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PEN President Jennifer Clement on Turkey
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Young love is never easy, but for Skyler, it's even more complicated than usual.
Read the heartwarming coming out story of Skyler Phoenix as he struggles to find love after his devout foster parents kick him out for being gay.
In-the-closet gay high school sophomore Skyler Phoenix found himself madly in love with his best friend, Cameron. As the two boys become more intimate, Skyler’s family life crumbles after his conservative and extremely religious foster parents discover their son’s secret relationship and quickly disown him.
Now, feeling lost and heartbroken, and ripped from the foster home he shared for years, Skyler struggles to understand acceptance and questions his place in an unnerving world. Piece by piece, Skyler’s defenses melt as he begins to experience unconditional love for the first time after moving in with a new foster family. With his old life behind him and new family by his side, Skyler slowly conquers his personal struggles of loss, self-love, and coming out as a gay teen. Even though he is well on his journey to acceptance, he remains unsure of how to love again.
As the nights get longer and the summer unfolds, Skyler finds himself completely enamoured with a new classmate named Kalin Mars. Remembering the love and loss of his best friend, Skyler is faced with the tough choice of guarding his emotions or allowing a new love be born from the ashes of his broken heart.
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The Climb is an amazing book. As a straight guy with many gay friends, I thought I knew how difficult it was for them all to come out. This book helps paint a very vivid picture for the friends and family who need help understanding the difficulties that many people in the LGBT community are going through. In addition, this book serves as a great tool for those who are still waiting to come out, or are too afraid.
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Damien Benoit-Ledoux is an author and freelance editor. His mind is a magical and nerdy place where fantastic heroes defend amazing worlds from dangerous villains who run amuck in an epic struggle to take over the universe. Recently, the brightest and best from this colorful cast of characters have made their way into notes, plots, stories, and novels for you to read and enjoy.
Damien strongly believes the real world we live in should be a place where LGBTQ equality and respect are second nature and never questioned. When he's not working or spending time with his husband, their son, and their dog, Damien weaves this philosophy into the exciting lives of his characters and the fantastic space battles and romances they endure so they'll stop taking over his dreams at night.
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LGBT Istanbul: What Travellers Should Know Before Going 🇹🇷
There are few cities that capture the imagination more than Istanbul, where East meets West: original destination of the opulent Orient Express; spanning across the sparkling Bosporus; steeped in history, culture, and food. There is nothing quite like sitting outside a café in Beyoğlu, drinking a beer and watching the world of Istanbul go by.
However, it’s important to remember that Istanbul is capital of an Islamic country; for all its liberal aspects, Turkey is inching its way closer to Middle Eastern values daily, and this is having a knock-on effect on LGBT rights in Istanbul that gay travelers to the area should take into consideration.
It is 100% a city that members of the LGBT community should feel comfortable in and excited to visit, but visitors should keep in mind the religious and political situation. This guide aims to provide a summary of the situation in Istanbul to help LGBT travelers prepare for a trip there.
The Legal Situation In Gay Turkey
Homosexuality is not illegal in Turkey: between adults, same-sex sexual activity was made legal in the Ottoman Empire in 1858, and since modern Turkey’s foundation in 1923 it has always been legal. The age of consent for homosexual sex is 18, the same as for heterosexual sex.
However, there are some rather ambiguous bans in the criminal code on “offenses against public morality” which can be interpreted against LGBT people and homosexuals are banned from military service.
There has also been a nationwide crackdown on freedom of expression since the failed coup attempt in July 2016, with the religiously conservative President Erdogan moving to quell dissent. This has had a major effect on LGBT organizations and communities, as evidenced in recent police violence at the Pride march in Istanbul in July 2018, which had been banned for the fourth consecutive year. Ankara has now prohibited all LGBT activity using the excuse of security and keeping the peace, and things in Antalya and Izmir and not looking much better.
Currently, there are no anti-discrimination laws in Turkey that protect LGBT people from discrimination in the public sphere or employment, although opposition parties have tried to introduce bills providing legal protection for gay and transgender people.
The Social Situation In LGBT Turkey
Despite homosexuality being legal, life as a member of the LGBT community in Turkey and Istanbul can be extremely challenging. A report published by Human Rights Watch in 2008 outlined the daily threat of violence and discrimination faced by gay and transgender people, with insufficient reaction from police and the authorities. Unfortunately, the political situation at the moment means this is only getting worse as religion comes to influence society and politics more.
The social situation for members of the gay community is better in cosmopolitan Istanbul than in rural areas but whether or not people feel comfortable coming out to their family and friends is extremely context-dependent and still poses a number of risks.
Istanbul has a fairly thriving gay scene, with pulsing dance floors, gay bars, and hamams; but many locals who participate are living a double life, being unable to be open with their families or at work for fear of the negative impact it could have on their future.
At the time of writing, it’s difficult to see what will happen to LGBT rights in Istanbul. The shift towards conservatism in Turkey as a whole does not bode well, but Istanbul’s long-established liberal character could hold firm against a rising tide of anti-gay feeling and hopefully push that tide back.
Trans Rights in Turkey
Since 1988 transsexuals have been permitted to change their legal gender. In February 2015 transgender women ran for parliamentary office, a huge step. In fact, one of Turkey’s most popular singers is transsexual.
However, discrimination against trans people is still widespread with there being multiple incidences of violence. As you can imagine, it’s always going to be a difficult issue in a country that has color-coded identity cards.
So What Does This Mean For Gay Travelers?
Generally speaking LGBT rights in Istanbul are fairly well-established and it is a very gay-friendly city, although most of the gay life happens indoors or at night. Travelers heading that way should feel encouraged to enjoy their time and feel confident about receiving a great welcome. Also, technically they have full legal protection.
It’s important to be aware, of course, that this is not going to be as open as travel in Bangkok or Berlin, for example; but equally, there are nowhere near the levels of repression that are seen in the majority of countries in the Middle East. Gay travelers should be discrete, but as public (and daytime!) displays of affection are frowned upon in Istanbul between heterosexual couples as well, this is a rule that would apply to anyone.
Interestingly, you will actually see a lot of men holding hands or walking with their arms around each other’s’ shoulders; this is a common expression of friendship.
Gay sauna or not, in any sexual encounter, please take adequate precautions. No matter what your intentions are in while traveling, you should bring your own condoms and lube to play it safe. Take home a hot guy or a hot memory, not an STD.
Besides, you never know what other fun surprises your trip might have in store for you...
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Places To Go In LGBT Istanbul
Istanbul is absolutely vast, and there are dozens of areas to explore. For the most part, gay travelers should feel comfortable venturing all over the city and not let any fear limit their adventures.
As in many cities, the center tends to be more cosmopolitan and accepting, so LGBT travelers might feel more confident in sticking to the well-known areas where there are lots of other tourists.
The main gay district is around Taksim where there are plenty of gay clubs, bars, and restaurants. Trendy Beyoğlu is also at the forefront of liberal enclaves, and gay travelers will feel completely comfortable hanging around there.
It would be a good idea to avoid less-developed or further-afield areas, as these would tend to be more conservative and wary of any tourists. Tophane, for example, is known as a community that holds more traditional views so be aware if visiting any sights there.
Accommodation in LGBT Istanbul
One thing it is important to be aware of in Istanbul is that all visitors to hotels have to be recorded in a police-controlled database, so it is at a minimum a bit awkward and at a maximum impossible to bring a date back.
As with most places in the world, gay couples or single gay travelers hoping to meet people should not run into any problems if staying in international, upscale hotels. Given the prices, they will probably not raise an eyebrow at overnight guests. Luxury hotels will not be expensive compared to Europe or North American (although prices are rising) so if travelers are prioritizing a stress-free trip, this might be the best option.
Otherwise, Istanbul offers a range of queer-friendly hotels and hostels, mainly in the areas mentioned above – the gay quarter of Taksim, or Beyoğlu.
Serviced apartments or Airbnb are other good options to save travelers having to run the gauntlet of reception and to enjoy a bit more freedom and privacy. Be aware that in more conservative areas, doormen working in apartment blocks might notice more than people think and pass on that information.
Travelers might be tempted by the extremely low costs of some hostels but the lower the costs, the more likely it is that police will raid the accommodation. Be sure to book into a reputable hotel in Istanbul to save yourself any issues…
Activities In LGBT Istanbul
Aside from the wealth of historic and cultural sights, there is a relatively thriving gay scene in Istanbul with plenty of bars, clubs, cafes, and restaurants to choose from. As discussed above, big events like Pride are now extremely rare and often take the form of protests rather than celebrations tourists could join.
Daytime activities would mainly be the top attractions; it’s at night that the gay scene in Istanbul truly comes alive. Turkish people love music and dancing, so really it’s no surprise that a night out in Istanbul is going to be pretty fabulous. In most clubs LGBT people will be welcome; there are also plenty of gay clubs with a specifically LGBT focus.
As always, people should use their common sense and be careful when leaving clubs or bars.
There is also a range of hamams, but as a traditional Turkish experience they are frequented by everyone, so travelers should not assume they are specifically gay focused. In fact, in the current climate, saunas and hamams will actively avoid being labeled as ‘gay-friendly,’ so it is better just to enjoy these as cultural experiences unless you are with someone in the know.
Meeting People In LGBT Istanbul
Getting to know people is one of the best things about traveling and that’s particularly important in a place like Istanbul, where the gay scene is not always ‘in your face.’ Heading to Taksim or Beyoğlu to start a night out in a gay bar is a good way to get chatting to locals and then plan your night from there.
In the face of adversity, there’s a strong feeling of family in the Istanbul community, and it’s good to get to know more about it. The most popular networking app is Hornet (Grindr is banned); as always, it’s wise to install a high-quality VPN to protect your privacy.
We also have a handy list of gay travel hook up apps you could try…
Gay hook-up apps are a great way to meet locals, but be sure to keep safe! We strongly recommend you set up a high-quality VPN on your phone before going to protect your privacy, to remain anonymous and to keep access to your favorite websites and apps. Better safe than sorry!
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Other Things To Think About In Istanbul
Compared to almost everywhere else in the Middle East (Tel Aviv aside), Istanbul is one of the most liberal cities gay travelers can visit. There will definitely be opportunities for partying and fun, as well as seeing the glories the city has to offer; the gay scene feels like a community.
Discretion and common sense are the key pieces of advice. Overt displays of affection will be unwelcome (for gay and straight couples), and some areas might be better to avoid. It’s also a good idea to keep an eye on the changing political climate – hopefully, it will be better soon.
So be safe and enjoy!
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Now you're all set and prepared to explore our big queer world, why not sort out everything else out all in one go? If necessary for your travel plans make sure you have brought proper travel insurance, protected your privacy by getting a secure VPN, compared all the top hotel booking sites to find just what you're after, reserved an unbeatable rental car price and - of course - booked the best flight deals!
Or maybe just forget it all and go for a last minute cruise or effortless tour instead?
Many gay travelers (including us) indulge in worldwide airport lounge access and pre-arrange airport transfers to take the stress out of travel. Naturally, we would never leave home without a more mainstream travel guide since we couldn’t possibly cover everything here!
Just add an adventurous attitude and plenty of smiles - they go a long way - and that about covers it all! Now go out, find your global rainbow family and don't forget to share your best gay stories with us on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram...We'd love to hear from you!
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Queer In The World is a blog and online resource for gay and lesbian travelers who want to explore the world!
We don’t believe ‘being gay’ should define our choice of destination or travel choices – but having gay and gay-friendly hotel stays, nightlife, events, and sightseeing can enhance travel, increase awareness of LGBT issues and help us become a globally connected family.
As such we prepare guides to destinations globally with a gay angle, offering travel advice we have picked up on the ground, by asking locals help and through researched extensive and outreach!
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Home Rugby Three Things Steve Hansen’s Selection Tells Us About New Zealand’s Game Plan
Three Things Steve Hansen’s Selection Tells Us About New Zealand’s Game Plan
The PA Team November 17, 2016
The All Blacks will be looking to avenge their defeat in Chicago.
Immediately after the referee blew the final whistle on Ireland’s historic 40-29 win over the All Blacks in Chicago, Steve Hansen’s thoughts must have immediately turned to the much anticipated re-math in Dublin this weekend.
The All Black coach would have been fuming at his side’s indiscipline, and their inability to deal with Ireland’s maul. Ireland may have also surprised New Zealand with their ambition to go wide, who were unprepared for Conor Murray’s aerial bombardment.
However Ireland will be unable to play the same trick twice, as Joe Schmidt’s side cannot rely on Murray’s excellent box kicks, or lineout dominance this weekend. Indeed, New Zealand only have to look at an 11 minute period during the second half, when they scored three tries and looked set to snatch victory from the jaws of defeat.
During those 11 minutes, Ireland couldn’t live with the All Blacks’ tempo or precision. Yet Joe Schmidt’s side managed to stem the tide, find field position and send Robbie Henshaw over for the match winning score.
During the last two meetings between these sides, Ireland have raced into an early lead, leaving the All Blacks with the task of trying to reign them in during the second half. It’s hard to see Hansen allowing something similar to happen on Saturday.
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Instead the All Black coach will be looking for his side to control the game from the early stages, reducing the noise level in the Aviva stadium and forcing Ireland into chasing the game. Hansen’s selection demonstrates this, returning some of his big name players to the starting line-up.
1. New Zealand Will Secure Their Own Line-out Ball
During the first half in Chicago, New Zealand’s lineout misfired, conceding easy possession and field position to Ireland. The All Blacks were of course decimated by injury, and Ireland took full advantage.
However this weekend it will be a different story with Brodie Retallick and Sam Whitelock back in the New Zealand team. Not only that, but Jerome Kaino’s injury has allowed six foot five inch Liam Squire retain his place in the backrow.
Although Kaino has been the All Blacks’ enforcer for some time now, in the context of the lineout, Squire’s height offers options both offensively and defensively. New Zealand also use Kieran Read to great effect at the set piece, and has been their primary jumper this autumn with eight takes.
2. Steve Hansen Has Selected Two Full Backs To Counter Conor Murray’s Box Kicks
Although Aaron Smith rightly received a great deal of criticism for the way he was beaten by Conor Murray in the lead up to Ireland’s thrid try in Chicago, the catalyst for the score came from a high hanging Garryowen. Beauden Barrett misread the flight of the ball, allowing it bounce into Murray’s hand.
Indeed, throughout that game the All Blacks either looked nervous under Ireland’s aerial onslaught or were outfought in the air by the Simon Zebo and Andrew Trimble.
In order to address this weakness, Steve Hansen has selected both Ben Smith and Israel Dagg in his starting XV. The two full-backs played alongside one another against Wales last summer to a great degree of success.
Consequently, Ireland will be unable to garner as much joy from Murray’s box kicks, and will suffer from any misplaced effort by the counter attacking brilliance of Smith and Dagg.
3. Anton Lienert-Brown Will Create Problems For Ireland
New Zealand’s lineout was not the only feature of their game to misfire during the first meeting between these sides, their midfield failed to find any natural rhythm for long periods.
While they were not helped by the injury to Ryan Crotty after 25 minutes, apart from his try, George Moala didn’t have the desired impact and Malakai Fekitoa offered no real penetration.
Saturday will see the return of Anton Lienert-Brown to the All Black side, a player whose offloading ability has been compared to Sonny Bill Williams.
Lienert-Brown has earned seven caps since making his debut in the second round of the Rugby Championship against Australia, and finished the tournament as the All Blacks’ leading offloader. As a result, the Chiefs centre is an entirely different prospect for Ireland to deal with in midfield, and one to watch very closely.
If Lienert-Brown can create space for Fekitoa to attack, there is no telling what damage he can inflict.
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LAWLESS: Delinna Ding
Uncategorized by purelydicta April 29, 2019 July 31, 2019
Lawless is a series of articles which celebrate the stories, talents and passions of students at Melbourne Law School, beyond their experiences in law. Our first instalment features the wonderful Delinna Ding. So, Del… who are you when you’re not a law student?
When I’m not a ~law~ student, I am a social media and pop culture fanatic
I use social media frequently as a channel to express my ideas. People often message me in response to the things that I post on Instagram. Most of the time, it is to tell me they have learnt something from my posts which is really cool and flattering to hear. I find that people like consuming information in this form because it is more digestible and accessible than super long articles on traditional forms of media. At least among my friends, I’ve become known as ‘the girl that spams feminist shit on her Instagram stories’. I love and appreciate social media and the power it has to do good. However, I also recognise the dangers that come with being able to spread information so quickly, especially in the wake of recent international tragedies.
Despite all the SJW stuff, I am also deeply obsessed with pop culture which I know makes me sound really hypocritical and antithetical to my brand of feminism. Things like trashy reality TV, romantic comedies, Youtube explanation videos of movies or TV shows that I don’t have the time (or am too scared) to watch, catchy but crude/misogynistic rap and hip-hop songs all fall under my umbrella term: ‘problematic faves’. I do also like to redeem myself by watching a lot of non-trashy TV shows and movies. My all-time faves include Law and Order SVU or Criminal Minds, both of which I binge on repeat.
I think it is important to recognise that these categories of media can be entertaining, inspiring and relatable. However, we should still force ourselves to have the difficult discussion about why certain representations of certain people are problematic, and how we can make them better. These ideas do not have to be mutually exclusive.
I’m also very into supporting female artists or other independent artists in genres of music I like – mainly electronic and hip hop but sometimes I’ll venture out into more indie, feminist pop or rock. I love Anna Lunoe, Lady Leshurr, Kaiit, Camp Cope and Baker Boy as a few recommendations.
When I’m not a ~law~ student, I am a teacher
I tutor at the university across a couple of management subjects. Teaching is something I never thought I’d find myself doing but I absolutely love it. I unexpectedly got pushed in this direction after messaging one of my old tutors on Instagram. I find it super rewarding and meaningful, and I definitely get a lot of fulfilment out of the job.
Honestly, I’ve had a lot of very accomplished and smart teachers, but I haven’t had nearly as many inspiring teachers. This makes me try my best to inform my teaching based on what I felt I lacked in my own education and experience. I wouldn’t consider myself naturally academic, but I think this makes me a better tutor because I can relate to my students.
I have received some amazing feedback from my students and coordinators, some of which has even made me cry. It really goes to show that a student-teacher relationship goes both ways – great students who critique and encourage make great teachers; just as much as great teachers make great students.
When I’m not a ~law~ student, I am a second-generation Asian migrant struggling with my sense of identity
My Chinese heritage and culture make up a large part of who I am despite being born in rural NSW, in a small town called Armidale. We were one of only three Asian families there in the 90s – I even made it in the newspaper when I was born! I’m sure plenty of people reading can relate to the follow up question “where are you really from?” if you say you were born and raised here.
Sometimes I struggle with feeling too Asian and at other times, not Asian enough. It is also challenging to rectify my identity as an Australian born Asian, as my Western values and behaviours can conflict with my Asian habits and traditions.
I love literally all Asian food and I can read, write (very badly) and speak fluently in Mandarin. I really love watching historical Chinese dramas (延禧攻略, 还珠格格, 步步惊心 – those who know what I’m talking about I see you) and listen to Asian pop music from time to time (code for: I had a massive phase of it in high school). I learnt a super traditional Chinese instrument called the Zither for about eight years, did calligraphy, and went to Chinese School and Saturday tutoring every single weekend for basically my entire high school life. My parents are very conservative (not the red neck kind) and especially traditional when it comes to things like relationships (just ask my half-Indian partner), education and careers.
But on the other hand, I grew up with very Western values. This is reflected in my interests – in high school I was one of the few Asian students who didn’t do any science or health related subjects. I chose to study modern history and philosophy, while my friends were doing every maths and science subject possible. This meant I didn’t have a lot of things in common with them even though we spent every lunch time together. I think this is why I up and left to Brisbane as soon as I finished high school. I didn’t want people’s perceptions of me in high school to follow me into university. My standards and ideals of beauty have also been shaped by Western culture. The way I present myself, with tattoos and piercings and (relatively) tanned skin doesn’t align with typical Asian beauty standards.
In Melbourne, I interact with a fair amount of international students – one of my closest friends and housemates is an international student from China. But I also feel that I will never be able to assimilate into their world completely because my upbringing in Australia was so wildly different. On the flip side, there are definitely times when I feel like I’m not white enough for white people.
There are times I feel like I have stumbled into this strange grey-zone somewhere in the middle of being too Asian or not Asian enough. That zone is likely to be found when I’m having dumplings and drinking wine with friends at a restaurant in Chinatown – an amount of Asian that white people are comfortable with. Bringing traditional Chinese food to school for lunch and making the whole classroom smell? Too Asian. Speaking English fluently in public when I’m travelling throughout China with my Chinese family? Now that’s international. Driving scooters overseas without a license, skinny dipping with strangers, and getting tattoos in some random apartment whilst travelling by myself? Way too white.
It has helped to know that I’m not alone in this experience. The New York Times described the ‘Subtle Asian Traits’ Facebook group as a ‘global hit’, and with over a million of us in the group, the sentiments I’ve described are common among my generation of ABCs (Australian Born Chinese). I just hope that as we navigate through the struggles and joys of being first-generation Asian migrants, these Asian traits – or private school traits, or whatever other traits we identify as having – are not just subtle but are visible and celebrated.
Delinna Ding
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What The Tube Map Could Look Like With Crossrail and New Overground Lines Added (Unofficial)
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The map above was created by reddit user midandfeed and is an attempt to show what the tube map might look like with Crossrail and the new Overground routes added in. I think it's a great attempt to solve a rather difficult issue.
While it adds a lot of extra useful information, it comes somewhat at the expense of readability. I'm not sure how TFL is going to solve the issue of putting ever more lines onto the tube map. It's difficult to see how it will end up being much different from the one above.
Yet, as with all tube maps, geographical accuracy is sacrificed for improved readability. One example, pointed out on reddit, is that Willesden Junction and North Acton look very far apart, but are in reality are only about a mile away from each other.
Another minor issue is that the Croxley Rail Link is not included. This will open before Crossrail and so should be there. The Northern Line extension to Battersea is also not included, but is likely to open after Crossrail.
Here are some slightly enlarged views of the map:
View of central London. Notice the new interchanges between Farringdon and Barbican or Moorgate and Liverpool Street. The Waterloo & City line is also more geographically accurate than the current map.
View of how Crossrail will look at Heathrow. I'm not sure about the name, as the Crossrail website lists the name of the station as Heathrow T1, 2, 3 and not Heathrow Central (which is an existing station). Also nice to see the out of station interchange between Hanger Lane and Park Royal.
View of the map in East London. Especially like the 3 stop line between Upminster and Romford. On this map it actually looks useful. Also a few interesting out of station interchanges.
Finally, the new Overground lines in North London. Should be a vast improvement for people living in those areas.
So what do you think of this as a potential map? Notice any glaring problems or omissions? If so let me know in the comment section below:
Please Note: The Tube Map is copyrighted by Transport for London (TFL). The map above was not created by TFL and is an unofficial creation. I also did not create the map but am using it from Wikimedia Commons Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International license.
Posted on August 18, 2014 Author IanCategories Maps, The TubeTags map, the Tube
5 thoughts on “What The Tube Map Could Look Like With Crossrail and New Overground Lines Added (Unofficial)”
I know it’s not on the current map, but this really needs Thameslink.
Richard Truscott says:
The beauty of the original tube map, in Harry Beck’s intention at least, was the graphical play of the near rectangle (or bottle silhouette) of the Circle Line against the Northern Line (Charing Cross branch) running nearly straight from top to bottom & the Central Line running nearly straight from left to right (loops & branches at their extremities excepted).
Therefore in my view it is a primary need to restore the graphical representation of the Circle Line to its bottle shape. The new significance of Crossrail & Thameslink could be reflected by giving them the side to side & top to bottom function. I think given their regional (RER like) status they should have greater prominence; perhaps a thicker line; than “normal” lines.
The key to good tube maps is to allow a considerable stray from geographical accuracy but maintain network accuracy. And to have a graphical simplicity. Tricky but this proposal strays too far from that!
Looks more modern. I like it!
Ric EUTENEUER says:
I think, even with the delays, that Crossrail will be open before the Croxley Rail Link 😉
Needs some amendment around the new Woolwich Arsenal Crossrail station. It’s literally a stone’s throw across the road from Woolwich Arsenal DLR and Woolwich mainline overground stations. TfL are at fault in how they represent it, and Wikipedia is SO FAR OFF THE MARK it’s embarrassing – they think it’s an overground station despite numerous requests to correct it. In reality it would be more useful to put Woolwich Crossrail and Woolwich Arsenal adjacent to each other as one walkable interchange, just as it is at Paddington between the underground lines there.
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Building Reconciliation Forum 2017: 3 Lessons Learned
by Jennifer Gammad Lockerby Social Innovation Fellow, RECODE
At the third annual Building Reconciliation Forum, hosted by the University of Manitoba, Indigenous people and settlers discussed progress, possibilities and challenges for reconciliation in post-secondary education.
First, I would like to thank the people who welcomed me, a settler, as a visitor to Treaty One territory. By extension, my understanding of Indigenous issues in Canada is inherently limited as a settler. As a racialized ally and recent student, however, I believe I can provide valuable insight to fellow settlers working in the post-secondary sector.
Here are my three significant takeaways from the Forum (these are my views and not intended to reflect those of the McConnell Foundation!):
1. ‘Indigenizing’ colonial institutions requires decolonization.
“Decolonization and indigenization go hand in hand. Decolonization challenges and indigenization heals.” – Dr. Jaqueline Ottman
The topic of reconciliation within a post-secondary setting is complicated, and surely not to be resolved at a two-day conference. But we can start by facing the facts: the large majority of Canadian universities and colleges are colonial institutions. They are colonial spaces that privilege European-Western knowledge traditions. Many have a history of contributing to the erasure of Indigenous people, language, and culture, a history which continues today. That recognition alone prompts the question of whether reconciliation is possible in Canadian post-secondary, and various voices at the forum highlighted this exact conundrum. However, I think that it’s possible for post-secondary institutions to support Indigenous communities in healing while being accountable to their colonial histories.
For non-Indigenous people, healing and accountability must happen on an institutional level and on a personal level. For example, while it is absolutely necessary to hire more Indigenous faculty and publicly acknowledge traditional territories, these are not sufficient acts of reconciliation. Non-Indigenous people must acknowledge their own privileges and actively work to change power dynamics on campuses. How do you benefit from the opportunities Canada offers to settlers? How does your education compare to that available to Indigenous communities? Once we recognize the systems that benefit some and disadvantage others based on aspects of identity, we can begin to reflect on the impact of our words and actions, regardless of our intentions.
2. We can’t expect Indigenous students, faculty, and administrators to do the work of reconciliation.
This one comes as no surprise, but it’s so important that I’ll mention it again. As Dr. Maria Anderson, Professor at Guelph University concisely put it, “Whiteness needs to speak back to Whiteness so Indigenous people aren’t doing all the emotional labour of this work.”
Professional burnout is common, especially when the individual is a minority and thus seen as the representative for their entire community. We must recognize that the responsibility of reconciliation in the Academy rests primarily on the shoulders of settlers.
What does it mean to be sincere and authentic in redressing colonial education? How do we avoid treating our Indigenous colleagues as tokens? While certainly not a comprehensive answer, I imagine it begins with making a personal effort to learn about Indigenous nations through available resources instead of demanding explanations from an Indigenous peer.
3. ‘Expertise’ or ‘knowledge’ in a university context must be redefined to include Indigenous ways of knowing.
Again, we’ve acknowledged this in the past. Expertise and knowledge are arguably the most important assets and output of any university. Who are knowledge holders in university? How do we value different types of knowledge? Who decides what expertise is? These are questions senior leadership and faculty need to address in making universities equitable. Post-secondary institutions in Canada must value lived expertise, oral histories, and ways of knowing beyond the ones we are accustomed to as legitimate sources of scholarship.
President Ralph Nilson of Vancouver Island University (VIU) announced during the President’s forum that VIU’s Elders-in-Residence are on the same pay grade as faculty with PhDs. This is at the core of valuing Indigenous knowledge: seek Indigenous knowledge & wisdom, integrate it meaningfully, and honour it (by compensating Elders accordingly).
On a promising note, the Building Reconciliation Forum demonstrated that at many schools, the leadership is willing to contribute to reconciliation within their communities and on their campuses. However, an institution’s conception and practices of reconciliation must actively be questioned to ensure that they are in touch with the needs of Indigenous communities.
So what next? Indigenous student leader Chance Paupanekis demanded ReconciliAction, not “more talk, more meetings.” One overarching demand by Indigenous students at the Forum was Indigenous language programs and degrees. This is in line with the Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s Call to Action #16, which specifically calls on universities and colleges in Canada to offer such programs. It’s a clear area where resources can be directed and a great place to start.
I repeatedly heard during the conference that there is “so much work to be done” in building reconciliation in our post-secondary institutions. But who will do the work? And when? Indigenous communities have offered institutions, government, business, community and philanthropy many actionable items to work towards reconciliation. As settlers, we have a responsibility to operationalize them.
Dec 11, 2017 | Tags: Building Reconciliation Forum, Indigenous Innovation and Education, Truth and Reconciliation Commission
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Electricity generation from fermented primary sludge using single-chamber air-cathode microbial fuel cells
Yang, Fei; Ren, Lijiao; Pu, Yuepu; Logan, Bruce E. (Bioresource Technology, Elsevier BV, 2013-01) [Article]
Single-chamber air-cathode microbial fuel cells (MFCs) were used to generate electricity from fermented primary sludge. Fermentation (30°C, 9days) decreased total suspended solids (26.1-16.5g/L), volatile suspended solids (24.1-15.3g/L) and pH (5.7-4.5), and increased conductivity (2.4-4.7mS/cm), soluble COD (2.66-15.5g/L), and volatile fatty acids (1.9-10.1g/L). To lower the COD and increase pH, fermentation supernatant was diluted with primary effluent before being used in the MFCs. The maximum power density was 0.32±0.01W/m2, compared to 0.24±0.03W/m2 with only primary effluent. Power densities were higher with phosphate buffer added to the supernatant (1.03±0.06W/m2) or the solution (0.87±0.05W/m2). Coulombic efficiencies ranged from 18% to 57%, and sCOD removals from 84% to 94%. These results demonstrated that sludge can effectively be used for power generation when fermented and then diluted with only primary effluent. © 2012 Elsevier Ltd.
Microbial electrolysis desalination and chemical-production cell for CO2 sequestration
Zhu, Xiuping; Logan, Bruce E. (Bioresource Technology, Elsevier BV, 2014-05) [Article]
Mineral carbonation can be used for CO2 sequestration, but the reaction rate is slow. In order to accelerate mineral carbonation, acid generated in a microbial electrolysis desalination and chemical-production cell (MEDCC) was examined to dissolve natural minerals rich in magnesium/calcium silicates (serpentine), and the alkali generated by the same process was used to absorb CO2 and precipitate magnesium/calcium carbonates. The concentrations of Mg2+ and Ca2+ dissolved from serpentine increased 20 and 145 times by using the acid solution. Under optimal conditions, 24mg of CO2 was absorbed into the alkaline solution and 13mg of CO2 was precipitated as magnesium/calcium carbonates over a fed-batch cycle (24h). Additionally, the MEDCC removed 94% of the COD (initially 822mg/L) and achieved 22% desalination (initially 35g/L NaCl). These results demonstrate the viability of this process for effective CO2 sequestration using renewable organic matter and natural minerals. © 2014 Elsevier Ltd.
Syntrophic interactions drive the hydrogen production from glucose at low temperature in microbial electrolysis cells
Lu, Lu; Xing, Defeng; Ren, Nanqi; Logan, Bruce E. (Bioresource Technology, Elsevier BV, 2012-11) [Article]
H2 can be obtained from glucose by fermentation at mesophilic temperatures, but here we demonstrate that hydrogen can also be obtained from glucose at low temperatures using microbial electrolysis cells (MECs). H2 was produced from glucose at 4°C in single-chamber MECs at a yield of about 6mol H2mol-1 glucose, and at rates of 0.25±0.03-0.37±0.04m3 H2m-3d-1. Pyrosequencing of 16S rRNA gene and electrochemical analyses showed that syntrophic interactions combining glucose fermentation with the oxidization of fermentation products by exoelectrogens was the predominant pathway for current production at a low temperature other than direct glucose oxidization by exoelectrogens. Another syntrophic interaction, methanogenesis and homoacetogenesis, which have been found in 25°C reactors, were not detected in MECs at 4°C. These results demonstrate the feasibility of H2 production from abundant biomass of carbohydrates at low temperature in MECs. © 2012 Elsevier Ltd.
Increasing power generation for scaling up single-chamber air cathode microbial fuel cells
Cheng, Shaoan; Logan, Bruce E. (Bioresource Technology, Elsevier BV, 2011-03) [Article]
Scaling up microbial fuel cells (MFCs) requires a better understanding the importance of the different factors such as electrode surface area and reactor geometry relative to solution conditions such as conductivity and substrate concentration. It is shown here that the substrate concentration has significant effect on anode but not cathode performance, while the solution conductivity has a significant effect on the cathode but not the anode. The cathode surface area is always important for increasing power. Doubling the cathode size can increase power by 62% with domestic wastewater, but doubling the anode size increases power by 12%. Volumetric power density was shown to be a linear function of cathode specific surface area (ratio of cathode surface area to reactor volume), but the impact of cathode size on power generation depended on the substrate strength (COD) and conductivity. These results demonstrate the cathode specific surface area is the most critical factor for scaling-up MFCs to obtain high power densities. © 2010 Elsevier Ltd.
Examination of microbial fuel cell start-up times with domestic wastewater and additional amendments
Liu, Guangli; Yates, Matthew D.; Cheng, Shaoan; Call, Douglas F.; Sun, Dan; Logan, Bruce E. (Bioresource Technology, Elsevier BV, 2011-08) [Article]
Rapid startup of microbial fuel cells (MFCs) and other bioreactors is desirable when treating wastewaters. The startup time with unamended wastewater (118h) was similar to that obtained by adding acetate or fumarate (110-115h), and less than that with glucose (181h) or Fe(III) (353h). Initial current production took longer when phosphate buffer was added, with startup times increasing with concentration from 149h (25mM) to 251h (50mM) and 526h (100mM). Microbial communities that developed in the reactors contained Betaproteobacteria, Acetoanaerobium noterae, and Chlorobium sp. Anode biomass densities ranged from 200 to 600μg/cm2 for all amendments except Fe(Sh{cyrillic}) (1650μg/cm2). Wastewater produced 91mW/m2, with the other MFCs producing 50mW/m2 (fumarate) to 103mW/m2 (Fe(III)) when amendments were removed. These experiments show that wastewater alone is sufficient to acclimate the reactor without the need for additional chemical amendments. © 2011 Elsevier Ltd.
Examination of protein degradation in continuous flow, microbial electrolysis cells treating fermentation wastewater
Nam, Joo-Youn; Yates, Matthew D.; Zaybak, Zehra; Logan, Bruce E. (Bioresource Technology, Elsevier BV, 2014-11) [Article]
© 2014 Elsevier Ltd. Cellulose fermentation wastewaters (FWWs) contain short chain volatile fatty acids and alcohols, but they also have high concentrations of proteins. Hydrogen gas production from FWW was examined using continuous flow microbial electrolysis cells (MECs), with a focus on fate of the protein. H2 production rates were 0.49±0.05m3/m3-d for the FWW, compared to 0.63±0.02m3/m3-d using a synthetic wastewater containing only acetate (applied potential of 0.9V). Total organic matter removal was 76±6% for the FWW, compared to 87±5% for acetate. The MEC effluent became relatively enriched in protein (69%) compared to that in the original FWW (19%). Protein was completely removed using higher applied voltages (1.0 or 1.2V), but current generation was erratic due to more positive anode potentials (-113±38mV, Eap=1.2V; -338±38mV, 1.0V; -0.426±4mV, 0.9V). Bacteria on the anodes with FWW were primarily Deltaproteobacteria, while Archaea were predominantly Methanobacterium.
Electron transfer mechanisms, new applications, and performance of biocathode microbial fuel cells
Huang, Liping; Regan, John M.; Quan, Xie (Bioresource Technology, Elsevier BV, 2011-01) [Article]
Broad application of microbial fuel cells (MFCs) requires low cost and high operational sustainability. Microbial-cathode MFCs, or cathodes using only bacterial catalysts (biocathodes), can satisfy these demands and have gained considerable attention in recent years. Achievements with biocathodes over the past 3-4. years have been particularly impressive not only with respect to the biological aspects but also the system-wide considerations related to electrode materials and solution chemistry. The versatility of biocathodes enables us to use not only oxygen but also contaminants as possible electron acceptors, allowing nutrient removal and bioremediation in conjunction with electricity generation. Moreover, biocathodes create opportunities to convert electrical current into microbially generated reduced products. While many new experimental results with biocathodes have been reported, we are still in the infancy of their engineering development. This review highlights the opportunities, limits, and challenges of biocathodes. © 2010 Elsevier Ltd.
Integrated hydrogen production process from cellulose by combining dark fermentation, microbial fuel cells, and a microbial electrolysis cell
Wang, Aijie; Sun, Dan; Cao, Guangli; Wang, Haoyu; Ren, Nanqi; Wu, Wei-Min; Logan, Bruce E. (Bioresource Technology, Elsevier BV, 2011-03) [Article]
Hydrogen gas production from cellulose was investigated using an integrated hydrogen production process consisting of a dark fermentation reactor and microbial fuel cells (MFCs) as power sources for a microbial electrolysis cell (MEC). Two MFCs (each 25mL) connected in series to an MEC (72mL) produced a maximum of 0.43V using fermentation effluent as a feed, achieving a hydrogen production rate from the MEC of 0.48m 3 H 2/m 3/d (based on the MEC volume), and a yield of 33.2mmol H 2/g COD removed in the MEC. The overall hydrogen production for the integrated system (fermentation, MFC and MEC) was increased by 41% compared with fermentation alone to 14.3mmol H 2/g cellulose, with a total hydrogen production rate of 0.24m 3 H 2/m 3/d and an overall energy recovery efficiency of 23% (based on cellulose removed) without the need for any external electrical energy input. © 2010 Elsevier Ltd.
Saline catholytes as alternatives to phosphate buffers in microbial fuel cells
Ahn, Yongtae; Logan, Bruce E. (Bioresource Technology, Elsevier BV, 2013-03) [Article]
Highly saline solutions were examined as alternatives to chemical buffers in microbial fuel cells (MFCs). The performance of two-chamber MFCs with different concentrations of saline solutions in the cathode chamber was compared to those with a buffered catholyte (50mM PBS). The use of a NaCl catholyte improved the CE to 43-60% (28% with no membrane) due to a reduction in oxygen transfer into the anolyte. The saline catholyte also reduced the membrane and solution resistance to 23Ω (41Ω without a membrane). The maximum power density of 491mW/m2 (240mM NaCl) was only 17% less than the MFC with 50mM PBS. The decrease in power output with highest salinity was due to reduced proton transfer due to the ion exchange membrane, and pH changes in the two solutions. These results show that MFC performance can be improved by using a saline catholyte without pH control. © 2013 Elsevier Ltd.
Treatability studies on different refinery wastewater samples using high-throughput microbial electrolysis cells (MECs)
Ren, Lijiao; Siegert, Michael; Ivanov, Ivan; Pisciotta, John M.; Logan, Bruce E. (Bioresource Technology, Elsevier BV, 2013-05) [Article]
High-throughput microbial electrolysis cells (MECs) were used to perform treatability studies on many different refinery wastewater samples all having appreciably different characteristics, which resulted in large differences in current generation. A de-oiled refinery wastewater sample from one site (DOW1) produced the best results, with 2.1±0.2A/m2 (maximum current density), 79% chemical oxygen demand removal, and 82% headspace biological oxygen demand removal. These results were similar to those obtained using domestic wastewater. Two other de-oiled refinery wastewater samples also showed good performance, with a de-oiled oily sewer sample producing less current. A stabilization lagoon sample and a stripped sour wastewater sample failed to produce appreciable current. Electricity production, organics removal, and startup time were improved when the anode was first acclimated to domestic wastewater. These results show mini-MECs are an effective method for evaluating treatability of different wastewaters. © 2013 Elsevier Ltd.
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Examining student-designed games through Suits’ theory of games
2016-10-07T09:01:43Z (GMT) by Ashley Casey Peter Hastie Steve Jump
This paper documents how a unit of student-designed games can create a more meaningful version of physical education (PE) for disengaged students, a version that enhances the educational legitimacy of the subject matter by affording it worth in and of itself rather than being justified for other, extrinsic or instrumental reasons. Furthermore, it seeks to develop new knowledge relating to the conduct of game instruction within PE, by using Suits’ theory of games. Drawing on Suits’ theory, we develop a conceptual model that is intended to represent the hierarchical processes that occur in gameplay through student-designed games. This model is then tested via examination of the experiences of a cohort of teachers and their year 10 students from a mixed secondary school in the greater London area. From our discussions with the students, it is argued that the key focus of the games that these students were used to playing was the need to ‘play the game well’. By contrast, we suggest that it is possible to provide more meaningful experiences to students if a more philosophically driven and less efficiency-driven approach to games is taken, following Suits’ lead more closely. By exploring the loop between and around lusory means, lusory goals and constitutive rules (the aspects of Suits’ theory that have been shown to represent student-designed games), students engage with a more meaningful games experience than simply playing the game well. This ‘new’ approach to games may offer counterbalance to the ideological tendencies now emphasized in countries and contexts that celebrate instrumental outcomes of performative PE and sport rather than affording worth in and of itself to the curriculum’s subject matter.
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Learning from Incidents
Anoush Margaryan, Allison Littlejohn, Stuart King
Learning from incidents (LFI) is important across a range of industries and is relevant for professional and government bodies and third-sector organisations concerned about health and safety. Industrial incidents cause injury, loss of life and environmental degradation – of particular concern to major hazard industries like the energy industry. However, after incident investigation has taken place, LFI initiatives tend to focus too much on the dissemination of information, assuming that access to incident-related information will lead to organisational learning and behavioural change. Yet research into adult learning demonstrates that access to information does not necessarily lead to learning.
Petroleum Review
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Industrial incidents
Margaryan, A., Littlejohn, A., & King, S. (2014). Learning from Incidents. Petroleum Review, 68(809), 42.
Margaryan, Anoush ; Littlejohn, Allison ; King, Stuart. / Learning from Incidents. In: Petroleum Review. 2014 ; Vol. 68, No. 809. pp. 42.
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Election Aftermath: KFBK’s Mark Williams Bayonets the Wounded
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Last night my wife and I went to dinner. On the way home I turned on Mark Williams at KFBK Radio to see what he thought about the special election. I was expecting a rational, reasons analysis of the election (something like an after action report). Instead of how can we do this better next time what I heard was the most acidic, venomous attack on Governor Schwarzenegger that I have ever heard. My wife was so offended that she told me to shut off the radio.
Right before the radio went off, I did hear Mark thumping his chest and bragging about his article on the Sacramento Union website. (Yeah, the conservative alternative website that was the victim of a hostile takeover by the Sacramento Bee earlier this year.) After reading Marks tome, I can see why the Bee is so happy to have him thumping on Republicans—after all we do tend to eat our own.
A summary of Marks column is for Republicans to throw Arnold under the bus and start from scratch. This begs the question did Arnold fail us or did we fail Arnold? Williams dodges this question by call Arnold a parasite that is killing the Republican Party. His solution, kill our General.
If the party wants to survive in California, not even win just survive, the very first thing party leaders need to do is sit down in a quiet room to jettison SchwartzenKennedy, assess their options and settle on a candidate for 06. Then they need to commit to building a new party, from the ground up . . .
My first reaction to that comment is Welcome to Fantasy Island or the Twilight Zone.
George Bush had the Harriett Miers nomination and Arnold Schwarzenegger had this special election. The motto in both cases was trust me. The reaction from the base was similar. Many on the Right were skeptical. Bush has recovered from this hit and so will the Governor.
In one article, Mark Williams called the Governor:
a duck whos a little gimpy, hes a carrier of a deadly political form of Avian Flu
never was, a republican or a reformer
self-centered, spoiled, B-celebrity out on a lark
jamoke
SchwartzenKennedy
The heart of Williams argument is his assertion that the so-called reforms failed for these main reasons: they were ill conceived, poorly written, unsupported, made to be personality specific (Arnold) and did not address any one not a single one of the serious issues and problems facing the state.
This is elevating history revisionism to a fine art form. The Governor and his administration wrote none of these initiatives. The initiatives were written by third parties interest groups that felt the Legislature had failed to do their job. The Governor agreed to support them because they were incremental steps in the direction that he wished to move the State. This election was his threat and he had to follow-up on it when the Democrats failed to negotiate with him in good faith to solve these problems without having to bring them before the people.
To assert that these initiatives were poorly written is nuts. The only one that was spun as poorly written, was the pension initiative that was pulled many months ago for a rewrite.
Yes, Mark some of the Governors initiatives were unsupported by you and John Doolittle and enough others that the base was split. This clouded the issues enough that many on our side either stayed home or fell back on the old axiom of when in doubt throw it out. Instead of being part of the solution for the political ills of our state, people like you became part of the problem of why the effort on our side failed.
Now you want to gloat when you have nothing to offer as a solution or a constructive alternative. If you would shut-up and sit down then you might at least get the benefit of the doubt instead of opening your mouth an throwing a tantrum like last night. You can play the Michael Savage of Sacramento if you wish but you wont be doing anything to solve the problems facing California.
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An Unreliable Jailhouse Informant May Have Sent an Innocent Florida Man to Death Row
James Dailey is running out of options to prove his innocence.
Zuri Davis | 12.12.2019 2:20 PM
(Florida Department of Corrections)
James Dailey has long maintained that he didn't murder Shelly Boggio in 1985. No physical evidence ties him to the case, and there's good reason to think the man who originally pointed the finger at Dailey is the actual killer. A story by Pamela Colloff, published by ProPublica and The New York Times, shows how an unreliable jailhouse informant may have doomed an innocent man to the execution chamber in Florida.
On May 6, 1985, Boggio's nude body was found floating in a Pinellas County waterway; she had been stabbed several times. Dailey and his roommate, Jack Pearcy, became subjects of interest in the case. Pearcy has a history of violence against women. On the last day of her life, Pearcy took Boggio to a bar near the Intracoastal Waterway after spending an afternoon drinking and smoking weed at his apartment.
Though he admitted to stabbing Boggio at least once and provided intimate details of the crime, Pearcy insisted that Dailey was the actual murderer. Pearcy claimed that Dailey joined the pair before they reached the water that night.
Pearcy, who is serving life in prison, has since confessed four times that he was solely responsible for Boggio's death. He also told two other inmates that Dailey was innocent. Pearcy owned a knife consistent with the stab wounds, knew where investigators could find its sheath, and was the only person who eyewitnesses saw with Boggio the night she was murdered.
Yet Dailey's fate was sealed by three jailhouse informants, including one Paul Skalnik. Skalnik was one of the county's most prolific jailhouse informants, testifying in at least 37 cases. Many of those trials ended in convictions or plea deals; four ended with death sentences. Though he spent his days in protective custody, he told investigators that he managed to obtain a confession from Dailey while passing by his cell.
Pearcy refused to testify against Dailey in court, so Skalnik took the stand, testifying that Dailey had confessed to the murder while asking for legal advice. Detective John Halliday vouched for Skalnik because they had worked together before.
Jailhouse informants have an incentive to tell prosecutors what they want to hear, since their cooperation could help with their own cases. After the two other inmates claimed that they heard Dailey admit to the murder, a third later said that they concocted their stories in an effort to get their own sentences reduced. (They succeeded.) The third inmate also said police showed him news clippings of the crime in hopes that he would testify against Dailey. He refused.
Though Skalnik assured the jury that he was receiving nothing for his testimony, he was released five days after Dailey was sentenced to death.
After serving a sentence for grand theft, Skalnik was paroled in March 1985. He quickly violated his parole with various financial cons and returned to jail. Though he was identified as a flight risk, a parole violator, and was called a "danger to society" by his parole officer, a Florida Parole and Probation Commission memo said he was released due to his "cooperation with the State Attorney's Office in the first-degree murder trial." Public records show several other instances where Skalnik received benefits for his help in other trials despite assessments that he was a "con artist of the highest degree." Prosecutors once dismissed a 1982 charge for lewd and lascivious conduct involving a 12-year-old girl. Neither those charges nor their dismissals were mentioned to the jury in Dailey's case.
There are other reasons to question Skalnik's honesty. When Colloff interviewed him, he claimed that he'd been shot down in Laos during the Vietnam War. After obtaining his military records, Colloff found that Skalnik was not on combat duty during Vietnam, and did not serve overseas at all.
Dailey was set to die on November 7, but U.S. District Judge William Jung temporarily stayed his execution in October to give lawyers more time to present their case. Yesterday Jung rejected the new appeals.
Dailey's attorney, Josh Dubin, tells Reason he is asking Gov. Ron DeSantis to grant a clemency hearing to argue the prisoner's innocence. A coalition of local supporters—including the Innocence Project of Florida, the Catholic Diocese of St. Augustine, a former prosecutor, and a collection of Florida death row exonerees—is also asking the state to exonerate Dailey before it's too late.
NEXT: National Security Surveillance Apologists Are Starting to See the Light
Zuri Davis is an assistant editor at Reason.
Death Penalty Florida Innocence Project
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In the movie, Skalnik will be played by Jon Lovitz.
JJANAVYVET
No … you are wrong …. he will be played by Robert De Niro…
BearOdinson
Unlike some of the anti-death penalty cases that Zuri has previously brought up, I have to admit, this case seems pretty fucked.
Although, I haven’t read much about this case, and it could be that there is a lot more spin going on here than meets the eye.
Prosecutors, judges, and sheriffs especially when they are elected, have every incentive to bend the rules and use dubious tactics to win their case. Even a person who they know is completely innocent is a trophy and gives them bragging rights when this person ends up in the chair.
The article makes clear the prosecutors were polishing-up their score – so high a percent of guilty verdicts, so high a percent of death penalties. The reason they went so hard against Dailey was Pearcy’s confession precluded capital punishment. They wanted at least one death penalty for the crime and he was all they had.
It is absolutely impossible any detective or prosecutor could have believed Skalnik’s testimony legitimate – he barely had any contact with the last score or so of inmates who supposedly “confessed” to him. Jail-house informants are the most grotesquely fraudulent trick in a prosecutor’s playbook; this guy Skalnik is probably the all-time fraud of jail-house informants. Reading the account made my skin crawl.
A coalition of local supporters…is also asking the state to exonerate Dailey before it’s too late.
Is one man’s life really worth exposing to the world the criminal justice system’s fallibility and how easily and seemingly casually law enforcement can pervert the cause of justice?
I know that’s sarcasm, but hell yes it is.
Damn. Maybe it’s time we got a constitution passed.
DrInsomnia
Jailhouse informants should be illegal. Every incentive to lie. They’re literally using convicted criminals to make their case. In what universe to people on trial for a crime go blabbing their mouths about their crimes, to untrustworthy thieves, rapists, and murderers? It just doesn’t happen, and definitely not to the degree that prosecutors seem to want to rely on them. A preponderance of of wrongful conviction cases involve the same repeated elements, and jailhouse informants are among the most common.
Texoma Kidd
We’re way past the point of trusting jailhouse snitches, especially one that has testified in 38 cases.
I’ll be honest, after a bit of research I tired of hearing about the RULE OF LAW. And we have every reason to distrust the concept.
Here’s what opened my eyes
A) legal fiction = our name spelled in all CAPS
B) legal person = you, the living flesh standing in court
C) natural person = groveling for permission
D) presumption = the state’s assertion that you are actually the legal person presented with an ALL CAPS IDENTIFICATION. Which went uncontested, is now considered to be a fact = legal fiction
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Safari 5 Places Second to IE 8 in July Stats
By Chris Paoli
The browser wars took a new turn as Apple's Safari 5 browser gained ground in a July survey.
According to Web analytics group Net Applications, Apple's Safari Web browser posted an 8.1 percent jump in market share for the month of July -- the largest one-month increase for that browser. Apple's browser passed Mozilla's browser and Microsoft's newest version of Internet Explorer to hold second place. Net Applications reported Safari 5 use at 11.2 percent, Internet Explorer 9 use at 11.0 percent, while Firefox 5 took fourth place at 9.0 percent use.
Microsoft's Internet Explorer 8 led the pack, with a commanding 33.5 percent market share. Some IE 8 users may be stuck from upgrading, since IE 9 only runs on Windows Vista and Windows 7 OSes. Net Applications analysts believe that this short-term limitation will ultimately play off for Microsoft as Windows XP use declines.
"So what are the usage share ramifications for this decision? Microsoft seems willing to sacrifice usage share in the short term in order to leapfrog the competition in the long run by applying all their resources to modern versions of Windows," Net Applications explained, in a released statement. "Although Windows XP currently has 54% of global usage share, Windows 7 usage share is following a strong, fairly linear path upwards and Windows versions from Vista forward should have a majority share within a couple years."
IE 9 still has a long way to go to meet those expectations. The browser finished the month of July in fifth place among Windows 7 users, with a market share of 3.6 percent. Meanwhile, IE 8 still leads over its younger sibling, with more than half of all Windows 7 users choosing it for their Internet browser.
Market Share (%) by July End
Stats courtesy of Net Applications.
Chris Paoli is the site producer for Redmondmag.com and MCPmag.com.
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Posts Tagged ‘nuit blanche’
Top Of The Foshay Tower
Posted in Architecture, Art, Holding My Breath, Home, Photography, Place, Structure, Vision, tagged Foshay Facts, Foshay Tower, Minneapolis at night, Minneapolis landmarks, Minnesota history, Minnesota icons, Northern Spark, nuit blanche, remembering Spring, the value of the Arts, Twin Cities, W Minneapolis on September 4, 2013| Leave a Comment »
Top Of The Foshay Tower, Droid Shots, Northern Spark, Minneapolis, Minnesota, June, 2012, photo © 2012 by QuoinMonkey. All rights reserved.
It was 4:45am when we walked into the Foshay Tower lobby, hoping to catch the sunrise from the 30th floor observation deck. We had stayed up the entire night of June 9th for the second Northern Spark; it was now June 10th. After a random tweet from the Northern Spark app, I won a Jump The Line At The Foshay prize, a gift that proved fruitful. We walked straight to the front of the line and flashed my Droid screen toward the guard. “Wow, that’s cool. Off you go,” he said, shooing us in the direction of the packed elevator.
My stomach dropped on the ride up; the tower view to the east took my breath away. The light was just beginning to change. The deck was crammed with Northern Sparkers, waiting for the sun. It was the perfect ending to the Nuit Blanche, a community shared art event for the soul. Sunrise on top of the sky; a tour of the Foshay museum. Details. Details. Details. Not just tree, what kind of tree. Not just building, what kind of building. A Minnesota icon, built to last, still inspiring sunrises after all these years.
FOSHAY FACTS
Named for Wilbur Foshay, the original owner & builder
Modeled after the Washington Monument as a tribute to George Washington
32 stories high, tallest building in the Twin Cities for 4 decades
Construction began in 1927 & ended August 1929. Built completely by all-union labor.
Wilbur Foshay & Gottlieb Magney patented the shape and method of construction
Faced with Indiana Bedford limestone, 750 window bays, able to stand up to winds of 400 mph
Numbers: 447 feet, 3 inches high, mast on the top 160 feet; 81 by 87 feet at the base; 59 by 65 feet at the top; contains 2,599,666 cubic feet
60 feet below ground with four basement levels
John Philip Sousa wrote the Foshay Tower-Washington Memorial March for the Foshay Dedication Ceremonies
Tower Observation Deck is located on the 30th floor where you can see 30 miles on a clear day
Foshay lights are 10 feet tall, 44 feet across, lit by 900 60-watt bulbs
Placed on National Register of Historic Places in 1977
In 1987 the Tower was adorned with a 50-foot by 50-foot banner (the largest ever installed on a highrise office building) congratulating the Minnesota Twins for their championship year
In 2008, the renovated Foshay opened as the Foshay Museum & Observation Deck, part of W Minneapolis — The Foshay
Foshay Moon, Droid Shots, Northern Spark, Minneapolis, Minnesota, June, 2012, photo © 2012 by QuoinMonkey. All rights reserved.
-related to posts: Northern Spark — Twin Cities Nuit Blanche, Northern Spark 2012 – Night Owl Paradise, Northern Spark — Sunrise To Sunset
-posted on red Ravine, Wednesday, September 4th, 2013
Northern Spark: Sunset To Sunrise
Posted in Architecture, Art, Gratitude, Holding My Breath, Photography, Place, Skies, Vision, Wake Up, tagged building community through the Arts, celebrating the Arts, cities with big hearts, downtown Minneapolis, downtown St. Paul, Minnesota Arts, night owls, night photography, Northern Spark, Northern Spark slideshow, nuit blanche, shadows & light, sundown to sunrise, support of the arts, the art of photography, The Nuit Blanche Movement, the value of the Arts, Twin Cities on June 7, 2013| 2 Comments »
Northern Spark kicks off on Saturday, June 8th, at 8:58pm in Lowertown St. Paul, Minnesota. This will be our third year attending Northern Spark (a little history of the Nuit Blanche movement in this piece). Last year we stayed awake from dusk to dawn, and ended our night viewing the sunrise from the top of the Foshay Tower. It’s more difficult than you think to stay awake all night, an insomniac’s dream!
Here’s a link to Northern’s Spark’s full schedule and two more to their Facebook and Twitter pages. Last year we downloaded the Northern Spark app on our Droids and highly recommend it. The slideshow is a glimpse into our night walk around Minneapolis at last year’s Northern Spark, and at a pre-Spark gathering the week before. We are looking forward to Lowertown, St. Paul. It’s a gift to share the night, the light, and the Arts in community.
-posted on red Ravine, Friday, June 7th, 2013
Northern Spark 2012 – Night Owl Paradise
Posted in Art, Art of Rebellion, Culture, Holding My Breath, Photography, Place, Relationships, Skies, Vision, Wake Up, tagged #NSPK, @Northern_Spark, building community through the Arts, creative insomniacs, creative spaces, Jim Campbell, lightbulbs, making light of the dark, Minneapolis at night, Minnesota Arts, night photography, nightowls, Northern Spark, nuit blanche, public art, Scattered Light, sleepless night, spring in Minnesota, The Nuit Blanche Movement, the value of the Arts, Think & Wonder, Twin Cities, white night on June 2, 2012| 7 Comments »
Night On Fire, BlackBerry Shots, photo © 2011 by QuoinMonkey. All rights reserved. Original BlackBerry photo June 2011, part of Northern Spark — Twin Cities Nuit Blanche.
Northern Spark 2012 begins next weekend in the Twin Cities at dusk on Saturday, June 9th and ends at the crack of dawn, Sunday, June 10th. Northern Spark is a free, dusk to dawn, participatory arts festival that presents visual arts, performance, films, and interactive media. Tonight at the Stone Arch Bridge in Minneapolis we plan to attend the Pre-Spark Bridge Lighting where planners will flip the switch for Northern Spark’s signature artwork, Robin Schwartzman’s THINK AND WONDER, WONDER AND THINK. They will also be giving out festival guidebooks to preview before June 9.
Last year’s inaugural Northern Spark was magical. In 2011, over the course of the night, there were 50,000 visits to 100 projects by more than 200 mostly local artists at 34 venues in collaboration with 60 partner organizations and sponsors. I have listed a few of the places we visited in 2011 and a little history of the Nuit Blanche (“white night”) movement in the piece Northern Spark — Twin Cities Nuit Blanche.
The three photographs in this piece were taken while I was standing in the middle of Jim Campbell’s Scattered Light installation, part of Northern Spark 2011. In Annotated Artwork: The Making Of Jim Campbell’s ‘Scattered Light‘, Jim says moving from 2-D to 3D art is about “exploding an image, tearing it apart, and spreading it out.” His tips: 1. Pick a spot 2. Grab Source Material 3. Turn it into code 4. Create depth 5. Consider the planet. Honoring point 5, he and his assistants revamped thousands of standard lightbulbs, sawed them open, stuffed them with LEDs, and glued them back together, making handmade, unique, energy-efficient hybrids.
I am looking forward to Northern Spark 2012. At the Northern Spark website, there is a Planning Your Night page with a full list of events, including a link to download their new Northern Spark mobile app. We’ve already got ours loaded on our Androids. I only hope there is enough time to make all the events we’ve listed. It’s perfect for all of our fellow NightOwls! Hope to see our local readers there! If you can’t make it, you can follow Northern Spark on their Facebook page and at Twitter @Northern_Spark #NSPK.
Out Of The Darkness (L), #NorthernSpark – Scattered Light by Jim Campbell 23/52 (R), BlackBerry Shots, photo © 2011 by QuoinMonkey. All rights reserved. Original BlackBerry photos June 2011, part of Northern Spark — Twin Cities Nuit Blanche.
-posted on red Ravine, Saturday, June 2nd, 2012
-related to posts: Northern Spark — Twin Cities Nuit Blanche, Suspended In Light (Reprise), Insomnia Haiku: Counting Syllables In My Sleep, Mickey’s Night Owl Sandwich, Dreams Of A Creative Insomniac
Northern Spark — Twin Cities Nuit Blanche
Posted in Architecture, Art, Culture, Dreams, Holding My Breath, Home, Maps, Photography, Place, Poetry, Relationships, Skies, Structure, Vision, Wake Up, tagged all night art festivals, building community through the Arts, community as witness, Deborah Miller, environmental art, global community, gratitude for community, Jim Campbell, Marcus Young, MCAD, Mill City Silos, Minneapolis College of Art & Design, Minnesota Arts, Minnesota Center for Book Arts, night owls, night photography, nightowls, Northern Lights.mn, Northern Spark, Northern Spark Guide, nuit blanche, public art, Roman Verostko, Scattered Light, sleepless night, sleeplessness, summer in Minnesota, sundown to sunrise, The Nuit Blanche Movement, Three-Story Drawing Machine, white night, Wing Young Huie on June 4, 2011| 22 Comments »
Northern Spark Installation by Roman Verostko, Three-Story Drawing Machine, Minneapolis College of Art & Design, Minneapolis, Minnesota, April 2011, photo © Creative Commons by Northern Spark. Some rights reserved.
I walk in the tradition of the Night Owl, and revel in the sleepless rituals of nuit blanche. Tonight from 9pm to 6am, Liz and I will be traversing the Mississippi River (from Minneapolis to St. Paul and back!) to visit the art installations of Northern Spark. Various corners of the Twins Cities will be lit up from dusk until dawn with venues that include: the Mill City Silos, Minnesota Center for Book Arts, poetry at All My Relations Arts, the GLOW-a-BOUT at Loring Park near the Walker Art Center (open all night and featuring the Lullaby Experiment by Marcus Young, creator of Everyday Poems For City Sidewalk), and four site specific installations (see Three-Story Drawing Machine by Roman Verostko above) at my alma mater, the Minneapolis College of Art & Design.
The information below is from the Northern Spark Media Kit. The Northern Spark website includes a complete list of events that you can add to your own interactive map that charts your night’s events. You can also download and print this PDF of the Northern Spark Guide listing the details of each installation across the Twin Cities. Hope to see you at this community event for the Arts, public art at its best!
The Nuit Blanche Movement
The idea of a nuit blanche (translated as “white night” or “sleepless night”) is an art event/tradition first seen in St. Petersburg, Russia and Berlin, Germany in the mid 1990s and first named “nuit blanche” in Paris in 2002. Since that time, the idea of the nuit blanche has expanded dramatically becoming a popular art event in cities throughout the world.
Today, a Nuit Blanche event consists of art installations and events in public spaces and museums, art galleries, and other cultural institutions opening their doors free of charge to the public from dusk till dawn. In effect, the host city itself is turned into a de facto art gallery, providing space for art installations, performances (music, film, dance, performance art), social gatherings, and other activities.
Besides St. Petersburg, Berlin, and Paris, nuit blanche events have taken place in Toronto, New York City, Tel Aviv, Santa Monica, and Montreal.
Northern Spark 2011
Spearheaded by Northern Lights.mn, Northern Spark is the first ever nuit blanche event in the Midwest. Northern Lights.mn is a roving, collaborative, interactive media-oriented, arts agency from the Twin Cities but for the world. It presents innovative art in the public sphere, both physical and virtual, focusing on artists creatively using technology, both old and new, to engender new relations between audiences and artwork and more broadly between people and their built environments.
Northern Spark will take place from June 4 (sundown ~8:55 p.m.) to June 5, 2011 (sunrise ~5:28 a.m.) at various locations along the Mississippi River and surrounding areas in Minneapolis and St. Paul. More than 60 artists from Minnesota, the surrounding area, and select locations across the country will be represented at the event.
Northern Spark Installation by Deborah Miller, Mill City Silos, Minneapolis, Minnesota, April 2011, photo © Creative Commons by Northern Spark. Some rights reserved.
Northern Spark:
First All Night Take Over Of The Twin Cities
MINNEAPOLIS, May 3, 2011 – It’s no secret Minneapolis St Paul is one of the leading centers of art in the United States. But on June 4 this year, the Twin Cities will join for the first time, the worldwide Nuit Blanche arts movement by hosting “Northern Spark,” the area’s first ever, all-night long arts festival.
For one night only, more than 60 regional and national artists together with the Twin Cities’ arts community will display new art installations at public places and unexpected locations throughout the city. Directed and produced by Northern Lights.mn and funded by the MN State Arts Board, Northern Spark takes place this summer from sunset on June 4 (8:55 p.m.) until the morning of June 5, 2011 (sunrise 5:28 a.m.).
“The Twin Cities has an amazing art culture and reputation,” says Northern Lights director, Steve Dietz. “Our aim is to really showcase that artistic excellence in a way never quite seen before by transforming the cities’ urban landscapes into a Twin Cites-wide art gallery for one special night.” The Northern Spark event will include a wide diversity of art forms and projects including multi-story projections, audio environments with vistas, installations traveling down the Mississippi on barges, houseboats and paddleboats, headphone concerts, and the use of everything from bioluminescent algae and sewer pipes for organs to more traditional media such as banjos and puppets.
One of the most highly anticipated installations is Jim Campbell’s “Scattered Light” from New York’s Madison Square Park, in which LED light bulbs suspended in a cube-shape on high tensile wire blink on and off to recreate the forms of pedestrians’ movements in three dimensions. Other artists involved in the nuit blanche include Christopher Baker, Phillip Blackburn, Body Cartography, Bart Buch, Barbara Claussen, Wing Young Huie, Debora Miller, Minneapolis Art on Wheels, Ali Momeni, Janaki Ranpura, Red76, Rigo 23, Jenny Schmid, Andréa Stanislav, Piotr Szyhalski, Diane Willow, Roman Verostko, Liu Xuguang, Marcus Young, and others.
The event is a collaboration — rarely seen on this kind of scale — of more than 40 partners each of which will sponsor one or more projects for the duration of the night. The goal is to showcase the urban splendor of the Twin Cities in a unique way, introducing a broad and diverse audience to innovative local and national talent in an inspiring journey through the night.
Northern Spark Installations: Wing Young Huie (TOP) by Nomad World Pub, St. Paul, Minnesota, Deborah Miller (BOTTOM) at Mill City Silos, Minneapolis, Minnesota, April 2011, © Creative Commons by Northern Spark. Some rights reserved.
-posted on red Ravine, Saturday, June 4th, 2011
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Local Girl Missing - Claire Douglas
Twenty years ago
21-year-old Sophie Collier vanishes one night.
She leaves nothing behind but a trainer on the old pier -
and a hole in the heart of her best friend Francesca.
A body's been found.
And Francesca's drawn back to the seaside town she's tried to forget.
Perhaps the truth of what happened to Sophie will finally come out.
Yet Francesca is beginning to wish she hadn't returned.
Everywhere she turns are ghosts from her past.
The same old faces and familiar haunts of her youth.
But if someone knows what really happened to Sophie that night then now's the time to find out - isn't it?
Except sometimes discovering the truth can cost you everything you hold dear - your family, your sanity and even your life . . .
I've just finished reading this book and all I can say is WOW!! It's just brilliant!!
"I've been running from my past. Now the past has caught up with me."
Francesca (Frankie) Bloom is a successful businesswoman working in the hotel industry in London. One day she receives a call that drags her right back to the very past she tried so hard to forget. She's informed that after eighteen years missing, her best friend Sophie's body was recovered from the sea by the seaside town of Oldcliffe-On-Sea, where they used to live as youngsters.
With tears in her eyes and memories flooding her mind, Frankie rushes to Oldcliffe to help Daniel, Sophie's brother, identify her best friend's remains and to find the answers to the questions that have haunted her ever since that tragic night when Sophie went missing, leaving behind a shell-shocked town and just a lonely trainer perched on the old derelict pier.
"I knew her. And she wasn't herself before she died... Something was wrong."
What had happened to Sophie? Who or what had lured her to the old pier that night? Frankie and Daniel are determined to find out but it's soon apparent that someone is not happy with their enquiries. Someone wants to stop them and scare Frankie away. And the locals seem to know more than they are letting on. But why? Will they ever find out what really happened to Sophie? Was it just an unfortunate accident? Suicide? ... Or murder? And what secret did Sophie and Frankie share? What had they done?
I was simply captivated by this book. The writing is very mature and the plot is creative, ingenious and very atmospheric with great vivid descriptions. I could visualise the seafront at Oldcliffe with its cafes and hotels, the tourists on the promenade enjoying the views. I could almost feel the rush of sea water as waves crashed on the seawalls. And I could clearly imagine the old mysterious pier shrouded by fog and battered by wind, rain and the waves.
Chapters alternate between Frankie's and Sophie's povs. Frankie's chapters are set in the present when she returns to Oldcliffe. She's riddled by grief and guilt and finds herself frequently 'talking' to Sophie in her head. Sophie's chapters are from 1997 as she is 'writing' in her diary about her life and relationships.
If there ever was one book that keeps you guessing till the end... This is it! I was immediately suspicious of one character, but then as the story progressed I realised that there were indeed MANY potential suspects. All characters seem shifty and to be hiding something. By the end I was totally and completely taken by surprise by the turn of events. I was NEVER expecting that finale...ever and I think it's very clever and original!
I really had a great time reading this book and I highly recommend it. Well done Claire Douglas, you're a very talented lady!
With huge thanks to Penguin UK, Michael Joseph for approving my request to read and review this book through Netgalley.
Claire Douglas has worked as a journalist for fifteen years writing features for women's magazines and national newspapers, but she's dreamed of being a novelist since the age of seven. She finally got her wish after winning the Marie Claire Debut Novel Award, with her first novel, The Sisters. She lives in Bath with her husband and two children.
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Letter to the White House: My beef with Hawking
From CNN's Tom Foreman:
So I was reading this article about how the esteemed physicist Stephen Hawking says there is no God; about how everything that exists can be explained by science, and spontaneous creation; which, I guess, is like spontaneous combustion, only not so messy.
And once again I found myself thinking: How the heck would he know?
Filed under: Culture & Science
Tennessee mosque site fire an arson, feds say
A fire last weekend at the construction site of a future mosque in Murfreesboro, Tennessee, has been determined to be arson, a Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives spokesman said Friday.
Lab reports indicate that accelerants were used to start and spread the fire, which destroyed an earth mover and damaged three other vehicles at the future site of the Islamic Center of Murfreesboro, ATF spokesman Eric Kehn said.
There are no suspects in the arson, which occurred early Saturday morning, Kehn said. The investigation is ongoing and the ATF and FBI are offering a $20,000 reward for information leading to the arrest of a suspect or suspects, authorities said at a Friday press conference at the construction site.
Dan Gilgoff - CNN Belief Blog Co-Editor
Filed under: Houses of worship • Islam • Mosque • Muslim • Tennessee • United States
How Christians spoil sex
Christian marriage.
Hot sex.
Let’s try that again:
Christian marriage; hot sex.
It doesn’t quite go together does it?
John Blake - CNN Writer
Filed under: Christianity • Culture & Science • United States
Hare Krishna temple in UK on fire after explosion
A Hare Krishna temple in Leicester, England was burning Friday after an explosion. A third of the temple has collapsed, fire and rescue officials tell CNN.
"There was an explosion, a third of the building collapsed and there is a fire on the ground floor," but no people have been trapped, a Leicestershire Fire and Rescue press officer said.
Read more on our news blog, This Just In
Filed under: Hare Krishna • United Kingdom
'Vicar of Baghdad' says religion has gone wrong in Iraq
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Filed under: Belief • Culture wars • Interfaith issues • Iraq
Religious leaders hit back at Hawking on Godless creation
Religious leaders in Britain on Friday hit back at claims by leading physicist Stephen Hawking that God had no role in the creation of the universe.
In his new book "The Grand Design," Britain's most famous scientist says that given the existence of gravity, "the universe can and will create itself from nothing," according to an excerpt published in The Times of London.
"Spontaneous creation is the reason why there is something rather than nothing, why the universe exists, why we exist," he wrote.
"It is not necessary to invoke God to light the blue touch paper [fuse] and set the universe going."
Filed under: Culture & Science • Culture wars • Europe • United Kingdom
'My own Dad tried to kill me' survivor credits God
When a South Carolina mother recently was accused of suffocating her two young sons, CNN Radio's Amanda Moyer was asked to look for someone who had survived an attack by their mother or father.
She found the horrific yet inspirational story of Chris Keith, now 30.
When he was 5, his father killed his mother and brother in their Tulsa, Oklahoma, home. He also shot Chris in the head, before committing suicide.
Chris credits God with saving him. He now speaks to youth groups and juvenile justice centers, hoping his message will resonate with a struggling teen.
Filed under: Christianity • Death • Journeys
The Mockingbird parables: Christian lessons in Harper Lee's classic
Editor's Note: Matt Litton, a writer and educator, is author of The Mockingbird Parables: Transforming Lives through the Power of Story.
By Matt Litton, Special to CNN
The social relevance of Harper Lee’s classic To Kill a Mockingbird and the subsequent film is profound. It has remained a beacon of hope for the marginalized, pointing the way toward our continued pursuit for equality.
The novel has been described simply as the story of one man’s stand for racial justice, but we cannot ignore the other valuable messages–including Christian ones-for today’s culture of distrust.
From Wall Street to Washington to Main Street, it seems our decisions are governed by what is financially, politically, and socially expedient. Oour faith is more of an afterthought than a guiding force.
The many lessons of Lee’s novel can lead us back to a restorative way of making choices by following these four principles:
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Opinion by Francis DeBernardo, special to CNN
(CNN) - I could hardly believe what I was reading as I saw the news Monday morning that Catholic clergy meeting in Rome said gay and lesbian people should be welcomed into the church more warmly.
After decades of hearing messages from high church officials that lesbian and gay people were a threat to humanity and a danger to children, I had to rub my eyes a few times to make sure that I was reading this new, more positive language correctly.
Was this really coming from the Catholic Church?
Most significantly, the document calls on Catholic communities to be “accepting and valuing” of lesbian and gay people's sexual orientation, and to recognize that lesbian and gay people “have gifts and qualities to offer to the Christian community.'”
Quite simply, this is a total reversal of earlier church statements that labelled such an orientation as "objectively disordered," and which viewed gay and lesbian people in faith communities as problems and suspect persons.
The new language recognizes for the first time the reality that I have witnessed in more than 20 years of ministry with lesbian and gay Catholics: “they wish to encounter a Church that offers them a welcoming home.”
Filed under: Catholic Church • Christianity • Gay marriage • Gay rights • Homosexuality • Opinion • Pope Benedict XVI • Pope Francis • Pope John Paul II • Same-sex marriage • Virgin Mary
How the Catholic Church makes saints
By John L. Allen, Jr. and Daniel Burke
(CNN) - On Sunday, for the first time in history, the Catholic Church will canonize two popes on the same day.
Pope Francis will preside over a special ceremony that is expected to draw upwards of a million pilgrims, who will gather in St. Peter's Square to witness Pope John Paul II and Pope John XXIII enter the celestial community of Catholic saints.
Here's a bit about the Catholic Church's canonization process.
What is a saint, and how many are there?
Catholics believe a saint is someone who lived a holy life and who’s already in heaven. Saints are considered role models for people still on Earth, and are capable of interceding with God on someone’s behalf when a request for help is made in prayer.
The actual number of saints is impossible to calculate. One well-known work called "Lives of the Saints" lists 2,565 Catholic saints, but that doesn’t count thousands of others celebrated in local regions all over the world. The Catholic Church has a feast, All Saints’ Day, on November 1 to honor the countless saints who aren’t formally canonized.
Filed under: Catholic Church • Christianity • Leaders • Miracles • Pope Benedict XVI • Pope Francis • Pope John Paul II • Vatican
Three popes, one brilliant move
Opinion by John Carr, special to CNN
(CNN) - This Sunday, Pope Francis will canonize “Good” Pope John and Pope John Paul “the Great.”
These popular references to Pope John XXIII and Pope John Paul II recall the ancient practice of choosing saints by public acclaim.
Sunday's ceremony, on the other hand, is the result of a more elaborate process and a brilliant decision by their successor, Pope Francis.
Though they will be canonized together, in some ways these two popes were very different people.
Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli was one of 14 children from an Italian peasant family who became a historian, diplomat, bishop and then Pope John XXIII.
Long before Pope Francis' off-script, populist touches led some to dub him the "people's pope," John broke precedent by escaping the Vatican to visit hospitals and prisons.
He left as a legacy his encyclical “Pacem in Terris,” which was addressed for the first time not just to Catholics, but to all those of “good will.” It reshaped Catholic teaching on human rights and made an impassioned call for peace amid the Cold War.
Daniel Burke - CNN Religion Editor
Filed under: Catholic Church • Christianity • Italy • Leaders • Opinion • Poland • Pope Francis • Pope John Paul II • Vatican
Vatican landmark Obama will miss
CNN's Ben Wedeman gloats over what President Barack Obama likely won't get a chance to see on his visit to the Vatican on Thursday. Take a look inside the Sistine Chapel - and gaze up at its famous ceiling.
Filed under: Art • Barack Obama • Catholic Church • Church and state • Italy • Pope John Paul II • Vatican
5 things you didn't know about popes and presidents
Programing Note: Don't miss Wolf Blitzer Reports: Popes and Presidents on Easter Sunday, April 20 at 2 p.m. ET. The 30-minute special explores the long and sometimes troubled history between the White House and the Vatican.
By Wolf Blitzer and Sean Kennedy, CNN
Follow @wolfblitzerFollow @CNNBelief
(CNN) - President Barack Obama will meet with Pope Francis on Thursday at the Vatican, opening a new chapter in the centuries-long relationships between the United States and the Holy See.
While Obama has praised Francis’ focus on the poor, popes and American presidents haven’t always seen eye to eye.
With that in mind, here are five surprising encounters between the Commander in Chief and the Successor to St. Peter.
1. George Washington banned the burning of papal effigies
On the anniversary of Guy Fawkes’ Day, when a Catholic plot to assassinate the Protestant King of England was disrupted, American soldiers would often mark the day by torching a straw pope.
But just five months after George Washington took command of the Continental Congress’ army in 1775, he issued an order prohibiting the violent expression of anti-Catholic bigotry.
Filed under: Barack Obama • Catholic Church • Church and state • Foreign policy • Leaders • Politics • Pope Francis • Pope John Paul II • Vatican
CNN Poll: Pope's approval rating sky-high
By Daniel Burke, CNN Belief Blog Co-Editor
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(CNN) - As Pope Francis prepares to celebrate his first Christmas at the Vatican, Americans' opinions of the pontiff appear to be as high as the dome on St. Peter's Basilica, according to a new survey.
A CNN/ORC International poll released Tuesday found that 88% of American Catholics approve of how Francis is handling his role as head of the 1.2 billion-member church.
The popular pontiff has also made a positive impression among Americans in general: Nearly three in four view Francis favorably. The new survey suggests that the Pope is arguably the most well-regarded religious figure among the American public today, said CNN Polling Director Keating Holland.
Filed under: Catholic Church • Christianity • Culture wars • Leaders • Pope Benedict XVI • Pope Francis • Pope John Paul II • Sex abuse • Vatican
Popes John XXIII and John Paul II to be declared saints in April
From Ben Wedeman, CNN
(CNN) - Popes John XXIII and John Paul II will be declared saints in April, the Vatican said Monday.
The announcement came after Pope Francis met with cardinals to discuss the planned canonizations of two of his predecessors. The ceremony will take place on April 27.
It will be the first time two popes will be canonized at the same time.
To be named a saint involves a series of steps, but the qualifications are straightforward, according to the veteran Vatican analyst John Allen.
"You put a holy life and two miracles together, according to the Catholic system, you've got a saint," he said.
Filed under: Catholic Church • Pope Francis • Pope John Paul II
Vatican to say next month when John Paul II, John XXIII will become saints
By Jason Hanna and Hada Messia, CNN
(CNN) - The Roman Catholic Church will announce next month the date when the late popes John Paul II and John XXIII will be canonized, Vatican Radio reported Wednesday.
The canonization dates for the two former pontiffs will be announced on September 30, the radio service reported, citing Cardinal Angelo Amato.
Pope Francis announced last month that his two 20th century predecessors would be declared saints.
John Paul was pope from 1978 until his death in 2005, drawing vast crowds as he crisscrossed the globe. The third-longest-serving pope in history, died at the age of 84 after suffering from Parkinson's disease, arthritis and other ailments for several years.
Pope John XXIII was famed for calling the Second Vatican Council in 1962, which ushered in great changes in the Roman Catholic Church's relationship with the modern world. He was pope from 1958 to 1963.
Filed under: Catholic Church • Pope • Pope John Paul II • Vatican
Vatican to declare Pope John Paul II a saint
By Hada Messia, CNN
Rome (CNN) - The Roman Catholic Church will declare the late Pope John Paul II a saint, the Vatican announced Friday.
Pope Francis signed the decree Friday morning, the Vatican said. John Paul was pope from 1978 until his death in 2005, and was in a way the first rock star pontiff, drawing vast crowds as he criss-crossed the globe.
At his funeral, thousands of pilgrims gathered in St. Peter's Square and chanted "Santo Subito" - Sainthood Now! The Polish-born pope was fast-tracked to beatification and became "the blessed" John Paul II barely six years after his death, the fastest beatification in centuries.
Pope John XXIII, who convened the Vatican II council in the 1960s, will also be declared a saint, the Vatican said.
No date has been announced for the canonization ceremony.
Filed under: Belief • Catholic Church • Pope John Paul II
Why is the pope washing prisoners’ feet?
By Eric Marrapodi, CNN Belief Blog Editor
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(CNN) — In ancient times, when roads were bad and footwear was worse, the washing of a guest's feet was a required sign of hospitality. Today when someone comes to your home, you’re more likely to offer to take their coat and bring them a beverage rather then have the help fetch a basin to refresh their worn feet.
The gesture of a servant's washing a newly arrived guest’s feet is sprinkled throughout the Jewish and Christian scriptures. That the characters in question were respectable, hospitable, and well off would have been culturally recognizable to earlier readers. In the Christian tradition, one story of feet washing entirely changed the paradigm.
In the Biblical accounts of the Easter story, Jesus rides into Jerusalem on Palm Sunday on a donkey to adoring crowds. Just a few days later he gathers his 12 disciples for what would be their Last Supper before he was crucified.
Filed under: Belief • Catholic Church • Christianity • Jesus • Pope Benedict XVI • Pope Francis • Pope John Paul II • Vatican
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All About Bangladesh. What else!
The Debate We Should Be Having
Posted by tacitaeterno under Bangladesh
A debate is raging around Bangladesh – between real people and on the internet. Opinions are firmly-held, tempers get frayed quickly, and name-calling is always a possibility. And a lot depends on its outcome.
It’s not the debate that was started by Tarique Rahman about a week or so ago, about who is the first president of Bangladesh.
I firmly believe that history usually proves to be a fair judge. So, in about forty or so years, when all the people whose reputation hinged on painting Sheikh Mujibur Rahman as either an angel or a devil are gone from this earth, our nation and its history will arrive at its own judgment of that man. And that is how it should be.
But much more important than what Sheikh Mujib was in 1972 is what he beam in January 1975. We got out of BKSAL in the worst way imaginable – through a bloody and murderous military coup that only underlines how helpless and fragile the other institutions of the newly-formed state still were. Almost forty years later, we’ll escape Hasina’s proto-BKSAL because while the Gandhi family is quite comfortable disrupting electoral democracy in Bangladesh, it still hasn’t figured out how to do so as successfully in its own country. But we may not be so lucky the next time around.
Thus, the debate, in email inboxes and informal meetings rages on, how to modify Bangladesh’s frame of government that the next wanna-be Hasina is not able to succeed. “In question of power,” Thomas Jefferson thundered, “let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the Constitution.” Our constitutional chains have proven flimsy and brittle so far. How to strengthen them so as to prevent the next dictator from fostering herself upon is as long she likes is the great question of the current time.
5 Responses to “The Debate We Should Be Having”
MBI Munshi Says:
Well said ….
Gopali - Gopalganj - what will I be when wiped off the map? Says:
How are we to bind men down to the constitution if people like Zia changed it willy nilly setting evil precident?
If BKSAL was so bad, did it really take 21 years to move on from the 4 months experimentation with that?
Please explain, when Mujib said things had gotten out of control so he needed to have a temporary centralization of power, how is it different from what we are supposedly told that Zia had no choice but to do in his murderous reign of 4 years during which he killed freedom fighters, civilians, started ethnic cleansing in CHT, had no option but to bolster his position by bringing back Pakistani war criminals including as PM etc etc etc? If wrong for Mujib, why right for Zia in your eyes? These are the questions that , yes, when people whose livelihood not dependent on Hasina or Khaleda (or Tareq) 40 years from now, may honestly discuss.
Please, also plan what else revelation – Zia was actually god almighty – isn’t it obvious even if not said for last 40 years – will come to be revealed tomorrow, so you can retroactively plan to justify and defend.
Asaad Says:
A set of impartial bodies, can come from all religious belief based on proportional population. They are honest, impartial, pious, educated and have history within their community and nation. They are rational, impartial, balanced and fair. ANY society DEFINITELY has people like that. These groups agree on the basic humanity, equal justices for all, and devoid of ANY SORT VULGARITY and OBSCENE liberty in man women relation, and corrupt freedom. Whole nation can join in these debates and an outcome will be there through referendum weather nation want a group like that, or not. They will have no power in government positions, or running a government, or influencing a government in any shape. However; they may have a common say on national defense interest regarding foreign influence. There will be no time limit for them. They will have NO say whether any party or running government is doing bad, or good, and if they do, they break the oath, and will not be part of the group. Any who asks them about opinion on parties, equally violates his/her job. They will have ONE crucial job: MANAGE the national electoral process periodically.
Electoral Team: Only responsible to group 1 in running NATIONAL election and referendum. Defense force must join during those few days to keep security to voters. NO electronic, or mechanical voting, and it must be paper ballots. Counting must be done in presence of political representative as witness only.
Election can take place during last 3 months of running government. Transition must take place cordially by the law of land. Government runs the nation through mandate of people. Time limit to head of state. But in any case, and be it whoever; ANY SORT VULGARITY and OBSCENE liberty in man women relation cannot be promoted. Enemies of humanity use alcoholism, gambling, sex as tools to corrupt people and then used them as an electoral representative to run their agenda in the name of equality, liberty and freedom. You can NEVER deal with these set of people who are ABSOLUTELY inferior quality humanity can offer.
Dollar Mahmud Says:
Maximum bangladeshi peoples are now confused about real history of war.
Saleh Tanveer Says:
Needless to say, what is going now in the name of democracy in Bangladesh does not augur well for the future. AL can keep going like this for perhaps a few years, and celebrate the destruction of BNP, but at the end of the day, not leaving any room for opposition can only result in more extreme forces coming to the fore. Secular friends appear to embrace AL as the lesser evil; what they fail to understand is that whatever causes they hold near and dear will be swept aside by the downfall of AL if they keep associating with the ruling repressive regime.
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Biologically active additive for preventing and treating flu cases
A61P31/16 - for influenza or rhinoviruses
A61K9/20 - Pills, lozenges or tablets
A61K35/78 -
A23L1/03 - containing additives (A23L0001050000, A23L0001300000, A23L0001308000 take precedence);;
FIELD: medicine.
SUBSTANCE: biologically active additive has propolis and pot marigold tincture, ascorbic acid, calcium gluconate, benadryl, rutin and auxiliary substances like starch, calcium stearate, talc taken in known proportion. The biologically active additive is produced as tablets of mass 0.55 g.
EFFECT: enhanced effectiveness of prophylaxis.
The invention relates to medicine, in particular to pharmacology, producing drugs for the prevention and treatment of influenza, preventing the spread of infections. It can be used as self medication, and as an additive to food.
It is known for the treatment of influenza and other acute respiratory diseases containing paracetamol (see, e.g., Drugs permitted for use in the USSR”, M, Medicine, 1979, s).
Known composition for the treatment of influenza with antipyretic, analgesic and anti-inflammatory properties, containing acetylsalicylic acid, ascorbic acid, rutin, diphenhydramine, calcium gluconate (see, e.g., Loginov WL (EDS) Manual on the organization of the store preparing control, M, Medicine, 1979, p.55-56).
The composition is made in the form of several powders and has a small shelf life. The disadvantage is separate administration of acetylsalicylic acid and other components, which is an inconvenience for the reception.
Closest to the invention the solution (prototype) is a dietary Supplement for the prevention and treatment of influenza, comprising as active ingredients ascorbic acid, calcium gluconate, diphenhydramine and rutin (see, provisional patent of the RK No. 9326, class a 61 K 31/00, 200 g).
A disadvantage of the known medicines is the presence in its composition of paracetamol that causes allergies in some patients, and the absence of antiviral components.
The objective of the invention is to eliminate said drawbacks, i.e. the creation of biologically active additives (BAA), which has antiviral, antipyretic, analgesic and anti-inflammatory properties and contains no allergens.
Summary of the invention in that the proposed biological active additive for the prevention and treatment of influenza, containing tincture of propolis and calendula, ascorbic acid, calcium gluconate, diphenhydramine, rutin and excipients - starch, calcium stearate, talc in the following ratio of components a tablet weight of 0.55 g, g:
tincture of propolis 0,04±0,008
tincture of calendula 0,02±0,004
ascorbic acid is 0.15±0,03
diphenhydramine 0,005±0,001
rutin 0,02±0,004
calcium gluconate 0,1±0,02
excipients else
The choice of technological forms of run BAD is determined by the production technology, the specific conditions of use, in particular, the requirements to the convenience of its application, the magnitude of individual doses, and other similar requirements.
The optimal number of components included in the BUD, get experimental way is.
One of the best technological forms is BAD tablet, because it is most convenient to use.
The BAD can be performed also in the form of krivoruchka, tinctures, infusions, extracts and other technological forms.
Below is a possible option technology SUPPLEMENTS in pill form.
1. Metered ingredients: calcium gluconate in the amount of 20.4 kg, ascorbic acid in the amount of 10.2 kg rutin in the number 4,08 kg diphenhydramine in number is 0.102 kg, starch in the amount of 14.28 kg talc in the amount of 1.02 kg, calcium stearate in the amount of worn : 0.505 kg
2. Calcium gluconate, ascorbic acid, rutin, diphenhydramine, starch is sifted through a sieve with holes of 1 mm; calcium stearate and talc sieved through a sieve with holes of 0.5 mm Tincture of propolis and calendula, which are used as drugs, manufactured in accordance with the State Pharmacopoeia, as well as purified water filtered through 4 layers of gauze.
3. From 0.2 kg of starch, 0.3 kg of water at room temperature and 1.6 kg of water, heated to boiling, cook the starch paste. The yield of 2 kg
4. From 20,4 kg of calcium gluconate, 14,08 kg of starch, is 0.102 kg Dimedrol, 4,08 kg rutin, 10.2 kg of ascorbic acid prepare a mixture, which moisturize 70% tincture of propolis in the number 8,16 kg, 70% tincture of calendula in to the number 4,08 kg and starch paste - 2 kg. Output wet weight of 63.1 kg
5. Wet raw mass granularit. The output of the wet granulate - 62,85 kg
6. The wet granulate is dried to a residual moisture content of 2%. The output of the dry granulated mass - 49,225 kg
7. The dry granulate is forced through a sieve with holes of 1.5 mm and mixed with sifted worn : 0.505 kg of calcium stearate and 1.02 kg of talc. The yield of dry product was 50.5 kg
8. The dry granulate tabletirujut, obtaining tablets with a diameter of 12±0.2 mm, a height of 6.0±0.2 mm, average weight of 0.55±0,02, the product Yield 50,25 kg
The finished tablet weight 0,55±0.12 g contains approximately the following amount in grams of each component:
Calcium gluconate 0,1±02
9. The obtained tablets dedust, sifting the vibrating sieve with the hole diameter 10 mm Out of the finished tablets 50 kg
therapeutic efficacy of the invention was confirmed by clinical trials.
The medication was prescribed 1 tablet 3-5 times a day.
When assigning BAD “Picogreen” noted mild catarrhal phenomena pharynx and conjunctiva during the first three days. Febrile period was 18-48 hours. Symptoms of intoxication (weakness, adynamia, potlivosti, myalgia, headache, eye pain, lacrimation, photophobia) were stopped to the second day of drug administration. Symptoms of the respiratory tract (dry cough, sore throat, nasal congestion) decreased significantly within 2-4 days.
Resulting in patients with clinical influenza symptoms resolved within 4-5 days, therapy duration of colds was reduced to 2-4 days, tonsillitis and pharyngitis up to 5-7 days.
As has been shown in clinical trials BAD “Picogreen” not only makes it easier for SARS, but also prevents the exacerbation of chronic diseases and the development of secondary bacterial infections. Patients treated BAD “Picogreen”, recorded a favourable resolution from the disease during the observation period there were no recorded complications. While 37% of patients treated with standard therapy, stated exacerbation of chronic diseases, and in 25% of patients in this group developed a secondary bacterial infection.
Thus, the invention is allergens as an alternative to known drugs, has a high antipyretic, analgesic, anti-inflammatory and antiviral properties, and, in addition, in the manufacture in the form of pills is very comfortable to use and long term storage.
Biologically active additive for profilaktiki treatment of influenza, characterized in that it contains tincture of propolis and calendula, ascorbic acid, calcium gluconate, diphenhydramine, rutin and excipients - starch, calcium stearate, talc in the following ratio of components, g a tablet weight of 0.55 g:
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The invention relates to pharmacology and medicine and relates to investigation of new anti-virus tools
The method of producing tablets of rimantadine and tablet obtained in this way // 2190393
The invention relates to the production of tools for the treatment and prevention of influenza in children and adults
A method of treating influenza // 2182005
The invention relates to medicine and can be used for treatment of influenza
Derivatives of neuraminic acid, pharmaceutical composition and method for the treatment and prevention of influenza // 2169145
The invention relates to a derivative of neuraminic acid or their pharmaceutically acceptable salts, possessing superior ability in vivo to inhibit sialidase; compositions containing them as active ingredients for the treatment or prevention of infections by influenza viruses; their use for the manufacture of a medicinal product for the treatment or prevention of infection by influenza virus, the method of treatment or prevention of infections by influenza virus by introducing their pharmaceutically effective amounts of warm-blooded animals, or the way they are received
Tablet subjecting for rapid decomposition in buccal pocket and method for its preparing // 2244543
FIELD: medicine, pharmacy.
SUBSTANCE: invention relates to a tablet decomposing rapidly in the buccal pocket and comprising a medicinal agent, excipient and saccharide with relatively lower melting point than that of a medicinal agent and excipient. Tablet is made by uniform mixing saccharide with low melting point with tablet mass to form bridge between particles of named medicinal agent and/or excipient through melting product followed by hardening mentioned saccharide with low melting point. Except for, invention relates to a method for making tablet decomposing rapidly in buccal pocket and comprising a medicinal agent, excipient and saccharide with relatively lower melting point than that of medicinal agent and excipient. Method involves: (a) the parent components of tablet comprising a medicinal agent, excipient and saccharide with relatively lower melting point that that of a medicinal agent and excipient are pressed under low pressure to provide the required tablet form; (b) pressed product obtained after stage (a) is heated to temperature when saccharide with low melting point is melted; (c) melted product obtained after stage (b) is cooled to temperature when melted saccharide with low melting point is hardened. Invention represents a tablet decomposing rapidly in buccal pocket and having the tablet strength providing its using in tablet-making machines for dosed formulations and giving the possibility for making tablet using common tablet-making machines, and to a method for making tablets. Except for, invention represents a tablet decomposing rapidly in buccal pocket being this table as compared with common tablets has enhanced tablet strength and improved frangibility without prolonged decomposing time in buccal pocket, and a method for tablet making.
EFFECT: improved making method.
63 cl, 4 tbl, 1 dwg, 21 ex
Method for preparing composition // 2244542
FIELD: pharmacy.
SUBSTANCE: invention relates to pharmaceutical compositions in the form of cellular mechanically stable, lamellar, porous, spongy or foam-like structures and to a method for their preparing from solutions and dispersions. Method involves carrying out the following stages: a) preparing a solution or homogenous dispersion liquid and compound taken among the group including one or some pharmaceutically active compounds, one or some pharmaceutically acceptable additives and their mixtures, and the following stage b) foaming solution or homogenous dispersion at reducing pressure 30-150 torrs without boiling. Invention provides stabilizing the composition.
EFFECT: improved preparing method.
38 cl, 4 ex
Analgesic drug with sustained-releasing active substance // 2244541
SUBSTANCE: invention proposes new tablets with size less 3 mm with sustained-releasing the opioid analgesic drug for 30 min in the amount above 75%. Invention provides opioid for oral intake with taking into account individual necessity of patient due to selection of required amount of mictotablets by dispenser.
EFFECT: valuable properties of tablet, expanded assortment of medicinal formulations of opioid analgesics.
19 cl, 4 tbl, 4 ex
Quickly dispersible dosage forms containing fish gelatin // 2242969
Anti-hangover pill "pokmeon-norm+" // 2241485
The invention relates to the field of creation of biologically active additives and can be used as a General tonic antihypoxic contribute to a reduction of toxic effects of alcohol
Composition "angioni" with antiaggregatory, cardio, onotonicity action // 2241483
The invention relates to pharmaceutical industry and relates to the creation of tools, plant-based, and can be used as a therapeutic and preventive antiaggregatory, cardio, ventunesimo and improves microcirculation funds in vascular disorders
Biologically active additive "bone of grass for the prevention and adjuvant therapy of diseases of the musculoskeletal system // 2241481
The invention relates to the pharmaceutical industry and is used as an auxiliary bracing means with hypothermia, to reduce the risk of chronic inflammatory diseases of the musculoskeletal system
Biologically active additive "intellectual" // 2241479
The invention relates to the pharmaceutical industry and is used as a means of improving the quality of thinking, memory, the body's resistance to physical and mental stress
Dietary supplement immune plus // 2241478
The invention relates to the pharmaceutical industry and is used as an adjuvant to enhance immune system function
Biologically active additive "antisec" // 2241477
The invention relates to the pharmaceutical industry and is used as an auxiliary means of reducing toxic effects on the body
Method for rehabilitation in pregnant women with iodine deficiency from ecologically dangerous regions // 2245153
FIELD: medicine, obstetrics, gynecology.
SUBSTANCE: rehabilitation should be carried out in the third trimester of pregnancy based upon dispensary situated in ecologically safe region, as an enterosorbent one should apply "Carbopect" preparation per 0.5-0.6 g once daily for 3 wk; as an iodine preparation it is necessary to prescribe "Potassium iodide" 200 mcg once daily till the end of pregnancy period and during the whole period of lactation; as adaptogens one should additionally prescribe "Revit" per 2 lozenges thrice daily for 2 wk; vitamin-containing tea; one should, also, apply aerotherapy named "mountain air" per 15-40 min, 15 procedures, totally. The present innovation enables to improve anthropometric parameters in neonatals, decrease the percentage of complications in babies in early neonatal period, among them those that require antibioticotherapy.
EFFECT: higher efficiency of rehabilitation.
2 ex
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‘Consider The Lilies Of The Field’
Posted: June 15, 2017 in Uncategorized
Isaiah 49:13-16a Matthew 6:25-31, 33-34.
A call to contemplation/mindfulness with imagination
Way back in the 1960s and early 70s, a contemporary theologian named Amos Wilder claimed that Jesus’ speech had the character, not of instruction and ideas, but of compelling imagination. (Wilder 1971). He claimed that Christianity is a religion of imagination and the oral word. And behind the particular gospel stories and images lie a particular life-experience and a language-shaping faith.
His ground-breaking scholarship was that Jesus of Nazareth and his first followers broke into the world of speech and writing of their time, with a novel and powerful utterance. This reminds us that as far as we know Jesus never wrote a word, except on that occasion when, in the presence of the woman taken in adultery where, ‘he bent down and wrote with his finger on the ground’. In secular terms we could say Jesus spoke as the birds sing, oblivious of any concern for transcription or written record.
Less romantically we might say that Jesus’ use of the spoken word alone has its own theological significance. This is because writing things down has about it a sense of permanence. It presupposes continuity and a future. But the spoken word is temporary. The words are gone as they are spoken. As Wilder said: “Jesus was a voice not a penman, a herald not a scribe” (Wilder 1971:13).
Tradition has it, that one of the most important pieces of ‘Jesus voice’ is the so-called ‘sermon on the mount’, and the bits and pieces of sayings that the author of Matthew’s gospel puts after this collection, such as today’s sayings:
Do not worry about your life, what you will eat, what you will drink, what you will wear…
Look at the birds of the air; they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns…
Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow…
Generally speaking, most biblical scholars now days believe there was really no such thing as a ‘sermon’ on the mount. In reality, they say, it was the editorial work of the author of Matthew’s gospel, to place Jesus within the Jewish tradition in general, and as another great teacher like Moses, in particular. However, many of those same scholars reckon that the particular everyday sayings which follow in the next chapter, and make up today’s Lectionary sayings, indicate every possibility that we have before us “the longest connected discourse that can be directly attributed to Jesus” (Funk & Hoover 1993:152). So let us stay with this scholarly suggestion for a moment.
The biblical stories frequently have Jesus drawing his figures of speech from the everyday world around him. “The need for food calls the birds to mind, the need for clothing the lilies…” (Funk & Hoover 1993:153). Plus… as the 1950s Scottish theologian William Barclay helpfully said, Jesus was not advocating a thoughtless, improvident attitude to life, “but was warning against a care-worn, worried, fearful way of living each day” (Millar 2000:175).
That’s why many scholars claim Jesus was a secular sage, (Hunt 2007:6). He made no theological statements. Neither did he set out to establish a new religion. He belonged more to the ‘wisdom’ stream than the ‘priestly’ stream of Judaism. That said, these particular sayings:
are addressed to people who are preoccupied with day-to-day existence, rather than with the broader political situation;
challenge common attitudes towards life, and
and of course they are exaggerations
and they do fit with some other sayings also attributed to Jesus.
In another but similar context, theologian Arthur Dewey says of Jesus’ sayings, they:
dispute the conventional wisdom that says one’s primary concern should be for those within our own social group or clan or family or nationality,
admit there is a degree of alienation in society, be it towards Muslims, gays and lesbians, or so-called illegal boat people/immigrants—whom we or they often turn into ‘the enemy’,
challenge us all to reshape our social categories, especially those of others, formed by our fears and rumors and innuendo.
And the implications of these sayings and this vision? Arthur Dewey again offers this suggestion: “…can you imagine acting differently towards those outside the circle of your people? …not only to re-imagine [your] response but also to offer [your] oppressor a chance for a more [humane] reply” (Dewey 2002:80).
What is important about all these sayings is, the imagination bit. They make it possible for us to see the world, the everyday world in which we live, not only as it is, but also as it can be. To re-imagine. To move us to new places. To turn us into new people. And to lure a response from us that will want to do away with that which oppresses, limits, restricts, deprives, imprisons, others. And this brings us to the contemplation/mindfulness bit.
Clyde Reid in his book “Celebrate the Temporary’ wrote;
Celebrate the simple things: enjoy the butterfly embrace the snow run with the ocean delight in the trees or a single lonely flower
Go barefoot in the wet grass
Don’t wait until all the problems are solved or all the bills are paid You will wait forever
Eternity will come and go and you will still be waiting
Live in the now with all its problems and its agonies with its joy and its pain…
There is joy and beauty today It is temporary Here now and gone
So celebrate it while you can
I read this as a call to take time out, to engage more fully, waste a moment so that whet come next will have meaning. Consider the Lillies of the field. But just before we get into that we need to get some sort of working definition for mindfulness, which in today’s world is the discipline that psychiatry, psychology and counselling is suggesting as a means of dealing to depression, anxiety and many things listed under the term mental illness. Mindfulness is it seems the tool for a non-pharmaceutical approach to healing the mind.
Hold in your minds the idea that mindfulness is another mane for contemplation and that the wisdom tradition, the monastic tradition, the gnostics perhaps were all attempts to explore the wholistic human being. Being able to explore the imagination, the silence, the depths of thought were all ways of healing humankind. But to return to today we find that Dan Siegal summarizes mindfulness as “being aware, on purpose and non-judgmentally, of what is happening as it is happening in the present moment”.
Tara Brach defines is ‘The quality of awareness that recognizes exactly what is happening in our moment -to-moment experience”.
James Austin tries to capture the one-of-a-kind nature of mindful awareness when he speaks of ‘being mindfully attuned to the fresh individuality of each present moment as it evolves into the next one, and then the next one”
Jon Kabat-Zinn when speaking of lovingkindness meditation suggests mindful awareness is focused on someone you love. This is a blending of mindfulness into the experience of the relationship itself.
It is not surprising then that mindfulness/or contemplation as it is understood above involves the very areas of the brain that are involved in the creation of our capacity for compassion and intersubjectivity. In other words how my subjectivity, (the fact that I cannot ever get outside myself) interacts with your subjectivity (Out of which you cannot get either). It is by the practice of mindfulness that enables us to let go of judgmental processes and stay more ‘present.’ Meditation or contemplation can change the brain to become more empathetic and attuned to everything.
I want to show you a short video now that talks about this place that we might enjoy by being mindful through contemplation. But just before I do that I want to remind you about Eric Fromm’s 5 points about living a spiritual life.
He says that people who have a spiritual life believe there is a hierarchy of values – Love and compassion are seen as more important than distain for the Oxford comma.
That people who have a spiritual life know that life is not filled with simple answers, but that life is a series of questions that expand us.
That people who are engaged in a spiritual life know that life is about being transformed.
That people who have a spiritual life know that life is not about the self, but it is about transcending the self we think our selves to be. We need to free ourselves from our selves so we can be ourselves.
And that people who have a spiritual life know that there is an inter-connectedness of humanity and with one another.
I think that here we have the key to mindfulness as a discipline that does not abdicate the cognitive, reasoned world in favour of silence or nothingness, but rather through the awareness of self and the subjectivity of the self in tension with the other provides an experience that is birthed in the questioning of our devotion to our self and provides a willingness to be transformed in love and connectedness. Lets watch the video as I think Watts talks about this place of knowing or being mystical and engaged.
You Tube- Waiting for magic -Alan Watts
Emilie Townes, Professor of African American Religion and Theology, at Yale Divinity School, made a presentation to the ‘Voices of Sophia’ conference of Presbyterian women in the USA… Her oral presentation was shaped around a theme: What will we do with the fullness and incompleteness of who we are. She didn’t offer a highly academic speech. Neither did she suggest she was talking about what makes any of us, perfect. What she did say was: “I’m talking about what we call in Christian ethics, the everydayness of moral acts… It’s what we do every day that shapes us and says more about us than those grand moments of righteous indignation and action” (Townes 2006. www.voicesofsophia.org)
Using ordinary rather than so-called ‘holy’ language, reminiscent of the one we call Jesus, Townes lists her everyday moral acts which her listeners, and now us, are invited to identify with:
the everydayness of listening closely when folks talk or don’t talk, to hear what they are saying;
the everydayness of taking some time, however short or long, to refresh us through prayer or meditation;
the everydayness of speaking to folks and actually meaning whatever it is that is coming out of our mouths;
the everydayness of being a presence in people’s lives; the everydayness of designing a class session or lecture or reading or writing or thinking;
the everydayness of sharing a meal;
the everydayness of facing heartache and disappointment;
the everydayness of joy and laughter;
the everydayness of facing people who expect us to lead them somewhere, or at least point them in the right direction and walk with them;
the everydayness of blending head and heart;
the everydayness of getting up and trying one more time to get our living right.
It is in this everydayness, Townes says, that we are formed. Boundaries and differences are irrelevant. And in the everydayness of the Jesus imagination: love enemies, forgive others, imitate divine tolerance. Amen.
Notes: Funk, R. W. & R. Hoover. The Five Gospels. The Search for the Authentic Words of Jesus. New York. Macmillan, 1993. Hunt, R. A. E. 2007. “Progressive Christianity: New moves in Christian thinking and practice”. A presentation to Christian Jewish Dialogue ACT, 4 February 2007. Millar, P. Waymarks. Signposts to Discovering God’s Presence in the World. Norwich. Canterbury Press, 2000. Reid, C. Celebrate the Temporary. New York. Harper & Row, 1972. Wilder, A. N. Early Christian Rhetoric. The Language of the Gospel. Cambridge. Harvard University Press, 1971. Dewey, A. “Jesus as a Peasant Artisan”, in R. W. Hoover (ed). Profiles of Jesus. Santa Rosa. Polebridge Press, 2002.
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Cyber Exposure
Machine Learning Could Make Hackers Practically Unstoppable: Are You Ready?
Advanced AI technologies are raising the stakes on the cyber ‘cat-and-mouse’ game between criminals and security professionals.
By: Michelle Kerr | August 30, 2018
Topics: Cyber Risks | September 1 2018 Issue | Underwriting
The idea of artificial intelligence has fueled both fascination and fear ever since HAL 9000 refused to open the pod bay doors in 1968. But 50 years later, AI bears only minimal resemblance to Arthur C. Clarke and Stanley Kubrik’s dark vision.
AI in the real world is providing vital clinical support for doctors, allowing retailers to offer curated shopping experiences and driving efficiencies and performance across a broad range of industries.
Unfortunately, the cyber-crime industry is no exception.
A 2014 study from McAfee estimated the global cost of cyber crime at $445 billion. The firm’s most recent analysis places that figure at an astounding $600 billion — about 0.8 percent of global GDP.
The most significant change within that time span is the explosion of AI and machine learning, thanks to the wide availability of GPUs that make processing power faster and cheaper; the proliferation of inexpensive sensor technology and wireless connectivity; and the birth of the cloud, providing virtually unlimited storage capacity for the vast amount of data being collected every day.
The terms AI and machine learning are often used interchangeably, but they’re not the same. AI refers to all machines that can perform tasks characteristic to human intelligence. Basic AI applications rely on code with rules and decision-trees. “If X, then perform Y.” Consider a spam filter. It can be programmed to delete or divert all emails from specific addresses, just as a human would otherwise do manually.
Machine learning is a facet of AI. Machine learning trains an algorithm so that it can learn, by feeding huge amounts of data to the algorithm and allowing the algorithm to adjust itself and improve.
Deep learning, more or less, is machine learning on steroids. Deep learning can solve complex problems with brain-like neural networks that act in layers. Each layer is trained on learning a specific feature and all of the features are connected, creating a self-learning entity with immense depth.
A Wide Range of Threats
The phenomenal power and versatility of machine learning and deep learning make them ideal tools for the cyber security arsenal. Self-teaching AI allows companies to detect vulnerabilities or anomalous behavior and act independently to identify and block attacks.
Tim Zeilman, vice president and cyber coverage expert, Hartford Steam Boiler
“It’s really a behavioral science. Artificial intelligence is enhancing your ability to compute that behavioral science with an enormous amount of metadata,” said Shiraz Saeed, national practice leader for cyber risk, Starr Companies. “Ultimately we’re all looking for the same thing — pattern recognition.”
When you build a better mousetrap, though, the mice get craftier too. As quickly as security experts can leverage machine learning to identify anomalies and create dynamic defenses, criminals can use the same tools to map networks, find targets, identify weak spots, launch custom attacks and improve their ability to hide from sophisticated detection programs.
The range of criminal applications for machine learning is expansive. “AI is a tool, and the uses to which it can be put are limited only really by the imagination of the user,” said Tim Zeilman, vice president and cyber coverage expert with Hartford Steam Boiler.
“It can be it can be a little bit staggering that in some cases the CISO might only have visibility on maybe 60 percent of their extended ecosystem, meaning there’s 40 percent floating out there potentially wildly exposed, and they don’t even know about it, let alone actively trying to protect it.” — Kevin Richards, global head of cyber risk consulting, Marsh
Security experts expect criminals to replace botnets with intelligent clusters of compromised devices called hivenets to create more effective attack vectors. Hivenets will leverage self-learning to effectively target vulnerable systems at an unprecedented scale, communicating and acting off of shared information. Hivenets will be able to expand into swarms, identifying and targeting different attack vectors simultaneously while slowing down mitigation and response.
“It makes it much more difficult to combat the attack due to the speed and scale,” said Tim Marlin, senior managing director and head of cyber and professional liability, The Hartford.
“A self-learning hivenet … will often act to move to a different attack vector once their initial vector has been cut off.”
In the area of ransomware, already a significant threat, next-level attacks could involve cloud service providers and other commercial services. With the aid of machine learning, multi-vector attacks could scan for, detect and exploit weaknesses in a cloud provider’s system, simultaneously disrupting service for hundreds or thousands of businesses and millions of their customers.
Machine learning tactics are also helping criminals perfect the sinister arts of phishing and spearfishing. A recent Trend Micro report indicates that phishing attacks are expected to net $9 billion in 2018. That figure will only keep rising — because it works. A study from security firm PhishMe found that 91 percent of cyber attacks start with a user clicking on a phishing email.
A growing number of companies are training their people to recognize phishing attempts, but advanced AI is making defense trickier, said Kevin Richards, global head of cyber risk consulting, Marsh, as AI can learn end-users’ responses to different tactics and adjust accordingly.
A target being heavily spammed might mark the emails as junk or try other tactics to stop the influx. But “the learning engine is changing the attack ‘look and feel’ just enough that it bypasses the security controls,” he said. At some point the user will click unsubscribe to make it go away. “That’s when the malware actually gets delivered,” said Richards. “And it’s kind of insidious, because you’re trying to do the right things.”
Kevin Richards, global head of cyber risk consulting, Marsh
Spearphishing — or phishing for specific credentials or data — is highly lucrative, so attackers are willing to put in the time to gather what they need, compiling publicly available information and social media data in search of clues on how to approach each target with believable but fraudulent emails.
Assisted by machine learning algorithms however, bad actors can get to their end game in a fraction of the time.
“Artificial intelligence can help process massive amounts of data and put together connections and build profiles of people that can be used for social engineering,” said Zeilman. “With AI you can [compile data] on a massive scale and very quickly … and create things that are way more comprehensive.”
Deep learning can also process communication and behavior patterns to make social engineering attacks seem so authentic that virtually no one would suspect foul play.
Recent reports on deepfake video techniques add a new level of alarm. It’s possible to envision a scenario where criminals could fake a Skype call with a CFO, instructing subordinates to wire money to a specific account. Even employees sufficiently trained on security procedures might consider bypassing those procedures when presented with “face-to-face” orders from the boss.
Increased ease of gathering credentials is also contributing to a booming crime-as-a-service industry on the Dark Web. Cyber criminals are building databases full of dossiers of high-value individual targets and their credentials. A “phisher” can now be someone who doesn’t even have to know how to code. He or she can just buy credentials on the Dark Web almost as easily as ordering from Amazon.
Machine learning is boosting the cyber-crime economy in other ways, including services that allow developers to upload attack code and malware to analyze how security tools from different vendors are able to detect it.
White Hats vs. Black Hats
So the good news is that the “good guys” are actively using advanced AI technologies to detect and defend against cyber incursions. The bad news is that the “bad guys” are working just as hard.
“I think that the good guys had a head start. So that’s worth something,” said Zeilman. “But I’m not sure how long that’s going to last.
“A lot of times, the real question is the motivation — what motivates the bad guys to use this new technology? And the answer to that is [usually] money,” he said.
“Cyber criminals tend to be lazy, so if they can get away without using AI and still make tons of money, there’s not a lot of incentive for them to move into that field. But if the defenders start using AI and it becomes difficult for the bad guys to keep up, then there’s a lot of motivation for them to get ahead of the defenders, keep up with their business model and continue to make lots of money,” Zeilman said.
“Innovation, unfortunately, can happen faster on the bad actors’ side, because they don’t really have things like quarterly earnings reports or outage windows for maintenance of the data center,” added Richards.
“They don’t worry about those things. They’re worrying about improving the yield of their attacks. If these tools can help them be more efficient and more effective, they’re going to continue their investment in making those tools more robust.”
In addition, what counts as “winning” looks very different from either side, experts noted.
“As the defender, you’ve got to find all the holes and plug them up. As the attacker, you’ve just got to find one hole and use it,” said Marlin. “That’s always the issue here when you’re playing on the defensive side. [The attackers] only need a small hit ratio in order to [succeed].”
The deeper concern is where the lines will eventually be drawn — and if they’ll be drawn at all, said Zeilman.
“The good guys [are working on AI] in established labs, and they do so in tightly controlled situations, with an eye towards the moral and ethical consequences of AI,” he said. “I think once you start getting people in the criminal sphere delving deeply into AI, they’re not necessarily going to have those kinds of moral and ethical considerations in mind. So we’re [perhaps] letting the genie out of the bottle.”
Cyber Security Is Only Part of the Solution
In terms of cyber coverage, a cyber attack powered by advanced AI isn’t going to change the way a policy responds. But as the scale of cyber-crime balloons, risk managers should consider whether their insurance coverage is aligned with their risk exposure, said Joshua Motta, CEO of Coalition, a new firm that provides comprehensive cyber insurance coverage, cyber security, and risk management services.
“Criminals can now operate at unprecedented scale and efficiency, and are using technology to their advantage to cause economic harm,” said Motta.
It’s time, he said, for a shift in thinking. While it’s true that many cyber attacks cannot be prevented, the losses from cyber attacks can be.
Joshua Motta, CEO, Coalition
“I chose to focus on risk transfer because despite a company’s best efforts, there is always the latent risk of a cyber attack. Companies that are making best efforts at cyber security, but do nothing when it comes to transfer, have an incomplete solution.
“In reality you need to be doing all these things. You need to be able to prevent incidents from happening. You need a plan for how to mitigate them when they do happen. And you need a mechanism in place to help you recover and to help pay for any unforeseen costs you may incur following an incident.
“Only when you accomplish those things as a company are you prepared for the worst that could happen.”
The Hartford’s Marlin echoed Motta’s point. Given the constantly changing threat environment, he said, insureds need to be including resilience in the way they think about their cyber programs and cyber response. The Hartford’s CyberChoice First Response includes “Post Incident Remediation Expense” coverage, which is an additional limit to be able to improve their systems, even in ways unrelated to the claim itself.
“We are committed to being partners with our insureds, and we do want them to be better than they were even before the claim,” said Marlin.
Small to midsized businesses are the least likely to be prepared for an attack, said Motta, largely because they don’t understand why criminals would bother to attack them.
“There are targets of choice and targets of opportunity,” he said. Targets of choice — large companies like JP Morgan or Equifax — are targeted in many cases for who they are. Targets of opportunity, however, often fall into the crosshairs because of a misstep in how they’ve managed or configured their IT infrastructure.
“Cyber criminals are scanning for ‘nails’ that stick out above the surface, such as obvious vulnerabilities in a company’s IT infrastructure. Once they find one, they use their ‘hammer’ in the form of an exploit to target or take a swing at the company and their vulnerable systems.”
Smaller businesses in particular, said Motta, can benefit from partners who see the nails sticking out and show them what they can do about it.
Understand the Size of Your Footprint
As the cyber-crime industry continues to blossom, risk managers need to be looking at the broader picture of risk and considering whether they have peripheral exposures.
“As companies go more digital in their business processes, the problem extends beyond corporate IT, said Richards. “So this is becoming less about protecting my private data center and more about how my digital footprint has expanded across suppliers, across the cloud, across mobile, across social media, and they need to bring all of this into account.”
The “extended ecosystem,” said Richards, includes every digital relationship where something important to the company is being shared with third parties.
“Maybe I’ve outsourced part of a business process like manufacturing or distribution. They have critical intellectual property; now my cyber security program has to include them in my strategies. Risk managers need to ensure that their net covers all of that.”
Far too often that net falls short, said Richards. “It can be a little bit staggering that in some cases the CISO might only have visibility on maybe 60 percent of their extended ecosystem, meaning there’s 40 percent floating out there potentially wildly exposed, and they don’t even know about it, let alone actively trying to protect it.”
Insurers are also actively considering their own footprints, experts said, and looking at the potential for aggregation exposure.
“There are some worrying implications for risk accumulation, or the likelihood that a single attack could trigger losses across a larger number of companies,” said Motta.
“Frankly that’s the biggest challenge for the insurance industry, no matter what the class of insurance [but it’s a] particular challenge with cyber.
“Accumulation risk is more difficult to price because you’re really talking about pricing catastrophic risk as opposed to pricing the everyday probability that an individual company is going to get hacked.”
The post-AI cyber landscape could force a profound shift in the way underwriters approach cyber risks, said Zeilman.
“Every now and then a technological change essentially renders your past history certainly less relevant — perhaps completely irrelevant,” he said.
“All this data that we have at hand tells us to some extent how these risks are going to behave. It might have to be thrown out the window, because [the future brings] a significant technological shift that will cause cyber criminals to act very differently, and will cause harm or loss experience to change in unpredictable ways.” &
Michelle Kerr is workers' comp editor for Risk & Insurance. She can be reached at [email protected]
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Bradley Cooper Talks ‘Guardians Of The Galaxy’ And Rocket Raccoon’s Accent
Posted December 10th, 2013 by Stuart Conover
With Marvel’s Phase 2 taking on a cosmic aspect we’re of course getting some alien creatures. One of the ones from ‘Guardians of the Galaxy‘ that will most stick out though will be Bradley Cooper (‘Limitless‘) voicing Rocket Raccoon and his slew of annoying catch phrases. Recently he sad down for the press about his latest film ‘American Hustle’ and shared a few tidbits about his work on Marvel’s big cosmic gamble.
Since his voice will be the only part of Cooper that will be in the film, how he sounds is, of course, important. Interestingly enough it looks like he was on the fence about the film until James Gunn (‘Dawn of the Dead’) started talking to him.
“Well, I like James a lot and it really was about him and then talking to him about the guy. I wasn’t familiar with the comic at all and then I really loved it, and I love that character. He’s incredible that character. You know, one thing we debated was he’s seen as a cockney accent sometimes. So we talked about whether we’d do that or do this sort of other guy from the city a little bit.”
Rocket Raccoon with a cockney accent? Oh, how I hope that’s the route they go! That’d be perfectly fitting for the Raccoon and hearing him say “bang!” every time he pulls the trigger will be so much better with an accent.
While the film was in production, the cast had a chance to see some of the footage and while Cooper didn’t give any spoilers away, he did say that “Chris Pratt is unbelievable and Zoe is great, she’s always great. Chris Pratt just blew me away. I thought he’s just like the perfect guy.” There’s some Chris Pratt (‘Her‘) bro-love right there! Either he and Chris are hanging out all the time or he is truly pulling off an amazing performance. With Zoe Saldana (‘Star Trek Into Darkness’) saying that the film’s characters are “absolutely amazing and they have a full blown redemption” it’s promising a lot. Of course the fact that James Gunn has mentioned Thanos will be more than just a side smile will help bring at least a few skeptical people in.
You can watch the full interview with Cooper here:
Are you looking forward to seeing hearing Cooper’s performance? What are your thoughts on this star studded film and Marvel’s big risk on going with lesser known characters?
‘Guardians of the Galaxy’ starring Chris Pratt, Dave Bautista, Zoe Saldana, Lee Pace, Glenn Close, John C. Reilly, Karen Gillan, Benicio Del Toro, and Michael Rooker blasts off on August 1st, 2014.
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Stuart Conover is a father, husband, blogger, published author, geek, entrepreneur, editor of Horror Tree, horror fanatic, science fiction junkie, lives in a world of comics, and a casual gamer (all of this when his wife lets him of course.) He fell in love with science fiction and horror at the same time while watching the movie Alien at probably far too young of an age while still being extremely impressionable and has been happily obsessed with both since! Around the same time, he had also developed an unhealthy addiction to comic books that continues to this day!Want to talk about anything geeky? Reach out on Twitter - @StuartConover
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DC Round-Up: Arrow/The Flash, iZombie, Lucifer, Suicide Squad
There are character descriptions for the new CW spin-off, iZombie opening credits, more Lucifer casting, and a rumored name for Suicide Squad.
by Raissa Devereux March 13, 2015
In this edition of DC Round-Up, there are character descriptions for the new CW spin-off, iZombie opening credits, more Lucifer casting, and a rumored name for Suicide Squad.
TVLine has descriptions for three “mystery” characters set to join The Atom and Friends in the untitled Arrow/The Flash spinoff…
“THE TRAVELER” | Described as a “Han Solo-esque rogue who gets by with his charm, this hero hails from the future, and has journeyed back in time on a secret mission. His razor-sharp wit hides the pain of a man who has lived through serious conflict. He also harbors many secrets, always leaving both his teammates and the audience unsure of his true allegiances…
“FEMALE WARRIOR” |This twentysomething Latina is pretty but unassuming, book smart and socially awkward by day. But by night, when she hears the cry of battle, her fury is ignited and she becomes a fierce warrior — so much so, that sometimes she can become a threat to others…
“MYSTERY HERO” |An African-American male in his twenties will fill the role of a regular, street smart guy who unexpectedly gains powers, and then, as part of the team, regularly quips about the insanity of the situations.
When iZombie comes to television next week in the US, the series will feature an opening titles sequence utilizing the art of Michael Allred, the Madman creator and Silver Surfer artist responsible for the art on Vertigo’s iZombie, the series on which the show is based. The CW has provided ComicBook.com with an exclusive look at the titles.
According to TVLine, Lucifer has a leading lady. Chicago Fire‘s Lauren German will play a homicide detective entranced (and disgusted) by the Dark Prince in Fox’s DC Comics drama pilot. In the potential series, German’s Chloe Dancer works for the Los Angeles Police Department and teams up with Lucifer (played by Rush‘s Tom Ellis), who has abandoned Hell and chosen to help L.A.’s finest apprehend and punish criminals. Their partnership causes the Lord of the Underworld to wonder at Chloe’s inherent goodness, which in turn causes him to think humanity might not be so bad after all.
According to Cinema Blend, Arrow’s Deathstroke is about to get a big screen counterpart…
A source close to the production tells us that Magic Mike co-star Joe Manganiello has all but locked up the part of Deathstroke in David Ayer’s Suicide Squad. The deal isn’t done yet. Jason Clarke is reportedly still in play, but our source says it is an almost certainty that Manganiello has the role. The idea first floated by us back in December, when numerous names were in the mix for the various roles in Ayer’s super-villain screenplay. Since then, the three main actors associated with the project have been Will Smith, Margot Robbie and Jared Leto, cast as as Deadshot, Harley Quinn and The Joker, respectively. But Deathstroke has remained an uncast mystery… until now.
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DEREK JACOBI RETURNS AS THE WAR MASTER!
Peoples of the universe, please attend carefully… Sir Derek Jacobi is reprising his iconic role as the War Master for Big Finish Productions!
by Raissa Devereux June 16, 2017
We here at SciFi Pulse don’t have adequate words to express our joy at this news from Big Finish…
Today Big Finish can announce the return of Sir Derek Jacobi as the Master, ten years to the day after his first appearance in the Doctor Who episode, Utopia.
“His incarnation is very much the ‘Hannibal Lecter’ of Time Lords – intelligent, charming, but thoroughly ruthless – we had a lot of fun in studio bringing the War Master back to life,” explains producer and director Scott Handcock, “It’s been a gift of a project, and we can’t wait for listeners to hear it!”
“I didn’t expect to come back to it all these years later,” says Sir Derek, “but I was thrilled to be remembered. The plots in all these episodes have been very good indeed, very interesting, very dramatic, and beautifully written. The whole process has been a delight!”
Doctor Who: The War Master follows the exploits of the Doctor’s arch-enemy during the course of the devastating Time War, featuring four stories from acclaimed Doctor Who writers Nicholas Briggs (also script editor of the series), James Goss and Guy Adams, as well as new writing talent from Janine H Jones.
1. Beneath the Viscoid by Nicholas Briggs
On the ocean planet Gardezza, deep beneath the Viscoid, a mysterious capsule is recovered from the Time War, and an equally mysterious stranger found within. The Doctor’s reputation precedes him, even here… but can he be trusted?
2. The Good Master by Janine H Jones
The Time War rages around Arcking – a planet serving as a sanctuary for the sick and injured. But Arcking is protected by a mysterious, powerful force: a force the Master will stop at nothing to harness… even if time itself is against him.
3. The Sky Man by James Goss
When his new companion decides to save a planet, the Master indulges this most futile of requests. Materialising on a primitive, agrarian world, both the strangers quickly find their place in it… until fallout from the War invades their happy paradise.
4. The Heavenly Paradigm by Guy Adams
With his plans approaching fruition, the Master travels to Stamford Bridge in the 1970s: a location he believes might hold the key to his success. But what terrible secret lurks under the stairs of No. 24 Marigold Lane? And what sacrifices will the Master make in the name of ultimate victory?
Along with the return of the War Master, we are also announcing two further new releases today.
Gallifrey: Time War explores the Time Lord planet brought to crisis by the ongoing war. Lalla Ward and Louise Jameson play Romana and Leela in a Gallifrey at the brink of collapse.
And we’ll be returning to New New New New New New New New New New New New New New York with the return of Adjoa Andoh, Yasmin Bannerman and Anna Hope to a unique set of stories for Big Finish, Tales of New Earth. We’ll be revealing more information about these exciting releases soon!
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The beauty of losing in football and betting (sports)!
When Arsenal played Chelsea at the last Europa final, I was utterly disappointed as the goals came pouring in....but I soon switched emotions mode before the match endedd. When they lost in 2011 to Birmingham at the then Carling Cup final, I was utterly heartbroken. 2006 Champions league final saw an immature me......Over the years, Arsenal FC has given me mixture of pains and happiness; but I am grateful. Going all the way as a football enthusiast, while viewing/watching a match and placing bets on same match is one hell of a full time job. Not easy, never will it be! But there seems to be social/philosophical benefits, or so I think.... I am a fan of stoicism, which teaches one to be indifferently tolerant of pain/disappointments etc. Not just a fan, I am also a die hard student of that great school of philosophy. I have learnt earlier that disappointment has a way of not just toughening you up, but also makes you grow up very soon in knowing how to handle ups and downs. One of the worst thing that can happen to you as a sports fan is not just to have your favourite team lose, but also to lose the bet you placed on the team in the given fixture. Sports is a school whether one believes it or not. In my hood where we have viewing centres, you find young boys ranging from adolescents to teenagers viewing football matches with the calmness of a full grown adult. This didn't happen in a day. Those who are starting on football fan-dom can easily be noticed by how jittery they appear as their team coasts through some nervy moments. Not that the older ones do not occasionally feel the heat, but they have a way of spreading their minds on various outcomes and utilising that " whatever will be will be" spirit to give the self a softer landing come any outcome of the match The point at which a new kid on the block of football (sports) fan-dom begins to rub minds with the older ones and endure jeerings and cheerings, while also dishing out same as the tables turn on their opponents, is the point the maturity has begun. In no distant time, the stoical spirit gets unleashed and you begin to readapt the lessons learnt to other areas of your life. Not everyone is usually at home with this school. Some cann't stand being taunted, while some prefer to hear the results than watching things play out on the screen. Either side of the divide, I have found out that PRACTICAL PHILOSOPHY WITH A MAJOR IN STOICISM, IS ALWAYS THE TAKE HOME OF SUCH SPORTS FANS AND THEY ARE NATURALLY AHEAD IN DEALING WITH LIFE'S LEMONS! So many of us here can resonate with what I am talking about. Not that this does not apply to other sports I chose only football and betting cos those two are my mainstay... How wonderful our societies will get, if/when we take life in our stride, not given to over reactions such as anger and suicidal thoughts.
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SOME MOMENTS THAT CHANGED THE HISTORY OF SPORT (1)
Moments, emotions, photos, victories, defeats, inventions, intuitions, genes, signs, symbols. The history of sport is always alive, constantly evolving, always inclined towards change, innovation and modernity. There have been so many moments when the sport has changed, has seen a new side, seen unknown things. Here are some spectacular moments that have changed the sporting world, its history, its substance, its spirit! 1. TOMMIE SMITH: OLYMPICS BLACK POWER 1968, Mexico City, the Olympics serve Tommie Smith and John Carlos, first and third in the 200-meter race. To protest against racism, the duo choose the podium for their message, raising their gloved fist closed in black. 2. BARTALI AND COPPI PASS THE BOTTLE ON THE GALIBIER AT THE TOUR DE FRANCE, 1952 Bartali and Coppi on the Galibier Tour de France 1952, Galibier pass, one of the most feared and inaccessible ascents. This historic photo, taken by Carlo Martini, is a symbol of all rivalries, and of the human greatness that sets them apart. Both Coppi and Bartali have always played on this photo, never revealing who was passing the bottle to the other. 3. MARADONA, LA MANO DE DIOS, 1986 Maradona anticipates the English goalkeeper Peter Shilton with his hand Some destinies no one can change them. Quarter-finals of the World Cup Mexico '86, quarter-finals between England and Argentina, nations that only 4 years clashed in the Falklands War. Zero to zero at the start of the second half, then she arrives "la mano de Dios" with which Maradona unlocks the result. Five minutes later he signed the most beautiful goal of the century. In the post-match interview Maradona will say the famous phrase "The goal was scored a little with the head of Maradona and a little more with the hand of God". Argentina will then win the World Cup. 4. 10 BY NADIA COMANECI, 1976 Nadi Comaneci during his historic exhibition At the Montreal Olympics in 1976, at the age of 14 Nadia Comaneci enchanted the world, becoming the first gymnast to receive the highest score on asymmetric parallels. The vote, after an astonishing performance, was delayed because the computers were programmed to register votes up to 9.99, the "10" was not absolutely foreseen. In place of the 10 was placed in the computer the 1.00 vote which was actually multiplied ten times. 5. LOU GEHRIG'S FAREWELL ADDRESS, 1939 Lou Gehrig during his farewell address Lou Gehrig's beautiful farewell address to New York Yankees fans. The speech took place at the Yankee Stadium in New York, after the baseball champion heard about his illness, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (gehrig's disease). 6. THE CHAMPIONS LEAGUE FOR ERIC ABIDAL, 2011 The comrades carry Eric Abidal to heaven Two cases away from the diagnosis of a liver tumor, Eric Abidal, Barcelona full-back, returns to play a soccer game. Enter at the end of the game instead of Captain Charles Puyol, welcomed by an unforgettable ovation. He will win the Champions League and he will raise the cup instead of the captain, before raising it he is thrown into the sky by all his companions. 7. THE MEETING BETWEEN TYSON AND HOLYFIELD IN LAS VEGAS, 1997 Myke Tyson vs. Evander Holyfield, after the first fight in which Iron Mike was defeated, the revenge is played in Las Vegas. At the third round, however, the unthinkable happens, something never seen in a ring. Tyson loses his head and tears off part of Holyfield's ear with a bite. He is recalled but tries again shortly thereafter, he loses through disqualification and his boxer license is revoked for a year. 8. THE TRAGEDY OF SUPERGA IN WHICH GRANDE TORINO DISAPPEARED, 1949 The great Turin On May 4, 1949, at 5.15 pm, the Fiat G.212 trimotor crashed into the support wall of the garden of the Basilica di Superga due to the fog. The great Turin, one of the strongest teams in the history of football, ended up at that moment. The world was shaken, at the funeral almost a million people took to the streets in Turin. The scudetto was assigned to the Turin table. The trauma was such that the following year the National team decided to go to the World Cup in Brazil with a three-week ship trip. 9. THE FIRST GREEN JACKET BY TIGER WOODS, 1997 Tiger Woods with his first "green jacket" That April 13, 1997 not only changed the life of Tiger Woods, I changed golf and world sport. Another proof of the existence of pure talent, there is destiny, the child prodigy TIger Woods, started golfing even before kindergarten, wins the first in a long series of Masters becoming the greatest golf legend and a piece of sports history. 10. THE IMPOSSIBLE PUNISHMENT OF ROBERTO CARLOS, 1997 Friendly match between France and Brazil, Roberto Carlos is in charge of pulling a penalty from thirty-five meters. Part of his classic run in small steps, he kicks, the trajectory of the ball goes completely out of the door mirror and then back in and beat Barthez. A shot that went against all the laws of physics and impressed the whole world. There are some spectacular moments that would forever change the face and spirit of sport. Amidst the turn of the above events, sit back while I bring to you more of these amazing events. References
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SubTopic Security mergers and acquisitions
Palo Alto-Morta Security deal is latest 2014 information security acquisition
On the heels of FireEye's purchase of Mandiant, Palo Alto Networks has announced the acquisition of stealth startup Morta Security.
SearchSecurity Staff
Network security vendor Palo Alto Networks Inc. Monday announced it has acquired startup Morta Security for an undisclosed amount. It's the second notable information security acquisition of 2014.
Palo Alto, coming off of a strong year in which its revenue is expected to top $450 million, said in a release that it added Morta for its cybersecurity expertise and technologies in expediting the detection of new cyberattacks. Morta was founded by former NSA and U.S. Air Force engineers, though the company was operating in "stealth mode" and has not released a product.
Palo Alto is seeking to build on its strong firewall and network security business with capabilities to quickly detect new and advanced attacks. The Morta team will be tasked with integrating its technology with Palo Alto's WildFire threat protection platform.
The acquisition comes on the heels of FireEye Inc.'s $1.05 billion acquisition of Mandiant Corp. The cash-and-stock deal was completed Dec. 30 but only announced Thursday.
FireEye has been on the forefront of real-time detection of advanced cyberattacks. The vendor's central offering uses virtualization to guard against attacks, executing them in a virtual environment to identify and block malicious traffic.
Mandiant built a reputation as a high-profile incident response and cyberforensics provider, often the first call a company or government organization would make following the discovery of a security breach. The company made headlines last February upon publishing a report offering the first detailed evidence of rampant cyberespionage activity by actors linked to the Chinese government.
Mandiant reported more than $100 million in revenue in 2013, in contrast with FireEye, which has not yet turned a profit despite 1,500 customers across more than 40 countries, including 20% of the Fortune 500. Its 2013 revenue is expected to be between $155 million and $160 million.
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You are here: Home › As Deficit Reduction Threatens Long-Term Care Support, Private Group Steps In to Bolster Government Intentions
As Deficit Reduction Threatens Long-Term Care Support, Private Group Steps In to Bolster Government Intentions
By Send2Press Newswire on August 11, 2011 in Insurance, KIRKLAND, Wash., Press Releases, Senior Citizen Interests, Taxes and Accounting, Washington State
KIRKLAND, Wash., Aug. 11, 2011 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) — With federal purse strings tightening, Americans are likely to need a mix of private and diminished government resources to pay for their long-term care. To help people achieve the right mix, free presentations are being offered nationwide by LTC Financial Partners, LLC (LTCFP), one of the country’s largest long-term care insurance agencies.
“It looks like Americans will need to rely more on themselves, and less on Uncle Sam, when they need help with the tasks of daily living,” says Denise Gott, LTCFP’s Chairman of the Board. “That’s why we’re offering our free seminars and talks, to reassure people and spell out all the options.”
The first phase of the August 2 deficit reduction agreement exempted Medicaid and Medicare, and did not target the CLASS Act, the upcoming public option for long-term care insurance. But all three programs may be targeted in phase 2 of the agreement, which calls for $1.5 trillion additional cuts, to be specified by Congress two days before Christmas. If Congress fails to agree on specific cuts, across-the-board cuts will be triggered.
“It looks like we’re moving into an era of more self-reliance,” says Gott. “Government assistance will still be there, but we’ll need to take on more of the responsibility ourselves.” This can be scary for hard-pressed citizens, but “adequate help is at hand,” says Gott. “There are multiple ways to afford the care you need; you’ve just got to get informed and plan ahead.”
That’s the point of the 30-minute presentations, which detail multiple available resources:
* Medicare for skilled services,
* Medicaid for unskilled care services in nursing homes (for people who have exhausted their assets),
* Private insurance for in-home or nursing home care,
* The CLASS Act, the public option for long-term care insurance for working people, which may start operation after October 2012 (if it survives the cost-cutting ax),
* Self-financing of care services through savings, and
* Volunteer care services, usually provided by a family member.
“The right mix differs for every family and company,” says Gott. “We’re here to help everyone relax, learn, and do what’s right in their situation.”
Event planners may find and request local speakers at http://web.ltcfp.com/ltcfp/consumer.aspx or by calling (855) LTC-YEAR.
LTCFP is a co-founder and sponsor of the “3 in 4 Need More” campaign — www.3in4needmore.com — which seeks to alert Americans to the long-term healthcare crisis, and to multiply the number protected by long-term care planning. LTCFP’s free presentations draw upon and support the “3in4” message.
Together with the 3in4 Association, LTCFP also actively seeks the best of public-private collaboration. “Legislators have the right intentions,” says Gott. “They want to help Americans live lives free of long-term care concerns, but they may not have the financial means to do all they want. So we’re backing them up.”
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Movie Review: The Boy (2015)
July 18, 2016 indiefan20 Leave a comment
Rating: B+/ Under supervised and curiously cold in temperament, nine-year-old Ted Henley (Jared Breeze) is the son of a depressed father (David Morse) who is the proprietor of a shabby roadside hotel nestled within the mountains of the American West. Left pretty much to do his own thing throughout the interminable days and nights, Ted lets his freak flag fly, and sociopathic urges slowly raise their ugly head. The impulses are exacerbated by the arrival of a shifty type (Rainn Wilson) who is on the run from the police, with whom Ted forms an unlikely (and short-lived) friendship.
This movie is a bit of a sleeper and wasn’t particularly well-received by the critics upon release, which is a shame, because it’s a surprisingly good, chilling film. Sinister and weirdly hypnotic, The Boy practically oozes atmosphere from it’s very first scene, and keeps you guessing until the dark, but strangely satisfying, conclusion. Breeze’s acting is a little spotty at times (understandable because of the exceedingly hard role he is asked to play, which is punctuated by a lack of emotion,) but Wilson and Morse excel in the roles of the mysterious guest to the Henley’s hotel, and Ted’s well-meaning but weak-willed father, respectively. The dialogue and display of human behavior seems surprisingly real for a horror movie, especially one that is essential a killer child movie (a genre rife with ridiculous and interminable films.)
Though this movie isn’t exactly scary (it’s more of a very dark psychological thriller, not for everyone, but definitely my kind of movie,) there are enough suspenseful moments to keep you consistently interested. Some people might think that the film’s somewhat slow and languid pace makes it somehow boring or a waste of time, but it actually had the perfect amount of action for me; the ‘dull’ parts are not actually dull at all, neither are they simply there to fill up screen time. Instead, the uneventful sequences help ratchet up the palpable sense of dread and controlled chaos that lies at the heart of this movie, before it’s balls-out crazy (though perhaps somehow inevitable) finale rolls around.
Although The Boy might be a little too weird, too slow, or just too out there for some people, it proved to be an appealing mix of dark, dark character study (who says kids can’t be evil?) and horror for me. Beautifully shot, very well-acted, and satisfactorily creepy for those who like their horror more low-key and psychological as opposed to fright flicks with constant jump scares and buckets of gore, The Boy definitely isn’t for everybody.
But what it does it does well, and I can’t help hoping that this movie, and movies like it, will get recognized by more film buffs. For those who like their observations on humanity barbed and pitch-black and like movies that get under your skin and stay there, The Boy might just rock your boat. And, without giving away anything, the ending is a treat. Hidden among so many movies that get released each month, this stands as movie that definitely needs an audience.
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Chattering Parrot Ocasio-Cortez Thinks Her Green Deal from Hell Can Fix the Flint Water Crisis and Midwest Flooding
NOT ONE SINGLE Democrat voted in support of the Green New Deal Tuesday in the US Senate.
The final vote was 0-57 with 43 cowardly Democrats voting “present.”
They didn’t have the guts to support the monstrosity that would destroy the entire US economy in less than 10 years!
This caused Ocasio-Cortez to suffer a major meltdown.
The unhinged New York Socialist lashed out at Republicans and blamed them for hurricanes and water cleaning system.
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The Fed's Controlled Demolition Of The Economy Is Almost Complete
The Federal Reserve is an often misunderstood entity, not only in the mainstream, but also in alternative economic circles. There is this ever pervasive fantasy on both sides of the divide that the central bank actually “cares” about forever protecting the US economy, or at least propping up the US economy in an endless game of “kick the can”. While this might be true at times, it is not true ALL the time. Things change, agendas change, and sometimes the Fed's goal is not to maintain the economy, but to destroy it.
The delusion that the Fed is seeking to kick the can is highly present today after the latest Fed meeting in which the central bank indicated there would be a pause in interest rate hikes in 2019. As I have noted in numerous articles over the past year, the mainstream media and the Fed have made interest rates the focus of every economic discussion, and I believe this was quite deliberate. In the meantime, the Fed balance sheet and its strange relationship to the stock market bubble is mostly ignored.
The word “capitulation” is getting thrown around quite haphazardly in reference to the Fed's tightening policy. And yet, even now after all the pundits have declared the Fed “in retreat” or “trapped in a Catch-22”, the Fed continues to tighten, and is set to cut balance sheet assets straight through until the end of September. Perhaps my definition of capitulation is different from some people's.
Don't Cry, I'm not Crying. Someone get the tissues
And the winner of The Post’s Mueller Madness bracket is …
We have a national champion . . . of lousy “collusion” punditry.
It was a tough bracket, featuring some of the biggest names in the prestige press, late-night comedians, C- and D-list celebs, scholars, think-tankers and freshly minted Russia experts. But top-seeded Rachel Maddow dribbled and scored her way past them all to clinch The Post’s #MuellerMadness trophy.
Congratulations to Maddow and her MSNBC colleagues!
More than 1,000 readers shared their brackets with us, and a large plurality (nearly a quarter) picked Maddow for the top spot. As reader Jim Murphy said, Maddow “ripped through the field like the Isiah Thomas Indiana team did back in 1981,” fueled by the conviction that it was “her job to educate ‘We the Stupid’ on every rumor and how they all fit together.”
Suspect Caught with Drugs in Socks Allegedly Tells Police: ‘These Aren’t My Socks’
A man arrested for possession of illegal drugs found in his socks allegedly told police that the socks he was wearing weren’t his, according to reports.
Police in Austintown, Ohio, arrested Damien K. Clark Jr., 20, after the drugs were found in his socks during a traffic stop, according to Fox 13.
Officers pulled Clark over last Saturday for failure to use his turn signal, but upon approaching his vehicle, officers reported that Clark smelled heavily of marijuana. Police also said they spied loose clumps of marijuana on the car’s floorboards.
"As Many As A Million Calves Lost In Nebraska" – Beef Prices To Escalate Dramatically In Coming Months
According to Agriculture Secretary Sunny Purdue, there “may be as many as a million calves lost in Nebraska” due to the catastrophic flooding that has hit the state.
This is not a rumor, this is not an exaggeration, and this is not based on any sort of speculation. This number comes to us directly from the top agriculture official in the entire country, and it means that the economic toll from the recent floods is far greater than most of us had anticipated. You can watch Purdue make this quote on Fox Business right here, and it is important to remember that this number is just for one state. It is hard to imagine what the final numbers will look like when the livestock losses for all of the states affected by the flooding are tallied up. This is already the worst agricultural disaster in modern American history, and the National Weather Service is telling us that there will be more catastrophic flooding throughout the middle portion of the nation for the next two months.
Nebraska Governor Pete Ricketts says that this is the worst flooding that his state has ever experienced. Ricketts originally told us that 65 out of the 93 counties in his state have declared a state of emergency, but that number has now risen to 74. Hundreds of millions of dollars of damage has been done in his state alone, and that is just an initial estimate.
It deeply offends me that the big mainstream news channels have spent so little time covering this disaster. This is the biggest news story of 2019 so far by a very wide margin, but because it happened in the middle of the country they are not giving it the attention that it deserves.
Joe Biden’s missing 'I' in his talk of 'white man’s culture'
On Tuesday night, former vice president and maybe 2020 Democratic candidate, Joe Biden offered a sort-of apology and a reflection on why he had failed to do more to stand up for Anita Hill almost thirty years earlier. Condemning “a white man’s culture” and calling for broad cultural change, Biden’s forceful remarks generated plenty of media attention and criticism for not dealing more directly with his role and clear ability to have “done something” as the then-chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee.
Biden’s words, aside from rehashing his own culpability, also put front and center the broader cultural reckoning facing the country about our own past — a reckoning that reverberates quite clearly with Trump’s slogan of “Make America Great Again” chock-full of nostalgia for days that were far worse for large portions of the country.
Biden’s remarks hinted at but didn’t quite capture something that Americana country star Jason Isbell wrote about in his haunting song “White Man’s World.” He provides an illustrative rendering of what, I would hope, had been Biden’s goal to convey to his audience:
Nellie Ohr met Christopher Steele at Mayflower Hotel the day before FBI's Trump-Russia investigation began
Nellie Ohr — Justice Department official Bruce Ohr’s wife — met with Trump dossier author and former British spy Christopher Steele the day before the FBI launched its Trump-Russia investigation.
The meeting took place at the Mayflower Hotel, which was described by President Harry Truman as "Washington's second-best address." President John F. Kennedy once kept an apartment — and a mistress — there. In 2008, Governor Eliot Spitzer of New York used an assumed name to book room 871 and meet a prostitute.
A newly released congressional transcript reveals her research on connections between Russia and President Trump, the Trump family, and Trump associates while she worked at Fusion GPS. She declined to answer most questions about her husband, who served as an unofficial back channel between Steele and the FBI.
Pending Home Sales Tumble 4.9% YoY - 14th Straight Month Of Declines
With home price growth at the slowest rate since 2012, rates falling, and existing home sales having rebounded notably, pending home sales are expected to slow very modestly in February after rebounding in January, but they fell more than expected.
Pending Home Sales fell 1.0% MoM (against expectations of a 0.5% decline)
Lawrence Yun, NAR chief economist, is (surprise, surprise) optimistic...
“In January, pending contracts were up close to 5 percent, so this month’s 1 percent drop is not a significant concern,” he said.
“As a whole, these numbers indicate that a cyclical low in sales is in the past but activity is not matching the frenzied pace of last spring.”
Yun added that despite the growth in the West, the region’s current sales are well below the sales activity from 2018.
“There is a lack of inventory in the West and prices have risen too fast. Job creation in the West is solid, but there is ll a desperate need for more home construction.”
Tanker Hijacked By Migrant "Pirates" Seized By Special Forces In Mediterranean
Maltese special forces have seized a Turkish oil tanker, El Hibu 1, which had been hijacked by the very migrants it stopped to rescue in the Mediterranean Sea off the coast of Libya.
Five of the migrants have been arrested, and are accused of overpowering the vessel's 12-man crew - forcing the oil tanker's captain to cede control "through coercive action," according to the Telegraph, citing Maltese government sources.
77 of the 108 migrants - or 71% - were men, who were traveling with 19 women and 12 children.
"The captain repeatedly stated that he was not in control of the vessel and that he and his crew were being forced and threatened by a number of migrants to proceed to Malta."
The tanker was prevented from entering Maltese waters by a Maltese patrol vessel, after which a special forces unit was dispatched to board the tanker and regain control. The operation was backed up by a patrol vessel, a helicopter and two fast interceptor craft.
Cancer Cluster At California Elementary School Results In Removal Of Sprint Cell Phone Tower
A Sprint cell phone tower will be removed from a California elementary school after four students and three teachers were diagnosed with cancer.
Weston Elementary School in Ripon, CA went on high alert after the controversy erupted two years ago - with some parents even pulling their children from school over the tower which Sprint has been paying the school $2,000 per month to place on its property.
The Ripon Unified School District initially defended the cell phone tower earlier this month, with board president Kit Oase saying tests done on the tower had found it was operating within safety standards.
Monica Ferrulli, whose son was treated for brain cancer in 2017, said RUSD has cited an obsolete American Cancer Society study in keeping the tower in place since the controversy erupted two years ago. “It is just denial,” Ferrulli told the board. She vowed that parents will continue to fight and keep their children out of the school. -Modesto Bee
Accelerating "Eviction Crisis" Parallels The Sub-Prime Mortgage Crisis Of The Great Recession
A new alarming parallel between today’s eviction crisis and the sub-prime mortgage crisis which helped spur the Great Recession has surfaced. The economy is sending warning signs to those who choose to take heed.
The eviction crisis is worsening to the point that Georgia State University authors feel that protections should be put in place to safeguard renters, such as longer eviction notices and legal protection, according to Market Watch. However, that could make the crisis much worse by homeowners simply refusing to rent their properties out at all. More government intervention (whether it’s designed to protect people or not) will only make a very bad situation worse.
Evictions have become a real visible effect of the volatility in today’s economy. Stable housing is increasingly out of reach for many Americans, as both rentals and homes to own grow more expensive, options dwindle, and wages remain stagnant. But some scholars at Georgia State University, in conjunction with a ProPublica journalist, completed a new study which shows that not all evictions are created equal.
The researchers who conducted the study examined “serial” eviction filings (those done repeatedly by a landlord against a tenant). By comparing serial evictions to ordinary ones, the researchers found patterns of landlord “behavior and intentions”, some of which are reminiscent of the worst of the housing crisis a decade ago.
Reparations. Who Owes them? Who Gets Them?
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Kate Steinle's parents cannot sue sanctuary city for wrongful death, 9th Circuit rules
A U.S. Appeals Court says the parents of Kate Steinle, who died in 2015 after an undocumented man shot her as she walked with her father on a San Francisco pier, cannot sue the city whose sanctuary policies were widely blamed for the tragedy.
Steinle’s killer, Jose Inez Garcia-Zarate, was released by the San Francisco sheriff, Ross Mirkarimi, after a drug case against him was dropped. The sheriff’s office, which had ended contact between jail employees and immigration officials, ignored a request by federal authorities to hold Garcia-Zarate until they could assume custody and did not inform them that he was being released.
Three months later, Garcia-Zarate, who had been deported to his native Mexico five times, killed Steinle.
https://www.foxnews.com/us/kate-steinles-parents-cannot-sue-sanctuary-city-for-wrongful-death-9th-circuit-rules
House Republicans plan another push to force a vote on anti-infanticide legislatio
House Republicans are making another move to get the Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act to the floor of the chamber for a vote, but there’s another big hurdle they’ll have to clear.
Tuesday morning, House Majority Whip Steve Scalise announced that a discharge petition for the bill, which failed in the Senate, will be filed on April 2. The catch? It’ll have to be signed by a majority of House members to get the bill to the floor.
With the current House makeup, that will require all Republicans and 20 Democrats to sign the petition.
Right now, there are currently three vacancies in the House. With 197 House Republicans, the magic number for a majority is 417, instead of the 418 required under normal circumstances. That leaves Republicans with a lot of ground to cover.
Teen girls ranked by their male peers fought back not to "patronize" but to "educate"
A group of teen girls in Maryland is fighting back after their male classmates circulated a list rating and ranking 18 of them by their appearance. The Washington Post first reported that the list was sent around Bethesda-Chevy Chase High School earlier this month.
Six of the girls who appeared on the list told CBS News that when they saw the list, they felt objectified and decided it was time to stop accepting the excuse that "boys will be boys."
Jane Corcoran said she never wants another girl to feel the way she did when she saw her appearance rated on a list circulated by boys at her high school.
"I think that the female generation is always thinking what did I do to deserve this? And the answer is we did not do anything," Corcoran said. "In my head, you know, I tried to push away the thoughts that, you know, a number does not define me and I put out a confident front but it's really hard to think about 'Why is this girl a point better than me?'"
Jussie Smollett could take home NAACP Award Saturday
"Empire" actor Jussie Smollett is having a big week.
His charges for allegedly staging a hoax hate crime against himself were dropped, and this weekend he could take home a big award.
Smollett is nominated for Best Supporting Actor at the 50th NAACP Image Awards on Saturday.
He hasn't said whether he'll attend the televised ceremony or not.
But Smollett arrived in Los Angeles Wednesday night.
Disney bans smoking at U.S. theme parks
Visitors will soon no longer be able to smoke at any of Disney's U.S. parks, the company announced in a blog post Thursday. Starting May 1, Disney will eliminate all smoking sections from Walt Disney World, Disneyland, California's Downtown Disney and Florida's ESPN Wide World of Sports Complex and all water parks.
Disney said smoking areas will be available outside the parks' entrances.
"As we expand our offerings, we will continue to take steps to enhance the guest experience and make it more enjoyable for everyone who visits," a Disney spokesperson told CBS News.
E-cigarettes and vape pens are included in the ban, a Disney spokesperson said.
Pelosi: We have a ‘moral obligation’ to future generations on climate change, but not against killing them in the womb
Once again, Speaker Nancy Pelosi has played the faith and morality cards to push for an agenda item, starkly showing up her own hypocrisy in the process.
“If you believe, as I do, that this is God’s creation, this planet, we have a moral responsibility to be good stewards of it,” Pelosi said Tuesday. “But even if you don’t subscribe to that, you know we have a moral responsibility to future generations.”
The speaker made the remarks at a press conference for the “Climate Action Now Act” alongside other House Democrats.
Contrast that with Pelosi’s pro-abortion position, which is in direct opposition to the teachings of her faith, since she self-identifies as a Catholic.
Maryland native nominated to be next Marine Corps commandant
WASHINGTON – For the first time in history, a Maryland native is poised to step into the highest-ranking position in the United States Marine Corps.
After a likely Senate confirmation of President Donald Trump’s nomination, Lt. Gen. David H. Berger, 59, would take over command of the Marines from the current commandant, Gen. Robert Neller, in the summer. He also would be promoted to general.
Born and raised in Woodbine, Maryland – a rural town in between Frederick and Baltimore – the three-star general attended Tulane University in Louisiana and graduated with an engineering degree in 1981. While there, he played on the college’s lacrosse team, according to a yearbook.
After graduation, Berger was commissioned in the Marine Corps as an infantry officer. He served as a company commander in a reconnaissance battalion of the 2nd Marine Division during the first Gulf War.
Ocean City’s Paid Parking Season Begins April 1
Ocean City, Maryland – : Ocean City’s paid parking season begins April 1 and will remain in effect until October 31. Rates are $2 per hour on the street and in municipal parking lots and $3 per hour in the Inlet Parking Lot. Handicapped vehicles (with a handicapped plate or visible placard) may park for up to one hour at no-charge on-street or in municipal lots only.
Last year the town converted the old “Pay and Display” system to new solar-powered kiosks with a “Pay by Plate” feature. With the current system you must enter your license plate number first before paying for your time. There is no need to place a receipt on the dashboard, you just pay and go. In addition, time can be extended at the kiosk with your plate number.
Enforcement for on-street and municipal lot parking and Inlet Lot parking vary.
JORDAN AND MEADOWS QUESTION CHAIRMAN CUMMINGS’S DECISION TO DEPART FROM RESPONSIBLE OVERSIGHT
WASHINGTON, DC – Today, Congressman Jim Jordan (R-OH), Ranking Member of the Committee on Oversight and Reform, and Congressman Mark Meadows (R-NC), Ranking Member of the Government Operations Subcommittee, raised serious concerns about Chairman Cummings’s decision to seek information and material unrelated to the Committee’s oversight of the federal government.
Jordan and Meadows sent two letters to Chairman Elijah Cummings (D-MD). The first letter asks why Chairman Cummings chose to use Committee resources to investigate a news organization’s editorial decision. The second letter seeks to understand Chairman Cummings’s decision to seek ten years of documents relating to the President’s personal finances from accounting firm Mazars USA.
Jordan and Meadows also wrote separately to Mazars USA expressing concerns with the Chairman’s inquiry.
Full text of the letters to Chairman Cummings can be found here and here.
Full text of the letter to Mazers USA can be found here.
GOP calls for Adam Schiff's resignation in Intelligence Committee clash
House Intelligence Committee Republicans on Thursday demanded Chairman Adam Schiff, D-Calif., resign from his role on the panel during a hearing on Russian interference tactics, provoking a clash between the two parties.
Rep. Mike Conaway, R-Texas, a top member of the panel, told Schiff his claims of collusion between President Trump during the Mueller investigation and afterward undermine his ability to act as chairman of the committee.
“We have no faith in your ability to discharge your duties and urge your immediate resignation as chairman of the committee,” Conaway said.
U.S. Projected to Add 1.5M Illegal Aliens to Population this Year
The United States is projected to add about 1.5 million illegal aliens to the American population by the end of the year, should current rates of Catch and Release, border crossings, and visa overstays pan out.
This year, the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) Catch and Release policy — whereby border crossers and illegal aliens are readily released from federal custody into the interior of the U.S. — is on track to release roughly 434,000 border crossers and illegal aliens into the country by the end of the year. This projection is based on current estimates that more than 36,000 border crossers and illegal aliens have been released from DHS custody every month since the beginning of the year.
Additionally, Princeton Policy Advisors researcher Steven Kopits projects that in 2019, there will be up to 500,000 illegal aliens at the southern border who successfully cross into the U.S. undetected by Border Patrol agents. These are foreign nationals whom federal immigration officials are unaware of and are usually only deported after they commit a crime in the U.S.
Abrams' Adviser: Biden's Offer to Join Ticket as VP 'Exploitative'
Stacey Abrams has shot down rumors that she may join Joe Biden’s ticket as his running mate, with an adviser telling BuzzFeed News Thursday that the former vice president’s offer was “exploitative.”
"What makes it particularly exploitative is that Biden couldn’t be bothered to endorse Stacey in the gubernatorial primary," the adviser said. "Now he wants her to save his ass. That’s some serious entitlement."
Advisers to Biden floated the idea of choosing Abrams to Axios last week, since the popular Georgia Democrat would bring diversity and excitement to the ticket.
Abrams on Wednesday rejected the rumors during an appearance on “The View.”
Cops And Courts – March 29, 2019
Cab Ride To Drug Market Leads To Arrest
OCEAN CITY — An Ocean City man was arrested on heroin possession charges last week after an undercover Ocean City Police Department (OCPD) officer allegedly observed him taking a cab to a known distribution location in Delaware.
Street Head Butting
OCEAN CITY — An Ocean City man was arrested on assault and other charges this week after allegedly head-butting a woman, resulting in a wound that required stitches, and later throwing her phone in a pool.
Domestic Dispute Leads To Broken Hotel Door
OCEAN CITY — A Pennsylvania woman was arrested for malicious destruction of property after allegedly destroying a door frame at a midtown hotel during a domestic incident.
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Mayor Pugh apologizes for book deal with UMMS.
BALTIMORE —Baltimore Mayor Catherine Pugh spoke out Thursday for the first time about her book deal with the University of Maryland Medical System.
The news conference was scheduled with little notice after the mayor was released from a four-day stay in the hospital for treatment of pneumonia.
"I sincerely want to say I apologize that I have done something to upset the people, the people of Baltimore that I love and care for," said Pugh.
Pugh was hoarse and visibly tired as she addressed the controversy about her deal with the University of Maryland Medical System.
Chicago police to bill Jussie Smollett for cost of hate crime probe
Chicago officials, incensed by prosecutors’ abrupt and largely unexplained decision to drop all charges against “Empire” star Jussie Smollett, plan to slap the actor with a “bill” for the cost of the investigation, authorities said Thursday.
“The City of Chicago will be sending Mr. Smollett a bill,” said Police Department spokesman Anthony Guglielmi.
“From a 30,000-foot view, the bill will include the hours, the overtime, the financial costs and the resources that were used” in probing what the Windy City’s cops, mayor and even prosecutors still believe was a hoax, Guglielmi said.
And that tally won’t even touch on outside resources Chicago cops called in to crack the firestorm case.
Embattled Chicago prosecutor Kimberly Foxx never legally recused herself from Jussie Smollett case
Cook County, Ill., State's Attorney Kimberly Foxx never legally recused herself from the Jussie Smollett case, her office said Thursday.
“The State’s Attorney did not formally recuse herself or the Office based on any actual conflict of interest,” Foxx’s spokeswoman Tandra Simonton said in a statement, two days after the charges against the "Empire" actor were dropped. “As a result, she did not have to seek the appointment of a special prosecutor under [state law].”
The spokeswoman said Foxx’s office used the word “recuse” to talk about her involvement in the case as a “colloquial use” rather than the legal definition of the term.
Modern 9-1-1 system will increase state and local fees
ANNAPOLIS, Maryland – Legislation that would increase state and local 9-1-1 fees in Maryland — part of the Next Generation 9-1-1 initiative that would allow faster communication with emergency responders via text, photos and videos — passed both the House and Senate this week.
Senate bill 339, cross-filed with House bill 397, would address cybersecurity and technology updates, provide oversight and accountability, fill staffing shortages and establish a new funding method for the new 9-1-1 system.
The legislation — Carl Henn’s Law — was named after a Rockville, Maryland, native who was struck by lightning in 2010 during a sudden storm. Emergency operators were not immediately reachable at the time as the 9-1-1 system received an overwhelming volume of calls, according to written testimony from Carl’s wife, Carol Henn. Carl Henn suffered significant brain stem damage and died.
“I have had three people die in my district when 9-1-1 has failed,” bill sponsor Sen. Cheryl Kagan, D-Montgomery, said during a hearing on Feb. 26. “That has inspired my efforts on this issue.”
Thank God It's Friday 3-29-19
OC Air Show MOU Approved
OCEAN CITY — Resort officials this week approved a memorandum of understanding (MOU) for future Ocean City Air Show events after concerns raised last week were resolved.
Last week, the proposed MOU outlining the responsibilities of the town and the promoter of the Ocean City Air Show for 2020 and 2021 was derailed after concerns were raised about certain language regarding the flexibility of the dates. Councilman John Gehrig said the MOU as written allowed for the promoter to ostensibly move the air show dates, a responsibility he believed belonged to the town because of its fiscal contribution to the event and possible schedule conflicts with other special events.
It was pointed out the air show’s headliners, including the U.S. Navy Blue Angels and the U.S. Air Force Thunderbirds, for example, often set their schedules as far as two years in advance. It was said affording the promoter some flexibility to move the event from one weekend to another helped ensure the resort got at least one of them each year. For his part, Gehrig said he understood the complexities of securing the top jet teams, but wondered if the restrictive language of the MOU was necessary.
Devin Nunes Sending Criminal Referral to DOJ over Spygate: ‘Time to Go on Offense’
House Intelligence Committee Ranking Member Devin Nunes (R-CA) is planning to send a criminal referral next week to the Justice Department that will detail “multiple referrals on a number of different crimes,” including leaking classified information, as part of his investigation into misconduct at the Justice Department and the FBI.
“As of now, it’ll be one criminal referral but with multiple referrals on a number of different crimes,” he told Breitbart News on Wednesday in an exclusive interview. “We will have some leakers in there for sure.”
He said on the ending of the Special Counsel investigation, after it found the Trump campaign did not collude with Russia, “We knew this was a joke from the beginning, and I’ve said as much for a long time. Basically from the time our report came out, which has been a year. But now, the real work begins. It’s good to not have that sitting out there. But we have to now go on offense and track down all these dirty cops and bad players.”
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Review: Fever Claim by Marie Johnston
Can he turn one night into forever?
After being ditched only weeks before her wedding, Cassie Stockwell wasn’t out looking for a hookup. Then the devastatingly handsome bartender she’d been trying not to obsess over for months offered to give her a ride home. What could one night hurt?
When his future was almost taken away after one impulsive decision, wolf-shifter and ex-con Jace Miller waited patiently for months before making a move on the woman he knew to be his destined mate. But will one night of passion keep his little human by his side once she learns of his world and the danger it brings to her doorstep?
Enter a new world of loyal shifters and their bold mates and get your copy today!
Jace is working as a bartender when he first notices Cassie coming in with her fiance. Jace knows that Cassie is his mate and waits patiently until Cassie and her fiance break things off. Cassie already had the hots for the cute bartender so when he offers to bring her home and help her forget about her ex, she agrees. The next morning is a bit awkward but to make matters worst, her best friend calls her for help and she rushes off to find her but Jace comes along with her because he knows there's more going on than Cassie realizes. Things really amp up at this point and Cassie and Jace find themselves in a lot of danger.
Poor Cassie finds out that shifters exist and that she just spent the night with one of them but she takes everything that's thrown at her really well. Jace on the other hand has a lot thrown at him as well and does his best to keep her safe, keep his emotions in check and not scare her away with the possessiveness he feels, it's not easy with everything that happens to them and there's a lot. The action was great, the storyline is wonderful and really kept me entertained, wanting to know what would happen next.
In this story most of the shifters are the good guys while the vampires are the bad guys and then there are hunters who want to kill shifters. This makes for a really dangerous world for Cassie to be thrust into but she takes it pretty well.
This is the first book in the series so we get a lot of info to set up this world which was fine with me. I thought this was a good book to start a series and I'm sure I'll be reading more of this series in the future.
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Tag Archives: Local hero
1982 ➤ “Who?!” Peter Capaldi’s first interview (probably) as a green young stand-up
Posted on 24 Aug 2014 | 3 comments
Capaldi learning the ropes as a comic: Live onstage supporting Spandau Ballet in 1982. (Photographed © by Shapersofthe80s)
Capaldi and his new Tardis: the 12th Doctor Who. (Photo © BBC/Guy Levy)
◼ “KIDS THREW ORANGES AND COINS at me in Brighton. It’s the first time I’ve tapped into that iceberg of sympathy.” Such was the welcome the 23-year-old Scot, Peter Capaldi, received on his first serious outing as a stand-up comedian supporting Spandau Ballet’s first national concert tour in 1982. I’d been bowled over by his high-octane act a week earlier in Manchester and now the tour was winding up in Bournemouth where I’d come for its Easter weekend finale. His energetic performance suggested an interview was going to be fun, and I’d snapped some onstage pictures that spookily presage an aspect of Capaldi that was to win a Bafta award later in his career.
So here we were in 1982 in the Royal Exeter hotel talking about his lucky break earlier on the same tour – being spotted supporting Spandau’s Glasgow gig by film producer Bill Forsyth who also recognised talent writ large. One result was me resting my notebook on a thumping fat filmscript titled Local Hero, and the other was Capaldi admitting: “I’m terrified of starting this film – standing in front of a camera.”
Oh the irony. Tonight Peter Capaldi, now 56, stepped into the best role in British television to play the 12th Doctor Who – a rendering as fierce and dotty as any who went before. Today too I finally found my long-lost notes from the first interview he’d given as an unknown comic, plus the cassette tape of our very relaxed conversation about his days at Glasgow School of Art, singing with a local band, and his yen to try comedy, inspired by 1981’s nationwide tour by Rik Mayall and the Comic Strip team, who a year later leapt onto British television screens on Channel 4’s opening night.
Local Hero, 1983: Peter Capaldi with Burt Lancaster and Peter Riegert, a gentle Scottish comedy directed by Bill Forsyth
For Capaldi’s debut in autumn 1981, he had invented a dim character called Fraser Meaky after thinking “I can’t go onstage as myself!” but then Gary Kemp’s circle of Spandau friends, who did not want another band supporting their tour, asked him to be a comedy warm-up before the main event. Fraser was shed in favour of a much more frenetic onstage Capaldi wearing a distressed old showbiz tuxedo, the humour retuned to lampooning the ego maniacs in politics and pop.
Recently, he had been compering a Monday live band night at a Glasgow club. “I like fast clean idea jokes, like Steve Martin,” he said. “The trouble with Glasgow is that it’s a small audience and every time you play you face the same crowd so you have to invent new material. After three weeks I couldn’t think of any more jokes, so it fell through.” How he solved this dilemma was revealed as we spoke. More of the interview will follow soon, meanwhile listen to our chat.
AUDIO CLIP FROM OUR 1982 INTERVIEW:
http://www.zen19954.zen.co.uk/Shapers/Capaldi-DJintvwPt1-1982.mp3
➢ Previously at Shapersofthe80s: How Clare Grogan’s pop entourage put Capaldi on the road, plus an audio track with his band The Dreamboys
➢ Catch Doctor Who series 8 on BBC iPlayer for two months
Rare self-deprecation: Click pic to view Doctor gifs at thespoonmissioner
➢ Sept update: The new Doctor joins Denzel Washington and Gemma Arterton on BBC1’s Graham Norton Show, 26 Sept – Peter Capaldi’s debut alongside Jenna Coleman was the most watched Doctor Who opening episode in four years, with 9.2million UK viewers.
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Archive for the ‘Holy Cow Did You See That?’ Category
– Blahblahblah work is picking up, on the road for a couple days, lost my blogging mojo blahblahblahblah. But I’m back!
– I was reading some of the coverage this week regarding the anniversary of Pelle Lindbergh’s death. I found it interesting not only that the team had a bar over its practice facility, but also that one of Lindbergh’s teammates is now a minister at a church in Clarence. It really is a small world.
While we’re talking about drunk driving, a racing forum I frequent mentioned that NFL players have access to a designated driver & car fetch service at all times, with no questions asked by either the team/league. Does the NHL have something like that available for its players, or are they all responsible for finding their own DD’s/calling a cab/booking a hotel room once they are too inebriated to drive?
– The pregame ceremony honoring Mike Grier was a nice way to start the game. I loved the nice little video the Sabres put together with words of congrats from former & current teammates. I did think it was adorable that Pommers chose to address him as “Michael,” while the rest of the gang (Miller, Goose & Rivet) chose to address him as “Griersy.” And his kids are quite precious.
– Good to finally see Thomas Vanek back and scoring goals. And beautiful, beautiful goals at that. The pure joy on his face – and his teammates faces – when the puck went in was so nice to see. I feel like that for as much as we the fans are hard on Vanek, that he’s 1,000 times harder on himself. Now he should just relax and rest up and enjoy things before the birth of his twins (which, if his website is anything to go by, are scheduled to arrive on Monday.)
– Before the game, I purchased my tickets to my annual bit of culture – going to see the BPO’s Holiday Pops show. There is a time and a place for holiday fun and frolic, and December is just that time. (Do you hear me, Wegmans? I should not be hearing Christmas carols while I’m waiting in line at the deli. Not that that happened to me today or anything.)
– How can you live in Western New York and NOT know that the red flowers that the broadcast crew is sporting are poppies and signify remembrance? That makes me sad. Look up “In Flanders Fields” on Wiki for further details.
– One last thought, what is with those huge rope/plastic/bead necklaces that some of the players are wearing? I noticed Roy’s tonight during his postgame interview. Are they supermagical healing necklaces or the next fashion trend?
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First One That Calls Me a Puckbunny, Pow. Right In the Kisser.
So the Daily Beast posted a column discussing why the NHL has seen such a dramatic increase in the number of female fans. They provide some pretty compelling stats backing up their claim. Female viewership for this year’s playoffs is up 8%, the highest level that it’s been since 1997. This normally would be a good thing, right? Yes, but the argument used to support this increase is completely out there.
So what exactly is the author’s justification for this increase? The game is exciting and easy to follow? Nope. Female fans probably grew up in the game or watching the game with their fathers? Not even close. The increase in women’s hockey programs has grown interest in the sport? Sorry, please try again.
Instead, the author claims that it’s because the hockey players are hot and are now suddenly tabloid darlings due to the relationships that Comrie and Fisher have with Hilary Duff and Carrie Underwood and the tabloid/fashion antics of Sean Avery.
Really? You’re kidding me, right? I know that US Weekly and the other tabs are the first place I go to check out hockey news.
Do I deny that hockey players are hot? No. In fact, they’re quite nice to look at both on and off the ice. But that’s not why I watch the game. I watch the game because it’s easy to follow. It’s just pass, shoot, score. Doesn’t get much simpler than that. Add in some fantastic goalie play and you’ve got a great back and forth sport that keeps fans on the edge of their seats. Throw in historic rivalries, tradition and a set of teams that seem to understand how to connect with their fans, and it’s a win/win situation. Hockey fandom shouldn’t have a gender, but it sadly does. Exhibit A is the popularity of the “pink” line of ladies apparel and the NHL’s introduction of some uh…interesting products for the ladies (Does anyone really need a Sabres print thong?).
I guess what also has my irish in an uproar is that the NHL re-tweeted this story. Is any publicity good publicity? To a certain extent, yes. But at the same time, the league needs to be careful about alienating a significant chunk of its fanbase. Labeling female hockey fans with the “they just watch the game because they think the players are hot and want a sparkly diamond ring from one of them” is a dangerous path to take.
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Sabres vs. Sens – Please Let Them Win
– I’m knitting during tonight’s game, so there’s a lot of multitasking going on, especially as the blanket I am knitting is getting to the rather unwieldy in size stage.
– Puck drop is delayed as the Sens are honoring Alfredsson for playing in his 1,000th career game. The delay might actually end up being a good thing, as this MSG feed is very herky jerky, with constant stops and starts and stutters. If you can upgrade my cable guide, you can deliver me a good quality hockey feed. While this Alfie ceremony is long, his kids are completely adorable and the one is hilariously mugging for the camera.
– It’s officially springtime in Buffalo: Mr. Softee trucks are on the streets and Marineland ads are on display. (I dare you to not have the Marineland jingle stuck in your head after seeing the TV commercial.)
– I know statistics are right up there with lies and damned lies, but the Sens have won 9 in a row against the Sabres. If this was Vegas, I’d be betting on the Sabres, because at some point, the odds turn against the dominant team. Look what happened last month with the Sabres and the Leafs: the Sabres had a pretty lengthy winning streak against the Leafs and it was snapped just like that.
– Dear MSG: once you’ve fixed my feed, can you make a note for future games that showing the national anthems is a great idea? HNiC does it. Most local teams do it. Why don’t you? And have I mentioned lately that I love when the crowd sings along to “Oh Canada?”
– A quick poll on Twitter shows that the MSG feed is jittery for all, and not just those of us with TWC.
– The feed also decides to inappropriately cut out as Sutton decides to smush the hell out of Stafford, who spends a good few minutes on the ice and eventually gingerly heads off the ice. The end result is that both teams are shorthanded as Torres and Sutton are both sent to the box.
– Vanek makes it 1-0, Sabres as he taps the puck into a wide open net, as Leclaire was badly out of position.
– I really think there’s going to be bloodshed tonight, as Neil goes after Roy and Ruutu tackles a yet to-be-determined Sabre after a Leclaire save. How can you attack Roy? It’s like going after a little yappy chihuahua that’s writing checks it thinks its body can cash.
– WHOO! Vanek scores off of a gorgeous Roy pass as Vanek had wandered in all alone to the net. 2-0, Sabres.
– We’re told that Stafford won’t be returning tonight as he has an upper body injury. That might just be the “no sh*t, sherlock” injury description of the year. We all saw him get knocked into next Tuesday.
– This playoff flashback or whatever they’re calling it showing Pommers hat trick from 2006 subtly points out that Pommers isn’t one of the kids any more. He looked so young then!
– Neil makes it 2-1, Sabres as he slips the puck through the half inch of space between Miller’s leg and the goalpost. Have I mentioned how much I hate Chris Neil?
– Vanek makes it 3-1, Sabres on a penalty shot after he gets chopped down on a breakaway. The chop to the ankles looks like it’s causing Vanek quite a bit of pain. Since Vanek now has a set of triplets (Manny, Moe & Jack), when is the first play date scheduled with Pominville’s triplets (Huey, Dewey & Louie)?
– So the triplets have now become quadruplets as Vanek knocks the puck out of mid-air past Leclaire. 4-1, Sabres.
– Looking at the new Patrick Roy “History will be made” ad, its still shocking to see how tiny the goalie gear was even in the mid-80s. Do we think that Miller or Lalime would willingly get on the ice against today’s hard shots with such pithy gear? And I know we all mock Miller’s quirks, but at least he doesn’t talk to goalposts or hop, skip and jump over blue lines.*
* that we know of
– WHOOO! Roy breaks the Vanek stranglehold on the scoring and makes it 5-1, Sabres.
– Donovan decides to try and make things interesting, as he makes it 5-2, Sabres. Too little, too late, my friend.
– WHEEE! The Sabres finally beat Ottawa and do it with minimal bloodshed. (Well, Staffy technically wasn’t bleeding, but you know what I mean.) This was a critical win for the Sabres. They managed to get Ottawa out of their heads and do it while kicking some ass. (Did someone watch before the game the scene in The Cutting Edge where Kate announces she’s in the mood to kick a little ass? Because really, the Sabres were totally in ass kicking mode tonight. Or did Lindy somehow manage to invent a Wayback Machine and get the 2005-06 Sabres that beat Ottawa to come and pep talk these guys?)
– Sweet merciful hockey playing baby Jesus, what the eff is Don Cherry wearing tonight? It’s like an Ikea duvet cover committed suicide and the remains became a suit coat.
– So tomorrow could be a fun day of hockey. Sabres/Devils settles positions 2 and 3 in the conference while Rangers / Flyers determines who gets to sit at home and stew for the remainder of the summer.
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I Hadn’t Planned on Blogging Tonight
But I didn’t feel like flooding Twitter with pointless babble, so instead I come here.
– Harry Neale is in rare form tonight. During the mixup in front of the Sabres net immediately after Myers was smushed, Neale mixed up Derek Roy, Drew Stafford and Toni Lydman in trying to describe who was involved in the scuffle. None of these players are interchangeable. Stafford and Lydman are the only two who could mistakenly pass for each other…in a dark alley and from behind, as they have similar builds, but not strikingly similar. Roy-Z is the oddball in the group.
– Then Harry mentions that the scouting on Lundqvist shows that he is rumored to be weak on the high shots. That’s one straight out of the no ish, sherlock files. Us fans were shouting that in the Rangers/Sabres series TWO years ago.
– Stafford scores. Roy-Z defended a teammate. What’s the third impending sign of the Sabrepocalypse? Miller getting into a fight with King Henrik? (BTW, I love the nickname King Henrik in that it’s a close cousin to one of the best racing nicknames out there: King Hiro. Let me explain. Hiro Matsushita was a Japanese Indy Car driver who had sponsorship checks that his driving skills couldn’t cash. One day, he was being a moving chicane in front of legendary driver Emerson Fittipaldi. Emmo calls his pits to complain about Hiro. However, as Emmo is ranting about [fuc]king Hiro, his radio cuts out and all his team hears is “King Hiro.” And thus, a legend was born…and that’s my story.)
– I know this was linked on Puck Daddy earlier today, but this NHL parody video is just hilarious, both for the tagline and the look on Ray’s face. We all know Rob Ray has quite the poker face.
– Miller stops Gaborik point blank on a sliding save in the second period. It was just a stunning save. And did I mention it was a four-on-one? Miller brought a spoon to a knife fight and came out on top.
– Seeing that this game is sponsored by Yanceys Fancy makes me want some cheese. And I do not have any cheese because when my dad went grocery shopping, he thought that my request for “cheese curds” was a silent plea for “cheese curls” and as such, he brought me Cheetos. They’re not exactly interchangeable foodstuffs.
– And The Real Housewives of New Jersey are back on May 3rd. I cannot wait!
– It’s great that Ryan Miller was nominated for the Mark Messier Award for Outstanding Achievement in the Field of Excellence (c’mon, it’s not like the real name of the award is that much better). He’s really come into his own this year and is one of the few players that could probably tell his teammates to go eff themselves and not have many repercussions. I just wonder when the nominees for the “Mark Messier Award for Crying Like a PMS’ing Woman Who Just Found Out She’s Out of Ice Cream” will be announced.
– For being only 23 years old, it looks like Little Timmy is developing an unfortunately positioned bald spot. Poor thing.
– Since Stafford is playing somewhat better tonight, is Lindy/Darcy/His Mommy going to let him have his Twitter again? I miss his sarcastic wit.
– According to NHL.com, the Devils are playing the Trashers tonight. They must be the rec league team from the Streets & Sanitation department.
– Dudes! Derek Roy is getting feisty again. He steps in when Shelley and Miller are going at it after Shelley tumbles over the top of Miller. Miller threw a couple of good smacks before Roy-Z stepped in and gets rewarded with a roughing minor for his efforts. It’s no fight with King Henrik, but I’ll take it.
– The team salute at center ice has so much more meaning when it’s done only once or twice a season. Do you hear me, Rangers? It’s a special gesture and doing it every game cheapens it, in my opinion.
– As the wonderful Alix from Canucks Hockey Blog pointed out, the Sabres and Canucks are division champ and team birth year twinsies. I love fun stats like that!
– Mike Robitaille was the recipient of a standing ovation from the fans tonight. He looks good, but as my mother pointed out, he looks like he’s aged a ton in just a few short months. Here’s to hoping for a continued good recovery for Roby. We all miss him in the booth, and when he comes back, a K-Syl/Roby/Gare booth could be great fun to watch.
– I still want to know where the heck the powers that be found a white sportcoat that fits all of the guys on the team. What’s funny is that with the coat worn over their undershirts, they all look like they’re doing a bad Sony Crockett impression. And seeing the coat with the handwritten messages on the back reminds me of high school and signing your uniform skirts the last day of junior year to celebrate that you never had to wear them again. Whoever gets to keep the jacket at the end of the season is going to have one heck of a keepsake, albeit a somewhat smelly one. Multiple player post game hockey player funk has to be incredibly gross.
– I love Miller’s subtle plea to the coaching staff via the media for a night off before the playoffs start. I know he wants to get in some goalie practice, but he should also treat himself to that massage and a jacuzzi for his efforts.
– In closing….WHOOO! One banner down, two more to go! LET’S GO BUFFALO!
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Happy Birthday to Me, Indeed
– I really didn’t think it was too much to ask for the Sabres to win on my birthday, but dear god, they did it the hard way. Scoring at the end of the second period to tie it up, scoring waaaay late in the third to tie it up again, and then six shooters deep in the shootout to win it for me. The boys are now welcome to share my leftover birthday cake. I hope they like Wegmans Ultimate White Cake. (Until Staffy tied it, I wasn’t going to be willing to share the cake with the boys. They hadn’t deserved it.)
– Tyler Myers?! Tyler Myers?! That was an absolutely brilliant move by Lindy and the coaching staff to put him in the shootout. At the sixth shooter for the Sabres, what has he really got to lose? The fact that he put the puck in the net and won the game was just icing on the cake and effing amazing. It was that kind of surprising – and ballsy – move not seen since Lindy put Henrik Tallinder in to face Martin Brodeur. I mean, how often have fans seen some combination of Roy/Vanek/Pommers/Staffy take shootouts and fail? As the most offensively geared players on the team, they should be aces at the shootout, but sometimes they ain’t. Moving Myers in shakes things up. I know it would never happen, but how ridiculous would a shootout lineup of Gaustad, Kaleta and Grier be? None are known for their strong goal scoring prowess (sorry Goose) and Goose isn’t exactly Speedy Gonzalez when he has to head up ice.
Getting back on point, surprise moves in the shootout work.
– The postgame celebration with the team hug turned dogpile was absolutely adorable. How funny is it that Myers and Gaustad, the two tallest guys on the team, were the ones that ended up on the bottom of the dogpile? I also liked seeing Miller speed down the ice to join in on the fun, and try mightily to get near Myers. Lindy said in his postgame interview that the room was flying high after that.
– I don’t think I’ve ever seen Staffy so smiley after a game. He was saying that the team agreed to start missing their shots in the shootout after they saw Mysie’s move in practice. They wanted to see if he could pull it off.
Side note: Mysie as a nickname for the gentle giant? Really? Mysie and Mairsy and Millsy, oh my. The team really needs to come up with something different and unique. Unique is good!
– After tonight, does anyone think Myers is going to be boarding a plane back to juniors? I think not.
– Finally, were my ears deceiving me or were the Vancouver fans chanting “Leafs Suck” at various points in their game tonight?
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Ah yes, Ryan Miller has updated his blog. It’s the usual blahblahblah travel/seeing the family cakes. However, I do have to wonder what weird, creepy shit was said that made him speak out about him not being on the big social networking sites. I know we all take our Facebook pages for granted, but can you imagine that these guys can’t even have their own Facebook for fear of being hounded by fans? I know probably half of them register under fake names or something to keep in touch with their friends, but still. They’re missing out on what is probably one of the key parts to being a 20-something today. (If I ever needed a fake name, I would totally go with “Regina Flange” in case you were wondering.)
– I saw this YouTube video mentioned on PTI, and of course, I had to go seek out the full version. During a five-hour rain delay during the Big East baseball tournament, UConn and USF had a dance-off to keep themselves and the fans amused. Watch the whole thing, you really won’t be sorry!
My favorites were the limbo, the irish jig and the Michael Jackson dance.
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Review the policies, practices and procedures adopted by Emstrey Crematorium and partners dealing with bereaved families and infant cremation requests during the past fifteen year period but with discretion to take into account cases where parents come forward in relation to infant deaths outside of this period .
For the purposes of this inquiry, “infant cremations” shall be taken to mean cremations of foetuses of more than 24 weeks and infants of up to 12 months. The inquiry however shall also have discretion exceptionally to consider individual cases of children older than this if individual parents so request.
Review past practice involved with the process of infant cremation at Emstrey Crematorium over that period of time.
Review the infant cremations over that period of time.
To engage with those bereaved parents who have expressed a wish to contribute to this inquiry.
Review the practices of Emstrey Crematorium during the relevant period in line with appropriate legislation and professional standards adopted by the professional institutes (ICCM and FBCA) at the time.
Compare current infant cremation policies, practices and procedures with national guidance and policy and practice by reference to professional institutes (ICCM and FBCA).
Review the process with relevant stakeholders involved in the crematorium process, for example looking at communications between hospitals, council, funeral directors and bereaved parents.
To publish a summary of findings and recommendations pertinent to Emstrey Crematorium and Shropshire Council.
Specific terms
The inquiry shall be led by an independent and qualified legal professional.
The council will supply a small team of officers to support the inquiry lead and the investigation.
The inquiry should last up to 12 weeks, ending no later than 31 March 2015, unless there is approval from the leader of the council and chief executive to extend this.
It is intended that a report containing findings, conclusions and recommendations will be completed by no later than 30 April 2015. The personal details of individuals should be anonymised.
The head of the inquiry team will provide an update at the end of January and the end of March to Shropshire Council.
The inquiry report will be published.
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The Third Decade
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AT A TIME WHEN JAZZ BANDLEADERS from across the musical and generational spectrums regularly lament the difficulty of keeping a band together, it’s all the more remarkable that a supergroup like One For All has stuck it out for twenty years. But this impeccably swinging sextet, made up of some of the most in-demand players in modern jazz, is not just celebrating past achieve-ments but charging forward into the future. Their new recording, The Third Decade, marks the dawn of the band’s next chapter.
Their 16th release, The Third Decade, is its first in five years and the first in its history to feature original compositions by all six members. The Third Decade, due out June 3 via Smoke Sessions Records, brings together once again tenor saxophonist Eric Alexander, trumpeter Jim Rotondi, trombonist Steve Davis, pianist David Hazeltine, bassist John Webber, and drummer Joe Farnsworth. As always, the fiery and soulful musicianship is only match-ed by the warmth and spirit that results from a lifetime of musical friendships.
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SNL Transcripts: Matt Damon: 10/05/02: Weekend Update with Jimmy Fallon & Tina Fey
Season 28: Episode 1
02a: Matt Damon / Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band
…..Jimmy Fallon
…..Tina Fey
…..Seth Meyers
…..Matt Damon
Fericito…..Fred Armisen
Announcer: From Studio 8H in Rockefeller Center, this is “Weekend Update with Jimmy Fallon & Tina Fey.”
Jimmy Fallon: I’m Jimmy Fallon.
Tina Fey: I’m Tina Fey. And here are tonight’s top stories.
The Senate is expected to vote next week on whether to approve the use of force to oust Saddam Hussein. President Bush said he will watch the results of the vote carefully, then invade Iraq anyway.
New Jersey Senator Robert Torcelli stunned the political world this week, by dropping out of his race after months of well-publicized ethics problems. This leaves New Jersey democrats scrambling for an eye-catching replacement candidate. Thereby, allowing me to utter a sentence I’ve always wanted to say: “Little Steven, your country needs you!”
The New York Post reported that Chelsea Clinton has hired a personal assistant, despite the fact that she doesn’t have a job yet. This has immediately earned her the nickname “White Al Sharpton”.
According to healthy officials, the United States has more than enough smallpox vaccine, in case of a bioterrorist attack. So, now that that’s taken care of, maybe officials can focus on my plan to defend against a much greater threat: Big Pox.
In Milton, New Hampshire, an elementary school principal named Nancy Drew has instituted a new lunchroom policy: classical music is played, and there is no talking allowed. This has inspired a new Nancy Drew novel: “The Mystery of the Old Bitch”.
Tina Fey: Earlier this evening, the heavily-favored New York Yankees lost to the Anaheim Angels, 9 to 5, eliminating them from the Playoffs. This is the first time the Yankees haven’t reached the World Series since 1997. Here to help Yankee fans cope with the disappointment, are Boston Red Sox fans Seth Meyers and Matt Damon.
Seth Meyers: Thank you, Tina! Okay, Yankees fans, we’re here to help – seriously. Right now, you may be feeling something you’re not really used to. It’s called “losing”. Now you know what Matt, myself, and thousands like us go through every year. We’re experts at heartbreaking failure, and we’re gonna walk you through it.
Matt Damon: Okay. The most important thing is: remember to breathe. I know this sounds simple, but.. when the ball went through Buttner’s legs in ’86, I was hospitalized for, like, a week.
Seth Meyers: One thing not to do is take all of your team’s parapharnalia, put it in a big pile, and light it on fire. Trust me, that stuff is expensive to replace, and you will get arrested.
Matt Damon: You spent the last eight Octobers focused on baseball. Why not try football? You still have The Jets. [ audience boos ] Sorry.. I’m sorry..
Jimmy Fallon: That’s a low blow.
Matt Damon: Yeah. My apologies. We should be sensitive.
Seth Meyers: And here’s something you might not know: Fall is awesome. The leaves change color, it’s breathtaking! Ever wonder why New England has such beautiful foliage? It’s God’s way of apologizing.
Matt Damon: And look at this way – at least your favorite player wasn’t cryogenically frozen by his scumbag son.
Seth Meyers: The most important thing to remember is: find someone else to blame. The first thing we do when the Red Sox lose is blame the Yankees. Obviously, that doesn’t work for you. Blame the umpires, or make up some crazy story about a curse.
Matt Damon: That works, too!
Seth Meyers: Uh.. just remember one thing.
Matt Damon: It’s not your fault.
Seth Meyers: But if Soriano didn’t drop that pop-up!
Seth Meyers: If we had kept Tino!
Seth Meyers: If the bullpen had performed better!
Seth Meyers: If I only I had cheered harder!
Tina Fey: Matt Damon and Seth Meyers, everyone.
A woman in Auburn, Washington was injured, when an explosion ripped apart a large storage container, freeing hundreds of her exotic flying squirrels. Actually, to be accurate, they only became flying squirrels after the explosion.
Tina Fey: According to Time Magazine, Amercian Taliban John Walker Lindh became an Islamic militant with the encouragement of a Pakistani businessman who was his gay lover. Walker’s relatives contend that John is not gay, it was just that he couldn’t help but succumb to the erotic wiles of this Pakistani businessman. [ shows picture ] Look at this guy! He’d turn anyone gay! He’s like Rupert Everett – whoo-oo! Really, is there any sexier pair of words than “Pakistani businessman”? By the way, John Walker Lindh lived in San Francisco for a while. How screwed up do you have to be to leave San Francisco and go to the remote caves of Afghanistan to explore your homosexuality?
Scientists say the detection of particles of West Nile Virus in the breast milk of a Michigan woman earlier this month, is not cause for alarm. But, just to be on the safe side, they are warning Michigan residents not to suck the woman’s nipples.
Rumors are circulating that Julia Roberts is pregnant. Insiders say that Julia has been busy buying clothes and redecorating a room in her house for.. whoever she will be married to when the baby is born.
Jimmy Fallon: Officials at a zoo in Bangladesh said the zookeeper was killed by two black bears, in an attempt to-
Tina Fey: Wait, wait, wait! Why did you have to say they’re black bears? How is the color of their fur relevent?
Jimmy Fallon: Well, but they were black bears.
Tina Fey: Oh. But if they were polar bears, you wouldn’t say two white bears attacked someone. You’re prejudice, Jimmy! You’re-you’re a specist!
Jimmy Fallon: Specist? Really?
Tina Fey: Yeah.
Jimmy Fallon: Well, I’m gonna make a fool out of you – maybe. ‘Cause I travel around with something. I don’t know, maybe you want to see this? [ takes out picture ] My wife is a black bear! [ reveals the picture of himself with the black bear ] So, now, who’s the idiot – you or me, the guy who married a black bear? [ silence from Tina ] I thought so!
A group of high school football players in Massachusetts turned away a hired stripper from their pre-game party, saying, “This is football, we don’t do that kind of thing.” That’s fantastic. I’d like to say congratulations and good luck, to the Northeastern High Gay Birds.
Tina Fey: Twiggy, the former 60’s fashion model, returned to the catwalk this weekend, but said that, next ot today’s waify models, she felt fat and short. Oh wait, did I say Twiggy? I meant Ziggy. Ziggy said that. Sorry. That’s my favorite joke of all time!
Jimmy Fallon: Ziggy! Uh.. you know, folks, I’m glad I got a chance to talk to you. I spent some time in South America this summer,uh.. and I saw an amazing comedian in Venezuela. He’s here tonight to perform for us. Please welcome Ferecito, everybody!
Fericito: Alright! Alright! I’m Ferecito, and I’m a nightclub comedian from Venezuela. And, Yimmy, I am so happy to be here in America! But one thing I don’t understand, is American comedy. I just don’t get it! There’s no action! There’s no excitement!
Jimmy Fallon: What do you mean?
Fericito: I’m gonna show you how we do it in Venezuela – Latino-style! Let’s have a little clapping, like this! That’s right, it’s good, it’s good, alright! [ bangs on drums ] Did you feel it! Did you feel it! I’m playing salsa music for you on the timbalas! And I know a lot of you people think that Latin music is all about stupid things like Shakira and Enrique Iglesias. But we have a lot more to offer – like Menudo! [ tpas on timbalas ] Dios mio! [ makes face, eyes bulge out ] Seriously, man. It’s hard growing up Latino in this country. You know, when I first moved to this country, I was in third grade. And all the other kids in my school where white, Americanos. And I noticed, that when I went to the urinal to take a leak, my pene was bigger than all the other kids! So I went home to my grandmother, I say, “Abuelita! Why is my pene bigger than other kids? Because I’m Latino?” She said, “No. Because you’re 23!” [ bangs timbalas ] Dios Mio! You see, Yimmy? That’s how you do it!
Jimmy Fallon: I guess so. Yeah.
Fericito: You know what I notice about you, whenever you do a punchline?
Jimmy Fallon: What?
Fericito: Absolutely nothing.
Jimmy Fallon: What.. what do you mean, nothing? What do you mean?
Fericito: When you make a yoke.. you have to make it obvious to the audience!
Jimmy Fallon: When am I doing jokes?
Fericito: Are you okay?
Jimmy Fallon: Yeah.. yeah..
Fericito: You gotta make a face like this, close your eyes. [ demonstrates ]
Jimmy Fallon: Ah.. I don’t know if that’s my thing, I-I-I..
Fericito: Yeah! You have to have a catch phrase! Do you have a catch phrase?
Jimmy Fallon: No, I don’t have one.
Fericito: Okay, I’ll give you one. Do this one: “I’m just keeeeeding!”
Jimmy Fallon: I don’t know..
Fericito: Yeah! Because.. because you’re just kidding, right? This is not really the news!
Jimmy Fallon: No, it’s definitely not really the news, I’m joking..
Fericito: Okay, so then do it! You do your joke and go: “I’m just keeeeeding!”
Jimmy Fallon: I know, that’s not really me, though, I really wouldn’t, uh..
Fericito: Watch Fericito! It goes like this: “Scientists say the detection of West Nile Virus in the breast milk is not cause for alarm. But, just to be sure, don’t suck on her nipples.” I’m just keeeeeding!
[ audience is impressed ]
Jimmy Fallon: Yeah!
Fericito: It’s a lot better, it’s more professional! [ bangs his timbalas ]
Jimmy Fallon: Fericito, everybody! Fericito!
A Tennessee man plans to marry the woman who was jailed for ripping off one of his testicles with her fingernails. And that’s the news from Tennessee!
Jimmy Fallon: U.S. doctors say they have managed to growing living pigs’ teeth in rats, a feat which scientists say could spark a dental revolution. I don ‘t see what the big deal is. We’ve been growing horse teeth in Carly Simon for years. I’m just keeeeeding!
Fericito: You see? That’s much better! much better! More professional!
Jimmy Fallon: With “Weekend Update”, I’m Jimmy Fallon.
Tina Fey: And I’m Tina Fey. Good night, and have a pleasant tomorrow.
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If You Lived Here You’d Already Be Home
by John Jodzio
Paperback | 5.4 x 8.2, 208 pages | ISBN 9781593766634
John Jodzio, whose recent breakout collection Knockout was hailed by the New York Times Book Review (“every story inventive and a pleasure to read”) and NPR (“He’s a compassionate writer who is refreshingly unafraid to take risks, and his book is, well, a knockout”), returns with this expanded and updated edition of his cult classic. Jodzio has been lauded for his writing that delicately walks the line between the pain and humor of human experience, the small truths that are exposed through ludicrous situations, and the captivating characters that must navigate them.
This is a collection where every single story had an ending that made me say, ’Goddamn.’ These stories were my kind of stories-a little weird and magical and bittersweet.
—Roxane Gay, author of Bad Feminist and An Untamed State
John Jodzio has a spare, dark, funny style that manages to be sardonic without forfeiting sympathy. That’s really effing hard.
—Dessa, Doomtree recording artist and author of Spiral Bound
Jodzio’s wonderful collection, If You Lived Here You’d Already Be Home, is a set of colorful and seemingly fractured tales, each shining brilliantly alone, but also growing more vibrant as one story lays over another. Together they form an intricately stained glass window that looks out onto a whole new world.
—Hanna Tinti, author of The Good Thief
Jodzio presents 21 tales of woe, yet he never insults the reader by feeling sorry for his characters, nor do his characters ever feel especially sorry for themselves. They’re all dealing in good faith with a world that’s gone horribly awry, all playing the cards they’ve been dealt and making the best of their bad situations.
—Marc Schuster, Small Press Reviews
Death, or the approach of it, abounds in If You Lived Here, yet the collection is far from morbid, and is, in fact, quite funny, as Jodzio’s dark wit and pithy humor offer a pitch-perfect balance to scenes that, in the hands of a lesser writer, would verge on the sentimental, the cliché or the plain mean. Jodzio’s reality is a cruel one, but he is not a writer who revels in this cruelty; rather he respects his characters, and manages to find beauty in even the most dire moments, to elicit empathy towards some of the most frigid beings imaginable.
—Adam Gallari, The Millions
Each of the 21 stories begins with a pop and then unfolds in a taut, colloquial style filled with wit and pathos. The intensity rarely wanes as the characters struggle with loss and alienation and stumble toward happiness.
—Keith Meatto, New Pages
.".the comic conceit here always turns back toward something else, and all the harassed clowns, golf trap bog bodies, and barnacles attaching themselves to human asses are attempts, by Jodzio, to grasp something about the end of childhood, about the slow agony of growing up. From drunken, violent Make-a-Wish fishing trips to the simple pleasure of sucking nitrous from cans of Reddi Whip, the scenes of childhood, in Jodzio’s world, convey both awkwardness and hope, pushed forward by a kind of blind courage and an inchoate fear.
—Spencer Dew, Decomp Magazine
John Jodzio
JOHN JODZIO is a winner of the Loft-McKnight Fellowship and the author of the short story collections Get In If You Want To Live and If You Lived Here You’d Already be Home. His work has been featured in a variety of places including This American Life, McSweeney’s, and One Story. He lives in Minneapolis.
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Martin Millar
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Witch! This was perhaps the most fearsome word encountered by Kathrin Key, resident of the small fishing town of Newburgh in Fife. Witches were powerful. They could curse and cure, make cattle sick, kill children and fly broomsticks. Their magical abilities came from the devil. Satan! Auld Nick! In order to gain that power, they must enter a pact with the devil himself and consummate that alliance by fornicating with Satan himself! This is a tale of curses, witchcraft, a dead child, ailing cattle, arson and how superstition led to the persecution of a vulnerable woman.
Scotland’s Reformation during the Lifetime of Kathrin Key
This was 1653, the middle of Scotland’s Protestant Reformation. In the near future, the Scottish Enlightment would occur putting Scotland at the forefront of science, education, philosophy and the arts. For now, people were still shackled by ignorance and superstition, those great bedfellows of bigotry and prejudice.
The Presbyterian ministers were relentless in their pursuit of a godly society. They would scourge their congregations of sin. Catholicism and idolatry were condemned. Sabbath-breakers and fornicators were pulled in front of the Church Session. The Church Session was a kind of a church court where ministers were puritanical in meting out judgement. Offenders faced the humiliating punishment of being forced to sit on the penitence stool in sackcloth at the front of the kirk, while the minister denounced their sins publicly. There was little mercy. Imagine the fate of those who committed the ultimate sexual sin: witches who allegedly entered a pact with the devil through ritual fornication!
Witchcraft had been deemed a capital offence for all most one hundred years.
Poor Kathrin would have little redress when she was accused of witchcraft following an argument with the local minister, Laurence Oliphant.
The Role of the Presbyterian Church in Witch Trials
Although the church was powerful, it did not have the authority to exercise the death penalty. During cases of alleged witchcraft, the church session would gather evidence and present a case to the Privy Council, the legal arm of the Scottish Parliament. When satisfied, the Privy Council would then organise a Commission to investigate each case. Normally these commissions were composed of gentry and burgesses local to the area where the witch resided.
One of the main options open to the Church Session in identifying witches was the use of a witch pricker. Witch prickers had the lucrative job of finding the ‘devil’s mark’ which witches acquired upon entering into a diabolical pact with the devil. Witch prickers were paid by the number of ‘guilty’ witches they identified. As a result, witch prickers often were the driving force behind witch hunts. In 1649 both John Kincaid and George Cathie were active prickers or ‘broders’. Things were about to change.
Scotland during the Cromwellian Occupation
Oliver Cromwell’s New Model Army defeated their Scottish counterparts on the 3rd September 1650 at the Battle of Dunbar. One year later to the day, Cromwell’s armies met the predominantly Scottish contingency at Worcester and routed them once more. King Charles II was compelled to flee, and the independent kingdom of Scotland was forcibly incorporated into a commonwealth with England. From late 1651, passes were needed to move from one area to another within Scotland. This, in effect, stopped the witch prickers from moving great distances from their homes. The sheriff courts were suspended while the legal functions of the Privy Council and the Court of Session were taken over by commissioners sympathetic to Cromwell’s cause. The Church Sessions were largely ignored. This resulted in the machinery to deal with witchcraft cases being disbanded. The English judges took a more lenient stance on meting out justice on accused witches.
Who was Lawrence Oliphant?
Kathrin Key’s case centred a situation involving the Minister of Newburgh, Lawrence Oliphant. But who was this man? Oliphant was a man of substance, gentry no less. He was heir to the estates of Kilmarone. His father died before he came of age. Eventually, he would sell his lands to Sir David Barclay of Collernie. Was this from necessity? Or because he felt he had a vocation? If he felt he had a vocation, was this why he was so fervent in his pursuit of sinners?
He certainly came from a religious family. His brother, William, was the Minister of Dunfermline and as such preached in the beautiful church which was once Dunfermline Abbey. It was here that many of the ancient Scottish kings had been buried, including Robert the Bruce. It was located next to Dunfermline Palace, which had been abandoned after the Stewart kings ascended to the throne of England.
We know that Oliphant delivered a letter to the King from the synod of Fife apparently expressing their disapproval of his Highness ‘joying to the Malignants’.
Oliphant like many Presbyterian ministers of the time was known to dole out harsh judgements on his erring parishioners.For instance, in 1647 the Kirk elders came under censure for eating and drinking with an excommunicant named Andrew Andersone. In addition, Andersone’s father was chastised for the heinous sin of praying with his excommunicated son.
Kathrin Key and the Newburgh Witch Trials
On the 4th September 1653, Kathrin first appeared before the Kirk Session charged with cursing the minister because he denied her the communion. She denied the charge. However, others claimed to have heard her curse the minister. According to Patrick Beatt, younger, and George Miller she was heard saying in the street, “Their goes the kirkmen the divell take the pack of you.” In the days which followed, the minister came forward with allegations of various acts of malefice she was supposed to have performed against her neighbours and his family in particular. Allegedly, when Christian Orme refused to give her milk, David Orme’s cow passed nothing but blood. When Kathrin was sent for, she clapped the cow and thereafter the cow became well again. A similar tale was told about John Philip’s cow.
Kathrin Key Accused of Killing A Baby
A couple of charges brought against Kathrin Key relate to the Minister’s daughter. It seems that Kathrin was one of the infant’s wet nurses. However, after suckling from Kathrin, the babe would not feed from any other woman. After the child was ‘spayned’ (weaned), Kathrin came to visit and held the girl in her arms. It was said that from then on ‘the brain murned and gratt into the night…and nothing could stay her until she died.” This was probably the crux of the disagreement between the minister and his parishioner.
Grief is a strange thing. It is seldom rational. Oliphant was a ‘man of the cloth’ and could hardly vent his anger on God when his grieving turned to anger. It would have been easier for him to accept that his daughter had been taken from him by the devil and the devil’s agent here on Earth, Kathrin Key.
And what of Kathrin? What events had caused her to become one of the Oliphants’ wet nurses? Was she nursing her own child at the time and in desperate need of money? Had she lost a baby and therefore had milk to spare?
Further Accusations against Kathrin Key
A further accusation levelled against Kathrin Key, stated ‘that she is of ane evil brute and fame and so wes her mother befoir her.’ Does this mean her mother had also been suspected of being a witch? Were they a family of healers, once important in a small community who found themselves victims of fear and superstition? Kathrin had been asked to heal ailing cattle.
A Reprieve for Kathrin Key
It seems that none of her neighbours could or would testify to various acts of malefice or witchcraft attributed to Kathrin. Christian Orme, Katharine Geddes and Margaret Philip all confirmed that the aforementioned cows were sick but not that Kathrin Key was the cause of their illness. The wet nurses confirmed that the minister’s daughter would not breast-feed from them and that the child cried a lot but gave no substantial evidence of witchcraft. In March 1654 the elders decided to pass things on to a higher ecclesiastical court, the Presbytery Session. It seems the minister put in charge of the proceedings became ill.
It took until 3rd of May 1655, before the Presbytery Session found Kathrin guilty of cursing the minister, an offence to which she now pleaded guilty. On the 3rd June 1655, the congregation were asked to bring forth evidence of Kathrin committing witchcraft. None was forthcoming. Had the minister been spiteful in his accusations or were the townfolk willing to gossip about Kathrin Key behind her back but none of them was willing to publicly denounce her?
On the 24th of June 1655, Kathrin appeared at ‘the place of repentance’ to be punished for cursing the minister. No dittay (indictment) was produced for the crime of witchcraft. For the moment her life was safe.
But the occupation would not last forever!
Alleged Arson Attempt
In 1659, Charles II reclaimed the throne and Scotland reverted back to its former legal system. Kathrin suddenly became very vulnerable. There is a very telling entry from the diary of John Lamont of Newton, dated November 1661:
“This month, the two weomen in the Newbrought, that were apprehended aboue a yeire agoe, for burning Mr Lawrence Oliphant, minister of Newbrought, his house, were hanged att Cuper in Fyffe, being found guiltie by the Cyse; also they were accused for witchcraft, because delated by some of ther owne nighbours in the towne, who were burnt a litell before this execution; bot thir weomen did confesse nether , bot still pleaded innocencie, as frie both of burning the house, and of witchcraft. Mr Alex. Coluill, justice depute, was present at ther sentence as judge.”
Interestingly, a search of the Survey of Scottish Witchcraft shows that on the 19th November 1661 Kathrin Key and Magaret Liddell were tried for witchcraft. Allegedly they had confessed to witchcraft, forming a demonic pact and renouncing their baptism. A commission was formed to try them. Given the history between Kathrin Key and Lawrence Oliphant, was she the ‘witch’ accused of setting his house on fire? Many accused witches would confess under torture and then withdraw their admission at a later date. We have no record to Kathrin’s final fate although it seems likely she would not have been so lucky a second time.
John Lamont records later in the same year::
“This yeire ther were divers persons both men and women apprehended for witchcraft in Lowthian and Edinboroughe, and sundrys of them were burnt; also some were taken in Newbrough in Fyffe and brunt likewyse.”
The witch trials at Newburgh continued into the following year.
And the Witch Prickers?
Meanwhile, in the shadows watching the proceedings at this time was one Christian Caddell. She was to become Scotland’s only cross-dressing witch pricker for ‘broding’ was man’s work. She claimed that she learnt her trade from watching John Kincaid, at work. Kincaid was the most infamous of all witch prickers in Scotland. By 1660 Kincaid was back in business. It seems likely that he made his way to Newburgh and nearby Abdie, where he could ply his trade on the vulnerable and defenceless.
As for Lawrence Oliphant, his first wife died and he remarried in 1658. In 1662 he converted to Episcopal faith.
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Scorers and a play-makers. Is there is difference?
July 4, 2017 By SOCRATES Leave a Comment Filed Under: Coaching, Sports science, Uncategorized
When coaches talk about the difference between a number 9 and a number 10 in soccer, a point-guard and a shooting-guard in basketball, a fly-half and a centre-three-quarter in rugby, a quarter-back and a running-back in American Football or a goal-attack and a goal-shooter in netball the focus tends to be on the differences in either the skill sets or the physical attributes of the players.
Stephanie Wood is definitely shorter and faster than her goal-scorer buddy Caitlin Bassett
Usually, netball goal-attackers are shorter and faster than their goal-shooting team-mates. Quarter-backs are much better passers than their running-back buddies. In soccer, number 9s might be stronger and have better shooting skills (off the head or foot) than their number 10 counterparts. Usually fly-halves will not have the pace or size of centre-three-quarter players but will have great vision and accurate passing skills.
Is it just about physical attributes and acquired skills?
Is it all about the physical attributes and skills of the players that determines their ideal roles? I might be getting into dodgy and subjective areas here but could it also be true that personality has a role to play in determining what players make the best scorers and who is more suited to the playmaker role? I think so.
I have been coaching and watching a range of sports for many years and it seems to me that some players take to the play-maker role more naturally than others… others who are no less valuable to their teams because they are such a natural scoring threat. Whether these tendencies are created in individuals through nature (their genetic make-up) or nurture (the entire sum of experiences of their lives) it still seems to me that the position we are most suited to in a sporting team is at least, to some degree, determined by our personality and personal motivations.
Is there a scorer’s or play-maker’s instinct?
Was Mike Jordan the greatest natural scorer of any sport of all time?
That’s not to say we should line up athletes, give them a personality assessment, then brand them as one specific kind of player until kingdom come. That would be way too simplistic. An individual’s tendency to want to be either a play-maker or a scorer could exist anywhere on a broad continuum. Some athletes might have an 80-20 preference towards scoring (putting them at the extreme end of the scale) while lots might have a 50-50 balance between their desire to be a play-maker or a scorer. Using basketball as an example, Mike Jordan would make a good example of an 80-20 scorer who was ideally suited to the shooting-guard role. While his gut instinct was to take on the opposition, directly, wherever possible, his ability to organize play could not be denied either. Steph Curry, the Golden State point-guard probably sits closer to the 50-50 split… something a little unusual in a point guard who might normally tend towards the play-maker role preference. Curry can swing back and forward between devastating natural scorer and play-organizer depending on the needs of the game. Every player, their personality, their motivations and their desires is a little different.
At the other end of the scale would be the 80-20 play-makers. There are players like Magic Johnson, in basketball, or the late-career Pele, in soccer, who were driven by the ambition to make their team-mates look great! When they wanted, they could be mercurial scorers, but it was the assist, in the end, that really turned them on!
Secondly, an athlete’s tendency towards preferring one style of play over the other might shift with age or with the learning of a new range of skills. I have known lots of kids in soccer who destroyed oppositions with their goal scoring ability early in life but discovered, as they matured, that they preferred working their mischief from the number 10 role then laying off to someone else to score the goals and grab the glory. Such players normally have enough scoring skill to bag their share of goals as well, when their team needs them to.
So, the personality situation is far from black and white. Athletes can have a strong, medium or weak preference for one style of play over the other. Also, that preference or tendency might change over time.
Does it matter?
Why should preference or personality tendency be a concern to coaches?
It seems to me that many talented athletes could be playing in positions that are not psychologically suited to them or their preferences… just because they have the right body, the right physical attributes and the right set of skills that the coach thinks he or she is looking for in a role. Technically skilful attacking mid-field players, that couldn’t find a team mate open if their lives depended on it, are as common as hell in soccer. When every cell of a player’s being is screaming out to beat your opponent and score it’s hard to be an effective play-maker. If such a player were driven by the overwhelming desire to put the ball in the back of the net, then I reckon they are in the wrong position. I know some awful number 10s who might make devastating number 9s or wingers. Such players often have good scoring averages but poor goal to assist ratios. By playing them out of position, their careers are being held back and the team is disadvantaged!
Is Curry a natural play-maker? I doubt it. I wonder how he would go if he played for a team that forced him into a purely play-maker role.
The Golden State Warriors basketball team is an interesting case. I suspect that there are lots of NBA teams where Steph Curry (Golden State’s superstar point-guard) would struggle to be as successful as he is. His GSW role of being part-time point-guard and part-time small shooting guard might not be possible in teams that don’t have such an abundance of play-making talent throughout the remainder of the roster. In other teams, he might continue to pull outstanding individual scoring numbers but I doubt whether the team would be as overall successful. An NBA coach with a roster full of great scorers but short-on for play-makers would not be making a smart move, in my view, by forking out millions for a player like Curry. What he or she needs is a player like Stockton! The same might apply in other sports. Some soccer, rugby or netball teams may not need a specialist play-maker if their team is full of players who love to set up their mates. But if you have a team in which every player just loves to score, coach, you better find an Aaron Mooy or Jonathon Thurston.
There must be thousands of basketball teams in the world where the most talented and natural scorer has managed to talk themselves into the point guard role. Why a coach would allow a team’s most obvious “go-to guy” to also be the team’s play-maker seems to me beyond comprehension. Why a natural scorer would want to negate their scoring talent by sitting back in an organizing role, I have no idea. To have a single player responsible for three-quarters of the team’s productivity (especially when some of those responsibilities are somewhat conflicting) doesn’t seem to make a lot of sense to me. It might work for the Golden State Warriors but they are a very special and unusual outfit where most of the roster are genuinely multi-faceted players. Few teams are so blessed.
When an instinctive play-maker and an instinctive scorer come together… wow!
In any sport, it’s great to find a natural scorer and natural play-maker partnership. The scary thing for opposition teams and opposition coaches when having to face up to a combination like Karl Malone and John Stockton is that, if you are silly enough to try to stop the scorer by stacking the defence on them, the brilliant play-maker will have plenty enough scoring ability to burn you for leaving him or her open. A great play-maker and scorer double-act has way too many options up their sleeves to be troubled by a basic defensive response.
We saw something similar last week-end with Bassett and Wood from the Sunshine Coast Lightening in the Netball Super League Grand Final giving nightmares to the Sydney Giants defenders. With super-scorer Bassett looking unstoppable drawing extra defence, play-maker Wood flicked her shooting switch on, forcing the defenders to come back to her, thus opening up Bassett again. Wood and Bassett were almost impossible to defend!
About behaviour
Everything about Zidane’s behaviour marked him as a natural play-maker! Note his eye-line!
How can coaches react to this personality issue. I don’t know. I’m not a psychologist. My guess would be that if a player’s behaviour, on the field, court or at practice gave a strong indication that they have a natural tendency to want to attack their opponents goal or try-line then don’t be suckered into forcing them into a play-maker role no matter how appropriate their skills or shape might seem for that role. Every team needs players who lust to “find the back of the net” and to place them elsewhere seems wasteful to me. I would add that if they are desperate to score it seems likely to me that they would stuff up the play-maker role, often, anyway. The counter is also probably true. If you have a player that looks and seems like a scorer but behaves more like a play-maker my tip would be to shift them back deeper. They will more than likely continue to score for your team from a deeper position but will also bless your team and their team-mates with lots of assists.
The moral to the story? When constructing a balanced team, coaches need to think a little further than the traditional skills, physical attributes criteria when deciding on positional responsibilities and making team selections. I reckon coaches need to think about raw psychological make-up of players as well. Some athletes have a natural tendency to want to score and others prefer to create. When an athlete is pushed into an inappropriate role they, and the team, will suffer.
Short, fat, slow, uncoordinated and clumsy, ancient Athenian Socrates had very few of the physical quality required of the elite athlete. He did have, on the other hand, a better than average brain between his ears and a mouth that could talk opposing players, referees and coaches half into their graves. Socrates, as a sport analyst, is what the world needs and misses. He is an opinionated so-and-so that actually thinks deeply about sport and adventuring and likes nothing better than provoking others into deep thought. Socrates is the antithesis of the sporting jock or the West Sydney soccer supporter.
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Expectations on professional athletes – is it fair to expect pros to uphold certain values?
April 30, 2019 By SOCRATES Leave a Comment
Can professional sportspeople be expected to uphold values above and beyond their obligation to play? How far should those obligations to uphold values extend? Is it okay for the Australian Rugby Union to expect players like Isael Folou to honour their stated value of “inclusiveness”? Socrates ponders these delecate issues and sets out his position.
Its just a job. Grass grows. Birds fly. Waves pound the sand. I beat people up. – Muhammad Ali
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Athletes in the LGBTQI Mardi Gras
March 12, 2019 By SOCRATES 2 Comments
Twenty-one different sports teams marched in this years Sydney Mardi Gras. That’s twenty-one groups of out and proud queer athletes. The LGBTQI community need to be “fearless” and queer athletes are no exception. Check out these fearless sporting clubs living it up on their night of night!
A life with horses
A life with horses – or Lulu in wonderland
August 8, 2018 By TIMOTHY EDWARDS Leave a Comment
It’s well known that playing sport can be a life-changing experience. For one mum, adventurer and businessperson, having a sporty pastime was more than life-changing. Lulu’s friendship with her horses has touched her and her daughter’s lives in a million ways and created a whole new life in an ever-changing wonderland for them both. But don’t think for a moment that their horses are the purpose built catalysts for their ideal lives! Its way more complex than that… and more respectful. Read on! It’s worth it!
“Pressure? Pressure is a Messerschmidt up your arse. Playing cricket is not!”
One of the greatest cricket “all-rounders” of all time, Keith Miller was not only an exceptional performer in multiple elements of test cricketing (batting, bowling and fielding) but he was also gifted in numerous other aspects of his life. Witty, entertaining, handsome, a renowned war time pilot and gifted Australian Rules Footballer, Miller was famed for calling a spade a spade and acknowledging that there was much more to life than elite sports. Having flown fighter bombers in the Second World War under life threatening circumstances he was not one to take the “pressure” of high level sport too seriously!
Seven deadly sins of sports sartorialism and style.
April 17, 2019 By SOCRATES 2 Comments
There are hundreds of fashion choices that look ridiculous, foolish, horrible and offensive in a sporting context but seven particular style choices brand the “sinner” almost beyond redemption. Socrates smugly sticks his massive nose in the air and points the finger of sartorial disgrace at the “sins” he finds most hideous.
Here is a cracker of a trivia question.
Who was the college recruiting scout talking about when he said the following to his head coach.
“I’ve just seen a fat guy… who can play like the wind!”
Yup. The same guy who told people that just because they had shoes like his, it didn’t make them like him in any other way. Charles Wade Barkley.
Where did the word canter come from?
August 8, 2018 By SOCRATES Leave a Comment
A bit more horsey stuff for people who liked the story next door. Here is a cracker bit of etymology for all you word lovers (and horse lovers) out there. Where does the word canter come from? You’ll never guess in a million years! Click here to find out. It’s a beauty!
What is Elvis leg?
Admit it. You’ve never heard of “Elvis leg,” have you? What the blazes is “Elvis leg?” As is the case with every other “What does it mean…” story we have ever posted, the answer is not directly related to the name itself. It is indirectly related to Elvis, though. Have a guess what the relationship is… then click here and check out whether your were correct. Find out for certain which sport uses this term and what it means.
What is a liberator?
Of course most you aviation buffs will think that a liberator is an American WW2 heavy bomber. Fair enough. But in a sporting context does it have a completely different meaning? Indeed it does. You are going to have to click here to find out what a liberator is and does in the world of sport.
Aphorisms, insights and wisdom
“The thing that’s depressing about tennis is that no matter how good I get I will never be as good as a wall.”
More perceptive sporting analysis from Mitch Hedberg, comic genius.
Phillip has returned to the south of India after eighteen years. But who is the young girl staying in his hotel? And what will he learn about his estranged brother through Inez, the Spanish backpacker?
To buy The Bangalore Test, John Campbell’s new ebook novella, just click the link.
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Moloko, Being Is Bewildering: We need your help!
Being Is Bewildering
Moloko » Things to Make and Do
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Moloko were a trip-hop / electropop band from Sheffield, UK, founded by Mark Brydon (b. Sunderland, UK) and Róisín Murphy (b. Arklow, Ireland), in 1995. It debuted with the Moloko EP (May 1995, Echo) and later with Do You Like My Tight Sweater? (Sept 1995, Echo). Their latest and final studio album is Statues, released in 2003.
They met at a Sheffield party, when Murphy had no prior professional singing experience. Meanwhile, Brydon had a thirteen-year musical résumé, first with Chakk / Hula pioneering EBM (then, aka big beat). Read Full BioMoloko were a trip-hop / electropop band from Sheffield, UK, founded by Mark Brydon (b. Sunderland, UK) and Róisín Murphy (b. Arklow, Ireland), in 1995. It debuted with the Moloko EP (May 1995, Echo) and later with Do You Like My Tight Sweater? (Sept 1995, Echo). Their latest and final studio album is Statues, released in 2003.
They met at a Sheffield party, when Murphy had no prior professional singing experience. Meanwhile, Brydon had a thirteen-year musical résumé, first with Chakk / Hula pioneering EBM (then, aka big beat). Subsequently, within dance music, he formed and produced various pop and house acts, e.g. producing Krush's hit "House Arrest" (1987, FON) and his 1993 Cloud Nine project. Murphy approached Brydon with the chat-up line "Do you like my tight sweater? See how it fits my body!", hence their debut album's title. Respectively, 'Moloko' originates from the Nadsat slang word for "milk" (from the Russian, молоко), in Anthony Burgess' novel "A Clockwork Orange".
Recorded while the pair were dating, Do You Like My Tight Sweater? gained notice on underground dance and trip-hop scenes, then more so with I Am Not a Doctor (Jul 1998, Echo). The latter yielded "Sing It Back", which broke Moloko into the mainstream. Remixed by house producer Boris Dlugosch, "Sing It Back (Boris Musical Mix)", was a massive Ibiza hit and entered the top-five of 1999 weekly UK singles charts, helped by a psychedelic video featuring Murphy in a very short metallic flapper dress and cap. "Sing It Back" was eventually featured on more than 110 music compilations. Dlugosch's remix also appears on faux radio station Rise FM in the action-adventure game "GTA: Liberty City Stories" (2005, Rockstar Games).
In 2000 Moloko started touring as a full band along with percussionist Paul Slowly, keyboardist Eddie Stevens, and guitarist Dave Cook.
The band also had chart success with "The Time Is Now", the first single from their third album, Things to Make and Do. This album had relied less on the leftfield beats of the previous albums, and featured more organic instrumentation.
Murphy and Brydon ended their relationship in 2001. After their breakup they recorded and released their fourth and final studio album, Statues, in 2003. Statues continued a segue into more traditional instrumentation, along with electronica elements from their earlier releases. The album majorly incorporated the theme of the couple's split: all of the songs deal with a troubled and/or ending romance.
In 2004 Moloko released a live DVD, 11,000 Clicks, recorded on stage at the Brixton Academy. It contained many of their well known songs including "Indigo", "Sing It Back", and "The Time Is Now".
After concluding the tour supporting Statues, Moloko mutually parted ways, with Róisín Murphy launching a solo career.
A "best of" album, Catalogue, was released in 2006. Murphy and Brydon, along with long-time Moloko guitarist Dave Cook, played a select number of acoustic radio performances to promote the album.
Since 2006 they have been on an indefinite hiatus.
01Radio Moscow0:25
02Pure Pleasure Seeker6:30
03Absent Minded Friends4:45
04Indigo3:07
05Being Is Bewildering4:07
06Remain the Same3:40
07A Drop in the Ocean1:58
08Dumb Inc.4:26
09The Time Is Now4:30
10Mother4:45
11It's Your Problem1:07
12It's Nothing5:12
13Bingo Massacre0:25
14Somebody Somewhere5:42
15Just You and Me Dancing1:17
16If You Have a Cross to Bear You May as Well Use It as a Crutch3:25
17Keep Stepping0:21
18Sing It Back (Boris Musical Mix)5:02
by Moloko
Nothing touches me
Transmit, remote, unseen, unknown.
She's glad to be so very happy.
We've placed your call into a queuing system.
Listen to the pretty musik play let it numb your fragile system.
She had a friend to call her own.
But now she spends her time alone
What of the cost of growing up
Put me on hold to shut me up.
Just being is bewildering
Disconnect me from what is mine
Call waiting, waiting on the other line.
At you leisure dear.
Come get your pleasure here
I'm so glad to be so very happy.
And if you need something, anybody, anything.
Just being is bewildering.
Call me dial l o v e.
I'll do as I please, I won't get down on bended knees.
Kiss and. make up. don't you. hang up.
Stay and. play out. the whole scene.
Try to stay calm. how long.
Do you. hold on. do you. dare to dream.
Lyrics © BMG Rights Management
Written by: MARK ERRINGTON BRYDON, ROISIN MURPHY
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Moloko Being is bewildering
Moloko •≬• Being Is Bewildering * lyrics
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#FROMTHEFRONT#SYRIA 04.09.2019 - 3,210 views
Militants Destroy Two Syrian Army Bulldozers In Southern Idlib 3.4 out of 5 based on 5 ratings. 5 user reviews.
Militants Destroy Two Syrian Army Bulldozers In Southern Idlib
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Radical militants targeted on September 4 two bulldozers of the Syrian Arab Army (SAA) near the recently liberated town of al-Tamanah in southern Idlib.
The so-called “al-Fatah al-Mubin” operations room said that the two bulldozers were building fortifications in the Sidi Ali hilltop when they were targeted with anti-tank guided missiles (ATGMs).
Al-Fatah al-Mubin was formed last May by Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS). The operations room include al-Qaeda-affiliated factions as well as Turkish-backed groups.
The attack on the Sidi Ali hilltop is yet another violation of the new ceasefire in Greater Idlib, which was announced last week by the Russian Center for Reconciliation in Syria. On September 3, militants launched several armed drones at the Russian Hmeimim airbase on the Syrian coast.
These repeated violations of the ceasefire will likely force the SAA to resume its military operations in Greater Idlib very soon. New reports suggest that the army could attack from Aleppo this time.
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xTheWarrior22
The SAA should launch a huge-scale operation west of Aleppo and advance all the way towards the Bab al-Hawa crossing. Then they can advance towards Idlib city from the north.
klove and light
but their great pal Putin wont allow it….and each and everytime(check the Facts), SAA builds up Momentum, bamm… CEASEFIRE by PUTIN.
It’s probably better for Russia to have Turkey in Syria in possible conflict with US interests. That might be the reason why they are only pushing from the south and don’t force a wig between the Kurds and the Turkey backed terrorists.
Already trying to violate the ceasefire, man even I’am surprised how brain dead these wahhabi rat are, must be those amphetamines and other drugs these loonies are rumored to take, that have essentially rotted their brains. Bad ideology, psychopaths and drugs don’t mix.
Tiresia Branding
are you sure are them who organize these operations? The majority of that guys had no ideology at all and combat just for money. Many during ceasefires passed to SAA side. So, there is a possibility that are foreigners officials that want all of them exterminated, or cause them to defend instead of surrender. The US attack of the past days is very very suspicious to me
Icarus Tanović
Wahhabi rats, are definitely stupid. It might be due to drugs they are using.
Nevertheless, well said.
AlexanderAmproz
https://www.voltairenet.org/article189802.html
NATO AND THE EUROPEAN UNION PARTICIPATE IN TERRORISM
How Bulgaria supplied drugs and weapons to Al-Qaïda and Daesh
by Thierry Meyssan
The best-kept secrets must be revealed in the end. The mafia cartel which governs Bulgaria has been caught supplying drugs and weapons to Al-Qaïda and Daesh, at the demand of the CIA, both in Libya and Syria. The affair is all the more serious since Bulgaria is a member of NATO and the European Union.
VOLTAIRE NETWORK | DAMASCUS (SYRIA) | 4 JANUARY 2016
FRANÇAIS ΕΛΛΗΝΙΚΆ ESPAÑOL فارسى PORTUGUÊS РУССКИЙ TÜRKÇE NEDERLANDS ITALIANO DEUTSCH POLSKI عربي ČEŠTINA NORSK SUOMI
Head of one of the two Bulgarian mafia cartels, the SIC, Boïko Borissov has occupied the post of Prime Minister since 2014. While his country was a member of both NATO and the European Union, he supplied drugs and weapons to Al-Qaïda and Daesh in Libya and Syria.
It seems that everything began by accident. For about thirty years, fenetylline was used as a performance-enhancing drug in the West German sports world. According to trainer Peter Neururer, more than half of the athletes took it regularly [1]. Bulgarian drug dealers spotted an opportunity in this situation, and from the dissolution of the Soviet Union until Bulgaria’s entry into the European Union, they began to produce it and illegally export it to Germany under the name of Captagon.
Two mafia groups were locked in serious competition – Vasil Iliev Security (VIS), and Security Insurance Company (SIC), the company which employed the karateka Boïko Borissov. This high-level athlete, professor at the Police Academy, created a company supplying protection for important personalities, and became the body-guard for pro-Soviet ex-President Todor Jivkov as well as for pro-US Simeon II Saxe-Cobourg-Gotha. As soon as Simeon II became Prime Minister, Borissov was named as the central Director of the Ministry of the Interior, then was elected mayor of Sofia.
In 2006, the United States ambassador in Bulgaria (and future ambassador to Russia), John Beyrle, sketched his character in a confidential cable which was revealed by Wikileaks. He presented Borissov as being connected to two major mafia bosses, Mladen Mihalev (alias « Madzho ») and Roumen Nikolov (alias « The Pacha ») [2], the founders of SIC.
In 2007, basing its article on a report drawn up by a large Swiss company, the U.S. Congressional Quarterly claimed that he had smothered a number of enquiries at the Ministry of the Interior, and was himself implicated in 28 mafia murders. He apparently became a partner of John E. McLaughlin, Deputy Director of the CIA. He is said to have set up a secret prison for the Agency in Bulgaria, and helped to provide a military base in the context of the project for an attack on Iran, the Quarterly continued [3].
In 2008, the German specialist in organised crime, Jürgen Roth, qualified Boïko Borissov as a « Bulgarian Al Capone » [4].
Having himself become Prime Minister, and while his country was already a member of NATO and the EU, he was solicited by the Agency to help in the secret war against Mouamar el-Kadhafi. Boïko Borissov supplied Captagon, manufactured by the SIC, to the al-Qaïda jihadists in Libya. The CIA rendered this synthetic drug more attractive and more powerful by mixing it with a natural drug, hashish, which made it easier to manipulate the fighters and make them more terrifying, in line with the work of Bernard Lewis [5]. Following that, Borissov extended this market to Syria.
But most importantly, the CIA, using the profile of an ex-Warsaw Pact member which had recently joined NATO, bought from him 500 million dollars’ worth of Soviet-type weaponry and transported it to Syria — mainly 18,800 portable anti-tank grenade launchers and 700 Konkurs anti-tank missile systems.
When Hezbollah sent a team to Bulgaria to gather information about this traffic, a bus-load of Israeli holiday-makers were the object of a terrorist attack in Burgas, leaving 32 wounded. Immediately, Benjamin Netanyahu and Boïko Borissov accused the Lebanese resistance, while the Atlantist Press spread a number of allegations about the supposed Hezbollah kamikaze. Finally, the forensic scientist, Dr. Galina Mileva, noticed that the corpse did not correspond to the witness descriptions – while a counter-intelligence chief, Colonel Lubomir Dimitrov, noted that he was not a kamikaze, but a simple carrier, and that the bomb had been triggered from a distance, probably without his knowledge. The Press accused two Arabs of Canadian and Australian nationality, but the Sofia News Agency quoted a US accomplice known by the pseudonym of David Jefferson. The outcome was that when the European Union sought to use the affair in order to classify Hezbollah as a « terrorist organisation », the Minister for Foreign Affairs – during the short period when Borissov was excluded from executive power – Kristian Vigenine, made it clear that in reality, nothing was found that could tie the attack to the Lenbanese resistance [6].
From the end of 2014, the CIA ceased its orders and was replaced by Saudi Arabia, who were thus able to buy weapons which were no longer ex-Soviet left-overs, but modern NATO material, such as the wire-guided anti-tank BGM-71 TOW missiles. Soon, Riyadh was supported by the United Arab Emirates [7]. The two Gulf states themselves handled the deliveries to Al-Qaïda and Daesh, via Saudi Arabian Cargo and Etihad Cargo, either at Tabuk, on the Saudi-Jordanian border, or the Emirati-Franco-US base at Al-Dhafra.
In June 2014, the CIA turned up the pressure. This time, they forbade Bulgaria to allow access to the Russian gas pipeline South Stream, which could have supplied Western Europe [8].This decision, which deprived Bulgaria of some very important income, not only helped to slow down the growth of the European Union, as described in the Wolfowitz plan [9], but also to apply the European sanctions against Russia which had been implemented under the pretext of the Ukranian crisis, to develop the exploitation of shale gas in Eastern Europe [10], and finally, to maintain the interest of overthrowing the Syrian Arab Republic, a possible major gas exporter [11].
The latest news is that Bulgaria – a member-state of NATO and the European Union – continues to illegally supply drugs and weapons to Al-Qaïda and Daesh, despite the recent Resolution 2253, which was unanimously adopted by the UN Security Council.
Putins ceasefire 7.0 lolol hilarious……Putin is a Zionist pig..following orders….ceasefire….then green light for turkish invaders and number 1 Sponsor of Takfiri terrorism to resupply their Military base in morek….
perfect fit sentence for treacherous Zionist Putin pig
“with a friend like that, who Needs an enemy”
Free man
Syria exists today only thanks to Putin.
If not for Putin, we would now read in SF about the Christians / Alawites slaughtered by jihadists today.
Concrete Mike
Your making sense good sir!
“Inteligent” ceasefire continue. Terrorists are not violating any agreement. Terrorists are in Syria to destroy Syria government, economy, and culture activities. They do not care the type of agreement others (Russia-Turkey) are doing. In fact, Turkey (NATO member) has been, is , and will be given support to terrorists at Idlib, it does not matter what agreement is made with Russia.
The missiles used probably cost 4 times what they destroyed. Anyway a good reason to push some more.
neil barron
Obviously you don’t know what your’e talking about.
The missile cost $100 thousand and the Dozers run up to a Million. Plus they can’t build a defense without them. Now figure it out.
Meh, they just get 2nd hand bulldozers from Russia in Syria about $50-100k each to replace the ones they destroyed and plenty of usable parts left over.
https://www.mascus.com/construction/used-dozers/ru,2,relevance,country.html
This ATGM (jihadists still have thousands of them, courtesy of Pentagon and saudis) attack highlights how dangerous it’d be to advance too rapidly without securing the rear. If the Syrians kept the front lines in constant fluid state it would be a cherry-picking murder season for roaming ATGM teams and small guerilla style stay-behind suicide teams. Short rapid advances followed by consolidation and scouring operations is much safer. Even if it is slower, the end result will be the same. Personally I prefer more Syrians survive this abomination of a western/deep state/zionist/CIA backed fake-jihadi invasion.
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Discover the Deserts
Red Rock Canyon State Park
Photo by John Fowler/Flickr
See rocks the colors of the rainbow
Once a popular backdrop for Hollywood westerns, this parkland, roughly 120 miles/193 kilometres north of Los Angeles, is a land of multihued desert cliffs, buttes, and weathered outcrops. Carved by wind and water, the land unfolds in layers of white, pink, and red—join other photographers to capture it at sunrise and sunset. Paleontologists flock here, too. In the cliff’s sediments are remains of prehistoric animals—three-toed horses, saber-toothed cats, and prehistoric alligator lizards.
The 27,000-acre/10,926-hectare park offers several short hiking trails. First-timers can follow trails to see formations in Hagen and Red Rock Canyons. At Red Cliffs Natural Preserve, a path leads between the reddish columns of 300-foot/91-metre-tall cliffs, then follows an old Jeep track past otherworldly Joshua trees to sweeping views of the El Paso Mountains. Visit after a wet winter to see spring wildflowers erupting in a riot of color.
Nights at the park have a different kind of magic. With no major towns in the region (tiny Cantil is the closest town), night skies are free of light pollution. The 50-site Ricardo Campground is often dotted with telescopes set up by astronomy buffs, and the China Lake Astronomical Society holds frequent star parties. On most Saturday nights, park docents give talks on topics from petroglyphs to desert tortoises—and of course stars.
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The thwack of a golf club, the hum of the wind buffeting towering sand dunes, the splash of a dive into a perfect pool—the desert region is a sensory feast.
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Death Valley National Park holds the record for hottest temperature ever recorded (129°F/54°C in 1913), while the deserts of Joshua Tree National Park have giant boulders and alien-like yucca plants. At Anza-Borrego, California’s largest state park, discover amazing springtime wildflowers. The oasis-like Palm Springs region (2 hours east of L.A. and 3 hours northeast of San Diego) has golf resorts, midcentury modern architecture, and every spring, the epic Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival.
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The Old, Weird America | Folk Themes in Contemporary Art
Cover Design By Sonny Windstrup with Don Quaintance
Edited By Toby Kamps
Forward By Linda Shearer
With Essays By Michael Duncan and Colleen Sheehy
This catalogue is published by the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston to accompany the exhibition The Old, Weird America organized by Toby Kamps, Senior Curator, for the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston (May 10–July 20, 2008). This exhibition was coordinated for the Frye Art Museum from October 3, 2009–January 3, 2010 by Robin Held, Chief Curator and Director of Exhibitions and Collections (2004-2009).
The exhibition considers a widespread resurgence of folk themes in recent art from the United States, the artists included in the exhibition participate in and reflect upon folklore’s fraught role in the quest for roots, values, and authenticity. Featuring a wide range of media—sculpture, drawing, photography, and video—The Old, Weird America includes artwork by Jeremy Blake, Sam Durant, Barnaby Furnas, Matthew Day Jackson, Brad Kahlhamer, Margaret Kilgallen, Dario Robleto, Allison Smith, Kara Walker, and Charlie White, among others.
This catalogue includes essays by Toby Kamps, Michael Duncan and Colleen Sheehy, full-color illustrations, an index of the exhibition artwork, as well as artist’s biographies and bibliographies compiled by Natalia Ferreyra-Beasley.
162 pages, full color illustrations
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Jenna Presley, “One Of The World’s Hottest Porn Stars” Who Spent 10-years In The Industry Becomes Pastor At ‘xxxchurch’
Nnamdi Daniel 6 months ago
Former American pornstar, Brittni De La Mora who was “one of the world’s hottest porn stars” before turning her life around is now a pastor at ‘XXXchurch.’ Ms. De La Mora revealed on her website that she and her husband, Richard De La Mora “will be the new faces of XXXchurch.com”. They will take over […] More
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Former American pornstar, Brittni De La Mora who was “one of the world’s hottest porn stars” before turning her life around is now a pastor at ‘XXXchurch.’
Ms. De La Mora revealed on her website that she and her husband, Richard De La Mora “will be the new faces of XXXchurch.com”. They will take over from founder Craig Gross.
Ms. De La Mora, who spent almost 10 years in the industry as well as making hundreds of movies using the stage name Jenna Presley, quit in 2012 after battling drug addiction and suicidal thoughts, reports news.com.au.
“I used to be named one of the world’s hottest porn stars,” she told Barcroft Media last year.
“I tried to quit the porn industry without the help of God, and the reality is I couldn’t do it because God and porn don’t mix.”
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Ms. De La Mora later joined the XXXchurch, which helps people to combat porn addiction, and in the process of turning her life around, she fell for her pastor, Richard De La Mora.
The pair later married in 2016 and preached together at the Cornerstone Church in San Diego in the US.
Following their latest promotion, the former pornstar wrote: “We are humbled and honoured that God has called us to this ministry, and we are so grateful that both God and Craig have entrusted us with this position,” she wrote.
“We believe that God is going to do a new thing in this ministry. There have been so many lives that have been greatly impacted the work of the XXXchurch.com, mine included, but God is not done yet.”
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Governor Obaseki Destroys The Entire Table.. Says His Offence Is That He Refused To Share Money People That Brought Him To Power
Sat Jul 20 , 2019
For months, the fight between APC Chieftains in Edo state has been on headlines and Governor Obaseki is finally speaking up over it. The Edo State Governor while hosting members of the Benin Community resident in the Federal Capital Territory at Edo State Lodge, Abuja, on Friday, hinged the crisis rocking the state’s house of […] More
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FCC database misses huge chunk of ads
by Jake Harper
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A look at the campaign giving histories of New York investor Orin Kramer and Chartwell Hotels CEO George Tsunis, identified by the New York Times as having heard Emanuel's official debut as a pitchman for the super PAC, gives an example of the type of donors Democrats are targeting as they try to catch up ...
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Politicians win Olympic gold too
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Penn State University, targeted for unprecedented penalties after NCAA officials concluded that top university officials covered up child sex abuse by an assistant football coach has received more than $6 million in federal earmarks in recent years -- a sign of the school's aptitude at the political influence game.
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(Updated: 9:56 a.m. June 28: The House science panel has postponed this hearing, and so our Sunlight Live blog is postponed too. We'll let you know as soon as we can reschedule.)
Fracking is likely to be at the center of Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lisa Jackson's first appearance before the House Science, Space and Technology Committee on Thursday, which we'll be covering that day beginning at 10 a.m. on Sunlight Live, a tool that allows us to provide a video stream of the proceedings along with real time data and commentary.
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Klobuchar Lays Out Vision for the White House: ‘It’s Time, America’
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MINNEAPOLIS, Minnesota–Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) officially declared her candidacy for President of the United States Sunday during a snowy rally on the banks of the Mississippi River in Minneapolis. Several of her Minnesotan colleagues spoke before her, including Lt. Gov. Peggy Flanagan (D-MN) and Gov. Tim Walz (D-MN). Klobuchar’s Senate…
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Joe Biden Once Endorsed Segregation, Calling it ‘Black Pride’
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NHS cardiologist claims his 68-year-old mother’s vegetarian diet played a role in her death
February 28, 2019 admin Lifestyle News photo
An NHS heart doctor has claimed his mother’s vegetarianism contributed to her premature death.
Dr Aseem Malhotra, a cardiologist, said her health deteriorated because she cut meat out of her diet and became weak and susceptible to infection.
His mother Anisha, a former GP in Manchester, died in December of sepsis – a complication of an infection – at the age of 68.
Dr Malhotra said that, although she became overweight and unhealthy through eating ‘ultra-processed’ junk food, a lack of meat left her deficient of vitamins and protein which led to her poor spinal health.
Dr Aseem Malhotra says a diet high in processed vegetarian foods contributed to his mother’s frailty because she became deficient in protein and vitamins, leaving her with lower muscle mass and a higher risk of infections (pictured while as a vegetarian)
‘Even if you take away the rubbish diet, the problem with vegetarianism is you don’t get enough protein and you are at risk of a nutrient deficiency,’ he told MailOnline.
‘With my mum, the fact she didn’t get enough protein was the reason her muscle mass deteriorated and she became frail and vulnerable to infection.
‘That was a crucial aspect to her suffering at the end.’
Dr Malhotra said his mother developed high blood pressure while in her 40s and had a brain haemorrhage in 2003.
She also had arthritis as a result of being overweight and her spine became increasingly damaged over time, including repeated slipped discs.
When she died, his mother had discitis – inflammation of the tissue between the intervertebral discs in the spine, triggered by an infection.
Her mobility was further destroyed by sarcopenia, a decline in muscle mass he believes was brought on by a protein deficiency caused by her vegetarianism.
‘For most of her adult life, my mum was vegetarian and significantly overweight,’ he wrote in a column for i News.
‘Growing up, I witnessed her regular consumption of starchy carbohydrates and ultra-processed snack foods of biscuits, crisps and chocolate.
‘Our kitchen was flooded with these products.’
Acknowledging it wasn’t vegetarianism which killed his mother directly, Dr Malhotra argues the lifestyle choice isn’t synonymous with health and many people who don’t eat meat damage their bodies in other ways.
Dr Malhotra believes his mother (pictured together while she was in hospital), who was vegetarian for religious reasons, suffered from worse health because she didn’t eat meat which could have given her vital nutrients to improve her strength
Dr Malhotra said being vegetarian does not necessarily mean someone is health and India, which has the most vegans and vegetarians of anywhere in the world, has high rates of type 2 diabetes, a condition associated with being overweight
Dr Malhotra, pictured with his mother, said: ‘Growing up, I witnessed her regular consumption of starchy carbohydrates and ultra-processed snack foods of biscuits, crisps and chocolate’ (pictured around 20 years ago – while his mother was a vegetarian)
Dr Malhotra last year slammed the World Health Organization for telling people to replace butter and lard with ‘healthier’ oils in the New Year
CAN GOING VEGGIE BOOST YOUR RISK OF HEART DISEASE?
Vegetarian diets are widely touted as a healthier option than eating meat.
But eating a vegetarian diet isn’t always healthy and some may increase the risk of heart disease, scientists said in July 2017.
Experts warned cutting out meat can lead to a higher risk of heart disease – if vegetarians eat lots of refined grains, potatoes and sweets, and indulge in sweetened drinks.
Researchers from Harvard University designed separate diets which focused on plant food with a reduced animal food intake and a vegetarian diet that emphasised the intake of healthy plant foods such as whole grains, fruits and vegetables.
They also studied a third which was based on unhealthy diet of less healthy plant foods like refined grains.
The study was published in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology.
Vegetarians still become fat and may also lack the protein, vitamin B12 and iron – meat-derived nutrients – to strengthen their muscles, bones and immune systems, he said.
He gives the example of India, which has more vegetarians and vegans than the rest of the Earth combined, being dubbed the ‘diabetes capital of the world’.
This Dr Malhotra blames on increasing consumption of fatty processed wheat, sugar and vegetable oil products.
And he adds a majority of vegetarians don’t eat healthily – the Indian Dietetic Association found 84 per cent of veggies are protein-deficient, compared to 65 per cent of people who eat meat.
Dr Malhotra added in his column: ‘Sadly, [my mother’s] devout religious faith to avoid consuming animal products, combined with a high starch, high sugar diet, was ultimately to the detriment of her health.
‘I very much hope that her premature and painful death was not in vain and we can learn that much of these ills are preventable.’
Dr Malhotra last year slammed the World Health Organization for telling people to replace butter and lard with ‘healthier’ oils in the New Year.
He said he was ‘shocked and disturbed’ by the advice, which the UN agency listed as a tip to prolong people’s lives.
WHAT SHOULD A BALANCED DIET LOOK LIKE?
• Eat at least 5 portions of a variety of fruit and vegetables every day. All fresh, frozen, dried and canned fruit and vegetables count
• Base meals on potatoes, bread, rice, pasta or other starchy carbohydrates, ideally wholegrain
• 30 grams of fibre a day: This is the same as eating all of the following: 5 portions of fruit and vegetables, 2 whole-wheat cereal biscuits, 2 thick slices of wholemeal bread and large baked potato with the skin on
• Have some dairy or dairy alternatives (such as soya drinks) choosing lower fat and lower sugar options
• Eat some beans, pulses, fish, eggs, meat and other proteins (including 2 portions of fish every week, one of which should be oily)
• Choose unsaturated oils and spreads and consuming in small amounts
• Drink 6-8 cups/glasses of water a day
• Adults should have less than 6g of salt and 20g of saturated fat for women or 30g for men a day
Source: NHS Eatwell Guide
Meals should be based on potatoes, bread, rice, pasta or other starchy carbohydrates, ideally wholegrain, according to the NHS
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Species of plant
Saussurea alpina ssp. esthonica
(unranked):
Asterids
Cynareae
Synonyms[1]
Pilostemon Iljin
Bennettia Gray
Theodorea (Cass.) Neck. ex Cass.
Cyathidium Lindl. ex Royle
Aucklandia Falc.
Eriostemon Less.
Eriocoryne Wall. ex DC.
Eriocoryne Wall.
Lagurostemon Cass.
Aplotaxis DC.
Hemistepta Bunge
Saussurea pygmaea
Saussurea gossypiphora
Saussurea obvallata
Saussurea alpina with seeds
Saussurea is a genus of about 300 species of flowering plants in the thistle tribe within the daisy family, native to cool temperate and arctic regions of Asia, Europe, and North America, with the highest diversity in alpine habitats in the Himalaya and central Asia. Common names include saw-wort and snow lotus, the latter used for a number of high altitude species in central Asia.
They are perennial herbaceous plants, ranging in height from dwarf alpine species 5–10 cm tall, to tall thistle-like plants up to 3 m tall. The leaves are produced in a dense basal rosette, and then spirally up the flowering stem. The flowers form in a dense head of small capitula, often surrounded by dense white to purple woolly hairs; the individual florets are also white to purple. The wool is densest in the high altitude species, and aid in thermoregulation of the flowers, minimising frost damage at night, and also preventing ultraviolet light damage from the intense high altitude sunlight.
De Candolle named the genus after Horace-Bénédict de Saussure (1740-1799) and Nicolas-Théodore de Saussure (1767–1845).[2]
1.1 Traditional uses
2 Pharmacology
2.1 Literature and culture
3 Selected species
4.1 External links
Uses[edit]
A number of the high alpine Himalayan species are grown as ornamental plants for their decorative dense woolly flowerheads; they are among the most challenging plants to grow, being adapted to harsh climates from 3500–5000 m altitude, demanding cool temperatures, a very long (up to 8–10 months) winter rest period, and very good soil drainage in humus-rich gravel soils.
Traditional uses[edit]
Costi amari radix or costus root was an important item of Roman trade with India, and is believed to have been the dried root of Saussurea lappa.[3]
Several varieties of snow lotus are used in traditional Tibetan medicine. Saussurea lappa is used a component of the traditional Tibetan medicine Padma 28. Research conducted on the Himalayan medicinal plants by C.P. Kala reveals that the practitioners of Tibetan medicine living in the Pin Valley of Himachal Pradesh use its root for curing dysentery and ulcer.[4] Saussurea laniceps , Saussurea involucrata and Saussurea medusa flowers and stems have long been used in traditional Chinese medicine for the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis, cough with cold, stomachache, dysmenorrhea, and altitude sickness, and has been found to have antiinflammatory and analgesic effects,[5] as well as cardiotonic, abortifacient, anticancer, and antifatigue actions.[citation needed] Saussurea laniceps have been proven to be more effective than Saussurea involucrata and Saussurea Medusa. [6]
Saussurea obvallata, known as "brahmakamala" in India is one of the most sacred species, and it has been used for offerings to goddess Nanda Devi for time immemorial.[7][8]
Pharmacology[edit]
Saussurea lappa and has been shown to inhibit the mRNA expression of iNOS by lipopolysaccharide stimulated macrophages, thus reducing nitric oxide production.[citation needed] In rats, high doses of 50-200 milligrams per kilogram of crude ethanolic extract reduced observed inflammation in standard laboratory tests, and 25-100 milligrams per kilogram of the sesquiterpene fraction of the extract reduced several molecular markers of inflammation.[9][10] Ethanol extracts were shown to have analgesic and antiinflammatory effects at high doses of 75-300 milligrams per kilogram. As the slow-growing wild plant is endangered by collections, a substitute grown in tissue culture has been suggested, which is mostly equivalent. Generally the analgesic and antiinflammatory effects of the plant are much inferior to those of indometacin.
Literature and culture[edit]
In most Chinese martial arts literature, the snow Lotus was classified a rare herb as precious as lingzhi mushroom, and old ginseng.
Selected species[edit]
Saussurea abnormis. Himalaya.
Saussurea acrophila. China.
Saussurea albescens. Western Himalaya.
Saussurea alpina [it]. Common saw-wort. Northern and central Europe, northwest Asia.
Saussurea amara. China, Russia.
Saussurea americana. American saw-wort. Western North America.
Saussurea amurensis. China.
Saussurea angustifolia. Narrowleaf saw-wort. Arctic northeast Asia, Alaska, Canada.
Saussurea auriculata. Himalaya, western China.
Saussurea bhutkesh. Himalaya.
Saussurea bodinieri. China.
Saussurea bullockii. China.
Saussurea cana. China.
Saussurea candolleana. Himalaya.
Saussurea ceratocarpa. Kashmir.
Saussurea chinnampoensis. China.
Saussurea chrysotricha. Himalaya.
Saussurea controversa. Russia.
Saussurea cordifolia. China.
Saussurea costus. Eastern Himalaya.
Saussurea crispa. Himalaya.
Saussurea deltoidea. Himalaya, China, Taiwan.
Saussurea densa. Clustered saw-wort. Arctic northeast Asia, Canada, Montana.
Saussurea dhwojii. Himalaya.
Saussurea discolor. Alpine central Europe.
Saussurea dolichopoda. China.
Saussurea donkiah. Himalaya.
Saussurea dutaillyana. China.
Saussurea dzeurensis. China.
Saussurea elegans. Caucasus.
Saussurea epilobioides. China.
Saussurea fastuosa. Himalaya, western China.
Saussurea formosana. Taiwan.
Saussurea forrestii. Himalaya.
Saussurea frondosa. China.
Saussurea glandulosa. Taiwan.
Saussurea globosa. China.
Saussurea gnaphalodes. Himalaya, western China.
Saussurea gossypiphora. Himalaya.
Saussurea graminea. China.
Saussurea graminifolia. Himalaya.
Saussurea grandiflora. China.
Saussurea heteromalla. Himalaya.
Saussurea hieracioides. Himalaya, western China.
Saussurea hookeri. Himalaya.
Saussurea involucrata. Snow lotus, Himalaya, (Vansemberuu) Mongolia.
Saussurea iodostegia. China.
Saussurea japonica. Japan, Korea, northern China.
Saussurea kanaii. Himalaya.
Saussurea kanzanensis. Taiwan.
Saussurea kingii. China.
Saussurea kiraisanensis. Taiwan.
Saussurea laminamaensis. Himalaya.
Saussurea laniceps. China.
Saussurea lanuginosa. China.
Saussurea lappa. Himalaya.
Saussurea leontodontoides. Himalaya.
Saussurea licentiana. China.
Saussurea likiangensis. Southwest China.
Saussurea linearifolia. Himalaya.
Saussurea longifolia. China.
Saussurea manshurica. Northern China.
Saussurea medusa. China.
Saussurea mongolica. Western China, Mongolia.
Saussurea namikawae. Himalaya.
Saussurea neofranchetii. China.
Saussurea nepalensis. Himalaya.
Saussurea nigrescens. China.
Saussurea nishiokae. Himalaya.
Saussurea nivea. China.
Saussurea nuda. Nutty Saw-wort. Alaska.
Saussurea obvallata. Brahma kamal. Himalaya, northern Burma and south-west China.
Saussurea oligantha. China.
Saussurea otophylla. China.
Saussurea pachyneura. Himalaya.
Saussurea parviflora. Russia, China.
Saussurea pectinata. China.
Saussurea peguensis. China.
Saussurea phaeantha. China.
Saussurea pinetorum. China.
Saussurea piptathera. Himalaya.
Saussurea platyphyllaria. Himalaya.
Saussurea polycephala. China.
Saussurea polystichoides. Himalaya.
Saussurea populifolia. China.
Saussurea porcii. Carpathians.
Saussurea pulchella. Japan, Korea, northern China, eastern Siberia.
Saussurea pygmaea. Alps, Carpathians.
Saussurea quercifolia. China.
Saussurea romuleifolia. China.
Saussurea roylei. Himalaya.
Saussurea runcinata. China.
Saussurea salsa. Russia, China.
Saussurea simpsoniana. Himalaya.
Saussurea sobarocephala. China.
Saussurea spicata. Himalaya.
Saussurea stafleuana. Himalaya.
Saussurea stella. China.
Saussurea stracheyana. Himalaya.
Saussurea sughoo. Himalaya.
Saussurea taraxacifolia. Himalaya.
Saussurea tangutica. Western Asia.
Saussurea topkegolensis. Himalaya.
Saussurea tridactyla. Himalaya.
Saussurea turgaiensis. Russia.
Saussurea uniflora. Himalaya.
Saussurea ussuriensis. China, eastern Russia.
Saussurea vansemberuu. Mongolia.
Saussurea veitchiana. Central China.
Saussurea velutina. China.
Saussurea viscida. Sticky saw-wort. Alaska.
Saussurea weberi. Weber's saw-wort. Rocky Mountains.
Saussurea werneroides. Himalaya.
Saussurea yakla. Himalaya.
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^ Candolle, A.P. de, in Annales du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle. 16:197-198
^ Moeslinger, T; Friedl, R; Volf, I; Brunner, M; Koller, E; Spieckermann, PG (2000). "Inhibition of inducible nitric oxide synthesis by the herbal preparation Padma 28 in macrophage cell line". Canadian Journal of Physiology and Pharmacology. 78 (11): 861–6. doi:10.1139/cjpp-78-11-861. PMID 11100933.
^ Kala, Chandra Prakash (2005). "Indigenous uses, population density and conservation of threatened medicinal plants in protected areas of India Himalaya". Conservation Biology. 19 (2): 368–378. doi:10.1111/j.1523-1739.2005.00602.x.
^ Jia, JM; Wu, CF; Liu, W; Yu, H; Hao, Y; Zheng, JH; Ji, YR (2005). "Antiinflammatory and analgesic activities of the tissue culture of Saussurea involucrata". Biological & Pharmaceutical Bulletin. 28 (9): 1612–4. doi:10.1248/bpb.28.1612. PMID 16141525.
^ Yi, Tao; Zhao, Zhong-Zhen; Yu, Zhi-Ling; Chen, Hu-Biao (2010-03-24). "Comparison of the anti-inflammatory and anti-nociceptive effects of three medicinal plants known as "Snow Lotus" herb in traditional Uighur and Tibetan medicines". Journal of Ethnopharmacology. 128 (2): 405–411. doi:10.1016/j.jep.2010.01.037. ISSN 1872-7573. PMID 20083181.
^ Kala, Chandra Prakash (2003). Medicinal Plants of the Indian Trans Himalaya: Focus on Tibetan Use of Medicinal Resources. Dehradun: Bishan Singh Mahendra Pal Singh. p. 200. ISBN 8121101808.
^ Kala, Chandra Prakash (2010). Medicinal Plants of Uttarakhand: Diversity, Livelihood and Conservation. Delhi: BioTech Books. p. 188. ISBN 9788176222099.
^ Damre, AA; Damre, AS; Saraf, MN (2003). "Evaluation of sesquiterpene lactone fraction of Saussurea lappa on transudative, exudative and proliferative phases of inflammation". Phytotherapy Research. 17 (7): 722–5. doi:10.1002/ptr.1152. PMID 12916066.
^ Gokhale, AB; Damre, AS; Kulkami, KR; Saraf, MN (2002). "Preliminary evaluation of anti-inflammatory and anti-arthritic activity of S. Lappa, A. Speciosa and A. Aspera". Phytomedicine. 9 (5): 433–7. doi:10.1078/09447110260571689. PMID 12222664.
Chinese plant names: Saussurea
Checklist of the plants of Nepal: Saussurea
Jintu: Snow Lotus
Law W, Salick J (2005). "Human-induced dwarfing of Himalayan snow lotus, Saussurea laniceps (Asteraceae)". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 102 (29): 10218–10220. doi:10.1073/pnas.0502931102. PMC 1177378. PMID 16006524.
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Wikispecies: Saussurea
APNI: 65106
EoL: 38423
EPPO: 1SAUG
FNA: 129338
FoC: 129338
GRIN: 10781
iNaturalist: 72342
IRMNG: 1061646
ITIS: 36074
PLANTS: SAUSS
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VASCAN: 1654
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Packaging is the science, art, and technology of wrapping material around the product to enclose or protect products to identify, describe, display, distribute, store, promote, sale, use, and to keep the product clean. Packaging also refers to the process of design, evaluation, and production of packages. Packaging can be described as a coordinated system of preparing goods for transport, warehousing, logistics, sale, and end use. Packaging contains, protects, preserves, transports, informs, and sells.
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v. To grab attention from the shelf.
vi. To change consumer perception through good packaging.
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Glomerulus
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The glomerulus is the beginning section of the [[Nephron|nephron]], in the [[Kidney|kidney]], made of a [[Capillary|capilliary]] which is wound in a tight knot structure. The glomerulus is surrounded by a cup-like structure known as the [[Bowman's capsule|Bowmans' Capsule]]. The glomerulus is the first stage of filtration for the [[Blood|blood]] as it is entering the [[Kidney|kidney]]. Blood from the afferent arteriole enters the glomerulus and is put under high amounts of [[Blood pressure|pressure]] to force [[Molecules|molecules]] out of the [[Blood|blood]] stream and into the Bowmans' Capsule as the first stage of ultrafiltration. Together, the glomerulus and the [[Bowman's capsule|Bowmans' Capsule]] form what is known as the renal corpuscle. <ref name="1">Grant's Atlas of Anatomy, Thirteenth Edition, 2001. A.M.R.Agur, A.F.Dalley.</ref> [2]<br><br><br><br><br><br>References-<br><ref>Grant's Atlas of Anatomy, Thirteenth Edition, 2001. A.M.R.Agur, A.F.Dalley.</ref>
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The glomerulus is the beginning section of the [[Nephron|nephron]], in the [[Kidney|kidney]], made of a globular [[Capillary|capilliary]] network which is wound in a tight knot structure <ref>Grant's Atlas of Anatomy, Thirteenth Edition, 2001. A.M.R.Agur, A.F.Dalley.</ref>. The glomerulus is surrounded by a cup-like structure made of [[Epithelial cells|epithelial cells]] known as the [[Bowman's capsule|Bowman's Capsule]] and it is the first stage of filtration of the [[Blood|blood]] as it is entering the [[Kidney|kidney<ref>Stevens A; Lowe J Human Histology 3rd ed 2005, Elsevier Limited p298</ref>]]. The space between the capillary network and the capsule is continuous with lumen of the tubular system of the nephron, and is where the filtrate runs through<ref>Stevens A; Lowe J Human Histology 3rd ed 2005, Elsevier Limited p298</ref>. Coating the capillary network are podocytes, as well as an unusually thick basement membrane<ref>Stevens A; Lowe J Human Histology 3rd ed 2005, Elsevier Limited p298</ref>. [[Blood|Blood]] from the afferent arteriole enters the glomerulus and is put under high amounts of [[Blood pressure|pressure]] to force [[Molecules|molecules]] out of the [[Blood|blood]] stream and into the [[Bowman's capsule|Bowman's Capsule]] as the first stage of ultrafiltration. The efferent arteriole has a very narrow [[Lumen|lumen]], in order to maintain the high [[Blood pressure|pressure]] created, enough so that it will force [[Molecules|molecules]] out of the [[Plasma|plasma]] into the Bowman's space. Together, the glomerulus and the [[Bowman's capsule|Bowman's Capsule]] form what is known as the renal corpuscle <ref>Wheater's Functional Histology A Text and Colour Atlas, Fifth Edition 2006. B.Young, J.S.Lowe, A.Stevens, J.W.Heath.</ref><ref>Jonas Coersmeier, image fckLRAvailable from: http://www.probehead.com/log/fckLRDate accessed:17/10/2014</ref>.
The glomerulus is the beginning section of the nephron, in the kidney, made of a globular capilliary network which is wound in a tight knot structure [1]. The glomerulus is surrounded by a cup-like structure made of epithelial cells known as the Bowman's Capsule and it is the first stage of filtration of the blood as it is entering the kidneyUNIQ7aff56717507a5b2-nowiki-00000004-QINU2UNIQ7aff56717507a5b2-nowiki-00000005-QINU. The space between the capillary network and the capsule is continuous with lumen of the tubular system of the nephron, and is where the filtrate runs through[3]. Coating the capillary network are podocytes, as well as an unusually thick basement membrane[4]. Blood from the afferent arteriole enters the glomerulus and is put under high amounts of pressure to force molecules out of the blood stream and into the Bowman's Capsule as the first stage of ultrafiltration. The efferent arteriole has a very narrow lumen, in order to maintain the high pressure created, enough so that it will force molecules out of the plasma into the Bowman's space. Together, the glomerulus and the Bowman's Capsule form what is known as the renal corpuscle [5][6].
↑ Grant's Atlas of Anatomy, Thirteenth Edition, 2001. A.M.R.Agur, A.F.Dalley.
↑ Stevens A; Lowe J Human Histology 3rd ed 2005, Elsevier Limited p298
↑ Wheater's Functional Histology A Text and Colour Atlas, Fifth Edition 2006. B.Young, J.S.Lowe, A.Stevens, J.W.Heath.
↑ Jonas Coersmeier, image fckLRAvailable from: http://www.probehead.com/log/fckLRDate accessed:17/10/2014
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The Makers of ”Not Your Father’s Root Beer®” Debut New Bourbon from Small Town Craft Spirits™
November 15, 2017 Mark Bennett
LOS ANGELES, Nov. 14, 2017 — Small Town Craft Spirits announced today the launch of Not Your Father’s Bourbon™, the first in a new line of spirits for the spirits company. The innovative company is putting an exciting spin on the centuries-old spirit for a new generation of whiskey drinkers and cocktail connoisseurs. Crafted for veteran and novice bourbon drinkers alike, Not Your Father’s Bourbon is an 86 proof (43% ABV), small batch bourbon with a hint of vanilla for a subtly sweet taste. Small Town Craft Spirits is from the makers of Small Town Brewery, pioneer of the flavored craft category with fan-favorite, Not Your Father’s Root Beer.
With more than 12% percent1 growth in the 85+ proof bourbon sector, Small Town Craft Spirits saw an opportunity to break ground in this category with a unique and accessible flavor profile that stands out from competitive brands. The distinctive blend of ingredients combined with the brand’s smooth finish creates a spirit that is far from ordinary. Small Town Craft Spirits is excited to offer a bourbon at an affordable price point with top-shelf taste that can be enjoyed during any occasion – from relaxing at home to celebrating a night out with friends.
The folks at Small Town Craft Spirits celebrate the rich history and heritage behind bourbon, but are excited to launch an option with a unique flavor twist and finish, different from what is expected. While most flavored whiskeys taste more like the flavor than the whiskey, Not Your Father’s believes that the whiskey is the most important part. A touch of Madagascar vanilla was added to enhance the flavor, not mask it.
Created to be approachable for all spirits drinkers, Not Your Father’s Bourbon appeals to those who want to savor the traditional taste of bourbon, on the rocks, as well as to those who prefer enjoying their bourbon in a mixed drink. Try mixing it with Not Your Father’s Root Beer for an indulgent cocktail that’s hard to refuse.
Not Your Father’s Bourbon comes in 750 ml bottles and is available in Illinois and Wisconsin with plans to launch nationwide by the first quarter of 2018.
About Small Town Craft Spirits™
Small Town Craft Spirits internalizes small town American values – passion, pride, and ingenuity – and incorporates them into every aspect of its distillation. From the makers of Small Town Brewery, pioneer of the flavored craft category with fan-favorite, Not Your Father’s Root Beer, Small Town Craft Spirits prides itself on distilling with a special blend of ingredients that have laid the foundation for Not Your Father’s uniquely flavored products. For more information about Not Your Father’s Bourbon, check out www.smalltowncraftspirits.com.
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Disney's Hollywood Studios Dining
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Disney's Hollywood Studios Dining Overview
Dining at Hollywood Studios is less exotic than at Epcot and possibly less interesting than at any other park. The upscale Brown Derby is by far the best restaurant at the Studios. For simple Italian food, including pizza, Mama Melrose’s is fine; just don’t expect anything fancy. At the Sci-Fi Dine-In, you eat in little cars at a simulated drive-in movie from the 1950s. Though you won’t find a more entertaining restaurant in Walt Disney World, the food is hit or miss. Somewhat better is the 50’s Prime Time Cafe, where you sit in Mom’s time-warp kitchen and scarf down meat loaf while watching clips of classic sitcoms. It’s fun and the food is a step up. The best way to experience either restaurant is to stop in for dessert or a drink between 2:30 and 4:30 p.m. Hollywood & Vine features singing and dancing characters from the Disney Channel during breakfast and lunch.
One TouringPlans staffer sums up the food situation at Hollywood Studios thusly:
There's nothing sadder than finding yourself hungry at the Studios.
Disney's Hollywood Studios Advance Reservations Recommendations
The park has five restaurants where Advance Reservations are recommended or required: The Hollywood Brown Derby, 50's Prime Time Cafe, Sci-Fi Dine-In Theater Restaurant, Mama Melrose's Ristorante Italiano, and the Hollywood and Vine Cafeteria. See our WDW Dining Reservation page for information on how to make reservations.
Our Favorite Counter-Service Restaurants
Trolley Car Cafe (Starbucks)
Sunshine Day Cafe.
We receive considerable mail from readers recounting their DHS dining experiences. The 50’s Prime Time Cafe, for instance, is always a hot topic. First, from a Maryland reader:
50’s Prime Time Cafe was fun, but the food was mediocre at best. If my mom cooked that way, I would’ve run away from home.
But a West Newton, Massachusetts, family loved it:
We decided to go against your recommendation and give it a shot. We’re so glad we did! For the five of us (ages 16–20), it was a blast. “Leroy,” our waiter and “big brother” for the meal, came and sat at our table and helped us set our places so we wouldn’t get in trouble with “Mom.” When one member of our party cursed, “Mom” arrived to punish him, making him clear the table onto her tray, which he did shamefully. It was a total kick that we talked about for the rest of the trip.
If you arrive at the Studios without having arranged Advance Reservations for meals, you can make them at the restaurants. The Hollywood Brown Derby, expensive but tasty, is usually among the last to fill. The companion Hollywood Brown Derby Lounge is far less crowded and offers a small-plate and dessert menu, including the famous grapefruit cake. If you have no Advance Reservations and you get hungry, try Min and Bill’s Dockside Diner, which sometimes flies under the radar of the teeming hordes.
FANTASMIC! DINING PACKAGE
If you dine at the Hollywood & Vine buffet (dinner only) or at Mama Melrose's or Brown Derby full-service restaurants, you can obtain a ticket/voucher for the members of your dining party to enter the night's first showing of Fantasmic! without waiting in line and sit in a section of seats (one of the best in the theater) reserved specifically for dining package patrons..
Here are the rules: You may call 407-WDW-DINE (or book online) up to 180 days in advance and request the Fantasmic! Dining Package for the night you want to see the show. This is a reservation and must be guaranteed with a credit card at the time of booking. There's a 48-hour cancellation policy. Disney Dining Plan credits can be used to pay for the meal.
To keep guests from coming in and ordering the cheapest thing on the menu just to get Fantasmic! vouchers, Disney includes a fixed price meal in the package. Sample 2013 prices (peak season, excluding park admission and gratuity) are roughly as follows:
Brown Derby
(Lunch or Dinner)
Mama Melrose's
(Dinner Only)
Adult $59 $38 $40
Child (3-9) $18 $13 $23
The price covers all you care to eat at the Hollywood & Vine Buffet or entree and dessert at the Brown Derby or Mama Melrose. Nonalcoholic drinks are included with the package at all three restaurants. Allow yourself a minimum of two hours to eat and make your way to the Fantasmic! show. If you have made ordinary reservations for any of the participating restaurants, they will not include reserved seats for Fantasmic!. You have to buy the package to get the good seats.
You will receive your tickets/vouchers at the restaurant. 30-45 minutes before the first Fantasmic! show of the night, report to the VIP seating entrance on Sunset Boulevard next to Beauty and the Beast. A cast member will collect your vouchers and direct or escort you to the seating reserved for dining package guests. Though you're required to arrive early, you can be seated immediately and won't have to stand in any lines. You will not have specific assigned seats in the reserved section. It's first-come/first-served, so arrive early for the best choice.
If Fantasmic! is cancelled due to weather or other circumstances, you won't receive a refund, but you will get a voucher good for another performance within 5 days (you'll also need another day of park admission). Here's what happened to one reader:
On my last visit to WDW this May I booked the Fantasmic dinner package at Mama Melrose and ate there and received my show voucher but the show was rained out. I thought I was out of luck but asked and was told the vouchers are good for 5 days for another show. I went to the show 4 days later and was able to use the voucher with no problem.
Tipping at Disney's Hollywood Studios
A frequent area of confusion for Disney guests is the topic of tipping at Walt Disney World. International guests may be unfamiliar with American tipping in general. Gratuities are a part of life when you travel in the United States. We have a page dedicated to everything you need to know about tipping at Walt Disney World.
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Bullying Ben Carson, Coddling Democrats
Brent Bozell and Tim Graham
We've been waiting for the media attacks on Ben Carson to begin. To this point he'd been (relatively) untouched: He wasn't viewed as a credible threat. But his numbers aren't receding. They're growing. So he's now in the crosshairs.
The "news" networks have spent several days manufacturing outrage over Carson, saying that if he were in a mass-shooting situation, he would want to fight back. "I would not just stand there and let him shoot me."
It didn't matter how many millions of sensible Americans -- especially males -- would have that same thought. Experts insist distracting the shooter by taking action, like throwing things, can help save lives. Indeed, shortly after 9/11 we were visiting with an airline security expert who stated, emphatically, that in a similar situation the impulse must be to attack the attacker, no matter how hopeless it might appear.
Instead, the networks seized on how Carson was insulting shooting victims as being too passive -- an aggressively biased take.
On NBC's "Today," news anchor Natalie Morales had the vapors: "It's beyond insensitive. It's hard to hear that." Co-host Willie Geist huffed, "But my goodness, who would ever second-guess people in that situation?"
Meanwhile, the 70-something politicians running on the Democrat side can apparently say all kinds of hypernegative things and expect the "objective" media to ignore them. After all, isn't it just scientifically verifiable that conservatives are evil?
For example, at a surprise appearance at a Latino PAC's fundraiser on Oct. 6, Vice President Joe Biden uncorked on Donald Trump and the other GOP hopefuls. Latinos were hanging their heads, he said. "People walked in like literally down because of the beating, the beating Hispanics are taking at the hands of the Republican caucus -- I mean the Republican presidential race." The American people, Biden said, are "so, so, so much different than these guys who are appealing to everything from homophobia to this notion of the ... Know-Nothing Party of the late 1800s."
Network TV coverage? Nothing. (The Know-Nothing Party only flourished in the 1840s and 1850s, but who expected Biden to get an A in History -- or even pass?)
On the very same day, Hillary Clinton smeared the National Rifle Association at an Iowa town hall. "You know, the NRA's position reminds me of negotiating with the Iranians or the communists," she said. "The NRA tries to keep gun owners -- the ones who are members -- really upset all the time so they can keep collecting their money, because they tell them they're the only thing that's going to stop the black helicopters from landing in the front yard and people's guns being seized."
James Taranto of The Wall Street Journal quipped: "If the NRA is like 'the Iranians or the communists,' does she recommend the same negotiating strategy the administration has employed with them -- i.e., make concession after concession, then declare a diplomatic triumph?"
Again, the network coverage: zero.
On Oct. 10, President Obama spoke to donors in Hollywood about the Republicans in the House and in the presidential race that the "politics of fear ... can express itself in anti-immigration rhetoric. It can express itself in hunkering back on the need to take care of folks who are vulnerable ... It can express itself in sort of cheap jingoism and militarism and nationalism that's not grounded in our national security interests. But it's a dangerous path."
This is apparently dime-a-dozen liberal arrogance from Obama. So it's not news. Our media distort the picture so only the Republicans are ideological and refuse to compromise, which completely avoids Obama's second-term "executive action" trench warfare.
As usual, one of the media's most obvious demonstrations of favoritism is defining what is a damaging, disgraceful gaffe. Liberals -- even Joe Biden! -- just can't seem to be guilty of one.
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Chargers lose in OT to USA Under-18 Team
Posted on January 24, 2015 by Michael Napier
The Chargers battled with the best of America’s young hockey talent, but fell 2-1 in overtime against the U.S. National Under-18 Team in a Saturday exhibition game at the Von Braun Center.
Matthew Tkachuk, son of NHL 500-goal scorer Keith, beat UAH goaltender Matt Larose with 40 seconds left in overtime after the Chargers had a couple of chances at victory of their own.
Team USA outshot the Chargers 39-17, but most of that advantage was built in a dominating second period (17-1). Outside of the second, Team USA outshot UAH 22-16.
The Chargers struck first seven minutes in. Frank Misuraca’s shot from the right point rebounded off Team USA goaltender Mike Lackey right to Brennan Saulnier at the doorstep. Saulnier wristed the puck past Lackey for the 1-0 Charger lead.
UAH had opportunities to expand the lead with a two-man advantage in the middle of the first, and Team USA had three power play changes themselves, but neither team could convert.
Charger starting goaltender Carmine Guerriero stopped all six shots he faced.
The second period was all Team USA. The Under-18s got the first 13 shots on goal before Jeff Vanderlugt finally broke the streak with about seven minutes left in the frame. It was UAH’s only shot of the period to Team USA’s 17.
But Team USA could only get one goal on UAH goaltender Matt Larose, who came in for Guerriero in the second. Troy Terry, who has committed to Denver, beat Larose as he drive through the slot to tie the game at 1-1 at the 11:50 mark.
Larose finished with 31 saves on 33 shots in 45 minutes of work. Lackey played the whole game and made 16 saves for Team USA.
UAH and Team USA face off again Sunday afternoon at 2 p.m. at the VBC. The first 1,000 fans get a free UAH hockey team photo.
Notes: Ben Reinhardt returned to the UAH lineup after missing 10 games due to injury. … James Block and Bryan Siersma saw their first action for UAH. … UAH is now 0-6-1 in exhibition games against the U.S. Under-18 Team.
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Controversial building on famed Vietnam mountain pass painted new green
Saturday, October 12, 2019, 17:00 GMT+7
The Ma Pi Leng Panorama building is seen in green exterior on Ma Pi Leng mountain pass in Ha Giang Province, Vietnam, as of October 11, 2019. Photo: Vu Tuan / Tuoi Tre
The owner of a building illegally constructed on the majestic Ma Pi Leng Mountain Pass in northern Vietnam has ‘coated’ the controversial venue with a new green color in an apparent attempt to allay criticism against its construction.
The exterior color of the Ma Pi Leng Panorama, a seven-story hotel, restaurant, and café situated on the highest point of the namesake pass in Meo Vac District, Ha Giang Province, has been changed as observed by Tuoi Tre (Youth) newspaper on Friday afternoon.
Construction of Ma Pi Leng Panorama began in late 2018, but the venue has only recently come under strong criticism from social media users in Vietnam following some media reports of its "ugliness".
They building has been described as an ‘eyesore’ on the majestic landscape, especially when information surfaced that it was built without a construction permit.
While the Department of Construction of Ha Giang has suggested that the hotel's owner destroy the six lower stories and keep the highest floor as an observation deck for travelers, some architects think it is better to pull down the top floor, which sticks out above road level, and renovate the bottom six in a way that makes the building blend in with its natural landscape.
Some online citizens also showed support for painting the venue with a new color so as to match it with the surroundings.
The Ma Pi Leng Panorama building is partially painted green on the outside on the Ma Pi Leng mountain pass in Ha Giang Province, Vietnam in this photo taken on October 11, 2019. Photo: Vu Tuan / Tuoi Tre
Ma Pi Leng Panorama’s owner apparently took in some of the Internet users’ suggestions and changed the color of the building’s highest story from orange to green.
Likewise, the fourth, fifth, and sixth floors have also turned green, while the seventh level is still in the middle of the transformation.
Answering Tuoi Tre’s questions about this transformation, Ma Van Cuong, vice chairman of Meo Vac District, said that the decision to paint the building with a new color is in the owner’s hands.
The district is still waiting for directions from the provincial authorities on what to do with the illegally-built project, Cuong said.
On Wednesday, the Vietnamese Department of Cultural Heritage under the Ministry of Culture, Sports, and Tourism conducted an inspection of Ma Pi Leng Panorama, but the authority has yet to produce an official statement.
As authorities ponder over what steps to take, the multiple-purpose building has had its seven hotel rooms fully booked until November, according to an attendant at the venue.
Although the owner has closed the five lower stories and kept services running only on the two top floors, customers still flock to the venue out of curiosity.
Many visitors are even willing to prepare meals by themselves, using the place's public kitchen, when the building's restaurant stops taking orders.
Two women walk on Ma Pi Leng mountain pass in Ha Giang Province, Vietnam, with the Ma Pi Leng Panorama building spotted afar. Photo: Vu Tuan / Tuoi Tre
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University of Montreal – RESAUD Network (Réseau d’Échanges Stratégiques pour une Afrique Urbaine Durable)
By Osa Isacson on August 30, 2016
University of Montreal
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Michel Max RAYNAUD , Ph.D. Professor
michel.max.raynaud@umontreal.ca
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RESAUD Network (Réseau d’Échanges Stratégiques pour une Afrique Urbaine Durable)
RESAUD Network (Réseau d’Échanges Stratégiques pour une Afrique Urbaine Durable), an initiative led by the Université de Montréal (Canada) and UN Habitat (Nairobi, Kenya) was created in 2014 at the Université de Montréal’s Faculty of Environmental Design upon the signing of a memorandum of understanding between the university and UN Habitat. We are a francophone network of experts from UN Habitat, as well as specialized researchers from the Montreal Campus (Université de Montréal and École Polytechnique) in urban studies including project development and management, planning, public security, infrastructure and ecosystem resilience, as well as other French-speaking African university researchers. Our mission is to reduce poverty and insecurity of human settlements in French-speaking African cities by strengthening the capacity of local governments to make evidence informed decisions by using facts and tangible evidence. We are driven by the conviction that local solutions with proven effectiveness carried by responsible governments are a powerful lever for improving urban poverty reduction policies.
RESAUD acts in four countries: Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Ivory Coast and Senegal. RESAUD is organized into Observatories hosted at local universities and its headquarters are in the Go.S.U.D. Laboratory (Gouvernance et Sécurités Urbaines Durables) of the Observatoire Ivanhoé Cambridge of the Université de Montréal’s Faculty of Environmental Design. Four Observatories have been created: Observatory RESAUD Burkina Faso in Université de Ouagadougou; Observatory RESAUD Cameroon in Université de Yaoundé; Observatory RESAUD Ivory Coast in Université Félix Houphouët Boigny and Observatory RESAUD Senegal in Universityé Cheikh Anta Diop. Each Observatory, offers RESAUD’s triple expertise (local university, UN Habitat and Montreal Campus), it works on the basis of official contractual partnerships with municipal governments to find pragmatic solutions to the specific problems of precarious human settlements and evaluates the effectiveness of results, to train elected officials and public administrations in the mechanics of project management, negotiations; and to disseminate the results to national and international policy-makers and civil society.
RESAUD’s activities address four urban securities priorities: 1) tenure and urban planning security, 2) public safety and urban design, 3) health security (WSH) and cooperative management, 4) environmental security and risk management. Our activities are based upon technological innovations, institutional innovations and economic innovations.
These four priorities will only be achieved locally and in an integrated (holistic) manner in consultation with local elected officials and civil society (communities, associations – particularly women, and investors). To meet the demands and needs of their populations, elected officials, supported by the Observatory must innovate by basing their actions on solid evidence: choose the best solution, implement it, evaluate the results, and learn from what does not work and why. In other words the question that is asked by local policy makers is: HOW can we achieve better security and safety outcomes, access and coverage for the urban poor? These actions imply the availability of reliable local data, suitable tools, performance indicators and a trained administration – basic resources that elected officials recognize are currently greatly missing.
For example the first Observatory for West Africa was officially launched in March 2016 in Senegal at Cheikh Anta Diop University (UCAD Dakar). Housed at the École Supérieure d’Économie Appliquée, it offers RESAUD’s triple expertise: UCAD’s national and regional expertise, UN Habitat’s monitoring expertise, and Montreal Campus’ expertise in research and tool development. The partnership agreement signed between UCAD’s Senegal RESAUD observatory and the Mayors of the administrative area of Dakar contractually commits them to act to secure the living conditions of citizens living in socially, land tenure, and environmentally vulnerable areas: waste, flooding and coastal erosion.
The objectives for the Observatory for the Dakar region over the next two years are as follows:
1. Enhance UCAD’s expertise and provide resources for municipal public administrations: mediation, project development, environmental risk prevention, public security, and measures and data analysis;
2. Train municipal professionals in municipal management tools;
3. Develop a protocol for a pilot-type response in consultation with elected officials, local decision-makers, communities and associations intended to restructure several vulnerable neighbourhoods;
4. Advocate for the strategic alliance between the city and university through the United Nations and national and regional institutions.
Sustainable Development Goal 11 targets relating to activity
11.1 By 2030, ensure access for all to adequate, safe and affordable housing and basic services and upgrade slums
11.3 By 2030, enhance inclusive and sustainable urbanization and capacity for participatory, integrated and sustainable human settlement planning and management in all countries
11.5 By 2030, significantly reduce the number of deaths and the number of people affected and substantially decrease the direct economic losses relative to global gross domestic product caused by disasters, including water-related disasters, with a focus on protecting the poor and people in vulnerable situations
11.6 By 2030, reduce the adverse per capita environmental impact of cities, including by paying special attention to air quality and municipal and other waste management
11.7 By 2030, provide universal access to safe, inclusive and accessible, green and public spaces, in particular for women and children, older persons and persons with disabilities
11.b By 2020, substantially increase the number of cities and human settlements adopting and implementing integrated policies and plans towards inclusion, resource efficiency, mitigation and adaptation to climate change, resilience to disasters, and develop and implement, in line with the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015-2030, holistic disaster risk management at all levels
11.c Support least developed countries, including through financial and technical assistance, in building sustainable and resilient buildings utilizing local materials
Main themes of this activity
Slum Upgrading
Information and Monitoring
Changes that took place as a result of this activity
Four partnership agreements have been signed between the four local Universities and local governments of the cities: University of Ouagadougou/City of Ouagadougou; University of Yaoundé/Communauté urbaine of Yaoundé; University Félix Houphouët Boigny/District of Abidjan; University Cheikh Anta Diop/ City of Dakar.
Three master students of Faculty of Environmental Design (University of Montreal) work with cities, and supported by UN Habitat:
1) One student works with Communauté urbaine de Yaoundé to adapt ‘urban infrastructure vulnerability and resilience’ tool, developed by Centre Risque & Performance of École polytechnique (Campus Montreal)
2) One student works on case study concerning urban planning and project management in Ouagadougou.
3) One student works with two municipalities of the Great Dakar (Pikine and Guediawaye) to adapt a mapping tool developed by a startup CAMIDUS, created by an ex graduate student from École polytechnique (Campus Montreal)
Urban crime and violence Virtual library at University Felix Houphouët Boigny in collaboration with School of Criminology (University of Montreal) is under construction.
RESAUD Network is member of GAP (General Assembly Partners) Academia Research Constituent Group. RESAUD was mainly present at the PrepCom2 session for Habitat III (Nairobi 2015/04), at United Nations Sustainable Development Summit 2015 (New York 2015/09); at Thematic Meeting Metropolitan Areas for Habitat III (Montreal, 2015/10)
Director of RESAUD Network collaborated at several expert group meetings: Metropolitan governance (Guadalajara, 2015/11); Expert Group Meeting: Safer Cities and the New Urban Agenda (Genève, 2016/07).
How the impact of the activity was measured
RESAUD Network opens an innovative way to collaborate with local governments.
Our goal is to help cities (elected and public administration), supported by local universities, University of Montreal (Campus Montreal), Program Division and Program Managers of UN Habitat, to strengthen their capacities to achieve governance best practices for the benefit of the urban poor.
The impact measures will target public administration, civil society and urban public policies.
We start all our activities and, in terms of research action, we will conduct quantitative and qualitative research methods (statistical and perception studies) based upon change theory and causal pathway design. We shall measure the impact of our activities with indicators developed by UN Habitat (Urban Prosperity Index 2012) and the UN Agenda 2030 indicators (in progress).
Links related to the activity
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New Brazilian officer assumes command of Maritime Task Force
Rear Admiral Eduardo Augusto Wieland of Brazil (right) assumes command of UNIFIL MTF, receiving the UNIFIL flag from UNIFIL chief Maj. Gen. Stefano Del Col.
UNIFIL Head of Mission & Force Commander Maj. Gen. Stefano Del Col is saluted by UNIFIL MTF’s new commander Rear Admiral Eduardo Augusto Wieland.
UNIFIL Head of Mission & Force Commander Maj. Gen. Del Col alongside MTF’s new commander Rear Admiral Eduardo Augusto Wieland during the Transfer of Authority ceremony.
UNIFIL Maritime Task Force peacekeepers hold the flags of the six contributing countries, during the Transfer of Authority ceremony at Beirut Port.
Reflections of UNIFIL Maritime Task Force peacekeepers during the ceremony of Transfer of Authority ceremony.
UNIFIL’s Maritime Task Force (MTF) got a new commander last week with the Mission’s head and Force Commander, Major General Stefano Del Col, overseeing the transfer of authority between two Brazilian senior naval officers onboard the UNIFIL flagship “Frigate Liberal” in the Beirut Port.
In his address at the transfer of authority ceremony on 28 February, Major General Del Col appreciated the contribution made by the outgoing MTF commander, Rear Admiral Eduardo Machado Vazquez, and welcomed the new commander, Rear Admiral Eduardo Augusto Wieland for a yearlong tour of duty.
He said that MTF represents a “unique and effective element” within UNIFIL.
Established in October 2006 at the request of the Government of Lebanon, UNIFIL MTF supports the LAF Navy in preventing the unauthorized entry of arms or related materiel by sea into Lebanon. Its mission also focuses on assisting Lebanon raise its own naval forces to control and protect Lebanon's seaways and territorial waters.
“The Maritime Task Force’s role and presence have not only contributed to secure the Lebanese territorial waters, but with its presence at sea, it proved the benefits that dominance on maritime environment can have for peacekeeping operations, as well as enabling the efficient and durable deployment of the Lebanese Armed Forces in southern Lebanon,” said Major General Del Col.
UNIFIL MTF currently has about 770 personnel and six ships: one each from Bangladesh, Brazil, Germany, Greece, Indonesia and Turkey. The Brazilian Navy has been in the command of the MTF since 2011. Since 2006, UNIFIL’s MTF has hailed about 92,000 ships, of which about 13,000 were referred to the LAF Navy for inspection.
Nepalese peacekeepers celebrate Army Day
UNIFIL SW peacekeepers organize trainings for Lebanese security agencies
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Conservative Bias:
How Jesse Helms Pioneered the Rise of Right-Wing Media and Realigned the Republican Party
Bryan Hardin Thrift
Hardcover ISBN 13: 9780813049311 - Pub Date: 9/27/2016Paper ISBN 13: 9780813062341 - Pub Date: 9/27/2016 Details: 276 pages, 6x9 Subject(s): History - Southern
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"Conservative Bias examines one of the most notorious figures of modern American politics: Jesse Helms. Thrift shows that Helms was not merely a right-wing demagogue but rather a brilliant media mastermind who built a national movement from a little television soundstage in Raleigh."--Neil J. Young, Princeton University
"In this careful, thoughtful, and thoroughly researched study, Bryan Hardin Thrift provides the first comprehensive study of Jesse Helms's long career as a conservative journalist and television ideologue prior to his long tenure as a U.S. senator from North Carolina."--William A. Link, author of Righteous Warrior: Jesse Helms and the Rise of Modern Conservatism
"Traces a little-known, but pivotal, phase of Helms's pre-senatorial career and explains how the future New Right leader used the power of local television broadcasts in the 1960s to forge a new ideology that moved the nation to the right."--Daniel K. Williams, author of God's Own Party
Before Bill O'Reilly and Glenn Beck, there was Jesse Helms. From in front of a camera at WRAL-TV, Helms forged a new brand of southern conservatism long before he was a senator from North Carolina. As executive vice president of the station, Helms delivered commentaries on the evening news and directed the news and entertainment programming. He pioneered the attack on the liberal media, and his editorials were some of the first shots fired in the culture wars, criticizing the influence of "immoral entertainment." Through the emerging power of the household television Helms established a blueprint and laid the foundation for the modern conservative movement.
Bryan Thrift mines over 2,700 WRAL-TV "Viewpoint" editorials broadcast between 1960 and 1972 to offer not only a portrait of a skilled rhetorician and wordsmith but also a lens on the way the various, and at times competing, elements of modern American conservatism cohered into an ideology couched in the language of anti-elitism and "traditional values." Decades prior to the invention of the blog, Helms corresponded with his viewers to select, refine, and sharpen his political message until he had reworked southern traditionalism into a national conservative movement. The realignment of southern Democrats into the Republican Party was not easy or inevitable, and by examining Helms's oft-forgotten journalism career, Thrift shows how delicately and deliberately this transition had to be cultivated.
Bryan Hardin Thrift teaches history at Johnston Community College.
This welcome contribution to the history of the civil rights movement, Southern race-based politics of the 1950s and 1960s, and the public career of North Carolina’s Jesse Helms is well researched, extensively footnoted, intelligently written, and interesting to read… an engrossing book.
--CHOICE: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries
Thrift also goes beyond the typical stereotypes of southern bigots to make Helms’s footprint on the conservative movement large.
--The Journal of American History
Thrift’s volume is a vital addition to the literature on mid-twentieth-century conservatism, southern political change, and the growth of conservative media.
--Journal of Southern History
An important book that provides historians with another lens to evaluate the conservative movement. . . .May hold the key to understanding why southerners came to reject the New Deal and embrace the rhetoric of free enterprise.
--Southern Historian
Offers an important reminder whatever consensus existed in the 1950s and early 1960s existed largely among elites. Grass-roots politics was far more contentious.
--North Carolina Historical Review
Thrift’s work tells a significant story, and he deftly shows the reader the connection between Helms’s pious incitement and the contemporary conservative message. . . . His book is grounded in history but with a clear eye to the present.
--Journal of American Culture
[A] well-researched account that demonstrates the key role that Jesse Helms and his "pious incitements" had on the making of southern conservativism and the Republican Party in the twentieth century.
--Florida Historical Quarterly
Sallie Ann Robinson's Kitchen
The Letters of George Long Brown
Dixie's Daughters, with a new preface
Madame Lalaurie, Mistress of the Haunted House
Reconsidering Southern Labor History
The Revolution That Failed
Struggle for the Gulf Borderlands
Constructing Floridians
The Denmark Vesey Affair
Hardcover: $150.00
The Silencing of Ruby McCollum
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Helping Tunisia will help Europe
Radhi Meddeb
Tunisian President Beji Caid Essebsi (R) greeting European Parliament President Martin Schulz
The 2011 Tunisia revolution was rooted in three unmet expectations: more political openness, improved social conditions and greater economic opportunity.
During the past five years, Tunisia has successfully addressed the first expectation by agreeing to a consensual constitution that preserves women’s rights and introduces broad new liberties, including freedom of expression, assembly, worship or belief.
But what has been accomplished in meeting the two other expectations?
Consider some disturbing facts:
— Before 2011, the percentage of Tunisians living below the poverty line was said to be about 4%. Immediately after the revolution, it was found to be around 18%.
— Despite literacy programmes that began in the early years of independence, 18.5% of Tunisia’s population is illiterate.
— The unemployment rate went from 13% in 2011 to 18% in 2013 and is still 15.6%. The rate among young university graduates has been around 30%. In the interior regions, unemployment rose to as high as 40%.
— The economy at the time of the revolution was able to provide only 60,000 new jobs a year, even at a 4% growth rate. The annual demand for jobs, however, was around 90,000. About 90% of new job seekers were university graduates while the economy was based on outsourcing, low-wage levels and low added-value sectors.
The Tunisian revolution was dubbed the Facebook revolution because the use of the internet and social media by young Tunisians made the world an immediate witness to the uprising.
Yet after the revolution, the percentage of Tunisian households with a home computer was no more than 15%, ranging from 25% in greater Tunis to 3% for west-central Tunisia, the soft underbelly of the country.
In short, nothing has been done since 2011 to fulfil the social and economic expectations. On the contrary, the economic and social situation has deteriorated and people feel more nervous, impatient and angry.
Tunisia’s investment rate fell from 24% of gross domestic product (GDP) before the revolution to less than 15% today and has dropped in all areas: public, private, domestic and foreign. Public investment, which was 10% of GDP in 2011, is now less than 4%.
Direct foreign investment fell from 3.4% of GDP to less than 2.2%. Tunisia’s fiscal deficit has widened from -1% in 2010 to -4.8% in 2015 and public debt rose from 40% in 2010 to 52% at the end of 2015.
Political instability, economic uncertainty, lack of vision and the absence of effective economic and social programmes are creating a lack of confidence in the country.
Given the government’s shortage of resources, the only way to deal with the current situation is to pursue Private-Public Partnerships (PPP). In 2015 Tunisia adopted a PPP framework law but it is neither sufficient nor necessary. What is needed is the conviction among decision makers that such partnerships are a necessity and the only way to meet economic needs.
Tunisia’s needs over the next ten years are huge and above its current capacities. To answer the coming demand of 1.5 million new jobs will require $45 billion of investment. Infrastructure needs require an equivalent level of investment.
This amount is beyond Tunisia’s financial and management possibilities.
In the face of such huge needs, how has the international community proposed to assist Tunisia?
Europe, Tunisia’s closest and traditional partner, is offering to negotiate a new free trade agreement: complete and thorough.
But even if Tunisia does not have a credible alternative to such an agreement, it is inadequate and inappropriate for the current situation, which is no longer “business as usual”.
Tunisia and Europe need to radically change the mindset governing their relations.
Peace, wealth and inclusive development in Tunisia are a global good. The responsibility to implement them is no longer Tunisia’s alone. The lack of peace or wealth in Tunisia will immediately impact not only other Maghreb countries, but also Europe and, more specifically, south European countries.
Europe first saw an influx of illegal migrants from Tunisia and Libya to Lampedusa in 2011. However, that was nothing compared to the recent influx from the Middle East, which is shaking Europe at its institutional foundations. But even the current influx will seem small compared to what we could see if the Islamic State (ISIS) expands into the Maghreb. Tunisia is a small country. Its needs are small and Europe is capable of helping.
However, Europe must move from a “too little, too late” kind of approach to a more proactive attitude.
We must understand our common destiny. The recent terrorist attacks in Brussels, Grand Bassam, Bamako and Ben Guerdane clearly demonstrate that peace and wealth are global issues that demand global answers.
Tunisia’s financial needs for the next ten years are approximately $89 billion. For Tunisia alone, it is impossible to provide. For Europe, it is doable. It requires only political will.
Written By Radhi Meddeb
Radhi Meddeb is founder and
chief executive officer of COMETE
Engineering, an Arab/Sub-Saharan
consulting firm. He is also the
president of the Mediterranean
World Economic Forecast Institute,
(IPEMED), an independent
Euro-Mediterranean think-tank.
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FX TV REVIEW: FOSSE / VERDON (2019)
September 4, 2019 Paul. Writer and Filmmaker Leave a comment
Developed by Steven Levenson and Thomas Kail – based on Fosse by Sam Wasson
Executive Producers: Steven Levenson, Thomas Kail, Joel Fields, Lin-Manuel Miranda, George Stelzner, Sam Rockwell, Michelle Williams
Producers: Erica Kay, Kate Sullivan, Brad Carpenter
Directors: Thomas Kail, Adam Bernstein, Jessica Yu, Minkie Spiro etc.
Writers: Steven Levenson, Thomas Kail, Deborah Cahn, Tracey Scott Wilson, Charlotte Stouldt, Ike Holter, Joel Fields
Main Cast: Sam Rockwell, Michelle Williams, Norbert Leo Butz, Margaret Qualley, Nate Corddry, Paul Reiser, Jake Lacy, Susan Misner, Peter Scolari, Kelli Barrett, Evan Handler and many more.
Original Network: FX – UK Network: BBC
No. of Episodes: 8
**MAY CONTAIN SPOILERS**
I’m not a massive fan of musical shows or films as a genre. However, when the subject material or narrative connects with me, or the craft of song and dance transcends the form I will enjoy them. Thus, musicals I have seen and enjoyed on stage in the last few years include the brilliant Gypsy, Funny Girl, and Company. On the other hand, I could not stand Hamilton, despite the incredible talent involved in the production. Ironically, Hamilton director, Thomas Kail, is a major driving force behind this adaptation of Sam Wasson’s book about Bob Fosse and Gwen Verdon.
On the cinema screen the likes of: The Wizard of Oz (1939), Singing in the Rain (1952), Grease (1978), Moulin Rouge (2001), Chicago (2002), are just a few great examples of the genre I liked. But, the best and most exceptional musical I have seen in terms of form, style and subject matter is the Bob Fosse directed, Cabaret (1972). It’s not just a great musical, but it’s also a incredible piece of cinema. It oozes dark class in the musical set-pieces, ambiguous and fractured characterisation, sleazy sexuality and the thematic political subtext of pre-World War II Germany.
The making of Cabaret (1972) is one of the many creative events featured in Fosse/Verdon (2019). As the title suggests, it is an extensive biographical television drama about legendary director and choreographer Bob Fosse (Sam Rockwell) and the genius dancer, Gwen Verdon (Michelle Williams). Both their artistic and personal lives were entwined from the time they met on the Broadway musical Damn Yankees in 1955, to the moment of his death in 1987.
If you’re interested in musicals and the work of Fosse and Verdon then you will absolutely love this warts and all biopic. We get extensive rehearsal, on stage, on screen and edit room scenes showing Fosse and Verdon’s creative process. Songs and dance numbers from Cabaret, Sweet Charity, All That Jazz, Pippin, Chicago and many more, feature heavily in the play and fantastic soundtrack. Further, both Fosse and Verdon, were dancers from a very young age and we therefore get scenes from their formative years paying their dues in dives and flop-houses.
We also get the heavy drama of Fosse and Verdon’s marriage battles. The former being a pill-popping workaholic and womaniser was the biggest issue in their relationship. His constant affairs and narcissistic tantrums took their toll eventually. Indeed, Fosse, while an amazing creative force, is quite despicable in his lecherous use of the casting couch and exploitation of his position and power. Perhaps, even more could have been done to critique his negative acts, especially in light of the #MeToo gender issues relevant today. However, there is no aggressive damnation of his actions, but rather agnostic reflection and acceptance that this was prevalent masculine behaviour for the era.
Sam Rockwell as Fosse is outstanding. He conveys the sadness of a junkie, haunted by a dysfunctional and abusive childhood. Yet, where his work is concerned his energy and obsession is non-stop and formidable. This, in no small part, is down to his constant amphetamine abuse; something which would lead to mental and physical health issues. Similarly, Michelle Williams is incredible as Gwen Verdon. She inhabits this classy performer with an energy and drive, but also a fighting spirit when clashing with Fosse creatively and matrimonially. She is more his match than his muse though. Indeed, Verdon, is his equal and deserves to share many of his plaudits and awards. They ultimately would push each other to greater heights and achievements.
The supporting cast, including the magnetic Margaret Qualley as dancer, Anne Reiking, and Norbert Leo Butz portraying writer, Paddy Chayefsky are excellent. Also, the talent and look of the era is convincingly evoked on and off the stage. The cavalcade of dance numbers are superbly mounted and the editing perfectly reflects the fractured nature of the characters’ show business lives. Lastly, the jigsaw structure, which zigs and zags from the characters’ past to Fosse’s final days, charting triumph and adversity, complements the complexity of the characters.
Thus, overall, this works as an honest analysis of a flawed genius and his equally talented dance and life partner. It is highly recommended for those drawn to the darker side of creative artistry and personal relationships. But the question remains: should the work of Fosse be re-evaluated, especially in light of his extremely sexual and sexist behaviour? Is there a statute of limitation for genius and all that jazz? The Primetime Emmy awards panel do not seem concerned given Fosse/Verdon (2019) has received seven major nominations at time of writing. All of which it stands a great chance of winning!
Mark: 9 out of 11
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IN PRAISE OF BBC’S LINE OF DUTY + SEASON 5 – TV REVIEW
May 9, 2019 Paul. Writer and Filmmaker Leave a comment
BBC’S LINE OF DUTY & SEASON 5 REVIEW
Created and Written by Jed Mercurio
Directors (Season 5): John Strickland and Sue Tully
Cast (Season 5): Taj Atwal, Martin Compston, Adrian Dunbar, Stephen Graham, Anna Maxwell Martin, Vicky McClure, Rochenda Sandall, Polly Walker etc.
I was slightly late to the Line of Duty corrupt police drama party. Thankfully, I caught up with it by watching the first four seasons on Netflix. The fifth season has just completed a run over the last six weeks on BBC1 and thoroughly thrilling it was too. Creator and writer Mercurio is a bulletproof show-runner; a genre writer with a proven hit rate whose work almost always brings commercial, critical and audience success.
Having achieved early TV writing acclaim with dark medical comedy, Cardiac Arrest (1994-1996), Mercurio’s subsequent drama Bodies (2004 – 2005) was another critical hit. Latterly, Bodyguard (2018) and Line of Duty (2012 – present) have also proved highly successful. Undeniably, Line of Duty is a massive hit for the BBC. It has received awards and nominations from: the Royal TV Society, the Writers’ Guild and BAFTA. Moreover, it was also voted in the top BBC shows of all time. Therefore, after the success of Season 4 on BBC1, Season 5 was awaited with great anticipation.
THE LANGUAGE OF LINE OF DUTY
If you haven’t seen Line of Duty then it is highly recommended as quality genre storytelling. Over five seasons it has received much media attention and a strong fan following. It’s also fun looking out for the tropes, genre expections and language built into the classic cop drama. So, a game of Line of Duty bingo would certainly include:
AC12’s lead characters: DS Steve Arnott, DI Kate Fleming and Superintendent Ted Hastings will be committed to nicking bent coppers.
Massive and unexpected plot twists.
Untimely deaths of major characters.
Police Officers being bigger criminals than actual crooks.
The main antagonist will likely be revealed early on to the audience like an episode of Columbo.
Brilliantly written and lengthy police interview scenes often dominate whole episodes.
The main antagonist can at any time be superseded by a bigger antagonist like an episode of ‘24‘.
Main antagonists will be played by well known actors such as: Lennie James, Keeley Hawes, Daniel Mays and Thandie Newton.
Minor sub-plots will often blow up into being the main plot.
Red herrings galore with misdirection and cliff-hanger writing tricks becoming legion.
Line of Duty language and catchphrases have become culturally familiar including: “Fella”; “Mother of God”; “Bent Coppers”; and my favourite: “DCI. . . has the right to be questioned by an officer at least one rank senior.”
Fantastic hard-boiled one-liners and dialogue that Raymond Chandler would be proud of.
I could go on but I can highly recommend all five seasons of the show. While it exists within the police drama genre the lead characters are well written. Not simply basic binary heroes, they are complicated humans, yet highly determined and professional. The plots are serpentine and often become very complex, threatening to swallow their own tail at times. Nonetheless, if Alfred Hitchcock created a long running crime drama then Line of Duty would be it.
LINE OF DUTY – SEASON 5 REVIEW (WITH MINOR SPOILERS)
Season 5 began with an all action and breathless opening couple of episodes. Yet, by the end it transformed into a claustrophobic, theatrical and tense police interview showdown. While Season 4 found Thandie Newton desperately trying to evade capture using her intelligence and guile, Season 5 was more explosive. Opening with a pulsating robbery, with an OCG (Organised Crime Group), raiding a police vehicle convoy carrying confiscated drugs and weapons; AC12 were soon hunting armed robbers and investigating the death of several Police Officers.
The head of the crime gang is, or so we think, John Clayton. He is portrayed by fine character actor, Stephen Graham. It soon turns out Clayton is not what he seems and is playing a very dangerous game as an undercover cop. But, is Clayton still undercover or has he gone rogue? Clayton’s gang are not to be crossed and their boss is an anonymous high-ranking corrupt Police Officer referred to only as ‘H’. They communicate via computer text software, thus creating a fog of invisibility and suspicion.
As the various plot strands ravel and unravel further robberies and murders occur, with Mercurio creating a series of tense stand-offs and action set-pieces. The stakes get higher and higher until our very own Ted Hastings becomes number one suspect in the chase for ‘H’. Adrian Dunbar as Hastings is especially brilliant in this season. His character finds his whole life and history turned upside down and in freefall. I mean, could this beloved character be the arch-nemesis? The conflict created by Mercurio is totally absorbing until the very final reveal.
Overall, one could argue that Season 5 goes too far to attempt to out do the previous seasons. However, I loved both the complexity and familiarity of what I was watching. The action, suspense, twists, doubt, shocks and ‘whodunit’ plot were played to perfection. We also got a bit of characterisation amidst the heavy plotting as we found out about: Hastings’ history in Northern Ireland; Fleming’s family issues; and the impact of Arnott’s spinal injury (from a violent attack in Season 4). We also got some new characters such as the formidable DCS Carmichael featuring a stand-out performance from Anna Maxwell Martin.
Ultimately, this is a cops and robbers show which plays the numbers very well. Furthermore, like a game of bingo you never know the order the numbers will come out, who’ll win or lose and whether the game is, in fact, rigged so no one really profits in the end.
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Directed by: Stephen Frears
Written by: Russell T Davies – Based on A Very English Scandal by John Preston
Starring: Hugh Grant, Ben Whishaw, Monica Dolan, Alex Jennings, Blake Harrison, Eve Myles, Patricia Hodge etc.
Composer(s): Murray Gold
Production Company: BBC
I’ve never been a fan of politicians. They are a necessary evil. Perhaps I shouldn’t blight a whole raft of people who may, in their hearts, believe they are trying to do well for their country. But, I just cannot help feeling there is something not quite right with someone who wants to be in control or lead or rule. I’m of the view that power does corrupt the individual and even though they may begin with great altruistic tendencies they will, ultimately, be poisoned by the job. Or worse than that they have sociopathic tendencies and the prestige of being voted in will feed their greed and lust for control. How does one explain the amount of wars and conflicts there are? Humanity is greatly flawed and the leaders of the so-called free world are more flawed than most.
But, what alternative is there to the capitalist system we have? Running a country and leading millions of various people must be tough; and difficult decisions must be made everyday. Many have tried the commune lifestyle and socialism has also led, in the Soviet Union and China for example, and, to dictatorial regimes replete with fear, repression and murder. Not that the West hasn’t had its fair share of Dictators and sociopathic leaders. General Franco in Spain is one such fascistic leader and our own Iron Lady, Margaret Thatcher, hiding within the illusion of democracy, crushed Union leaders, working class lives and whole industrial communities. As such, crooked and nefarious politicians are often a staple of film and television shows. A case in point is the BBC’s recent adaptation of John Preston’s book, A Very English Scandal.
This strange true life tale focussed on the Liberal party leader Jeremy Thorpe and his relationship with a troubled young man called Norman Scott. What first starts off as an illicit but touching love story soon becomes a desperate, twisted and darkly amusing black comedy of insane proportions. First off, Thorpe and Scott are portrayed with absolute brilliance by Hugh Grant and Ben Whishaw. Both sterling film actors they bring gravitas, sparkling chemistry and humour to their respective roles; while Alex Jennings, Adrian Scarborough, Eve Myles and Patricia Hodge also excel in supporting roles. Furthermore, acclaimed director Stephen Frears ties the strands of Russell T. Davies brilliant script, expertly switching between comedy and heightened drama, without losing tonal control.
Set against the backdrop of English Parliament and the United Kingdom’s homophobic laws which outlawed gay sex, Jeremy Thorpe, is presented as an honourable man at first. He champions workers’ rights and lambasts the policy of Apartheid in the House of Commons. He has to hide his homosexuality though due to the oppressive legal system and the fact that, as a politician in the public eye, this would seriously harm his ambition to become Prime Minister. When he meets Ben Whishaw’s highly strung stable lad he immediately falls for him and they begin a secret affair. The relationship goes wrong and Thorpe moves on to become the leader of his political party, but an ever increasingly unstable Scott, just won’t go away. That’s when things begin to go awry for Thorpe. Scott won’t take a pay-off and Thorpe won’t give him the National Insurance Card, Scott hilariously demands.
So, like Henry II demanding, “Someone rid me of this meddlesome priest”, he allegedly, as per the script, takes a more sinister route. I won’t spoil it but the events which are presented are both funny and shocking and have to be witnessed to be believed. The privileged Jeremy Thorpe, garners some empathy due to having to hide his sexuality, however, his subsequent decisions to shut Scott down, as presented in this fascinating tale, are shown to be the actions of a spoilt, desperate and sad man wielding power over someone less fortunate. They say absolute power corrupts absolutely but as shown in A Very English Scandal it also leads to incredible poor decisions by individuals from the ruling classes. Indeed, the main reason I dislike and distrust politicians in general is they can and should afford to be better behaved and more compassionate than those they lead.
(Mark: 9.5 out of 11)
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June 26, 2019 By Madhuparna
If you are an avid gamer, you would need a separate gaming mouse for the best experience. Yes, while you can use a regular computer mouse for the more regular games, having a good gaming mouse for advanced games, enhance the overall experience.
While we invest in one of the best PC models around, we often tend to overlook the quality of its accessories. Most commonly it’s the mouse and that’s not a smart thing to do. So, the next question would be, which is the best one to lay your hands on? In fact, there are so many companies selling computer accessories these days, it becomes difficult to assess which is the best one out of it.
A good quality gaming mouse should have a high CPI range that can help you to configure the sensor according to your habits. From the ability to change between settings easily for a perfect headshot, to charging it up during those swings to shoot the freaks, a high-end mouse should include many features like that. As a bonus, you may want to check on its IPS rating. This signifies that it doesn’t lose track as you swipe it swiftly across the mouse pad. Besides, you need to take a call on what type of mouse you want, a wired unit or a wireless one.
To help you choose the top gaming mouse, here we have listed some of the best picks.
Logitech MX518
This gaming mouse is hands down one of the best in the market. It got a complete makeover from its previous version to a carefully restored version that retains the original shiny keyplate. While it offers the same comfortable shape that you are accustomed to, it also features all the essential modern components along with an updated nightfall color scheme.
The all-new MX518 features a highly accurate gaming sensor, Hero 16K sensor. It offers a capture rate of upto 17,000 fps and thus, offers zero smoothings, filtering, or acceleration. What’s more? It uses Logitech G HUB to help you save upto five profiles to the onboard memory that you can carry along. In addition, it also offers the option to access upto five DPI settings in just one click right above and below the wheel. You can create, crouch, heal, and more by assigning your preferred commands to the 8 buttons.
This super performing gaming mouse comes equipped with an OLED screen that offers in-game data and important notifications. It also features sensory notifications that alert as the ultimate is all set or when your health is on the lower side. You can also take advantage of the optical sensor (True Move 3) that offers real tracking on one to one basis, and indicate accuracy.
Additionally, the device also comes with changeable modular parts that offer improved performance and customization. Best of all, it offers the best gaming clicks with 60-million clicks.
Price: priced at $99
Logitech G502 Proteus Spectrum
If you are looking for a versatile gaming mouse, Logitech G502 can be the solution. It’s one of the best in the category as far as performance, design, and software are concerned. This critically acclaimed device offers powerful performance and comes in premium quality sturdy built. Equipped with a mix of advanced features and amazing comfort, it offers a notable gaming experience that’s also customizable.
The device comes with PMW3366 optical sensor that offers zero acceleration, smoothing, or filtering for the complete DPI collection. This indicates super tracking accuracy and steady receptivity irrespective of the sensitivity level of the mouse. It also lets you add more control to your game using the fast movement of DPI from low to high receptiveness. Moreover, the dual-mode scroll wheel is super-fast that helps scroll through long pages swiftly and smoothly. It also comes with a range of functions like custom RGB lighting, desk surface tuning, weight and balancing settings, and more.
Dragon War Emera ELE-G11
This is a professional gaming mouse comes with 3,200 DPI optical sensors for zero acceleration. The high-performance optical sensors offer highly accurate pixels for an enhanced gaming experience. You can even tune the CUE for incredible control while you are engaged in an intense game situation.
Logitech G203 Prodigy
This is another great high-performance gaming mouse from Logitech. The device does not just run super fast, like 1000 times/sec, and 8 times faster than the regular mouse, but is also capable of generating an instant onscreen response. Featuring its usual design, the mouse is among the top favorites of gamers worldwide. The makers designed and re-engineered it in a way that makes it long-lasting, lightweight, and comfortable.
Moreover, the device is known for its amazingly accurate, speedy tracking, and consistent delivery with 200 to 8000 DPI. The mechanical button tensioning feature, on the other hand, keeps the left and the right mouse buttons ready for click using metal spring. This, further, helps lower the force required. In addition, the Lightsync feature offers the next-gen technology called RGB lighting that helps sync the lighting and game profiles with your content.
Can be used right out-of-the-box, option to configure the six buttons to ease the in-game actions, ability to switch between two sensitivity settings in one click using on-the-spot DPI movement, or the option to save your settings preferences to the onboard memory, are some of its other major features.
Price: priced at €39.99
SteelSeries Sensei 310
Sensei 310 is a pioneer one to one esports sensor in the world that comes with the unique split-trigger mouse button layout. Best of all, it offers around 50 million click mechanical switches. The design has an Ambidextrous inclination featuring pure silicon side grips.
The famous shape of the SteelSeries mouse range offers great comfort for the users and also flexibility for the user’s hands. With a 32-bit ARM processor, it’s a powerful mouse offering low-latency functions. It also helps you to save the CPI configurations, button remappings, and lightning effects included for software free functioning at LAN occasions.
One of the most advanced gaming mice in the Logitech Series, G903 is feature packed. It features 1ms Lightspeed wireless and offers highly competitive performance with receptivity and accuracy. It comes with Powerplay that helps the mouse function without wires and with unlimited power. It does not require a charging cable ever.
The LIGHTSPEED wireless technology invented by the maker offers the best high-performance wireless gaming experience. The mouse is POWERPLAY ready which is the first of its kind with the wireless charging system. It keeps the mouse charged throughout the game. It also comes along with PMW3366 optical sensor that delivers outstanding tracking preciseness with zero smoothings, filtering, or acceleration throughout the complete range of DPI.
The unique clock tuning function lowers the sensor power pull to a considerable extent that helps you play for an uninterrupted 32 hours in one charge. While the ambidextrous buttons are customizable, the 11 buttons are also programmable, comes with custom RGB lighting, onboard memory, and more.
Price: priced at $149.99
Razer Deathadder Elite
The Deathadder Elite by Razer comes loaded with the latest esports level 16, 000 DPI optical sensor. It also features the true tracking function at 450 inches per second. All these advanced features make the device a perfect mouse with an edge over its competitors. It offers a resolution accuracy of a whopping 99.4% that delivers a high level of speed and accuracy.
It offers mechanical mouse switches that help you get that added advantage during extreme gameplay. The advanced buttons are optimized and adjusted for long lasting effect and with a max of 50 million clicks. The unique and perfect mouse shape offers outstanding comfort for the players even as intense and high-level battles are on.
Price: priced at $69.99
Corsair Harpoon RGB Wireless
This wireless gaming mouse allows you to play your way by offering functions that help you to connect to your system effortlessly with its super-fast and sub-1ms SLIPSTREAM CORSAIR WIRELESS TECHNOLOGY. You can also connect it to your system using Bluetooth or wired USB.
It can be set-up easily and thus, helps you connect with your system using a wireless adapter, or with a low-latency Bluetooth connection. While the powerful macros help you to have control on your game, it also gives you hat edge over the in-game features. What’s more? You can also choose from the many spectacular and configurable lighting options and effects. You can also create effects of your own.
Logitech G300s
G300 comes with 9 programmable buttons that offer some spectacular results with the automatic configuration ready for use. Alternatively, you can also set-up single button triggers for activities like where you need to get deep into the menus. The super ambidextrous structure offers versatility to the mouse along with comfort and long-lasting effect.
It also allows you to program the mouse for automatic lighting in an exclusive color for each user profile. There are upto seven colors to choose from. Additionally, you can switch between two sensor settings using the on-the-spot DPI shifting in a click. It allows you to shift from 250 DPI to a fast 2500 DPI movement. It’s upto 8x faster than the regular USB mouse and makes your movement super-fast. The long-lasting build and the low-friction polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE) feet for zero friction are among its other major features.
Logitech G502 Lightspeed Wireless
Another one from the Logitech range this one’s a hero that has been leading the competition since long. G502 is among the world’s most advanced wireless gaming mice, especially after the launch of LIGHTSPEED. This high-speed and dependable feature offers super performance. It also comes equipped with a high-advanced sensor – HERO 16K and it also works with POWERPLAY mode.
The best part is, with all the advanced features and functions, the mouse still retains its original comfortable shape and with reduced weight (by 7gms).
G90 by Logitech is another competitive gaming mouse that focuses on accuracy. Whether you are speeding through the screen or focusing on a single pixel, the 2500 DPI sensor reacts precisely to your hand actions. The ambidextrous shape with the contoured grip offers maximum comfort for the players despite the way you grip or your hand movement. The in-game sensitivity switching function helps you to be ready instantly and make movements correctly during the game.
It helps you perform each command with preciseness and as swiftly as possible. Best of all, it’s 4x faster than the regular USB mouse. The device is extremely light and helps with swift and easy movement.
Gaming is a passion for many and having the right accessories along with a great PC is extremely important for the best experience. In fact, a gaming mouse is one of the most important devices needed for speedy and uninterrupted gameplay. However, you need a very good quality gaming mouse that’s sturdy, has advanced features, lightweight, and reliable. Above is a list of some of the top gaming mouse that can help you get the best gaming experience. So, grab one today and enjoy gaming!
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By Greg Roth
My Cousin’s Reading List from 2017
My cousin Tim is an association CEO, leadership consultant, and a pretty serious reader: here is his list of books read in 2017. He shared this list on Facebook, so I’m re-posting here so I can share. I don’t read this much nor do I read this widely, so it’s a fascinating list to me from someone whom I know, trust, and admire as a thoughtful leader.
(Best two overall: Alexander Hamilton, and The Invention of Wings)
1. * Seeking Allah, Finding Jesus: A devout Muslim encounters Christianity, by Nabeel Qureshi
2. The Road to Little Dibbling, by Bill Bryson
3. The Complete Far Side, Vol. 2, by Gary Larson
4. The Indian in the Cupboard, by Lynne Reid Banks
5. I Still Dream about You, by Fannie Flagg
6. * The Prayer of Jabez, by Bruce Wilkinson
7. * In the Kingdom of Ice: The grand and terrible polar voyage of the USS Jeannette, by Hampton Sides
8. As You Wish: Inconceivable tales from the making of The Princess Bride, by Carey Elwes
10. Accused, by Lisa Scottoline
11. The Real Rain Man, by Fran Peek
12. Presence, by Amy Cuddy
13. Terminal Freeze, by Lincoln Child
14. Compelling People: the hidden qualities that make us influential, by John Neffinger & Matthew Kohut
15. Betrayed, by Lisa Scottoline
16. Think Twice, by Lisa Scottoline
17. Courting Trouble, by Lisa Scottoline
18. Wounded Tiger, by T. Martin Bennett
19. The Case for Easter, by Lee Strobel
20. Dirty Blonde, by Lisa Scottoline
21. The Complete Far Side, Vol. 3, by Gary Larson
22. Airframe, by Michael Crichton
23. All Work & No Say… ho hum another day, by Jody Urquhart
24. Lucille: the life of Lucille Ball, by Kathleen Brady
25. * Double Cross: the true story of the D-Day spies, by Ben Macintyre
26. Don’t Go, by Lisa Scottoline
27. Bringing Back the Black Robed Regiment, Vol. 1, by Dan Fisher
28. * Alexander Hamilton, by Ron Chernow
29. * George Washington’s Secret Six: the spy ring that saved the American Revolution, by Brian Kilmeade and Don Yeager
30. * George Washington, by Ron Chernow
31. The Field Guide for Parks and Creative Placemaking, by Matthew Clarke
32. * John Adams, by David McCullough
33. * When I was a Slave: Memoirs from the Slave Narrative Collection
34. Look Again, by Lisa Scottoline
35. * Connective Leadership, by Jean Lipman-Blumen
36. * The Most Brilliant Thoughts of All Time (in two lines or less), edited by John Shanahan
37. Daddy’s Girl, by Lisa Scottoline
38. The Board and the CEO: 7 practices to protect your organization’s most important relationship, by Peter Greer and David Weekley
39. * Isaac’s Storm, by Erik Larson
40. * Faithful Servant of God: Moses, by Stephen J. Lennox
41. * The Invention of Wings, by Sue Monk Kidd
42. Hunch: turn your everyday thoughts into the next big thing, by Bernadette Jiwa
43. Keep Quiet, by Lisa Scottoline
44. A Time to Grieve: Journeying through Grief, Book One, by Kenneth Haugk
45. On the Road, by Jack Kerouac
46. * Ella Minnow Pea, by Mark Dunn
47. The Miracle of Dunkirk, by Walter Lord
48. * The Weather Experiment: the pioneers who sought to see the future, by Peter Moore
*those that have impacted my thinking the most or have been the most entertaining in 2017.
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Hey y'all. It's BIT (Brex Idea Time) again! One of my favorite places to fortify during the fall of Knox County is the Muldraugh Police Station, as I often RP as the last surviving police officer in Muldraugh and make it my mission to reclaim the police station and turn it into a functioning safehouse. Problem is, it's not the most defensible location. Lots of smashable windows in the front, and a waist-high fence around the perimeter of the station that does f**k all to keep out the zeds. Now, usually, I just board up/sheet up the windows and proceed to either A) tear down the useless waist-high fence and replace them with walls, B) simply build the wall in front of or behind the fence, or C) just say "f**k the fence" and leave it as is, dealing with any zombies that enter the perimeter as they come. As you can imagine, none of those options are particularly viable. Option A is time-consuming, Option B is awkward, and Option C is a death sentence. That got me thinking about how to improve and expand the available defenses that can be built and utilized to protect your safehouse, wherever it may be. So here are a few suggestions I came up with: 1) Plywood boards. As anyone who lives near a coastline in America can tell you, plywood is the cheapest and most readily available material to use in order to board up the windows of your home in the event of a hurricane. In-game, plywood boards would be an alternative form of barricading windows, slightly stronger than simple planks but much weaker than metal sheets. All you'd need is a hammer, nails, and a sheet of plywood (which could be scavenged from any warehouse or hardware store.) It would also solve one of my biggest peeves in-game: barricading over broken windows, because wooden planks (and sometimes even metal sheets) tend to "float" in the air when placed in certain types of broken windows, especially if the windows are cleared of glass. A plywood board covering up the hole would be a viable solution, covering up the hole in the window while also serving as a decent barricade. It could also work for certain doors too: 2) Traps. While there are a few trap-like tools that experienced survivors can craft in the base game, they're not the best at keeping out zombies from your base. So instead of flame traps made of bottles of vodka or pipe bombs crafted from cans of hairspray, lets keep it simple. How about bear traps? A ditch filled with wooden spikes? Trip wires? A highly-skilled carpenter or engineer could go full-out Home Alone and create a whole host of booby traps to kill Zombie Harry and Zombie Marv. 3) More perimeter defenses. Like I mentioned above, the ridiculously short fence around the police station in Muldraugh is a bit of a peeve of mine. So instead of tearing it down or trying to build around it, why not include certain ways to improve perimeter defenses? How about some wooden spikes surrounding the perimeter? Piles of barbed wire in front of the fencing, a la Rainbow Six: Siege? Maybe with certain fences you can even build on top of the fence, such as adding wooden barricades or barbed wire to keep zombies from climbing over as seen here in my second favorite zombie game of all time, State of Decay: Now I know that some players use crates and boxes as barricades to block zombies from climbing over waist-high fences, but that to me seems more like an exploit of the zombie's pathfinding AI rather than a legitimate strategy to keep enemies at bay. I mean, they're just f**king boxes. There should be an option to construct additional defenses on top of or around waist-high fences in order to keep zombies from climbing over without having to waste time and effort building an entire damn wall. 4) Junk walls. For that perfect post-apocalyptic look, just cobble together whatever scrap 'n crap you can carry and construct a shoddy makeshift wall that, while not particularly strong, serves as a cheap temporary barrier between you and the zombies until you can create your real walls. It can be made of practically anything: logs, metal sheets, planks, siding, plywood boards, scrap metal, you name it. One or two zombies against a junk wall isn't much of a problem, but be warned: a horde of those f*ckers will tear it down like it was made of tissue paper. It's only meant to serve as a temporary barrier until you gain the supplies to build actual walls. For a decent idea of what I'm talking about, take a look at the junk walls from the game Fallout 4: 5) Using furniture to barricade...properly. The addition of movable furniture to the game allowed for players to use everyday objects as measures of protecting their safehouse from the zombie hordes, as seen here by a player barricading the wide-open plaza of the Sunstar Motel: That's a good start and is definitely what most people would use to barricade their homes in the likely event that they don't have access to wooden planks, a hammer, and some nails. But it's still rudimentary; furniture and objects can only be moved from their original position to a new position. I think it should go a little further than that. How about overturning sofas and beds to block hallways and act as cover from gunfire? Bookcases and refrigerators that can be pushed in front of windows? Chairs that can be wedged into doors to keep them from opening? The possibilities are endless, but I recognize that this particular suggestion may not be entirely possible, given the nature of sprites and object manipulation within the game. It's not a huge deal, but the devs did say they want to implement the ability to use furniture as barricades...well, I'm just trying to expand on that idea a little. 6) Concertina wire. Often mistaken for barbed wire, this can be used a form of fencing or other barricade, and is actually much harder to penetrate than barbed wire. Stick a ring of it on the walls and fences around your safehouse or set it up just outside your front step and watch any unfortunate bastard who wanders into it get caught and bleed like a stuck pig: I believe the item "Razor Wire" is in the game, but it doesn't really have much use at the moment. Well, razor wire could be used to construct razor wire fences such as the one in the picture above, keeping out (or at the very least slowing down) and intruders. 7) Tire-stack fences and barricades. Players who have been experimenting with the recent vehicles test may have noticed that, for all the benefits of finally having a car in Project Zomboid, they don't really make for the best fortifications. Being physics-enabled objects, they can be hard to manipulate into proper positions and can experience glitches when used to seal off a doorway from the outside. Besides, good luck finding enough workable vehicles to build a proper perimeter out of. You can't even use the vehicle wrecks as there are no tow trucks in game. But you should be able to use something else: the tires. We've seen dozens of eco-friendly aficionados do all sorts of crazy things with tires, but one of the most common uses for old tires outside of recycling is for holding back earth or water in retaining walls like these: Now, I don't know about you, but a ring of tire stacks filled with earth sounds like it would form a damn-near impenetrable barricade against both zombies AND gun-toting survivors. Hell, as seen in the photo, they may even be used as miniature growing plots! Instead of retaining water or earth, these tire walls would retain the undead. 8) Turrets. What's that? You found a Humvee on the highway with the Browning still attached? And it still has ammo? Well how about you relieve that vehicle of its precious cargo, set it up on top of some sandbags, and lay waste to any zombie hordes that step within a hundred-foot radius of your safehouse. But be warned, zombies are attracted to noise, and a .50 caliber machine gun is LOUD. 9) Noisemakers. Got a horde on your tail and don't want to lead them back to your safehouse? Getting royally f*cked by an unfortunate house alarm or by some d*ckhead flying overhead in an Apache? Well why not make some noise of your own? Set up anything from fireworks to remote-controlled explosives in specific areas, and trigger them in order to get the zombies off you. With proper planning, you could even control the movements of the horde and perpetually keep them away from your safehouse, barring any unfortunate circumstances beyond your control. Just be careful: noise carries in Knox County, and you may end up attracting a lot more danger than you intended if you're not careful. 10) Body walls. Yeah, you read that right. Body walls. Piles of corpses stacked thirty feet high around your base. A scene straight out of 300 or Game of Thrones. You've slaughtered so many zombies and now their decaying corpses litter the ground around your safehouse. Now you could do the smart-but-boring thing of burning and burying the bodies, or you can do the dumb-but-awesome thing of literally stacking their bodies on top of each other to form a barricade around your safehouse. Not only is it a testament to your zombie-killing achievements, but it has one more practical purpose: masking your smell. Now this would NOT work like in The Walking Dead, where covering yourself in zombie guts or keeping de-jawed zeds on chains close to you would make the zombies think you're one of them and not attack you. The zombies of Project Zomboid operate on sight, hearing, AND smell, so if they see your ass or hear your f*cking around, they're gonna come after you. But having a wall of rotting corpses potentially robs the zombies of one of their keenest remaining senses, tricking them into thinking that the only thing in the area is smelly rotten death. And zombies can't eat smelly rotten death. Again, if they see or hear you, they'll be on you like white on rice on a sheet of paper in a snowstorm. But otherwise, they might just pass you by...provided you don't stink even worse than a literal pile of walking corpses. Well, there you have it. Ten ideas for improvements to base defense in PZ. Have you guys got any other ideas for stuff that can be implemented to assist in defense?
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MrDeliberto posted a topic in Mod Ideas and Requests
Hey anyone ever thought how cool gunships would be on the zomboid project? I've seen modifications of cars and survivors but no sentry gun = (, I opened this topic in case some modder who has no ideas meets my request. Well, a mod of that level will earn 5 or 4 stars on Steam = D
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Base Defense
Trojan_Turps posted a topic in PZ Suggestions
I currently find it awkward trying to defend my safe-house. The zombies start by banging on my doors and barricaded windows trying to get in. While this is happening i can't attack them. Then they break in and its all too late to fight them off. I never really try to defend my base now because its always safer/easier to just run off making lots of noise, leading the zombies away. I think that windows might be the biggest problem at the moment. Zombies just hop straight through an open or broken window and merrily start trying to eat your brain. I think that zombies should climb through windows rather slowly and have a chance to fall over on the other side. But more importantly there should be an extra stage added where the zombie reaches through the window and prepares to climb. This would open up an opportunity to defend the window. The other side of a window would become a good place to be. It would also be nice if you could fight through barricaded (1 or 2 planks only) windows. So you could attack out and zombies could reach in and try to grab you (would be cool if zombies grabbed through windows). I don't want to damage my own barricades while defending them Also Doors could have a broken state where they have holes smashed in them but are still acting as a barrier (that you could also see through). This would allow you to fight through the holes and have awesome "Here's Johnny" moments.
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Build overhaul - Suggestion. With more.
nobodyClaimedThis posted a topic in PZ Suggestions
Hello! Thanks a lot for creating such an awesome game! Even though it's still unfinished it's clearly one of the best games I've played so far. That being said, I have some suggestions that I think could improve the game in the future, especally concerning the 'Build' system. I apologise if you've gotten some of these suggestions already. The 'Build' system could use major improvements The problems with the 'build' system as it is now, is; - It's hard to navigate through the list - Most of the time, the screen crops some of the list, so you won't be able to see it all - When building your base from scratch there's not many possibilities regarding funiture, and they usually end up looking a little dull. - Carpentry lvl 5 is basically useless. - It takes little to no time to build a fortress. - Window frames are mostly useless for anything else than sheet ropes. - After a base is built, it just stands there, defenseless, when you're not there to protect it. - Locks on cabinets, doors, etc. isn't a thing. Which is why, I'd like to suggest a few improvements, such as; - The list should be replaced by a full-screen menu (or adjustable size, like the skill window etc.) with different categories. Perhaps some more advanced ones you can unlock with higher carpentry level, and eventually combined with other skills too. A menu would make it easier to navigate, the screen won't crop it, it would be easier to have an overview, and if/when new things are added to 'Build', the game wouldn't end up with a very, very long list that would definitely get cropped. - When in high carpentry level, an 'Info' option could be cool, for seeing how much health your wall has left, like with the plants you farm. - More funiture such as cabinets, potted plants, sofas, candle holders, weapon racks, improvised stoves, heat sources, etc. - Being able to put something in the window frames would be nice. Maybe by using tools to take a window from a house and move it, or in some way craft one. - Building traps to catch/kill zombies and other survivors. There's a spade in-game and using it to do some real digging, like big holes that zombies can fall into, could be cool. Other things that'd work would be; Pointy sticks to place around your base (running into them causes damage), beartraps, some kind of creative trap with rope and a gun (like tripping wire things), more suggestions are welcome. Maybe the more advanced traps could use both carpentry and trapping skill. - Salvageable padlocks, craftable locks, etc. When you're in multiplayer it's really annoying when some person shows up and steals everything from your base when you're not there. Of course it adds a bit of realism, but there's absolutely no way to prevent loss of items. Which is why being able to lock your stuff in would be really nice. An idea for that would be that, locking a thing would spawn a key and you won't be able to unlock certain container without the key in your inventory. To add some realism, a lockpicking skill for that would be cool too. Locks would also be nice when the NPCs come around, assumed they can run off with your things. - Painting the wood. There's not much use for paint in the game, except for painting arrows and skulls, and the option to paint a wall or a piece of funiture could be a fun addition for the more crafty types. - Signs in game are also a little dull. Writing on them could be cool, maybe a little bit like the notes. You right click, a 'write' option shows up below the 'paint' option and you can write on it like you write on a note, but with paint instead. To read it, you could right click and 'read sign'. Signs would be more useful, especially in multiplayer. Other suggestions that could improve the games realism and possibly increase the diffuculty; - Gasoline could be used for generators to temporarily get electricity in a bulding. - Dirty/clean water: All water in the game seems to be drinkable, and having to clean water/get a clean water source would make things a lot more interesting. - A hygiene moodlet could make a use for the soap, toothbrush, toothpaste and towel. Bad hygiene could make the character more prone to diseases. - And with the previous one; More diseases such as pneumonia, sepsis, concussions, flu, etc. - Jackets, coats, raincoats, sandals, shorts, hats, glasses. Also some sort of improvised armor, that could protect from scratches/bites. Improvised armor could be; Duct tape wrapped around wherever you want it (and maybe the option to tape stuff to yourself to protect you), helmets and the like. - Wildlife. I know that would be a pretty huge thing to add to the game, as they'd need AI and stuff, but it could be really cool if you could do some actual hunting for deer and the like. Wolves could be an interesting addition too. - Someone told me it was added to the game already, but I can't seem to figure out how to use it? If it isn't then the option to use bleach and other poisons such as berries and mushrooms to poison food would be an interesting addition, both for multiplayer and when the NPCs come around. - Another fun addition would be if characters can trip and fall over things. Especially when drunk. The decreased aim is one thing, but someone who's completely plastered, go out and kill 50 zombies with a shutgun, without dying or tripping or anything is a little unrealistic. I might add some more in the future, sorry for the large amount of text! I hope it's useful c: I look so much forward to seeing what happens to this game in the future!
Trash Can Trash Can Lid Shield
woknick posted a topic in PZ Suggestions
I see quite a few trash cans in the neighborhood and would love to have the ability to equip the lid of the trash can as a secondary weapon. Use the lid for defense and knockback/bash. A perfect way to protect yourself from zombie attacks. What do you think?
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Home | Tech News | Oppo K3 with Snapdragon 710 and pop-up selfie camera coming to India on July 19
Oppo K3 with Snapdragon 710 and pop-up selfie camera coming to India on July 19
by Vishal Toshiwal
OPPO is all set to release its new smartphone in India on July 19. The Chinese handset maker is going to unveil its new smartphone dubbed as OPPO K3. Earlier this year, the company unveiled its K1 smartphone with an in-display fingerprint sensor.
While we concluded it as a value for money device at the time it was launched, today arises a need for OPPO to step-up its game as Xiaomi and Realme have been punching knock-outs to its competitors. Below we talk about the full specifications and features of the phone.
Oppo K3 Specifications
Sporting a 6.5-inch AMOLED display with 19.5:9 aspect ratio with Corning Gorilla Glass 5. It comes with 1080 x 2340 pixel resolution. Powered by a Qualcomm Snapdragon 710 processor, which is accompanied by up to 8GB RAM and up to 256GB storage.
Running on Android 9.0 based on ColorOS 6, this handset is equipped with dual rear camera setup and a pop-up selfie. The rear camera comprises of 16MP resolution sensor with f/1.7 aperture and a 2MP depth sensor with f/2.4 aperture. The front camera is of 16MP with f/2.0 aperture.
As far as the biometric security is concerned, it will be offering an under-display fingerprint sensor, same as the predecessor. The connectivity features include USB Type-C, Bluetooth 5.0, aptX HD, USB OTG, and GPS support. All this is powered by a 3765mAh capacity battery. The battery supports fast charging of 20W.
Oppo K3 price in India
The Oppo K3 price could start around Rs 16,000, as the Chinese variant was launched at 1599 Yuan, which converts to Rs 16,000 approximately. What do you guys think about the Oppo K3 launch in India? Let us know in the comment section below.
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Ubuntu maker’s GitHub account hacked — but the source code is safe
by Ravie Lakshmanan — in Security
The GitHub account of Canonical Ltd., the company behind the popular Ubuntu Linux distribution, was hacked over the weekend on July 6.
While the hacker‘s identity remains unknown, they managed to compromise the account’s credentials to create 11 new empty repositories. The repositories were named “CAN_GOT_HAXXD.”
“We can confirm that on 2019-07-06 there was a Canonical owned account on GitHub whose credentials were compromised and used to create repositories and issues among other activities,” Ubuntu Security team said in a statement.
The dummy repositories that were created
Canonical said it has removed the compromised account from the Canonical organization in GitHub and that it’s still investigating the extent of the breach. But it has established there’s no evidence that any source code or personally identifiable information was affected.
Although the hack has proved to be less scary than originally thought, this is not the first time Canonical and makers of other Linux distros have been a victim of a breach.
Attackers managed to get away with personal details of millions of users on its official Ubuntu forums in two separate incidents in 2013 and 2016.
We can confirm that on 2019-07-06 there was a Canonical owned account on GitHub whose credentials were compromised and used to create repositories and issues among other activities. Canonical has removed the compromised account from the Canonical organisation in GitHub and
— Ubuntu Security (@ubuntu_sec) July 7, 2019
Linux Mint suffered a major incident in 2016 after hackers created a modified version of its Linux distribution with a backdoor, and hacked its website to point to it. Then last year, Gentoo Linux distribution’s GitHub account — which is used as a base for Google’s Chrome OS — was hacked, and its code was replaced with malware.
Ubuntu has confirmed it uses Launchpad to host, build and maintain its codebase, that it’s disconnected from GitHub and that there have been no indications that it has been affected.
It also plans to publish a public update once it completes its investigation into the incident, and after it carries out an audit and any other required remediations.
Update on July 11 9:00 AM IST: Ubuntu’s security team has once again confirmed there’s no evidence of further compromise than originally disclosed. “We are still investigating but at this time we see no other indicators of compromise that would suggest access beyond our original disclosure,” the company said.
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the Police Magistrate in Southwark Police Court, Uncategorized July 31, 2017 July 30, 2017 393 Words
A sad end for an unwanted baby: clubbed to death in a Southwark toilet
In May 1848 a young woman presented herself at the door of Sarah Potter’s house in Jane Street, Southwark asking if she might take a room. She told her she was a ‘servant out of place’, temporarily she hoped, and that her name was Ann Brightwell.
Ann seemed like a ‘decent young woman’ so the mechanic’s wife took her in. About a month later however, Sarah began to have some suspicions about her new tenant and confronted her. Mrs Potter clearly thought that there was more to Ann’s story than she had revealed at first, and she ‘charged her with being enciente‘ (or in other words, pregnant).
For a servant to get pregnant in the 1800s was common but still unacceptable in the eyes of a disproving society. Ann’s plan was to hide herself away from the shame but despite her denials, Mrs Potter had found her out. Whether this changed her plans or not it is impossible to say. Ann might have intended to have the baby in her room in Southwark and then leave it at the workhouse door or try and raise it alone.
Perhaps then this discovery precipitated a terrible chain of events, or maybe the shock of being found out brought added stress which quickened her pregnancy. Either way things soon became much worse for the young servant.
On the 2 July Mrs Potter saw Ann leaving the ‘water-closet’ carrying an umbrella, ‘in a hurried state’. When Sarah investigated she was in no doubt that a new born baby had been disposed of inside.
The police and a surgeon were summoned and Ann arrested. In the Southwark Police Court Dr Robert Tebbett deposed that in his opinion there was no doubt the child had been born alive. Mrs Potter told the magistrate that she had heard Ann admit that she ‘had destroyed her child by casting it into the water-closet, and striking it with the end of the umbrella’.
Ann denied all of the evidence brought against her, as well she might. She was being accused of infanticide, a crime that carried a capital charge until 1938. While women continued to sentenced to death throughout the later 1800s none were executed in London but Ann could not rely on that. The magistrate committed her for trial and at that point she disappears from the records.
[from The Morning Post, Friday, July 31, 1848]
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‘What a fool I have been!’
‘Lazy’? ‘Good-for-nothing’? Or economic migrants with a dream of a better life?
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Soldier to Trump: I Returned to Serve in the Military Because of You
By Rusty Weiss | Featured Contributor | December 27, 2018 12:28PM
White House press secretary Sarah Sanders shared an extraordinary exchange between a U.S. soldier in Iraq and President Trump upon his first visit to a war zone.
Defining it as a “powerful moment,” Sanders described a conversation between the Army soldier and Trump, in which the young man said he was motivated to serve again in the military thanks to the President.
“I am here because of you,” the soldier said in the dining hall of the Al Asad Air Base, west of Baghdad.
The President’s response?
“And I am here because of you,” Trump said.
Powerful moment – Member of United States Army told the President he came back into the military because of him. And President Trump responded, “And I am here because of you.” I met him after and he gave me the patch from his arm. Incredible. #TrumpTroopsVisit pic.twitter.com/WmQf3b2K8X
The exchange was reminiscent of a moment just over a year ago when a Vietnam veteran cried on the President’s shoulder and thanked him for his support of the military.
Trump tips his cap to the soldiers
The soldier in question offered Sanders a patch which reads, “Brave Rifles,” a nickname for the 3rd Cavalry Regiment of the U.S. Army stationed at Fort Hood, Texas.
Trump’s first visit to a war zone lasted three hours, and the military seemed to be enjoying themselves, taking selfies with the Commander-in-Chief.
Sarah Sanders: Soldier said Trump inspired him to return to service https://t.co/43d2xGMWIl pic.twitter.com/o5DwAzgDlt
— The Hill (@thehill) December 27, 2018
The President reciprocated the love.
“It’s because of your sacrifice that America’s families can celebrate in safety and in peace,” Trump announced. “And we’re doing great back at home.”
“There is nobody that believes more strongly in having a powerful military than I do.”
The troops support Trump
While a constant barrage of negative reporting has taken a minor bite out of active duty military support for President Trump, the numbers remain in the positive.
Those having a favorable view of the President have slipped from 46 percent to 43 percent in the past two years but remain higher than those who disapprove.
“The latest survey shows that military service members are more supportive of the president than the American public at large,” the Military Times writes.
AMAZING:
President Trump visited Iraq for the holidays to speak to our troops stationed there and was welcomed with USA chants and incredible patriotism. 🇺🇸
Our Military loves President Trump! pic.twitter.com/tapGnqnCay
— Mike Tokes (@MikeTokes) December 27, 2018
Their poll also reveals that Trump is seen as handling specific military affairs in a much better manner than his predecessor.
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“Troops surveyed continue to give high marks to the president for his handling of military issues specifically,” the Times report states. “More than 60 percent said they believe the military is in better shape now than it was under President Barack Obama, and nearly the same number have a favorable view of his handling of the military.”
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Letter of the Day: The petroleum industry
Letter to the editor from Greg Curtis
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It is always so disappointing to hear anyone say we “need” oil and gas, let alone express a love for them. That so-called “need” is merely a reliance that has been deliberately and skilfully fostered by the petroleum industry for many decades.
What we really need is as much sustainable energy and material as possible, good jobs, good quality of life and a healthy planet, none of which are mutually exclusive. Use of oil and gas (including plastic) is mutually exclusive of all of those except jobs.
The amount of R&D money that has gone into the development of sustainable energy in the past several decades, during which time environmental alarm bells have been ringing loud and clear, is chicken feed compared to that spent by the petroleum industry.
Certainly there will remain for some time a need for oil and gas — a solar powered F-18 anytime soon seems unlikely — but not on the scale that exists now. And, tragically, the petroleum industry has failed to realize they’d have made as much profit, created as many jobs and had as robust an economy if they’d promoted sustainable energy for the past 50 years.
There is a very good chance that what kills this planet for human habitation will be just plain old stupidity.
Greg Curtis
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Two parcels of land currently owned by Silver Maples of Chelsea on Old US 12 across from Pierce Lake will be rezoned from residential to office space designation by month’s end after the Chelsea City Council formally ratified a rezoning request filed by St. Joseph Mercy Hospital of Chelsea.
The two parcels of property totaling 3.32 acres will be used by the hospital for an unspecified future medical office development, contingent upon a transfer of ownership of the property from Silver maples to St. Joseph Mercy.
The two neighboring entities have been exchanging land with each other in ongoing cooperation for several years now, according to city officials.
The request originated from the hospital to the city’s planning commission this past October. That request was approved and sent by the commission to the city council, which held a first reading of the rezoning ordinance last month before the second reading approval this past Monday.
While these actions are fairly recent, the land in question is called out as 0-1 in the future land use portion of Chelsea’s Master Plan, which was updated earlier this year with Carlisle Wortman Associates having drafted the document on March 20, 2019.
While the documentation provided to the city by the hospital goes into no more detail than is summarized in this report, the city’s description of O-1 or office district zoning gives some details on what the hospital might eventually build on the land that sits in front of Silver Maples and is flanked by St. Paul United Church of Christ and St. Mary of Chelsea Catholic Church on either side.
The zoning allows for “Medical and dental offices or clinics” or ” Medical and dental laboratories.”
The lot minimum area per structure is 10,000 square feet with an 80-foot width.
The building must be no larger than 20 percent of the lot area and no more than 55 percent of the land can be covered in concrete and thus impervious to storm-water.
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When President Abraham Lincoln was 32 years old and enveloped in gloom and sadness, he wrote, “I am now the most miserable man living.” Several studies on clinical depression have confirmed today’s reality that at least one in 10 Americans take antidepressants, a rate that many say is alarmingly high, especially among teenagers.
Today we have many children attending school who are affected by toxic stress and trauma as a result of adverse childhood experiences such as caregiver mental illness, substance abuse, chronic neglect, and family violence. Toxic stress can be emotionally costly because it can affect brain development and other aspects of the child’s health.
Trapped inside the void of the trauma, a persistent gloom arises similar to the dark nights of the soul. As a society, we eventually need to lend a hand and help people who are impacted by toxic stress.
Today’s life oscillates between the physical world and online world. If one chooses to live online in a state of technotrance, screens, tweets, hyperlinks and hyperbole often fill the void while distorting reality.
The human growth agenda has to evolve beyond the keyboard, mouseclicks, and transactional connections in a digital world. This requires the physicality of connection which can be best experienced by relating with others in an ensemble.
Dynamism and innovation are the fuel of America’s growth engine. Yet both are in retreat and in acutely short supply since America’s economy is generating fewer new companies every year. Since the Great Recession (2009-2011), the United States generated only 25 new firms per billion dollars of GDP (versus 95 new firms per billion dollars of GDP prior to the Great Recession). Nearly two thirds of the US metro areas saw more firms close than open in 2014. Employment has declined by 7.2% in economically distressed zipcodes. The country’s most economically distressed zipcodes continue to experience a deep and enduring recession while the nation as a whole has enjoyed years of recovery. There were 1 million jobs missing in 2014. The American economy has become more reliant on old firms to generate job growth since the recession.
The daily consumption of prescription painkillers (opioid addiction) by prime-age males has unfortunately resulted in depressed labor force participation leaving them either unemployed or causing their job opportunities to decline dramatically.
According to the Economic Innovation Group: “Even a percentage point increase in the job turnover rate would unlock millions of opportunities for American workers.”
I personally feel that everyone has a moral obligation and stake to collectively erase the dignity deficit – identified by American Enterprise Institute. Left unchecked or classified as an undiscussable, it will continue to deplete emotional bank accounts beyond our generation and weigh in our group consciousness.
From a global standpoint, the world’s economic center of gravity has shifted from a small part of the world to its entirety. Framed as the global tilt, while this unprecedented change can be disruptive, there are tremendous opportunities for entrepreneurs and leaders to build the psychological fortitude and learn how to co-exist in a multipolar world.
Treating people with dignity is paramount even though entrepreneurs are driven to win, sometimes at all costs. This means working together without trampling or hurting each other during the entrepreneurial journey.
Coupled with America’s dignity deficit, the declining economic dynamism is self-reinforcing. Furthermore, we are living in a tidal environment (volatile, uncertain, chaotic, ambiguous) where we need to be in a state of readiness to mobilize a response in the event of a traumatic disaster (pandemic, wars, etc). This is an emergency room, special situation and requires attention, caring and meaningful action, without digital distortion, at the strategic and tactical levels.
Given the need of the hour and in the absence of a sense of urgency at the local or national levels, the Founding Fathers issue a spiritual mandate to reduce the dignity deficit among the disenfranchised people by creating a meaningful neededness agenda.
I’d like to join the cadre of bridge builders to heed that call to action and recognize that we need to treat people at the bottom of the pyramid and at the periphery of society across all the zipcodes with enough respect that can bring them feel needed and hopeful about the future. We can’t afford to let a broad cross-section of America be mired in the past of a bygone era and ignore their mental health.
How we work together in this special situation creates the blueprint for Trauma Informed Leadership Turnaround in a Tidal, Tilted World.
In human communication, 93% is body language while only 7% is verbal. Yet body language seems to have taken a backseat in the mobile-first world where aloofness has become paramount. Becoming “World Class. Face to Face” – a Cougar tenet – is the cornerstone of empathic human conversation that needs to be reclaimed so that we can reach out and bind the wounds of division and reduce the dignity deficit. I was reminded about the Paradise called the Palouse where there is a community in Walla Walla that has pioneered Trauma Informed Leadership in a school.
Building and cultivating community is a grassroots led effort to get people in a room together and realizing that when we choose to connect people like a threaded needle and be around people who are different than you are, we can find common ground and unite behind a shared purpose.
Trauma Informed Leadership is an improvised human performance of a lifetime where the group mobilizes, heals, builds bridges, and uses a solution focused approach to learn new behaviors and perform a head taller than we are today. A Trauma Informed Leader practices compassionate communication and helps individuals with a dignity deficit unshackle the chains of the past, and uses the canon of creativity to revive dynamism, arrest inertia, and achieve a performance breakthrough by launching an initiative to Skill America, for example, by taking a page from Skillveri.
Performing Trauma Informed Leadership Turnaround in a Tilted, Tidal world will enable my post-traumatic growth and is my playbook for reclaiming my mojo in the new normal.
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Adorable Bear Cubs Crash Campsite
Imagine arriving at one of the last places on Earth, where, as Bertie Gregory puts it, “wild land meets wild ocean.” It would take two… more
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Imagine arriving at one of the last places on Earth, where, as Bertie Gregory puts it, “wild land meets wild ocean.” It would take two planes, multiple car rides, and a ferry just to begin the journey. There is no access to the Internet and no phone signal.
Encompassing a wide array of ecosystems and marked by ancient trees and weathered mountains, the west coast of Vancouver Island, British Columbia, hosted National Geographic young explorer Bertie Gregory for three months. He was accompanied by fellow young explorer and photographer Becca Skinner for a portion of the journey. Their mission: to track down the illusive coastal wolf.
“About 50 feet into the forest, it's kind of like going into a little fairy land. There's moss, and lichen, and huge ancient trees all around. Then there's a little clearing; that's where our tent is,” Gregory recalls. “If that wasn't enough, packed into that crazy ecosystem are just tons of huge, charismatic, sexy animals. What more could you ask for?”
One night Skinner was awakened by a crashing sound in the undergrowth nearby. She immediately woke Gregory. As the sound got closer, Gregory had a realization: “It was a noise I recognized immediately: a female bear calling to her cubs."
“Becca and I turn on the lights and start making lots of noise to make sure that the bears know we're there,” he says. By alerting the bears to their presence, the pair greatly reduced their chance of being attacked. “They hear us, and there's carnage outside. They're scrapping around, they're running in all directions, and then everything goes quiet.
“I unzip the tent, slowly, and there's nothing to see. When I turn around to go back toward the tent, I glance up,” he says. Two feet from the tent stands a tree with the two black bear cubs that Gregory had been tracking just days earlier. “I have two things in my head. The first thing is, Awww, that is the cutest thing ever," he says. Then he moved on to practical matters. "We need to back off here to make sure that the mum can come in and take those cubs down.” Gregory, who has found himself often in the presence of bears, asked Skinner to calmly exit the tent.
"I'm saying, Becca, come, bring that," by which he meant to bring the camera. “Becca thought I was pointing at the bear spray. I was like, No, no, we don't need that, give me the camera."
Encounters with wild animals are routine for Gregory. “I think people assume that that's a scary experience, but I've been lucky to have been mentored by some people that know how to act around bears. With black bears, you give them space. I like to talk to them in a very calm voice, so they know where you are, especially in the dark. When they're surprised, that's when there's a potentially dangerous encounter.” He notes that female bears can be particularly protective of their cubs and may react aggressively if they feel they are in danger.
Skinner left the tent with a camera. Minutes later, the female bear returned. “The first one came down pretty quick. The second one was much more nervous,” Gregory says. “As long as I'm not getting in between the mum and her cubs, or I'm not threatening the safety of the cubs in the eyes of the mother, it's not a dangerous encounter.”
Climbing trees is essential for these animals. Cubs often use trees as a defense mechanism to hide from adult male bears who want to kill them in order to produce offspring of their own. “Their safe place is up a tree,” Gregory says.
British Columbia has one of the densest populations of black bears in the world. “Bears are around our camp all of the time. We know that from the tracks, we see them every now and again. We also keep our food up a tree to make sure we don't have any problems with them, but I never expected to have a bear encounter quite as close as this one,” Gregory says.
“It was funny because it was completely out of the blue, and those are the kinds of moments that you remember. It's not the slogging down the beach with 50 pounds of gear on your back, or wading through an icy cold river, or staying up into the night. It's the chance encounters that you could never plan, that you could never script—they're the things that stay with you.”
Gregory is a 2015 National Geographic Scientific Exploration Society Zenith Explorer, National Geographic Young Explorer, Youth Outdoor Photographer of the Year, wildlife photographer, filmmaker, and host of wild_life with bertie gregory.
For more on Gregory, check out National Geographic’s first digital series, wild_life with bertie gregory. The series follows Gregory as he documents the wildlife on Vancouver Island.
Video Producer/Editor: Monica Pinzon
Series Producer: Chris Mattle
Footage: Bertie Gregory, Becca Skinner
Associate Producer: Elaina Kimes
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As the evil analogue to Mary Marvel, Superwoman has all of her counterpart's powers and abillities; She has superhuman stamina, invulnerability, superhuman strength, reflexes, the power to fly, superhuman agility, and speed. She also has super-breath and basic hand-to-hand combat skills.
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“ I'm a murdering psychopath; it's part of my charm. „
~ Superwoman to Owlman
Superwoman is the secondary antagonist of the DC Universe Animated Original Movie Justice League: Crisis on Two Earths and the evil counterpart for both Mary Marvel and Wonder Woman.
She was voiced by Gina Torres, who also played Jasmine in Angel.
Superwoman was one of the six main members of the Crime Syndicate in the parallel universe they inhabited. She had a relationship with fellow team member Owlman, whom she saw as nearly psychopathic as she was, if not more.
She first appeared at the opening of the movie, where she and the Crime Syndicate cornered Luthor after he tried to escape after the Jester sacrificed himself. She and her teammates stopped as she saw Luthor pull out a device that teleported him to another dimension.
She and Owlman later raided their world's Justice League's headquarters, looking for the Quantum trigger, along with several other Made Men. As the Justice League appeared with Lex Luthor, she cried out "what the hell?" after seeing them. She and the Made men then begin to fight them. While struggling during the fight, Superwoman contacted three Made Men who are almost as tough as her, making Luthor and the Justice League flee the headquarters, which turns out to be a flying aircraft. Just then, Superwoman's Made Men arrived. As the Justice League escaped in Owlman's ship flown by Wonder Woman in cloak mode, Superwoman ordered her minions to unite together to summon a lightning bolt that permanently cloaked the ship.
After that, she and the Syndicate members then formed a meeting. Ultraman first announced about J'edd J'arkus death. Owlman favored to split up his action, while Power Ring favored on trading his members. Superwoman agreed with Owlman, making Power Ring ask her who made her the boss. Superwoman jokingly asked him if he wants to arm wrestle for it but Ultraman broke it up as he acclaimed the Owlman will keep his men. She was one of the Syndicate members who favored the development of the QED, a weapon that would destroy all life on Earth if the planet's governments refused to relinquish what little power they had left to the Crime Syndicate. However, Owlman had a much more sinister purpose for the QED: To destroy all realities that have sprung from the one that he called Earth Prime. Superwoman acknowledged that Owlman was more insane than her but decided to join in on the plan since the thought intrigued her.
Superwoman kept Owlman's personal plans for the QED a secret but was eventually suspected by her fellow teammates when Owlman transported the QED to Earth Prime without their knowledge.
Eventually, Owlman dispatched her to find the Quantum Trigger in the Justice League's universe. While there she and a few of her men were met by Batman, while fighting Batman she said that he was very similar to Owlman and flirted with him in a sadistic manner. She began to wonder if she should send Batman to his doom or keep him as her "lover". However, she was outsmarted when she unknowingly inhaled anesthetic gas in a smoke bomb, knocking her out. Batman summoned his friends who kept her bound in solid metal bars, to her dismay. Despite this, she did break one of his ribs while torturing him.
She and the surviving members of the Syndicate were later brought to justice when Batman transported Owlman and the activated QED to a cold, desolate Earth where it would destroy that Earth without harming anyone. Ironically, such an option was made possible due to Superwoman's gun being set to that location during their earlier encounter. Unlike most of her fellow members, Superwoman showed little remorse for her involvement despite giving the League information about her lover's scheme.
Superwoman's attire, unlike Wonder Woman's, is black. She wears her hair in a ponytail, wears long black fingerless gloves, red round earrings, and a black choker with the symbol s bracelet dangling below it. Furthermore, she does look younger than her main Earth counterpart.
Superwoman's powers rivals Mary Marvel's. She can fly, fight, and take a hit.
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More on The Brown RAISE Movement: Jose Rizal IS THE FIRST FILIPINO
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Here is another interesting article for The Brown Raise Movement. This was written by Leon Ma. Guererro – a hostorian and biographer. Hope you find this educational and at the same time, enlightening.
Rizal was the first Filipino. Before him were the natives of Suluan who rowed out to Magellan’s camp on “The Enchanted Island” of Humunu.
They happily gave Magellan coconuts, oranges, bananas, rice, a jar of palm wine, a fish and a cock, in exchange for mirrors, bells and red caps—a buffoon’s very apparel.
There was Humabon, the kinglet of Sulu, a short, fat tattooed man, who began by requiring Magellan to pay tribute (which not four days before a junk from Siam had done for the privilege of buying gold and slaves) and ended up by agreeing to give the Spanish sole trading rights, scared out his wits by a man dressed head to foot by an armor, lured by the assurance that if he was baptized he would never again be haunted by demons.
But there was Lapu-lapu, kinglet of Mactan, as bold and handsome and supple as the fish for which he was named, who thought himself, “as good man” as Humabon and would not pay tribute to the “Christian king.”
There was also Suleyman, one of the two rajahs of Manila, required to surrender to Legazpi’s emissary, de Goiti, he replied that his men were far from being tattooed savages.
But the strategy of the conquest and the long Spanish dominion has been proved:
Humabon has set Magellan on Lapu-Lapu;
Bisayans from Panay would help Legazpi take Maynilad;
Lakandula stood by while the chieftains of Hagonoy and Macabebe died fighting in Bangkusay channel;
Bisayans would fight Tagalogs;
Tagalos, Bikolanos, Pampangos, Ilokanos; one tribe against another, under Spanish command, for Spanish profit.
The Muslims of the Southern Islands would raid the Christian settlements up to the mouth of Manila Bay itself;
Bisayans under Spanish captains would march to Lake Lanao and Pampangos garrison Zamboanga;
the Muslims would fight for the Dutch against Christians fighting for the Spanish;
Lakandula fought for Salcedo against the Chinese;
his son Magat Salamat, plotted with the Japanese;
and Diego Silang offered his allegiance to the British.
His widow’s Tinggian lancers were beaten by the Piddig archers.
Cebuanos put down Tamblot’s rebellion in Bohol and Bankaws in Leyte;
Lutaos surprised and defeated Sumuroy in Samar.
So it went throughout the centuries as one tribe after another took arms, against the missionary friars or for them, in protest against a wine tax or against forced labor on the Acapulco galleons in the name of the old gods or in the name of the new Spanish Constitution.
Malong proclaimed himself king of Pangasinan; Almazan king of the Ilocanos, and Apolinario de la Cruz, king of the Tagalogs.
No one proclaimed himself a Filipino.
Even at the time of our story del Pilar called his newspaper Diariong Tagalog and ended his denunciations of the monkish power with the patriotic cries of “Long live Spain! Long Live the Army! Down with the friars!” Rizal himself, writing to congratulate Lopez Jaena as later as 1889 exlaimed, “Sulung ang Bisaya at Tagalog!” The eloquent Ilonggo, for his part informed Rizal with considerable satisfaction in 1891 that the Barcelona Republicans had offered him a choice of three constituencies in which they would support his candidacy to the Spanish Cortes. Indeed as we have seen, Rizal too had considered the same possibility; he did not aim so high as Pedro Alejandro Paterno who after the Pact of Biak na Bato claimed that he was acknowledged by the natives as the “Prince of Luzon” and wanted to be named also a Spanish duke, a grandee of Spain, and a senator.
Tagologs, Bisayans, Pampangos, Ilokanos, Bikolanos, were beginning to call themselves Filipinos, but they shared this name with any one of the Spanish, Chinese or mixed, blood born in the Philippines. “Philippines” was still largely a geographical expression and loyalty to the “Philippines” was the instinctive affection for the land of one’s birth, one’s “native land” rather than for a Nation.
It was Rizal as we have seen, who taught his countrymen that they could be something else, Filipinos who were members of a Filipino nation.
He was the first who sought to “unite the whole archipelago” and envisioned a “compact and homogenous” society of all the old tribal communities from Batanes to the Sulu Sea, based on common interests and “mutual protection” rather than on the Spanish friar’s theory of double allegiance to Spain as Catholic and the Church as Spanish…
Burgos, Gomez and Zamora, traditionally identified with the birth of Filipino nationalism, were but the precursors of this new community, the Filipino nation, and this should be obvious for the Philppine seculars.
They were priest from beginning to end, with purely priestly grievances and ambitions, and thus they moved by necessity in the wider reaches of the Universal Church. The intellectuals of that generation, who shared the fate of priests were equally untouched by the concept of the Filipino nation…
The Filipino nation was a narrower concept, more exclusive than the Universal Church and the Empire on which the sun had once upon a time never set; but for those who would call themselves by the new name of Filipinos, it was also a larger and more comprehensive community of all the tribes on all the islands of the archipelago, with duties and responsibilities that were more urgent and immediate.
But Rizal’s concept of a nation, as we should perhaps remind ourselves on occasion was moral, unselfish, responsible, based uncompromisingly on a general recognition of mutual rights and duties. “What is the use of independence if the slaves of today will be the tyrants of tomorrow?” He never confused national independence with individual and social freedom.
Rizal is also the first Filipino because he is first in the hearts of the Filipinos. Nations are known by the heroes they have. If the people have the government they deserve, they also have heroes made of their own images and likeness.
—————————————————————————-At the end of the day, we are not Ilocanos nor Visayans. We are not Muslims nor Christians. We are not Kapampangans nor Tagalogs. WE ARE FILIPINOS.
God bless 🙂
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Filmmaker and philanthropist Abigail Disney and industry veteran Adrienne Becker joined forces to launch the content studio Level Forward in early 2018 after they’d briefly paired up in an effort to buy Weinstein Co. out of the ashes of bankruptcy.
Disney and Becker came to realize that they were kindred spirits in their interest in social justice and advancing the showbiz careers of women and people of color. Level Forward is designed to provide creative support and nontraditional financing for projects from creators who are willing to trade big upfront fees for a larger share of equity and more creative freedom.
Disney and Becker detail their growing portfolio and company ethos on the latest installment of “Strictly Business,” Variety‘s weekly podcast featuring conversations with industry leaders about the business of media and entertainment.
Disney, who is the granddaughter of Walt Disney Co. co-founder Roy O. Disney, also discusses her recent public comments on the subject of pay equity, citing what she describes as outsized compensation packages for CEO Bob Iger and others (“There’s something sick in the system,” she says of excessive corporate compensation).
“The biggest bottleneck in the industry for women is capital — access to financial capital,” says Disney. Independent producers will not be able to thrive in the current landscape “until meaningful capital comes in to support (the sector) system-wide.”
Level Forward has made an early mark on Broadway as a producer of the well-received recent revival of “Oklahoma!” and the play “What the Constitution Means to Me,” which reached the recoupment threshold. Opening on Broadway in December is the musical based on the 1995 Alanis Morissette album “Jagged Little Pill.” “Oklahoma!” and “Jagged Little Pill” producer Eva Price is affiliated with Level Forward.
The company is a little less than halfway toward the goal of generating $100 million in production financing for its various projects after less than two years in business. Level Forward also sought to make a statement to creative partners by embracing the initiative pushed by the advocacy group Gun Neutral, which calls on the entertainment industry to offset the use of guns in movies and TV shows by creating a line-item donation per gun used to support the destruction of guns. So far, “Oklahoma!” and other productions have generated about $50,000 to fund the destruction of about 1,700 weapons.
That kind of real-world impact is something Becker points to when some roll their eyes at media ventures with a pro-social bent from the get-go. Level Forward aims to weave impact activities beyond the screen and stage into all of its major projects.
“If you pair (storytelling) with the dialogue and the active advocacy then you have something really powerful,” Becker says.
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Ikram is a toddler from Tanzania. He is the only child to his single mother.
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Ikram is a toddler from Tanzania. He is the only child to his single mother. Ikram was born with hypospadias, a congenital abnormality th...
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Hypospadias Repair
On average, it costs $986 for Ikram's treatment
Impact on patient's life
Cultural or regional significance
What kinds of symptoms do patients experience before receiving treatment?
Hypospadias is a congenital defect in which the opening of the urethra is on the underside of the penis. The urethra is the tube that drains urine from the bladder. In males, the opening of the urethra is normally at the end of the penis. Symptoms of hypospadias vary. This condition may cause genital malformation and urinary dysfunction. It can lead to infections, social stigma, and infertility.
What is the impact on patients’ lives of living with these conditions?
If this condition is not repaired, it can lead to urinary dysfunction, genital malformation, infertility, and increased risk of urinary tract infections.
What cultural or regional factors affect the treatment of these conditions?
Hypospadias is one of the most common birth defects in boys. It is the most frequent congenital urological anomaly, occurring in 1–3 per 1,000 live births.
Risks and side-effects
What does the treatment process look like?
After surgery, the patient is monitored closely and discharged from the hospital after five days. Stitches will be removed during a follow-up appointment.
What is the impact of this treatment on the patient’s life?
The urethra will be corrected, improving urinary function.
What potential side effects or risks come with this treatment?
This is a low-risk procedure, and the impact of this surgery lasts a lifetime. If the patient has complicated hypospadias, he may need to undergo further surgery. Follow-up visits with a urologist may also be needed, particularly when patients reach puberty.
How accessible is treatment in the area? What is the typical journey like for a patient to receive care?
There are few quality care centers in the region. Hospitals lack adequate resources and expertise to treat this condition.
What are the alternatives to this treatment?
Surgery is not required for mild cases. Otherwise, there is no alternative.
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Phoeun is a 62-year-old rice farmer from Cambodia. She has four children, six grandchildren, and enjoys listening to the monks pray on the radio in her free time. Five year ago, Phoeun developed a pterygium in left, causing her irritation, itchiness, and tearing. Pterygiums are non-cancerous growths of the conjunctiva, a mucous layer that lubricates the eye. The growths occur when the conjunctiva is exposed to excessive sun damage and the cells grow abnormally over the pupil. She has difficulty seeing things clearly, recognizing faces, working, and going anywhere outside. When Phoeun learned about our medical partner, Children's Surgical Centre, she traveled for four and a half hours seeking treatment. Phoeun needs a surgical procedure to remove the abnormal conjunctiva from the cornea surface and replace it with a conjunctival graft to prevent recurrence. The total cost of her procedure is $201. This covers medications, supplies, and inpatient care for two days. The procedure is scheduled for October 09. Phoeun said, "I hope that I will be able to see clearly, go outside on my own, and will be able to plant rice again."
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Fauzia is a beautiful-20 months old girl, the only child to her parents. She was born normal but as she progressed, her mother noted her legs to be bowing outwardly. She was concerned and decided to seek a doctor. She was put on calcium medication and diet to strengthen the bones. However, she did not improve. They had little income to seek further care for their child. Fortunately, her mother was referred to our facility by a neighbour and encouraged to take the child soonest they could. She was diagnosed with genu varus, a condition where the legs bow outwardly, and surgery recommended to correct the deformity. Fauzia's parents are quite needy. Her father is a truck driver with limited income which he uses to meet the needs of his family. Her mother is a housewife. The family appeals for financial assistance. Our medical partner, African Mission Healthcare, is requesting $940 to fund corrective surgery for Fauzia. The procedure is scheduled to take place on October 18th. Treatment will hopefully restore Fauzia's mobility, allow her to participate in a variety of activities, and greatly decrease her risk of future complications. Fauzia’s mother says, “We have tried calcium medication but it has not helped correct her legs, please help her get this treatment the cost is too high for us to afford.”
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Chork is a 67-year-old rice farmer from Cambodia. He has four children, five grandchildren, and in his spare time he enjoys listening to the monks pray on the radio and watching boxing on television. Five months ago, Chork developed a cataract in his right eye, causing him blurry vision and photophobia. He has difficulty seeing things clearly, recognizing faces, and going anywhere outside. When Chork learned about our medical partner, Children's Surgical Centre, he traveled for six and a half hours seeking treatment. On December 10th, doctors will perform a phacoemulsification cataract surgery and an intraocular lens implant in his right eye. After recovery, he will be able to see clearly. Now, he needs help to fund this $211 procedure. "I hope that I will be able to see better and can recognize things again. I also hope that I will be able to go outside on my own again and return to work."
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The earth's perfume
by Vivienne Baillie Gerritsen
This article was published in June 2003
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Have you ever brought a glass of wine - or drinking water - to your lips and discovered a musty taste? Geosmin is what produces it. Geosmin is a germacranoid sesquiterpene or a trans-1,10-dimethyl-trans-9-decalol for the more chemically minded. Human taste buds are extremely sensitive to geosmin; the average person can detect 0.7 parts per billion! The chemical is produced by a number of microorganisms amongst which the mycelial soil bacteria Streptomyces, which have become invaluable in the medical field since they are an important source for naturally occurring antibacterial and antifungal agents as well as anticancer drugs and immunosuppressants.
Geosmin is the distinct smell that soil gives off when it is disturbed or on which it has just rained. A pleasant smell for most. So pleasant, it is used to confer an earthy scent to perfumes. A number of enzymes are involved in the making of geosmin, one of which is a key enzyme: germacradienol synthase.
The genome of Streptomyces coelicolor was recently sequenced and on it was found the sequence for germacradienol synthase. It is a protein of just over 700 amino acids, of which little is known save that it is made of two homologous domains. Out of the two, only one - the N-terminal one - is actually necessary for geosmin synthesis.
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The detail of geosmin biosynthesis is still a bit of a mystery, though the discovery of the germacradienol synthase is certainly helping to unveil the biochemical pathway which leads to it. It has been suggested for some time now that the formation of geosmin in all likelihood involves the action of a germacranoid sequiterpene synthase on farnesyl pyrophosphate. And this has indeed turned out to be the case. Germacradienol synthase probably catalyses the cyclization of the farnesyl pyrophophate, which is an early step in geosmin biosynthesis. The subsequent steps - leading to the metabolite geosmin itself - involve the actions of at least three other enzymes, such as a cyclase, a reductase and a hydroxylase.
What could be the role of a metabolite like geosmin? Surely it cannot be just to give wine and water a different taste. There are a number of hypotheses. Some think it may be for defensive reasons: produce a pong and predators will steer clear from their prey. But geosmin could also be a sly way of promoting sporulation. The particular fragrance let off by geosmin usually occurs where humidity is involved. Camels may well smell out an oasis by sniffing the air for traces of the fragrant metabolite. While camels quench their thirst, hordes of Streptomyces spores will be supped with the water or will find a way to stick onto the animals' hides. In this way, spores can be carried for miles. In the same way, some cacti flowers may also use the geosmin scent to fool insects, in a sort of fragrant mimicry. Indeed, insects are attracted to the plants in the hope of a little refreshment, and in their quest for water, they actually serve as pollinators!
Besides bestowing a musty taste to liquids, the earthy taste of geosmin can also seep into the flesh of fruit and vegetables, and even fish, making them quite distasteful for consumption. Pharmaceutical plants that use Streptomyces in the production of antibiotics for example, but also factories such as pulp mills also create whiffs characteristic of geosmin, especially in warm weather. The problem is that geosmin resists oxidation and is difficult to remove using standard treatments. Turning off the smell, in these instances, could be an asset. To achieve this a greater knowledge of geosmin biosynthesis as well as of the function and 3D structure of germacradienol synthase is necessary. But who would want to give up the musty fragrance that reaches our nostrils after a summer rainfall? And name one camel that would prefer to do without an oasis.
1. Gust B., Challis G.L., Fowler K., Kieser T., Chater K.F.
PCR-targeted Streptomyces gene replacement identifies a protein domain needed for biosynthesis of the sesquiterpene soil odor geosmin
Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 100:1541-1546(2003).
PMID: 12563033.
2. Cane D.E., Watt R.M.
Expression and mechanistic analysis of a germacradienol synthase from Streptomyces coelicolor implicated in geosmin biosynthesis
Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 100:1547-1551(2003)
3. Simons P.
Camels act on a hump
The Guardian, March 6th 2003
4. Darriet P., Pons M., Lamy S., Dubourdieu D.
Identification and quantification of geosmin, an earthy odorant contaminating wines
J. Agric. Food Chem. 48:4835-4838(2000)
Swiss-Prot cross references
Germacradienol synthase, Streptomyces coelicolor : Q9X839
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The below information was taken directly from Microsoft support. To be clear, Microsoft is ending support for windows 7, and Internet Explorer today. This does not mean that your software will stop working. It does mean that you are much more vulnerable to security threats because Microsoft will no longer provide security or feature updates. Read more below about what this will mean for you. If you are using a screen reader, you can navigate by heading to jump to each section of this FAQ.
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Windows 7 support will end on January 14, 2020
Applies to: Windows 7
Microsoft made a commitment to provide 10 years of product support for Windows 7 when it was released on October 22, 2009. When this 10-year period ends, Microsoft will discontinue Windows 7 support so that we can focus our investment on supporting newer technologies and great new experiences. The specific end of support day for Windows 7 will be January 14, 2020. After that, technical assistance and software updates from Windows Update that help protect your PC will no longer be available for the product. Microsoft strongly recommends that you move to Windows 10 sometime before January 2020 to avoid a situation where you need service or support that is no longer available.
After January 14, 2020, if your PC is running Windows 7, it will no longer receive security updates. Therefore, it’s important that you upgrade to a modern operating system such as Windows 10, which can provide the latest security updates to help keep you and your data safer. In addition, Microsoft customer service will no longer be available to provide Windows 7 technical support. Related services for Windows 7 will also be discontinued over time. For example, certain games such as Internet Backgammon and Internet Checkers as well as Electronic Program Guide for Windows Media Center are scheduled to be discontinued in January 2020.
For most Windows 7 users, moving to a new device with Windows 10 will be the recommended path forward. Today’s PCs are faster, lightweight yet powerful, and more secure, with an average price that’s considerably less than that of the average PC eight years ago. Our Guide can help you choose a new PC in just a few easy steps.
Want to learn more about Windows 10? Check out our overview page to learn more.
Can I upgrade my existing PC to Windows 10?
To take advantage of the latest hardware capabilities, we recommend moving to a new PC with Windows 10. As an alternative, compatible Windows 7 PCs can be upgraded by purchasing and installing a full version of the software. For more information, see Windows 10 upgrade FAQ.
How can I upgrade to Windows 10 for free?
The Windows 10 free upgrade offer ended on July 29, 2016. To get Windows 10 you will need to either purchase a new device or, if you have a compatible PC, purchase a full version of the software to upgrade your existing device. We recommend that you don’t install Windows 10 on an older device, as some Windows 7 devices are not compatible with Windows 10 or could experience reduced feature availability.
What happens if I continue to use Windows 7?
If you continue to use Windows 7 after support has ended, your PC will still work, but it will become more vulnerable to security risks and viruses. Your PC will continue to start and run, but you will no longer received software updates, including security updates, from Microsoft.
Can Windows 7 still be activated after January 14, 2020?
Windows 7 can still be installed and activated after end of support; however, it will be more vulnerable to security risks and viruses due to the lack of security updates. After January 14, 2020, Microsoft strongly recommends that you use Windows 10 instead of Windows 7.
Will Internet Explorer still be supported on Windows 7?
Support for Internet Explorer on a Windows 7 device will also be discontinued on January 14, 2020. As a component of Windows, Internet Explorer follows the support lifecycle of the Windows operating system it’s installed on. See Lifecycle FAQ – Internet Explorer for more information.
Will Microsoft Security Essentials continue to protect my PC after end of support?
Microsoft Security Essentials (MSE) will continue to receive signature updates after January 14, 2020. However, the MSE platform will no longer be updated. Click here to learn more about learn more about Microsoft Security Essentials.
What if I’m running Windows 7 Enterprise?
If you are using Windows as part of a work environment, we recommend you check first with your IT department or see Windows 10 deployment support to learn more.
What about Windows 7 Embedded?
Windows for embedded devices such as ATMs or gas pumps have lifecycle dates that sometimes differ from versions of Windows that are used on PC devices.
Can I move my existing programs to a new Windows 10 PC?
For the best possible experience, we recommend doing a fresh installation of your programs and apps on your new Windows 10 PC. Microsoft Store has a variety of third-party apps that can be easily downloaded and installed. On your Windows 10 PC, you can open Microsoft Store by selecting the icon on the taskbar or by searching for “Microsoft Store” in the search box on the taskbar.
For any software not currently available in Microsoft Store, we recommend going to that company’s official website and downloading the Windows 10 version from there. In limited circumstances, some older software may not have an updated version that’s compatible with Windows 10.
How will Windows 7 end of support affect my Microsoft Office apps?
Your experience may be different depending on the Office version you’re running. To learn more, see Windows 7 end of support and Office. It’s important to note that Windows 7 itself will no longer receive security updates, leaving your device vulnerable to security threats. As such, if you’re running Microsoft Office on a Windows 7 PC, we recommend you move to a new Windows 10 PC.
As explained in our March 12, 2019 blog post, Microsoft will deliver a handful of reminder notifications through the end of 2019 with recommend actions to take ahead of Windows 7 end of support. To learn more about Windows 7 end of support, you can visit www.microsoft.com/windows7 or review our frequently asked questions above.
Why did I receive a notification about Windows 7?
Ten years after the initial release of Windows 7, support is coming to an end on January 14, 2020. You are receiving notifications as a Windows 7 customer so that you have plenty of time to get ready. After that, technical assistance and updates that help protect your PC will no longer be available. These notifications will link to information to help you with recommended actions, answer questions you might have, and provide resources to assist in this transition period.
What happens when I close the notification?
When you close the notification window, it will simply close.
I saw a notification but it disappeared. Where do I go to learn more about end of support and what to do next?
Visit www.microsoft.com/windows7 to learn more about what end of support means and why it matters for you, plus find resources to help you back up your files and photos and transition smoothly to a new Windows 10 PC.
Is this notification really from Microsoft?
Your online safety is important and we’re glad you’re asking this question.
You can compare what you are seeing to the image below to verify it is genuinely from Microsoft. Or, rather than clicking on a notification, you can visit www.microsoft.com/windows7 to learn more about Windows 7 end of support and what you need to do to get ready.
As a reminder Microsoft will never send you a notification asking you to call us or directly asking for payment.
How often will I get these notifications?
In speaking with Windows 7 customers, they told us they would like a few reminders, with early enough notice. Based on that feedback, we’ll send reminders once a month at most as we approach this important end of support date.
How do I turn off or disable notifications?
To turn off or disable future notifications, select Do not notify me again in the lower left corner of the notification, and then close the window.
Note: We do not recommend uninstalling the updates KB4493132 or KB4524752 as they will be downloaded again the next time the device scans for updates.
Will organizations receive notifications?
We designed notifications so that they would not appear on devices in managed organizations. More specifically, notifications were designed to exclude devices with the following characteristics: Enterprise and Server editions of Windows 7, any edition of Windows 7 from Volume Licensing programs, domain-joined devices, devices in kiosk mode, or devices that previously turned-off free upgrade notifications through registry settings.
From a personal and professional experience, I can say that Microsoft is making a huge commitment to accessibility in modern versions of Office, Windows, Edge, and Narrator. You may need a new PC, or your PC may be powerful enough to jump right into Windows 10 all by itself, all be it with a little help.
As I said, if you do find yourself needing assistance with this, I can help with upgrading your PC and with your other access tech related support and training.
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Sto ries > Lincoln's Proclamation Appointing a National Fast Day by Abraham Lincoln
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Lincoln's Proclamation Appointing a National Fast Day
Senator James Harlan of Iowa, whose daughter married President Lincoln's son Robert, introduced this Resolution in the Senate on March 2, 1863. The Resolution asked President Lincoln to proclaim a national day of prayer and fasting. The Resolution was adopted on March 3, and signed by Lincoln on March 30.
hereas, the Senate of the United States, devoutly recognizing the Supreme Authority and just Government of Almighty God, in all the affairs of men and of nations, has, by a resolution, requested the President to designate and set apart a day for National prayer and humiliation.
And whereas it is the duty of nations as well as of men, to own their dependence upon the overruling power of God, to confess their sins and transgressions, in humble sorrow, yet with assured hope that genuine repentance will lead to mercy and pardon; and to recognize the sublime truth, announced in the Holy Scriptures and proven by all history, that those nations only are blessed whose God is the Lord.
And, insomuch as we know that, by His divine law, nations like individuals are subjected to punishments and chastisements in this world, may we not justly fear that the awful calamity of civil war, which now desolates the land, may be but a punishment, inflicted upon us, for our presumptuous sins, to the needful end of our national reformation as a whole People? We have been the recipients of the choicest bounties of Heaven. We have been preserved, these many years, in peace and prosperity. We have grown in numbers, wealth and power, as no other nation has ever grown. But we have forgotten God. We have forgotten the gracious hand which preserved us in peace, and multiplied and enriched and strengthened us; and we have vainly imagined, in the deceitfulness of our hearts, that all these blessings were produced by some superior wisdom and virtue of our own. Intoxicated with unbroken success, we have become too self-sufficient to feel the necessity of redeeming and preserving grace, too proud to pray to the God that made us!
It behooves us then, to humble ourselves before the offended Power, to confess our national sins, and to pray for clemency and forgiveness.
Now, therefore, in compliance with the request, and fully concurring in the views of the Senate, I do, by this my proclamation, designate and set apart Thursday, the 30th. day of April, 1863, as a day of national humiliation, fasting and prayer. And I do hereby request all the People to abstain, on that day, from their ordinary secular pursuits, and to unite, at their several places of public worship and their respective homes, in keeping the day holy to the Lord, and devoted to the humble discharge of the religious duties proper to that solemn occasion.
All this being done, in sincerity and truth, let us then rest humbly in the hope authorized by the Divine teachings, that the united cry of the Nation will be heard on high, and answered with blessings, no less than the pardon of our national sins, and the restoration of our now divided and suffering Country, to its former happy condition of unity and peace.
In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed.
Done at the City of Washington,
this thirtieth day of March, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three,
and of the Independence of the United States the eighty seventh.
--By the President: Abraham Lincoln
William H. Seward, Secretary of State.
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National defense goals could boost Alabama’s space industry
Posted 4:36 pm, February 9, 2019, by Associated Press
HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (AP) — Aerospace investment appears poised to blast off in Alabama, as companies such as Blue Origin and Aerojet Rocketdyne plan new jobs and new facilities.
The firms are expanding because Huntsville-based government space programs could soon have billions of new dollars to spend for defense and telecommunications, AL.com reported.
Blue Origin and Aerojet Rocketdyne are tapping into Huntsville’s main technology market: national defense.
It includes an array of initiatives such as communications satellites, possibly armed satellites, and even satellite clusters that may one day become home to the internet, the news site reported.
“The idea is the internet being based in space instead of here and based on fiber optics as it is today,” United Launch Alliance CEO Tory Bruno said in Huntsville recently. “It’s a new mission, and we’re all pretty excited about it.”
President Donald Trump has spoken of a new Space Force branch of the armed services to defend American assets in space.
In his recent State of the Union address, Trump said the U.S. is developing a state-of-the-art missile defense system. In an earlier speech at the Pentagon on Jan. 17, Trump said that a space-based missile defense system will be “a very, very big part of our defense.”
The president has said he would ask Congress for a large investment in missile defense in his fiscal year 2020 budget proposal.
Much of that work would likely be managed by the Missile Defense Agency in Huntsville and performed by contractors with a presence in the region, AL.com reported.
“On the national security side, the idea of space resilience — everybody protecting the contested assets — is going to lead to other systems coming out,” Blue Origin CEO Bob Smith told Al.com. “We’re going to have to protect not only our national security assets but also commercial assets.”
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Dirk Noy has a Master of Science (MSc) Diploma in Experimental Solid State Physics from the University of Basel, Switzerland and is a graduate from Full Sail University, Orlando, USA, where he was one of John Storyk’s students.
Since joining the consulting firm Walters-Storyk Design Group WSDG in early 1997, he has been involved in numerous international small and large acoustical design and media systems consultation projects, and has headed WSDG’s European Office in Basel, Switzerland since its inception late 1997. In 2017 the Berlin office of ADA – Acoustic Design Ahnert – was added to WSDG’s international network and is co-directed by Dirk Noy.
Dirk Noy has extensive knowledge and experience in applied mathematics, acoustical analysis, measurement, simulation and calculation techniques, audio engineering, media systems design and all facets of information technology. His language abilities include German, Dutch and English. As a publishing member of the Audio Engineering Society (AES) and the Swiss Acoustical Society (SGA) he is a frequent lecturer at trade conventions, recording schools and technical colleges, as well as architectural education institutions. A connoisseur of contemporary music from the 80s till today, Dirk is occasionally still active as an audio engineer for live events and recording projects.
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Dr Celeste de Jager
celeste.dejager@uct.ac.za
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Dementia SA, South Africa
Donald Woods Foundation, South Africa
Key Outcomes
de Jager CA, Joska JA, Hoffman M, Borochowitz KE, Combrinck MI. Dementia in rural South Africa: A pressing need for epidemiological studies. S Afr Med J. 2015 Mar;105(3):189-90.
Khonje V., Milligan C., Yako Y., Mabelane M., Borochowitz K.E., de Jager C.A. Knowledge, attitudes and beliefs about dementia in an urban Xhosa-speaking community in South Africa. Advances in Alzheimer’s Disease, 2015, 4, 21-36 doi.org/10.4236/aad.2015.42004
de Jager CA. Editorial in The Conversation: Why special steps need to be taken to reduce the risk of dementia in Africa.
de Jager C.A., Joska J.A., Hoffman M, Borochowitz K.A., Combrinck M.I. (2015) Dementia in rural South Africa: the need for epidemiological data to improve access to care. (Editorial) SAMJ 105:3 (in press) DOI:10.7196/SAMJ.8904
Hosted WUN RDF Collaborators Workshop: Dementia prevalence and nutritional status at the University of Cape Town, March 2013.
Dr de Jager presented at Dementia Screening Workshop hosted by the Ikamva Labantu Wellness Centre, May 2014.
Dr de Jager presented on Dementia Awareness and B vitamin status talk at Ikamva Labantu Wellness Centre for 12 staff members and director, February 2014.
Dementia Prevalence and Impact in Low Income Areas in South Africa
Images courtesy of Dementia SA
This project examines the nutritional status of older, low-income South Africans in relation to depression and dementia prevalence. Southern Africa has one of the lowest life expectancy rates in the world for both men (53 years) and women (54 years). This decline in longevity in SA is not only a result of communicable diseases (e.g. AIDS), but also a range of non-communicable diseases (NCDs). Due to the adoption of aspects of the Western diet—including high sugar and fat content—NCDs are on the rise, with cardiovascular disease accounting for 17% of all deaths in SA in 2000 (Bradshaw, 2003).
Mental illness is an understudied field in low and middle-income countries, despite the fact that it is predicted to be the largest contributor to the burden of disease in these countries by 2050. At present, access to management and care, including care for dementia sufferers, is not at an acceptable standard. International research shows that risk factors for both depression and dementia include elevated levels of an amino acid (homocysteine) in the bloodstream, which may be toxic to the brain. Homocysteine is a by-product of a metabolic cycle in protein digestion, specifically reliant on vitamins B12 and folic acid to reduce its concentration. Treatment with B vitamins, including folic acid and B12, has been shown in some studies to delay cognitive decline in the elderly (Durga, 2008; de Jager 2012). There have also been studies showing a decrease in depressive symptoms with folic acid. Depression has been shown to increase the rate of cognitive decline in those with preclinical Alzheimer's disease.
Thus, a study to determine a) the nutritional and homocysteine status and b) the prevalence of cognitive impairment and dementia with and without depressive symptoms would be valuable in South Africa. The study would indicate if there is a similar chance of intervention with simple nutrients to delay cognitive decline and alleviate symptoms of depression in older people in low and middle-income countries, as in the Western world where previous trials have been done (Smith et al, 2010). If the risk factors are as prevalent as in the Western World, then it would help to motivate the health services to increase spending on nutrient supplements as a cheap and effective intervention.
This study was initiated with a pilot study in the Cape Metropole with community dwelling volunteers 60 years of age and over. A food frequency questionnaire was adapted to include food items most likely to be consumed by the low income Xhosa-speaking population. Food items that contain B vitamins were shown in a set of cards to participants and quantities of those reported to be consumed were estimated. The B vitamin content was then calculated. Blood tests for homocysteine, folate and vitamin B12 were performed. The B vitamin intake was correlated with the blood levels measured. Cognitive performance was also tested with the Cognitive Screening Instrument for Dementia (CSID) translated into isiXhosa. The analysis and publication of these results is pending.
The tools from the pilot study were used in a large dementia prevalence study conducted in the Eastern Cape in a rural community. 1400 partiicpants and their informants were interviewed with the CSID and a brief food frequency questionnaire. Those who scored below the dementia cut-off on the test were invited to see a study nurse for medical follow-up, including mecical history, eyesight and mobility screening, blood sampling, HIV testing and screening for symptoms of depression. The prevalence data have been analysed and submitted for publication. Analysis of the blood test results is pending.
Who’s Involved?
Dr Celeste de Jager, University of Cape Town
Professor Marc Combrick, University of Cape Town
Associate Professor John Joska, University of Cape Town
Emeritus Professor Margaret Hoffman, University of Cape Town
Associate Professor Marjanne Senekal, University of Cape Town
Dr Janetta Harbron, University of Cape Town
Mrs Catherine Day, University of Cape Town
Mrs Zarina Ebrahim, University of Cape Town
Professor Louise Dye, University of Leeds
Professor Janet Cade, University of Leeds
Professor Hilary Powers, University of Sheffield
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New owners for WNBL's Adelaide Lightning
The future of WNBL runners-up Adelaide Lightning is assured with former chairman Bruce Spangler heading a new consortium to run the club.
The Lightning's new owners have re-signed WNBL coach of the year Chris Lucas on a three-year-deal.
Former owner Grant Kelley relinquished the operating licence after he personally invested $1 million into the club over the past two years.
The new consortium says re-contracting Lucas was its priority.
"Chris has played an integral part in returning Lightning to its former glory, taking the team from last place to grand finalists in three years," Spangler said in a statement.
The new consortium had also locked in two sponsors for next season.
The Lightning's future was in doubt last November when Kelley announced his intention to hand back the licence.
The team then produced a fairytale on-court turnaround to win 13 of 16 games to reach the grand final series, which was won 2-1 by the Canberra Capitals.
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Garden Decor » Without Water, He Found out How to Grow Tomatoes
Without Water, He Found out How to Grow Tomatoes
Pascal Poot is a French producer located near Lodève in the south od France. He has been an organic producer of seed grew products for 20 years. He has developed a method allowing him to farm 400 or so varieties of organic tomatoes without watering or using pesticides. He has over 3 hectares in the Hérault region where he farms his tomatoes and other old variety vegetables. The weather in the region is very dry and the terrain rocky, so his method of farming is extremely interesting with each plant producing up to 25kg of tomatoes.
What was the starting point for your approach?
In the late 80s, I realized something. So-called "weeds" were old vegetable species that were grown in the Middle Ages. We call them weeds because we can’t get rid of them. I wondered why they were so resistant. In the end I deduced that because other plants are coddled and treated, they don’t have any reason to develop natural resistance. So I thought, "I won’t look after the plants, only the soil to make sure it’s fertile. If the plants are sick, too bad, I’ll harvest the seeds and they should eventually become as resistant as the plants we call weeds." That’s what I did and it worked.
Pascal Poot based his research on the fact that weeds grow so quickly, yet it is so hard to farm vegetables. “Everyone tries to farm vegetables by protecting them as much as possible, I, on the other hand, try to encourage them to defend themselves,” explains Mr. Poot. He creates seeds that resist drought and disease. This method allowed him to obtain higher yields than in traditional agriculture.
Your farm in the Languedoc-Roussillon suffers from near drought conditions…
It’s almost the Sahara here in Olmet (Cevennes)! We have three hills in the middle of a huge circle. The summer storms revolve around the circle. We sometimes see rain at 800 meters, but not here. Sometimes it doesn’t rain from late January to late October.
How long does it take for plants to adapt to this environment?
The first year, I planted tomato varieties that had never experienced drought. They only produced 2 or 3 cherry tomatoes. But less than 2% died. I collected all the seeds and replanted them. The next year I had 2 or 3 kg of normal tomatoes. After three years, I was getting 10 to 12 kg per plant. Now I grow more than 200 varieties of tomatoes.
Are standard fruit and vegetables that fragile?
A report on television talked about analyses that prove they contain up to 40 times fewer nutrients than 50 years ago! A laboratory has analyzed the difference in quality between my seed and other organic seeds sold. My seed resulted in up to 20 times more vitamins, antioxidants, and bisphenol (anticancer molecules)."For example, for vitamin C, there was between 30 and 38 mg per kg of tomatoes. But with my seed, it was 580 mg. That's a big difference!
You organize courses that teach your approach. How do they work?
My training sessions give people the means and the basics to learn to think for themselves. I don’t provide ready-made instructions. What works in one place won’t necessarily work 500 meters away. Once you learn how to observe, you’ve got the resources to adapt to where you are.
“At first people thought I was crazy, but after a while, the neighbors saw that I had more tomatoes than them and never any mildew, so people began to talk and the researchers came to see me,” says Mr. Poot. He now works alongside agricultural researchers and presents his work in agricultural engineering schools.
A share of his seeds is sold illegally as they are not entered in the Official Catalogue of Varieties of Vegetable Species. Mr. Poot explains that the law forbids them from legalizing the seeds as “all of the seeds, or almost all of them, have been bought by multinationals who create phytosanitary products and fertilizers, they are interested in ensuring that the plants need these treatments in order to sell their products”. In order to achieve recognition for his vegetable producing techniques, he organizes workshops for individuals (gardeners or novices). Sébastian, who took part in a workshop says that he has “a better understanding of how plants work (…) By just watering when the plant is put in the ground, one can leave the plant on its own against a lack of water and disease. To do so one just needs to trust nature, that in 3 years of harvest the seeds will give birth to resistant plants, whose parents will have made a mark on their genetic coding in conjunction with their evolutionary context.” He says that “thanks to men like Pascal and his team, in a few years time we will be able to find tomatoes of all colors and shapes in organic markets”.
If you want to try the same approach of resistant seeds selection, here are Pascal's advice:
The latest you take the fruit, the better it is. Just before the first frosts as the fruit will have survived to summer drought and autumn rains as well.
Tomatoes are special, seeds are in jelly, a little bit like eggwhite. This jelly prevents the seeds from sprouting inside the fruit, which is hot and humid. The seeds do not sprout before this jelly is rotten and fermented
So you have to ferment the seeds. To do so, you have to open your tomatoes, extract the seeds, and let them several hours in their juice in a bowl. An actic fermentation will happen.
You have to monitor the fermentation as it can last from 6 to 24 hours, but contrary to what is currently being said, you shall not wait for moisture to appear. Take a seed on your hand and if you can move it on your hand without the jelly coming, then it's good.
then you can use a tea colander, wash with water and dry the seeds. Using that material, you'll obtain a germination rate between 98 and 100%.
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I’ve been trying to convince my neighbors & my husband to stop watering their tomatoes after they start fruiting. They’re sweeter & better tasting. Too much water causes them to split, often before they are even very ripe at all.
Even the sensitive varieties of seeds/plants we buy in the shops these days are far more resistant to drought than folks think.
My neighbors (& husband) chastise & argue with me.
I shall stand firm. ;-)
OMG this is a revelation! Thank you so much, I’ve share this article on facebook. We need more of this!
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Thank you !! This guy is so underrated, even in France ! I can share you one another link about him but it’s only in French :)
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'Thank you': Marine overwhelmed with support after moving truck stolen
The young father and his wife just had their second child, a baby girl, two weeks ago.
Author: Henry Ramos (KENS 5)
Updated: 5:51 PM EST January 17, 2020
Update: As of Friday, Marine Joshua Nobles told KENS 5 that his vehicle with his father's ashes was found. This comes a day after his moving truck was found completely empty of many of the family's possessions.
A local nonprofit and other community members are continuing to chip in to help out the Nobles family as they settle into their new home.
The previous story begins below:
A Marine is living a nightmare just after arriving in San Antonio, his new home.
Thieves stole the military's family moving truck and car, which was packed with personal belongings including uniforms, family photos and even a loved one's ashes.
The truck and car were parked outside a hotel near the airport on the city's north side.
Joshua Nobles is an active duty Marine moving to the Alamo City from Virginia, and his car had a U-Haul attached.
As of Thursday, Joshua told KENS 5 that the truck was found, but it was completely empty, except for two uniform items and a clipboard with some rental documents in it.
"Maybe $3,000 worth of uniforms," he said. "Any type of awards I have had, any types of plaques I have been given is all gone."
They were parked right up front at the La Quinta Inn and Suites near the airport off 410 and 281.
"The things inside aren't so much as important as the pictures of my family and my dad's ashes," Nobles said. "Those are the most important things. If I could get those back, that would be ideal."
"All the photos would be nice to get back," he said. "I feel like no one would want those as bad as me and my wife would want those back."
He said the hotel has surveillance video showing the suspects getting into his moving truck and driving off.
"It just sucks to happen to anyone," he said. "But, because of my situation with my newborn, and my family moving here and (being) new to the area, not knowing the right places to be—that kind of sucks."
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A sculpture by Harry Bertoia. "Untitled (Suspended Willow)" is an abstract, steel and steel wire sculpture by Post War artist Harry Bertoia. The willow form is one of Harry Bertoia's most desirable forms, inspired by the willow trees on his property in Pennsylvania. Apart from the optical effect created by the wires, the wires move when passed by or touched and generate sounds. The tones vary depending on the length, thickness and type of metal. Bertoia called them ‘Sonambient’ for the organic, peaceful tones they generated. Provenance: Mangel Gallery, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Wright Auctions, Chicago, Illinois, 12 December 2013 Private Collection, California Heather James Fine Art, California Private Collection, California, 2019
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Sculptor, furniture and jewelry designer, graphic artist and metalsmith, Harry Bertoia was one of the great cross-disciplinarians of 20th-century art and design and a central figure in American modernism. Among furniture aficionados he is known for the wire-lattice “Diamond” chair (and its variants such as the tall-backed “Bird” chair) designed for Knoll Inc. and first released in 1952. As an artist, Bertoia is revered for a style that was his alone. Bertoia’s metal sculptures are by turns expressive and austere, powerful and subtle, intimate in scale and monumental. All embody a tension between the intricacy and precision of Bertoia’s forms and the raw strength of his materials: steel, brass, bronze and copper.
Fortune seemed to guide Bertoia’s artistic development. Born in northeastern Italy, Bertoia immigrated to the United States at age 15, joining an older brother in Detroit. He studied drawing and metalworking in the gifted student program at Cass Technical High School. Recognition led to awards that culminated, in 1937, in a teaching scholarship to attend the Cranbrook Academy of Art in suburban Bloomfield Hills, one of the great crucibles of modernism in America. There, Bertoia made friendships — with architect Eero Saarinen, designers Charles and Ray Eames and Florence Schust Knoll and others — that shaped the course of his life. He taught metalworking at Cranbrook, and when materials rationing during World War II limited the availability of metals, Bertoia focused on jewelry design. He also experimented with monotype printmaking, and 19 of his earliest efforts were bought by the Guggenheim Museum.
In 1943, he left Cranbrook to work in California with the Eameses, helping them develop their now-famed plywood furniture. (Bertoia received scant credit.) Late in that decade, Florence and Hans Knoll persuaded him to move east and join Knoll Inc. His chairs became, and remain, perennial bestsellers. Royalties allowed Bertoia to devote himself full-time to metal sculpture, a medium he began to explore in earnest in 1947.
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Australian universities and skilled migrants critical for strong skilled labour market
Research by the Australian Council for Educational Research highlights the important balance of supply of skilled labour to Australia, showing the strong role of both universities and migration. It highlights that government policy changes to skilled migration are likely to have a supply-side impact on the Australian labour market.
26 July 2017: Research by the Australian Council for Educational Research highlights the important balance of supply of skilled labour to Australia, showing the strong role of both universities and migration. It highlights that government policy changes to skilled migration are likely to have a supply-side impact on the Australian labour market.
Australian higher education system contributes significantly to Australia’s degree-qualified population – accounting for 77 per cent of the 4.5 million people in Australia with a bachelor degree or higher, and contributes 79 per cent of the degree-qualified population in full-time employment. Skilled migration is also playing a strong role: more than one in five degree-qualified people in Australia are migrants.
The latest ACER Joining the Dots research briefing shows that despite well publicised growth in Australian higher education, the research shows that degree-qualified migrants are arriving at a faster rate than growth in domestic university completions. Interestingly, graduates from the Australian higher education system continue to have better labour market outcomes than skilled migrants.
According to Dr Daniel Edwards, ACER Tertiary Education Research Director and co-author of the briefing, while the number of degree-qualified people in Australia increased by 25 per cent between 2011 and 2015, the proportion in full-time work fell from around 75 per cent to 72 per cent.
“Between 2011 and 2015 the rate of growth among the Australian population was faster for skilled migrants, at 32 per cent, than it was for people born overseas who completed their degree in Australia, at 27 per cent, or people born and qualified in Australia, at 21 per cent,” Dr Edwards said.
According to Dr Edwards, while the tightening of Australia’s skilled labour market in recent years has negatively affected both skilled migrants and domestic graduates, skilled migrants experience poorer employment outcomes. Data from the Australian Bureau of Statistics reveal that, in 2015:
The labour force participation rates of skilled migrants (80 per cent) were considerably lower than for people with an Australian degree (90 per cent).
The proportion of the degree-qualified workforce employed in full-time professional occupations was higher for Australian born and educated people (79 per cent), and people born overseas who completed their degree in Australia (71 per cent) than it was for skilled migrants (68 per cent).
The unemployment rate among the degree-qualified workforce was higher for skilled migrants (5.5 per cent) than it was for people born overseas who completed their degree in Australia (4.2 per cent), and people born and educated in Australia (2.4 per cent).
Dr Edwards notes that further analysis by industry or field of education would provide more nuanced insights into the impact of higher education and migration on specific sectors of the labour market.
Joining the Dots is a resource developed by ACER for those with an interest in Australian higher education. Details available at www.acer.org/jtd or by emailing jtd@acer.org
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The American Civil Liberties Union filed a petition in federal court shortly before midnight yesterday to seek the immediate release of Rhode Island resident Lilian Calderon from an immigration detention facility. The lawsuit, filed in Boston by the ACLU of Massachusetts with support from the ACLU of Rhode Island, argues that Calderon’s continued detention is a violation of her constitutional right to due process and federal immigration laws and regulations.
The petition for habeas corpus seeks her release from custody and a court order barring immigration officials from deporting her until she is provided the opportunity to receive decisions on, and seek judicial review of, administrative remedies she is pursuing.
Calderon, 30 years old, is a Guatemalan immigrant and mother of two who has been detained by immigration officials since January 17th. She has lived in the U.S. since she was three-years-old. The mother of two young children ages 1 and 4, Ms. Calderon was detained by ICE when she went with her husband, a U.S. citizen, to the Providence field office of the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services in Johnston as part of the process of applying for lawful permanent resident status. Calderon is currently being held at the Suffolk County House of Corrections, and she risks being deported at any time.
The petition argues that without the court’s intervention, “the government will continue to detain Ms. Calderon, and may undertake efforts to remove her, in violation of federal law, federal regulations, and due process—and at great risk to her already-traumatized children.” The petition further notes that in going to the interview in Johnston to seek to change her legal status, “Calderon followed procedures that the government itself has prescribed for avoiding such a tragedy. In effect, the government’s left hand beckoned her forward, and its right hand grabbed her.”
The ACLU petition notes the effect of the detention on Calderon’s two children:
“Petitioner’s abrupt detention has already caused significant harm to her four-year-old daughter and 22-month-old son. Her daughter has begun having nightmares three or four times a night, bursting into tears without warning, crying for her mother, and becoming frightened by brief separations from other family members. Her son can no longer sleep in his crib on his own and becomes distressed because his mother is not there to soothe him.”
The petition argues that because Calderon “was detained without any determination that she poses a danger or flight risk, and because she in fact poses no danger or flight risk, her detention violates due process.”
BREAKING 2/6/18 11:20AM: Judge bars removal of Calderon outside Massachusetts while the suit is pending. The judge's order is available here.
The following are statements from participants in today's news conference announcing the filing of the petition:
Adriana Lafaille, ACLU of Massachusetts attorney: “Lilian Calderon came out of the shadows and tried to apply for her lawful status by following the process that the government created for people in her situation. Her sudden detention and separation from her husband and young children was arbitrary, unlawful, and inhumane. We will continue to stand up to protect freedom and basic fairness.”
Steven Brown, ACLU of RI executive director: "Snatching and detaining a woman with two young children who has lived in this country since she was three years old, is not only cruel and meanspirited, it borders on the sadistic. We are hopeful that the courts will vindicate the important Constitutional rights at stake."
Martin Harris, attorney: "We have an emergency motion to stay pending at the Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA). They were last contacted this morning regarding the current status. They did not answer the phone, but a detailed message requesting an update was made separately. We have filed a motion to reopen at the BIA requesting that they revisit the final order of removal that issued in 2002 and the subsequent motion to reopen in 2008. We've also requested USCIS to conduct an internal review of their 2017 denial of relief via DACA for Lilian Calderon. A request for her release has also been made with ICE, along with a separate request for stay of removal. We are asking ICE to consider her release including electronic monitoring because she is not a flight risk of danger to the community."
Luis Calderon, Lilian's husband: "Ever since that day, Natalie asks me why her mom has left... I've lost my best friend. I'm asking for her release because she needs to be with her family, and her children miss her. I don't understand why this is happening when we thought we were doing everything right to keep our family together."
Gabriela Domenzain, Director of the Latino Policy Institute: "Our immigration system is broken, and it’s victims are Rhode Island families just like Lilian and Luis’s. Luis has shown more composure, strength and resolve than I think many of us would be able to muster if the love of our life was vanished and put into prison. As a state, we need to be prepared to help families stay together. There are steps we can take at the state and policy level that we will be exploring but the priority today is to get Lilian out of prison, and we’re praying that what the ACLU did today, will produce that result."
Learn more about the case here
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ICYMI: Duffy: “I never endorsed Donald Trump because of his stance on women or his family values.”
Even after Donald Trump gloated about using his celebrity to sexually assault women, Sean Duffy is proudly standing by his side. He is justifying his support by saying:
“I never endorsed Donald Trump because of his stance on women or his family values,” Duffy said in a statement. “I endorsed him for his policies … four years of Hillary Clinton would be unacceptable.”
Sean Duffy is making it clear he isn’t bothered that a potential President of the United States has such disparaging and backwards views on women. Furthermore, the hypocrisy of Sean Duffy is staggering – throughout his career in Congress, and at the Republican National Convention, Duffy has tried to make himself the face of family values.
Duffy’s comfortability with Trump’s view on women shows he is perfectly fine putting party before country, and he will not stand up for the Wisconsinites he is supposed to represent in the 7th Congressional District.
See excerpts from the article below.
Duffy, Johnson stick with Trump endorsements
The Tomah Journal // Steve Rundio
Wisconsin Republicans either reiterated their support for Donald Trump or said nothing last week, even after House Speaker Paul Ryan told nervous members of his caucus that he will not defend the GOP presidential nominee or campaign with him before the election.
U.S. Rep. Sean Duffy, whose northern Wisconsin district was the only one Trump carried in the April primary, stood by Trump, while Gov. Scott Walker, GOP legislative leaders and others were silent.
Duffy’s district includes the towns of LaGrange, Lincoln, Scott and Byron and villages of Wyeville and Warrens in Monroe County and the towns of Knapp, Bear Bluff and City Point in Jackson County. He’s being challenged in the Nov. 8 election by Democrat Mary Hoeft of Rice Lake.
Hoeft criticized Duffy’s continued support for Trump during a Tuesday appearance in Hudson.
“Why do you continue to stand in support of a man who abuses women?” Hoeft was quoted in the Hudson Star-Observer.
Trump’s campaign was thrown into crisis Oct. 7 with the release of audio from 2005 featuring Trump making lewd remarks and bragging about how his fame allowed him to “do anything” to women. During the second presidential debate Sunday, the businessman dismissed his comments as “locker room” talk and insisted he had “great respect for women.” Several women have accused Trump of unwanted sexual advances since the audio became public.
Oct 18, 2016 News Breaking: Senator Johnson's Debate Night Zinger? Compare Himself to Donald Trump
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