted to be doctors but I decided I wanted to be an inventor and make an anti-Taliban machine which would sniff them out and destroy their guns. –Malala Yousufzai
Malala Yousufzai
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The Drifters' Greatest Hits. Some Kind of Wonderful" b/w "Honey Bee" (Non-album track). A: Rudy Lewis B: David Baughn. 32. 6. Save The Last Dance For Me. "Please Stay" b/w "No Sweet Lovin'". A: Rudy Lewis B: Bill Pinkney. Memories Are Made of This" b/w "My Islands In The Sun". 48. "Up In The Streets Of Harlem" b/w "You Can't Love Them All". A: Johnny Moore B: Charlie Thomas. Baby What I Mean" b/w "Aretha".
Complete your The Drifters collection. Deutsch English Español Français Italiano 日本語. More Images. The Drifters – Up In The Streets Of Harlem.
Album · 2007 · 47 Songs. The Drifters & Ben E. King. Sometimes I Wonder. 33. Room Full of Tears. Up In the Streets of Harlem. 60. Memories Are Made of This. 60 Songs, 2 Hours 35 Minutes. Released: 30 Oct 2007.
Up In The Streets Of Harlem. Today, they are known as Beach Music artists. The group first formed under the name The Kays, and scored a top ten hit in the . in 1968 with the tune "Girl Watcher" ( Pop, R&B). The song was first released on a local record label under the production of John I Whitfield, North State, before being released nationally by ABC. It was their only major hit, and they never released a second full-length album.
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Album Under the Boardwalk. Up on the Roof Lyrics. Up on the roof) (Up on the roof). When this old world starts getting me down And people are just too much for me to face (Up on the roof) I climb way up to the top of the stairs And all my cares just drift right into space (Up on the roof). Up on the roof (Up on the roof) Oh, come on, baby (Up on the roof) Oh, come on, honey (Up on the roof) Everything is all right (Up on the roof). About Up on the Roof.
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ESG Leftfield New_Wave Punk Disco 2007 UK
South Bronx Story' showed ESG as a tightly focused band who distilled a myriad of influences into their own sound. SBS 2' reinforces that and demonstrates their energy and passion spills over after the final cut of a song. The album is also not just for anoraks and stands comfortably on its own, arguably as good an introduction to the band as its precursor. Published, Mon, 24 Sep 2007.
Get the Tempo of the tracks from A South Bronx Story 2: The Rarities (2007) by ES. This album has an average beat per minute of 128 BPM (slowest/fastest tempos: 119/146 BPM). See its BPM profile at the bottom of the page. Tracklist A South Bronx Story 2: The Rarities. 1. Bam Bam Jam. 3'40.
ESG still continue to tour, primarily performing in London Discography. 1983: Come Away with ESG. 1991: ESG. 2002: Step Off. 2006: Keep on Moving. 2010: Dance to the Best of ESG. Appearances. 2010: Renee Scroggins appears on Gaëtan Roussel's Ginger album. track 03- Si l'on comptait les étoiles. 2011: Franz Ferdinand – Covers.
Time left: 9d 7h 34m 28s. Ships to: Worldwide. A South Bronx Story is ranked 2nd best out of 4 albums by ESG on BestEverAlbums. The best album by ESG is Come Away With ESG which is ranked number 3390 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 559. ESG album bestography. Higher ranked (3,390th) This album (28,504th) Lower ranked (80,312th) Come Away With ESG A South Bronx Story Step Off. Members who like this album also like: The Art Of Connecting by Jeff Mills, Murray Street by Sonic Youth and Camoufleur by Gastr Del Sol. Listen to A South Bronx Story on YouTube.
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At the risk of sounding condescending, ESG have carved out their unique place in music history by dint of being an anomaly. As you might have gathered from the title, South Bronx Story 2 is the sequel to ESG's first compilation, South Bronx Story, released back in 2000 and still pretty darn essential. However, Volume 2 carries the "Rarities" subtitle, so it is a slightly more dicey proposition than its predecessor. Tracks like "Earn It" and "Like This", while fun, seem less fully conceived than the rest of the album, and it's hard not to see why they were left off inclusion from the first volume. There's a lot here for anyone who loves ESG - and really, if you don't you should - but on it's own terms it's essentially an annex.
A1 Bam Bam Jam 3:39
A2 Erase You (Puppy To Your Side) 4:48
A3 Dance To The Beat Of Moody 6:51
B1 In The Streets 3:34
B2 There Was A Time 7:49
B3 You're No Good (Alternate Version) 2:42
C1 I Wanna Dance 5:27
C2 Moody (A New Mood) 3:27
C3 Standing In Line 4:27
D1 Earn It 3:11
D2 Like This 4:34
D3 Six Pack (Original Version) 4:13
Written-By – L.Glover* (tracks: B2), R.Scroggins*, V.Scroggins* (tracks: A1, A3, B1, B2, C3, D3)
SJR CD 167 ESG A South Bronx Story 2 - Collector's Edition: Rarities (CD, Comp) Soul Jazz Records SJR CD 167 UK 2007
SJR LP/CD 167 ESG A South Bronx Story 2 Collector's Edition - Rarities (CDr, Comp, Promo) Soul Jazz Records SJR LP/CD 167 UK 2007
SJR LP/CD 167 ESG A South Bronx Story 2 - Collector's Edition: Rarities (CD, Comp, Promo) Soul Jazz Records SJR LP/CD 167 UK 2007
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Oil dives as U.S., Iran tensions ease and on U.S. crude build
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Reuters January 8, 2020
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Oil futures fell more than 4% on Wednesday in a wild swing, soaring close to a four-month high in early trade on an Iranian rocket attack on U.S. forces in Iraq before retreating as the countries quickly ratcheted back tensions.
Prices fell as it became evident the rocket attack did not damage oil facilities or harm any Americans, with more pressure coming from a surprise build in U.S. crude stockpiles.
U.S. President Donald Trump backed away from days of angry rhetoric against Iran as the two countries tried to defuse a crisis over the American killing of Iranian military commander Qassem Soleimani.
"The fact that we have this great military and equipment ... does not mean we have to use it," Trump said in an address from the White House, noting Iran appears to be standing down.
Before Trump's address, prices were already retreating from overnight highs after tweets by the U.S. president and Iran's foreign minister signaled at least temporary calm.
Brent futures fell $2.83, or 4.2%, to settle at $65.44 a barrel, their lowest close since Dec. 16. In early trade, the contract hit its highest since mid-September at $71.75.
The global benchmark had been trending higher since hitting an October low of $56.15 per barrel; the session high on Wednesday was 28% above that level.
U.S. West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude fell $3.09, or 4.9%, to settle at $59.61 per barrel, its lowest close since Dec. 12. The session high of $65.65 was the highest since late April.
"Volatility to the extreme might best describe today’s price action as the crude benchmarks sold off ... roughly 9% from the overnight highs," Jim Ritterbusch, president of Ritterbusch and Associates in Galena, Illinois, said in a report.
The spreads between the session high and low were the widest for WTI since November 2014 and Brent since September 2019.
The U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) said crude inventories rose 1.2 million barrels last week. That build surprised the market which had expected a 2.6 million-barrel decrease, and contradicted preliminary industry data showing a 5.9 million barrel decline.
"A triumvirate of bearish builds in the weekly EIA reports is adding momentum to crude's overnight price reversal as fears of escalating tension are unwound," said Matt Smith, director of commodity research at ClipperData, noting a big drop in refinery runs, a rebound in imports and an easing of exports.
Iran's missile attack on U.S.-led forces in Iraq came hours after the funeral of Soleimani, commander of the country's elite Quds Force who was killed in a U.S. drone strike on Jan. 3.
Tehran fired more than a dozen ballistic missiles at two Iraqi military bases hosting U.S.-led coalition personnel, the U.S. military said.
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"Iran took and concluded proportionate measures in self-defense," Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said on Twitter. "We do not seek escalation or war, but will defend ourselves against any aggression."
The United Arab Emirates' energy minister said he saw no immediate risk to oil passing through the vital gateway of the Strait of Hormuz.
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A New Google Baby Monitor Could Use AI to Alert Parents Before Infant Awakes
Posted 9:08 AM, September 10, 2019, by CNN Wire
Baby monitors have come a long way. Where once parents were alerted to their baby’s cries by a radio-like crackle, today’s designs incorporate everything from video and motion sensors to temperature gauges.
Now Google is considering technology that could use artificial intelligence to keep your child safe.
The internet search giant has worked on a product that promises to warn parents before their little one has even woken up.
The device would aim to determine when the baby is “in a non-auditory discomfort state” and inform caregivers up to 10 minutes ahead of them waking, according to a patent application filed by Google in the United States.
According to the document, which was lodged last year but has only just been made public, eye-tracking technology would detect when a baby is awake, asleep or close to stirring.
Using video streaming, audio recordings and AI, the device would monitor the baby’s behavior against a database of normal patterns.
Based on the infant’s movements and any noise it makes, it would detect anything out of character and subsequently issue an alert if the baby appears uncomfortable.
It would also take into account the baby’s position, whether he or she is lying down, kneeling, standing up or otherwise.
An alert could be issued before the baby cries or even wakes up, according to the patent, which was first reported by CNBC.
The patent filing states: “While a baby’s cry may alert his parents to the baby being in distress, sometimes a baby will not audibly indicate his distress. For example, if the baby is tossing in his sleep, is awake and moving around when the baby is expected to be asleep, or worse, is choking, tangled in bedding, or otherwise is in a dangerous position, the baby is in distress but may not be crying.
“Therefore, in some circumstances, a parent may wish to be alerted to the occurrence of such a worrisome situation.”
It could also identify when the baby “is likely to wake up imminently,” be it in the next two, five or even 10 minutes, according to the filing.
A spokesperson for Google told CNN: “We file patent applications on a variety of ideas that our employees come up with. Some of those ideas later mature into real products or services, some don’t. Prospective product announcements should not necessarily be inferred from our patent applications.”
Earlier this year Pampers, owned by Procter & Gamble, announced a line of smart diapers to track a child’s urine and sleep. The Lumi by Pampers line includes an activity sensor that secures to a “landing” on the front of a baby’s diaper. It comes with a baby monitor and a 10-day supply of diapers. The sensor works with a corresponding app to log the kid’s pee and identify patterns.
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Jimmy Fallon surprises 3 University of Texas at Austin students with free tuition
Posted 1:00 PM, November 9, 2019, by CNN Wire, Updated at 01:01PM, November 9, 2019
Jimmy Fallon stunned three University of Texas at Austin students with a huge surprise.
The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon was filming in Austin at Bass Concert Hall when he called up Texans Alma Zamora, Elizabeth Yun, and Fitzgerald Alan onto the stage.
Fallon had them introduce themselves to the audience and then proceeded to tell them that Samsung had chosen them to win new smartphones and a holiday bundle with a bunch of cool gear.
As the crowd went wild, and the students excitedly processed the news, Fallon decided to show them the camera feature and brought the students in for a selfie.
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In the process, Fallon dropped the real bomb.
“Since we’re the Tonight Show and we’re at UT, Samsung wanted to take it up a notch. Listen carefully. Samsung is going to pay for the remainder of your college tuition.”
All three students stood in shock before excitedly hugging one another as confetti and balloons fell from the ceiling.
“I am feeling euphoric. I feel like I’m on top of the world. I feel like nothing can stop me,” Alan told CNN affiliate KXAN.
“Thank God, thank Jesus for everything he has given to me. I really appreciate everything Samsung has brought to the table to help me pay off this tuition.”
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Zamora is a first-generation college student and tweeted how much it meant to her after the show Thursday night.
“I’m a first gen kid. A year ago, I was crying in my dorm on the phone with my mom about how we were going to afford my stay at UT. This year I’M GETTING MY EDUCATION PAID FOR BY @FallonTonight!”
All three are in-state students so that means they pay at least $10,000 in tuition. At least two of the students are sophomores, meaning at least $20,000 of their four-year costs will be covered.
In an announcement, Samsung said it had worked with the university to find the three students, “all academically successful student leaders.”
“Samsung is proud to equip these exceptional undergraduates with the tools they need to take their academic and creative talents to the next level,” the company said.
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Conservative Republicans unveil Obamacare replacement plan
Posted 5:20 PM, October 22, 2019, by CNN Wire
An Obamacare sign is seen on the UniVista Insurance company office on December 15, 2015 in Miami, Florida. (Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images)
Months after President Donald Trump declared the GOP would become the “party of health care,” House conservatives are set to announce a sweeping health care proposal — one that has virtually no chance of becoming law.
The Republican Study Committee on Tuesday unveiled what members described as a “framework,” nine months in the making, even as the White House continues to develop its own set of principles behind closed doors. It includes no legislative text and does not have the formal backing of the White House or broader GOP conference. The conservatives behind it hope the plan could help inoculate Republican congressional candidates against the perception that Republicans have no ideas for fixing a system they’ve vowed to destroy.
But the proposal comes as the attention of Washington is focused squarely on the mushrooming impeachment scandal engulfing Trump’s presidency. And it recycles some of the policies that Republicans tried and failed to advance during the 2017 health care debate, when they controlled both chambers of Congress. That raises questions about how they plan to get a different result a second time around.
The conservative caucus says its plan, titled “A Framework for Affordable, Personalized Care,” will protect coverage for those with pre-existing conditions, a top priority for many Americans. The concern that Republicans would weaken the Affordable Care Act’s protections helped doom the GOP plan to repeal and replace the law in 2017 and was one reason Democrats, many of whom ran campaigns focused on health care, recaptured the House in the 2018 midterm elections.
The plan contains several elements that were in those 2017 replacement proposals, which narrowly fell short of enough Republican support to pass the Senate at the time. It would create federally-funded, state-run insurance pools to cover people with high-cost illness. For instance, states could establish high-risk pools, which existed before the Affordable Care Act with mixed levels of success, or institute reinsurance programs to stabilize the health care market.
And it pushes another favorite Republican measure: combining federal funding now used for Obamacare premium subsidies and Medicare expansion into block grants given to states to help low-income Americans pay for their health care. Several GOP proposals in 2017 also contained block grants, but those raised concerns because Congressional Budget Office analyses found that it would lead many people to lose their coverage over time.
A senior Democratic aide said the Republican Study Committee’s proposal is unlikely to advance in the legislative process, slamming the proposal as a threat to Americans’ health care.
“It’s even worse than what passed out of the Republican House last Congress,” the aide said. “The whole notion of that sort of block granting idea just rips out even more of the protections.”
The RSC plan also calls for extending legislation that provided protections to Americans with job-based insurance to people in the individual market. That law, the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996, known as HIPAA, limits insurers’ ability to deny coverage to those with pre-existing conditions who are starting a new job, switching jobs or moving from a worked-based plan into the individual market. The proposal would curb insurers’ ability to deny policies to those shifting plans on in the individual market, as long as they were continuously covered.
The committee would also boost health savings accounts, which allow Americans to sock away money tax-free for health-related expenses. This is another favored mechanism among Republicans, but critics have said it does little to help those who don’t have funds to set aside for health care bills.
House Republicans are rolling out their complex plan as Trump struggles to articulate broad ideas for the nation’s health care, and as Democrats campaign across the country on an easy-to-explain vision for extending coverage to everyone.
Rep. Roger Marshall, R-Kansas, and Rep. Mike Johnson, R-Louisiana, the chairman of the RSC, said Monday that they had spoken to White House policy directors and acting chief of staff Mick Mulvaney over the weekend as they prepared to publish their lengthy health care report this week, but they noted the White House is continuing work on another parallel plan.
That plan — so far a patchwork quilt of health care proposals that Trump’s team hopes will stack up to a comprehensive vision — will serve as the White House’s answer to the growing support on the left for the kind of universal health care system that Republicans have spent years warning against.
“The White House welcomes the RSC announcement and their contributions to improving our healthcare system,” Judd Deere, White House spokesman, told CNN. “The Trump Administration continues to work to improve healthcare more broadly, which includes creating a system that protects the vulnerable and those with pre-existing conditions and delivers the affordability Americans needs, the choice and control they want, and the quality they deserve.”
Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar and Seema Verma, administrator for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, both said they haven’t discussed the congressional proposal with the RSC. Both Azar and Verma are deeply involved in helping the White House craft its forthcoming set of health care principles.
The House GOP plan comes against the backdrop of a court case that has the potential to upend the nation’s health insurance system and the 2020 election campaign. Federal appellate court judges in Louisiana are now considering a case brought by a coalition of Republican-led states, and backed by the Trump administration, that argue Obamacare as a whole is unconstitutional because Congress essentially eliminated the penalty for not having health insurance, the so-called individual mandate. A US District Court judge in Texas in December sided with the Republican states.
The Trump administration has chosen not to defend the law, leaving many Republicans concerned that they will not have a replacement ready if the appellate court upholds the lower court’s ruling. Democrats are already attacking Trump and the GOP for threatening the coverage of millions of Americans, and if the court invalidates the ACA, Republicans could be left with the blame for dismantling the country’s health care system without preparing a realistic replacement.
“We may have the only ideas on the table to fill that void,” Johnson said, explaining the rush among RSC members to move ahead with the outline of a plan now, a year out from the 2020 election.
The court case could be decided before the end of the year. Regardless of what happens at the appellate level, though, the law’s ultimate fate likely rests with the Supreme Court, and that process could stretch well into next year — setting up the possibility that the White House could secure the verdict on Obamacare it has always sought, and yet risk alienating millions of Americans heading into a contentious election by creating uncertainty around access to medical care.
Marshall, the chair of the RSC health care task force, said he still believes health care will be the “defining issue” of the 2020 election.
“Do you want a president who wants to have the government take over your health care, or do you want personal choices?” Marshall said Monday. “So even though there’s impeachment and all those other things going on here, I think this — healthcare — is the issue of 2020.”
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Jose Mourinho reveals why Manchester United perform well in big games
Following their 2-1 win over Tottenham Hotspur, Jose Mourinho has revealed why Manchester United perform well in big games.
United have registered positive results against top sides after beating Tottenham Hotspur, Leicester City, Chelsea twice and drawing against Arsenal and Liverpool.
Solskjaer's side has struggled against the lesser teams, losing to Crystal Palace, West Ham United, Newcastle United, and Bournemouth.
Speaking in a press conference after the loss against United, Mourinho revealed why The Red Devils do well in big games, "I think is just the way it is. And you look to United results this season against the best teams, they had good results.
"I think at home when they play like they did Chelsea, Liverpool, Leicester, also a great team this season, they always had this kind of attitude. I think it's easier for them, the way they play.
"They are not afraid to be with a defensive approach, they are not afraid to be at home, to take their time, to be in control of the emotions of the game.
"Then lots of young people with lots of energy and good mentality and when they are winning matches. They are comfortable in this situation of low block and a giant dominating in the air and being fast in counter-attack with Marcus [Rashford], with James, with Jesse [Lingard], with [Anthony] Martial when he plays."
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WWF Super Wrestlemania
a game by Sculptured Software, and Acclaim
Genres: Fighting Games, Sports
Platforms: Genesis, SNES
Editor Rating: 6.3/10, based on 4 reviews
See also: WWF Games, WWE Games
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You already know them from televised wrestling events, home and arcade video games, and even their own movies (such as Hulk Hogan's "Suburban Commando" and Andre the Giant's "The Princess' Bride"). Now for the first time ever you can get to know the World Wrestling Federation superstuds up-close- and-personal-like on a 16-bit screen near you. Yeah baby, it's WWF Super WrestieMania by UN for the SNES! But whether this game struts the real stuff a just talks or yet to be seen.
You choose from ten of your favorite WWF ring rockers: Randy "Macho Man" Savage, Hulk Hogan, Jake "The Snake" Roberts, The Undertaker, "The Million Dollar Man" Ted DiBiase, Sid Justice, both members of The Legion of Doom Hawk and Animal, and both members of The Natural Disasters Earthquake and Typhoon. These wrestle freaks are ready to rumble. The question is: Are you?
Mat mania
Each grappler looks like his real-life counterpart, thanks to cool digitized images and movement. The ring and audience scrolling is smooth but not overly spectacular. Accompanying theme songs, such as Hogan's "I Am a Real American," are hot, but the in-game grunt sounds are not.
Pick a Fight, Any Fight
You select your battle from a regular One-on-One match, a Tag Team two- grappler- face-off, or a full blown Four-on- Four Tag Team called the Survivor Series, in which each foe must be eliminated individually. Unfortunately, there is no tournament or championship bout modes available, so it's one match and out every time. One player can take on the computer or two can face off against each other.
Off the Top Rope
An awesome assortment of kicks, punches, grabs, holds, and other moves is essential to any pro wrestling game's success. The good news is Super WWF provides a total of 16 attacks; some are used while running, others while standing
If yer not into big brawlers and bigger pain, go home and stuff a sweatsock in it, this game is not for you, pencil-neck geek! But if you are a WWF buff, you probably wanna know whatcha gonna do when UN's version of Hulkamania tries to run wild on you? Even with the prayers, the training, the vitamins, and of course the power of a 16-bit processor, WWF Super WrestleMania isn't the ultimate grappling title.
While Super WrestleMania's visuals are boffo, the play controls are a mite sluggish. Overall, you don't get enough moves and the lack of tournament play is a drawback. This game is not a Heavyweight champ but more like an Intercontinental contender. So only if you're a diehard pro wrestling muscle head, get pumped. Get psyched. Get the WWF!
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Game modes: Single game mode
Player controls:
Up, Down, Left, Right - Arrow keys
Start - Enter (Pause, Menu select, Skip intro, Inventory)
"A" Gamepad button - Ctrl (usually Jump or Change weapon)
"B" button - Space (Jump, Fire, Menu select)
"C" button - Left Shift (Item select)
Use the F12 key to toggle mouse capture / release when using the mouse as a controller.
Pentium II (or equivalent) 266MHz (500MHz recommended), RAM: 64MB (128MB recommended), DirectX v8.0a or later must be installed
WWF Super Wrestlemania takes your favorite WWF super-stars and puts them right smack into the center ring. Every character ranging from Randy "Macho Man" Savage all the way to the incredible Hulk Hogan can be found in this cart. Your options range from a simple one-player game versus the computer, two players versus two computer players as well as tag-team and cage matches.
Every character has his own unique moves to pound opponents into the ring's floor. Utilize the suplex, knee drop, flying kick, and the pile driver to pulverize those punks!
The announcer is there to give play-by-play and advice to beginners, in this WWF series update.
Pin Earlier In Match - Get your opponent down to a little below half of his energy. Once you do this, and you get him down on the mat, press the X button to pin him and then immediately hold UP on the control pad while holding the Y button. The referee will count to three and your opponent will not be able to get up off of the mat! You can do this with one player against the computer, or in a two player game against an opponent, but it will not work with the Tag Team or Survivor Series.
The WWF is definitely in a league of its own. As a matter of fact, the league is so big, it couldn't be confined to just the NES and the SNES systems. The Genesis and the WWF's most famous wrestlers have been tagged to climb into the ring as Flying Edge brings your favorite bad boys to blistering 16-bit life.
Masters of Disaster
All the usual suspects are rounded up here: Randy "Macho Man" Savage, the British Bulldog, Ted "Million Dollar Man" Dibiase, Shawn Michaels, and Papa Shango, to name a few. Chill out Hulkamaniacs, the original Hulkster is back and badder than ever. If you've played the SNES version, you're already familiar with the guys' smooth moves. Each wrestler has a basic punch and kick move, plus one power move. You can also inflict some motion mayhem by throwing opponents against the ropes, into the turn-buckle, and even out of the ring.
ProTips:
Don't just stand and wait for the action to come to you. When you down a man, stand dose and press A to yank your opponent by the hair. Your chances of immediately downing him again are very high.
Your man has the advantage when he leans forward in a lockup. Early in each round, use Button B to throw your opponent around. Save the power moves for later in the round.
As in the SNES version, the Genesis game sports four types of game play for one or two big-time wrestlers. One-on- One (you vs. the computer or a friend) pits python against python in a one- round super battle. Tag Teams lets you call for backup when the going gets tough, and it will. Survivor Series is a three-on-three, winner-take-all brawl. Finally, the Championship Series is your chance to battle your way to WWF glory.
Roll, roll, roll your bod when you're downed. Your opponents will try to stomp the stuffing out of you. Roll (Button A plus Direction) as soon as you go down and you'll avoid a size 12 sneaker stamp on your forehead.
Flat on the Mat
With all this beef and brawn, you'd think a gamer's appetite would be satisfied. Not! This game leaves you wanting. Although the game play and side-scrolling action are smooth and easy to execute, WWF's graphics and sound aren't good enough to win the 16-bit championship belt. Digitized graphics of the wrestlers at the beginning of the game are nice, but their personalities blur once they climb into the ring. In the SNES version of the game, the wrestler graphics were crisp. Not so in the Genesis game. Your wrestlers are featureless and pretty much indistinguishable from each other. As for the sounds, well a few more groans, body contact grunts, or fanatic fan noise would've been helpful.
The more your opponent's life bar wears out, the longer it takes for him to get up. When you've got him on the ropes with a low life bar, use a leg drop to wipe him out completely. Never go for a pin until your opponent's life bar is empty.
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If you want to go head-to-head against any of your pro-wrestling favs, this is the only Genesis game in town. For the best big-time action and challenge, go head- to-head against a friend. If you don't have another WWF bruiser sitting around the house waiting to do you some damage, you may want to leave this game in the ring.
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Geeks Gettin’ Lucky? SoulGeek: A Dating Site For Geek Girls & Guys
By Tom Cheredar | Friday, February 13th, 2009 at 12:19 pm
Valentine’s Day as a geek can typically be described in one of the following ways: 1) A second Christmas in which both people get a present that can only be found inside the pages of a Previews catalog or 2) A somewhat to extremely lonely night of rereading Twilight* for the umpteenth time.
SoulGeek aims to eliminate fanboy (or fangirl) loneliness by offering a dating site specifically tailored for geeks, according to founder Dino Andrade, who started the network after discovering how difficult it was to meet people in his own experiences.
As a seasoned voice actor of many cartoons and video games, it was only natural that Andrade would fall in love with Mary Kay Bergman, famously known for creating and performing all the original female roles on South Park (including the Blame Canada song!!). When she tragically passed away in November of 1999, the two had been married for over a decade.
It took years to recover from the loss, but eventually he decided to get back on the saddle, according to Andrade, who said the most difficult part about it was being a geek.
“When you’re in your 30s and you tell people you read Batman and watched Star Wars 25 times in the theater, it makes it impossible to connect with anyone,” Andrade said. “You would have thought that being a widower would have been a bigger hurdle to jump. Not the case.”
Now in his 40s, Andrade found love again with his old high school sweetheart — who’s also a fangal. However, he never forgot the difficulty of weeding out the majority of the population to find a geeky soul mate and so he started SoulGeek.com in 2007 with the money left to him by his late wife.
“My dream is to have the children of a happy SoulGeek couple be watching cartoons made by Mary Kay, and then have them know that she is the reason their parents are together,” he said.
The site currently boasts 15,000 users from across the world with another 1,000 added each month. Free accounts let you see who else is in the area and find out about those folks in very match.com-like profile summaries, which are more akin to LiveJournal with links to fan-fiction, convention photos, and rationale for why you are a particular kind of geek. They’ll make their first public appearance at WonderCon 2009, with meet-ups to follow at future conventions, most notably, Dragon*Con in Atlanta, Georgia.
For more info check out the site: soulgeek.com
* Nobody wants that to happen, least of all, Stephen King.
Topics: Book of Geek, Features, Holidays
Tags: Dino Andrade, Mary Kay Bergman, Soul Geek, Soulgeek.com, South Park, WonderCon
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Corvette CERV III Started Mid Engine Corvette Had AWD
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The latest 2020 mid-engine Corvette is an impressive machine, no doubt about it, but the C8 owes much of its success to the cars that paved the way to full production status. Also known as the Chevrolet Engineering Research Vehicles, or CERVs, these vehicles were the first to carry the mid-engine Corvette torch, and came equipped with a number of impressive high-tech features. The CERV III is a great example of this future-leaning vision.
The mid-engine Corvette CERV III evolved from the 1986 Corvette Indy concept, which originally debuted at the Detroit Auto Show. Styled by the Chief of Chevy III Studio, Jerry Palmer, the CERV III not only looks the part of a rocket ship, but also has the features to match, including high-tech materials like carbon fiber, Nomex, Kevlar, and aluminum.
Mounted in the middle of CERV III is the same 5.7L LT5 small block engine as the 1990 Corvette ZR1, a lump that was subsequently twin-turbocharged for the experimental build. Final output was rated at 650 horsepower and 655 pound-feet of torque, a heart-stopping sum for the time. Power was then sent to a high-performance all-wheel-drive system through a six-speed automatic transmission.
General Motors claimed a run to 60 mph in just 3.9 seconds, with 1.10 g in lateral acceleration and a top speed of 225 mph – all genuine supercar numbers, even by today’s standards.
To help keep it on the road, the CERV III mid-engine Corvette predecessor was also equipped with a computerized suspension made from titanium, with onboard systems measuring things like yaw and pitch, then adjusting the settings as needed to maximize grip levels. There are also dual-disc brakes at all four corners, and four-wheel steering to boot. Finally, scissor doors open the way for ingress and egress, while digital displays kept a tab on vitals in the cabin.
In spite of its outrageous performance and impressive features, the CERV III mid-engine Corvette predecessor still included many of the elements needed for a production-ready vehicle. For example, CERV III was shorter in terms of overall length compared to the preceding Indy concept, while the ride height was also raised and the suspension had adequate travel for normal roads.
Unfortunately, the prospect of selling a high-dollar exotic just wasn’t in the cards for General Motors at the time, with pricing for such a thing expected to range as high as $300,000 to $400,000. Nevertheless, the CERV III’s technological development helped to usher in the modern mid-engine Corvette C8, and for that, it deserves praise.
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Will Volvo Ever Bring Back the Stick Shift ?
Thread: Will Volvo Ever Bring Back the Stick Shift ?
As an old school driver my family learned to drive on stick shift cars. Dad had a 1977 FIAT 128 and one of the mechanics back in the late 70s drove a late 70s SAAB 99. My first car after college was a 1991 VW Jetta GL 5 speed I bought used at Jack Daniels in Fairlawn NJ around 1994.
My neighbors kids learned on manuals and I think learning on a manual transmission makes for a better driver.
Dad's FIAT was always in the shop but he did test drive a late 70s BMW 3 series and a Golf. His brother, my uncle in Europe had a Mk 1 Golf which we drove.
I have seen the previous first generation S60 which started in 2000 had sticks. I doubt Volvo would ever bring back the stick, but I still think learning on a stick shift makes for better drivers.
Highly doubtful re: Volvo. Seriously considering a used manual transmission Subaru for my daughter when she gets to be driving age.
Other than sports cars, you'll be hard pressed to find a manual transmission in the U.S.. Heck, most people couldn't drive a manual, myself included....Insert attempting to drive a friend's Brand New Mustang about 7 or 8 years ago. Insisted it was so easy to drive manual.. Well I stalled the damn thing out countless times. Enough said on manuals!
No reason to have a "true" manual anymore. With 10-speed automatics and lockup clutches on torque converters manual transmissions can't win on fuel economy anymore and DCTs are faster than "true" manuals on a race track so the two historic advantages of a manual simply don't exist anymore.
The only reason to have a "true" manual anymore is nostalgia.
straight6pwr
No reason to have a "true" manual anymore.
Please don't tell me your 944 is an auto. that would be so boring. Manuals are more fun! Thats the reason.
Can you do a clutch drop tire shredding burnout with an automatic 944?
and fun.
and reliability.
and its a good way to keep valets, odd friends, bad family drivers, etc from driving your car.
and although I agree with you that auto's are proving to be as fast or faster than shifting a manual transmission, they still can't anticipate what the driver is about to do. a driver with a manual trans always knows how it will behave, since they are in full control. there are situations that a manual will be better, for safety and speed.
and did I mention tire shredding burnouts?
Besides nostalgia and a more alert driver (no hand for a smartphone) I would say it forces the kid to be mindful. One of the worst skids in my life occurred on a downward high speed merge on 4th gear my VW stalled on me and saved me from an embarrassing accident. Sticks handle better in snow and help the back wheels with the clutch engaged.
For sure they are tough to learn but give it 2 or 3 days and it’s a good skill to have. The left foot works hard sometimes it can get to be tough in traffic but again it forces the kids to stay off the dumbphone.
Our daughter will be taking lessons this year on our beater Scion tC but I may consider a VW Golf, first gen S60, Subie or Benz roadster down the road as a classic or hobby car when I get closer to retirement and away from the city and closer to the country.
Something about that downshift into 2nd or 4th gear is exciting, the wheels grip better and makes one feel more connected to the road.
Totally agree stick shift is way more fun to drive and definitely more engaging. I wish more cars offered it.
If Volvo offered it I'd consider the brand for my next car but it's highly doubtful.
We still have Honda, VW Golf and Jetta, Mazda3, Genesis G70. A WRX would be nice if they make the hatchback again.
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Lets not forget the Hyundai I30N and Renault Megane RS!
I was a teenager in the 80s and most affordable cars were stick, I had a friend who could hold a beer between his legs, smoke a cigarette and honk on a pipe whilst driving a stick, I wouldn't say we had less things to distract us back then!
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Originally Posted by thezoneS60
My smarter uncle had a Renault 4L I think back in the 70s and when he came back from France to Montenegro that car was so exotic. Tiny and unsafe by today's standards but we also had many taxi cab rides and drivers from hell in those 70s and 80s euro vacations in cars like the Russian Lada or Serbian Zastava 750 , related to the FIAT cars of those eras.
Being close to 50 now it's hard for me to see what's going on with kids today. At least we had those beater type of cars to unleash the teenage turmoil on.
And now in my distant memory I hear the ticking of a Rabbit Diesel or MB w114 diesels that I think always made it to at least 500,000 miles and were sure tough on those mountains. Seeing the farmers unload heir organic farm goods at the weekly market visits was not like going into a supermarket where everything goes in thru back loading docks and trucks.
Something is lost in today's hustle.
Funny, my wife just said yesterday that she loves her 18' V90CC but she wishes it was a standard. When she needs a "manual fix" she drives the 07' V70.
It's the opposite in our house. I get my manual fix from my wife's BMW 328 (that and the straight six fix).
The market for manuals is small but manufacturers who offer it stand out compared to the competition. Everyone is making fairly decent cars these days compared to, say, 20 (or even 10) years ago. To me Volvo does not stand out as much as it used to.
p.rico
Same. I drive my (wife's) '05 Outback 2.5i manual.
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I just had a business trip in Ireland and I got a BMW 116D with the 6 speed. Driving on the opposite side of the road and using my opposite hand to shift was a blast!! For my regular manual fix, I have my 1972 Opel GT to drive, when the weather is nice!!
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As Volvo is moving toward all electric cars or hybrid-electric, you can be sure that no manual transmission will come back. Unless it is some sort of "fake" manual transmission like Ford has showed on the electric Mustang at SEMA. With electric motors or hybridized motors, it simply becomes irrelevant.
Originally Posted by straight6pwr
Firstly, "anymore" is not the same as "1986" which is when my 951 was built. A modern 10-speed electronically controlled automatic is so incredibly different from the 3-speed pure hydraulic automatic used in the 944 (the 951 was never offered with an auto) that I'm honestly confused as to how you could possibly think I was referring to those old automatics when I specifically referenced the current day situation.
I can have just as much "fun" with a DCT and I'll be faster in the process. It's a different kind of fun to be sure, but it's not like a DCT is unengaging.
And you can't do a "clutch drop tire shredding burnout" with any 944. The NA cars only have about 150 horsepower and the vast majority have an open differential so even if you could break an old tire lose you'd be doing a really stupid looking one wheel peel. More realistically though, an attempt to do a clutch dump burnout in a 944 or 951 would simply result in blowing up the CV joints in the rear halfshafts and ending up with a car that has been rendered immobile because both halfshafts are now dangling from destroyed CV joints.
Fun doesn't sell family cars. And it doesn't even sell most sports cars since most sports cars are sold by numbers on paper. Family cars, and all Volvos are family cars despite what we want to believe, need to be decent in a commute and in mundane daily use, which means automatics are preferred. DCTs are faster on a track and so they will be preferred in sports cars today.
Reliability is a red herring. As long as things last long enough for the first owner it's not going to be a concern for manufacturers. There's no reason for them to sell a "more reliable" manual when am automatic or DCT will last 150,000 miles without problems. It's a nice thing for us in the used market but for the new car market it's been obvious for decades now that automatics are reliable enough.
There are just no good reasons today, with current automatics and DCTs, for manufacturers to put money into designing new manual transmissions. There isn't any good cost justification for brands like Volvo.
Companies like Porsche or BMW will probably keep manuals around for "heritage" and "diving feel" but the reality is that both of these just amount to nostalgia.
I don't think one needs to over complicate the question with facts, numbers, and failure diagnosis.
This is purely a "feeling" issue and there is no right or wrong. Some people, myself included, like the feel of the manual transmission. To me it's more fun (no matter faster or not).
Fun is totally subjective and does not have to make sense or mean the same thing for everyone.
Yes, we all know, for a whole bunch of reasons, manuals are not coming. It's just wishful thinking.
We'll all be driving EVs eventually and enjoying their simplicity I for one look forward to my first EV.
DFrantz
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Electric actually gives a better chance to do manual than not even though fewer gears would be needed. It eliminates the need to separately certify a different drive train as there are no emissions to certify. at the very lease it opens up the legality of conversion. But the market just isn't there for a manual I don't think.
As for the argument about automatics being more efficient... you could make the same argument that artificial insemination is more efficient... that doesn't make it better.
The question was whether Volvo will ever bring back the stick shift. That absolutely does have a right and wrong. That absolutely is about facts and numbers.
I love the manual transmission. But I don't pretend that my nostalgic affection for it is a legitimate reason for a company like Volvo to invest in creating new vehicles with traditional manual transmissions. I don't see any reason for a company like Volvo to bring back a "true" manual transmission. A DCT is a possibility but even that seems unlikely with Volvo's target market.
This isn't a knock on the traditional manual. It's simply understanding the current market and state of technology. Now that automatics are as efficient at transmitting power as manuals, are able to have 10 or more gears, have computer controls that allow manual shifting, and will last well over 100,000 miles without problems most of the reasons why traditional manuals were kept around from a manufacturer's perspective are just not there anymore. It's really expensive to design a linkage and a shift lever and all that, along with designing and engineering the transmission itself. Going all automatic or all DCT allows the gear lever (or, these days, knob) to be all electronic and much easier to fit into the interior. That extra flexibility in the design of the interior is great for manufacturers.
My loving the traditional manual isn't going to give Volvo a reason to bring it back.
Originally Posted by jlthunder
Exact reason I didn't get rentals when I visited the UK some years back. Opposite side of road and Europeans love their manuals!
Agree. I meant loving or preferring a manual transmission is mostly emotional and has nothing to do with numbers (for the most part). The facts and numbers are on the Automatic transmission's and DCT's side.
Not enough of us who think a MT is more fun to make manufacturers put one out. Certainly not Volvo. So yeah, if it means that much to us we can keep the MTs we have or get one while we can. Eventually it will be our "classic" car
Ah. I see. Sometimes it takes me a while; the side effects of me being a cranky old man. 😄
grahamR
My V60 Polestar is of course an auto. In the run up to buying it, I considered a Golf R. Manual available, but then I found it was only available on the hatchback, not the estate (wagon). No engineering reason at all, just marketing. Stupid decision by VW really, the manual Golf R has become a sought after car in the UK. They excluded people that needed a wagon. Still, VAG know best, cheat the regulations and get away with it (in Europe at least )!
In the UK, there are 2 levels of driving licences for cars/ vans; if you take your test in an auto, you are only allowed to drive autos as an unaccompanied driver. Pass your test in a manual and you can drive both ( plus there are some other bizarre towing regulations on licences; as I am old, I can tow a 3,500 kg trailer; younger drivers cannot !)
vroomr
I have two motorcycles, one with a 6 speed manual and one with a 6 speed DCT. On a mountain ascent with switchbacks, the DCT is way more fun, allowing me to concentrate on throttle/brakes/steering without having to match RPMs to conditions. If I want to shift manually, I have paddles.
Originally Posted by vroomr
I've never really wanted a touring motorcycle (I tend to prefer the UJM style and roadsters) but that DCT on the new Gold Wing does make me very intrigued. Would love a CB1100 with that DCT but I don't think it'll ever happen.
Actually the DCT bike is the Honda CTX700. I like UJMs and roadsters, too, and the manual bike is a first edition R1200R(oadster), released before BMW hit later versions with an ugly stick. Yes, the CB1100 has great classic looks.
This is why I still hope to someday get a used well maintained stick shift car like a Golf, SAAB 900, first or second gen BMW 3 series, etc as a hobby car/weekend roadster. Purely for fun, not for commuting. The first gen S60 is not out of the question or maybe even an old 240 with a stick (looks like a brick..lol) but as one of my weekend pastimes I will search used car lots for these types of cars and test drive them. I have about 15 more years till retirement but I hope to get it in about 10 years so I can I have it figured out and broken in by the time I retire.
Loved the posts up there by the guy that went to Ireland and had to drive a stick lefty, the one guy that still drives a 1972 Opel GT (Cool !) but the best post by far so far was by the guy comparing an auto and manual to artificial insemination. Motorcycling is one step beyond the risk taking I think my bones have left..but it's definitely an option for some. It's all about the fun !
Lada Riva was one of those tough cars we had in Eastern Europe, and Golfs, but for budget reasons most of the farmers opted for the 80s Zastava Fica. Whoever wanted to stand out got an MB 300 SD or better had it imported when it was economically easier in the 80s, but not now.
Last edited by Highwayman; 11-20-2019 at 08:42 AM.
There is nothing "nostalgic" about me preferring a manual transmission over an automatic or DCT on a sports car. I prefer it simply because I enjoy driving it more. I wouldn't want to get a manual transmission in a crossover SUV family hauler because there is no benefit to it (and I don't see much benefit in a V60 T5 either for that matter). But I can see a benefit to a manual transmission in a car that one owns specifically for the driving pleasure because they are (to some people) more pleasurable to drive. I don't understand how you can say "driving feel" just amounts to "nostalgia."
To that end, it doesn't bother me one bit that we can't get a generic lux sedan with a manual transmission. You are right that there isn't really a point. However, I think every convertible and almost every 2 door car should be available with a manual. But we're barely seeing manufacturers make convertibles anymore, so I don't think my vehicle preferences are very much in line with the general car buying public these days.
Last edited by meade18; 11-20-2019 at 10:38 AM.
Originally Posted by meade18
I don't understand how you can say "driving feel" just amounts to "nostalgia."
They're both purely subjective experiences generating pleasure for an individual based on familiar sensations that the individual has come to associate with positive emotion. I don't see any practical difference between the two in the context of this discussion. "Driving feel" and "nostalgia" are both essentially null words denoting a non-rational* emotive experience that brings joy to an individual. While "driving feel" is a more specific subset of nostalgia inasmuch as it deals strictly with vehicles I simply don't see much semantic distance between using the more general "nostalgia" over the less general "driving feel."
But I'm drifting into semantic theory and that means I'm probably also drifting from the thrust of conversation. Suffice it to say that I would consider a preference for a specific driving feel to be a subset of nostalgia because I see it as representing a desire for, and legitimate enjoyment of, a set of sensations that were established as "right" to an individual's perceptions during a formative period in that individual's experience.
*Note: My use of "non-rational" as opposed to "irrational" is strongly intentional. The latter term carries a negative connotation that I do not mean to invoke here. "Non-rational" preferences are valid and positive and my intent is merely to point out that no one chooses the things that bring them joy through a coldly rational process.
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I also get my fix from my girlfriend's Accent Hatch !
I find it so much more rewarding and fun driving manual. But I'm pretty sure we'll never see another manual Volvo in North America.
Bright Silver 2015.5 V60, T6 3.0 AWD, P* tune, Simons Touring Catback, Eibach ProKit, various retrofits including adaptive OE xenon
even a Hyundai can make a fun day !
or a Honda if you wanna, or a Toyota toy for that matter ! Nissan insanity or perhaps a KIA see ya !
Linking "driving feel" and "nostalgia" assumes that we "non-rationally" give preference to things we used to like. I LOVED my 1970 Ford Galaxie Convertible. I have nostalgic feelings for that car. Yet I don't ever want another car with ANY of its features besides the folding roof. If I were nostalgic for that car, wouldn't I have a non-rational preference for a 3 speed automatic column shifter in the same way I have a non-rational preference for a six speed manual transmission because I liked the Sentra SE-R I had in college? (another car I would never choose to own again even though it never gave me a single problem)
I have driven all kinds of car with all kinds of transmissions and I find certain transmissions more preferable in certain types of cars. I think it's likely that many people's preferences for transmission type is based on a rational evaluation of their preferences, driving habits, and prior experience. Is that the case for everyone? No. Does nostalgia play a fact for some folks? Yes. But not nearly as big a factor as I think you are saying.
Maybe I'm just caught up on the semantics because you can be nostalgic for anything in the past. You could be nostalgic for your very first car, or your buddy's corvette you drove last week, or rowing through the gears in your S2000 on a twisty road 5 minutes ago. In that sense, yes driving feel is 100% percent about nostalgia because nostalgia = positive experience you want to recreate.
Recreate Fun !
I guess it’s all relative in the end. I absolutely hated some things about Dad’s 1977 FIAT 128 but when I got my 1991 Jetta GL 5 speed it was so much more roomier and refined.
FIAT gets a bad rap as a brand and Dad sure took a lot of abuse from his friends when he was teaching us to drive with that. Now that my daughter will be taking driver’s ed soon I thought about it but don’t want her to fight with the car in traffic plus her smartphone so I got a 2010 Scion tC as a beater. Once she figures it out in about a year and gets it together by college time she’ll pick her own.
Right now as it comes full circle she likes the Jeep Renegade crossover which ironically shares some things with FIAT Chrysler...go figure. I don’t know if that will bode well for long term reliability so I may steer her away from the Renegade, but at least it’s not a Wrangler...what I fought with Dad to get but settled for a Jetta.
Dad finally caved in to abuse from his friends and got us a much roomier and smoother powerfrain with the 1988 Dodge Caravan SE. Not exactly a babe magnet but better than a FIAT. Why on earth he liked FIAT was his nostalgia of it reminded him of Zastava, the Yugoslavian version of FIAT he had to have in America. Lol
BusteRT6
Originally Posted by gobluetwo
Volvo offers 6 speed manual with smaller engine like S60 D3, S90 D4... yes diesel
just like other automakers, they dont have manual transmission that is capable handling big amounts of torque/power.
also push for lower CO2 emissions creates the challenge and CVT,7,9,9,10 speed trans puts the engine in optimal/more efficient operation.
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By YourKock'sReallyGreat, April 19, 2009 in Television & Film
YourKock'sReallyGreat 0
Suckin' on dicks all the day long
I am going to review Saturday Night Live for now on since Bob Barron is no longer a member. Here is my official review.
The show sucks, it is not funny and needs to be cancelled.
zhangmeijie 0
Location:China
Interests:Western culture.
The show has sucked since 1995 frankly.
LivingLegendGaryColeman 0
Math Enthusiast/ Bad Ass M.C.
While the show is not anywhere near as good as it was in periods in the early days and early 90s, I think it has potential to get better these days. I think right now has the best cast and stuff that the show has probably had in the past decade. The early 2000s it got very unwatchable, now it can be hit or miss. There are somethings that have potential too, which I don't know how to change. I know I was watching the Seth Rogen show a couple weeks back and there was one sketch which was a great concept, but then after the concept, they just didn't know where to go with it. I was talking to some of my friends that said the same thing. I really like some of the people on the show, but out of the past four additions two of the four cast additions seem good (Elliot, Wilson) and the other two (Moynihan and Watkins) kind of make you wonder how they got on.
My review was just a joke/parody of how Bob Barron used to review each show. I am trying to bring back some normalcy to the site since 90 percent of the posters decided to take their ball and go home.
Oh, no worries. I understand why a lot of people don't have faith in the show anymore. I was just throwing in my opinion to try to spark up some discussion.
SuperJerk 0
Nice play, Shakespeare.
Location:Kansas City
The show is horrible, and yet the internet has been abuzz with how hillarious Andy Samburg's digital shorts, Weekend Update, and the run of Sarah Palin skits have been this year.
For a show that hasn't been funny since (fill in favorite year here), it sure seems to keep churning out stars and memorable characters.
Hell, they did a best of Amy Poehler show last night, an actress who was constantly derided for most of her years on the show, and it was great.
Do I think the show consistently comes up with enough funny material to fill a 90 minute episode every single week? No. However, it is rare that a episode completely lacks anything amusing.
Live Free or Battlenuts 0
Yeah they seem to have a clunker right after something that works. The Rogen skit with the "Summer Lovers" song was an example of something that's only gonna be funny to a room full of stoned writers. They really need to look back at the history of the show and figure out the things that worked and the things that didn't. For 30-40 years the one thing that never seems to work is televised inside jokes. Just because it was funny to the people who write the show, doesn't mean it's gonna be funny to the people watching.
Samberg's good but he's like a Dana Carvey without Meyers/Spade/Sandler/Farley. They just don't have the talent up and down and the chemistry that the old casts always seemed to have.
chuck415 0
Interests:Golf, Bowling, Exercise,
Andy Samburg's digital shorts are the funniest thing about the show.
CuddlyKnife 0
Horrible show.
AnonymousBroccoli 0
Bears!
Probably won't stay up long, but I'll just leave this in here:
Link for Americans. Everyone else can get stuffed, I guess:
http://www.nbc.com/Saturday_Night_Live/vid...rlover/1099491/
Jericholic82 0
Can't think of a witty caption today :(
Well the digital short, the mascot skit, and the Barry Gibb talk show made SNL for me this week. Everything else was weak, including Weekend Update.
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Levantine Epigraphy and History in the Achaemenid Period
Andre Lemaire
A British Academy Publication
Schweich Lectures on Biblical Archaeology
Organised by geographical region for clarity: Pheonicia; Judean Diaspora; Samaria, Judaea and Idumea
Illuminated by maps of the different regions
Profusely illustrated with photos of coins and other inscriptions
Extensive notes and up-to-date bibliographic references
Inscriptions discovered since 1980 and fresh epigraph research have revealed much about the Archaeminid period in the Levant (533-332 BCE). Andre Lemaire concentrates on three areas where new data has shed light on the societies living in the largest empire that the world had known to that date.
Phoenicia played a vital political and economic role in the empire because Persian kings had to rely on the Phoenician navy in their wars against Greece and Egypt in the Eastern Mediterranean. Newly discovered inscriptions from Byblos, Sidon and Tyre, as well as the results of research into coins, have illuminated the chronology, history and extent of the Phoenician kingdoms, as well as their influence in Palestine.
New inscriptions have added to our knowledge of the Judean Diaspora in Babylonia, Egypt and Cyprus. The main indirect information about the Exiles previously available to us was in the book of Ezekiel. Now, epigraphic data has revealed not only many names of Exiles but how and where they lived and more about their relationship with Jerusalem.
The third region described is the Persian provinces of Samaria, Judaea and Idumaea, especially during the 4th century BCE. The publication of various, mainly Aramaic, contemporary inscriptions on papyri, ostraca, seals, seal-impressions and coins, sheds new light on the daily life and religion of these provinces. The insciptions help us to understand something of the chronology, society and culture of these three different provinces as well as several Biblical texts in their historical and economic contexts.
With over 90 inscriptions illustrated and fully transcribed, this book provides new insight into a period that has proved difficult to study.
1. Levantine epigraphy and Phoenicia: the kingdoms of Aradus, Byblos, Sidon and Tyre during the Achaemenid period
2. West Semitic epigraphy and the Judean Diaspora during the Achaemenid period: Babylonia, Egypt, Cyprus
3. Levantine epigraphy and Samaria, Judaea and Idumaea during the Achaemenid period
Andre Lemaire has worked, first as a researcher in the French National Center for Scientific Research and later as "directeur d'etudes" in the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes (Sorbonne, Paris), in the field of West Semitic epigraphy, Levantine history and Hebrew Bible in the first millennium BCE, for more than forty years. He has published many new Hebrew, Aramaic and Phoenician inscriptions as well as new historical interpretations. He is especially interested in the connection between West Semitic epigraphy and the Biblical tradition and was a member of the Editorial board of Vetus Testamentum for 36 years.
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LIMA: "Issue conflicts" and claims by dual nationals
Premium article - February 29, 2016
A conference on investment arbitration in Latin America included panels on two controversial topics - "issue conflicts" and claims by investors with dual nationality. Eldy Roché, associate at King & Spalding in Houston, reports
VIENNA: The road to predictability
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The 2016 Vienna Arbitration Days considered the road to predictability in international arbitration, including discussion of arbitrators' scope to deviate from the applicable law and whether document production encourages settlement. Jarred Pinkston of Dorda Brugger Jordis in Vienna reports
LONDON: How women thrive in international arbitration
Marking International Women's Day, Claire Morel de Westgaver, a senior associate at Bryan Cave, reports on a recent panel discussion in London on how women can have a successful career in international arbitration.
HOUSTON: "Above-ground" perspectives on energy investments
A conference hosted by the Institute for Transnational Arbitration, Institute for Energy Law and ICC International Court of Arbitration featured a speech by the former chairman and CEO of Noble Energy on the need for "above ground" risk analysis when making an overseas energy investment and discussion of diversity on arbitral tribunals and whether arbitrators "split the baby". Ginny Castelan of King & Spalding in Houston reports on behalf of the ITA.
MEXICO CITY: Fighting corruption
The latest Institute of Transnational Arbitration's Americas Workshop, which took place in Mexico City in late 2015, analysed the controversial question of how the arbitral process can be used to fight corruption. Rocío González Alcántara L, partner at Ernst & Young, reports.
TAIPEI: Sanctions against counsel and other matters
The latest Taipei International Conference on Arbitration and Mediation - part of the 60th anniversary celebrations of the Chinese Arbitration Association in Taipei - considered possible sanctions against counsel for unethical conduct, investment claims brought by cigarette companies and the need for an international convention on the enforcement of mediated settlements. Hao-Jou Fan and Mao-wei Lo, LLM candidates at College of Law, National Taiwan University, report.
PARIS: Best Friends debate need for rules on ethics
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At the latest Best Friends' Debate in Paris, 64 per cent of the audience members voted against institutions creating new rules, including rules to regulate counsel conduct and address ethical dilemmas in international arbitration.
GUATEMALA CITY/TEGUCIGALPA: A role for English common law?
Linked seminars in Guatemala and Honduras looked at whether English common law has a role to play in trade and investment arbitration in central America and Latin America in general. Organiser Monica Feria-Tinta, a Peruvian who practises as a barrister at 20 Essex Street Chambers in London and one of the few Latin Americans called to the English bar, reports.
WASHINGTON, DC: Ethics for arbitrators and counsel
A conference hosted by the Institute for Transnational Arbitration and the American Society of International Law in Washington, DC, explored the ethical obligations of arbitrators and advocates in international arbitration. Charles Rosenberg and Imad Khan of White & Case report.
Cross-examination and stilettos: ArbitralWomen celebrates launch of young group
Earlier this month, Arbitral Women marked the launch of the first young group for female practitioners and held its first conference on how to advance in international arbitration. Dilber Devitre, foreign associate at Homburger in Zurich, reports.
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Re-thinking sexualities in Africa
Arnfred, Signe
Uppsala : Nordiska Afrikainstitutet
Women, gender relations, sexuality, Culture, Ghana, Mali, Namibia, Senegal, Tanzania, Social anthropology, Socialantropologi
The volume brings together papers by African and Nordic/Scandinavian gender scholars and anthropologists, in attempts to investigate and critically discuss existing lines of thinking about sexuality in Africa, while at the same time creating space for alternative approaches. Issues of colonial and contemporary discourses on 'African sexuality' and on 'female genital mutilation' are being discussed, as well as issues of female agency and of feminists' engagement with HIV/AIDS. The volume contributes to contemporary efforts of re-thinking sexualities in the light of feminist, queer and postcolonial theory.
Sexuality and Gender Politics in Mozambique : Rethinking Gender in Africa
Upphovsperson:
Nordiska Afrikainstitutet | Nordiska Afrikainstitutet; James Currey
Gender politics, Mozambique, gender and sexuality, Social anthropology, Socialantropologi
The book is about gender politics in Mozambique over three decades from 1975 to 2005. The book is also about different ways of understanding gender and sexuality. Gender policies from Portuguese colonialism through Frelimo socialism to later neo-liberal economic regimes share certain basic assumptions about men, women and gender relations. But to what extent do such assumptions fit the ways in which rural Mozambican men and women see themselves? The author argues that gender relations should be investigated, not assumed, and that policies not matching people’s lives are unlikely to succeed. The empirical data on which the author draws are from a unique body of material collected in 1982-1984 by the Mozambican National Women's Organization, and from more recent fieldwork. Her research demonstrates short-comings in Western feminist conceptualizations, and shows how insights from African feminist thinking may enhance understandings of gender, both in and beyond Africa.
Knowledge, renewal and religion : repositioning and changing ideological and material circumstances among the Swahili on the East African coast
Larsen, Kjersti
Social anthropology, Cultural anthropology, cultural identity, Islam, Social change, modernization, Social history, Social anthropology/ethnography, Socialantrolopologi/etnografi
In the past decades religion has entered the political debate and is evoked in relation to a variety of events taking place around the world. Religion and religious differences, not political, economic or social, are claimed to be the cause rather than an expression of – or even a reaction to – ongoing problems. Islam and Christianity (or also Islam and Hinduism) are, in most cases, represented not only as opposed, but also as incommensurable worldviews, value systems and identities, where the one is threatening the existence of the other. Among the Swahili on the East-African Coast, this trend provokes questions related to whether we should approach what appear to be expressions of religious positioning in terms of renewal of previous understandings and relationships, or as a rephrasing of complex and conflictual matters that were always part of Swahili society. The papers in this book reveal that the Swahili are experiencing worsening economic, political and social conditions. Within these circumstances, Islam is invoked as a source of knowledge that not only explains the current state of life and living, but also gives directions on how to cope with and to change the situation for the better. Islam is both what reinforces Swahili identity and a particular way of life, and at the same time, given the current international climate, further marginalizes Swahili society and culture.
Dealing with uncertainty in contemporary African lives
Haram, Liv | Yamba, C. Bawa
Uncertainty, Traditional culture, anthropology, cultural change, Social change, modernization, gender relations, Sexually transmitted diseases, Economic implications, Daily life, Conference papers, Social anthropology, Socialantropologi
The articles in ‘Dealing with Uncertainty in Contemporary African Lives’ are based largely on work in Tanzania which has been spared much of the turmoil that elsewhere has uprooted populations and destroyed communities. Nevertheless they illuminate phenomena common throughout sub-Saharan Africa as modernity in its many guises undercuts old certainties, outmodes established knowledge of how to order life and deal with crises, introduces new hazards, and frustrates ambition and expectations. But as the editors, Haram and Yamba, point out, uncertainty and insecurity have a positive side, providing the basis for ‘curiosity and exploration’. The case studies demonstrate both the increasing uncertainty and insecurity of life in contemporary Africa and the ways that people respond, including warding off and reaching out. Scapegoats are sought. Witch beliefs become elaborated as explanations of failures and malaise while witchfinding becomes a lucrative profession. Pentecostal or other fundamentalist churches burgeon as they assure people that life has meaning and better times are before them if only they believe. Suicide and insanity are other possible responses. All in all, a thought-provoking volume. Elizabeth Colson, Professor Emeritus, University of California, Berkeley
Reconsidering informality : perspectives from urban Africa
Upphovspersoner:
Hansen, Karen Tranberg | Vaa, Mariken
Nordiska Afrikainstitutet | Uppsala : Nordiska Afrikainstitutet
Informal sector, Hidden economy, Employment, Land use, Livelihood, Urban areas, Urban planning, Urban housing, Congo-Brazzaville, Guinea-Bissau, Kenya, Lesotho, Mozambique, South Africa, Tanzania, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Social anthropology, Socialantropologi
This book brings together two bodies of research on urban Africa that have tended to be separate: Studies of urban land use and housing, and studies of work and livelihoods. Africa’s future will be to an increasing extent urban. Nevertheless, the inherited legal, institutional and financial arrangements for managing urban development are inadequate. The recent decades of neo-liberal political and economic reforms have increased social inequality across urban space. Access to employment, shelter and services is precarious for most urban residents. Extra-legal housing and unregistered economic activities proliferate. Basic urban services are increasingly provided informally. The result is the phenomenal growth of the informal city and extra-legal activities. How do urban residents see these activities? What do they accomplish through them? How can these “informal” cities be governed? The case studies are drawn from a diverse set of cities on the African continent. A central theme is how practices that from an official standpoint are illegal or extra-legal do not only work but are considered legitimate by the actors concerned. Another is how the informal city is not exclusively the domain of the poor, but also provides shelter and livelihoods for better-off segments of the urban population.
The Eritrean Diaspora : Myth and Reality
Bereketeab, Redie
Nordiska Afrikainstitutet, Conflict, Displacement and Transformation | Lund : Lund University
Social anthropology, Socialantropologi
Research Report in Social Anthropology
State-Building Project of Peace Building in the Horn of Africa
Research Report in Social Anthropoloy
Beyond territory and scarcity : exploring conflicts over natural resource management
Gausset, Quentin | Whyte, Michael | Birch-Thomsen, Torben
Resources management, environmentel degradation, natural resources, conflicts, boundaries, Living conditions, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Dmocratic Republic of the Congo, Ghana, Lesotho, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Sudan, Social anthropology, Socialantropologi
The attainment of sound and sustainable environmental management is one of humanity's greatest challenges this century, particularly in Africa, which is still heavily dependent on the exploitation of natural and agricultural resources and is faced with rapid population growth. Yet, this challenge should not be reduced to Malthusian parameters and the simple question of population growth and failing resources.In this volume, ten anthropologists and geographers critically address traditionalMalthusian discourses in essays that attempt to move "beyond territory andscarcity" by:- Exploring alternatives to the strong natural determinism that reduces natural resource management to questions of territory and scarcity.- Presenting material and methodologies that explore the different contexts in which social and cultural values intervene, and discovering more than 'rational choice' in the agency of individuals.- Examining the relevance of the different conceptions of territory for the ways in which people manage, or attempt to manage, natural resources.- Placing their research within the framework of the developing discussion on policy and politics in natural resource management. The studies are drawn from a range of sub-Saharan African countries: Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ghana, Lesotho, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, and Sudan. CONTENT Introduction. Quentin Gausset and Michael Whyte Land and Labour: Agrarian Change in Post-retrenchment Lesotho. Christian Boehm Social Resilience in African Dryland Livelihoods: Deriving Lessons for Policy. Michael Mortimore The Making of an Environment: Ecological History of the Kapsiki/Higi of North Cameroon and North Eastern Nigeria. Walter van Beek and Sonja Avontuur Agro-pastoral Conflicts in the Tikar Plain (Adamawa, Cameroon). Quentin Gausset Transhumance, Tubes and Telephones: Drought Related Migration as a Process of Innovation. Kristine Juul Understanding Resource Management in Western Sudan: A Critical Look at New Institutional Economics. Leif Manger Within, and Beyond, Territories: A Comparison of Village Land Use Management and Livelihood Diversificationin Burkina Faso and Southwest Niger. Simon Batterbury Moving the Boundaries of Forest and Land Use History: The Case of Upper East Region in Northern Ghana. Andrew Wardell Transnational Dimensions to Environmental Resource Dynamics: Modes of Governance and Local Resource Management in Eastern DRC. James Fairhead
The inconvenient indigenous : remote area development in Botswana, donor assistance, and the first people of the Kalahari
Saugestad, Sidsel
anthropology, indigenous people, Social anthropology, Socialantropologi
The book deals with the relationship between the government of Botswana and its indigenous minority, known as Bushmen, San, Basarwa, or more recently N/oakwe, and tries to understand why the San people remain a marginalised minority in a country that since Independence in 1966 has committed itself to a democratic and non-racial agenda. The use of the concept 'indigenous' is controversial in Botswana and in the rest of Africa, and the book asks thought-provoking questions about the responsibility of the state, the role of the international community and the need for representative organisations. While there have been dozens of books published on the ethnography of the San, this is the first book that places them in the comparative context of indigenous peoples' struggle for recognition. An in-depth documentation and analysis is given of a series of events in 1992 and 1993 that were crucial in establishing San indigenous organisations and identities, and the emergent San organisations are followed from the communities in Kalahari to international meetings in Geneva.
Women and the remaking of politics in Southern Africa : negotiating autonomy, incorporation and representation
Geisler, Gisela
Southern Africa, women's participation, political participation, political movements, women's status, gender equality, Social anthropology, Socialantropologi
African women have a long history of political involvement. Yet, the fervour with which they participated in anti-colonial struggles and supported national liberation were not acknowledged after independence leaving them to fight for representation and personal liberation on other fronts. This study looks at women’s struggles in Southern Africa where the last ten years have seen the most pervasive success stories on the African continent. Tracing the history of women’s involvement in anti-colonial struggles and against apartheid, the book analyses post-colonial outcomes and examines the strategies employed by women’s movements to gain a foothold in politics. In this book, the author presents in depth analyses and women’s narratives of their experiences in political parties, in the national machinery for the advancement of women and in the autonomous women’s movements.
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1981-1984 Doug Flutie Game Used Boston College Eagles Home Jersey (MEARS A10)
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There may be no more a famous play in college football history when Doug Flutie’s Hail Mary pass to Gerard Phelan on the final play of the game led the visiting Boston College Eagles to a miracle 47-45 victory over the Miami Hurricanes at the Orange Bowl in front of a national TV audience a day after Thanksgiving in 1984. Flutie’s performance in Miami that day was spectacular, throwing for 472 yards and four touchdowns as he became the first quarterback in college history to surpass 10,000 yards. Flutie would win the 1984 Heisman Trophy.
The performance in Miami was indicative of Flutie’s career at Boston College, which spanned from 1981-1984. Recruited out of nearby Natick High School, Flutie finished his college career with 10,579 passing yards and 67 touchdowns. In addition to his Heisman Trophy, Flutie earned the Maxwell Award, the Davey O’Brien National Quarterback Award and was named Player of the Year from various outlets, including UPI, The Sporting News and Kodak. Flutie was inducted in to the College Football Hall of Fame in May of 2007 in his first year of eligibility.
Presented here is the burgundy home Boston College jersey worn by Flutie during his college career. This size medium mesh jersey was manufactured by Champion and features Flutie’s number “22” screen-printed on the front, back and sleeves in white. The back of the jersey has “FLUTIE” screen-printed in white directly to the jersey above his number. The sleeves have white and gold stripes screen-printed and the Champion logo patch is sewn on the left sleeve. The “Champion Rochester New York” tag is sewn on the bottom front left tail. This jersey displays moderate use and is in excellent condition given its age. A wonderful opportunity to own a jersey from one of the greatest college quarterbacks of all-time. This jersey comes with a LOA from MEARS (316265) for the game use, who have dated this jersey to Flutie’s full college career (1981-84) and have graded this a perfect A10.
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The use of GPS data has become second nature for most everyday tasks. The most common scenario of finding your way from A to B using GPS is obvious, but there are a lot of other uses as well. When you ask to find the nearest store on a company website, GPS is used. When you log into Facebook in a foreign country and you subsequently get ads for all of the Swedish natural foods you can eat, GPS is used. When you ask Google to remember where you parked your car, GPS is used. And many more ways.
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Questline Support
Solution home Engage New to Engage?
Modified on: Mon, 31 Dec, 2018 at 2:33 PM
Engage uses menus on the top of the screen to guide you to the right place.
At the top of the Engage screen is a dark menu bar with the Engage logo on the left and , main menu options in the middle, and icons for Help & Support, User Settings, and Account settings on the right.
In the center of the menu bar are the options for different Engage areas and functions. Depending on your assigned security role's level of access and your account, you may not see all of these options:
Main Menu Options
The main menu options when working in Engage are the Dashboard (the default screen when loading the Engage application, and available again by clicking the Engage Icon), Campaigns, Messages, Lists & Subscribers, Downloads, and Reporting.
Campaigns is where you can set up sends to go out to subscribers. Depending on your account, you may have access to Standard Campaigns, Automated Campaigns, or both.
Messages is where you create and store the emails, text messages, and faxes to send out to subscribers.
The Lists and Subscribers area is where you can view, search, and manage individual subscribers or upload subscribers to the overall account. This is also where you can manage non-dynamic lists of subscribers for attachment to campaign sends. This area also includes the Segmentation functions. Segmentation allows you to group subscribers into dynamic lists based on their attributes, so that you could, for example, send a Campaign Send to all subscribers whose account is listed as being from Ohio.
The Downloads area is where any files you export to your Download Center - segments, subscriber lists, reports, etc. - are stored and available for download after processing is complete. Downloads are stored in this area for 14 days. Engage also allows for different exports that can go to your FTP site.
Reporting should be self-explanatory.
Help & Support and Settings Icons
To the right of the main menu options are the icons for Help & Support, User Settings, and Account Settings. Clicking one of these icons brings up a submenu of options.
The first icon, Help & Support, provides links to supports options, the Service Level Agreement for Engage, our Security and Compliance notification, and to our external system status website.
The second option, User Settings, allows you to edit your Profile - your name, email address, time zone selection, and password.
The third icon is Account Settings. This menu contains links to the pages for managing your account's Preference Center, managing Data Transfer, setting up Sender Profiles for sending emails, and managing communications and web page Branding.
The Preference Center screen allows you to customize a basic subscriber Preference Center that will be used if you don't have a customized Preference Center with the Engage Sites application.
Data Transfer is where you can set up FTP profiles, imports, and exports.
The Sender Profiles page allows you to set up and manage "From" and "Reply To" names and addresses, with selected Mail Streams for your Engage email.
The Branding area is used for basic page branding on customer-facing webpages linked to your Engage account (as opposed to custom Sites pages).
The last part of the menu shows the name of the Engage "instance" you are working in. If you have more than one instance, you can click here to select between instances you have access to. However, most customers will have only one instance already set up for them. In the image above, that the user is logged into an instance for Questline.
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Baby, I’m Gonna Be a Star: Complete Footage of Pre-Purple Rain Prince Surfaces
Posted December 15, 2012 by J Matthew Cobb in News
HIFI Live goes Christmas until Christmas
From Friday, December 14 through Tuesday, December 25, the merry bells will be ringing at HIFI LIVE! Radio for 12 Days of Christmas.
For twelve days and nights, lots of new festive releases will echo their joyous sound through the HIFI airwaves, as Cee Lo Green, Blake Shelton, Lady Antebellum, Rod Stewart, Colbie Caillat, Kem and even John Travolta (!!!) bring the freshest of the batch. More recent tracks by Chicago, Taylor Swift, Mariah Carey, Justin Bieber and Michael Buble will also be rockin’ around the Christmas tree. The classics will also be represented – you know, Bing Crosby, Nat “King” Cole, Elvis Presley, the Carpenters, Vince Guaraldi and the rest of the gang.
For devout fans of gospel music, “Joy to the World” promises to lift up the heavy heart. Airing on December 16 (and an encore presentation on December 23), the four-hour program will pay homage to gospel music’s finest both past and present. At best, it will act as a cornucopia of the genre’s greats, while focusing heavily on the religious undetones of the Christmas season. The program will air from 8:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. (CST).
As a bouns, impromptu live programs will be scheduled, along with CD giveaways and free digital downloads. To get in on the activity of Santa’s workshop, be sure to follow HIFI Magazine at Facebook and on Twitter, where the announcements will be posted.
On a bit of a sad note, this celebration will also mark the last time HIFI LIVE! will be on the air. Due to extreme costs and with very little support, the station will have to temporarily close the station. There are plans to revive the station at a future date, but we are still working on that.
For more information on “12 Days of Christmas” and its schedule of activities, be sure to view the official flyer.
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Amplifying the Truth about the Denuclearization Diplomacy to Counter Flawed Interpretations and Negative Expectations: A Response to Readers’ Comments
Posted on January 13, 2020 by greatcharlie
US President Donald Trump (left) and North Korean Chairman Kim Jong-un (right) at Panmunjom in June 2019. It is important to hear from our readers, and necessary to directly address their latest comments, especially when: they concern an issue much of our effort has been dedicated to in the past couple of years, in this case the US-North Korea denuclearization diplomacy. Although the diplomatic process has been long and there have been no big results yet, looking at the denuclearization issue, one notices a lot that is positive washes up on its shores. No reason has yet been found to subscribe to the idea that the diplomatic process is over. Hoping to provide greater clarity as to greatcharlie’s stand on the issue, a tour d’horizon from our prism is provided here.
Following the publishing of our December 12, 2019 post, “Commentary: A US-North Korea Denuclearization Agreement, If Reached, Must Not Be Left Open to Destruction by Others “, greatcharlie received a number of comments concerning its analyses of the US-Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (North Korea) diplomatic process on denuclearization. Perhaps the top five among those comments would be: discussions in posts are overly optimistic about the negotiations; discussions in posts are too supportive US President Donald Trump; discussions in posts are too understanding of North Korean Chairman Kim Jong-un; discussions in posts fail to provide enough information about what is going on inside North Korean foreign and national security policy institutions (a rather immoderate expectation); and, discussions in posts are too critical of using overt sources, specifically US news media broadcasts, publications, and online posts, to draw inferences about the Trump administration’s future actions. All comments on greatcharlie’s work product, with the exception of the churlish few, are welcome. It is important to hear from our readers. It is especially necessary to directly address the latest comments, especially when: they concern an issue to which several of our posts have been dedicated in the past couple of years (in this case, US-North Korea denuclearization diplomacy); they question the blog’s outlook; and, their comments arrive in considerable volume. Under the best circumstances, greatcharlie would like to be known for being a voice of common sense. The hope of greatcharlie is to earn its readers through the quality of our work. The hope also is to successfully act as a virtual listening post for our readers, discerning foibles from inside of governments, while being remote from it.
It stands to reason that many observers would have serious reservations about what is happening with the diplomacy on denuclearization and whether there is a genuine path to success under current circumstances. One could say there has been a lack of progress. Each summit between Trump and Kim, to include Hanoi, has been a “nearly but not quite” moment. Kim at first offered real hope that something positive could be constructed, it would be reasonable for some to sense now that he will provide in the end what he been best known for providing: disappointment and pain. To go further, one might presume that the North Koreans were never fully vested in the diplomacy and had not even tried to fully grasp the immense responsibility they shared with their US counterparts at this important point in their country’s history. One might be convinced that they simply sensed some prospect of exploiting, in some way, an opportunity that they still do not fully understand. (If they have surreptitiously taken that path, their greatest test may come soon enough when they must know what to say or do to prevent a war with an unbeatable opponent.) It has been said that a gentleman should know when to leave a party. Nonetheless, looking at the denuclearization issue, one notices a lot that is positive washes up on its shores. Struck by that, greatcharlie has not as yet found reason to subscribe to the idea that the diplomatic process is over. Optimism allows one to believe that there may still be some sort of eclectic masonry that Trump can build to create a link between the two countries. (Perchance this is the sort of optimism that some readers find so unsettling.) With the aim of providing greater clarity as to greatcharlie’s stand on the issue, a tour d’horizon from our prism is provided here. Dicamus bona verba. (Let us speak words of good omen.)
Kim (center) gesticulating as he talks with North Korean officials. On the diplomatic process on denuclearization, surely the rational and reasonable could recognize the benefits of what Trump has proposed. The clear choice for Pyongyang should be to accept his proposal in some form hashed out at the negotiation table. Pyongyang’s oscillation upward with Kim’s positive nature and relative openness toward Trump, downward to the rejectionist attitudes toward US proposals by the North Korean Foreign Ministry and negotiation team, and then upward again when Kim speaks measuredly or displays relative restraint (at least to discerning eyes), has been tedious. Wittingly or unwittingly, the North Koreans have been portraying themselves as lower tier players.
North Korean Diplomacy: Something Fairly Different from the Norm
On the diplomatic process on denuclearization, the rational and reasonable should surely recognize the benefits of what Trump has proposed. The clear choice for Pyongyang should be to accept them in some form, hashed out at the negotiation table. Trump’s proposal would have positive implications for the North Korean people for generations. Kim’s delay in recognizing what could be gained is somewhat perplexing. There have not been mixed messages from US, or anything that could reasonably be interpreted as such, to confuse the North Koreans or throw them off their game. Pyongyang’s oscillation upward from Kim’s positive nature and relative openness toward Trump then downward to the rejectionist attitudes toward US proposals by the North Korean Foreign Ministry and negotiation team, then upward again when Kim speaks measuredly or displays relative restraint (at least to discerning eyes), has been positively tedious. If Pypngyang could forgive greatcharlie’s frankness, wittingly or unwittingly, the North Koreans have been portraying themselves, by all reasonable and accepted international diplomatic standards, as lower tier, Mickey Mouse players. Without knowing for certain, it would be wrongful to ascribe what is at the professional core of the North Korean negotiators and their managers in Pyongyang that might be the cause for what they have been doing in the diplomatic process. Parsing out their words and deeds, greatcharlie has been able to draw inferences as to why they have been acting in eccentric ways. (Perhaps policymakers in North Korea would be better labelled policy transmitters for Kim is the only policymaker in North Korea.)
Dissimilar to their US counterparts, who may likely be morally centered by a particular religion, Pyongyang’s policymakers and diplomats are centered by the official ideology of North Korea, that in a way mimics theology, known as juche. Translated from Korean, juche means “independent status of a subject” or simply “independence.” The concept was founded in the 1950s by Chairman Kim Il-sung, Kim’s grandfather, on the idea that Korea suffered for hundreds of years under foreign, specifically Chinese control, and it is determine forever into the future remain independent. To that extent, it will remain independent, North Korea, in nuanced ways has sought to distance itself from the influence of big Socialist powers, at one time, the Soviet Union and China still. Among the nuanced aspects of juche was the promotion of the cult of personality of the “quasi-divine” ruling Kim dynasty ensuring a monolithic leadership. That was officially adopted as the leader doctrine in 1980. Indeed, starting in their early years, North Koreans have been taught to fanatically cling to the party line of Workers’ Party of Korea and place their faith in the party chairman, the Supreme leader, above all things. Ethnonationalism is also an aspect of juche. There is an emphasis maintaining and celebrating the purity and superiority of North Koreans. There are several other aspects, some equally disconcerting. While so much has been done to distinguish juche from Communists and Socialism, the underpinnings of those political ideologies in its system is clear. Despite any displeasure this comment might cause in Pyongyang, it could be said juche is essentially an avant-garde or disjointed simulacrum of a Communist or Socialist system as intended under the ideas of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. (To the disapproval and exasperation of many Northeast Asia regional experts and Korea scholars, in previous commentaries on North Korea, greatcharlie has simply labelled the country as being Communist. To clarify, the purpose for doing that was to provide an immediate point of reference to our readers to allow them to better understand how its bureaucracy operates. Further, leaving everything stated here about juche aside, the country that would develop from Kim Il-sung’s movement, North Korea, was originally girded by the sweat, blood, wherewithal, and guidance of Joseph Stalin’s Soviet Union and Mao Tse-tung’s People’s Republic of China. To that extent, far more similarities to both of those Communists countries still exist than differences. The intent of stating any of this is neither to extenuate greatcharlie’s choice, nor offer a mea culpa.)
All members of the society are true believers in juche, and every move they make is colored by the precepts of juche. That certainly holds true for North Korean policymakers and diplomats working on the denuclearization diplomacy. For them, participating in the negotiations has been more than a job. It has been a grand opportunity to faithfully serve Kim and the Workers’ Party of Korea and vehemently support and defend North Korean political ideals. Making certain that their performances in the negotiations immaculately adhered to national ideals has very likely been a measure of success for North Korean diplomats. That being the case, likely ever present among them is the stress of potentially making an error politically. Avoiding that means always making certain there is no possibility for the misinterpretation of their actions. Looking toward the North Korean policymakers and diplomats to introduce an ingenious idea to propel the diplomatic process forward would be misguided. What one might expect from the North Korean policymakers and diplomats at best would be a spirited reflex defense of party ideals and expressions of a decades old hostile national bias against the US. As fate would have it, this is essentially what has been observed. Stirred in has been a heavy portion of negative sentiment and caprice toward the US in the public statements of the North Koreans. As much as part of a larger negotiation stratagem, periods of indignant silence from the North Koreans also appears to be a manifestation of the daily travail of officials not to say or do anything that might remotely skirt the party line of the Workers’ Party of Korea. When confronted with either behavior, their US counterparts, as expected, have exhibited classic diplomatic sangfroid and patience. Audi vide, tace, si vis vivere in pace. (Use your ears and eyes, but hold your tongue, if you would live in peace.)
There are issues of competence at play in the North Korean’s actions, too! They lack experience in authentically working with other diplomats or simply conversing with a diverse group of interlocutors Indeed, their limited range of diplomatic skill reflects the fact that they come out of a society alienated from the rest of the world, the so-called hermit kingdom. Diplomats of its UN Mission in New York might have opportunities to interact with their counterparts of other UN member states’ missions in committees. Diplomats in North Korea’s 25 embassies situated in as many countries have opportunities to interact with the outside world. However, they may seldom have the opportunity to authentically practice core skills such as confidence building and give and take in negotiations. Even their contacts with diplomats of a handful of friendly countries, while congenial and business-like, would expectedly be superficial as all important decisions have been normally been made directly between the capitals of those countries and Pyongyang. That being the case, having the experience of interacting with US diplomats has undoubtedly been a learning experience for the North Korean negotiating team whether they admit it or not.
Mindful that all authority to make foreign policy decisions resides in Kim, the North Korean negotiation team likely has no leeway to negotiate anything innovative at the table with the US. As that very likely is the case, the performance of North Korean officials and diplomats becomes kind of akin to cabaret. Feeling duty bound to do something even with imposed limitations, a certain amount of pretense might expectedly be reflected in their moves. (Hopefully, that pretense does not belie any artificial intentions of Pyongyang in the diplomacy on denuclearization in general.) In an odd way, that bit of pretense could be what in a way liberates them to act uncoventionally. It is not easy to know what is genuine with the North Koreans. It never has been. A pitfall of being frivolous, though, could be that their inexperience may not allow them to judge just how far off from what is decent they can go. There is a thin line between chaos and order. Potentially, the North Korean negotiators could spoil the entire diplomatic process, albeit unintentionally. Instances in which they seemed to have moved a bit far off the mark might be those occasions when North Korean negotiators have reportedly made platitudinous objections to US proposals. There have also been occasions when doses of pronounced immaturity, crudeness, and impertinence were included in official statements from the North Korean Foreign Ministry.
In North Korea, the government insists upon keeping a watchful eye over threats to its system and society. It is understood that the reactionary, the counterrevolutionary, most often “hiding in the shadows,” posed the greatest threat and was viewed as anathema. Given human nature there was always the threat that could arise from the unsuccessful education of citizens. The security services use techniques to create fear that rival those of the Erinyes in the poems of Aeschylus and are forever hunting for those who may fall short of what is expected or may be “foreign spies.” Citizens live as if plugged into an electric outlet, terrified of crossing the line. To that extent, North Korean policy approaches have been forged by analysts in an environment of fear, and implemented by terror stricken diplomats who in addition to adhering to the precepts of juche, are simply trying to stay around. Although well aware of the danger posed by their own government’s security services, it causes one to wonder why false promises from North Korean diplomats have been commonplace during their past 25 plus years of negotiations with the US. Perhaps it was the human element. Their egos got the best of them and they wandered off toward a bridge too far in the heat of the negotiations. There has not been any of that in the current process. One can be certain that if something is stated at the negotiation table that billows up the slightest ire in Pyongyang, it will be walked back immediately. Quam multa injusta ac prava fiunt moribus! (How many unjust and improper things are authorized by custom!)
Under ordinary circumstances, one thinking in ordinary ways might expect that North Korean policy makers and diplomats would eventually recognize that there is a need for them to become climatized to a true international environment. The clear choice would be to try to tidy things up and to transition to a new line of not political, but professional thinking. However, expecting the North Koreans to catch the Holy Ghost and see the error in their ways would be out of court. Except for Kim, North Koreans, at least officially, do not engage introspection. The government believes it has provided them with a clear path to follow.
Kim’s sister, Kim Yo-jong (center), stands with the North Korean foreign policy officials at Panmunjom in June 2019. Mindful that all authority to make foreign policy decisions resides in Kim, the North Korean negotiations team likely has no leeway to negotiate anything innovative at the negotiating table with the US. As that very likely is the case, the performance of North Korean officials and diplomats becomes a bit akin to cabaret. Feeling duty bound to do something even with imposed limitations, a certain amount of pretense might expectedly be reflected in their moves. Indeed, that bit of pretense could be what liberates them to act uncoventionally.
How North Korean Attitudes and Behavior Are Perceived
Surely interpretations of the antics displayed by the North Koreans have shaped perceptions of US officials on the denuclearization diplomacy. To some in the West, Pyongyang approaches have resembled some huge masquerade, performed as a way to avoid engaging in the authentic diplomacy of give and take. The North Korean’s aspiration appears instead to be wearing the Trump administration down and compel its acquiescence to a default agreement under which all key North Korean goals would be attained. Those goals would include retaining their nuclear weapons and delivery systems at level of their choosing and ending the economically devastating sanctions imposed by the US. There are likely others in the Washington who believe Pyongyang’s attitudes and behaviors have been quite predictable. To them, the same show that had been running for so many decades after the Korean War continues its run in the background in Pyongyang. Thoughts and deeds emanating from Pyongyang appear at best to be tinged by an anti-US bigotry and at worse scorched by it. (Those feelings seem well evinced by the hostile countenance of North Korean negotiators’ faces in the few publicly available photos of them. As opposed to concealing any gesture of internal thought, their faces betray an almost immeasurable anger that can barely be contained. One might also be led to believe that the North Korean negotiation team’s sullen and stoic faces might be the result of having had the Hell posted out of them at some point.)
Presumably, North Korean policy makers and diplomats could not care less about what their US counterparts think of their style. That is not exactly a perspective conducive to building confidence and forging a fruitful working relationship. If the North Koreans were to give it a moment’s thought, they would likely discover that far from being beguiled by their behavior, US negotiators on the other side of the table find coping with the whole cabaret they have been putting on during diplomatic process very unsatisfying to say the least. One might go as far as state that US negotiators may personally feel the process may no longer be worth the candle. Yet, being well-trained, imbued with true diplomatic acumen, exceptionally experienced, and just plain professional, they will remain figuratively strapped in place. They certainly will not walk away from the drawn out process that has featured dismal interactions with the North Koreans.
Pyongyang apparently never read, and accordingly never had the chance to heed, greatcharlie’s advisement not become distracted by the rants and ramblings on Trump’s foreign and national security policy in the US news media. It appears that this us precisely what they have done. From the North Korean’s repertoire verbal attacks against the US, one can discern similarities with US news media’s favorite criticisms of Trump administration. A top US news media criticism of the Trump administration’s effort at denuclearization diplomacy is that a well-thought out, reasonable negotiating strategy is absent. A parallel to that would be the statement of North Korean Foreign Minister Kim Myong Gil that whether Pyongyang breaks its self-imposed moratorium on nuclear and missile testing “entirely depends on the stance of the United States.” Perhaps a misplace patrician aesthetic has founded that absolutely absurd idea, endlessly presented by the US news media, is that in diplomatic settings, Trump is unaware of etiquette and unable to properly present himself as President of the US. Moreover, it is also frequently posited that Trump has displayed an alleged barbaric, “gangster mentality”, that has tainted his personal interactions and diplomatic efforts with European allies at G7, G20, and NATO summits. Echoing these preposterous sentiments, have been official statements emanating from the North Korean Foreign Ministry referring to the denuclearization diplomacy as the “sickening negotiations” and threats that talks will not be resumed unless Washington takes measures to ensure a “complete and irreversible withdrawal of the hostile policy toward the DPRK.” Additionally, what has become rather kitsch reaction is the US news media insistence upon declaring anything Trump is doing as being solely directed at supporting his reelection or personal gain. Not thinking, but simply mimicking that ludicrous idea, the North Korean Foreign Ministry accused Washington of “abusing the DPRK-U.S. dialogue for its domestic political events.” Quis nescit primam esse historic legem, ne quid falsi dicere audeat?; deinde ne quid veri non audeat? (Who does not know that it is the first law of history not to dare to say anything that is false?; and, the second not to dare say anything that is not true?)
Group photo of Kim (center) and his leadership team in Pyongyang. Surely interpretations of the antics displayed by the North Koreans have shaped perceptions of US officials on the denuclearization diplomacy. To some in Washington, Pyongyang’s attitudes and behaviors have been quite predictable. To them, the same show that had been running for so many decades after the Korean War continues its run in the background in Pyongyang. Thoughts and deeds emanating from Pyongyang appear at best to be tinged by an anti-US bigotry and at worse scorched by it.
Pyongyang’s Perceptions of Where Washington Is Headed
In news US media outlets today, bits of news about the efforts of an administration in office is highlighted or hidden by reporters depending upon whether they fit the narrative, positive or negative, that the outlet holds of that administration. To that extent, the news, as opposed to being reported in a fair and balanced way, is decidedly curated. As a staunch proponent of the right of freedom of speech as entitled under the First Amendment of the US Constitution, greatcharlie certainly believes critics of US government activities, particularly the press, the Fourth Estate, should have free hand to express themselves. However, along with that right of free express comes a reasonable expectation that news media outlets, particularly in the arena of international affairs, will act prudently in presenting information. Professional ethics alone should guide behavior in news media outlets with regard to presenting information that is known to be false or cannot be substantiated. Even more, presenting questionable information that may have an undesirable, deleterious, and even destructive impact on their own country’s success must be avoided. Critics of Trump in the US news media, who, to be more forthright, are actually his adversaries, never fail to curate information that they make available to the public to fit their negative narrative on Trump. They also never fail to propagate commentary about him that may be based on conjecture at best or presumption at worse. Assuredly it has been done with a goal to bully and cause harm. It has been a problem from the first year minus one of his presidency.
Ex falsis, ut ab ipsis didicimus, verum effici non protest. (From the false, as they have themselves taught us, we can obtain nothing true.) Trump’s adversaries seem to feel a compulsive need to express from a soapbox overly simplistic views about him and his administration’s efforts to the point of extravagance. What was one of the worst direct allegations made by his adversaries in the news media was the shameful declaration that “Trump is a Russian spy.” For those willing to submit to reality, the final report of the Special Counsel to Investigate Russian Interference with the 2016 Presidential Election and Related Matters, Robert Mueller, known as the the Mueller Report, should have knocked down any concerns the fantastic allegation might be true. Anyone who understood what that falsehood would have entailed to be true would hardly have uttered such complete nonsense without feeling foolish or guilty. At the same time, many at very high levels inside and outside of government, most of whom had albeit possessed an untutored expertise in the subject matter, clearly believed it all. Strangely, it appears that vacuous pronouncements about “Trump’s espionage” were rooted in “facts” on how the “spy world” works from productions of the entertainment industry. Trying to make any sense of it, one might believe that instead of being concerned with foreign and national security policy, his adversaries were writing spy novels or novels of political intrigue. (Perhaps the intent among some of them is to publish a roman à clef on this period at some point down the line.)
Vigorous as ever are the endless exertions that Trump has done this or that lurid or generally inappropriate thing. Those pundits with the gumption to state such things publicly seem to have been provided an open invitation to flood broadcast, print, and online news media with their breathtaking, multi-layered rumors, cluttered with ambiguities and contradictions. To be blunt, one should always suspect that the stories they hear in the US news media are lies. Perchance, such views expressed on Trump reveal the limits of their intellectual power, and more sadly, the sensibilities of the times, banal and tasteless. Added to all of that, Trump clearly makes a satisfying target for the misguided passion of reporters and pundits. For those who can recall the degree of professionalism and intellectual acuity that journalists of those same news media outlets once displayed in an era not so long ago, it all becomes too heartbreaking to watch. Current journalists from those outlets now seem so completely estranged from that high-level of performance.
Trump’s adversaries have yet to learn the lesson that is dangerous to throw ugly rhetoric around. An international audience devours such information and has a penchant for reaching endless incorrect conclusions from the tiniest morsel. Some countries based their policy decisions on the many absurdities about Trump found in the US news media enough so that they brought their relations with the US perilously close to ruin. As aforementioned, questionable information from the news media has surely provided the push from behind to both flawed and completely incorrect inferences and judgments made in Pyongyang. To that extent, the US news media has undoubtedly played a role in making efforts of the US negotiation team to establish an intimate relationship with the North Koreans more difficult.
Trump at his inauguration on January 20, 2017. Critics of Trump in the US news media, who are actually his adversaries, never fail to curate information that they make available to the public to fit their negative narrative on Trump. They also never fail to propagate commentary about him based on conjecture at best or presumption at worse. Assuredly it has been done with a goal to bully and cause harm. It has been a problem from the first year minus one of his presidency. Trump’s adversaries have yet to learn how dangerous it is to throw ugly rhetoric around. An international audience devours such information and has a penchant for reaching incorrect conclusions from the tiniest morsel.
Nodum in scirpo quærere. (To look for a knot in the rushes (I.e., to look for difficulty where none exists.) Trump’s political adversaries, Members of the Democratic Party who hold the majority in the US House of Representatives, aggressively lashed out against him, conducting a truncated process of investigation and hastily approving two malicious articles of impeachment against him. Their premise was that during a phone call that Trump had on July 5, 2019 with the Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, Trump sought to coerce him to initiate an investigation of an election opponent in return for the release of military aid he was withholding. It was very unusual interpretation of the phone call given the official transcript of the call released by Trump indicated nothing of the sort. It was all initiated by claims of an alleged whistle blower who never heard the phone conversation. Supposed fact-finding hearings insisted upon by House Democrats lifted the veil on nothing but hearsay and alarmist presumptions. (Res ipsa loquitor! If they truly do not understand that the world does not work in that way, how apparent it becomes that some officials from the US intelligence services, through their briefings, have failed to provide Members of Congress with a thorough understanding of intelligence work, particularly tradecraft.) Observing events, greatcharlie admittedly hoped that the smallest spark of decency would have caused House Democrats to find some way to stop moving down their destructive path. Instead, they pushed through the two articles, accusing him of betraying the country for his own political benefit and obstructing a Congressional investigation into his actions. That drastic step taken was more about House Democrats feelings about Trump than about his actual actions. Democrats in Congress, through their legislative action, have memorialized the schism between themselves and Trump.
To the extent that the behavior of House Democrats relates to the denuclearization diplomacy, it may indicate to observers in foreign capitals that Trump does not have Congressional support for his foreign policy initiatives. It may have already led some foreign capitals to consider whether it would be worth the candle to work with Trump on anything big. However, what observers in foreign capitals should actually note is that there are two chambers of Congress, the House of Representatives and the Senate. The US Senate, which also has a say in how US foreign policy is conducted, is controlled by Trump’s Republican Party which has fully supported his efforts and can continue to achieve much to support the US President without their Democrat counterparts in House. Those observers in foreign capitals should further note that Trump has actually acquired a remarkable record of success on a plethora of foreign policy issues. Still, most importantly, observers in foreign capitals should note that House Democrats, have not as yet recognized or acquiesced to the truth that they may have all been useful idiots in a larger, darker plan of dishonorable individuals within the government, and some outside, to force Trump from office. The true nature of the very apparent criminal conspiracy is currently under investigation by the highest ranking law enforcement officials in the US. They will twinkle out the conspirators of this abominable enterprise–hidden most likely within the intelligence services–and reveal the full nature of their heinous plans. More than just tge House Democrats, the news will undoubtedly perplex and unravel all those individuals who have been so certain of Trump’s guilt in all of the nonsense propagated. (There will most likely be a tidal wave excessive emotional outbursts, likely be akin to those unsightly ones seen in the camp of Hilary Clinton when was announced that she had lost the 2016 US Presidential Election.)
Trump’s political adversaries, Members of the Democratic Party, who currently hold the majority in the US House of Representatives, aggressively lashed out against him, conducting a truncated process of investigation and hastily approving two malicious articles of impeachment against him. To the extent that the behavior of House Democrats relates to the denuclearization diplomacy, it may indicate to observers in foreign capitals that Trump does not have Congressional support for his foreign policy initiatives. It may have already led some foreign capitals to consider whether it would be worth the candle to work with Trump on anything big.
Getting an Improved Grip on the Situation
Unlike a mystery, all challenges, much as puzzles, have solutions. They simply need to be found. As outlined earlier here, there are political, professional, and personal issues that doubtlessly preoccupy the North Koreans and stand as obstacles to constructive negotiations. However, there may indeed be a way make interactions between negotiating teams rewarding and thereby potentially useful to Kim in moving the diplomatic process on denuclearization forward. Right now the negotiations, ironically, have been a tool that has allowed Pyongyang to stall it, intentionally or unintentionally. If an issue takes one into deep waters, one must often dive deeper into it in order to develop a sound theory, to find solutions. Sometimes that can be done by making connections between a matter at hand with similar yet remote issues that already have answers. If Pyongyang can again forgive greatcharlie’s honesty, it must be stated that dealing with its foreign policy apparatus, and particularly its Foreign Ministry, seems akin to trying to interact with a young adult, just beginning to understand his or her place in the world.
The young adult, teenager to be more precise, may typically spend time and exert energy strongly protesting vehemently complaining, and tearfully fretting and frowning about one thing or another. However, whatever may actually be at the root of what irritating or pressuring them more often will not be articulated. The teenager will expect a responsible adult, to whom they may choose to express their feelings, to supernaturally possess some understanding of not only what is disturbing them, but it’s cause. Failure to do so will elicit the words that nearly every teenager may have stated or thought at some point, “You don’t get me!”
In order to get to the root of the problem means creating conversation, talking it out. That will usually responsible adult to try to hear them out while ignoring criticism and accusations mostly without merit. It would not be the proper time for ordinary repartee. When opportunities arise to get a word in edgewise, the adult can discuss similar situations from experience, and say things that will draw questions from the teenager. Discussing situations from which commonalities of experiences can be recognized will also support communication. A conscious effort should be made by the adult to supply a vocabulary that the teenagers can incorporate to express their experiences thus supporting a more productive exchange. Further, by taking these steps, a figurative bridge might be constructed which may support other fruitful exchanges with the teenager in the future. Notably, if teenagers are not correctly mentored in a way that is right and proper by caring adults, they can very well fall prey to their contemporaries and other adult who will not have their best interests at heart. In a similar way, North Korea could fall prey to its northern neighbors, the Russian Federation and China, which only seek to promote their respective interests.
Conceptualizing along such lines, an approach might be developed that might potentially provide US negotiators with a way to work more effectively with the North Koreans. Of course, the North Koreans, themselves, must be open to any approach in the end. However, if US negotiators could convince them to share, without pretension, their bedrock concerns, things could really get started. Certainly, the North Koreans’ laser focus during negotiations will remain pursuing specific goals as instructed by Pyongyang. However, other than an all or nothing frontal assault, they may not have considered better ways to pursue those goals via talks. Demonstrating to the North Koreans at the negotiation table that there are alternative ways to mutually satisfy the aims of both countries may resonate with them. It could very well provide them with work product that they might be pleased to report back home. Virtus est vitium fugere, et sapienta prima stultitia caruisse. (To flee vice is the beginning of virtue, and the beginning of wisdom is to have gotten rid of folly.)
It is important to note that what is presented here does not infantilize the North Korean policymakers and diplomats. That is far from its intent. What is presented here acknowledges a pattern of behavior, identifies an instance of similar behavior unrelated to foreign policy from which an understanding of it can be furthered, and provides a starting point from which strategy for working constructively under such conditions might be more easily conceptualized. (One might muse lightheartedly on how much easier it would be for Washington to interact with Pyongyang, if US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo could staff the US negotiation team with clairvoyants and precognitive empaths!)
Some critics will likely interpret what is presented here as further evidence that it is the “vocation” of greatcharlie to evangelize for the Trump administration. True, greatcharlie supports the foreign policy efforts of the US President and wishes him well. However, greatcharlie does not subscribe to the view that expressing goodwill, siding with truth, and choosing what is universally right over wrong can be judged as a partisan political exercise. The purpose of greatcharlie’s efforts on the denuclearization diplomacy has been to bring the truth to the public by establishing an accurate rendering of what is happening. Without affectation, greatcharlie believes it has been doing that job right.
Confessedly, greatcharlie feels a certain piquancy about receiving comments for they serve as proof positive that readers take a real interest in what is posted on the blog. Equally pleasing is the thought that prior posts have stirred debate on the issue of diplomacy on denuclearization to some degree. Still, it remains a tad troubling to know that some critics will likely interpret what is presented here as further evidence that it is the “vocation” of greatcharlie to evangelize for the Trump administration. True, greatcharlie supports the foreign policy efforts of the US President and wishes him well. However, greatcharlie will never subscribe to the view that expressing goodwill, siding with truth, and choosing what is universally right over wrong can be judged as a partisan political exercise. The purpose of greatcharlie’s efforts on the denuclearization diplomacy has been to bring the truth to the public by establishing an accurate rendering of what is happening with regard to the diplomacy of denuclearization. Without affectation, greatcharlie believes it has been doing that job right. Our intent is to keep gnawing at the subject of diplomacy on denuclearization. The hope is that our readers will continue to give our posts the concentration that is sought from them.
In composing this precis of greatcharlie’s thinking on the diplomatic process on denuclearization in response to readers’ comments, it became very clear that our readers have a fairly sophisticated understanding of the issue. Interestingly though, us-them arguments and hints of the rhetoric of good versus evil were common features of their responses. Questions were also frequently raised as to why the US would even want to negotiate with Pyongyang given its disobliging stance. Perhaps the best response to all of that would be that Trump did not stumble into the diplomatic process on denuclearization. He knew the history of US-North Korea relations and jumped in knowing that there would be a lot of hard work entailed without an immediate solution. The work may be challenging, but the prize of success is greater peace and security in Northeast Asia, and greater degree of peace and security in the world. That is certainly worth pursuing. Prudens futuri temporis exitum caliginosa nocte premit Deus; ridetque, si mortalis ultra fas trepidat. (God in His wisdom veils in darkness of night the events of the future; and smiles if a mortal is unduly solicitous about what he is not permitted to know.)
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Commentary: A US-North Korea Denuclearization Agreement, if Reached, Must Not Be Left Open to Destruction by Others
Posted on December 12, 2019 by greatcharlie
North Korean Chairman Kim Jong-un with his country’s future, its children, at youth rally (above). Resolution of the decades long face-off between North Korea and the US, South Korea, and Japan may not assure peace Korean Peninsula. North Korea’s northern neighbors might react poorly to a denuclearization agreement. More specifically, the Russian Federation might view the new link between North Korea and the US as a troubling manipulation of Pyongyang, leading to a US encroachment toward its borders. Hypothetically in response, Moscow might create a buffer zone between the Russian Federation and the Korean Peninsula by grabbing North Korean territory. Without deterrent power, Pyongyang may not be able to prevent that. Those engaged in the denuclearization negotiations should give consideration to this possibility as such a scenario could bust everything they might achieve.
What US President Donald Trump wants from the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (North Korea) is the same end product that was at the root of his decision to talk with North Korean Chairman Kim Jong-un in 2018: denuclearization, the end of long-range missile development, the continued return of US remains from the Korean War, and dependability. In exchange, Kim would be assured the mitigation of economic pressure, to include draconian sanctions implemented under a maximum pressure campaign, that has had a considerable deleterious effect not only upon North Korea’s economy but its existence. Additionally, Trump has assured that the prospective partnership with the US would be a long-term and a robust path toward economic vitalization, backed by the experience of Trump and the largess of the US. Indeed, the US would be prepared to support the economic transformation of North Korea, supporting not only the growth of its industrial capabilities and capacity, but introduce North Korean firms to new techniques and technologies for efficient and high quality production. Further, the US would encourage new investment in North Korea from other industrialized countries, to include its neighbors, South Korea and Japan, both of whom it currently views as adversaries. What is being presented to North Korea is the choice to be something other than a stranger, or worse, an outcast, to the rest of the world. Even so, throughout 2019, demurs and objections were heard from senior officials of the North Korean Foreign Ministry. Their comments appeared to echo a speech by Kim at the 1st Meeting of the 14th Supreme People’s Assembly, on April 12, 2019, during which he indicated a willingness to negotiate “on the condition that [the US] has the right attitude and seeks a solution that we can share.” Kim further stated at the Supreme People’s Assembly that he would “wait patiently until the end of the year for the United States to make a bold decision.” Kim’s words were uttered long before he and Trump met impromptu at the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) in Panmunjom on June 30, 2019, but they nevertheless seem to have stuck within the North Korean foreign policy apparatus. In Washington, it all rings bells, reminding of the past and raising questions whether Pyongyang’s ways of thinking and doing things are trapped in amber. For the sake of the negotiations and their potential for enhancing global peace and security, one should hope that is not the case.
Resolution of the decades long face-off between North Korea and the US, South Korea, and Japan, however, may not assure peace on Korean Peninsula. North Korea’s neighbors immediately to its north, China and the Russian Federation, may not react well in the wake of a denuclearization agreement. Based on what it has declared to be its strategic interests, the Russian Federation in particular, might view the new link between North Korea and the US as a threat, and that Washington was simply manipulating Pyongyang in order to move closer to the Russian Federation’s borders. Hypothetically, Moscow might decide to create a buffer zone between the Russian Federation and the Korean Peninsula by grabbing North Korea’s sovereign territory to halt any perceived encroachment by the US. Without deterrent power, it is hard to see how Pyongyang on its own could keep the Russian Federation off its land. Under President Vladimir Putin, the Russian Federation has displayed a propensity for maligned behavior. There is still a chance fate will bring a denuclearization agreement as envisioned by Trump, all of North Korea’s neighbors will put down the shutters and accept the new development, and the Russian Federation, in particular, will show restraint. That would be ineffable. Nevertheless, if there is a chance that everything might not land quietly and gracefully, requisite caution must be shown now by the negotiating parties. Trump must be on guard.
This is the ninth in a line of occasional commentaries concerning the Trump-Kim diplomacy on denuclearization published by greatcharlie since August 2017. An enchantment on the matter and support and enthusiasm for the effort has stimulated the preoccupation. Through its commentaries, greatcharlie has sought to put together the arithmetic of what both sides, the US and North Korea, are doing on the matter. In this commentary, greatcharlie emphasizes that realism must be a key ingredient to the diplomatic process on denuclearization. Nothing discussed here should sound extravagant in today’s world. Together the US and North Korea must open the figurative box from which all the essential qualities and ingredients for a longstanding, sustainable peace are released, and at the same time avoid releasing the makings of conflict from another direction. Both sides must really look at the situation diligently, not dismissing unpleasant possibilities, to ensure negotiators do not construct an agreement that may not serve either side’s purposes in the long-run. Through such a reflective approach, greater unity of purpose and action can grow between the negotiating parties, and the viable and sustainable peace sought more likely will be found. Certum est quod certum reddi potest. (It is certain, whatever can be rendered certain.) Chinese President Xi Jinping (left) and Russian Federation President Vladimir Putin (right). China and the Russian Federation for the moment may reasonably assured that they can cause Kim to shy away from a denuclearization agreement with the US would not pose difficulties. From what has been seen from the surface so far In terms of its economic well-being, Pyongyang has displayed a curious sort of faith in Beijing and Moscow. Despite sanctions, embargoed financial, energy, and other industrial resources mainly come into the country through various schemes set up by Kim’s Chinese and Russian friends. Putin and Xi control North Korea’s links to the outside world to the extent that its people’s very survival already rests in their hands. Kim can allow that to go on, or seek a better path for his country.
A Concern from Outside the Box or from Left Field?
One might conclude that there is an almost inherent connection, a natural affinity, between North Korea, China, and the Russian Federation. The defunct Soviet Union, the original, unholy bastion of Communism, Marxist-Leninism, and Socialism, was the model from which North Korea structured its government. As it is the first and largest Communist government in Asia, there is much that North Korea has mirrored in a cultural sense from China. In support of Kim’s grandfather and hero, Kim Il-sung, the Soviet Union provided not only weapons, equipment and training for North Korean forces during the Korean War, but also provided Soviet soldiers and airmen to engage covertly in combat operations. The Russian Federation, a former Soviet republic, was at the center of the collapsed superpower, and to a degree has taken on from the Soviet Union the image of caretaker for North Korea. Nevertheless, China’s commitment to its North Korean ally during the war was even greater than that of the Soviet Union in terms of blood and treasure. China has really been the country’s steward and economic lifeline.
Alieno more vivendum est mihi. (I must live according to another’s whim.) China and the Russian Federation for the moment may reasonably assured that it would not pose difficulties to cause Kim to shy away from a denuclearization agreement with the US. Indeed, If Kim possesses any doubts that an agreement would not lead to North Korea moving up and away from the status quo, one might assume the two countries can quietly interfere and exert influence on Kim. From what has been seen from the surface so far In terms of its well-being economically, Pyongyang has shown a curious sort of faith in both Beijing and Moscow. Despite sanctions, embargoed financial, energy, and other industrial resources apparently can still slip into the country through various schemes set up by Kim’s Chinese and Russian friends. Russian Federation President Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping control North Korea’s links to the outside world to the extent that its people’s very survival pretty much rests in their hands. Kim can allow things to go on as they are and bend to the will of China and the Russian Federation, or seek a far better path for his country. It would reasonable for him to prefer the later. Having ambition is not an offense.
To the extent that officials in China and the Russian Federation feel North Korea is their ball to play with, an agreement that would create firm, lasting ties of friendship between the US and North Korea would likely stick in their throats. If unable to disrupt, divert, and displace Trump’s efforts with Kim before an agreement is signed, one or both may decide to pose a threat to the agreement afterward. China may just desire to make things a bit more difficult for Kim if he moves alongside the US. However, Beijing knows where to draw the line. The Russian Federation might do far more, which is the point of interest here. As alluded to earlier, at some point, Putin might order Russian Federation forces to move into North Korea’s sovereign territory with the objective of creating a buffer zone between the Russian Federation and the Korean Peninsula. The goal would be to set a limit to the likely perceived encroachment by the US. After its nuclear arsenal might potentially be evacuated under the terms of a denuclearization agreement. North Korea would lack the deterrent power to scare away a Russuan Federation move onto its territory, and could become the victim of just that. A conventional response might also be less feasible as the bulk of North Korea’s conventional forces may continue to face south near the DMZ for a while even after a denuclearization agreement is reached. Korean People’s Army forces of sufficient power are not presently deployed north in a manner to fend off an attempted land grab by the Russian Federation.
The prospective area that might be targeted by Putin for capture is the Hamgyöng Bukto (North Hamgyong) Province. It borders the Russian Federation along approximately 29 kilometers of the Tumen River. The province borders China to its northwest and to its east is the Sea of Japan. A rocket launching site is located at Musudan-ri. The Hoeryong concentration camp is also located in the province. It has some value as a line of access by rail to Russia. However, since no customs area exists there, most bilateral trade between North Korea and the Russian Federation moves first through China, raising costs. Ironically, the border with the Russian Federation, having no huge benefit to Pyongyang for years, could become a liability as a point from which hostile forces could seize the province. The Russian Federation Navy could land significant numbers of forces at Chongjin. The capability and capacity of the Russian Federation armed forces to conduct such an operation was well-demonstrated during their Zapad 2017, Vostok 2018, and Tsentr 2019 exercises. Russian Federation President Vladimir Putin (above). Observing Washington getting cozy with Pyongyang has doubtlessly stirred a some sense of trepidation in the Kremlin. Putin has already demonstrated how he responds when he feels a country formerly in the Soviet orbit, is being entertained by the West. Putin does not want any country friendly with US sharing the Russian Federation’s border without creating some type of buffer zone within that country, if it can. It does not seem too far off from a truism to state that Putin has a penchant for placing Russian Federation forces in other countries, even without welcome. Considering the possibility of an extreme reaction, a military incursion by the Russian Federation into North Korea, would not be out of court.
The View from Russia
Observing Washington getting cozy with Pyongyang has doubtlessly stirred a some sense of trepidation in the Kremlin. If Pyongyang turned toward Washington, Putin might feel Moscow had been figuratively stabbed in the back after having provided North Korea with assistance and support for decades. In terms of his personal relationship with Kim, Putin may feel a deep sense of betrayal. Putin has shown how he will respond when he feels a country formerly in the Soviet orbit, is being pulled toward the West. Putin does not want any country friendly with US either sharing, or even touching the Russian Federation’s border without creating some type of buffer zone within that country, if it can. (Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania are lucky that NATO got on top of their situation right away!) Kim and the Workers’ Party of Korea would have the North Korean people believe that their country is a fortress from south to north. A robust, whirlwind of an attack by Russian Federation forces by air, land, and sea, would very likely be able to rapidly displace or destroy any North Korean forces much as a whirlwind has the ability to uproot the staunchest oak tree. On the other hand, if Russian Federation forces are able to act with sufficient stealth and surprise, and–as was the case with Crimea–without any “bang and boom”, they may be able to capture North Hamgyong Province without a struggle. As with Crimea, they may be able to “accommodate” Korean People’s Army troops deployed in the province, perhaps even taking them back to the Russian Federation “to ensure their safety.” Mala mens, malus animus! (Bad mind, bad designs!)
Putin would likely offer some pretense that would “legitimize” the hypothetical incursion. For example, he could conceivably declare that North Hamgyong Province is the territory of the Russian Federation granted by some long-held document signed by Kim Il-sung that was sitting inert in some Russian Federation Foreign Ministry file. Alternatively, Putin might outline how records indicate a monumental, decades old debt is owed to the Russian Federation by North Korea. Alternatively, by entering North Hamgyong, Putin may claim the Russian Federation has taken an in-kind repayment territory of what it calculates should cover the outstanding balance. Then again, Putin might attempt to claim a Russian Federation incursion into the area was executed for humanitarian reasons, shocked by what was being said by former detainees in Moscow about atrocities taking place in the infamous Hoeryong concentration camp. If former detainees are not available, Moscow would find some. Under the second and third scenarios, Putin could leave the door open as to whether the Russian Federation land grab was temporary or permanent.
Long before Trump declared his intent to campaign for the US Presidency, the Russian Federation was concerned with the figurative noose being placed around it by US bilateral relationship building with countries on its borders. That thinking is reflective of the Russian Federation’s defense doctrine as articulated by Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, General of the Army Valery Gerasimov. Recall that on February 14, 2013 at a conference entitled “Russia’s Military Security in the 21st Century,” Gerasimov provided the first glimpse of Russia’s official assessment of future wars it may face as outlined in the top secret Plan of Defense of the Russian Federation. The clever boots on the Russian Federation General Staff assessed that future conflicts will be “Resource Wars.” Indeed, they concluded the depletion of energy resources will soon become an ultimate world crisis and overtake regions. Severe shortages of oil, gas and other natural resources would cause prices to steeply rise. Russia’s senior military leaders proffered that outside powers, primarily the US and its allies, may actually invade the Russian Federation from different directions to physically grab its territory and resources. Putin signed the Plan of Defense of the Russian Federation into law on January 29, 2013. That plan, and later variations of it, have guided Russia’s thinking on defense and defense spending since 2016, during which it exceeded 6 percent of Russia’s GDP, and on other national security related and federal law enforcement budgets totaling an additional 3 percent. Further, the 2016 plan has guided the Russian military build-up in the Arctic, the Pacific, the Baltic, in Crimea and on its border with Ukraine. The Russian Federation’s Syria operation is also part of that picture. The prospective area that might be targeted by Putin for capture is the Hamgyöng Bukto (North Hamgyong) Province. Enlarging the map above, one can see the province in the northeast corner of North Korea. It borders the Russian Federation along 18 miles of the Tumen River. The province borders China to its northwest and the Sea of Japan to its east. The border with the Russian Federation could become a key point from which Russian Federation forces could seize the province. The Russian Federation Navy could also land significant numbers of troops at Chongjin. The Russian Federation armed forces’ capability to conduct such an operation was demonstrated by their Zapad 2017, Vostok 2018, and Tsentr 2019 exercises.
Putin Will Take Risks
The hypothetical offered here should have a realistic feel because history has been used as a guide to develop it. Rational inferences are made from what Putin has been saying and doing. For example, with regard to Ukraine, what cannot be forgotten is the text of a lengthy call that Putin had with US President Barack Obama on March 6, 2014, Putin said Ukraine’s government came to power as the result of an “unconstitutional coup” and was “imposing an entirely illegitimate decision onto Crimea and the eastern and southeastern regions of Ukraine. Russia cannot ignore calls for help on this matter and is responding accordingly in full compliance with international law.“ On another occasion, Putin insisted that he was only acting in response to Western behavior toward Russia. When speaking about Ukraine at a conference in Moscow on April 16, 2015, Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu explained: “The United States and its allies have crossed all possible lines in their drive to bring Kiev into their orbit. That could not have failed to trigger our reaction.” It does not seem too far off from a truism to state that Putin has a penchant for placing Russian Federation forces in other countries, even without welcome. For that reason, despite the drain on its defense budget, the Russian Federation currently has its troops sitting in the sovereign territory of others, to include: Armenia; Belarus; Georgia; Kazakhstan; Kyrgyzstan; Moldova; Syria; Tajikistan; Vietnam; and, at least a far as Kiev is concerned, Ukraine. Among the countries on that list who have reluctantly accepted the Russian presence or who have very publicly and vigorously demanded that Russia leave their territory are: Moldova, Georgia, Ukraine, and Belarus. Belarus has grumbled about its Russian “guests”. Thereby, as denuclearization agreement would mean Pyongyang was moving closer to Washington, North Korea could definitely meet the same fate as the countries mentioned. Thus, conceptualizing a possible military incursion into North Korea by the Russian Federation is not out of court.
The Russian Federation is not the only country that has insisted upon placing its troops in another country without welcome in order to shape the situation within it. Turkish President Recip Tayyip Erdogan had a near ravenous desire to carve out a 32 kilometer deep and 480 kilometers wide buffer zone along the entire Turkish border with Syria. Through Operation Peace Spring, Erdogan hoped to establish a safe area in his planned buffer zone for millions of Syrian refugees in Turkey. He also planned in undertaking what he declared to be a counterterrorism operation. Once Turkish forces moved into the autonomous Kurdish territory in Syria, understanding that there would be heavy fighting with the Syrian Kurd People’s Protection Units, militias affiliated with the sworn enemy of the Turkish government, the Kurdistan Workers Party which has been at war with Turkey for decades. Turkey amassed nearly 15,000 Turkish forces along with 14,000 fighters of the Syrian National Army attacked Syria on October 9, 2019. Recall that on December 19 2003, then Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi agreed to voluntarily eliminate his country’s weapons of mass destruction programs, to include its nuclear weapons program which was initiated in 1969 when he took control of Libya’s government. He also agreed to limit Libyan missiles to range no greater than 300 kilometers. US President George Bush stated at the time: “With today’s announcement by its leader, Libya has begun the process of rejoining the community of nations. And Colonel Gaddafi knows the way forward Libya should carry out the commitments announced today.” However, from March 19, 2011 to October 31, 2011, under the mandate of UN Security Council Resolutions 1970 and 1973, the Obama administration led NATO forces and those other countries under Operation Unified Protector against Gaddafi regime. The multinational force imposed a no-fly zone over Libya and destroyed government forces loyal to Gaddafi in support local fighters that eventually overthrew Gaddafi and killed him on October 20, 2011 alongside a road. (In just mentioning Libya’s elimination of its nuclear weapons, greatcharlie feels it is stepping out on shaky ground. On May 13, 2018, the matter was publicly discussed by the former US National Security Adviser John Bolton while details of the June 12, 2018 Trump and Kim Singapore Summit were still being negotiated by US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo. Indeed, Bolton made the unhelpful suggestion that the “Libya model” of denuclearization could be applied to North Korea, which would require it to eliminate all of its nuclear weapons before it receives economic sanctions relief and other support for it economic vitalization. Much to the dismay of Trump, Bolton’s public suggestion placed the summit in jeopardy somewhat.)
Without reservation, greatcharlie believes that nuclear nonproliferation is the correct direction in which the world should move. Having stated that, and with no intention of being whimsical about the matter, perhaps if Gaddafi had hypothetically retained his nuclear program, even at the aspiring stage it was in when he surrendered it, he would still be alive and in power in Tripoli. In that same vein, one might let oneself go and suggest if Kiev by chance had kept nuclear weapons under its control, Crimea would unlikely have fallen and the Donbass would be less of a mess. Outlining how hypothetically Ukraine could have plausibly retained those weapons would require adding a complicated coda to this section, completely unsuited in size for this commentary. What actually occurred is Ukraine agreed to divest itself of all nuclear weapons and nuclear infrastructure in accord with the Lisbon Protocol In 1992, along with considerable diplomatic effort and political maneuvering, By 1996, Ukraine had returned all of its nuclear warheads to Russia in exchange for economic aid and security assurances, and it became a non-nuclear weapon state party to the 1968 Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty. The last strategic nuclear delivery vehicle in Ukraine was eliminated in 2001 under the 1991 Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty. At the time it declared its independence from the Soviet Union in 1991, Ukraine held the third largest nuclear arsenal in the world, including an estimated 1,800 strategic warheads, 176 long-range ballistic missiles, and 42 strategic bombers. A transit map of North Korea’s North Hamgyong Province (above). In a scenario involving a Russian Federation land grab, Kim might turn toward Beijing to encourage Moscow to withdraw and initiate diplomacy on the matter. However, China would unlikely want to tear itself away from peace over a situation facing North Korea. Indeed, China would likely insist that Pyongyang created the hypothetical situation with Moscow by establishing a relationship with the US. China may not be tied to any strategic alliance with the Russian Federation, but it still has a defense and security partnership of a sort with it. Although that cooperation may not be tied to fixed shared interests, in this hypothetical instance, what is good for the Russian Federation–keeping the US off its border and knocking down the denuclearization agreement–would be good for China, too!
Preparing for the Worst
Kim has always had much to worry about from Putin. It stands out a mile. For that reason, North Korea and its prospective US partner should at least consider the potential of a very aggressive Russian Federation reaction as an important “what if”. The matter merits treatment. Ways to prevent it from happening should be considered, and plans should be developed on how to use means available in response. The lack of right discernment on this hypothetical matter could lead to untold suffering. Unless greatcharlie is extremely mistaken, as far as Pyongyang might be concerned, the most plausible way to cope with the matter, would likely be to maintain some level of deterrent nuclear capability. Washington would hardly want to hear anything of the kind. Nevertheless, North Korea’s nuclear weapons and medium-range nuclear capable missiles alone are military equities it possesses that Moscow may want no part of. Readying those systems for launch could coincide with any discernible build up of Russian Federation forces near or along the northern border. That may have a deterrent effect. If some means to make a Russian incursion impossible or unprofitable is not available, attempting to respond before or after an attack has begun will unlikely amount to much
As has been witnessed, the best available option for the US after the fact in response to the Russian Federation’s incursion into Ukraine has been to train Ukrainian government forces and equip them with a limited set of weapons, mainly anti-tank javelin systems. That effort could only attenuate the considerable tactical advantages that Donetsk and Luhansk secessionist forces possessed as a result of being fully supported by Russia. Indeed, the tank-busting javelins along with tactical training from both US and European military advisers may have enhanced the chances of survival for the Ukraine government forces on the battlefield, but they have not allowed Kiev to successfully defeat or eject Russian and Russian-backed forces from the Donbass. Crimea remains firmly in the Russian Federation’s hands.
There is the possibility that preemptive diplomacy, right now, could successfully assuage concerns about a potential Russian Federation military incursion into response to a denuclearization agreement. That would not mean including Moscow in the diplomatic process of denuclearization to prevent it from engaging in malicious behavior. Although there is plenty available from which one can make inferences, Moscow has not as yet said or done anything directly that would indicate an intention to move into North Korea and create a hypothetical buffer zone across their mutual border. In fact, Russia may never do anything of the sort in the end. Still, there is no reason to wait and see on a matter that could potentially keep an agreement from being fully realized. Accordingly, as a reasonable precaution, Washington may want to broach the matter with Moscow, explaining that its concerns stemmed from its past actions.
The US-North Korea relationship might very well grow into something very special. Still, it is unlikely that in a time soon after the signing of a prospective denuclearization agreement that the Communist regime in Pyongyang, with its self-reliant identity, would seek recourse from Trump and the US to find the answer to a hypothetical Russian Federation military incursion into North Hamgyong. On a personal level, Trump undoubtedly would want to see Kim through his troubles. However, if North Korea is unable to fend off a land grab north, it is unclear what exactly the US could do effectively to repair the situation after the fact. Attempting to drive Russia out of North Korea with economic sanctions in response to a hypothetical incursion may not prove fruitful. That tack has not worked most obviously with its incursion into Ukraine. Pointing out what is obvious, a decision by the US to go toe to toe with Russia with thermonuclear weapons over North Korea would be daylight madness. That would hardly be a genuine option. The chance that any US President would alternatively throw US forces into a conventional fight with the Russian Federation over North Korea’s North Hamgyong Province is less than zero. Imagery of the Russian Federation-North Korea border along the Tumen River with an area of detail showing a railroad bridge across the river (above). Conceivably, Putin may find reason to declare North Hamgyong Province is the territory of the Russian Federation as granted by some document signed by Kim Il-sung that was sitting inert in some Russian Federation Foreign Ministry file. Alternatively, Putin might outline how records indicate a decades old debt is owed by North Korea to the Russian Federation. Putin may claim by entering North Hamgyong, Moscow had taken an in-kind repayment in territory of what it calculates should cover the outstanding balance. Then again, Putin might also attempt to claim an incursion into the area was for humanitarian reasons, given the infamous Hoeryong concentration camp is located in the province.
For Kim, a scenario involving a Russian Federation land grab would be a nightmare. It would also likely be the first occasion when Kim would have a palpable sense of separation from Moscow, and plenty of anxiety would come with that. Kim would never consider capitulation to whom would then be an erstwhile ally. However, dazed and confused by an inundation of likely negative reports about the situation in North Hamgyong, Kim may initially run toward what is familiar. Kim might turn toward Beijing and press it to encourage Moscow to withdraw and initiate diplomacy on the matter. Under such a scenario, China certainly would not want to tear itself away from peace over a situation facing North Korea. Indeed, Beijing would likely take the position that Pyongyang created the hypothetical situation with Moscow by establishing a historic, new relationship with the US. Thus, unwilling to knock on Putin’s door on behalf of its close ally, Beijing’s advice to Pyongyang would likely be “Talk to Moscow!” China may not be tied to any strategic alliance with the Russian Federation, but it still has a defense and security partnership of a sort with it. Although that cooperation may not be tied to fixed shared interests, in this hypothetical instance, what is good for the Russian Federation–keeping the US off its border and knocking down the denuclearization agreement–would be good for China, too! Understanding Putin, Beijing would likely have parsed out the whole matter early on, imagining Putin getting his nose out of joint about a denuclearization agreement, and never ruling out a military incursion. China would likely find it quite imaginable under such a hypothetical that Moscow would expect Pyongyang to rush to the negotiation table despite any fighting that may be underway. To prevent an unanticipated response from China, in such a hypothetical scenario, Moscow presumably would quietly inform Beijing of its planned action and intentions just before any prospective military operation began. Beijing would also undoubtedly place the People’s Liberation Army and People’s Liberation Air Force units near North Korea’s North Hamgyong Province on alert just in case Moscow’s operation went beyond its expressed purpose and scope. From those who have proven to be false one can rarely obtain anything true.
Tu si hic sis, aliter sentias. (If you were in my place, you would think differently.) Pyongyang would hardly be concerned with keeping any prospective new US-North Korea relationship intact if the most senior officials there were convinced the denuclearization agreement was the fillip for a Russian Federation attack. Indeed, a possible consequence of a Russian Federation incursion might be that Pyongyang would turn its back on the US. Under tremendous stress and not thinking clearly, Kim may very likely wonder whether Trump had considered the contingency. Moreover, Kim might conclude that Trump may have actually predicted what would issue with Putin following a denuclearization agreement and sought the agreement knowing North Korea would eventually be left open to attack. If that were to become his mindset, potentially, Kim might even begin to behave once again in a belligerent manner toward Trump, and might once again begin using over-the-top language. That would most likely signal the point at which Kim will have made the decision to negotiate with Moscow on terms for the withdrawal of Russian Federation forces from North Korea’s northern province. With a dodgy leader as Kim, anything might be possible in such a situation.
One could imagine under the hypothetical here that Putin might plan to use force only temporarily in order to drive officials in Pyongyang to quickly resolve the matter to the negotiating table. At the table, Putin’s goal would be to thoroughly destroy the denuclearization agreement and have North Korea make amends for its sin by cutting the cord with the US. Perchance as an artifice, Putin may insist upon a multilateral effort to deal with the North Korean nuclear program. That would likely mean putting the matter before the UN Security Council. Note that using military force to drive countries to the negotiating table was also a favored stratagem of the Obama administration. If Moscow and Pyongyang might have an inkling that they could get away with it, to quell international condemnation of the Russian Federation over a hypothetical military incursion, they might offer a story about some mix-up in timing occurred over a movement by Russian Federation troops to North Korea for a planned joint exercise. They would deny any disharmony existed. In that vein, Pyongyang would probably keep the North Korean people in the dark about the hypothetical incursion. Pyongyang would very likely refrain from making any official reports of the embarrassing episode, hoping it could resolve the matter quickly, and make the whole thing go away.
One could imagine further, under the hypothetical put forward here, that Putin, the maestro himself, might calculate an incursion into North Hamgyong would create political confusion and disarray in Pyongyang. Prospective talks with Moscow in such a situation might take place with or without Kim at the helm in Pyongyang. Kim might even have the courage or insanity to throw the Korean People’s Army into fight with Russian Federation forces. Nevertheless, likely being incapable of ejecting the invaders from the sovereign territory of North Korea, Kim would live under a frightful cloud. He would unlikely be absolved of responsibility for the possible crisis. He could possibly be seen within the Central Committee of the Workers’ Party of Korea as inciting the Russian Federation’s action with his denuclearization agreement. A scenario can be imagined in which Kim would no longer be considered fit to serve as the North Korean Communist Movement’s figurative lodestar. The Workers’ Party of Korea might decide to replace him. That would be harder to conceal, but if they did so, they would try to present a plausible reason for the change. Surely there are those in Pyongyang with designs on Kim’s spot. (Note that no matter how things fall, war, peace, or a leadership change, both the Russian Federation and China would be beneficiaries of the success of the US in getting North Korea to denuclearize.) Russian Federation President Vladimir Putin (above). Unable to do anything to rectify the hypothetical situation proffered here, Pyongyang would hardly be concerned with keeping any prospective new US-North Korea relationship intact if it indeed was the cause for a Russian Federation attack. One could imagine under the hypothetical proffered here that Putin might plan to use of force only temporarily in order to drive officials in Pyongyang to quickly resolve the matter to the negotiating table. At the table, the goal would be to thoroughly destroy the denuclearization agreement with the US. Perhaps as an artifice, Putin may insist upon a multilateral effort to deal with the North Korean nuclear program.
Matters Pyongyang Should Address in the Diplomatic Process on Denuclearization
Abundans cautela non nocet. (Abundant caution does not harm.) Policymakers and negotiators from the US and North Korea can use available time to think through what to do in such a hypothetical North Hamgyong-grab by Russia. It would seem akin to daylight madness to ignore what might very well knock down whatever might be constructed. Pyongyang supposedly understands Moscow. Therefore, it surely understands that Moscow only sees it as a junior partner, not equal to it. If Pyongyang truly intends to move in the direction of the US, it is hard to imagine North Korean officials would not expect some problems from Moscow. It is unknown to greatcharlie whether North Korea has broached the possibility of a military incursion by the Russian Federation at the table with US negotiators or Pompeo. There has not been any news media reporting concerning the matter. If they have not broached such an important issue, the indications and implications may be that Pyongyang was being disingenuous about its interest in denuclearization and North Korea’s economic vitalization. What their real intentions are, might be put into question. On the other hand, it is imaginable that North Korean foreign and national security officials possibly may not be cleared to discuss what may very well be a sensitive matter for Pyongyang: the Russian Federation’s reaction to a denuclearization agreement! It may be a matter, a secret, only for the purview of Kim and members of the Central Committee. The thing about secrets is that outsiders very rarely know what they are. If US negotiators are not willing to broach and fully address this matter with their North Korean counterparts, they may be setting the stage for failure, taking a huge gamble with something extremely important. There would exist an element of superficiality to the negotiations. If the North Koreans clam up in response to their inquiry, US negotiators could respectfully request that their counterparts seek clarification and instructions on the matter from Pyongyang. It may turn out that the matter would need to be broached at the highest level: Trump and Kim.
If ever North Korean negotiators are queried about their country’s concerns over an aggressive Russian Federation reaction to Kim signing a denuclearization agreement with the US, and they are willing to respond, common sense would demand that they completely outline security concerns Pyongyang feels the new situation might create. It would be the best time to explain any concerns that voiding themselves of nuclear weapons to the point in which they would not have any deterrent nuclear power at all would inherently dangerous, having China and the Russian Federation as neighbors. At that point, US negotiators must be able to offer real solutions to mitigate the North Koreans concerns. If North Korean negotiators, once queried, fail to speak forthrightly, and answer “Who is this Putin fellow to whom you keep referring?” or something to that effect, US negotiators would be provided with a real sense of Pyongyang’s genuineness. North Korean Chairman Kim Jong-un observes weapons test (above). If Pyongyang truly intends to move in the direction of the US, it is hard to imagine North Korean officials would not expect some problems from Putin. It is unknown to greatcharlie whether North Korea has broached the possibility of a military incursion by the Russian Federation at the table with US negotiators or Pompeo. There has not been any news media reporting concerning the matter. Policymakers and negotiators from the US and North Korea can use available time to think through what to do in such a hypothetical North Hamgyong-grab by Russia. It would be daylight madness to ignore what could knock down whatever might be constructed.
Quoniam id fieri quod visit non potest, velis id quod possit. (As that which you wish cannot be effected, you should wish for that which may be obtained.) A desire by Kim to retain the ability to deter any sudden, rogue moves by China or Russia, would be the most plausible reason he could offer for retaining his existing nuclear arsenal. If maintaining a portion of its nuclear arsenal as a deterrent becomes a sticking point, one option may be to allow a phased reduction of North Korea’s nuclear arsenal that will eventually result in its complete elimination. (The immediate elimination of North Korea’s long-range missile program must remain a US stipulation.) At the same time, an alternate means for North Korea to secure its northern border could be phased in place. A demonstration of unity might include an offer to have US, South Korean, and Japanese forces of sufficient size and capability to participate in a type of “peace force” that would accompany Korean People’s Army on patrols North Korea’s northern border. While the international troops may not serve as a deterrent to a Russian Federation incursion, they would make a swift, stealthy move far more difficult. Alternatively, Washington could reach an agreement with Pyongyang, under which it would share intelligence on any developments in the Russian Federation that may indicate some ominous military and naval deployments were under way. That alternative would most likely be far more palatable to the North Koreans. While that would be happening, some US and South Korean in phases and at a deliberate pace, could move away from the DMZ, much as Russian Federation forces withdrew from Germany after reunification. US forces could be reallocated to other points in South Korea from which they could continue to reassure allies of the US commitment to their defense and continue to effectively preserve Northeast Asian peace and security.
As aforementioned, nuclear nonproliferation is the correct way for the world to go. Another option that may be very off-putting to US officials would be to allow North Korea to retain a portion of its nuclear arsenal after a phased reduction to serve as a deterrent. That deterrent power must be specified publicly to ensure that the small number of weapons retained would have a deterrent effect. In Washington, there would likely be a political backlash over walking back from the initial demand for the total elimination of all nuclear weapons in North Korea. To ameliorate concerns about that in a practical way, some additional specific steps that could be taken. If the North Koreans could put their suspicions and distrust aside, on-site joint US, North Korean, South Korean, and Japanese inspection teams could be deployed where the nuclear deterrent would be kept in North Korea. As part of the larger denuclearization agreement, military liaison offices could be created in North Korea, South Korea, and Japan for military officers of all countries involved in maintaining peace and security on the Korea Peninsula which would facilitate the deployment of those inspection teams. The prospective North Korean military liaison officers would also have the right to make escorted visits to one another’s bases in the region. An open skies arrangement with regard to flyovers by aerial reconnaissance and surveillance satellites of all sides should be agreed to in additional to physical inspections by prospective military liaison officers. As suggested in the first option, it could also be proposed that US, South Korean, and Japanese forces of sufficient size and capability serve as a type of “peace force” to patrol the North Korea’s northern border in cooperation with the Korean People’s Army. As an alternative here too, Washington could reach an agreement with Pyongyang, under which it would share intelligence on any developments in the Russian Federation that may indicate some odd, threatening military and naval deployments were under way. With high expectations about their inventiveness, negotiators could certainly devise additional steps to create a more secure situation.
A third option might be for the US to provide Pyongyang with an assessment of the likelihood that the Russian Federation might seek to establish a buffer zone on North Korean territory in reaction to a denuclearization agreement. In following, the suggestion might also be made to Pyongyang that in conjunction with eliminating nuclear weapons from its arsenal, military equities once organized to defend against an attack from the south should be moved north. It was stated in a publicly available portion of 1995 US Defense Intelligence Agency report published by the Federation of American Scientists that North Korea has deployed over 10,000 artillery systems (mostly multiple rocket launchers and self-propelled artillery systems) near the DMZ. They most likely have many more deployed now. Once those forces begin moving north, they could be kept in cantonments, while fighting positions could be constructed where they could be immediately deployed in an emergency on the northern border. Of course, under this hypothetical scenario, Moscow may declare the redeployment of Korean People’s Army forces as threatening. In response, North Korea could make clear diplomatically that the redeployment is part of comprehensive change in its national defense strategy. It might appear impolitic but it would be truthful for Pyongyang to declare the redeployment as necessary given the Moscow’s pattern of creating buffer zones in its neighbors’ sovereign territory to provide a theoretical bulwark against US and European encroachment toward its border. Moscow may also decide to deploy its own forces near or on the northern border under such a scenario. However, if the North Koreans bring sufficient power to bear, the threat of a possible Russian Federation attack aimed at grabbing territory should be stemmed. While that is happening, some US and South Korean forces could be redeployed to other points in South Korea from which they could continue to preserve Northeast Asian peace and security vis-a-vis China and Russia, who would ostensibly remain as regional adversaries. With Tokyo’s consent, there could potentially be some redeployments to Japan. The DMZ, North Korea-South Korea relations, and the whole unification issue would left to bilateral talks between the two countries. The US could play a supporting role, if asked. Pyongyang may view the proposed assessment and suggestion to redeploy its forces as a manipulation, a ploy to have it drop its defenses south and open the door to a joint US and South Korean invasion. It would be the task of US negotiators to convince their North Korean counterparts by words and deeds that such is not the case. US, South Korean, and North Korean troops handling a US soldier’s remains from the Korean War (above). If maintaining a portion of its nuclear arsenal as a deterrent becomes a sticking point, one option may be to allow a phased reduction weapons that will eventually result in its complete elimination. In tandem with that, an alternate means for North Korea to secure its northern border could be put in place. A demonstration of support and unity might include an offer to have US, South Korean, and Japanese forces of sufficient size and capability to participate in a type of “peace force” that would accompany the Korean People’s Army on patrols of North Korea’s northern border. While the international troops may not be a deterrent to an incursion, they would make a swift, stealthy move far more difficult.
After reaching a denuclearization agreement, North Korea should no longer think solely about directing its military equities at the US, South Korea, and Japan. Pyongyang must be assured and understand that their military equities would be directed at North Korea. As explained here, the sizable and capable armed forces of China and the Russian Federation would still pose threats to their security, and possibly North Korean security. Training exercises and testing of weapons for self-defense is a right and even necessity that should not simply be stripped from any country in the region. One must also consider practical issues, for example, the metal of armored and mechanized weapons tends to fatigue when sitting idle. However, the agreement might support a move away from extempore tests and exercises and toward greater transparency among military forces. Countries in the region could agree to engage in limited exercises and testing during scheduled dates and times determined via discussions among senior military and diplomatic officials. Critical to maintaining peace and security following a prospective agreement would be the construction of some means for the US, South Korea, Japan, and North Korea to monitor developments, tests, deployments, and other activities as partners to ensure peace.
To create firm channels of communication that will strengthen confidence and dissipate distrust, there must be regular interactions between non-military government officials working on North Korea’s economic vitalization. Interactions should move from likely being stolid and officious to more personable yet still professional. Advisory teams from all governments could interact very closely to guarantee internationals in North Korea are well-informed of the laws under which they must operate, and informed of culturally expected behavior by guests in North Korea. This will help eliminate mysteries about the country which was mostly closed to outsiders, and allow visiting officials and businessmen proceed with their work with confidence and walk with an assured step. The influx of well-trained and acculturated business people, experts on North Korea, will hopefully facilitate that. Success might be measured empirically by the number of congenial linkages created between US and North Korean firms. Eventually, US firms might receive contracts to provide supplies and perform services. US President Donald Trump (left) and Chairman Kim Jong-un (right) at the DMZ. The entire diplomatic process on denuclearization might seem much as a rabbit hole to Kim, given the many facets and angles that he needs to keep track of and consider as they evolve, One might have expected Kim at some point might have thrown his hands up over the whole denuclearization matter because it was all too rich for his blood. Again, Trump must be given credit for providing strength, confidence, and friendship, and assuring Kim that he will standby him before and after any denuclearization agreement is reached. Further, he assured Kim that he will go as far as he can to buttress the economic vitalization of North Korea. The situation is challenging, but it has a handle.
It is burdensome to hold on a hope that has not yet been fulfilled. Impatience, however, can poison diplomacy, and is rarely viewed as sensible by those in foreign services worldwide who instead extol statesmanship and sangfroid. To that extent, the US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and US negotiators have responded to maximalist North Korean demands and cavilling with anodyne statements. In seeking to create a sustainable peace in Northeast Asia, Trump has demonstrated once again that he is willing to take on situations that are not easy. While negotiations appear to still be moving through the confidence building stage between negotiating parties, defusing old animus, the fact that everything has actually reached this point must be credited to Trump. With the many facets and angles that Kim needs to keep track of and consider as they evolve, the entire denuclearization process might seem much as a rabbit hole to him. One might have expected Kim at some point might have thrown his hands up over the whole denuclearization matter because it was all too rich for his blood. Again, Trump must be given credit for providing strength, confidence, and friendship, and assuring Kim that he will standby him before and after any denuclearization agreement is reached. Further, he assured Kim that he will go as far as he can to buttress the economic vitalization of North Korea. The situation is challenging, but it has a handle.
What has been presented here are aspects of a hypothetical scenario in which a denuclearization agreement could ironically open another door to a conflict on Korean Peninsula. In that struggle, North Korea would not be pitted against the US, South Korea, and Japan. Rather, North Korea might find itself struggling against its longtime companion, the Russian Federation. Policymakers and negotiators on both sides must consider the situation on the Korean Peninsula both as it is now and how it might appear after an agreement is reached. Likely threats to a prospective denuclearization agreement must be sorted out with a similar level of interest as sanctions relief is for one party and the drawdown of the nuclear arsenal and long-range missiles is for the other. While impatience may poison for diplomacy, superficiality is its bane. Policymakers and negotiation teams may need to take a new, diligent look across all aspects of the situation, paying as close attention as possible to potential unpleasant developments that may arise once an agreement is reached. If a denuclearization agreement that is genuinely viable and sustainable cannot be found due to new wrinkles, perhaps an agreement somewhat short of what was originally sought, could be considered. In the extreme, the undesirable and regrettable decision to stop seeking an agreement altogether may need to be made. The collapse of the process would not at all be a blot on Trump’s escutcheon. However, the curtain has not fallen yet. Hopefully, both sides can come up with a smart solution for this important issue. Omnia prius experiri, quam armis, sapientem decet. (It becomes a wise man to try all methods before having recourse to arms.)
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Commentary: With His Concerns About Kim’s Health Allayed, Trump Presses on with Denuclearization Diplomacy
Posted on August 8, 2019 by greatcharlie
US President Donald Trump (left) and North Korean Chairman Kim Jong-un (right). A benchmark of progress in the diplomatic process on denuclearization was the highly impressive meeting between Trump and Kim at the Demilitarized Zone at Panmunjom on June 30, 2019. The day after, Trump posted a message on Twitter about the meeting, curiously offering an assessment of Kim’s health. Proposed as part of a denuclearization agreement is the robust US investment in North Korea to support its rapid economic development. Trump must consider what it will take from start to finish to achieve success. Kim’s continual leadership of North Korea is critical to that success, making his health of great importance to Trump.
Using the bond of a newly formed friendship once essentially considered forbidden between a sitting US President and a Chairman of North Korea as a conduit, US President Donald Trump and the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (North Korea) Chairman Kim Jong-un have embarked on an energetic diplomatic process to create a sustainable, mutually beneficial peace between the US and North Korea. Such a quantum leap through diplomacy would have the attendant impact of creating peace, security, and stability in Northeast Asia. The highly impressive extempore meeting between Trump and Kim at the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) at Panmunjom on June 30, 2019 was a benchmark of the significant progress being made in building relations between the two leaders and the two countries. A day after that historic meeting on July 1, 2019, Trump posted an intriguing message on Twitter. Noteworthy was his mention of the condition of Kim’s health. Trump stated: @realDonaldTrump “It was great being with Chairman Kim Jong-un Union of North Korea this weekend. We had a great meeting, he looked really well and very healthy – I look forward to seeing him again soon . . . .”
Trump’s assessment of Kim’s health was not some throw away line provided with some banal intent to jostle the curiosity of spectators in the US news media and among his political opponents. It was a public expression that manifested his concern about a matter critical to the long-term success of Trump’s diplomatic process on denuclearization: Kim’s uninterrupted leadership of North Korea. As mentioned in a July 23, 2019 greatcharlie post entitled, “Commentary: Trump and Kim at the DMZ: Is a Virtual “Maximum Defusion Campaign” Helping Trump Prompt Denuclearization?”, the fulcrum of the whole diplomatic initiative has become a commitment between to leaders. Much of what Trump has been doing relies heavily on Kim’s continued leadership in Pyongyang. To similar degree, Kim is doubtlessly concerned whether the terminus of Trump’s presidency will be in 2020 or 2024. In that vein, the 2020 US Presidential Election is very likely factoring into Kim’s decisionmaking on denuclearization. Trump, after all, is the one who would be best able to deliver on his promise of a North Korean economic renaissance, so to speak. With regard to Kim, a health condition, which many suppose that he has, could limit the period of his leadership and might spell disaster for Trump’s efforts. Illud autem ante omnia memento, demere rebus tumultum ac videre quid in quaque re sit: scies nihil esse in istis terribile nisi ipsum timorem. (Remember, however, before all else, to strip things of all that disturbs and confuses, and to see what each is at bottom; you will then comprehend that they contain nothing fearful except the actual fear.)
On medical matters, greatcharlie admits being out of its province. Yet, without pretension, greatcharlie states that it has no intention of being waggish in considering the matter. In its assays of the diplomatic process on denuclearization, the goal has been to better understand Kim’s behavior, to better forecast the course of the diplomatic process. The intention is to stick with the primary problem instead of rooting around at extraneous matters. That has required selecting what particular strands to pull out from a mass of information. Neither Kim’s health, nor that of Trump, falls into the extraneous category Rather, the life of the diplomatic process on denuclearization essentially depends on their lives. Indeed, it seems fitting in this case for it to engage in a foray into concerns, in this case, about Kim’s health no matter how inelegant it may appear.
Surely, it would be tough to accurately conclude what would be the outlook for North Korea should Kim fall ill or leave the scene completely. As addressed in both Article 2, Section 1, Clause 6 as well as Section 2 of the 25th Amendment of the US Constitution, the immediate Line of Succession from the President is the Vice President, the Speaker of the US House of Representatives, and then the President pro tempore of the US Senate. However, who in the Workers’ Party of Korea (WPK) would eventually take control of North Korea after Kim and how he or she may may view the diplomatic process on denuclearization is unknown. Under the by-laws of the Charter of the WPK, the Chairman of the WPK is elected by the Central Committee of the WPK. Members of the Central Committee are not seated permanently. They are elected by the Congress of the WPK, therefore, one would stand on a slender thread in attempting to predict the membership of the Central Committee at the moment of Kim’s hypothetical demise. (Surely, the Russian Federation and China would want to have some influence on the matter. Their respective interests regarding North Korea certainly do not mirror those of the US. Perchance it might be decided in the capital of one of those countries that decapitation of the North Korean leadership might be the best way to halt Trump’s progress if it all becomes too threatening to its interests.)
Verbum semel emissum volat irrevocabile. (A word once sent forth (uttered), flies forth irrevocable (irrevocably)) It seems reasonable for Trump to feel the need to address well-being of a critical element of the diplomatic process on denuclearization: Kim. Perchance his intent was to allay the worries and fears of others perhaps in the US Congress, in foreign policy circles in Washington, and in the US public. One might posit that Trump’s surprising discussion of Kim’s health on Twitter mostly evinces the extent to which it was a matter of considerable importance to him. Agreeing to work with North Korea on its rapid economic development will require enormous investment from the US. Trump had to consider early on in the diplomatic process on denuclearization how he expects the situation in Northeast Asia to look many years ahead given relative capabilities and possibilities on the US and North Korea. However, he must also consider how things could look if things go wrong at certain points and determine what it will take to make it beneficial for the US from start to finish. A happy fact is that in his comments, Trump stated without reservations that he found Kim mens sana in corpore sano. That clearly indicates that he feels it would be prudent for him to continue with his efforts.
Without being assured of success at any step or being assured of a successful outcome long-term through the diplomatic process on denuclearization, every push forward into that unknown entails significant risk, calculated as best as possible. For Trump, effective calculation of that risk requires being read-in on as thoroughly as possible on every new report produced by government agencies, particularly the intelligence services–despite alleged hostile claims found in the news media made by disgruntled, unknown, or former Trump administration officials. It also requires opening his consciousness to what is happening in the process, to know what and when steps must be taken, to recognize what must be in place for the process to advance and to assess the possibilities for varied moves by Kim and aides and advisers. Interestingly, it could be ascribed as part of Trump’s personality that as an optimist, he will always look for ways to move a promising situation forward. He will try to identify issues on which he might be able to do some real open field running to advance his cause. Trump would then look within himself to design the next best steps he would take with the North Korean leader, steps with which he would feel most comfortable. type of thinking led to his decision to invite Kim meet impromptu at the DMZ. So far, Trump has provided a conductor’s performance of exquisite diplomacy.
Throughout the diplomatic process on denuclearization, it cannot be denied that Trump has been very understanding of Kim’s position in Pyongyang. For many in North Korea, the idea of any agreement with the US remains inimical to their beliefs regarding the Communist Movement and Anti-capitalism. At the time of this writing, North Korea still refuses to sign a formal peace agreement to mark the end of the Korean War. The war ended on July 27, 1953. Trump has taken timing into consideration the timing of his meetings with Kim. Along that line, Trump has presumably incorporated into his own decision making Kim’s evaluations through letters of when it might best to proceed without creating too much shock at home over his interactions with the US President. Trump has also displayed a deep respect for the politics of Kim’s situation. For example, he seems to recognize that Kim’s launching of short-range rockets and fiery speech toward South Korea as an effort to mollify military and security elites who might believe he has become too congenial toward the US. Yet, on top of those considerations, there is no doubt that Trump has a good sense for what Kim may be feeling as a young leader confronted with a particularly tough, challenging matter. He has also taken into account the meaning of the denuclearization diplomacy to Kim, and his emotional responses to it. From the beginning of his administration, Trump spoke of the heavy responsibilities that had been laid on Kim’s shoulders in almost an avuncular way. Interestingly, Trump to an extent has tried to minimize unnecessary stresses directly upon Kim during the denuclearization diplomacy. Looking at it all as a human process, both Trump and Kim are both strapped tightly into the harness of leadership, which in dealing with certain matters, can feel more as a yoke. Amicus certus in re incerta cernitur. (A sure friend is discovered in an unsure (risky) situation.)
Despite all that was apparent about Trump’s concern over Kim’s physical and emotional and emotional well-being, within the US news media, his sudden discussion of Kim’s health was generally viewed as mysterious and confounding. Broadcast, published, and posted reports from the US news media have more often been critical of the Trump administration’s handling of the diplomatic process on denuclearization than not. Many insist that Kim has gone along with Trump to build a friendship in order to score a devastating blow to the US President by destroying the relationship and the diplomatic process through betrayal. (Even Kim should be well-aware at this point that the consequence of insincerity and deception would be dreadful for North Korea.) Second to the preconception that Trump lacks the faculties to navigate through the diplomatic effort with the so-called wiley Kim, the news media emphasizes that conversations between the US President and the North Korean Chairman are shrouded in mystery. Indeed, the argument has been made that it should not be so difficult for anyone from outside the diplomatic process to understand or judge exactly what was actually going on. Unfortunately, unlike the way movies, television, novels, there is no one available to explain things, to cheer everyone up. In covering the delicate and discreet process of diplomacy on denuclearization, it would behoove the news media to focus less on the melodramatic and more on the intellectual.
Without the intent of contradicting the US President regarding Kim’s health, greatcharlie would like to suggest that its readers nonetheless take a good look at Kim’s bearing in Vladivostok on April 25, 2019. As noted in a May 19, 2019 greatcharlie post entitled, “The Putin-Kim Summit: An Uneasy Episode in Kim’s Introduction to a Brave New World”, one could reasonably state that he appeared to be having health problems. Apparently exceeding his appropriate weight range and being a smoker, it could be expected that Kim would be dealing with dome underlying health issues. However, in Vladivostok, Kim simply looked unhealthy. Kim breathed laboriously as if he had anything from a very bad cold, bronchitis, asthma, or pneumonia, to something much worse, such as a pulmonary edema, a pulmonary embolism, or some other pulmonary episode. A far lesser possibility now, but one worthy of consideration at the time of the Vladivostok meeting is that Kim was suffering from a myocardial infarction (heart attack) of a Type 2 diabetic, slowly dying in discomfort, without appropriate care.
Kim appeared pale, shuddering, breathless. At times he additionally appeared disoriented, uncertain, uncomfortable, anxious, even jumpy. This uneasy behavior was not observed in Kim in Singapore, Hanoi, or Beijing. Thinking in a way similar to greatcharlie, Eric Talmadge of the Associated Press, stated in his article published in Time magazine on April 26, 2019: “What caught the attention of many outside observers Thursday wasn’t the scene, but the sound — of Kim’s loud breathing. Clips of the introductory encounter were quickly tweeted around the world, many with comments about the leader’s audible breathlessness. South Korea’s media, meanwhile, speculated that it could be a sign of Kim’s poor health. He is, after all, overweight and a notoriously heavy smoker.” According to Talmadge, Kim has evinced similar health problems at previous high-level meetings. Some may recall that in April 2018, on the occasion of his first summit meeting with South Korean President Moon Jae-in, Kim looked out of breath as he signed a guestbook following a short walk.
It was the English mathematician and philosopher Alfred North Whitehead who explained: “Simple solutions seldom are. It takes a very unusual mind to undertake analysis of the obvious.” When Trump entered the diplomatic process on denuclearization with Kim, he set aside the preconceived ideas of others about him. He did not simply accepted as accurate information available that ticked enough boxes to confirm “bad man” and attempting to work with him would be hopeless. In the US news media, much was reported about Kim that has supported such views. However, the reality was that very few Western journalists had ever met him, nor had they ever seen him up-close until the Singapore Summit in June 12, 2018. Regarding Kim’s health in particular, except from what journalists may have gleaned from reading reports in the abstract about Kim, there was no baseline on Kim’s normal functioning or responses in specific situations from which they could compare or appraise Kim’s behavior. Trump was determined to explore the matter. So thorough has been his examination, as is known now, he even engaged in his own evaluation of Kim’s health.
Most important concerning Trump’s evaluation of Kim as they both move through the diplomatic process has not been his judgments on the North Korean leader’s health. Rather, his judgment that there is a certain humanity in him that critics doubt he has. Trump seeks to use that humanity he believes that he has found in Kim to accomplish big things. Assuredly, the two leaders are energetically engaged in tandem to resolve what was once a nuclear crisis. Pragmatism and practicalities make instant gratification through the denuclearization diplomacy improbable. Still, those who have been following the diplomatic process very closely likely have the same positive intimations, a certain sense of impending success that will be achieved over the long-term. In the meantime time, the opportunity exist to address troubling issues and sew together the threads that will result ultimately in diplomatic triumph for both countries. Ornat haec magnitudo animi, quae nihil ad ostentationem, omnia ad conscientiam refert recteque facti non ex populi sermone mercedem, sed ex facto petit. (To all this, his illustrious mind reflects the noblest ornament; he places no part of his happiness in ostentation, but refers the whole of it to conscience; and seeks the reward of a virtuous action, not in the applauses of the world, but in the action itself.)
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Commentary: Trump and Kim at the DMZ: Is a Virtual “Maximum Defusion Campaign” Helping Trump Prompt Denuclearization?
Posted on July 23, 2019 by greatcharlie
US President Donald Trump (left) and North Korean Chairman Kim Jong-un (right) walk side by side toward South Korea following Trump’s historic June 30, 2019 crossing of the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) into North Korea. It appears that attendant to the Trump administration’s maximum pressure campaign of economic sanctions, a virtual “maximum defusion campaign” designed to mitigate lingering distrust and cauterize tension is being directed at North Korea through Trump’s interactions with Kim. A genuine friendship has developed between the two leaders. Hopefully, Kim will further open his consciousness to see the great possibilities Trump’s denuclearization proposal will create for North Korea and finally accept it.
The immediate impression of supporters, critics, and detractors of US President Donald Trump over his suggestion that he and the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (North Korea) Chairman Kim Jong-un visit the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) at Panmunjom was surprise, skepticism, and apprehension. Yet, on June 30, 2019, the meeting occurred, and the results were excellent. To Trump’s credit for inviting Kim to meet at the DMZ, and to an extent to Kim’s credit for accepting his invitation, the diplomatic process, which appeared to be moving somewhat slower after their last summit has been invigorated. The parties have now taken the step to organize teams of officials from both countries that will form working groups on the denuclearization matter. Many observers are still struggling to understand how Trump managed to get the US relationship with North Korea to this point. The situation is surely a long way from the flap early in the Trump administration during which there were reports every ten seconds about some vituperation he or Kim had hurled at the other. The situation in Northeast Asia seems an even longer way from the formerly atrocious condition of relations between their respective countries since the end of the Korean War. Generally, contentious relationships as that which existed between the US and North Korea do not recurvate so quickly. The surprisingly fast change in this case started from the moment Trump opened to the door to talks with Kim. Nearly all foreign and national security policy circles in the US were skeptical that Trump’s entreat to Kim to enter diplomatic talks on denuclearization would amount to anything worthwhile. However, Trump clearly understood that the time for the two leaders to meet, far more than just face-to-face, but one-on-one, eye to eye, head-to-head, brain-to-brain, had come. The improved environment resulting from the burgeoning relationship between the two leaders through their meetings in Singapore on June 12, 2018 and in Hanoi, Vietnam from February 27, 2019 to February 28, 2019, and in satisfying communications through diplomats and letters, surely encouraged both Trump and Kim to meet extempore at the DMZ. Both men, thinking in harmony, saw something attractive, constructive, and very positive, in the opportunity.
The diplomatic process on denuclearization is a devilishly complex undertaking. For that reason, many less discerning eyes, looking for some dramatic advancements, continually report that Trump and Kim are accomplishing little to nothing through their interactions. Yet, in reality the indications and implications are that much has been achieved. They are unaware that Trump has not only taken a real step away from war, but he has also been engaged in a virtual “maximum defusion campaign”. That diplomatic campaign has been running parallel with his maximum pressure campaign. Perhaps greatcharlie is going out on a slender thread by positing that Trump has been engaged in some unannounced and nowhere else expressed diplomatic campaign. However, the world can see for itself how much attention and energy Trump has given to what has been a masterful, statesmanlike diplomatic effort, uniquely shaped by his bold and self-assured personal style to encourage Kim to move toward denuclearization. His maximum defusion campaign has required a considerable, dedicated effort to do what is necessary to reduce, relieve, alleviate, moderate, and mitigate rough spots and tackle some nagging issues most present to mind between the US and North Korea that might preclude the reaching of an agreement on denuclearization. The meeting at the DMZ was a very visible manifestation of the positive, forward thinking mindset that has developed between Trump and Kim via the maximum defusion campaign.
Admittedly, in 2019, greatcharlie has been somewhat focused on the Trump-Kim diplomacy on denuclearization. Its enchantment with the matter is stimulated by its support of the effort. Through this essay and others it has written on the topic, greatcharlie, using the faculties it has on US and North Korean foreign and national security policy decisionmaking, has sought to put together the arithmetic of what Trump nas been doing. His prosecution of a so far successful virtual maximum defusion campaign is outlined. Interestingly, the diplomatic process on denuclearization can be seen as a vessel in which all of the strengths attitudes and varied aspects of Trump’s diplomacy can be found. Perhaps it could said that the diplomacy on denuclearization is a metaphor for Trump administration diplomacy in general. Through a closer look by greatcharlie at the diplomatic process, to some extent, a better understanding of the Trump administration’s approach to foreign and national security policy is provided. Non viribus celeritate corporum magna gerimus, sed sapientia et sententia et arte. (We accomplish important things not with the strength and quickness of our bodies, but by intelligence and thought and skill.)
The Virtual “Maximum Defusion Campaign”
With regard to the word “defusion” as used in the term “maximum defusion campaign”, it is defined as an effort to improve a difficult or dangerous situation, for example by making people less angry or by dealing with the causes of a problem. A tame double entendre can be found in the term “maximum defusion campaign” when effort is interpreted as having the purpose of deactivating, disarming, and disabling North Korea’s nuclear weapons and long-range range missiles programs to make the region and the world safer. Assuredly, the maximum defusion campaign has meant far more than peppering his interactions with Kim with simple acts as using humor or a slap on the back to lessen tension at severe moments. The maximum defusion campaign could best be described as a nondestructive method of conflict resolution. It has been an effort in which Trump, through face-to-face diplomatic exertions and other direct forms of communication such letters, has sought to create a genuine, personal connection with Kim. Through that connection, Trump would hopefully would be able to encourage a change in Kim’s conception of denuclearization and make the idea of a US assisted economic renaissance in North Korea more comfortable for him. The two leaders would be energetically engaged in tandem to resolve was once a nuclear crisis.
Among obstacles to finding a peaceful path between the two countries was the great animus existed between them for many years following the July 27, 1953 armistice ending a horrific three year war on the Korean Peninsula. They were a time of anger, aggression, deception and betrayal between the US and North Korea. For the US, the thrust of its dislike of North Korea was anti-Communism. Its main goal was containment of the Communist threat there as well as everywhere else in the world. Communism was correctly characterized then as an aggressive revolutionary political system dedicated to the destruction of the West. That anti-Communist posture morphed in the 1990s to the extent in which the uncertainty and instability that North Korea posed in the region to primacy over the geopolitical threat. In North Korea, there was an almost anti-US underpinning to the country’s development, that was perhaps not as strong as, but almost equally significant as its Communist movement. Out of all three potential adversaries in the Northeast Asia, North Korea, not the Russian Federation or China, posed the greatest threat to US allies in the region despite the existence of the US nuclear umbrella that provided was designed have a deterrent effect. That type of de facto bigotry in thinking on both sides colored personal and institutional perceptions, doubtlessly insinuating itself into studies, observations, and other various reports. This was particularly so in the military, the intelligence services. Lest we forget, for 65 years, tens of thousands of troops on both sides of the DMZ have remained heavily armed and on alert in a stand-off.
The process of creating a connection between the US and North Korea could only begin with one side expressing itself to the other. It was Trump who took the first step. He saw the opportunity to initiate a form of personal diplomacy with Kim. Fortunately, Kim was willing to listen and understand, albeit cautiously, to what Trump was saying. In establishing terms that interaction, there were very apparent and essential differences between the two leaders that could have become hurdles for them to overcome. On a very basic level, they included: political orientation, age, work experience, prestige, power. Trump, however, decided straightaway to engage Kim by looking beyond outward appearance, seeking to discover what is in his heart, and grasping the realities of his position as a young leader. As the personal diplomacy evolved, to some degree it has also entailed an unspoken reliance upon soft sensory abilities, using intuition and intimations, exploiting all of their human potential. Ever since those surprising beginnings of the diplomatic process, there has been a seemingly irreversible mutual respect exhibited between Trump and Kim. All along the way, an authentic effort has been made by both leaders to be understanding toward the positions expressed by one another in their negotiations.
No precondition of creating some faux parity in status between the US and North Korea as countries was insisted upon before the talks began. Big concerns about that still have not been raised since by North Korea. An equilibrium in power and prestige did not need to be feigned between Trump and Kim. Conversely, there was not an insistence by the Trump administration that Kim recognize Trump’s greater standing as President of the US. Although the talks could not be honestly described as “a meeting between equals”, they could certainly be called an “exchange between friends.” Trump has kept his promise to work directly with Kim on the diplomacy, although it would unlikely have gone any other way. Trump has essentially been the administration’s metaphorical talisman on bilateral diplomacy, trade talks, essentially every kind of dealmaking.
In the talks, surely there have been moments when Trump and Kim have been required to reconcile with dissonant components of one another’s thinking. Steps taken by Trump to cauterize tension would certainly fall under the rubric of Trump’s virtual maximum defusion campaign. Among the culprits that have likely elicited such dialogue between the two leaders are: joint military exercises; ship seizures, missile launches, and delays or deception concerning the dismantling and destruction of nuclear weapons and long-range missile development facilities. Whenever matters have needed to be smoothed out, rather than loose ground, Trump turned those occasions into opportunities to propel the conception of denuclearization forward with Kim. To be certain, whatever Trump has discussed has not exceed what is decent. Indeed, what he has said and has offered would only be congruent with the interests and values of the US. The same has most likely been seen from Kim. The extent to which the leaders have been successful in handling controvertible issues is evident to all that Kim and North Korea appear far less the threat that deservedly made headlines in 2017 when the administration began.
The maximum defusion campaign has required Trump to create une atmosphère ouverte et amicale, an open and friendly atmosphere, when engaged with Kim that will ensure forward thinking must be dominant in all interactions. That positive atmosphere has been promoted without effort or pretentiousness, and a natural discourse between them has resulted. That undoubtedly accounted for the warm interaction was observed by the whole world at the DMZ. It is essentially what has been publicly observed from Trump since his first meeting with Kim in Singapore. Further, there is apparently no disproportion between what had been seen publicly and what has been happening behind closed doors between Trump and Kim. Reportedly, from small bits and pieces overheard when their meetings have started, Trump and Kim have spoken to each other in a very friendly, very natural manner. Their conversations have unlikely been fraught with technical matters, unless the discussion migrated into issues concerning land development, architecture, engineering, and construction and Trump’s enthusiasm got the best of him. It certainly seems that Trump has accurately claimed that he has a friendship with Kim, and certain chemistry exists between them.
In their conversations, both Trump and Kim have surely been exposed to considerable amounts of unsynthesized intelligence that has come from one another. That would be a natural result of negotiating truthfully and in good faith. That has required both leaders to evaluate what is heard, select what is important, and advance the dialogue by incorporating in their decisionmaking. That process of selecting what should be given their attention is aided by experience and a strong sense of priority, a clear focus on ones goal. It would appear it has all gone well because the two leaders have made progress and a good rapport has apparently developed between them. Further, both Trump and Kim have proven respectively that they can been discreet. Nothing of substance has leaked from their furtive talks. That may be doing much to further build confidence between the two leaders.
Maximum Defusion May Aid Trump’s Efforts to Encourage Denuclearization Nearly as much as Maximum Pressure
The maximum pressure campaign has been centered on the entirety of North Korea’s world so to speak. However, the virtual maximum defusion campaign has been centered on Kim. In all fairness, it was Trump who managed to awaken the curiosity of Kim, and moved him to consider the prospect of working, of all things, alongside the US President. As explained in a February 4, 2019 greatcharlie post entitled, “The Second US-DPRK Summit: A Few Additional Things Trump and Kim Might Consider ”, the connaissance suffisante that they acquired of one another then has served as the basis upon which continued communications between them were comfortably founded. Those communications were conducted by using their top officials as envoys and letters. What they truly understand about each other, their chemistry, will be verified by the results their meetings. It is very likely that at the DMZ, they were no longer appeared exactly the same to one another as they had in Singapore or Hanoi. Surely, Trump may feel Kim has evolved in terms of his thinking on the US and on the possibility of transforming his country. Kim has displayed an awareness that since June 2018 his relationship with Trump has been moving through a process of growth. As important, he has likely recognized how Trump has grown into the job of US President. Regarding his own maturation, Kim has likely developed a greater sense of what could be done for North Korea with Trump. Perchance he has already noted just how beneficial everything Trump has proposed would be for North Korea. He may finally decide to grab what Trump is offering, the best path possible for his country’s future. Concordia res parvae crescent. (Work together to accomplish more.)
As a critical element of personal diplomacy, there must be trust and there should be a palpable sense that it is always evolving, always improving. Trump must be able to trust Kim. Kim must be able to trust Trump. Each must believe what the other says, and say what they really mean. It appears at this point that they trust one another to a certain degree. Coming across the DMZ at the invitation of Trump was a firm, physical expression of trust in the US President. For Trump, going across the DMZ at the invitation of Kim was far more than quid pro quo, tit-for-tat. Rather, it was a reciprocal firm, physical expression of trust in the North Korean leader. All in all, their mutual crossing of the DMZ could be categorized as an historic confidence building exercise, a very visible symbol of the mutual trust that exists between Trump and Kim.
As aforementioned, Trump without question created a comfortable atmosphere for Kim at the DMZ, as well as in all previous meetings. Kim has apparently tried to create a similar comfortable for Trump. At the DMZ, Kim was successful to the extent that Trump was willing to come into North Korea. Through a brief discussion in a conference room on site, it was jointly determined that the parties would move to the next step which is establishing teams of officials from both countries to form working groups on the denuclearization matter. As Trump explained in his own words on July 1, 2019 on Twitter, “@realDonaldTrump: . . . . In the meantime, our teams will be meeting to work on some solutions to very long term and persistent problems. No rush, but I am sure we will ultimately get there!” Petit a petit, l’oiseau fait son nid.
Away from the negotiation table, the maximum pressure campaign goes on. Trump has kept all economic sanctions in place. Still, some military exercises have been suspended. There have been no flyovers of formations of US bombers and stealth jets, and Japanese and South Korean fighter-bombers. For his part, Kim has not test launched any long-range missiles, and no nuclear tests have been conducted. US warfighters reported missing in action during the Korean War have been returned. Cyber activity against the US is below the threshold that would illicit a concerted response. There have been no revelations on cyber activity by North Korea against the US. Valuable talks, positive conversations with good exchanges of ideas, have taken place between diplomatic officials of both countries. Letters have moved back and forth between Trump and Kim. Right on the heels of the Hanoi Summit’s closing, Trump held a unilateral press conference in Hanoi on February 28, 2019, Trump expressed the belief, “I think we’ll end up being very good friends with Chairman Kim and with North Korea, and I think they have tremendous potential.” He insisted that the US despite the outcome had not “given up on anything.” His sense that progress is being made on denuclearization was bolstered by the fact that Kim even had an interest in closing down parts of the nuclear program. Additionally, Trump reminded that, “There’s no more testing. And one of the things, importantly, that Chairman Kim promised me last night is, regardless, he’s not going to do testing of rockets and nuclear. Not going to do testing. So, you know, I trust him, and I take him at his word. I hope that’s true.”
Trump, Unlike Others, Is Kim’s True Friend
Publicly, the historic meeting between Trump and Kim at the DMZ was initiated with a Twitter message from the US President to the North Korean Chairman that stated: “After some very important meetings, including my meeting with President Xi of China, I will be leaving Japan for South Korea (with President Moon). While there, if Chairman Kim of North Korea sees this, I would meet him at the Border/DMZ just to shake his hand and say Hello(?)!”
Writing in that manner, Trump indicated clearly that while the message was ostensibly a short note on the progress he made with other countries during the G20 Summit in Osaka, the exertion even more was directed at getting the attention of the North Korean leader. From that perspective one can begin to find more underlying meaning in those other portions of the message that Trump also wanted Kim to notice. Indeed, very conspicuous was the emphasis Trump’s placed on his meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping, who he considers to be a friend and with whom his administration is engaged sensitive negotiations on trade and sorting out the matter of tariffs. It was as if Trump wanted to remind Kim that the Chinese have created a very successful, evolving economy while being a Communist country. Although moving toward a similar path alone would be incredibly challenging, it is along a similar course that Trump would like to see Kim take and would like to support.
However, almost as conspicuous in Trump’s tweet was the absence of any mention of Russian Federation President Vladimir Putin. It could be supposed that Putin was mixed in with names other leaders that Trump met under label “world leaders”. However, doing so meant not giving Putin any special recognition as the leader of a superpower which Putin craves. There was no recognition of their talks as a meeting of eagles. (Given the childlike taunts heard from the Russian Federation news media over the Fourth of July Celebration hosted by Trump, one cannot help but sense that there was no feeling that at the G20 in Osaka, Putin had once again failed to have Trump “eat out of his hand” as critics and detractors in the US have repeatedly suggested he could. In fact, the very telling attitudes and behavior displayed within the Russian Federation media very likely manifested an attitude of dissatisfaction that perchance has trickled out from the corridors of the Senate Building of the Kremlin over the outcome of his meeting with the leader of the world’s only superpower.)
With certain domestic political troubles facing Trump in mind, US commentators would likely make the case that Trump refrained from mentioning Putin in his Twitter message to avoid triggering commentaries from critics and detractors in the US news media and political opponents who, incredulously, are still holding on to the belief that Trump has some secretive tie to Putin concerning his 2016 Presidential Election. Such commentaries regarding Putin had emerged, they could have obscured what Trump was trying to communicate concerning a possible meeting with Kim. Trump is aware of what greatcharlie, in a June 18, 2019 post entitled, “Why Putin Laments the Soviet Union’s Demise and His Renewed ‘Struggle’ with the US: A Response to an Inquiry from Students”, referred to as un grand defi, a great challenge, promoted by Putin, pitting the US against Russia, to a large extent, in order to raise Russia’s profile as a superpower. Trump will not lend any credence to the idea that there is some all-encompassing geopolitical and geostrategic struggle between the US and Russian Federation. What Kim possibly read into it is that Trump, who is the main player on the world stage, mentioned him before Putin. Moreover, Kim was presumably struck by the fact that Trump gave special attention, put considerable thought into meeting with him.
Kim may be ruminating over side-by-side comparisons between his treatment from Trump with that from Putin and Xi. North Korea has a long history with the Russian Federation and China, but the matter at hand is the country’s future. It is a fact that Putin, Xi, and others did not stop by the Korean Peninsula to see Kim on their way home or ever before when they have been in the region. Neither at least publicly suggested doing anything of the kind. In Trump’s ostensible campaign of maximum defusion, it is always the thought that counts. Throughout the diplomatic process on denuclearization, Trump has taken into account Kim’s emotional response to the process, its meaning, and enormity. If Kim has engaged in an honest comparison of treatment by the three leaders, Trump presents Kim with something absolutely different than Putin and Xi. Trump offers Kim the opportunity to break free of the status quo which has locked Kim in as the very junior partner in its relations with both the Russian Federation and China. Those ties established many decades ago through revolution and war have become de facto chains for the North Korean people. Trump offers Kim the opportunity to escape the bondage of his ties with the Russian Federation and China and find a path to a greater future than the one they have essentially engineered for his country. Whether Putin and Xi are willing to admit it or not, they have both treated North Korea as if it held some second-class status. If one would allow greatcharlie to say, Kim is treated as a junior worm in their de jure tripartite partnership. Perhaps due to habit or simply a manner of thinking, they could not bring themselves to interact with Kim in any other way. Iniqua nunquam regna perpetao manent. (Stern masters do not reign long.)
However, while their approach to Kim and North Korea may feel right given his power and his country’s diminutive size and output relative to theirs, Kim certainly does not see the world from a worm’s eye view. With respect to that, Kim may have come to the realisation that the foreign and national security steps he has taken since coming to power have supported the existing paradigm between North Korea and its powerful allies in Asia. Those steps have greatly served their interests. To that extent, the Russian Federation and China have commodated North Korea in the development of many aspects of its military equities, although they both vehemently deny assisting Pyongyang in any way with it nuclear weapons program or long-range missile program. Surely, the nuclear weapons and long-range missile programs provide directly for North Korean defense. Yet, from where one sits, whether in Moscow, Beijing, or Pyongyang, the relative value of those weapons can be determined. From Moscow and Beijing, surely, at least initially, they supported North Korea in its role as a buffer to the US and its allies in the region.
Intriguingly, it would appear from what has been seen from the surface so far In terms of its well-being economically, Kim and North Korea must have a curious sort of faith in Russia and China. Despite sanctions, embargoed financial, energy, and other industrial resources can still seep into the country primarily through various schemes set up by Kim’s friends in Moscow and Beijing. North Korea is so reliant upon such resources that beyond any threat that its powerful neighbors might pose to it militarily, at the present, Putin and Xi can control its links to the outside world to the extent that its people’s very survival essentially rests in their hands. Kim has a choice to allow that to go on as it is, or to seek a far better path for his country. Being who they are as leaders and as individuals, Putin and Xi would hardly accept a similar existence for themselves or their respective countries. To the extent that the picture presented here is on target, it is possible that the initial overly aggressive stance that Kim took toward the Trump administration in some part may have also been a manifestation, or even a projection, of his angst over being boxed in by his purported friends in Moscow and Beijing.
In vinculis etiam audax. (In chains, yet still bold.) It is hard to imagine that since he came to power following the death of Kim Jong-il, that officials in Moscow and Beijing believe they have managed their relative relationships with Kim well. It could be supposed that the coming of a US President such as Trump, and his authentic and energetic efforts to connect personally with Kim and forge some sustainable agreement regarding peace and security between their countries, was never a factor in their geostrategic forecasts. That despite the ruffling of feathers and some saber rattling, the situation in the region would remain pretty much the same for some time to come. Everything that has occurred so far between Trump and Kim has no doubt been disturbing for Putin and Xi to watch, and for them it may pose terrifying prospects. Likely among his own reflections, Trump has considered and weighed the possible impact of any complicity by Putin and Xi in delaying Kim’s movement on denuclearization and outright efforts by them to undermine the diplomatic process. Streams of intelligence from the US intelligence services more than likely indicate that any negative impressions he might have were not limited to being just a hunch. Trump, however, would want to get a picture from Kim on the relative roles of Putin and Xi. Whether Trump would ever broach the matter with Kim is uncertain as it is a delicate area. Still, it may be an area that needs speaking to at some point because with the assistance of the US, Kim could be put in a better position to fend off efforts by the Russian Federation and China to spoil any efforts to economically develop North Korea that might get underway.
The Importance of Empathy
Throughout the diplomatic process on denuclearization, Trump has taken into account Kim’s emotional responses, the full meaning of the diplomacy to him, and his reaction to the enormity of the matter. Indeed, from the very beginning, Trump regularly expressed publicly an interest in Kim’s well-being and what he was thinking. Developing that understanding has likely been somewhat difficult to muster given the singularity of Kim’s emotional responses. If Pyongyang could pardon greatcharlie’s frankness, it cannot be denied that Kim has certainly made some dreadful mistakes in the treatment of his people and in international affairs that would reasonably cause pause. Trump has faced criticism for speaking only somewhat elliptically about that. However, no one should not get that idea that Trump is in the least bit dewy-eyed over building relations with the North Korean leader. Indeed, as greatcharlie has repeatedly explained, he is very aware of Kim’s maliferous leanings and outright violent acts against North Korean officials, friends, family, and ordinary citizens. Looking at the greater picture of Northeast Asian and global security and for the purpose promoting dialogue, Trump has focused upon Kim as a national leader who still has promise and is a work in progress. Trump has sought to find the humanity in Kim, to convince him to work for good, to stir the better angels of his nature. He has placed his attention to bringing Kim along to share his vision of North Korea path. Trump wants to walk with Kim to what could colloquially be called “a good place”. Trump hopes reports of Kim’s past negative behavior will eventually become simply an unfortunate record “from his past”, and not describe a potentially far more evolved “Kim of the future”. Given the great opportunity put before Trump, to be certain, it would be absolutely counterintuitive for Trump to splice the budding communications link with Kim by belaboring the matter.
The G20 in Asia, Northeast Asia, brought the major regional powers to the table except Kim. Trump arranged to meet bilaterally with Moon Jae-in in Seoul afterward. Kim and North Korea, although situated geographically in the middle of things, were left on the outside. True, Putin had a summit with Kim in Vladivostok on April 25, 2019. Xi met with Kim for a secret three-day meeting in Beijing, China, from March 25, 2018, to March 28, 2018; in a surprise two-day meeting from May 7, 2018 to May 8, 2018 in Dalian, China; in a one day meeting in Beijing from June 19, 2019 to June 20, 2018; in another three-day meeting in Beijing from January 7, 2019 to January 10, 2019; and, in a two-day visit to Pyongyang, North Korea from June 20, 2019 to June 21, 2019. Yet, while they were on the world stage, when all were present, Kim was clearly not at the forefront of the minds of his Russian and Chinese partners. They left him off the international stage. Trump, on the other hand was thinking about Kim, and wanted him to have a palpable sense of the possibilities for his future and North Korea’s future. To do that, he set up an impromptu meeting with Kim at the DMZ. Kim was given time on the international stage. Kim might consider that this action was a sample of what Trump wants to bring to him. Trump was to end North Korea’s existence in the shadow of other nations, to tear the label hermit kingdom off of it. Trump’s visit to the DMZ was in a way a gift to Kim. Surely, it was not some small coin of a certain age and value exchanged as a supposed symbol of friendship. Trump shared his own moment in the spotlight with Kim. Just the thought by Trump, at that moment in time of attempting to connect with Kim, well-expressed his goodwill and positive intentions. Through his actions, Trump essentially seemed to speak the words: “I promised to support your ascendency on the world stage and here we are. You can count on my word, my promise, my efforts!”
How it all has actually registered with Kim, though, is unknown. How anything Trump has done for Kim remains uncertain. Only Kim really knows. Perchance, it has all been authentically expressed sublimely in Kim’s letters to Trump. To go a step further, perhaps Kim’s thinking may have been evinced by his decision to meet with Trump on June 30, 2019. Indeed, what has certainly been left out of most media commentaries is how big a decision it was for Kim to drop everything and immediately visit the DMZ. Reportedly, Trump was uncertain Kim was even in North Korea at the time he sent his invitation on Twitter. As fate would have it, he was there. Apparently sanguine about the meeting, Kim got his aides and advisers to clear his schedule and get all of the necessary logistics done to bring him securely to his country’s southern border. Doubtlessly, the cost of the unexpected trip was no small amount. From what was observable publicly, Kim appeared travelled to the DMZ to interact with Trump alone. There was no visible official entourage hanging on Kim except a bevy very adept security men, a troupe of photographers who displayed the dexterity of small bees, and a dutiful interpreter. Staying in the background was the First Vice Director of the Central Committee of the Workers’ Party of Korea of Korea, who is Kim’s very handsome sister, Kim Yo-jong. Kim seemingly holds her in high regard and whose counsel he appeared to appreciate at one time. She was accompanied the North Korea’s negotiation team. As he reportedly having fallen into disfavor with Kim after the Hanoi Summit, no one would have expected to see Kim Yong-chol, once Vice Chairman of the Workers’ Party of Korea, a foreign policy doyen, and sacred cow of the North Korean intelligence industry.
A Diplomatic Process between Leaders
Clara pacta, boni amicitiae. (Clear agreements, good friends.) Many critics and detractors of Trump have a tendency to view the diplomatic process on denuclearization from the mindset of a bureaucrats and bean counters, judging every step, wanting to set their own their measurables all along the way. They insist that a genuine agreement of some type should be immediately printed on paper, put on the table, and signed, even though Trump and Kim are only moving through the first phase of a multi-step process. Undeniably, progress needs to be gauged. At some working level, there must be immediate, quantifiable measurable must be created There should be timelines. However, Trump and Kim are not bureaucrats. Oddly, enough, the manner in which they relate to each other is a very “human process”. While fully aware of what steps are necessary to accomplish tasks, as leaders they must conserve their energy and psyche for examining the bigger picture. Leaders must be the chief imagineer, and decide what course to follow, and pass down their concept and intent for moving in a determined direction. Through their talks, getting thoughts and words of both leaders to closely connect, perhaps not seamlessly, but at a sufficient number of points to have a mutually acceptable agreement is their main job. The two parties are not there yet, but moving closer. Communications between Trump and Kim are most fruitful when they relate at the level of leaders, not as bureaucrats. Once they reach that point in which they are in mutual agreement, it will be the job of subordinates to complete the background work and hammer out documents for them to sign.
Assurément, Trump is not simply going through the motions of talking with Kim. He too expects results, measurable, even if he is not in a rush. In the February 23, 2019 greatcharlie post entitled, “Commentary: Will the Trump-Kim Summitt Yield an Agreement That Is Cosmetic or Consequential?”, it was explained: “What Trump wants in return for a prospective partnership is the same prize that was at the root of his decision to talk with Kim: denuclearization, the end of long-range missile development, the continued return of US remains from the Korean War, and dependability. In exchange, Kim would be assured that economic pressure to include sanctions would be mitigated, and a robust path toward economic renewal, backed by the experience of Trump and the largess of the US would be initiated.” Recall again that Trump, firm about getting what he wants, without animus, walked away from an agreement the North Koreans sought in Hanoi for a relaxation of sanctions in exchange for partial denuclearization.
A Few Things Trump and Kim Might Consider Moving Ahead
1. Trump Might Include the US Congress in the Diplomatic Process
Realistically, the long-term process of ensuring denuclearization is sustained and North Korea’s economic development will go beyond Trump’s possible years in office. The mission of ensuring that North Korea never becomes a nuclear threat again and ensuring North Korea would be successfully transformed economically would be transferred to future US administrations. Although Trump has emphasized that he has an exceptionally good relationship with him, he should also consider Kim’s possible concern that perchance, relations between himself and another US President soon to follow may not be as positive. If that turned out to be the case, rash behavior might once again be seen from Kim. Indeed, the need to break any perceived “chains” of Western economic and financial subjugation, and the need to regain full control of its destiny, may impel the most aggressive responses possible by Pyongyang. A mechanism must be established to make sure that the US-DPRK relationship will continue to be handled with empathy and nuance.
To accomplish that, Trump might turn to the US Congress. Pyongyang may be aware at this point all US Presidents make policy in the world of politics. Certainly Trump as the chief executive is the top decision maker on foreign and national security policy. However, as it was noted in a February 18, 2019 greatcharlie post entitled, “Commentary: Trump and Putin: A Brief Look at the Relationship after Two Years”, government powers concerning foreign and national security policy also reside in the Congress. Members of the US Congress, who also represent the citizens of the US, their electorate, will review administration initiatives, relations with other countries and on its own judge behaviors of other national leaders. Often Congress will take action through legislation, that will impact the shape of US policy. It will do assuring that it has support from enough Members to prevent action by the President to halt it. Further, no matter what direction either takes on policy, both the President and Congress must take actions that connect with the US public.
It might be worthwhile to have a US Senate delegation led by US Vice President Mike Pence very briefly visit Pyongyang. The purpose would not be to negotiate. Among the things that might be accomplished through such a visit is: to allow Kim a chance to meet Members of Congress; to allow Members of Congress to meet Kim; to allow Members of Congress to demonstrate the goodwill of the US; to allow Members of Congress to see North Korea and assess for themselves its potential to become another economic power in the region; to allow Kim to ask questions of the Members of Congress and hear about their desire to see denuclearization and bring vigor to North Korea’s economy; to allow Kim to especially hear the enthusiasm of some Members of Congress who are fully onboard with Trump’s ideas for supporting North Korea’s economic development; to allow Members of Congress express the concerns of their constiuents regarding North Korea and its nuclear program and long-range missile development program; to allow Members of Congress to hear Kim’s thoughts on denuclearization; to allow the visiting Members of Congress to personally extend an invitation for Kim to visit Capitol Hill attendant to an invitation from Trump for him to visit Washington.
A decision by Trump to include the US Congress at this stage in the diplomatic process on denuclearization may not be enough to assure Kim that US is trustworthy, but it could help further build his confidence in the process and add to the forward momentum that exists. Indeed, involving the Congress in the interaction between the US and North Korea in this manner might prove crucial to its outcome. The main hope would be that the brief visit would display to Kim that Congress has an interest in, and a positive view of, the diplomatic process on denuclearization. Concomitantly, the visit may serve to gird support within the Congress on the diplomatic process. Surely, it would be worth the candle for Trump to make a go at it.
US President Woodrow Wilson faced a similar decision on whether to include the Congress in perhaps his most important diplomatic effort. Wilson refused to include US Senators among the negotiators accompanying him to the Paris Peace as suggested by his rival, Republican Majority Leader and Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Henry Cabot Lodge. Wilson needed Lodge’s active support to ensure Senate approval of the Treaty of Versailles. As a result of that “offense”, and Wilson’s refusal to negotiate with Lodge on the treaty, Lodge gave little support to the Treaty of Versailles. In the end, on November 19, 1919, for the first time in its history, the Senate rejected a peace treaty.
2. Kim May Ask Trump: “Prove That You Really Trust Me”
There are likely other North Korean concerns regarding the longevity of a prospective with the US. Kim may not has posed the question but certainly must be wondering whether Trump trust Kim enough now to let him keep weapons that he has. What would be acceptable limits of nuclear capability under trust. If Trump does not trust Kim to that extent, some explanation must be given as to why. Presently from the US perspective, denuclearization is defined as the eradication of all elements of North Korea’s nuclear weapons program as well as it long-range missile program. It is expected that denuclearization will be defined in the same way by the time an agreement is reached.
Oddly, on July 1, 2019, the New York Times reported that a freeze of Kim’s nuclear arsenal might suffice to prompt Trump to lift sanctions on North Korea. That report was never confirmed by the Trump administration. US National Security Adviser John Bolton denies that there has been any discussion of a freeze. Bolton stated on Twitter: “@AmbJohnBolton: I read this NYT story with curiosity. Neither the NSC staff nor I have discussed or heard of any desire to ‘settle for a nuclear freeze by NK.’ This was a reprehensible attempt by someone to box in the President. There should be consequences.”
Whether such a modification had been confirmed or not, the notion itself, having been published in the New York Times, might have an impact on the course of negotiations. Certainly, Kim does not want to be left undefended in the region as he may have already begun to feel uneasy about the future of its relations if not with the US, instead with Russia or even China. It will be difficult to reconcile Kim’s desire to be trusted over committing to a freeze.
One stands on shaky ground by making this suggestion, but it might very well be that the US may need to provide a security guarantee to protect North Korea from military actions by any foreign power. In a complete transition, much in the way of many present NATO allies that were formerly members of the Warsaw Pact, the North Korean military might be moved to transform itself to fit with the current US-led collective security arrangement in Northeast Asia. To go a step further, North Korea may be invited to receive the protection and deterrence provided by the same nuclear umbrella the US provides to its other regional allies.
3. A Phased Elimination of North Korea’s Nuclear Arsenal?
Surely both the Russia Federation and China are not pleased at all to see Trump make significant “psychic” inroads with Kim. It is very likely that they will try to improve their relative positions with their very junior ally, North Korea. They may even seek to improve the toehold they have on the Trump led diplomacy on denuclearization through some pretense. On July 2, 2019, just two days after Trump and Kim met at the DMZ, the Russian Federation Ministry of Foreign Affairs declared on Twitter: “@mfa_russia: We welcome meeting between US an #NorthKorea. Normalization of relations is a vital element of any solution of regional problems, incl #nuclear. Multilateral efforts needed for a complex solution in the interests of all parties.”
In a more troubling scenario, the Russian Federation and China may believe to a large extent that they own North Korea. Being unable to disrupt, divert, and displace Trump’s efforts with Kim, one or both may decide to pose a credible threat to its future. China may just desire to make things a bit more difficult for Kim, if he moves closer, even alongside the US. However, in Ukraine, Putin already demonstrated how he responds when he feels a country formerly in the Soviet orbit, is being entertained by the West. Using history, he points to a way in which that country is actually in possession of Russian Federation territory or some other interest. He might outline how that country owes Russia some long-standing debt. He then takes back what he feels properly belongs to Russian Federation. Perhaps Kim would have much to worry about from Putin. (Putin would hardly want any country friendly with US sharing, touching the Russian Federation’s border without creating some type of buffer zone within that country, if it can.)
There is no desire by greatcharlie to go out on a limb on this issue, but Kim’s desire to be able to deter rogue moves by either country, may to some small degree legitimize his insistence on retaining his existing arsenal to deter any sudden moves. If maintaining a deterrent becomes a major obstacle to an agreement, perhaps Kim could be allowed a phased reduction of that arsenal that will eventually result in its complete elimination. That might be agreed to in tandem with the provision that North Korea’s long-range missile program must be immediately eliminated.
The adage obtains, “All’s well that ends well.” Despite the rapid actions required and personal strains by staff that resulted from organizing the DMZ visit on both sides, it was all accomplished brilliantly. Interestingly, Trump’s sudden desire to meet with Kim at the DMZ reflected a pattern making quick decisions to act decisively once he discerns the potential making parfois audacieux, bold moves given events and situations. Such thinking greatly resembles what is defined in military science as maneuver. Indeed, Trump’s approach is very similar to what was once taught at Germany’s Kriegsakademie (War Academy) in Berlin before World War II. It was emphasized that commanders needed a superior understanding of maneuver at all points to ensure they would always be stronger than an opponent at the decisive point, which they referred to as the Schwerpunkt. Military science scholars and historians may recall two classic examples of this being applied by German commanders during World War II: the Battle of Flanders during the German invasion of France in May 1940; and, the Battles of the Minsk and Smolensk Pockets during the German invasion of the Soviet Union in June 1941.
The fulcrum of the diplomacy on denuclearization has become a commitment between Trump and Kim. If Trump, in particular, had been even a bit iffy about the prospects for his denuclearization diplomacy to succeed, he would not have been able to move forward with it. He certainly would not have had the idea to very publicly invite Kim to meet him at the DMZ. Moreover, he would not have taken the extraordinary step of crossing it into North Korea with Kim at his side. Perhaps Trump now sees more promise in the entire diplomatic process on denuclearization than he had before. For Kim, that could mean economic sanctions are closer to being removed. Certainly, Trump has also created circumstances in which the entire world might begin to think well of North Korea and consider ways to work with it in normal, internationally legal ways. For Kim, that means Trump is already setting the stage to support North Korea’s economic renaissance.
Kim, too, has certainly moved forward with diplomatic process audaciously. Lingering mistrust and uncertainty undoubtedly still influences Kim’s thinking on it. Despite progress, it has likely delayed his full investment in the denuclearization plan as Trump has proposed. The historical record of the last century as example, it indicates that even deep thinkers have made mistakes by relying only on their limited powers of deduction. It can only be hoped that Kim will likely make greater personal progress as he confronts this particularly tough, challenging matter. After all, the talks concern North Korea’s survival, not the survival of the US. Kim must open his consciousness to all the possibilities of a new, economically successful North Korea. The odds are that a change in his thinking will take place, but over time. Trump has indicated that he is willing, within reason, to give Kim the time he needs reach the point at which they can together sign a verifiable, sustainable agreement to create an improved peace in Northeast Asia. Homo doctus in se semper divitias habet. (An educated man always has riches within himself.)
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The Putin-Kim Summit: An Uneasy Episode in Kim’s Introduction to a Brave New World
Posted on May 19, 2019 by greatcharlie
Russian Federation President Vladimir Putin (right) and North Korean Chairman Kim Jong-un (left). During his summit meeting with Kim on April 25, 2019, in Vladivostok, Russia, Putin had the opportunity to resolve some matters with regard to relations between their countries. Russia and North Korea are more than just friends; they are allies. In Washington, a reasonable concern would be that Putin used the meeting in part to mangle inroads made by US President Donald Trump with Kim, and spun up the young leader enough to cause him to drift back into a posture of belligerence. In reality, he may have unwittingly done the opposite.
The fate of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (North Korea), good or bad, will likely be decided at this moment in time. Hopefully, what is negative, wrong, and evil, will not walk upon the scene. The potential source of those ills could possibly be Russian Federation President Vladimir Putin. During his summit meeting with North Korea’s Chairman Kim Jong-un on April 25, 2019, in Vladivostok, Russia, Putin had the opportunity to resolve some matters with regard to relations between their countries. Russia and North Korea are more than just friends; they are allies. Presumably, an item for discussion during the meeting was the diplomatic process on denuclearization in which Kim has been engaged with US President Donald Trump for more than a year.
Kim’s vist to Vladivostok was actually a two-day affair. Beginning on April 24, 2019, there were compliments and toasts offered with affectation, and the photo opportunities swollen with the pretension of a great friendship between the two leaders. Yet, despite all of that, beneath the surface, where mostly those obsessed with scrutinizing such events closely might look, Putin’s approach to Kim was not tender, but rather rough edged and, to a degree, domineering. Some analysts and scholars who study the Russian leader and, to the extent possible, understand his idiosyncrasies and the nuances of his facial expressions and body language, chalked it all up to Putin just being Putin. It was perceived by others as a display of Soviet-style formality. The suggestion being that not much should be put into Putin’s behavior at Vladivostok. However, the results of the meeting bare out the idea that Putin, to put it plainly, was not very nice to Kim. Consider that Putin did nothing special to help him. If he did, it was so subtle that it could not to be seen. Putin certainly did nothing publicly to convince anyone that he was Kim’s benefactor or protector. If he did, giving notice to the world of such a pledge is the usual way to ensure other countries would pay heed. Alas, he did not do that. Kim apparently failed to correctly parse out Putin’s agenda, moreover his concept and intent, with regard to North Korea before he arrived. Kim likely came to Vladivostok comforted by the thought that the Russian relationship has been long-term, beneficial, and historically speaking, reliable. He perhaps thought he might be able to eek out some type of additional assistance from Russia, in some form or another. If Kim truly came to Vladivostok with that purpose, his was truly an anemic effort. That approach may have left him open to the measures of the artful Putin.
A reasonable concern over Vladivostok in Washington would be that Putin used the meeting in part to mangle the inroads achieved by Trump with Kim, and that he may have successfully spun up the young North Korean leader enough to cause him to drift back into a posture of belligerence. Throw on top of that reports in the US news media indicating that even before Kim left for Vladivostok, there was intelligence apparently collected by the US on activity taking place at facilities related to North Korea’s supposedly dormant nuclear weapons and long-range missile programs. That would present the possibility that Kim wants to have the capability to leap back into developing systems that will allow him the launch a nuclear strike against the mainland US. Such would be an act of daylight madness by Kim. To intuit that the diplomatic effort at this point is still somewhat fragile surely would not be out of court. However, as result of his relatively lukewarm reception of the young North Korean leader, Putin may have actually given that diplomatic process a boost by bumping Kim in the direction of Trump. So different are the approaches and opportunities presented respectively by Trump and Putin, that Kim’s choice of whom to travel North Korea’s path into the future is essentially black and white. There is no equivalence, no shared attitude toward people, no mutual conduct displayed, no matching diplomatic techniques, for Kim to find comparison between the two leaders. Through the next set of communications and via a third summit, Trump may have the opportunity to capitalize on Putin’s shrewd, but barbed and unconventional moves. Si computes annos, exiguum tempus, si vices rerum, aevum putes. (If you compute the years in which all this has happened, it is but a little while; if you number the vicissitudes, it seems an age.)
There were compliments and toasts offered with affectation, and the photo opportunities swollen with the pretension of a great friendship between the two leaders during Kim’s visit. Yet, despite all of that, beneath the surface, perhaps where mainly those obsessed with scrutinizing such events closely might look, Putin’s approach to Kim was rough edged and, to a degree, domineering. Some analysts and scholars who study the Russian leader chalked it all up to Putin just being Putin. However, the results of the meeting bare out the idea that Putin, to put it plainly, was not very nice to Kim.
A Reality Check for Kim
Kim seemingly came to Vladivostok bearing all of Pyongyang’s vulnerabilities and anxieties on his sleeve. The Achilles Heel of North Korea is its economy. That economy has been in an absolute shambles for many decades. Through the Trump administration’s maximum pressure campaign targeted at North Korea’s economy, the country has been slowly strangled to death. Kim may have been desperate to maintain or increase Russia’s economic munificence in talks with Putin. As for his country’s anxieties, Kim, from the start of the Trump administration, boasted about North Korea’s nuclear weapons and burgeoning capability to reach the US with them. However, the US has the actual capability and capacity to attack and destroy North Korea. Away from the rallies and loudspeakers in his country through which he has convinced his people that their country is part of a larger bulwark of anti-US countries in Northeast Asia, there is the reality that Pyongyang’s allies in Moscow and Beijing would never put their countries’ well-being at risk for North Korea. There is the additional reality that North Korea was more of a financial strain and psychic drain on Russia and China than a useful and valued asset as a buffer against the US and its allies in the region. It is likely that Putin, to some extent, saw the meeting as an opportunity to demonstrate that what Russia thinks and says has relevance with regard to Northeast Asia, a region in which its territory resides. Putin had been unsuccessful in finding the angle to latch on and carve out an influential role for Russia in the Trump-Kim Talks. Putin surely knows why Trump was not so eager to offer him a place in the diplomatic process. He was already on fairly shaky ground with the US President over Russian efforts to interfere in US elections as well as Russian misdeeds in Crimea, Eastern Ukraine, Venezuela, Syria, and other points around the world.
Perhaps it was thought in Moscow and Pyongyang prior to the actual meeting that Vladivostok had the potential to become a public relations triumph. However, the world appeared to take only a moderate interest in events there. Public relations-wise, Trump had already made an authentic splash with his first meeting with Kim on June 12, 2018 in Singapore. His second meeting from February 27, 2019 to February 28, 2019 in Hanoi also drew quite a bit of attention. After Kim met with Trump in Singapore and Hanoi, there was a real sense that a new energy, new hope for peace and progress in Northeast Asia had been created. Kim was brought out the hermit kingdom to discover a brave new world, a world from which his people still remain isolated. For introducing him to that world, Kim really has much to thank Trump for. Any luster was left to glean from a Kim meeting was exploited by Chinese President Xi Jinping when they met from March 25, 2018 to March 28, 2018 and January 7, 2019 to January 10, 2019. Indeed, by the time Kim met with Putin in Vladivostok, he was no longer the mystifying, obscure young leader in Pyongyang.
In the search for indicia that there was plenty of goodwill between the Russian and North Korean leaders and the meeting served to advance their relationship, much has been made of the fact that Putin was reportedly thirty minutes early for the April 25th meeting and waited for Kim. That fact takes on greater significance given Putin’s well-known history for arriving late for meetings with world leaders. He was nearly one hour late for his Helsinki Meeting with Trump in July 2018, four hours and fifteen minutes late for a meeting with German Chancellor Angela Merkel in 2014, fifty minutes late for a meeting with Pope Francis in 2015, and a tame fourteen minutes late for a meeting with Queen Elizabeth II in 2003. Yet perhaps conversely to creating a positive atmosphere around which the Russian-North Korean relationship could be viewed internationally, Putin was of the mind to set a sort of trap for Kim. The goal of which most likely was to suss Kim out and, at the right time, take the opportunity to establish the nature of their relationship as leaders. As a result of that effort, the entire visit had a strange feel. Everything seemed a bit off kilter, a little grayish. Certainly, Putin and Kim were never too chummy publicly. Putin’s personal approach and demeanor toward Kim did not mirror that of the avuncular Trump. Rather, he behaved nearly in the manner of a cold-hearted, Ian Fleming’s James Bond sort of “gangster as spy” of whom Trump’s critics and detractors inappropriately claim the US President faced in Hamburg, Da Nang, Helsinki, and Buenos Aires. He did not! Putin handled Kim much as a bewildered target for recruitment. As it was previously discussed in a February 28, 2018 greatcharlie post entitled, “A Russian Threat on Two Fronts: A New Understanding of Putin, Not Inadequate Old Ones, Will Allow the Best Response,” Putin prepares for his meetings or any other forms of contact with another national leader or senior foreign diplomatic official, in advance, by mining all available information and by considering all possible angles of how an interlocutor might challenge him and how he would explain himself in a plausible, satisfying way. Being engaged in an exceptionally devious sort of manipulation of Kim, one could be certain that every little move made in Vladivostok was performed with purpose. To that extent, even the anomaly of Putin’s punctuality was a calculated step.
Putin (right) and Kim (left) on escalator in Vladivostok. Taking cues from how the two men appeared standing together, Putin clearly was the leader and Kim was the follower. Perhaps in the confidential one on one meeting between them, Putin also sought to establish his position as “the boss” with Kim. Intriguingly, at Vladivostok, Putin was practically every bit the Ian Fleming’s James Bond sort of cold-hearted, gangster as spy about which critics and detractors of Trump have endlessly waxed and have inappropriately claimed the US President faced in Hamburg, Da Nang, Helsinki, and Buenos Aires.
Attempting to reach into Kim’s head concerning the visit, Putin probably calculated that he would be very optimistic over the outcome of his visit. Putin may have also parsed out that Kim believed that there was virtually an organic affinity between them given the long relationship Russia has had with North Korea. That affinity would be primarily founded on the notion that Putin was raised and served for years as an officer of the Komitet Gosudarstvennoy Bezopasnosti (the Committee for State Security) known as the KGB in the Soviet Union. The Soviet Union was the original, unholy bastion of Communism, Marxist-Leninism, and Socialism, which form the political underpinnings of North Korea today. Russia, a former Soviet republic, was at the center of the collapsed superpower. Moscow was the Soviet capital. Further, in support of his grandfather and hero, Kim Il-sung, the Soviet Union provided not only weapons, equipment and training for North Korean forces during the Korean War, but covertly provided Soviet soldiers and airmen to to engage covertly in combat operations. (China’s commitment to its North Korean ally during the war was even greater.) Thus, Putin would be reasonably assured that drawing Kim in would not pose difficulties. Ensuring that he would be able to exert influence on Kim would be his main task. Putin’s effort to miniaturize Kim was almost heartbreaking to watch. Yet, few would shed tears for the despotic North Korean leader under the thumb of the ex-Soviet spy. He exploited every opportunity to publicly demonstrate that he was dominant. On each occasion that he did so, he had the look of a cat among pigeons. This is how it looks when expediency and outcomes are given primacy before method. Taking cues from how the two men appeared standing together, Putin clearly was the leader and Kim was the follower. Perhaps in the confidential one on one meeting between them, Putin also sought to establish his position as “the boss” with Kim.
Psychologically, Putin may never have been disposed to even pretend that he was on level terms with Kim. Putin has never spoken of any meeting with another national leader as a “meeting of equals”. Putin has never hesitated to take the “Alpha-male” position with leaders of other countries and let them know his intentions. In Putin’s Kleptocracy: Who Owns Russia?, Karen Dawisha recounts the occasion when the new prime minister of a Central Asian country paid his first visit to Moscow. He met with Putin. After the cameras had left the room, Putin is said to have loosened his tie, leaned forward, and in a menacing snarl told the startled leader: “Listen here (slushay syuda), I decide everything. Don’t forget it.” (This reality makes Putin’s attitude and behavior with Trump even more intriguing. One can clearly observe a certain grace and sangfroid displayed by the Russian leader. He has never appeared jagged or, even more, threatening in the slightest degree toward Trump at any moment in which they were together publicly.) Among the North Korean people, Kim is the “Alpha-male”, who rules with an iron fist. He is the country’s supreme leader, its champion, its top man above all, deified, never to be second-guessed, never to be challenged. That side of Kim was not present in Vladivostok. There was no swagger, no expressions of conceit from Kim.
Putin may never have been disposed to even pretend that he was on level terms with Kim. He has never spoken of any meeting with another national leader as a “meeting of equals”. He has never hesitated to take the “Alpha-male” position with leaders of other countries and let them know his intentions. In Putin’s Kleptocracy: Who Owns Russia?, author Karen Dawisha recounts the occasion when the new prime minister of a Central Asian country paid his first visit to Moscow. He met with Putin. After the cameras had left the room, Putin is said to have loosened his tie, leaned forward, and in a menacing snarl told the startled leader: “Listen here (slushay syuda), I decide everything. Don’t forget it.”
Something that one might also consider is that in adherence to the principles of Korean culture, a world that he understands well, Kim likely sought to show a degree of deference to Putin as a part of his responsibilities as a guest. He likely believed his host would display an equal degree of authentic respect and graciousness toward him and the North Korean delegation. In that way, the kibun (mood or inner feelings) of both visitors and hosts would remain balanced in a harmonious environment. Kim encountered that sort of experience in Singapore, Hanoi, and Beijing. In Vladivostok, Kim was figuratively moving blindly in “the real” new world outside of North Korea. He seemed confused by the web Putin had spun for him. Indeed, seeing the footage revealed to the public of Kim’s expressions, gestures, and positions in Vladivostok, one might have trouble believing Kim was sure of anything while there. No one could show Kim the way while in Russia. Lucky enough for him, he maintained his balance, saw his way through, and made his way home. For Kim, it was doubtlessly an embarrassing chain of events. If those in Pyongyang who might read this would pardon greatcharlie’s freedom, Kim appeared to be caught completely off guard by Putin and stumbling around with his pants at his ankles in Vladivostok.
The Putin-Kim meeting most assuredly was not an inflexion point in Russian North Korean relations. Beyond Putin’s use of the meeting to remind Kim of the nature of their relationship, it is difficult to discern, with certitude, what was accomplished in Vladivostok. Urgent and important matters specific to their countries underpinning the meeting, at least officially, were not sufficiently enumerated publicly. From what was witnessed, no significant change in the geostrategic balance in Northeast Asia or relations in general among countries in the region that resulted from the meeting. As for dealing with the US as a threat, Kim did not appear to have been given the assurance of support from his country’s longtime “ally” that he wanted receive. It could be imagined that instead of promising to provide a type of nuclear umbrella for North Korea that the US provides for its allies in the region, Putin, in a hollow gesture, likely praised Kim’s willingness to take on the US and found his devotion and heroic disregard for death admirable. Concerning the denuclearization diplomacy with the US, it would be difficult to believe that Kim was given, at any point while meeting with Putin, solid, hopeful advice. Putin most likely acted in the manner of a dark muse for Kim on the matter.
Given that economic conditions of both countries have been greatly harmed by US sanctions and both leaders have publicly indicated that they would like to have all international trade sanctions removed, one might extrapolate that the matter of business, relations, business activities, between the two countries were broached. Russian-North Korean business ties are divided between a modicum of legitimate and substantial illicit activity. Legitimate trade was limited to $34 million in 2018 due mainly to sanctions against North Korea. Statistics on gains from illicit activity are not available here but reportedly clandestine sanctions busting efforts are ongoing and apparently profitable enough to be worth the risk. It would not be a matter too trite to be managed by the two leaders as detection by the international community of any clandestine business activities, disallowed by sanctions, would mean grave consequences for both countries via sanctions. Through the process of monitoring their business activities, the international community has learned that transport agents in the Russian Federation have prepared documents for North Korean vessels. The government has not denied that. However, certain actions have also been taken to help North Korea evade sanctions. Port services have allegedly been provided to North Korean-flagged ships. North Korean vessels have been fueled in Russia. The sale of that fuel to them by representatives of certain firms has been ignored. No interest is given to whomever might be selling cargo and oil products to the North Koreans. Further, a blind eye is turn toward whomever may be loading North Korean vessels. Vasili Kolchanov, head of the Russian Federation port services agency involved, explained to Reuters: “It’s not our concern who fuels the vessels, who sells that fuel, who they buy the cargo and oil products from.” He further stated: “We do not load vessels. As an agent, I only need to check that they have permission from customs.”
The type of business Putin would like Russia to develop with North Korea concerns mineral resources, including rare metals. Kim would like access to Russian electricity supplies. While Moscow generally views North Korea as a poor investment, Kim would like Russia to invest in the modernization of Soviet-built industrial plants, railways and other infrastructure. Nevertheless, as long as sanctions remain in place, none of that will come to fruition.
Image of an illegal cargo transfer to a North Korea vessel on the open sea. (above). Economic conditions of Russia and North Korea have been greatly harmed by US and UN trade sanctions. One might extrapolate that business activities between the two countries was a key issue in the Putin-Kim talks. Russian-North Korean business ties are divided between the legitimate and illicit. Detection by the international community of any clandestine business activities disallowed by sanctions would mean grave consequences for both countries.
Kim’s Health
Taking a look at Putin’s bearing in Vladivostok, the Russian leader made a proper showing of himself as the usual sharp, strapping Russian leader. It was the loose, athletic, macho Putin, who in meetings exudes confidence, high-energy, and a readiness to do business. Taking a comparable look at Kim’s bearing, one could reasonably state that he appeared to be having health problems. Being most apparently somewhat outside of his appropriate weight range and being a smoker, it could be expected that Kim would be dealing with dome underlying health issues. However, in Vladivostok, Kim simply looked unhealthy. Kim breathed laboriously as if he had anything from a very bad cold, bronchitis, asthma, or pneumonia, to something much worse, such as a pulmonary edema, a pulmonary embolism, or some other pulmonary episode. A far lesser possibility now, but one worthy of consideration at the time of the Vladivostok meeting is that Kim was suffering from a myocardial infarction (heart attack) of a Type 2 diabetic, slowly dying in discomfort, without appropriate care.
In every video clip made public of the North Korean leader in Vladivostok, Kim appeared pale, shuddering, breathless. At times he additionally appeared disoriented, uncertain, uncomfortable, anxious, even jumpy. This uneasy behavior was not observed in Kim in Singapore, Hanoi, or Beijing. Thinking in a way similar to greatcharlie, Eric Talmadge of the Associated Press, stated in his article published in Time magazine on April 26, 2019: “What caught the attention of many outside observers Thursday wasn’t the scene, but the sound — of Kim’s loud breathing. Clips of the introductory encounter were quickly tweeted around the world, many with comments about the leader’s audible breathlessness. South Korea’s media, meanwhile, speculated that it could be a sign of Kim’s poor health. He is, after all, overweight and a notoriously heavy smoker.” According to Talmadge, Kim has evinced similar health problems at previous high-level meetings. Some may recall that in April 2018, on the occasion of his first summit meeting with South Korean President Moon Jae-in, he looked out of breath as he signed a guestbook following a short walk.
The following link, https://youtu.be/40M-cfOhqxQ, provides a short video clip of one of several occasions at the Putin-Kim summit during which Kim’s labored breathing can be seen. Please focus on the region of the thorax between the neck and diaphragm in the front of Kim’s body or stated more plainly, his chest. On medical matters, greatcharlie is somewhat out of its province. Nonetheless, it seems fitting in this case, no matter how clumsy it may seem, for it to engage in an unlicensed, uncertified foray as an apothecary, to better understand Kim’s behavior. If Putin noticed Kim’s condition, odd behavior, in response, he showed him no quarter, no sympathy.
Kim takes cigarette break in China while en route to Hanoi Summit (above). In Vladivostok, Kim looked unhealthy. He breathed laboriously as if he had anything from a very bad cold, bronchitis, asthma, or pneumonia, to something much worse, such as a pulmonary edema, a pulmonary embolism, or some other pulmonary episode. A far lesser possibility now, but one worthy of consideration at the time in Vladivostok was that Kim may have been suffering from a myocardial infarction (heart attack) of a Type 2 diabetic, slowly dying in discomfort. If Putin noticed Kim’s condition, he showed him no sympathy.
In addition to directing attention at Kim’s difficulty breathing, the international news media noted what was generally described as an awkward gift exchange. Kim gave Putin a sword. Interestingly, among Russians, presenting swords and knives is considered sign of bad omen that could lead to disagreements and confrontations. Kim may have been aware of that superstition when decided to present Putin with a sword. After all, Russians and North Koreans are certainly not strangers to one another. Both Putin and Kim have sufficient, well-qualified experts to inform them of the nuances of gift giving in the respective cultures. Still, Kim presented it anyway, perhaps believing that Putin would be impressed with its size and value. Putin’s gift to Kim was even more intriguing. He gave Kim a coin. Video of the gift exchange made public show Kim completely befuddled in response. He seemed disappointed, closely eyeing the coin, clearly fazed by its diminutive size and relatively low value.
One might attempt to airbrush the episode by suggesting that Putin meant well when he gave Kim the coin, but that is unlikely. Putin was surely well-aware of Kim’s tastes and what would please him when deciding upon a gift for him. Gifting Kim with a coin may have been an atrocious display of Kremlin wit. Indeed, there is the real possibly that the coin presentation served as a banal amusement devised by Putin and his circle of mostly male acolytes. They may have wanted to witness an “entertaining”, stunned reaction from Kim. Even worse, a darker meaning of the gift could have been to create the impression that Putin was giving coin to a beggar. Along with their boss, the boys’ club in the Kremlin’s Senate building, who most likely in private mock and lampoon foreign leaders, have too often allowed such predictable, over-rehearsed, bad behavior, insinuate itself in important matters. Recently, it has been a persistent, distasteful theme in Russian diplomatic behavior that analysts and scholars have either missed or ignored. Indeed, Putin has been engaging in rather curious form of gift giving. Notable was his public presentation of a soccer ball to Trump in Helsinki. In response, Trump looked at the ball with a smirk, stated that he would give it to his son Darren, palmed it with his large right hand, and then casually tossed it one-handed to the First Lady, Melania Trump.
Despite the many problems associated with their interactions, Kim seemed to speak in harmony with Putin after the summit, and adhered to an anti-US line. It is unclear whether Kim simply wanted to oblige Putin just for old times’ sake or create the impression that he achieved some success in Russia. It may also be that he was left with little choice but to acquiesce to Putin’s position. At a post summit press conference, Putin, projecting a sense of accomplishment, stated that the North Korea’s denuclearization was necessary, but he insisted that North Korean sovereignty must be recognized and that security guarantees must be provided to Pyongyang. For Putin, security guarantees is a alternative way of stating the US must retreat from Northeast Asia, abandoning its longtime allies, and most importantly, remove the nuclear umbrella that shields those allies from a nuclear threat, not just from the North Korea, but also Russia and China as that umbrella was originally designed. Over the years, those capitals have been satisfied to see US military resources, psychic energy, and ire, directed at North Korea. By encouraging North Korea to seek steps that would to improve its security situation by reducing, even weakening the defensive posture of the US and allies in Northeast Asia, Russia would consequently serve its own security needs by invariably weakening the security of the US and its allies versus it, too.
Something that one might also consider is that in adherence to the principles of Korean culture, a world that he understands well, Kim likely sought to show a degree of deference to Putin as a part of his responsibilities as a guest. He likely believed his host would display a similar degree of authentic respect and graciousness toward him and the North Korean delegation. In this way, the kibun (mood or inner feelings) of both visitors and hosts would remain balanced in a harmonious environment. Kim encountered that sort of experience in Singapore, Hanoi, and Beijing. In Vladivostok, Kim was figuratively moving blindly in “the real” new world outside of North Korea. He seemed confused by the web Putin had spun for him.
Wake Up Kim!
Qui non proficit, deficit. (Who does not advance, recedes.) Ideally, for Trump, Kim would come to a third summit strangling at the leash, anxious to get going. It would be counterintuitive for Kim to come into a third round of negotiations with well made plans to melt away sanctions without offering necessary progress on denuclearization. He may very well retreat intellectually and be satisfied to accept advice from the North Korean intelligence services, crafted with an intelligence bigotry of military and security service elites founded on conspiracy theories about Trump and US actions and intentions. Particularly at this cut bait or fish stage, there is the potential for North Korean intelligence services, expert at whipping up scenarios and hypotheticals to expediently conjure up reports that provide support for the politicized or even hysterical views of consumers. (This is a disturbing reality that intelligence services almost everywhere face: hiring in error, individuals without honor, unfit to meet the moral obligations of the job.) The minstrels for the occasional exaggerated, distracting flashes of a belligerent posture to the US have been North Korea’s Foreign Minister Ri Yong-ho and Vice Foreign Minister Choe Son-hui. To promote peace, and being the responsible party, the Trump administration listens to those expressions, but does not react emotionally to them.
As greatcharlie has noted in previous posts, there is an endless sense of distrust within North Korea toward the West that always comes into play in diplomacy. Further, given what is known about Kim’s psychological disposition, success with him in diplomatic effort was never assured. With Kim, one must take into consideration his selective welcome toward outsiders, pretension exhibited in public displays of affection for his people, reported lurid acts of self-indulgence, irate outbursts, outright cruelty, violent actions towards the people, associates, and family, and murder, Kim has not been popularly described as an up and down, manic depressive. These attitudes and behaviors have been chalked up as the stuff that defines tyrants and despots.
To enlarge on that, one must remember that prior to all of the niceties that followed the Singapore and Hanoi meetings and the many kind letters exchanged between Trump and Kim, the US President accurately assessed in his September 2017 remarks at the UN, that the North Korean leader’s regime was extraordinarily violent. Some expert observers of Kim might call the young leader essentially a sadist who is intoxicated by violence. The March 31, 2018 greatcharlie post entitled “Commentary: Trump-Kim Talks: Will Desire Obey Reason or Will Force Be Used to Overcome Force?” discusses a Yonhap article on an examination made by South Korea’s National Intelligence Service (Gukga Jeongbowon) of Kim’s behavior. Trump is well-aware of such reports about Kim. Yet, in the greater cause of denuclearization, international peace and stability, and the betterment of conditions for the people of North Korea, it is expedient to put all of that aside. The focus must be on what is positive, to ensure the diplomatic process is fruitful. If Kim goes down the wrong road, observers should expect to see him figuratively shoot the soccer ball far off to the wrong side of the aluminium goal post at the next summit with Trump. Perhaps Moscow and Beijing, in order to promote their own respective geostrategic goals versus the US, may very well be trying to undermine Trump’s diplomatic efforts with Kim at the moment. Even more, they may be nefariously encouraging him to behave in ways contrary to advancing that diplomacy.
Trump has kept a positive front, projecting optimism with regard to the antithetical attitudes and behavior of the leaders of both Russia and China. He has likely kept in mind that a delicate symmetry does exist among their three countries from which any good basis for a positive interaction now and the future might be founded. Yet, there can be no doubt that Trump is well-aware of their unseemly ways. US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo scheduled a visit to Moscow on April 14, 2019, in order to express US concerns over Russian “aggressive and destabilizing actions.” Doubtlessly, Putin’s meeting with Kim in Vladivostok qualified to be an agenda item of the in camera Moscow meetings. In further response to the strategic goals and thinking of its soi-disant friends in Moscow and Beijing, Washington has nourished the strengths and equities of its alliances with allies in Northeast Asia. Those ties that bind the US and its allies in the region are the same ties that assure unity when dealing with Russia and China.
Kim must decide what his priorities are. Though, the choice for Kim, through the use of reason and wisdom alone, seems obvious. Trump offers the best solution for Kim and the North Korean people. North Korea has nothing to gain long-term from Russia and its stumbling economy, made all the worst by Western sanctions leveled upon it. Perhaps just a bit more time is needed before the economic well-being and the geo-strategic position of North Korea genuinely becomes paramount in Kim’s mind. To encourage Kim, Trump has practically indicated that he already has the US checkbook out. He has regularly expressed hope publicly, that Kim will do the best thing and make the right choice.
Trump (right) and Kim (left) in Singapore. Trump offers the best solution for Kim and the North Korean people. North Korea has nothing to gain long-term from Russia and its stumbling economy, made all the worst by Western sanctions leveled upon it. Perhaps just a bit more time is needed before the economic well-being and the geo-strategic position of North Korea genuinely becomes paramount in Kim’s mind. To encourage Kim, Trump has essentially announced that he has the US checkbook out. He has regularly expressed hope publicly, that Kim will do the best thing, make the right choice.
Trump to the Rescue?
Maybe if everything had been going perfectly on the denuclearization front, a third round of summit talks would be an opportunity to put the finishing touches on a deal. Meetings between US and North Korean business, financial, and development experts as well as meetings of international experts forms in various committees ostensibly would have come next in order to get cracking on North Korea sanctions economic rejuvenation. Surely, there is still time for that. At the moment, things are perhaps moving more gradually than initially expected. Yet, optimistically, everyone and everything will eventually arrive at the same place. To that extent, Trump continues to do the best things even in arguably unappealing circumstances with the hope of avoiding a calamitous situation in Northeast Asia. Trump sees no need for scare tactics. At the same time, Trump has kept his weapon, the armed forces of the US and its allies, figuratively cleaned and his sight zeroed. Cito rumpes arum, semper si tensum, habueris, at si laxans, quum voles, erit utilis. (A bow kept taut will quickly break, but kept loosely strung, it will serve you when you need it.)
In April and May of 2019, Kim launched missiles into the Sea of Japan. It may very well be that Kim believed the April 18, 2019 test of North Korea’s new “tactical guided weapon” and its May 4, 2019 “strike drills” using short-range, multiple launch rocket systems, fell well outside of the parameters of his promise to Trump not to test nuclear weapons or long-range missiles. Both weapons systems, fired off North Korea’s west coast, fell into the Sea of Japan, and did not intrude into Japanese or South Korean waters. As a result of the launches, Kim’s intent concerning denuclearization and halting missile development was placed into doubt among most US analysts and scholars. Some went as far as to assess that Trump should have taken a harder line with Kim on the matter. True, no matter how one might look at Kim’s mens rea, his missile launches were unquestionably displays of ill-advised audacity. Yet, Trump felt the tests were not of sufficient order of concern to derail the diplomatic process. He determined that the tests did not constitute, by performance or in spirit, a breach of Kim’s promise concerning weapons testing. His statement in response reflected that thinking. His response was in line with his concept of pitting hope against despondency in the diplomatic process on denuclearization. On May 4, 2019, using his Twitter account, @realDonaldTrump, Trump explained: “Anything in this very interesting world is possible, but I believe that Kim Jong-un fully realizes the great economic potential of North Korea, & will do nothing to interfere or end it. He also knows that I am with him & does not want to break his promise me. Deal will happen!” Hopefully, Kim will not push such injudicious activity alongside the borderline on which Trump would not be able to countenance it.
To a larger extent, Trump would hardly believe that Kim thought for a moment that the launches would in any way improve his tactical position against the US. North Korea was never in great shape tactically versus the US, and will never be allowed the opportunity to be so. Trump would hardly imagine Kim thought the launches could somehow strengthen Pyongyang’s hand in the diplomatic process or pull him closer to Pyongyang’s negotiation position. On a more basic level, Trump is aware that many individuals develop and express impressions of decisions and actions of foreign leaders without attempting to detect internal matters that might be driving events. Homosum: humani nil a me alienum puto. (I am human: I consider nothing human alien to me.)
When Kim launched missiles into the Sea of Japan on April and May of 2019, Kim’s intent concerning denuclearization and halting missile development was placed into doubt among most US analysts and scholars. No matter how one might look at Kim’s mens rea, his missile launches were unquestionably displays of ill-advised audacity. Some analysts and scholars went as far as to assess that Trump should have taken a harder line with Kim on the matter. Trump, however, determined the tests did not constitute, by performance or in spirit, a breach of Kim’s promise not to conduct tests.
A dimension of North Korea that one on the US side must lose sight of is that it remains a totalitarian tyranny, with power elites stratified in neat rows. To maintain his grip on the ranks of the military and security services in the midst of his denuclearization diplomacy, Kim may have decided to demonstrate his control and interest in the activities and developments within their organizations. It has been best for him to act in this way before even sensing any issues trouble in the ranks, Kim, to some degree, must also be responsive to Workers’ Party of Korea elites and senior leaders of North Korea’s now a tad more significant, forward-thinking, business leaders. North Korean military and security service elites, in particular, might have the sense that denuclearization will have the impact of discrediting and disenfranchising them. They would ostensibly be stripped of a considerable degree of real and psychic power. There would also more than likely be a loss of pride, prestige, and a certain emotional satisfaction. In any actions that he might take, Kim must be certain to avoid precipitating grumblings from them. By the same token, Kim would certainly be intolerant of the slightest scent of fragmentation within the Workers’ Party of Korea as a result of his diplomatic initiative with the US. Rather than avoid or preempt problems in the ranks, Kim might simply punish and obliterate suspected reactionaries and potential ones. Perhaps recent shifts made within the party’s senior leadership reflect his sensitivity to potential dangers.
Among the thoughts of those other than Trump in Washington, a greater concern might be that although Kim has metaphorically boarded the elevator and is riding it up, he does seem willing to travel to the top floor. He appears to be willing to get off several floors beneath it, just short of a grand prize for himself and North Korea. Perhaps when meditating alone over committing fully to a path toward denuclearization and working with the US, Kim may now and then feel slightly unclean in mind and body. Indeed, a turn toward denuclearization would surely require Kim to go against instinct. (In a way, that makes the mere fact that he is very openly considering it an extraordinarily step.) Alternatively, Kim might fear that Trump’s proposal is a cruel hoax, all too good to be true. Fool’s gold offered by a false heart. Considering such thoughts, one would not be on a slender thread to speculate that a real obstacle to working with Kim on denuclearization, may not be external manipulation or domestic concerns at all. There is the possibility that Kim, himself, remains the greatest restrictor to forward movement on a deal. However, in the diplomatic process, Kim is not being asked to bow down to US pressure, its desires, or accept something ephemeral. Putin would not ask for anything less from him. It cannot be stated enough that through Trump, Kim is being presented the opportunity to choose a better future for his people over the misfortune that they are coping with today.
Inter cetera mala, hoc qunque habet stultitia proprium, semper incipit vivere. (Among other evils, folly has also this characteristic, it is always beginning to live.) A potential pitfall for Kim would be failing to realize during a third meeting that Trump will be able to almost immediately read the writing on the wall as to where everything is headed. Indeed, if Kim’s efforts have not been legitimate, Trump will be fairly certain as to the Communist leader’s intentions once he leaves the table. As the erstwhile businessman, Trump will have a contingency plan for bad news. He calls such plans “alternatives.” Those alternatives surely include inflicting an unimaginable tragedy upon North Korea at best through ratcheting up the ongoing maximum pressure campaign of sanctions and at worst via a war fraught with the wreckage of innocent lives. It is also very possible that a prospective war might be fought with nuclear weapons.
In the diplomatic process of denuclearization, Kim is not being asked to bow down the US pressure, its desires. Putin would not ask for anything less from him. Through Trump, Kim is being presented the opportunity to choose a better future for his people. A potential pitfall for Kim is failing to realize during a third meeting that Trump will be able to almost immediately read the writing on the wall as to where everything is headed. Indeed, if Kim’s efforts have not been legitimate, Trump will be certain as to his intentions once he leaves the table. Trump will have a contingency plan. He calls such plans “alternatives.”
When one’s brain is functioning at such a high speed as Trump’s does, it regularly searches into the abstract. With the imagination serving as guide through the obscurity, his mind discriminates, vets, facts and ideas it has both recently encountered and has collected over time. His mind grasps for those most relevant to matter being focused upon. Those separate, yet correlative, facts and ideas are associated and via an even deeper analysis, are given higher meaning. As a result, an impression is formed which Trump’s mind constantly challenges with new information that is introduced to it. Having the ability to think in this way truly places Trump in a different category. (Note: There is no intent here to link Trump’s way of thinking to transcendentalism.)
Despite everything Kim has done so far, Trump, more so than anyone, appears to view him as a national leader, who has albeit made mistakes, but still has promise and is a work in progress. Trump does not believe Kim has limited faculties to improve his mind. Having worked with, coached, and mentored a number of young men and women during his business career as a land developer and builder, Trump has seen many evolve into very capable executives who went on to make the most of opportunities placed before them. Throughout the denuclearization diplomatic process, Trump has taken into account Kim’s emotional response to the process, its meaning, and enormity. Such empathy was likely difficult to muster given the singularity of Kim’s emotional responses. The very type of stresses that Trump wanted to keep out of his denuclearization diplomacy with Kim appeared to weigh heavy on the North Korean leader while he was with the Putin. Trump doubtlessly discerned that something was bringing him down, and seemingly burning him out. To steal a phrase from Trump, Kim “was low energy.”
Hopefully, Kim is self-aware enough to recognize that since June 2018 his relationship with Trump and his sense for what could be accomplished has been moving through a process of maturation. As part of that maturation, Kim must recognize that there needs to be a mutual exchange of inspiration between Trump and himself. If Kim is truly able to apply the discipline of accuracy, think with precision, accept the truth, and discern how beneficial everything Trump has proposed would be for North Korea, he will recognize that Trump has offered the best path possible, and all will be well. Interestingly, Kim, both keeps his hair cut and most often dresses in suits tailored in ways similar to those of his grandfather, Kim Il-sung. He has also fashioned his leadership style in his image. However, Kim, as with most humans, may aspire to advance to some greater form of himself. To that extent, there is the real possibility that he will want to take both his people and country to a far higher level from where they stand today.
In Act III, scene i of William Shakespeare’s The Third Part of Henry VI, King Henry is being held captive by two armed keepers in a forest north of London. Stirring a discussion with his two captors, King Henry discusses his responsibilities as king. He explains that as king he serves for the purpose of his people, not for his own benefit. He states that every king must settle in to that idea. They must accept that is what it means to be a leader. Henry says in that moment: “My crown is in my heart, not on my head; / Not decked with diamonds and Indian stones, / Nor to be seen: my crown is called content: / A crown it is that seldom kings enjoy.” When Putin and Kim met in Vladivostok, everything was seemingly done under the pretense that all was well between the two countries. Still, there was a palpable sense while observing events in Vladivostok that Putin does not want North Korea to advance. He wants to pull Kim and North Korea backward in time, backward to a circumstance in which North Korea could only define itself as subordinate to Russia and obedient to its whims. It may very well be Putin’s standard behavior with leaders of “lesser countries” and nothing extraordinary. Perhaps Putin, before and after the meeting, viewed Kim as being naive and that he could easily have him eating out of his hand. It has been considered in previous posts by greatcharlie that Trump, being different in his approach, may be able to do things that others cannot. Kim left Vladivostok appearing uncertain of how to respond to what he observed and heard from the Russian Federation President. As aforementioned here, in a scenario favorable for Washington, Kim, having met with Putin, may now be better aware of the stark differences between the respective futures that the Russian and US leaders offer North Korea. Putin met Kim figuratively empty handed as opposed to Trump who offered a golden future for his country. To the extent that Russia can exert influence in the world, particularly its large stake in the energy field, its attention is sought after by some. Whatever influence it may have internationally, it pales in comparison with that of the US.
If Trump had been even a bit iffy about the prospects for his denuclearization diplomacy to succeed, he would not have been able to move forward with it. Still, it is not Trump’s responsibility to be the sole engine behind denuclearization and the legitimate push to advance North Korea economically. If and when he meets with Trump for a third summit, it would behoove Kim to show how he is moving North Korea in that direction. It must be reflected in his proposals, his language, and his demeanor at the negotiation table and away from it. If Kim is unable to recognize the real value in what Trump is offering, at best, he will essentially condemn North Korea to a grey economy of black market and questionable bootleg products of all types, reliant on back alley deals with organized crime and corrupt foreign government officials, cash influx from North Korean guests workers abroad with limited to no access to substantial salaries and remain present in foreign countries at the whim of their governments. Throw on top of that nuclear weapons and long-range missile program that the US fully intends to eliminate if not through diplomacy, through devastating military strikes.
In all likelihood, Kim, would be incensed over failing to remove painful sanctions and end the maximum pressure campaign; impress his people by scoring a diplomatic victory over their US foe by removing sanctions while retaining the DPRK’s nuclear program; and, losing time on developing more nuclear weapons and perfecting their ability to reach the Continental US. If the denuclearization process fails, that will be a tough ticket for Trump to swallow. Yet, rather than being angered, he would likely be saddened over failing to reach the young North Korean leader, to establish a friendship with him, or embrace him as neighbor in this small world; and, to prevent the great potential of the North Korean people from being wasted. Hopefully, none of that will be the case. Nunquam sero te venisse putabo, si salvus veneris. (I shall never think you are late arriving as long as you come safely.)
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Commentary: The Hanoi Summit: What Kim Did Wrong and What Trump Is Doing Right
Posted on March 15, 2019 by greatcharlie
US President Donald Trump (left) and North Korean Chairman Kim Jong-un (right). Before the Hanoi Summit, Trump insisted that if he became unsatisfied with the meeting’s progress, he would walk away from the table. That was precisely what he did. It is not easy to comprehend what might have impelled Kim’s decision not reach a common understanding with Trump in order to create a denuclearization agreement. Yet, regardless of what drove Kim, the question of what will come of all the diplomatic work done to this point remains. Of particular interest might be how Trump might assess Kim’s actions and intentions in Hanoi’s aftermath.
The strains placed on both US President Donald Trump and Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (North Korea) Chairman Kim Jong-un in their February 27-28, 2019 meeting in Hanoi were quite significant. The intended outcome of the meeting, that primarily being an agreement on denuclearization and North Korea’s economic rejuvenation, would have been positive for both sides. Before Hanoi, Trump put considerable energy into considering the type of partnership with Kim that would be largely economic, and certainly serve the interests of the US and its regional allies. He remained optimistic despite being bombarded by the voices of pessimism heard from naysayers and dream killers of all political stripes. For Kim, moving North Korea along a path toward the economic miracle that Trump proposed would require a well-planned, monumental project to restructure the only world he and his people have known. Surely, it was worth the candle for both Trump.and Kim to make a go at it. However, it may very well be that Kim did not fully understand that everything North Korea is, and everything it has, was actually at stake. To that extent, North Korea may not have been properly invested in the move toward denuclearization. It appears even Kim’s purported percipience of Trump and US foreign and national security policy making was also lacking. (Perhaps that knowledge was simply not being properly applied in practice.) .
Trump insisted before the Hanoi Summit, much as he had before negotiations with other national leaders on agreements, that if he became unsatisfied the meeting’s progress, he would walk away from the table. That is precisely what he did. It is not easy to comprehend what might have impelled Kim’s decision not to reach a common understanding with Trump and create a denuclearization agreement. Given Kim’s human rights record, some might suggest may have been influenced by ingenious telepathy from Hell. Sardonics aside, the talk’s outcome provides indicia to support a few reasonable theories. Thinking outside of the box in order to find causality for Kim’s decision, one might conclude on a basic level, that the whole negotiation soon became too rich for his blood and rather than take a giant step forward and risk making the wrong choice, he held pat on his position. On a higher tier, one might assess that there may have been senior advisers in Pyongyang who convinced Kim that he could get Trump to eat out of his hand, and in a leap of faith, he tossed everything into an effort to twist Trump’s tail and get him to accept a deal shaped by North Korea’s terms. Additionally, there is the possibility that some self-doubt might have found a place in Kim’s thinking. Despite his leadership through iron rule, one might also politely conclude that Kim possesses a sort of 50-50 mentality. That would mean that Kim can see the potential of all arguments, even those made by the US. From that, it might be considered that he would typically need more time to reach a decision that would best suit North Korea long-term. In whatever way Kim may have been driven, the question now is what will come of all the diplomatic work done to this point. Of particular interest might be how Trump might assess Kim’s actions and intentions in the aftermath of Hanoi. Having apparently gotten things mixed up in Hanoi, hopefully Kim will not mess things up from this point on with Trump. Si sapis, alterum alteri misce: nec speraveris sine desperatione nec desperaveris sine spe. (If you are wise, mingle these two elements: do not hope without despair, or despair without hope.)
Is Kim Missing the Bigger Picture?
Right on the heels of the summit’s closing, Trump held a unilateral press conference in Hanoi on February 28, 2019, essentially to explain why an agreement could not be reached. Trump told reporters that the crux of the matter was sanctions. In summarizing the situation, Trump stated Kim wanted sanctions lifted to a degree in which they would be rendered ineffective. In exchange, Kim would be willing to denuclearize portions of critical areas. Yet, Trump said those testing areas Kim was willing to break down were not the ones the US wanted. They were hardly enough to elicit the cessation of sanctions. Since Kim held firm to that position, Trump explained that there was little choice but to walk away from that proposal. However, Trump never indicated the conversation on the denuclearization had been exhausted.
Indeed, Trump expressed the belief, “I think we’ll end up being very good friends with Chairman Kim and with North Korea, and I think they have tremendous potential.” He insisted that the US despite the outcome has not “given up on anything.” His sense that progress on denuclearization was bolstered by the fact that Kim even had an interest in closing down parts of the nuclear program. Additionally, Trump reminded that, “There’s no more testing. And one of the things, importantly, that Chairman Kim promised me last night is, regardless, he’s not going to do testing of rockets and nuclear. Not going to do testing. So, you know, I trust him, and I take him at his word. I hope that’s true.” As for how the parties might move forward with the diplomatic process following Hanoi, Trump explained: “In the meantime, we’ll be talking. Mike [Pompeo, US Secretary of State] will be speaking with his people. He’s also developed a very good relationship with the people — really, the people representing North Korea. I haven’t spoken to Prime Minister Abe yet. I haven’t spoken to President Moon of South Korea. But we will, and we’ll tell them it’s a process and it’s moving along.”
There was no legitimate cause for any confusion in Pyongyang as to what Trump wants in return for a prospective partnership is the same prize that was at the root of his decision to talk with Kim: denuclearization, the end of long-range missile development, the continued return of US remains from the Korean War, and dependability. As one can see, progress made on some of these matters was mentioned by Trump during his Hanoi press conference. In exchange, Kim would be assured that economic pressure, sanctions, would be mitigated, and a robust path toward economic renewal, backed by the experience of Trump and the largess of the US would be initiated.
The Trump administration officials, particularly US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, have sought to engage in very open, honest, and frank communications with their DPRK counterparts. That would include making inquiries regarding what is happening within the chambers of decision making of North Korea. From that information, the administration has been able to proceed with a good idea of whether success is possible. There have also been letters from Kim to Trump that have provided a sense of where things stand in North Korea regarding denuclearization. There was also no ambiguity over the fact that the Trump administration certainly does not want to give up the strengths and equities of its alliances with allies. Those ties that bind allies in the region are the same ties that assure unity when dealing with China. Alas, at the table, the maximum that Kim could possibly collect about Trump, in order to make a good decision on the deal offered, was put before him, for all answers concerning the US position, concept and intent, ultimately resided in Trump, himself. Kim and his aides and advisers in Pyongyang could not reasonably ask for anything more.
It would say much if Kim could not see that real empathy may have come from Trump, understanding how heavy a burden such a decision might be for the young leader. Previous deals with North Korea of great significance were last reached with his father, Kim Jong-un, and they crumbled under the insistent strain within North Korea, in Kim regime to pursue the goal of his father and grandfather, Kim Il-sung of developing nuclear weapons. That goal has been achieved. There may still be the strain within Kim to ignite an economic development akin, or even beyond, the Chollima Movement, as initiated by Kim’s grandfather and hero, Kim Il-sung. There is much that needs to done in North Korea, and as Trump has repeated, great potential exists within its workforce.
Trump’s critics and detractors insisted that Trump was out of court to even attempt to reach agreement with Kim that would meet the requirement of serving the interests of the US and its allies in the region. Surely, the Trump administration would never surrender the strengths and equities of its alliances with allies. Those ties that bind allies in the region are the same ties that assure unity when dealing with China. Those critics and detractors, upon discovering that Trump was unfazed by their persistent negative voices and was going to make the effort anyway, eventually turned to the standby criticism concerning any of Trump’s efforts on foreign and national security policy: he is unqualified. Further, they would also insist that behind everything Kim has done was a hostile DPRK plot, a “Red plot”, to lure Trump and the US to destruction.
The Snare of Insufficient Analysis
Attacks by critics and detractors of Trump have manifested more than elementary cynicism. The dark shadows of their machinations gathered as the Hanoi Summit came near. Their efforts did more more than serve to tear those in the US public who are supportive of Trump away from him. Despite claims from Trump’s political adversaries, and the usual critics and detractors that what was happening in Washington had no impact on what occurred in Hanoi, nothing could be further from the truth. Indeed, it would seem that Pyongyang, unfortunately chose to do what was expedient. That meant believing Trump was stressed from the potential release of a final report of the Special Counsel to Investigate Russian Interference with the 2016 Presidential Election and Related Matters. There have been repeated insinuation that Trump faced the threat of investigations by the Deputy US Attorney for Southern District of New York and the New York State Attorney General. Pyongyang might have believed that Trump, caught in the wave of excitement concerning the 2020 US Presidential Campaign, mystifying reports of supposed gains by Democrats in polls versus Trump, and the reported mayhem that exists within the mainstream political parties. There may have been the belief that Kim could capitalize on some forecasted by the intelligence services on the impatience on the part of Trump. Reports commentaries, and opinion pieces in the US news media surely would have rung a bell for Kim’s aides and advisers and analysts in North Korea’s intelligence services. From that, it would follow that Trump’s political difficulties at home would likely distract him. If any of this was the case, it may explain why Pyongyang seemingly went all in on an effort to force Trump’s hand.
What Trump confidently knew, but Kim and his aides and advisers in Pyongyang would have unlikely been able to discern clearly, was that the hearings of the Judiciary Committee of the US House of Representatives and in camera testimony before the Intelligence Committee of the US House of Representatives in which Trump’s erstwhile attorney Michael Cohen testified, in essence amounted to vanity projects undertaken by political opponents of Trump in his rival Democratic Party. Although the hearings grabbed headlines in the US news media while Trump met with Kim in Hanoi, the new information gained from them was for the most part already widely known. As it has been repeatedly counseled by greatcharlie, reacting, and much worse, inferring how Trump’s mind moves on an issue from stories, iniquitous commentaries, and opinion pieces in the US news media. For the most part, US news media houses have done a complete job presenting themselves as Trump’s adversary, not simply critics and detractors. In either case, they are not playing the impartial watchdog role in which the fourth estate is supposed to serve.
Leaders often take unimaginable risks under stress. One could surmise that Kim must have been under some stress at home. Indeed, looking at Kim objectively, the question would be whether Kim was being ambitious or desperate in Hanoi. There is the possibility that in the intelligence services or the Workers’ Party of Korea, it may have posited that Trump could be manipulated into accepting a deal far less than he originally wanted. Lending support for the idea would be that Kim managed to secure a second meeting and that Kim was the actual master at the negotiation table with Trump, and he could take US President down whatever path he wanted. Although it may all sound like daylight madness, it is actually the sort of colorization of policy with delusional notions of an all powerful supreme leader that has underpinned many prior ham-handed decisions by Pyongyang. Nam qui peccare se nescit, corrigi non vult. (If one doesn’t know his mistakes, he won’t want to correct them.)
Kim’s 50-50 Personality?
One might theorize that Kim’s failure to return home with a constructive answer may not have driven as much by politics but by the possibility that he possesses a 50-50 personality. This is not intended as a disparagement or an affront. It is not to suggest that Kim is a mixed bag, or worse, indecisive. It does not mean Kim is regularly afflicted by the paralysis of analysis. The 50-50 personality is the one able to see beyond black and white to the grey areas of significance. Kim cannot be pegged as one extreme or the other. Kim’s trained ability to project calmness and authority in all circumstances publicly has little relation to what might be stirring within. In private, he may in reality be as much the introvert as the extrovert, he may entertain his sense of things as much as use a honed intuition. He may try to feel through issues and situations coupled with thinking them through ad infinitum. He may be willing to use his perception of matters taking into account his experience and much as making calibrated judgments based on available facts and methods of analysis.
New Problems or a Curious Attempt to Ignite Further Talks?
Kim has created an additional problem himself at this point. Reportedly, he has sought to reconstruct a disassembled testing facility for long range rockets at Tongchang-ri. On first blush, it certainly does seem there is nefarious purpose behind his actions. It is hard to see how anyone could view Kim as anything but an aggressor. Trump has invested in diplomacy to resolve matters in contention: North Korea’s nuclear program and its long range delivery systems. Tactical moves must have payoffs or they are useless exertions, often opening the door for opponent to act. Kim, having met Trump, should not be under any illusion that Trump would not respond fiercely to moves he might find aggressive and or threatening. Kim does not need to extrapolate and infer anything from overt or covert sources that his intelligence services may be relying upon to understand and predict Trump’s moves. The suspension of military exercises should not have signalled to Kim that Trump is not interested in a military option. As he indicated in words he has since set aside in the spirit of negotiating some resolution, North Korea’s aggression would met with “ fire and fury the world has never known!” Pardon greatcharlie’s freedom, but military exercises with conventional forces would hold less significance on the North Korea front if an attack conceived by Trump would include the use of scores of nuclear weapons.
Does Kim Really Know What Is Best for North Korea?
Even with the notion that he has a type of 50-50 mentality, and with all of his revolutionary zeal and his commitment to the Communist movement taken into consideration, Kim must realize that Trump’s deal was too good to pass on. Nevertheless, he did so. Looking at the matter purely from the perspective of an external observer, Kim made a big mistake. As a national leader concerned with his people’s real future and being much more than a functionary within the system, logic should have driven him toward it. One stands on shaky ground saying anything positive about Kim given the sensitivity of government agencies in the US to such comments, nonetheless, failing to engage Trump for a bit longer in Hanoi on the development of a fitting agreement for both parties was not a surprising error for a national leader who is new to such high stakes diplomacy. Errant consilia nostra, quia non habent quo derigantur; ignoranti quem portum petat nullus suus ventus est. (Our plans miscarry because they have no aim. When a man does not know what harbor he is making for, no wind is the right wind.)
A logical next step for Kim and his aides and advisers, if they are truly interested in, and dedicated to, this important diplomatic process, might be to try to get the toothpaste back into the tube. A sign that such an effort could already be underway might be official statements by the foreign ministry of North Korea insisting that there was a desire in Pyongyang for a partial denuclearization. Indeed, on February 28, 2019 in Hanoi, North Korean Foreign Minister Ri Yong Ho explained that Kim’s regime sought only “partial” sanctions relief in return for dismantling the North’s main enrichment capabilities for fissile material. As for continued negotiations, Ri stated, “It is difficult to say whether there might be a better agreement than the one based on our proposal at current stage.” He continued authoritatively, “Our principal stance will remain invariable and our proposal will never be changed, even though US proposes negotiation again in the future.” Ri also confirmed that the North would be willing to “permanently dismantle all the nuclear material production facilities” at the main Yongbyon nuclear site and allow U.S. nuclear experts to observe. He went on to complain that North Korea had sought an end to “sanctions that hamper the civilian economy, and the livelihood of all people in particular,” citing five out of 11 sanctions packages imposed by the UN Security Council. As mentioned earlier, sanctions relief along those lines would have amounted to a significant easing of the pressure on North Korea.
Although some somber and astute analysts might reach the conclusion that the foreign ministry’s bold, inaccurate statements, with their familiar antagonistic cadence, was simply a pretension, one more dramatic expression of Pyongyang. The odd hope of it all would appear to be influencing opinion among senior officials of the Workers Party of Korea and other elites of business circles of the society that Trump was not sincere about sanctions relief and he failed to respond to what is likely extolled in Pyongyang as Kim’s “generous offer”. It may very well have been the case that Pyongyang had the foreign ministry’s statement “locked and cocked” even before Kim left by train for Hanoi in the event that Trump would not accept the terms he planned to offer him.
The Agony of Negotiating with North Korea
It is interesting how North Korean officials have spoken so obstinately of Trump’s openhandedness toward their country. Perhaps Pyongyang has forgotten that Kim is not exactly everyone’s cup of tea. (That is unlikely something anyone in Pyongyang would ever say in Kim’s presence.) Among industrialized countries, ruling out the Russian Federation and China, few governments hold a favorable opinion of North Korea. Pyongyang should rest assured that a number of capable US allies have likely suggested in confidence that Trump should move on from diplomacy and simply use military force on North Korea and indicated the willingness to join that effort. Trump, the one that North Korean Foreign Ministry officials now criticize, is the national leader who truly has the military power to destroy North Korea, yet he has given it a chance to prove its positive intentions to the world. Trump has sought to create the circumstances in which the entire world could begin to think well of North Korea and consider ways to work well with it. Trump’s description of his contacts and communications with Kim and public statements about his friendship and chemistry with him, have made him far less the threat that deservedly made headlines with angry words and aggressive moves in 2017 when the administration began. Trump kept his promise to work directly with Kim on the diplomacy, although it would unlikely have gone any other way as he has become the administration’s talisman on bilateral diplomacy, trade talks, essentially every kind of dealmaking. More than half way through his term as of this writing, Trump has amassed a record of making things happen; getting things done.
Not under any circumstances would the reconstruction of the testing site fall under the category of a benign act. It would hard to see where Pyongyang, having had two bites at the diplomacy apple, might hope to have some understanding of its move to reconstruct it’s long-range rocket testing site in a positive way in Washington or anywhere in the US for that matter. In reconstructing the testing site, Kim is doing precisely what Trump said he did not want North Korea to do. Nonetheless, taking a second look at the matter of Kim’s move to reconstruct the testing site from another angle purely out of academic interest and with a dose of optimism, one could say that the effort, albeit poorly conceived, was designed to create a position of perceived strength and encourage Trump to talk with Kim again. After all, that step was less threatening than other available options to garner immediate attention, create urgency. Kim could have begun reconstruction on a shuttered nuclear facility or begun building a new one. Kim could have made unsubstantiated public claims of possessing new nuclear technologies to enrich uranium for weapons such as the ability to separate isotopes through laser excitation (“SILEX”). (Note, this is just a hypothetical. There is no effort here to suggest that North Korea possesses such capabilities.) For Pyongyang, the danger in engaging in such tricky stuff is that the wrong signal may be sent to Washington. By and large, Pyongyang has asked the Trump administration to be patient and to recognize that on the world stage, North Korea is going to display a lack of sophistication, savoir faire, and present itself as the isolated, authoritarian “hermit kingdom” it has always been. While it may have hoped to move things in a specific way, it is possible that what might be intended through such moves could be lost in the labyrinth. Perhaps even unknowingly, Pyongyang has placed its best hope in Trump’s willingness to interpret its moves in a somewhat positive way and view the diplomatic effort as being worth the trouble.
It is apparent that Trump along with those foreign and national security policy officials who were optimistic about a deal being reached on denuclearization with North Korea, reasoned that it would be worth giving Kim the benefit of doubt. However, one could never be completely clear on how denuclearization would fit into the worldview of the Workers’ Party of Korea or Kim’s inner thinking. Shots have not been fired at anger across the border. There has been no testing over nuclear devices and no testing of long-range or short-range rockets. If a chance might be taken in the name of finding a peaceful agreement, right now is certainly the time to take them. It certainly would be a ashame if the positive spirit which had been discern in the White House from Kim’s thoughts, words, and deeds from Singapore until Hanoi, was simply imputed by the administration to greater degree than warranted. Admittedly, it is hard to understand why Pyongyang would at this point, hope for peace while reconstructing a testing facility for long-range rockets.
It is worth noting that in a more forceful, less grateful statement than Ri’s on February 28, 2019, North Korean Vice Foreign Minister Choe Son Hui, explained: “The impression I got observing this summit from the side was that our chairman seems to have difficulty understanding the US way of reckoning.” Choe, offering her own assessment, declared: “I felt that our chairman has lost the will to engage in dealmaking, with the US saying that even a partial lifting of sanctions for the civilian economy is hard.” Conditions surely will not change through diplomacy if Pyongyang refuses to negotiate. If anything positive could be gleaned from Choe’s statement, itself, it is the fact that the harshest words were delivered by a vice foreign minister, not Kim or a very senior Workers’ Party of Korea official. That may have left the door open for Kim or a senior officials to walk back from those words, making diplomacy with the hope that cobbling together a denuclearization agreement might still be viable. Apparently, Trump mercifully brushed off pretentious statements by DPRK’s officials on their country’s power relative to that of the US, and the great disproportion between them with reality. It is difficult to determine how long Trump’s patience will last though. Given a third chance, Kim might goof again.
Trump certainly has not indicated that he feels the time has come to tie things off. It may be that Trump is more concerned with the prospect of millions of lives being lost if he does not give it every chance. When asked in Hanoi whether the bridge could be gapped between Kim’s desire to have all or a significant portion of sanctions removed and his desire to more significant denuclearization, he responded: “With time. It’ll be bridged, I think, at a certain point. But there is a gap. We have to have sanctions. And he wants to denuke, but he wants to just do areas that are less important than the areas that we want. We know that — we know the country very well, believe it or not. We know every inch of that country. And we have to get what we have to get, because that’s a big — that’s a big give.” Oculis de homine non credo, habeo melius et certius lumen quo a falsis uera diiudicem: animi bonum animus inueniat. (I do not trust my eyes to tell me what a man is: I have a better and more trustworthy light by which I can distinguish what is true from what is false: let the mind find out what is good for the mind.)
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Commentary: Will the Trump-Kim Summit Yield an Agreement That Is Cosmetic or Consequential?
Posted on February 23, 2019 by greatcharlie
If an agreement is reached between US President Donald Trump and Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (North Korea) Chairman Kim Jong-un in Hanoi, it would certainly be a great leap forward not only in terms of US-North Korea relations, but also in terms of establishing true global peace and security. Smart money says both Trump and Kim will come through for their people, and the essence of an agreement as initially desired will be put together. The world should wish them well.
If some agreement is reached between US President Donald Trump and Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (North Korea) Chairman Kim Jong-un when they meet February 27-28, 2019, in Hanoi, the hope is that it will be more consequential than cosmetic. Since his first meeting with him in Singapore, Trump has been thinking through a new type of partnership with Kim that would be largely economic, and certainly serve the interests of the US and its regional allies. What he has also been doing, however, is creating the circumstances in which the entire world could begin to think well of North Korea and consider how to work well with it. Hopefully, Kim has been preparing his people for a big change, a new path forward. Some observers have demanded to see tangibles, commenting specifically that there are no signed documents agreeing to any plan of action with concrete steps. The reality is that on this monumental undertaking, change will take time. One might refer those impatient observers to the words of the Greek Stoic philosopher of Ancient Rome, Epictetus, which explained: “No thing great is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig, I answer you that there must be time. Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen.”
What Trump wants in return for a prospective partnership is the same prize that was at the root of his decision to talk with Kim: denuclearization, the end of long-range missile development, the continued return of US remains from the Korean War, and dependability. In exchange, Kim would be assured that economic pressure to include sanctions would be mitigated, and a robust path toward economic renewal, backed by the experience of Trump and the largess of the US would be initiated.
Accepting that has most likely been tough for the North Koreans on many levels. The enormous uplift and national pride, the sense of power and control, that comes with possessing nuclear weapons and the means to use them, elevates their importance in Pyongyang. To that extent, resistance to Kim’s effort could have been expected from many senior officials. Certainly, Kim is well equipped to cope with stubborn resistance to his new efforts in his own way. However, quite different from resistance to a deal, but still threatening enough to it, would be almost inherent lack of desire in Kim or any other official in Pyongyang to be “subsumed” by Washington just to gain advantages or considerations being offered. It must always be remembered that the North Korean government is authoritarian in nature and underpinned by a revolutionary movement. It will be reluctant to trust and slow to accept change. There would unlikely be a desire to integrate with what North Koreans may have for so long demonized as a Western-led international order.
It would be a mistake to believe that reaching an agreement would be seen by North Koreans as a means to acquire some sense of affirmation. For the North Koreans, particularly members of the Workers’ Party of Korea, affirmation can only result from loyalty to Kim, to country, and adherence to revolutionary ideals. That all lies deep within. Reaching an agreement would find greatest acceptance among North Koreans as a decision driven by revolutionary impulse. Additionally, North Koreans would want to know what they might create as a result of an economic revival will rightfully belong to them alone. There would be joy in knowing that whatever they might build would be the product of their own hands, not something given to them or done for them by external agents. Support from Trump must be viewed as being actuated by his humanism, and not negatively perceived as a cloaked manipulation or a quest for US dominance. As noted in Pensées, the collected works of 17th century French mathematician and philosopher, Blaise Pascal: “We are generally the better persuaded by the reasons we discover ourselves than by those given to us by others.”
What may also prove challenging for Pyongyang, if an agreement is reached, will be exercising the restraint required when working within the international order. The parameters of of bilateral and multilateral agreements, rules, regulations, and procedures, will need to be obeyed. Pyongyang should not equate using restraint as surrendering control. Rules, regulations, and procedures both established and understood in the international order, allow for sense of certainty, assurance, and safety. If anything, control resides in Pyongyang’s ability to make the decision to enter and to remain in the global economic fray as a genuine player. What is being presented is an authentic opportunity for North Korea to choose to be something other than a stranger to the rest of the world.
Given the great economic and financial benefits expected of a Trump-Kim deal, the question would likely remain in Washington on whether the life condition of the North Korean people would be changed by steps taken by it. Only Kim would be able to decide that. The best hope Washington might have on the matter would be that Kim will accept with “revolutionary zeal and patriotism” that the transformation of the country should touch all levels of North Korean society. Interestingly, if Kim follows through on a deal with Trump, the economic effort could very well be viewed as the greatest attempt to take DPRK’s Revolution to new heights since the Chollima Movement initiated by his grandfather, Kim Il-sung, decades ago.
If Trump and Kim reach an agreement in Hanoi, it would certainly be a great leap forward not only for the US and North Korea, but also in terns of establishing true global peace and security. The world should wish them well. China, Vietnam, and Mongolia have gone through similar, yet respectively unique, economic transformations. If some written accord is not reached by the two leaders at the summit, there will be other opportunities to meet. However, if everything goes thoroughly bad at the meeting and this mighty diplomatic effort collapses, both leaders will face a dilemma that could take two forms. One may include cobbling together an agreement to maintain some semblance of the status quo. The other may be to go war. The latter is certainly far more distressing than the former, as it may result in the loss of millions of lives. Smart money says both Trump and Kim will come through for their people, and the essence of an agreement as initially desired will be put together. In his work, Meditations, the renowned Ancient Roman Emperor and Stoic philosopher, Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Augustus, provides apt marching orders for Trump and Kim: “Concentrate on what you have to do. Fix your eyes on it. Remind yourself what nature demands of people. Then, do it, without hesitation, and speak the truth as you see it. But with kindness. With humility. Without hypocrisy.”
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the making of, by greg allen
It’s been a hard season to think of positive things, and sometimes looking back, it’s been difficult to see how or if things mattered at all. But I also look back at the year with immense gratitude, both for the opportunities I’ve had, but also for the people who helped make them possible. I’d probably still be doing a lot of what I’m doing here if no one else was paying attention; that’s how it often feels, actually. But I’ve come to know that sometimes people do take an interest in what I’m doing, whether writing, research, criticism, or artmaking, and they respond to it, react to it, challenge it, run with it, join in on it. And it makes it interesting, better, and more meaningful, and it is nice to feel that. But there are also things, some of my greatest, favorite things, that would not have existed at all without the interest, effort, and support of others.
So I’d like to give some specific thanks to some of the many people who engaged with and supported my work in 2016. Without them, these things I am so proud of would literally not have happened.
Magda Sawon suggested we do a proposal for SPRING/BREAK. “Chop Shop” began as a glib sendup of Simchowitzian cash&carry speculecting. But in the last few weeks before the show, it grew exponentially in scale, which forced some real thinking about its meaning and ambition. With Ambre & Andrew’s flexibility, and the extraordinary efforts of Magda’s posse, Chop Shop somehow became what supposed to not be: a Basel-ian boothful of investment-grade masterpieces. [Some of which are still available, btw. Get in now at 2016, pre-boom prices.]
Book deals come and go, but Jennifer Liese and her colleagues at Paper Monument offered what bloggers need most: a good editing. When PM first asked to include my 2+ years of posts about the history of Erased deKooning Drawing in their anthology Social Medium, I frankly thought they were nuts. But Jen’s vision and thoughtful editing helped me see my own writing and ideas anew, and she enabled them to reach people in an amazing, new context. I’ve never felt prouder of my writing than to have it included among the great work of so many artists who influence and inspire me already.
Mark Leckey and John Garcia included my work in shows that were totally fascinating and different from anything I could have imagined, which let me think about it and the world it inhabits in a new way. Having my satelloon sculpture be subsumed into Leckey’s autobiographically inspired installation at MoMA PS1 turns out to be a rare privilege, to be able to help realize, almost literally, someone’s memory.
And Garcia’s inclusion of the Madoff Provenance Project in his show about context’s impact on art at To___Bridges___ not only gave it a challenging context, it pushed me to figure out ways to make the project visible and understandable beyond its datalayer. This in turn helped me see how my work connects to, and was informed by, artists of earlier generations. [In this case, there’s an obvious shoutout due to Mel Bochner and his Working drawings and other visible things on paper not necessarily meant to be viewed as art, a project whose title has long resonated with my own ambivalence about calling myself an artist or what I do art.]
Sarah Douglas and Andrew Russeth at ArtNews invited me to write about one of my favorite, all-consuming blogtopics: the disappearance of the Johns flag in Short Circuit. And recently Eric Doeringer and I had a great public conversation about his work, and the early Johns/Rauschenberg era that I continue to find engrossing and misunderstood.
Collectors and supporters who engage in the oddball, time- and space-limited art projects I proposed around here literally made them happen. In the crazy-skewed art world of the moment, lowering the stakes and making and trading art for two figures feels refreshing. And most awesomely, these projects have been a catalyst for connecting with some inspiring people who share some interests, and who introduce me to their passions and practices, too. [I hope 2017 lasts long enough for me to do a book version of eBay Test Prints, btw.]
Most of all, I have to thank my wife, who is my smartest, most skeptical, yet most tireless supporter. She is so deeply disapproving of my #andiron-style art designation practice it is not even funny, but she also sees me wrestling with it myself and taking it seriously, so she does, too. And anyway, at the very least, when I’m dead and gone, and she doesn’t have to deal with a storing or tossing a studio or warehouseful of objects, she’ll come around. So thank you, and thank you all. I hope we all get through 2017 and beyond to do this again.
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Why Microsoft Acquired LinkedIn? It’s All About User Insights!
by Sanchit Vir Gogia June 14, 2016 August 3, 2017 12 Comments
On June 13, 2016 Microsoft announced the agreement to acquire LinkedIn for USD 26.2 billion. Important to note that this is the first big deal under Satya Nadella’s leadership and LinkedIn will continue to operate as an independent company. Albeit this (in theory) will allow more room for innovation, let’s put this announcement in perspective:
Microsoft has paid nearly 9 times for LinkedIn’s current revenue. In 2015, LinkedIn’s revenue was pegged at USD 3 billion – of this USD 2 billion was accrued from Talent solutions, a market that Microsoft does not serve currently and addresses via its Human Capital Management (HCM) partners. Hence, only 30% of LinkedIn’s revenue (USD 1 billion) has a direct correlation and impact on Microsoft product portfolio currently.
This acquisition comes at a time when LinkedIn recently failed to impress the Wall Street. LinkedIn’s share price took a solid beating of 43.6% earlier this year in February 2016 – in other words, the company shed USD 11 billion in market valuation in one day.
This approach has been tried more than half a decade ago and at a fraction of cost. It’s worthy to point out that Salesforce.com tried solving the same puzzle in 2010 by acquiring Jigsaw (LinkedIn’s poorer cousin) for USD 142 million and forging partnerships with companies like D&B, Hoover’s and LexisNexis.
Microsoft in the past hasn’t done justice to acquisitions. Going by existing evidence, Microsoft hasn’t been able to create solid impact and outcomes from Yammer, an acquisition worth USD 1.2 billion in 2012. To make matters more complex, this announcement comes in close proximity to the recently failed acquisition of Nokia for which Microsoft paid USD 7.6 billion in 2014.
Satya Nadella’s vision of the new and improved Microsoft (focused on the enterprise) isn’t met by similar gusto by country and regional teams. The company’s ability to actualise Satya’s vision on the ground still remains to be largely work-in-progress and in many ways a distant dream. Per a Greyhound Research study more than 70% developers in the Asia-Pacific including Japan (APJ) region continue to focus their investments on Amazon Web Services (AWS) that allows them a host of opportunities including participating in the swelling ecosystem to help in monetization.
Having said the above, Greyhound Research believes this acquisition among other recent announcements like investments in Azure, Office365, Windows10 and new partnerships (with SAP) helps put Microsoft on the right trajectory. However, it also makes the competition more intense between the 3 behemoths – Google, Facebook and Microsoft – who are now aggressively targeting the enterprise spend on productivity tools. Below are key highlights of why this deal matters to both parties involved and especially their individual users and organisations:
A combined user-base (read identities and personal data) 5 times the total population of US. While as part of this acquisition Microsoft gains 433 million users across 200 countries, the total number of identities post-merger (end of 2016) will touch nearly 1.5 billion.
Access to LinkedIn’s Business solutions, Developers and Content Ecosystem. This includes LinkedIn’s Talent, Marketing, Sales solutions and LinkedIn Marketing solutions: Financial Services, a platform used by Financial Services marketers globally for audience insights and industry research. In addition, Microsoft gains access to a solid regular user base of SlideShare (LinkedIn’s content sharing platform) and Pulse (LinkedIn’s news aggregation and reading platform).
Ability to target newer breed of IT Decision Makers. While Microsoft has been traditionally selling to Chief Information Officers (CIOs) and Chief Information Security Officers (CISOs), it has struggled to establish a connect and recall with newer IT Decision Makers (LinkedIn’s core buyers) like Chief Marketing Officers (CMOs), Chief Sales Officers (CSOs), and Chief Human Resources Officers (CHROs).
Current and potential revenue stream from advertising. LinkedIn’s advertising offering will add mobile and desktop advertising revenue to Microsoft’s wallet. With LinkedIn reporting 49 percent growth Year On Year (YOY) to 60 percent mobile usage, adverts will prove to be a sizable net new revenue opportunity for Microsoft.
Increase in spend on Research & Development (R&D) to improve experience & integration. While this investment is both expected and necessary to drive tighter integration between the companies’ products, Greyhound Research expects initial efforts to be focused on improving User Experience of the core products – the LinkedIn website and mobile app. It might be worth noting that much of this may be done in India (LinkedIn recently opened a new office in Bengaluru). Greyhound Research believes while LinkedIn team has done a great job at overhauling user experience on its’ mobile apps (LinkedIn, Slideshare & Pulse), its core product (LinkedIn website) needs urgent attention.
Native integration between Microsoft Dynamics CRM, Office365, Cortana & LinkedIn products. Post its failed attempt to acquire Salesforce.com and losing it to arch competition AWS, Microsoft has made a clear attempt to regain lost ground and offer stiff competition on back of its product, Dynamics CRM. Microsoft is aiming to use the acquisition of LinkedIn to help beef up its ability to generate high quality leads, run marketing campaigns with improved ROI and offer deep customer insights. With user data and insights as the key focus of this announcement, we believe the use-case of integration with Cortana will add immensely to the sales teams. However, it remains largely unaccepted in its current form.
Growth in new (and active) user-base on back of common identity. Greyhound Research believes there’s ample headroom for Microsoft to onboard current users with Microsoft identity and not present on LinkedIn. This will allow the company to use these accounts as a common identity to access LinkedIn and other Microsoft services such as Skype – something Google has pioneered. Greyhound Research believes this acquisition is a much needed breather for LinkedIn that was struggling to add fresh users and increase page views dramatically.
The much needed position in Social arena. It might be of interest to note that while Microsoft is invested in Facebook, it continues to struggle with its efforts to gain notable presence in social technologies. Greyhound Research believes this opportunity will offer Microsoft the much needed shot in the arm.
Reform Learning & Development market. Greyhound Research believes Microsoft also stands to significantly gain from the recent LinkedIn acquisition of Lynda.com (video-based eLearning). This can help Microsoft use the platform to embed social learning as part of the broader Microsoft productivity environment.
Growth in ad revenue on the back of Bing. At Greyhound Research we believe Microsoft will now have the potential to grow LinkedIn’s advertisement network by placing these ads well within its search engine Bing. Having said that, Microsoft has a significant problem of reach and recall to be solved with Bing that has received little or no acceptance from markets outside US.
Albeit the complimentary nature of this acquisition is hard to miss, Microsoft runs the potential danger of missing this opportunity bus. Below are areas that we believe remain the company’s weak links:
Not all LinkedIn solutions fit naturally in Microsoft’s portfolio. Greyhound Research believes LinkedIn’s Recruiter solution is not a natural fit in Microsoft’s current product portfolio. Much R&D and development will need to be done before Microsoft can claim presence in the HCM market. It’s critical for Microsoft stakeholders to remember that the HCM market is going through a rapid change and traditional HCM vendors like SAP and Oracle are facing intense competition from specialised players like Ramco, Cornerstone OnDemand among others.
Ability to run campaigns alone is not enough. Greyhound Research is of the firm belief that organisations are increasingly questioning investment in CRM tools that don’t allow for Campaigns to reach a natural closure to Commerce. The recent acquisition of Demandware by Salesforce.com underpins this growing trend. Furthermore, while Microsoft has Dynamics CRM and now LinkedIn’s Sales and Marketing solutions, their ability to deliver a true SocialSelling experience remains limited and much attention is required to deliver ads natively on the mobile and drive commerce (where companies like Inmobi have done well).
What can individual consumers expect?
A hike in subscription fee. Microsoft might offer add-on products and services and improve website and mobile app user experience to justify the increase in subscription price. This outcome can well be expected in early 2017. At Greyhound Research, we expect Microsoft to invest significant muscle in pushing attractive bundling and licensing options that will encourage LinkedIn solutions users to acquire more Microsoft services and vice versa.
What can IT Decision Makers expect?
More complex decision making process. Greyhound Research expects Microsoft to offer native integration with LinkedIn solutions – hence an improved experience (and stickiness) compared to the current integration to its Dynamics CRM and Office365. This will allow sales, marketing and customer service teams to migrate customer data to and from traditional productivity environment of Outlook, Word, Excel, Skype among others. As and when the integration is expected to go live, CIOs can expect Microsoft reps requesting for introductions to other key decision makers like CMOs and CSOs to talk about SocialSelling, Content Marketing, Advertising among other things. Greyhound Research advises CIOs to prepare for a renegotiation of their existing contract to accommodate for additional subscriptions.
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Love your opening perspectives. Looks like not all is hunky dory at LinkedIn. Their share price has been wavering especially since Feb. Do you think this was by any chance a distress sale?
Sanchit Vir Gogia says:
David, thank you for your comment. Hard to tell if it’s a distress sale – IMHO likely not. Nonetheless, what goes without saying is that the state of affairs was getting worrisome since the stock has been volatile and that is never a healthy sign. Ultimately, it’s all about driving users to share more data and content that will ultimately drive insights. And that’s probably the only reason LinkedIn managed to get Microsoft to pay 9 times. Clearly, data is the new gold 🙂
Travis Wright says:
As you rightly said, Microsoft has been selling technology to CIOs forever. I am wondering how will Microsoft get its Sales team to sell marketing to CMOs and CSOs?
Now that’s a million dollar question and the one that I’m certain is giving Satya sleepless nights. Despite the fact that LinkedIn will continue as a separate company, it can be well expected that Microsoft will use its salesforce to sell LinkedIn solutions. While the original LinkedIn sales team will do their bit to train Microsoft account managers, the latter will have to onboard a new sales approach, team and may be even explore newer channel partners. Else, this will take only longer for them to monetise.
Alicia K says:
Hi Sanchit, brilliant insights thanks for sharing. You mentioned how LinkedIn’s recruitment solution is not a natural fit for Microsoft right now. Do you think Microsoft will let this space be for now or will they invest and enter the HCM market?
Hey Alicia, thanks for chiming in! Well spotted there – LinkedIn’s recruitment solution is not an obvious fit but there’s always a work around. Having said that, such efforts take investment in time and resources and most importantly a clear intent from the top to see them through. If Microsoft wishes to enter the HCM market it will clearly face a tough battle from vendors like SAP, Oracle, Ramco, Cornerstone OnDemand among others. Hence the need for clear intent from the top to stay put.
In an earlier post by you (dated 02 June 2016), it is mentioned that Linkedin is looking at buying Indian start-ups. Would Linkedin acquisition affect those plans now? Please explain how?
Thanks for stopping by Karen. Your observation is very apt and not something that many are yet to spot 🙂 Critical to remember that Satya has indicated that LinkedIn will continue to operate as a separate company and hence LinkedIn should reserve the right to suggest (if not pay for) startups that they believe will add substantial value. Having said that it’s also worthy to note that Microsoft is themselves on the lookout for such opportunities so don’t honestly think acquiring startups is falling off the agenda for both parties.
Hiroshi Ito says:
Is the Price of this acquisition largely influenced by the huge amount of Data that Linkedin has?
Because, only 30% of LinkedIn’s revenue (USD 1 billion) has a direct correlation and impact on Microsoft product portfolio currently. (Quoted by you)
Anshoo Nandwaani says:
Ito San, thank you for your comment. As my colleague Sanchit said in his above comment: Data is Gold! While the numbers of users which Microsoft gains from this acquisition is tangible (433 mn across 200 countries), valuations are not calculated in direct proportion to this number alone. This pool of available user data can be further mined extensively by brands to market and sell better and grow their revenue sizeably. IMHO the valuation of this deal is not directly related to the number of users and current accrued revenue. Rather, the co-relation here is tangential and based on the potential user insights and potential revenue.
Brian Pereira says:
This is very detailed research with a deep chronological perspective. It’s also interesting to understand how LinkedIn’s offerings will be integrated in Microsoft’s product portfolio. Microsoft has a history of buying companies (and products) and then turning these into flagship products. The MS-DOS operating system, Outlook Mail and Excel are examples. But it also had many failures (Nokia, Navision etc).
So I am hoping that Microsoft does not spoil a good thing (LinkedIn) and turn it into a dead asset.
–Brian Pereira
Hi Brian, thank you for your comments. As you rightly said, Microsoft has had its share of success and failures with acquisitions (more failures than successes off late). Their last successful acquisition was 1997! For the LinkedIn acquisition to become successful, what Microsoft needs is Strategy from the top, backed by execution (read thorough execution) at the ground level. IMHO it’s also imperative that Microsoft keeps the spirit of LinkedIn (professional networking) intact and accentuates it further. This will help retain and grow the combined user base.
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The International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) says Income per person could decline by 21%’
The International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) says total income per person could decline by 21 percent if no advances in yield potential are taken up on-farm or if no further closure occurs in yield gaps.
According to a study titled Effect of Changes in Population Density and Crop Productivity on Farm Households in Malawi by Adam Komarek and Siwa Msangi, IFPRI observes that potential exists to attain modest gains for households if rural population growth slows, yield potential increases, and yield gaps close.
According to a report by MwNation, The study results suggest that, even without considering climate change, expected changes in population density and crop prices in 2050 mean that per person crop production and income may fall by 21 percent compared to 2013 values if yield potential and yield gaps remain constant.
However, per person crop production and income could increase in 2050 by eight percent compared to 2013 values if growth rates of yield potential rise for maize by 1.13 percent each year and for legumes rise by at least 0.4 percent each year, and farmers use livestock manure more efficiently.
“Results suggest that even without considering climate change to maintain per person crop production and income at 2013 levels in 2050 substantial gains in yields is needed to offset the effect of population growth.
“The challenge of improving per person crop production and income for farm households in Malawi will require close integration between plant breeders, farmers, and government policy-led investments and interventions,” reads the study in part.
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Ironically, Malawi expects to double her per capita income—average income earned per person in a given area—in the next five years from the current level of $380 (K277 billion) with the scaling up of the investment, a government report has shown.
According to the final draft of the Malawi Growth and Development Strategy (MGDS) III, this level of gross domestic product (GDP) per capita is achievable if the country is committed to slow population growth which is currently very high.
Malawi Confederation of Chambers of Commerce and Industry (MCCCI) president Prince Kapondamgaga recently observed that while the agriculture sector remains a biggest single contributor to the Malawi economy’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP), productivity remains low considering that 80 percent of the country’s population is engaged in agricultural activities in various ways.
He said: “We still see a lot of unwarranted interventions in the sector from time to time, despite advice to the contrary from different stakeholders including ourselves. Sometimes, these governments’ interventions have benevolent intentions but end up messing the whole sector,” he said.
Kapondamgaga observed that productivity is critical to achieving competitiveness as it leads to lower costs, and therefore, high-profit margins.
Besides food security, agriculture accounts for nearly 30 percent of the country’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP), contributes to about 80 percent of the total export earnings and employs over 64 percent of the country’s workforce.
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September 19, 2019 by Jennifer Berkshire
Betsy DeVos: The Musical!
Betsy Devos, Calvinism, Future Business Leaders of Tomorrow Academy, Michigan, Quinn Strassel
Theater teacher Quinn Strassel has seen first hand the impact that Betsy DeVos has had on Michigan’s public schools. And so he decided to fight back, by writing a musical. Strassel grew up and attended schools in Ypsilanti, MI, where he was schooled in the theatrical arts by teacher Diane Hill. Ypsilanti’s acclaimed theater program no longer exists—under Michigan’s “schools of choice” policy, the subject of episode #68, school districts compete against each other for students and the funding that comes with them, and working class districts like Ypsilanti have not fared well. But enough with the bleak back story! Diane Hill, now an award-winning actress, plays the part of Betsy DeVos in Quinn’s musical. Jennifer was lucky enough to get to be in the audience when Quinn staged a reading. In the latest episode of Have You Heard, you get to listen in on Betsy DeVos!: the Musical! and hear Quinn talk about his effort to make a serious point by getting us all laughing, Note: Quinn is currently raising funds to stage a professional, fully realized production next summer leading into the 2020 election. If you want to support his efforts, click here.
Complete transcript available here.
June 27, 2019 June 27, 2019 by Jennifer Berkshire
Michigan’s School Choice Mess
Betsy Devos, competition, losers, Michigan, privatization, school choice, winners
Have You Heard heads to Michigan to learn about a lesser-known part of the state’s free market education experiment: inter-district school choice. More than 100,000 Michigan students attend school in a district other than where they live. The outflow of students has pushed urban districts to the brink and spawned a competition for enrollment among rural and suburban districts.
Full transcript here. And if you’d like to see (or hear) more from the Have You Heard investigative road crew, consider supporting us on Patreon.
January 13, 2017 July 31, 2018 by EduShyster
The Red Queen: Travels Through DeVos Land
#TLDR, Betsy Devos, choice, Detroit, Great Lakes Education Project, long game, Michigan, Michistan, right-to-work, unfettering, unions
The ultimate target of Betsy DeVos’ agenda isn’t teachers unions, or even the *education establishment.* It’s the Democratic Party…
By the measures that are supposed to matter, Betsy DeVos’ experiment in disrupting public education in Michigan has been a colossal failure. In its 2016 report on the state of the state’s schools, Education Trust Midwest painted a picture of an education system in freefall. *Michigan is witnessing systematic decline across the K-12 spectrum…White, black, brown, higher-income, low-income—it doesn’t matter who they are or where they live.* But as I heard repeatedly during the week I recently spent crisscrossing the state, speaking with dozens of Michiganders, including state and local officials, the radical experiment that’s playing out here has little to do with education, and even less to do with kids. The real goal of the DeVos family is to crush the state’s teachers unions as a means of undermining the Democratic party, weakening Michigan’s democratic structures along the way. And on this front, our likely next Secretary of Education has enjoyed measurable, even dazzling success.
This story goes back a long ways, so settle in. We could start in the 1840’s, when the first Dutch settlers began to arrive in Western Michigan, or in 1970, when the DeVoses made their first attempt to amend the state constitution so as to allow for public funding for private, religious schools. Another obvious starting point is 1993, when then Governor John Engler called the public schools in Michigan an *educational gulag* and a *monopoly of mediocrity,* lobbing the first fusillade in a war against the state’s teachers that has never ceased. For the sake of brevity, though, I’ll fast forward to the mid-oughts, when Betsy’s husband Dick DeVos ran for governor. It was the fourth time that the DeVoses had brought their crusade to give the market and the Maker more sway over the state’s schools to the voters, and each time Mitten staters had delivered a resounding *no thanks* in response. And so the DeVoses pivoted. If they couldn’t convince voters to enact their favored policies, they’d purchase the legislature instead. Continue reading →
July 14, 2016 May 20, 2017 by EduShyster
The Cost of Choice
causation, charter cap, correlation, David Arsen, Flint River green, Massachusetts, Michigan, smoking ruins
A new study finds that charter school expansion in Michigan has meant financial chaos for a growing number of school districts…
Jennifer Berkshire: Your new study looks at why certain school districts in Michigan have descended into a state of, as I like to describe it, *smoking ruin.* To keep the suspense alive, tell us what you found DID NOT contribute to the severe financial distress of these districts.
David Arsen: The question we looked at was how much of this pattern of increasing financial distress among school districts in Michigan was due to things that local districts have control over as opposed to state-level policies that are out of the local districts’ control: teacher salaries, health benefits, class size, administrative spending. We also looked at an item that the conservative think tanks are big on: contracting out and privatization. We found that, overwhelmingly, the biggest financial impact on school districts was the result of declining enrollment and revenue loss, especially where school choice and charters are most prevalent. We looked at every school district in Michigan with at least 100 students and we followed them for nearly 20 years. The statistics are causal; we’re not just looking at correlation. Continue reading →
June 30, 2014 July 1, 2014 by EduShyster
License to Loot
Detroit Free Press, Michigan, shackles, vultures, Zebra mussels
How Michigan charter schools became prime feasting ground for edu-vultures.
By Tim Fournier
I started teaching in the Detroit Public Schools in 1993, the very year that Michigan approved its first charter schools. Last week The Detroit Free Press published the results of a year-long investigation into the state’s now 20-year old experiment with charters. The series confirms what many of us predicted back then: that freeing these schools from oversight has left them uniquely vulnerable to profiteers, hucksters and charlatans. *Vultures* was the word I used in this letter to the editor I wrote back in 1996. Continue reading →
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Hays Medical Center > HaysMed News > HaysMed Doctor Tells Story of Nepal Devastation
HaysMed Doctor Tells Story of Nepal Devastation
By Hays Medical - In HaysMed News - July 21, 2015
HaysMed Physician, Dr. Thapa of DeBakey Heart Institute
Hays Daily News
Maggie Gebhardt
Nearly three months have passed since the ground shook in Nepal on April 25, injuring more than 23,000 people and killing approximately 9,000.
An unimaginable number of survivors were left homeless — forced to sleep in tents with limited medical care and supplies as they feared what was to come — after an earthquake that measured 7.9 on the Richter Scale rocked the small Asian country.
Hays Medical Center cardiologists Dr. Rashmi Thapa and Dr. Anil Pandit, who were born and raised in Kathmandu — the capital of Nepal — learned of the quake the night of its occurrence, and they wished for nothing more than to be there with friends and family.
Thapa couldn’t shake feeling needed and decided to make it happen.
The cardiologist left for Nepal in early May to begin a journey in which she provided medical care and supplies to affected victims.
“We had a group of doctors already there that had come from different parts of the United States,” Thapa said. “Together, we went to the areas affected by the earthquake.”
When her plane landed, she was is disbelief of all that surrounded her. Never had she seen the airport so disorganized and chaotic.
“It was just a big mess,” she said. “I have never seen it like that, and it was because there were supplies coming in from all over the world.”
Her team made its way to the worst affected areas, and nothing could prepare her for what she saw.
“My first thought was, ‘Oh my God,’ “ Thapa said. “I had never seen my city that way or the people that way.”
Her group stayed busy examining victims, providing medical care, distributing food and supplies, and helping in any way they could.
Thapa said they were able to go to six different areas that were affected — five of which were remote areas outside of larger cities.
After nearly 10 days, disaster unexpectedly struck again, when a second earthquake hit May 12.
“It was a horrible experience,” Thapa said. “You could see the buildings crumbling in front of you, and you kind of became helpless in the situation.”
People began running frantically, screaming — stricken with fear.
“It was so scary,” Thapa said. “It was the feeling of knowing another big disaster was coming and there was nothing you could do.”
After the second big shake, Thapa and her family slept in tents outside for several days until they decided to re-enter her home.
“We slept on the floor right next to the door in case we had to run,” she said.
Throughout all the fear, panic and uncertainty, Thapa continued aiding victims. Her group discovered a rural village called Sipapokhare, where out of approximately 1,100 houses, only 11 still stood.
“More than 30 or 40 people died in that village, which is big,” she said. “We wanted to try to help them.”
Through a project Thapa’s team started, called Mission Rebuild Nepal, 15 houses in Sipapokhare — priced at approximately $335 a house — have been rebuilt, and the work continues.
Thapa’s brother, Kirti Thapa, is the project manager for Mission Rebuild Nepal.
“Recovery is hard but not impossible,” he said. “We will continue to rise and rebuild together.”
Thapa returned to her normal routine at HaysMed on June 1, but not a day goes by that her mind isn’t home.
She remains thankful for her family’s safety and for worldwide support.
“The disaster was all around me, but I saw good things, too,” she said. “What meant the most to me was everyone coming together to help. It really was incredible to see.”
To donate toward Mission Rebuild Nepal, visit www.missionrebuildnepal.com.
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