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Uranium Suppliers Annual - 2019
Supplying an Expanded Nuclear Future
Adjusting to a Dynamic Market
In the aftermath of the Fukushima accident, reactor projects worldwide were delayed and some new reactors were canceled. Through 2016, global uranium supply continued to increase as many advanced-stage uranium projects came online supported by higher-priced utility contracts. As a result, utility and supplier inventories increased as global reactor requirments declined. However, in the last three years, multiple producer cutbacks have reduced global uranium production to a projected 142 million pounds U3O8 in 2019. With annual production now well below reactor requirements, utility and supplier inventories are steadily declining.
Over the long term, improvement is forseen for nuclear power, with China's nuclear generation still expected to grow at a rapid rate, India building up strategic reserves due to its lack of low-cost domestic uranium resources to meet ambitious demand growth, and new countries such as the UAE and Saudi Arabia advancing their nuclear power programs. Thus, it remains imperative for new production to meet accelerating growth by the middle part of the next decade to avoid a price spike situation.
While it is critical for new projects to be developed by the mid 2020s, this could prove challenging given difficulties to finance new projects in the current economic environment. And as exploration slows, this delays the development time for the next wave of new uranium projects.
There are also the complex economic, environmental, strategic, and geopolitical issues facing various uranium projects over the next 10 years, which must be understood and risks evaluated by buyers to protect themselves in the future.
Preparing for the Future
In late December, UxC published a revised edition of the Uranium Suppliers Annual (USA), containing comprehensive data and information on all of the world's uranium suppliers, including detailed sections on planned producers and junior exploration companies. USA includes future production forecasts, operational considerations, supplier/project risk analysis, production cost estimates, mill capacities, project reserves, and supplier/facility summaries. USA also features Google project maps for primary, domestic, and planned producers.
Furthermore, the USA examines supplier marketing strategies, allowing buyers to understand the capabilities and motivations of suppliers, as well as the political, social, and economic environments in which they operate. In addition, the USA is supported and updated via UxC's Subscriber Services website, giving subscribers the opportunity to retrieve the latest supplier information.
For each primary and planned producer, detailed tables are provided on mill and mine data, which include:
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Mine Type
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Additional information covered on each primary and most planned producers include:
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And given the numerous risks affecting uranium producers today, we provide a Project Risk Assessment Matrix for each primary producer to assess a number of risk factors - Geopolitical, Regulatory, Resource Base, Operational, Product Dependency, Exchange Rates, and Transportation. Also provided is a Company Risk Matrix, featuring a comparative aggregate overview of all primary suppliers with aggregate project-specific ratings and company-specific risks - Resource Diversity, Financial Strength, and Customer Relations.
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Saving the Seed: Genetic diversity and European agriculture - Natural Resource Management Set (Paperback)
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Genetic diversity is essential to the security of agriculture. Without the availability of a wide range of plant varieties and the genetic resources they contain, crops cannot adapt to combat the ever-changing threats of pests, diseases and climatic change. Yet, with the increasing industrialisation of modern agriculture, farming has become a business which centres on a handful of new, genetically similar 'super seeds'. Plants must evolve in order to survive, but modern agriculture has replaced diversity with uniformity, and security with vulnerability.
Saving the Seed traces the decline of crop varieties in European farming and describes what is being done to safeguard genetic resources for the future. Conservation efforts by government and industry suffer from serious drawbacks, with wrangles over ownership and control of resources. The crucial work is being done by individuals and grassroots organisations, who largely go unrecognised and under-resourced. What is urgently needed are sound policies to promote the diversification of agriculture and an integrated strategy for safeguarding the genetic base of our food system. Saving the Seed contains the most up-to-date information available on genetic resources in Europe and on those working to save them. Renee Vellve is a researcher at GRAIN, a no-governmental organisation working to promote the sustainable conservation and use of genetic diversity, based on grassroots approaches to genetic resources management. Originally published in 1992
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Daily Rounds: Berwick Grilling; Caffeine-Free Four Loko; Smoking Moms Have Criminal Kids; Mass. Drunken Driving Problem; A Billion Dollar Lupus Drug
Senators anticipate grilling Donald Berwick - Sarah Kliff - POLITICO.com Berwick faces the Senate Finance Committee: "After requesting a hearing for months, Republicans will finally hear Berwick testify on the Hill on Wednesday morning — and they will unleash all their questions and criticisms on the man himself." (The Politico) Four Loko Maker to Drop Caffeine From Drinks - NYTimes.com "The company that produces the Four Loko beverage said it will remove the caffeine and two other ingredients from its products after facing a cascade of criticism and regulatory scrutiny for producing the energy drinks, which combine high levels of the stimulant with alcohol." (The New York Times)
Study: Moms Who Smoke During Pregnancy Might Have Criminal Kids – TIME Healthland "Betty Drapers of the world, listen up. While research has already shown a link between maternal smoking in pregnancy and attention and behavioral problems in kids and teens, a new study from the Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health finds a longer-term correlation: between smoking during pregnancy and eventual criminality in adult children." (healthland.time.com)
Feds say state lags in taking steps against drunken driving "Massachusetts ranks among the 10 states that have adopted the fewest measures to reduce drunken driving deaths, according to the National Transportation Safety Board." (Boston Globe)
Benlysta, Lupus Treatment, Endorsed by F.D.A. - NYTimes.com "A federal advisory committee on Tuesday endorsed what could become the first drug approved in decades to treat lupus...Analysts expect Benlysta, which will be marketed with help from GlaxoSmithKline, to achieve more than $1 billion in sales." (The New York Times)
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Reconciled (soft cover) Book 3 of the Asunder series by Curt Locklear
The third in a trilogy, Reconciled follows the interconnections among a superbly memorable cast of characters during the Civil War as they internally and externally wrestle with why they're fighting, or why they're not fighting at all. Others will grapple with mere survival when the war alarmingly shows up on their front lawn or storefront.
The Asunder Civil War saga races to a thundering conclusion. More complicated battle, more intrigue, more heartbreak, and new-found love. With all the characters from Asunder and Splintered returning, the tightly woven plot pushes forward at a dramatic pace.
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Islamist lawmakers disband Egypt's upper parliament, demand ousted President Morsi's reinstatement
By - Associated Press - Saturday, July 13, 2013
CAIRO — Islamist lawmakers in Egypt’s disbanded upper house of parliament demanded Saturday the army reinstate ousted President Mohammed Morsi, and called on other legislatures around the world not to recognize the country’s new military-backed leadership.
Morsi’s supporters, including his Islamist allies, remain steadfast in their rejection of the popularly supported military coup that toppled Morsi nearly two weeks ago. They have staged a series of mass protests in Cairo to push their demands, and are vowing to stay in the streets until Morsi is returned to office.
Speaking at a mass rally staged by Morsi’s Muslim Brotherhood in Cairo, the two dozen former parliamentarians, all Islamist members of the Shura Council that was dissolved by court order, accused the military of attempting to restore a “corrupt and dictatorial” regime.
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Morsi was Egypt’s first freely elected president, succeeding longtime autocrat Hosni Mubarak who himself was toppled in 2011. The military ousted Morsi after millions of protesters took to the streets calling for his removal.
The military has brushed aside the Brotherhood’s demands, while the new army-backed administration of interim President Adly Mansour has forged ahead with a swift timetable to amend the now suspended constitution, drafted under Morsi, and to hold parliamentary and presidential elections by early next year.
While the presidency has floated offers of reconciliation with the Brotherhood, authorities are simultaneously clamping down the group. So far, five of its top leaders have been arrested, and arrest warrants have been issued against the group’s top leader and nine other Islamists. Islamist TV networks, meanwhile, have been shuttered.
Prosecutors on Saturday said they continue to investigate allegations that Morsi and 30 other Brotherhood leaders escaped from prison in 2011 with help from the Palestinian militant group Hamas. That jailbreak occurred amid the uprising that toppled Mubarak.
Street violence has largely ceased since Monday’s deadly clashes that left more than 50 Muslim Brotherhood supporters dead and hundreds wounded after they were holding a sit-in in front of Republican Guard forces club. The Brotherhood accuses the military of opening fire on protesters, while the army says Morsi supporters instigated the violence.
The Brotherhood has remained adamant in its opposition to the new political landscape, and shows no sign of backing down in its showdown with the military-backed interim leadership.
On his Facebook page, Mohammed el-Beltagi, leading Brotherhood member said that “those who want reconciliation, our arms are open … but those who want reconciliation, do not fire bullets … they say they made a mistake and tell the killer to step aside.”
Morsi’s supporters have pledged to keep protesting until the military meets their demands — the reinstatement of Morsi, the Islamist-drafted constitution and the Islamist-dominated legislature — and leading Brotherhood member Essam el-Arian called for another mass rally on Monday.
The deposed president’s supporters have been holding a sit-in in front of the Rabaah al-Adawiya mosque in eastern Cairo for two weeks. The rally has taken on a more permanent air, with tents going up as well as bathrooms being constructed behind brick walls to provide some privacy. Army soldiers stand guard from a relative distance, staking out positions about a kilometer (half-mile) away to try to avoid any direct confrontation.
On Friday, tens of thousands of Morsi supporters, many of them from the provinces, turned out for a mass protest in front of the mosque, filling up the large intersection and spilling some ways down the boulevards. Witnesses said that military helicopters dropped leaflets on the crowd encouraging them to leave the sit-in.
“The measures which have been taken were not targeting you and were not meant to belittle your role and your status,” the leaflets said. “We assure to you that there will be no manhunt for those who want to end the sit-in and return to his home.”
It also warned them not to approach nearby military buildings.
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Poker Or Slots? Games Of Skill And Chance Have Legal Distinctions In Pennsylvania
By Katie Blackley • Feb 11, 2019
A slot machine-type game in a Pittsburgh bar.
Pennsylvania State Police seized 414 illegal gaming machines in southwestern Pennsylvania in 2018.
Currently, people can gamble at state-regulated casinos, through the Pennsylvania Lottery, for horse races and, after the expansion of the law last year, online and at some truck stops. But the changes didn’t include gaming machines in bars and restaurants. In those venues, if a game is mostly chance, like a slot machine, it’s illegal. But if it requires skill, like poker, it’s legal.
Frank DiGiacomo, partner with the Duane Morris law firm, said the distinction comes from a 2014 court case out of Beaver County. That decision, he said, required the state, which had seized a Pace-O-Matic game machine, to show burden of proof for their actions. Using expert witnesses and tests of skill versus chance, the court determined the Pace-O-Matic required more skill than chance, and was therefore not gambling.
“If the game is predominately skill, it’s therefore not a gambling device and arguably legal,” he said.
DiGiacomo said the recent changes to state gambling law likely won’t impact the number of seized illegal games, unless casinos decide to pursue them.
“Whether or not there comes a point in time when the regulated casino industry tries to get law enforcement to be more aggressive in challenging the legality of these games remains to be seen,” DiGiacomo said.
He said under state law, grant money from Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board is doled out each year to local law enforcement agencies to help curb illegal gambling.
“The purpose of that money is for local law enforcement to seek out these gray market games, or illegal games, and seize them and have them not being operated,” DiGiacomo said. Nine such grants were awarded, according to the PGCB’s 2017-18 annual report.
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Facilitator, Liaison, Listener: How Candidate Leon Ford Wants To Reimagine Himself And District 9
By Megan Harris & Kiley Koscinski • Dec 17, 2018
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After building a reputation as a well-known activist in Pittsburgh, Leon Ford is ready to take what he considers the next step: running for office.
How To Put A Price On Suffering: Meet The Law Firm Mediating The Diocese's Victims Compensation Fund
By Megan Harris, Kiley Koscinski & Mick Stinelli • Dec 18, 2018
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It takes a delicate touch to step in in the wake of tragedy, and one Washington D.C.-based law firm has a lot more experience than most.
Camille Biros, business manager for Feinberg Law Offices, has helped shepherd clients through mass shootings, terrorist attacks and sexual abuse scandals. Now, they're helping mediate the Independent Reconciliation and Compensation Program for the Catholic Diocese of Pittsburgh.
Man Loses $10K On First Legal Sports Bet At Rivers Casino
By Associated Press • Dec 18, 2018
One of the first legal bets placed at Pittsburgh's Rivers Casino sports book didn't exactly bring the house down.
David Eldridge was one of five people to make the first legal bets at the casino during a grand opening last Thursday.
While many grand openings feature celebrities placing $20 on their favorite team to win the World Series or Super Bowl, Eldridge plunked down $10,000 — and on the New England Patriots over the hometown Pittsburgh Steelers on Sunday, to boot.
2 More Pennsylvania Casinos Open Up For Sports Betting
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'The View' Audience Applauds as Joy Behar Says Democrats Need To Lie To Get into Office
By Joe Saunders
Published November 4, 2019 at 12:34pm
For Democrats, honesty isn’t the best policy after all.
The news that former Texas Rep. Robert “Beto” O’Rourke had dropped his doomed bid for the Democratic presidential nomination added one refreshing element to the usual cackling on the ABC talk show “The View” on Nov. 4.
It got the shrewish Joy Behar to blurt out an unexpected truth: Democrats need to lie about their goals if they ever expect to get elected.
To Behar, O’Rourke’s problem was not his vow to confiscate weapons — that “hell, yes, we’re coming for your AR-15s” — it was that he was stupid enough to be honest with the American people about wanting to wipe out one of the rights guaranteed by the U.S. Constitution.
And the worst part was, her audience applauded.
The admission came when the panel was discussing what was left of the Democratic field after O’Rourke’s pained departure.
Resident conservative voice Meghan McCain called O’Rourke’s end a cautionary tale for Democrats who let the adulation of the base go to their heads.
“Beto, when my husband told me he got out of the race, I think he’s actually like a beta test for why going so national and being beloved by the media is always dangerous. … He raised $80 million, and President [Barack] Obama was drawing comparisons to him,” McCain said.
“He did a lot of, like, battleground culture war, and he ran as the most left, most ‘woke’ candidate. And look where he ended up.”
And that’s when Behar chimed in.
“They should not tell everything they’re going to do,” she said. “If you are going to take people’s guns away, wait until you get elected and then take them away. Don’t tell them ahead of time.”
There’s no denying there’s more than a kernel of truth to what Behar said.
Getting elected by twisting the truth isn’t exactly new to anyone in politics, regardless of party. But in 21st century America, with a biased mainstream media that no longer even pretends to cover politics fairly, Democrats have raised – or lowered – dishonesty to a new level.
Are Americans catching on to Democratic lies?
7% (136 Votes)
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Their last two presidents are probably better known for their lies than any truths they might have told (assuming, for the sake of argument, that they did tell one or two truths).
Bill Clinton’s “I did not have sex with that woman” and Obama’s “If you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor” are practically legends of lying in American politics.
But what Behar was encouraging was worse than either of those whoppers. She was talking about infringing on a constitutional right but deliberately dissembling about it in advance.
And social media users noticed.
Absolutely disgusting, as usual. She shouts at everyone to give up their guns as she hides behind armed security.
— Les Hayes (@realLesHayes) November 4, 2019
The fact that Joy Behar doesn’t realize that her advice to Beto is suggesting tyranny, but it’s OK if they’re the ones doing it to the deplorables. The Motto of the Democrat Party should be “Don’t tell them ahead of time!” https://t.co/yDKHKyKMQC
— James T Harris (@JamesTHarris) November 4, 2019
Joy Behar: Don’t Tell People You’re Taking Guns, Wait Until You Get Elected and Then Take Them…You Can’t nullify my 2A. Sorry Joy. https://t.co/7UvLnQzJvL
— Nick Short 🇺🇸 (@PoliticalShort) November 4, 2019
But this one really nails it.
Problem with these extremist like Joy Behar is they believe lies and deception are sound political policy. They fail to realize this is why we voted for @realDonaldTrump and will again in 2020.
— Covfefe Alaskan Patriot (@covefe67) November 4, 2019
The Democratic Party has never been a stranger to liars, of course.
But in the Trump years, the party has disgraced itself in ways that would have been unimaginable only a few years ago.
The Alice-in-Wonderland ugliness of Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh’s confirmation hearings — an endless carnival of lies consciously propagated by the mainstream media — won’t be forgotten.
The lengthy, expensive, fruitless Russia collusion hoax and now the utterly baseless “impeachment inquiry” (a kangaroo court under the leadership of congenital liar and House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff, no less) are just more lessons for the American public at large.
No one, not even Democrats, believes Democrats much anymore.
The difference between supporters of the parties now is that liberals, like Behar, are perfectly willing to let the Democrats lie if it means they have a chance of seizing power.
The empty-headed audience of “The View” might applaud at the idea of lying politicians tromping all over constitutional rights, but the country is a good deal better than that.
Every sane American – even those who might not be totally behind President Donald Trump – has a duty to stop the Democrats cold.
And that’s the truth.
Joe Saunders
Joe has spent more than 30 years as a reporter, copy editor and metro desk editor in newsrooms in Pennsylvania, West Virginia and Florida. He's been with Liftable Media since 2015.
Joe has spent more than 30 years as a reporter, copy editor and metro editor in newsrooms in Pennsylvania, West Virginia and Florida. He's been with Liftable Media since 2015. Largely a product of Catholic schools, who discovered Ayn Rand in college, Joe is a lifelong newspaperman who learned enough about the trade to be skeptical of every word ever written. He was also lucky enough to have a job that didn't need a printing press to do it.
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Reports – Wane interested in Leeds job
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Post by josie andrews » Tue May 07, 2019 2:58 pm
The Guardian are reporting that Shaun Wane is interested in succeeding Dave Furner as Leeds head coach.
The Rhinos this morning sacked Furner just 14 games into his three-year deal, placing Richard Agar in temporary charge.
And just seven months after guiding his beloved Wigan to the Super League title, reporter Aaron Bower claims Wane is keen to speak to Leeds about the vacancy.
Wane departed rugby league in October to take up a coaching role with Scotland RU, but a return is potentially on the cards with the club he had a three-year playing stint at in the 1990s.
Cronulla Sharks former Premiership winning coach Shane Flanagan has already been linked with the role and is among a growing list of candidates.
Super League sponsors Betfred make Wane, interim coach Agar and ex-Halifax boss Richard Marshall joint 5/1 favourites to take charge at the Rhinos.
Flanagan is next in the running with Castleford’s Daryl Powell and London’s Danny Ward, who are both former Leeds players, priced 8/1 and 10/1 respectively.
https://www.seriousaboutrl.com/reports- ... job-20486/
Re: Reports – Wane interested in Leeds job
Post by morley pie eater » Tue May 07, 2019 3:15 pm
https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2019/ ... gby-league
It's just paper talk at the moment based on SW saying he'd return to RL and the fact he played for Leeds.
Post by moto748 » Tue May 07, 2019 7:14 pm
Yeah, just paper talk I imagine.
Bookies' favourite, thoughbut.
You can get 50/1 on Shaun Edwards!
Wiganer Ted
Post by Wiganer Ted » Tue May 07, 2019 8:17 pm
If Leeds need anything right now its a defence minded coach.
How would Waney feel about Hetherington deciding who they sign and release?
They need a new coach alright but not as much as new players.
Wiganer Ted wrote: ↑
Deja vu?
fozzieskem
Post by fozzieskem » Tue May 07, 2019 10:58 pm
moto748 wrote: ↑
Post by josie andrews » Wed May 08, 2019 8:31 am
Shaun Wane says he hasn't ruled anything out after being named as one of the bookies' front-runners for the vacant Leeds coaching position.
Wane, who left Wigan at the end of last season, is 5/1 second-favourite with Super League sponsors Betfred to take over from sacked Dave Furner.
"I have not had any contact with Leeds," said Wane. "I've always said I'd like to work in rugby league again at some point and I've not ruled anything out.
"But at the same time I'm very happy with my role with Scotland RU, as well as my keynote speaking and business interests."
Wane resigned from Wigan at the end of last season with a haul including three Grand Final wins, a Challenge Cup triumph and an historic World Club Challenge victory.
Ex-Warriors forward Furner was today axed just 14 games into a three-year deal. Australia's Daily Telegraph reports he is planning legal action.
Assistant Richard Agar is in temporary charge and Leeds' director of rugby Kevin Sinfield says there is no need to rush into making a permanent successor.
Ex-Halifax coach Richard Marshall is the narrow favourite, at 4/1, with Agar also 5/1 with Wane.
Castleford's Daryl Powell (8/1), London's Danny Ward (10/1) and overseas coach Shane Flanagan (10/1), Anthony Griffin (10/1), Adam O'Brien (12/1) and Jason Demetriou (12/1) are also in the mix.
Sinfield, Wakefield boss Chris Chester, ex-Leeds and Warrington boss Tony Smith and Hull KR's Tim Sheens are all 16/1.
Brian McDermott is 20/1 to return while the outsiders include York's James Ford, Leeds assistant Rob Burrow and Salford boss Ian Watson are all 25/1.
Those wanting a more adventurous wager could opt for Shaun Edwards at 50/1, while outspoken Leeds great Garry Schofield is 100/1.
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Extinction Rebellion: Climate Change Protests Aim To Crash Global Economy To Usher In MMT
R.T. News is reporting that 'Extinction Rebellion' protests are scheduled across 200 sites in London over the next several weeks. These protests could bring the city to a standstill as protestors demand government officials take immediate action to combat climate change.
Extinction Rebellion is expected to hold protests in 60 major cities across the world through late October. Some of the countries that could experience the most massive demonstrations are the Netherlands, Australia, Germany, Spain, France, the U.S.
These protestors have already taken over streets, blocked roadways, and disrupted public transportation in London, Sydney, Paris, and Berlin.
Trafalgar Square is completely closed to traffic.
Extinction Rebellion have set up a stage for speakers and music, first aid tent, improvised cycle lane, and snack stall.
There’s also a “well-being sanctuary” in case you’re feeling down. pic.twitter.com/YE6jhARVgS
— Theo Usherwood (@theousherwood) October 8, 2019
Extinction Rebellion are gloriously vibrant and peaceful protesters whether you accept or detest the disruption. I back the climate emergency urgency if fearing the tactics occasionally backfire but the good humour’s welcome when Westminster’s often plagued by Far Right thugs pic.twitter.com/2gNvsiNOqL
— Kevin Maguire (@Kevin_Maguire) October 7, 2019
"If we keep on destroying, we destroy what allows us to live."
'Extinction Rebellion’ activists held protests around the 🌍 against climate change. Demonstrators brought London to a standstill, hundreds were arrested.
Read more: https://t.co/FmsiW0YHHR pic.twitter.com/GTRbKEPYIg
— Al Jazeera English (@AJEnglish) October 8, 2019
Extinction Rebellion's message is that climate change is an emergency that requires drastic and immediate action. And the only way to force significant policy change is to shut down parts of major infrastructure, like roads, bridges, highways, rail, airports, and ports.
"Extinction Rebellion is widely credited with accelerating policy change in the U.K.," said Robert Falkner, a fellow at Chatham House.
The group's tactics are already causing severe economic and social disruptions in major cities across the world. While specific demands are wildly unrealistic, it seems that there's a more sinister agenda at play.
The plan is to crash the global economy by unleashing climate change protestors into the streets to shut down critical parts of infrastructure. While protestors think they're in the streets to save the planet -- they're really causing mini-economic shocks in cities across the world, simultaneously. These shocks are occurring in a period where the global economy has already opened up into a cycle of vulnerability, indicating the world could be one or two shocks away from a severe economic downturn.
If Extinction Rebellion succeeds in shutting down streets across the world in the next several weeks, then it could certainly point to slower economic growth for the world through year-end.
And what's the reason behind climate change protestors shutting down cities and causing economic shocks across the world? Well -- it's all about crashing the global economy to install a new economic model called Modern Money Theory (MMT) that will transition the world economy into the new green era.
"One of the obstacles that has been listed to stopping climate change is having enough money to transition away from fossil fuels and heal the damage done to our environment. It is true that in the way we currently run our economy that is not possible.We know that it's still possible to avoid the worst impacts of climate change if we transition to renewable energy sources without delay. We know that we can contribute to a just and equitable society with dignity for all, if we build this green infrastructure as rapidly as possible" said One Sustainable Planet.
So now you know the master plan of the elites, create social-economic chaos, crash the global economy, probably blame it on the trade war, then implement MMT and transition the global economy into a new green era. Buckle up; volatility is here.
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3 Predictions for the Subscription Economy in 2020
Subscription business models extend far beyond the software industry. Across the board, industries – from automotive to media to retail and beyond – are witnessing the true impact of the Subscription Economy, reimagining their businesses to meet new consumer demands for access to services over the ownership of physical products.
By transforming into valuable service providers, companies far and wide are establishing deeper relationships with their customers and, in turn, setting their businesses up for long-term success and scalability.
The opportunity is clear: subscription businesses, on average, are growing revenues 5X faster than S&P 500 revenues (18.2% versus 3.6%) and U.S. Retail Sales (18.2% versus 3.7%).
Witnessing the incredible momentum and diversification of these businesses over the past year, Zuora CEO Tien Tzuo, Zuora EMEA MD John Phillips, and Zuora Chief Data Scientist Carl Gold have provided three predictions for how businesses will sustain growth throughout 2020.
Prediction #1: Retailers will ask customers to pay for loyalty.
For decades, retailers have offered a slew of rewards and discounts for customers (think Black Friday sales), essentially paying for customer loyalty. However, the end result is grim. More than 5,800 stores in the U.S. have closed this past year. In 2020 and beyond, retailers will begin to flip the script on traditional loyalty programs. To build real loyalty, retailers will evaluate what customers prefer to invest in, to sign up for, to subscribe to, and create membership programs that align with these insights.
– Tien Tzuo, Co-founder & CEO, Zuora
Prediction #2: Winners of the MaaS race will emerge.
Everyone is looking to win a piece of the MaaS pie, but it’s likely the victor won’t be a traditional mobility provider like Uber or Lime. It will take a lot more than offering access to on-demand transport options. Instead, it will take an ecosystem of touchpoints that drive insights and create deeper customer relationships. It’s up to OEMs to harness the opportunities in front of them to integrate with technology platforms like Amazon on Apple’s ecosystem. Otherwise, as we’ve seen in numerous industries – take Kodak cameras versus the iPhone, it wouldn’t be surprising to see OEMs get left behind, with the tech giants coming out on top
– John Phillips, EMEA Managing Director, Zuora
Prediction #3: We’ll enter the next phase of the streaming wars.
With some of the biggest streaming services anticipated in 2019 officially launched, 2020 will bring a new dimension to the streaming wars. While we will see more bundling, international expansion and a number of new streaming services in 2020, the biggest challenge for all companies in the streaming wars will be finding new ways to regulate and fight churn using customer data.
– Dr. Carl Gold, Chief Data Scientist, Zuora
Interested in keeping up with the latest trends in the Subscription Economy in 2020? Subscribe to Zuora co-founder and CEO Tien Tzuo’s Subscribed Weekly newsletter to receive insight into the latest subscription news every week.
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Microsoft Windows XP Plain & Simple
by Jerry Joyce, Moon Joyce Resources, Marianne MoonJerry Joyce
Paperback(2nd ed.)
Easy numbered steps in FULL COLOR
Here’s WHAT you’ll learn:
Record music, make movies, play games
Send e-mail, browse the Web, have a voice-and-video chat
Set up your printer and a simple network
Organize, print, and share digital photos
Perform easy tune-ups and fixes
Use the new security features in Windows XP Service Pack 2, ready to download at http://www.microsoft.com/windows
Here’s HOW you’ll learn it:
Jump in wherever you need answers—for the simplest ways to get the job done
Easy NUMBERED STEPS show exactly what to do
Handy TIPS teach new techniques and shortcuts
Quick TRY THIS! exercises help you apply what you learn right away
Fully updated—new topics, new content! Covers Windows XP Service Pack 2
Plain & Simple Series
Jerry Joyce has had a long-standing relationship with Microsoft: He has been the technical editor on numerous books published by Microsoft Press and has written manuals, help files, and specifications for various Microsoft products. As a programmer, he has tried for many years to make using a computer as simple as using a toaster but has yet to succeed.Marianne Moon has worked in the publishing world for many years as proofreader, editor, and writer--sometimes all three simultaneously. She has been editing and proofreading Microsoft Press books since 1984 and has written and edited documentation for Microsoft products such as Microsoft Works, Flight Simulator, Space Simulator, Golf, Publisher, the Microsoft Mouse, and Greetings Workshop.
Chapter 1: About This Book
Chapter 2: Jump Right In
Chapter 3: Running Programs and Playing Games
Chapter 4: Exploring the Internet
Chapter 5: Communicating
Chapter 6: Working with Pictures and Movies
Chapter 7: Working with Music, Voice, and Sounds
Chapter 8: Printing and Faxing
Chapter 9: Managing Files and Folders
Chapter 10: Networking
Chapter 11: Setting Up
Chapter 12: Customizing
Chapter 13: Maintaining Security
Chapter 14: Managing Windows XP
Appendix : About the Authors
This Windows XP guide makes a bold promise: "No computerese!" How do they do? Pretty darned well.
The full-color format is perfect both for beginners and for any experienced WinXP user who's looking for an easier way to find answers but has no interest in becoming a computer expert. And in just a couple hundred pages, it manages to cover the tasks typical users ask about most often, from setting up email addresses in Outlook Express to connecting a wireless network.
This Second Edition has just been thoroughly updated for Windows XP Service Pack 2's urgent security improvements. It also covers most everything else that's new with Windows XP since it was first launched a couple of years ago, including new media features you can download free from Microsoft or get with Microsoft Plus! Digital Media Edition.
You'll find all the coverage you'd hope for in a Windows XP guide for committed non-techies: how to manage and search for files; run DVDs and music CDs with Windows Media Player; set a new home page with Internet Explorer; manage your email and contacts with Outlook Express; keep your files private; set up a new printer; and so forth. But there's some content here you might not expect: how to run older programs that need to be tricked into working with Windows XP; how to create video slide shows; control pop-up windows; label your CD-ROMs; create a multimedia screen saver...
Between the colorful numbered steps and the friendly, informal writing, Windows XP Plain & Simple will make WinXP more useful and more fun for a whole lot of people. Bill Camarda
Bill Camarda is a consultant, writer, and web/multimedia content developer. His 15 books include Special Edition Using Word 2003 and Upgrading & Fixing Networks for Dummies, Second Edition.
Microsoft Windows XP Plain & Simple 4 out of 5 based on 0 ratings. 2 reviews.
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Microsoft Windows XP Plain and Simple is user friendly and well organized. The most widely-used topics are adequately covered and it is a good reference for those getting started with XP.
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New Music From Death Cab For Cutie, Alessia Cara, Plus Movies In Theaters Today
Track down this new music
Time tested indie rock band, Death Cab For Cutie are showing the first signs of life in a while with the new single “Gold Rush.” Based on the song, it looks like the new album out in August should be business as usual.
Pop star Alessia Cara has a new single called “Growing Pain.”
Looking for under the radar new music? You need to listen to Novo Amor’s “Birthplace,” Sigrid’s “Focus” and Katelyn Tarver’s “Labels.”
Other new music today comes from from Mayday Parade, Christina Aguilera, Chromeo, and DNCE. Famous for “Hey Jealousy,” the Gin Blossoms are still around and have a new album, Mixed Reality.
Sneak away to the theater to see these movies this weekend
The Incredible family is back in a sequel after 14 years. It’s pretty crazy to think it’s been that long, but here we are. Rave reviews are in so as long as animated features are your thing, the Incredibles 2 should be a satisfying watch.
Other things from the week
Nintendo announced Fortnite on Switch and new info about Super Smash Bros Ultimate
Other companies announced game stuff at E3, but I think Nintendo’s was the most interesting.
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Friday 31 May 2019 @ 10:15
Ofgem
Ofgem finds E Gas and Electricity, Economy Energy and Dyball Associates in breach of competition law
Two suppliers, E (Gas and Electricity) Limited and Economy Energy, and Dyball Associates, an energy software and consultancy service, have been found to have infringed Chapter I of the Competition Act 1998 and fined collectively £870,000 by Ofgem.
Between January and September 2016 Economy Energy, E (Gas and Electricity) and Dyball Associates had an anti-competitive agreement preventing the two suppliers actively targeting one another’s customers through face-to-face sales.
To facilitate this agreement, the suppliers shared commercially sensitive information in the form of customer meter point details.
Dyball Associates aided this arrangement by designing, implementing and maintaining software systems that allowed customer meter point details to be shared, and recruitment of each other’s customers to be blocked.
The majority of the customers with both suppliers at the time were pre-payment meter customers, who are less likely to switch than those on standard meters and so more likely to be on a more expensive deal.
E (Gas and Electricity) and Economy Energy put forward an argument that they were a combined family enterprise, but this was not accepted by Ofgem.
The agreement undermined competition in a market where suppliers typically compete to attract new consumers by offering them a better deal.
Ofgem has fined E (Gas and Electricity) £650,000 and Economy Energy £200,000 (the latter fine reflecting Economy Energy’s financial position, including that it is in administration).
Ofgem has fined Dyball Associates £20,000 for acting as a facilitator.
Anthony Pygram, director of conduct and enforcement at Ofgem, yesterday said:
“Anti-competitive agreements are a serious breach of competition law and could cause widespread detriment and harm to consumers, especially those in vulnerable situations.
“E and Economy Energy agreed not to target each other’s customers with the assistance of Dyball Associates, leaving some customers potentially worse off by being unable to access deals from the other supplier.
“Customers should have an opportunity to switch to other suppliers and should not be prevented from doing so by anti-competitive agreements, and suppliers should all have an equal opportunity and compete on a level playing field with rivals.
“This enforcement action sends a strong signal to suppliers that we will take action and penalise those who undermine competition and do not act fairly.”
Ofgem has the power to investigate potential infringements of competition law in the energy sector. These powers are held concurrently with the Competition and Markets Authority.
The Statement of Objections is addressed to: (i) Economy Energy Trading Limited (in administration) and Economy Energy Holdings Limited; (ii) E (Gas and Electricity) Limited and E Holdings Ltd; (iii) Dyball Associates Limited and Dyball Holdings Limited.
Chapter I of the Competition Act 1998 prohibits agreements and concerted practices between businesses which have as their object or effect the prevention, restriction or distortion of competition within the UK. Any business found to have infringed these prohibitions can be fined up to 10% of its annual worldwide group turnover, taking into account a range of factors including the seriousness of the infringement, mitigating or aggravating factors and adjustments for proportionality.
The decisions on the infringement and the penalties were made by members of the Enforcement Decision Panel (EDP).
The Enforcement Decision Panel (EDP) was established in June 2014 to take important decisions in contested and settlement enforcement cases on behalf of the Gas and Electricity Markets Authority. The Enforcement Decision Panel are independent of Ofgem. Panel members are selected for each individual case. The panel for this case was made up of Elizabeth France CBE, John Swift QC, and Professor Amelia Fletcher OBE.
This investigation was opened in September 2016 and in May 2018 Ofgem issued a statement of objections, setting out its provisional findings. The parties then had opportunities to make written and oral representations on those provisional findings and on the amount of penalty.
Ofgem made a Procedural Officer Decision in May 2018 following an application for certain aspects of the investigation to be reviewed.
In January 2019, Economy Energy Trading Limited ceased to trade and entered into administration. Its customers were transferred to Ovo Energy under the supplier of last resort process operated by Ofgem.
A non-confidential version of the decision document will be published on Ofgem’s website as soon as possible.
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Investigation into whether Economy Energy, E (Gas and Electricity) and Dyball Associates have infringed Chapter I of the Competition Act 1998 with respect to a suspected anti-competitive agreement
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Original article link: https://www.ofgem.gov.uk/publications-and-updates/ofgem-finds-e-gas-and-electricity-economy-energy-and-dyball-associates-breach-competition-law
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Buying, selling and viewing art is one of life's great pleasures. But it is also a sophisticated business that requires the very best legal advice.
We advise 40% of the 200 top art dealers listed in ARTnews Top Collectors publication, as well as many of the world’s leading collectors. We have been involved in a number of the highest profile matters of recent times including the controversial “Canyon” case and the Richard Prince litigation. We work with international galleries and museums. Working for many of the most successful people and cultural institutions in the world means much of what we do is confidential. But it’s fair to say that our connections among our client base provide us with sector expertise that is unmatched by most other law firms.
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We are the largest law firm in the world championing the interests of successful individuals and families. Whether you are deal making, tax planning or fighting to protect your investment, we have the right lawyers around the world to help. Art law partner Diana Wierbicki is listed by artnetnews as one of the world’s most highly-influential art lawyers focusing on structuring transactions, while Dean Nicyper on the litigation side has advised on the two biggest art fraud cases in the past decade and helps one of two largest art auction houses in dozens of lawsuits concerning authenticity and the purchase, loaning and movement of art. On the litigation side in London, Eleni Polycarpou has over 10 years’ experience of dealing with all kinds of art related disputes both in litigation and in arbitration, including two of the most well-known stolen art cases and restitution cases plus all kinds of title, authenticity and consignment disputes acting for collectors, artists, art galleries, art insurers, dealers and auctioneers. She has been listed as a leading individual by various legal directories for her expertise in this sector, with 2020 guides stating that ‘Eleni Polycarpou is an exceptional litigation solicitor – immensely experienced and very knowledgeable in this quite specialist field. Apart from anything else, she is a considerate person, with great client management skills’. Simon Chadwick, a litigation associate in London, is also recognised as a rising star in art law and previously worked for an Italian commercial art dealership in Mayfair and Milan. This experience and understanding of the market has proved invaluable when advising individuals, galleries and institutions on both contentious and non-contentious art matters.
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The lines between art and fashion have always been blurred but arguably never more so than today. As the law firm for successful people, fashion is a major area of work for us and we’ve worked on some of the world’s ultimate collaborations between high fashion and art.
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Police: Dad left son alone in car to gamble at Cincinnati casino
Dontae Smith, 34, charged with child endangering
A father is in jail after allegedly leaving his son in his car while he went to gamble.Cincinnati police said Dontae Smith, 34, left his 6-year-old son in his running car in the parking garage of the Horseshoe Casino a little before 9:30 a.m. Thursday.Investigators said a security guard spotted the boy in the car and called police.Temperatures Thursday morning were near zero degrees.Officers found Smith as he gambled inside the casino.Casino security officials have turned over surveillance video of the incident to police. Smith has been permanently banned from the casino, a spokesperson said.Smith was charged with child endangering and was being held at the Hamilton County Jail.The boy was unharmed and turned over to his mother.Smith was arraigned Friday morning on $5,000 bond and ordered to stay away from his son.
A father is in jail after allegedly leaving his son in his car while he went to gamble.
Cincinnati police said Dontae Smith, 34, left his 6-year-old son in his running car in the parking garage of the Horseshoe Casino a little before 9:30 a.m. Thursday.
Warrant issued for dad who allegedly left son in car at Cincinnati casino
Investigators said a security guard spotted the boy in the car and called police.
Temperatures Thursday morning were near zero degrees.
Officers found Smith as he gambled inside the casino.
Casino security officials have turned over surveillance video of the incident to police. Smith has been permanently banned from the casino, a spokesperson said.
Smith was charged with child endangering and was being held at the Hamilton County Jail.
The boy was unharmed and turned over to his mother.
Smith was arraigned Friday morning on $5,000 bond and ordered to stay away from his son.
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Kristen Stewart and Stella Maxwell Crashed a Wedding, as One Does
by Elizabeth Logan
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A Victoria's Secret Model and a Hollywood starlet walk into a random wedding, and, well, the brides were actually surprisingly chill with it. Yes, Kristen Stewart and her girlfriend, Victoria's Secret model Stella Maxwell popped into a Winnipeg wedding reception this past Saturday, surprising the two brides, Kirsten and Kayleigh Jennings, who were actually only vaguely aware of who their surprise guests were.
After Kayleigh and Kirsten's backyard wedding, the couple and their guests were celebrating at Pizzeria Gusto, the owner of which has "helped out at an event" for Stewart recently, according to the CBC (Stewart has been in Winnipeg shooting a movie). "The owner came up to me, and he said, 'Hey, is it ok if Kristen Stewart and her girlfriend Stella come and have a few drinks with you guys?' and I was, like, 'Yeah, totally! Yeah, no problem. Um, who is that?'" bride Kirsten Jennings told the network.
Soon enough, both couples were dancing the night away—Kirsten Jennings estimates that Stewart and Maxwell stayed at the party from 10 p.m. to 1 a.m. "I actually wasn't as starstruck as I thought I would be," said Kayleigh Jennings, though Kirsten Jennings noted that her "Aunt Linda was extremely excited."
"They looked just like two normal girls. They look a little Hollywood, but if we didn't know who they were, I don't know if I would have known," said Kirsten Jennings. The couple treated their new guests like they would anyone else: They showed them "Southern hospitality. Winnipeg hospitality" said Kayleigh Jennings, an Oklahoma native.
Dj'ed the MOST fun wedding for these incredible woman last night and had an unplanned guest show up to dance with us at the end of the night! Apparently Kristen Stewart loves Beastie boys ! #djkchedda #kirandkay
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The newlyweds have been together since 2010, or, to put it terms of Stewart's career, since the release of Twilight: Eclipse. They met while bartending in the Cayman Islands, according, and eventually relocated to Canada in part because same-sex marriage wasn't federally recognized in the United States yet. But their next move will be to Austin, Texas, to get out of the Canadian cold.
No word on whether Stewart and Maxwell were feeling the need to check out a wedding for any particular reason, but the pair are known for random outings. They've previously been spotted at Moschino shows, Fourth of July parties in France, and hanging out car windows trying to get the perfect selfie.
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Rocking tousled locks, rosy cheeks and a subtle smoky eye, Stewart looked fresh and youthful in 2008.
Attending the screening of the ‘The Twilight Saga: Eclipse’ in New York City, Stewart wire her golden brown locks in a tousled boho braid with a red smoky eye and a nude lip.
At the “The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 2” premiere, Stewart was a vision of romance with big soft curls, a light golden eye and a red lip.
Attending the Costume Institute Gala in New York City, Stewart let her bold purple eye makeup shine by pulling back her brown hair and keeping the rest of her makeup neutral.
Stewart looked like a rockstar at the premiere of Still Alice in 2014 with an edgy haircut and frosted blue eyeshadow.
A messy low ponytail perfectly complimented Stewart’s dramatic black winged smoky eye at the premiere of American Ultra in 2015.
At the New York Film Festival premiere of her latest film, Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk, Stewart wore her bleach blonde hair in a short cut that showed off her playful pink makeup.
Attending the Film Independent at LACMA screening of her new film Personal Shopper, Stewart paired her chic black eyewear with a dark smoky eye and red lip while keeping her brunette pixie slicked back. (2017)
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A daring new look for Stewart, the actress debuts her freshly buzzed platinum blonde hair at the IFC Films Personal Shopper premiere in Los Angeles in 2017.
Just before the 2018 Oscars, Stewart debuted a mullet.
Kristen Stewart and her mini rattail attended a photocall at the 71st annual Cannes Film Festival at Palais des Festivals on May 8, 2018.
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Kristen Stewart’s dirty blonde coif was on display at the Chanel show as part of the Paris Fashion Week Womenswear Fall/Winter 2019/2020 on March 05, 2019 in Paris, France.
Kristen Stewart’s fiery tips and bleached brows shocked the crowd at the 2019 Met Gala celebrating “Camp: Notes on Fashion” at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City.
Kristen Stewart wore a slicked back pink pompadour fastened with black barrettes during the 45th Deauville American Film Festival on September 13, 2019 in Deauville, France.
Kristen Stewart is still growing out her formerly blonde pixie now that Charlie’s Angels is in theaters.
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3D-printed gun plans explode online
1 website logged 1.4 million requests in 3 weeks
(Washington Times) Plans for 3D-printed guns have spread across the internet over the past three weeks despite the efforts of a federal judge and some of the country’s largest social media companies to try to impose limits.
Gun rights supporters say the online explosion — one website owner who posted the plans said his site logged 1.4 million requests over the past three weeks — shows the futility of efforts to put the genie back into the bottle.
But gun control advocates are still battling and will be back in court Tuesday to ask U.S. District Judge Robert S. Lasnik to extend his order halting a settlement between Texas-based Defense Distributed and the State Department, which struck a deal rolling back Obama-era restrictions on posting the plans.
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AC Cugini Scuola Calcio Announces Summer Youth Camp with ACF Fiorentina
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Each year, AC Cugini Scuola Calcio (Soccer/Football School) takes young players on tours of Italy where they compete against Italian teams. This summer, there will be an added bonus: 5 days with ACF Fiorentina, one of the oldest clubs of the Serie A.
AC Cugini is located outside of Washington, D.C. in Northern Virginia. Since 2000, they have been a positive influence in youth player development. They are the only Italian soccer school to be officially recognized by the Italian FA (FIGC), along with the Italian Olympic Committee (CONI). The founder of this club, Fabio Diletti, was a former goalkeeper for a professional team, Ascoli Calcio.
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According to Executive Director, Lisa Cherubini:
"The club recently added a 5-day training camp with world-renowned professional club ACF Fiorentina to our June 2008 tour and tournament play in Italy, at no extra cost to our participants! For those who may not know, ACF Fiorentina plays in Italy's premier league - Serie A - along with Juventus, Inter, AC Milan. Fiorentina is considered one of the most powerful clubs in the entire world having participated at the top-tier of Italian soccer for the majority of their 82-year existence. In fact, only four clubs have played in more Serie A seasons."
On a personal note, a few years ago, Fabio and Lisa gave an unknown writer his first opportunity at football journalism. Yours truly. They do important work for many children and families. I am very pleased to witness their continued growth as youth player development becomes an important theme in North America.
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The Curious Little Playhouse brings imagination to downtown York
At The Curious Little Playhouse, 41 W. Market St., York's youngest residents are invited to let their imaginations run wild in themed play areas.
The Curious Little Playhouse brings imagination to downtown York At The Curious Little Playhouse, 41 W. Market St., York's youngest residents are invited to let their imaginations run wild in themed play areas. Check out this story on yorkdispatch.com: https://www.yorkdispatch.com/story/news/local/2019/04/19/curious-little-playhouse-brings-imagination-downtown-york/3519229002/
Rebecca Klar, York Dispatch Published 3:01 p.m. ET April 19, 2019 | Updated 2:33 p.m. ET April 24, 2019
PHOTOS: The Curious Little Playhouse is a downtown hub for kids
Marley Ruby, 2, of Shiloh, grocery shops with her friend Meadow Stough, 3, of Dover Township, left, while they play in the market at The Curious Little Playhouse, the new business at 41 W. Market St. in York City Friday, April 19, 2019. The interactive childrenÕs play place offers a variety of stations for kids. Jen Swanner is the owner of the business which staged a ribbon cutting earlier in the day. Bill Kalina photo Bill Kalina, The York Dispatch
York County Commissioner Doug Hoke greets he White Rose City King, Lou Rivera, and Queen, Victoria Kageni-Woodard, outside a "castle" during a ribbon-cutting at The Curious Little Playhouse during the ribbon-cutting for the new business at 41 W. Market St. in York City, Friday, April 19, 2019. Kageni-Woodard is the owner of city boutique Gusa By Victoria, and Rivera is a candidate for York City Council. The interactive childrenÕs play place offers a variety of stations for kids to explore. Bill Kalina photo Bill Kalina, The York Dispatch
The Curious Little Playhouse owner Jen Swanner speaks during the ribbon-cutting for her new business at 41 W. Market St. in York City Friday, April 19, 2019. Officials, like city councilwoman Edquina Washington, left, attended. The interactive childrenÕs play place offers a variety of stations for kids. Bill Kalina photo Bill Kalina, The York Dispatch
Gatsby Feeser, 5, plays at The Curious Little Playhouse after a ribbon-cutting for the business at 41 W. Market St. in York City Friday, April 19, 2019. He is the stepson of Philip Given, owner of an adjacent business, York City Pretzel Company, which is partnering with the new interactive childrenÕs play place. Jen Swanner is the owner of the playhouse. Bill Kalina photo Bill Kalina, The York Dispatch
Marley Ruby, 2, of Shiloh, left, and Meadow Stough, 3, of Dover Township, play in the market at The Curious Little Playhouse, the new business at 41 W. Market St. in York City Friday, April 19, 2019. The interactive childrenÕs play place offers a variety of stations for kids. Jen Swanner is the owner of the business which staged a ribbon cutting earlier in the day. Bill Kalina photo Bill Kalina, The York Dispatch
Attendees record a ribbon-cutting outside The Curious Little Playhouse, a new business at 41 W. Market St. in York City Friday, April 19, 2019. The interactive childrenÕs play place offers a variety of stations for kids. Bill Kalina photo Bill Kalina, The York Dispatch
The Curious Little Playhouse held a ribbon-cutting for the new business at 41 W. Market St. in York City Friday, April 19, 2019. The interactive childrenÕs play place offers a variety of stations for kids. Bill Kalina photo Bill Kalina, The York Dispatch
There's a new theater in downtown York. There's also a new school, market, diner and castle.
"When my kids were little we would go to some of the local kid venues, but there really wasn't anything in downtown York to participate in," playhouse owner Jen Swanner said.
Swanner has lived in Hanover for about 20 years, where she raised her three children.
Her vision for the playhouse came from what her children would've enjoyed playing with and where she would've wanted to bring them as a parent, she said.
Marley Ruby, 2, of Shiloh, grocery shops with her friend Meadow Stough, 3, of Dover Township, left, while they play in the market at The Curious Little Playhouse, the new business at 41 W. Market St. in York City Friday, April 19, 2019. The interactive childrenÕs play place offers a variety of stations for kids. Jen Swanner is the owner of the business which staged a ribbon cutting earlier in the day. Bill Kalina photo (Photo: Bill Kalina, The York Dispatch)
"I mixed my marketing skills with my mommy skills, and this is sort of where I landed," she said.
The Curious Little Playhouse is open 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. Tuesday through Thursday, 9 a.m. to 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday, and 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Sunday. Mondays are open for groups only.
The Curious Little Playhouse owner Jen Swanner speaks during the ribbon-cutting for her new business at 41 W. Market St. in York City Friday, April 19, 2019. Officials, like city councilwoman Edquina Washington, left, attended. The interactive childrenÕs play place offers a variety of stations for kids. Bill Kalina photo (Photo: Bill Kalina, The York Dispatch)
The playhouse also is available for children's birthday parties.
There's also an art station and dress-up area.
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"Imagination is absolutely key for kids' development. That was always important to me as a parent when my kids were younger," Swanner said. "Imagination is sort of imperative to their education."
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“Everyone in life needs guidance”
Daniel Wilson, 39, is a Housing Officer at YMCA Wimbledon and an integral part of the team supporting residents. Once a resident himself, back in 1997, he knows the place inside out and has been working in the housing team for 13 years.
Over the years he has seen many highs and lows and has supported residents to get back on their feet after a rocky start, “Everyone in life needs guidance,” he says. “Drugs and mental health, and living on the street is a world that I don’t know about, so when I talk to residents I’m learning as much from them as they are learning from me,” he says.
A typical day for Daniel will involve dealing with at least 10 people on a one to one basis: “I help with issues around rent, behaviour and housing management. This building is split in two, with people who come from out of borough, who are assessed but don’t need support, then the other half are those who do need support.”
Daniel is keen to get to know all the residents who don’t need a support worker, and does his best to make contact with them all as they arrive. “I’ve designed self assessment sheets, so that they can give me information about themselves, about how they live, how they consider themselves moving on, how they save their money. I try to meet with every single one of them and give them three small tasks to do, for example open a bank account, or understand which benefits they are entitled to, or go and see the CAT team for more activities available to them. We want to make sure everyone here feels supported in some way.”
The most challenging part of the job for Daniel is carrying out evictions. “I don’t want to see anyone go,” he says. “Recently a resident got into an altercation and I had to explain that our policy is zero tolerance for violence. I can support people to a certain degree, but after that, they have to leave.
“I’m the one to give them their eviction notice and they have a week to organise themselves before leaving. It’s difficult because all their anger and energy is focussed on me. That person has just backtracked to the same position they were in when they first arrived. It’s frustrating.”
And the most rewarding part? “When you see clients who had a drug history, who when they first arrived were not even living but just existing. They then go through the programme, have a detox, do volunteering, put on weight, get themselves back together, get into a relationship, move out to a new place – and then I seem them on the street and they wave at me and call out “Alright Dan!” – that’s great. Seeing that is very rewarding, knowing that all the staff at YMCA have had their input to help the person to move on from that chapter in their lives. “
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Diesel prices rise after 9 days, petrol remains stable
After remaining stable for the last nine days, diesel prices increased on Thursday, while the petrol prices remained unchanged.
Sanchita Jain
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New Delhi: After remaining stable for the last nine days, diesel prices increased on Thursday, while the petrol prices remained unchanged.
Diesel has become costlier by 15 paise per litre in Delhi and Kolkata, and 16 paise per litre in Mumbai and Chennai.
According to the website of Indian Oil, petrol prices in Delhi, Kolkata, Mumbai and Chennai remain the same at Rs 74.63, Rs 77.29, Rs 80.29 and Rs 77.58 per litre respectively.
But in the four metros, the price of diesel has increased to Rs 66.19, Rs 68.60, Rs 69.43 and Rs 69.97 per litre respectively.
Petrol prices remained steady for the second day in a row, while consumers were relieved by the decrease in petrol prices for six consecutive days before that.
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Jammu and Kashmir law
Nobody is above law, those breaking it must be dealt with firmly: Jammu and Kashmir DGP Dilbag Singh to officers
The DGP emphasized collective measures to tackle any situation and any subversive act by the terrorists and their leaders across the border. He also said, "Although we have got successes across Jammu and Kashmir against the terrorists, yet we should continue our actions against them with coordinated strategies to ensure long-lasting peace in Jammu and Kashmir."
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Jammu and Kashmir Director General of Police (DGP) Dilbag Singh on Wednesday asserted that nobody is above the law and one who breaks it must be dealt with firmly. Chairing a high-level security review meeting at the Police Control Room in Kashmir, the DGP stressed for intensified cordon and search operations (CASO) to flush out terrorists from the Union Territory (UT).
DGP Singh said that training in tackling law and order situations has to been upgraded to sharpen the skills of the personnel to meet any challenge. He added that public cooperation has helped in making the efforts of the police fruitful in maintaining law and order. He directed the officers that while dealing with any situation they should ensure that law-abiding people were not put to any inconvenience during their day-to-day activities.
The DGP reiterated that the support of the community was essential and more and more public cooperation should be ensured by prioritising community-based programmes. He directed the officers that all possible help should be extended to the public as and when required.
The meeting deliberated on various important issues relating to internal security. The officers representing different districts briefed the DGP about the measures taken on different fronts with regard to the safety and security of people in Jammu and Kashmir.
The meeting was attended by ADGP, CID Dr B Srinivas, IGP Kashmir, SP Pani, DIG, CKR V K Birdi, DIG NK R Suliaman Choudary, all District SSPs, SBK, CIK, SP Operations Srinagar and other senior police officers.
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Pro Kabaddi League 2019: Exciting contest on the cards as UP Yoddha take on Bengal Warriors
The match which will start at 7:30 PM IST is expected to be a well-fought one considering the raiding unit and defenders in both the sides.
Image Credits: Twitter/@UpYoddha
Arnab Mukherji
Jul 23, 2019, 19:54 PM IST
UP Yoddha are set to take on the Bengal Warriors in their opening clash of the Pro Kabaddi League 2019 at the Gachibowli Indoor Stadium, Hyderabad in the first clash of the doubleheader on Wednesday.
The raiding trio of Shrikanth Jadhav, Monu Goyat and Rishank Devadiga made their presence felt for the UP Yoddha last season. They will be expected to step up and lead the side on to wins in this season as well.
In case of an off-day, Mohsen Magdhsoudlou is another capable player who enjoys the ability to be a match-winner.
The Bengal Warriors, on the other hand, invested heavily in the services of Mohammad Nabibakhsh. The Iranian all-rounder was signed for a massive sum of ₹77 Lakh and will be expected to lead the raiding unit alongside Maninder Singh.
The duo can further expect quality support from Rakesh Narwal, Mohammad Taghi, Sukesh Hegde and K.Prapanjan.
The UP Yoddha defence is also extremely strong following the presence of Nitesh Kumar who accumulated the highest number of tackle points last season. All-rounder Sachin Kumar or emerging youngster Sumit are further expected to provide support in the left corner position with Narender slotting into the right cover position.
The Bengal Warriors defensive unit, on the other hand, comprises of Jeeva Kumar, Baldev Singh, Adarsh T, Rinku Narwal and Vijin Thangadurai.
While experienced Jeeva Kumar will be expected to lead the defence, he will need support from the likes of Baldev Singh and Vijin Thangadurai who capable of slotting into the left cover or right cover position.
The two sides failed to reach the finals of the tournament despite qualifying for the playoffs. A good performance on Wednesday could very well set the stage for a trophy-laden season.
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PC version of Injustice 2 gets online beta test, retail version to release next week
The iconic fighting game makes its way to the PC six months after the console release
Tuesday, November 7, 2017 - 11:48 GMT
Development studio QLOC has released a beta version of the PC version of Injustice 2. The beta test allows players to try out 1 vs 1 online multiplayer functionality.
The PC version is not being developed by NetherRealm Studios, the development studio behind the original console release of the game, but by Polish video games porting studio QLOC.
It is not known why QLOC was assigned to develop the PC version, but it may be related to insufficient in-house PC development experience at NetherRealm Studios.
Generally speaking, Polish software developers receive lower wages than their Western European and American colleagues, making it a lucrative detail for triple A studios to get multiplatform releases out the door at low costs.
Early Steam user reviews indicate that the PC version of the game is able to maintain smooth and steady frame rates and that users have experienced very few bugs and crashes since its release last night.
The beta test is available starting November 6, 2017, and ends on November 10, 2017.
The PC version of Injustice 2 launches on November 14, 2017.
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What Are Spicules, What Causes Spicules, and Who First Discovered Spicules On the Sun?
December 5, 2019 by Karen Hill
Tall, vertical streams of gas, called spicules, are like huge fiery geysers shooting up into the Sun’s chromosphere and then disappearing.
Spicules are usually associated with regions of high magnetic flux.
They rise about 6,000 miles, or 10,000 km and last between 5 and 15 minutes.
Spicules were discovered in 1877 by Father Angelo Secchi of the Vatican Observatory in Rome.
There are around 60,000 to 70,000 active spicules on the Sun at any given time.
It is hypothesized that spicules are a result of p-mode oscillations in the Sun’s surface that causes the Sun’s surface to rise and fall at several hundred meters per second.
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What Is the Sun Made of and What Other Elements Is the Sun Composed of Besides Hydrogen and Helium?
How Big Is the Sun and How Much Does the Sun Weigh Compared To the Earth?
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Microsoft Windows 10 Latest Version 2017-2018 Full Free Download
by Waleed HashmiPosted on December 16, 2017 December 16, 2017
Microsoft Windows 10 Latest Version
Since Microsoft Windows 10 landed on our PCs for the first time back in 2015, we’ve benefited from three separate, and massive, updates that only “Windows as a Service” could provide. That is what Microsoft has been calling its post-chronologically numerical Windows updates after all, and it’s what we’re going to start seeing a lot more of in 2018.
Next year, building onto the Anniversary Update, Creators Update and Fall Creators Update that came before it, we’re going to see Redstone 4, a revision to Microsoft’s OS for PCs that will likely be called something completely different by the time it comes out. We don’t know much about what it will entail, but we’ve heard we’ll see full-on eSIM compatibility for always-connected devices – such as those that rely on LTE for internet usage.
Today, the currently newest Microsoft Windows 10 Full 2017-2018 Fall Creators Update has continued to show Microsoft making good on the plans it unveiled to us two years ago. On top of that, the Anniversary Update that came out last year brought some great improvements to the Start screen and Action Center, along with the Edge web browser. It also introduced the Ink Workspace, which concentrates on the daily features that you use the most.
The Fall Creators Update, however, brings more new features and functions than you can keep up with, but focused on areas that revolve around creating or enjoying content. Whether that be books, gaming, drawing or even 3D modeling, Windows 10 now does those things way better.
Of course, some core tools, like the Edge browser and Cortana have received upgrades, too. And, Microsoft Windows 10 now finally has a night-time screen mode in Night Light. Microsoft has also brought about major improvements to security and privacy (or at least transparency) in Windows 10.
These changes continue to further Microsoft’s mission for Windows 10 to be the operating system for everything and everyone – now having reached 600 million installs.
Without further delay, let’s dive into the major beats of the Windows 10 Fall Creators Update.
What’s new in the Update?
Frankly, if you haven’t installed Microsoft Windows 10 Update already, there’s more reason than ever to jump on the bandwagon. Windows 7 updates are shaky at the moment, with Microsoft focusing much of its efforts on its new operating system. What’s more, Windows 7 users are dropping it like flies, according to the latest reports.
Arguably, that’s with good reason. What you stand to gain from the latest version of Windows 10 starts with ‘Sets’, a Microsft-y term for what are essentially out-of-browser tabs applicable to those apps that you won’t find in Microsoft Edge, Google Chrome or your preferred web surfing tool.
Also highlighted in the Microsoft Windows 10 Update are a slew of enhancements for tablet and 2-in-1 users wielding styluses. You can now, for instance, doodle from directly within PDF files or Word docs themselves, complemented by a new ‘Find My Pen’ feature that tracks where your stylus last touched the screen. That’s made better (looking) by visual improvements made possible by the Fluent Design system, which aims to modernize select facets of the UI.
However, more meaningful changes, like a more combative approach to ransomware, are appreciated as well. Specifically, the Fall Creators Update makes room for a ‘Controlled Folder Access’ toggle, letting you preclude unauthorized apps from getting their hands on your files.
Eye Control, too, has made its way into the Windows 10 Fall Creators Update, as has a Mixed Reality Viewer. Without the necessity to purchase one of the company’s affordable Windows Mixed Reality headsets – also compatible with the OS – you can now integrate 3D objects virtually into your home or workspace using your webcam or USB camera.
Otherwise, the Windows Mixed Reality headsets – available now – start at $299 (about £225, AU$380) and, as of November 15, support SteamVR to enjoy games such as Fallout 4 VR and Doom VFR as well as the virtual reality rendition of Skyrim. They might cost over $399 in the US, but you also have the option to buy a headset bundled with the all-but-essential motion controllers.
And, iterating on the Paint 3D software introduced in the spring Creators Update, Fall Creators Update users can take the 3D models they’ve created and integrate them into outside applications, such as the suite of Office 365 programs. Thanks to AirDrop-inspired Near Share, you can also go as far as to share them with other PCs in your area.
On a less productive note, the Windows 10 Update hones in on the fact that, according to Redmond’s sources, more people now watch games than actually play them, though 200 million people are still playing them on Windows 10. In the Fall Creators Update, Mixer, Microsoft’s answer to Twitch and YouTube Gaming, will be even faster.
Notwithstanding this fact, Steam stats are showing that only 28.6% of its players are still using Windows 10 as of December 2017. That’s a whopping 17.38% drop from the 45.98% of Steam gamer’s that were playing on Windows 10 the previous month. Perhaps knowing that the Fall Creators Update will also make games operate smoother via its enhanced Game Mode will change their minds, however.
If not, then there are plenty of non-gamer’s that will certainly enjoy the new ‘Memories’ and ‘Stories’ portion of the Windows 10 Photos app. With these new features in tow, you can modify images like never before by adding to them 3D effects, transitions, Ink and even video.
Peering towards the future, the Fall Creators Update isn’t the final frontier for Windows 10 either. Next up, we can nearly assure you at this point that Microsoft is on its way to selling hardware via the Windows 10 Store.
Microsoft Windows 10 Features:
The familiar Start Menu, which Microsoft replaced with Live Tiles in Windows 8, returned in Windows 10. Users can still access Live Tiles and the touch-centric Metro interface from a panel on the right side of the Start Menu, however.
Microsoft Windows 10 allows users to toggle between touchscreen and keyboard interfaces on devices that offer both. Continuum automatically detects the presence of a keyboard and orients the interface to match.
Windows 10’s integrated search feature allows users to search all local locations, as well as the web simultaneously.
Microsoft Edge debuted with Windows 10 and replaces Internet Explorer as the default web browser. Edge includes tools such as Web Notes, which allows users to mark up web sites, and Reading View, which allows users to view certain websites without the clutter of ads. The browser integrates directly, Microsoft’s digital assistant, which is also embedded within Windows 10.
Cortana integrates directly with the Bing search engine and supports both text and voice input. It tracks and analyzes location services, communication history, email and text messages, speech and input personalization, services and applications, and browsing and search history in an effort to customize the OS experience to best suit users’ needs. IT professionals can disable Cortana and some of its features with Group Policy settings.
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It Happened In North Toronto - Caribana Iced
King Cosmos on Ice
Last Saturday at Mel Lastman Square. Caribana Iced – Small Crowd. Warm Response
By Stephen Weir
There were no Triple Axels or Salchows from Calypsonian King Cosmos (Henry Gomez) as he gingerly skated out onto the ice at Mel Lastman Square last Saturday. What he lacked in skating finesse he made up for with his singing and his warm and friendly greeting to the people who came out Saturday to watch Caribana on Ice.
Wearing all black except a colourful feathered headdress with matching wristlets and ankle splashes. Master of Ceremonies, King Cosmos told the family audience they were watching a first – a professional presentation of the Carnival Arts on Ice.
Dance Skaters steps on ice
“This is the first time this has been done in Toronto, “ he said to a cheering and clapping crowd standing on the edge of the large outdoor rink. “I think it has to be the first time in North America. We usually do this sort of thing on the street in the summer, but, what is more Canadian than being here (outdoors in winter)?”
In the past, the group has held other CaribanaOn Ice events, albeit with a more informal approach. “This year we have designed what one could describe as a ‘mini’ Caribana on the Ice presentation,” said Event Programmer Amah Harris.
The previous Caribana on Ice family skate days at the outdoor rink at the downtown City Hall's Nathan Phillips Square. Saturday’s two plus hour show was on the ice in front of the old North York City Hall (south of the Yonge Finch intersection).
Mas Skater At Center Ice
The ice rink was centre stage. People stayed on the boardwalk that surrounded the stage and clapped and cheered on a non-stop parade of performers. As this reporter discovered clapping was the preferred method to keep warm. As well there was a wood fire stove heating a patio. Vendors sold hot chocolate and freshly cooked Caribbean food. People were also welcomed inside the nearby civic building to thaw out.
Dance Caribe Stay Warm Waiting Their Turn
Over the course of the afternoon skaters in costume, Dance Caribe dancers, Pan performers and singers, took their turn on the ice, or on solid ground at the edge of rink. Even though there was a light snow and below freezing temperatures, the conditions were perfect for an on-ice skating show.
Although no formal statement was made by the CAG if there will be a 2020 Caribana On Ice, one of the Mas costumed skater on told me that it was so much fun she is ready to perform again. "Hey, I will sharpen my blades and break out the feathers - just say the word!"
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IT HAPPENED LAST NIGHT IN HAMILTON, ONTARIO
Second Canadian Screening For HERO
A Trio of Heroes. Solomon, Williams and Anang
Special screening of the Trinidadian / Ghanian / Canadian movie HERO - Inspired by the Extraordinary Life and Times of Mr. Ulric Cross. Only second showing in Canada, last night was in honour of Ghana Independence Day. Film was shown at the recently renovated, 80 year old Westdale Theatre. Movie producer Frances-Anne Solomon and co-stars Canada’s Peter Williams (Stargate SG-1) and Ghanian movie star Adjetey Anang walked the red carpet and stayed after the movie to answer fan questions
Recently restored 80-year old theatre
Filmed in Trinidad, Ghana, the United Kingdom and Canada, HERO is the full-length docudrama about Ulric Cross (played by Trinidad and Tobago singer Nickolai Salcedo), the famed Trinidadian World War II airman. This is a big vision film that tells the story of the West Indies’ most decorated war veteran.
Cross was a squadron leader in the Royal Air Force and went on after the war to become a jurist and an African diplomat. His life spanned key events of the 20th century when several African and Caribbean countries were on the road to independence.
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President Ilham Aliyev annulls decree on establishment of Azersilah
Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev has signed a decree on the cancellation of his January’s decree on the establishment of special commercial structure for production and sale of weapons of Azersilah OJSC
Defence Industry Ministry liquidated in Azerbaijan
President Ilham Aliyev has signed a decree on establishment of OJSC Azersilah (AzerWeapons)
Azerbaijan’s head familiarizes with border patrol ship
President and Supreme Commander of the Azerbaijani Armed Forces Ilham Aliyev has got acquainted with the new border patrol ship
Chiefs of General Staffs of Azerbaijan and Turkey held a meeting
Azerbaijan Defense Minister to hold a trilateral meeting with Chiefs of General Staffs of the Armed Forces of Turkey and Georgia
Chief of General Staff of the Armed Forces of Azerbaijan left for Israel for an official visit
Azerbaijani Naval Forces conduct Command and Staff Exercises
According to the combat training plan for 2018 approved by the Minister of Defense, the Azerbaijan Naval Forces are conducting Command and Staff Exercises.
Defense Minister meets with Russian Ambassador to Azerbaijan
Minister of Defense of the Republic of Azerbaijan Zakir Hasanov has met with the newly appointed Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation to our country, Mikhail Bocharnikov
Azerbaijan Defense Minister meets with NATO's Deputy Secretary General
The Minister of Defense of the Republic of Azerbaijan, Colonel General Zakir Hasanov has met with the delegation led by the Deputy Secretary General of NATO Ms. Rose Gottemoeller.
Combat firing was conducted in the course of large-scale exercises during the daytime/Photo
Combat firing was conducted in the course of large-scale exercises during the daytime
Defense Minister checked the combat capability of military units and military equipment
The troops participating in the exercises are moving forward to operational areas/Photo
The troops participating in the exercises are moving forward to operational areas
Defense Minister arrived in the exercise area
The troops involved in the exercises occupy concentration areas
Azerbaijan Army started large-scale exercises
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Rachel Notley has no right to criticize this week's provincial budget.
Oh, I know she's criticizing it. But she has no right to do so, and should shut up immediately.
She wanted tax hikes? She got tax hikes. She wanted protection for the overpriced wages collected by her corrupt and lazy union friends? She got it.
This is her budget. This is a Rachel Notley budget. This is a far-left, "taxpayer money belongs to the government" mindset budget, that abolishes the flat and fair taxation system in favour of punitive class warfare dribble.
That's the NDP's calling card, so the next time Notley opens her mouth about the budget, make her close it.
Tonight is "Earth Hour", the misguided Marxist bit of enviro-nonsense by which people who have achieved great things become ashamed that their lives are so good, and decide to live in darkness and fear like their lost great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-grandparents did.
There's a lot of ink spilled by the foolish promoters of this cause this time of year, and a prime example comes courtesy the Deccan Herald in India.
What began as a local lights out event in Sydney in 2007 has since spread to 7,000 cities and 162 countries. Now called Earth Hour, the event on March 28 implies voluntary switching off of lights for one hour that day starting 8.30 pm local time everywhere. Not that this will translate into huge sustained savings but what this aims to do is focus attention on the deleterious effects of global warming and the urgent need to adopt a sustain-able model of development.
Not that this will translate into huge sustained savings, or small sustained savings, or even small sporadic savings. So sure, none of what its promoters claim the event is intended to motivate actually occur, but you feel like you're helping, and isn't that enough?
Well, no, of course it isn't, but that's the sort of critical thinking skills that are notoriously absent in the minds of those who promote or participate in Earth Hour. These are the same folks who think there is an "urgent need to adopt sustainable development" (there isn't)
Fossil fuels are the closest to running out of supply, though it may take a few more generations to happen.
Now we're up to a few more generations???? Remember when the planet's danger was "imminent" and fossil fuels would run out by the 80s? Now even the environmentalists concede we have generations left to use oil gas and coal!
The switching off of electricity, in a sense, also shows a feeling of empathy towards those people and countries which to this day do not have enough electricity and are forced to live a large part of their lives in darkness. In other words, it is an attempt to sensitise millions of people, especially in affluent countries, of the struggles their brethren in poorer nations have to experience every day.
You might somewhere find a few Earth Hour devotees flogging this dead horse, but not many. We can't be in sympathy with them while we're striving to emulate the horrible conditions in which they live.
Just compare this claptrap...
The involvement of civil society, NGOs and governments for a common cause has made Earth Hour a programme a huge promise, one that can even arrest the negative changes to the world’s climate. Sounds ambitious, but then, that is the potential of Earth Hour.
...with the immortal words of Ross McKitrick (narrated by Rush Limbaugh)
For an hour tonight, do what I and Kurn and so many others are doing: turn on all your lights to celebrate Human Achievement Hour.
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Woman Sentenced for Illegal Butt Injections has to be one of the crazier non-British headlines you'll encounter.
Of course, things get even crazier when you get to the defense argument:
Defence lawyer Calvin Barry said Reid was born in Venezuela with both male and female genitalia. Despite surgery to correct the condition by her fifth birthday, she suffered throughout her life.
A pre-sentence report indicated Reid was giving her crime proceeds to her abusive, drug-addicted lover, who was living outside Ontario.
Leaving the gender of the lover out of the report is almost certainly intentional, not accidental.
If you look into the Edmonton to Vancouver website for VIA Rail (also the Toronto-Vancouver, Winnipeg-Toronto, etc.) you'll see a list of the stations, including a quick description and photo for the main ones.
Notice anything funny about them? Let's look at the four stations at the top of the page first. Toronto shows the massive pillars on the south face of Union Station (the ones that have been undergoing renovation since 1996 or so, true, but they're there). Vancouver gives us a night view of the neoclassical Pacific Central station across Thornton Park. Winnipeg shows off their Union Station as well (fewer pillars, but a more imposing view and naturally a very large building befitting Winnipeg's "far west outpost" status of 1908 when it was built). Saskatoon doesn't quite have the grandeur of Winnipeg's station, being a modernist style built in the 60s, but they show it as well.
Let's cut ahead to Jasper's railway station, the giant 1926-built structure, which is shown pictured against the spectacular mountain vistas that Jasper is known for.
Finally, let's take a look at Edmonton. The City of Champions. "Gateway to the North"†. What's the view they've taken of Edmonton's VIA Rail station? For those who don't know, the Edmonton VIA Rail station is right by the Edmonton City Centre airport -- it's why the Envision Edmonton group observed that if we had a fully functioning passenger airport there, and moved the Greyhound station from downtown (a move that the Edmonton arena project will mandate in 2016 anyways) to near the VIA station (which is also looking likely as the new home anyways) we'd have a decent transportation hub close to downtown, especially if the LRT was left underground and stopped there. So what's the station look like?
Oh....that good, eh? Okay, probably for the best. If you go and check the actual VIA rail station in Edmonton...the result is...not pretty.
† Befitting the last time we investigated this, there are no northern railway departures from Edmonton.
Ah well, at least we're better than the one in Evansburg!
The legendary Thomas Sowell recently compared Benjamin Netanyahu to Winston Churchill.
The only other person to address a joint session of Congress three times was the legendary British prime minister, Winston Churchill.
The parallels between the two leaders do not end there. Both warned the world of mortal dangers that others ignored, in hopes that those dangers would go away. In the years leading up to World War II, Churchill tried to warn the British, and the democratic nations in general, of what a monstrous threat Hitler was.
Far be it for me to lecture Sowell on...well, pretty much anything...but the comparison isn't perfect. Mark Steyn warned that Netanyahu may become Churchill in 1945, but last night Netanyahu surged for a win in the Israeli national elections.†
† The win was also another blow to the reputation of polling firms, which showed an extremely close race even in the exit polls, which they then had to backtrack on when the results weren't even remotely similar.
There are, of course, other differences as well. Churchill didn't have to deal with a racial element in his warnings: this was basically one Ehrenarier telling people that another Ehrenarier was wicked and wished to make war. Unfortunately, Netanyahu (who's as far from Aryan -- real or feigned -- as can be possible) is in the position where the wicked men who want to make war against him are all Arabs. In these days of ridiculous race-nonsense pushed on us by the left this leaves the Israelis with a baggage that didn't remotely bother the British ("Hun" talk notwithstanding). Whenever Netanyahu warns his people about dark forces on the horizon, they're literally dark forces on the horizon! This lets the left do their favourite thing on the planet: label somebody a "hater" and then instantly use that fact to discredit their words and actions, even if they end up being totally correct. (A phenomenon that I'm well familiar with, as a quick glance of my Twitter mentions will instantly tell you).
Not to put too fine a point on it, though, but Netanyahu's evildoers still aren't quite in the same class as Churchill's. Great heros need great villains (a topic which is bothering people this week), and Churchill had one of the best. Netanyahu doesn't, not really, and while its certainly not his fault that he doesn't have a bigger military to have to stare down at a greater risk (nor, all but the most vehement anti-Netanyahu folks would acknowledge, something he or Sowell was wishing for), it also means you can't take too much from a Netanyahu-Churchill perspective: certainly not as much as Sowell is trying to here. Also, as has been discussed before, Churchill had no blueprint to work off of: he could hardly point back to Prime Minister Pelham-Holles and say "he stood up to Maximilian III Joseph". This was uncharted territory in the 1930s. Not so today, especially considering the very different situation between 1925 in the UK and 2015 in Israel. A better blueprint for Netanyahu would be the Oslo "Peace" Accords. As you may know, despite claims that Norway was a "Israeli lap dog", Israel came out of the Peace Accords with a completely useless agreement. The PLO violated them before the ink was dry which would have given Israel all the moral authority they needed to wipe the "Palestinian authoruty" off the map forever. (After all, useful idiots like Avi Shlaim were going to be upset no matter what Netanyahu does)
To link back to the Sowell piece, a paper document like what President Monkey has been chasing in Iran generally isn't worth the paper it's printed on.
Just recently, a State Department official in the Obama administration said that Americans have remained safe in a nuclear age, not because of our own nuclear arsenal but because “we created an intricate and essential system of treaties, laws, and agreements.”
If “treaties, laws, and agreements” produced peace, there would never have been a Second World War. The years leading up to that monumental catastrophe were filled with international treaties and arms control agreements.
Arafat was a liar, a terrorist, and a bad person to enter into good-faith negotiations with. Anybody who disagrees with this probably is dumb enough to also believe it isn't also true of terrorists like Ali Khamenei or Hassan Rouhani.
Sowell points out that standing armies, and threats of military intervention, are what keeps these wicked men under control. Assholes, as it were, fear getting fucked by dicks. It's reminiscint of the scene in Star Trek: Insurrection where Riker is being attacked by Sona ships using dangerous and illegal subspace weaponry.
PERIM: I thought subspace weapons were banned by the Khitomer Accord.
RIKER: Remind me to lodge a protest.
You can file a protest (the Chamberlain method) or you can build a war machine to wipe your enemies off the map (the Hitler method). If there's a middle ground somewhere, history has yet to find it.‡ Of course, history is of no interest to President Monkey, a small-minded and arrogant son-of-a-bitch who thinks that history, as much as he acknowledges it exists at all, exists to cause "ignorant" people reasons to laugh at or denounce his ridiculous policies. To him and his far-left ilk, history is simply an unfortunate world in which right-wing and British/American policies are demonstrated to be true and better time and time again.
‡ If there is another way, the answer may -- surprise surprise -- also come from Star Trek. Read the Chekov stories in this novel for a clue.
Thomas Sowell knows better. Benjamin Netanyahu knows better. President Monkey doesn't. And that's why only two of them are worth ever listening to about foreign policy.
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Recently Starbucks has tried to "introduce race conversations" into their coffee transactions, from writing #RaceTogether on cups (which conservatives have shamed them into giving up) to handing out little surveys to try and white-guilt their liberal customer base.
So far, this is only happening in the chain's U.S. stores, it hasn't come to Canada. Of course, Canada already has a venerable coffee-selling institution: Tim Horton's. So what happened if Timmys started handing out surveys too? I have a sample survey below. (click to view full-sized)
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The 2014-2015 season is winding down, and since the Oilers are such a humiliating disaster that they can't even figure out how to lose properly, I figure now's a great time to change the subject.
So, uh, hey, how about that goal differential?
Goal differential, for those who don't know already, is just the difference between goals-for and goals-against. Before Corsi and Fenwick were all the rage, it was how amateur sabremeticians in the hockey world evaluated whether or not a team was getting the standings points it "deserved". In general, a high goal differential spells success. Here's a quick chart of the goal differential per team. The teams are arranged based on their current point in the league standings.
(Since the season isn't over yet, you could be pedantic and insist that goal differential be normalized to account for variations in games played to date. It looks almost exactly the same, calm down)
So having said that, let's (temporarily) ignore the standings and just look at goal differential as if that was the be-all and end-all of the hockey world. These teams fairly nicely break up into groups, so let's take a look at them.
Group A: The crème de la crème:
This group has some of the top ranked teams in the league with the NY Rangers (2, +52), Tampa (4,+51), St. Louis (3,+44) and Chicago (7,+43). You may notice that there's a decent dropoff between the top two and bottom two teams within this tier as well. The Rangers seem to have come out of nowhere to reclaim top spot in the standings, and now we see why. St. Louis and Chicago are the midwest powerhouses, and Tampa Bay has been putting together a solid little run partly due to their insanely good home record: their the only team to have 30 home wins so far.
Group B: These guys are good:
Our second group features Montreal (1,+33), Nashville (6,+33), Washington (13,+32) and Minnesota (10,+28). Montreal has the freakish Carey Price to thank for their win-loss record, and we see another piece of evidence that the first overall team isn't really that first overall (their Fenwick-close, of course, being the main one). Nashville had that amazing start to the season that's cooled off but still left them as a top team), and both Washington and Minnesota score rather well here given their position in the standings -- particularly Washington in the weakling eastern division. Minnesota, of course, has Devan Dubnyk to thank for their ability to sneak up with a mediocre differential.
Group C: If this was higher, we wouldn't fret about making the playoffs:
This group features Calgary (15,+23), Ottawa (17,+22), Brooklyn (8,+21), and Pittsburgh (9,+21). With the exception of Calgary, the freaky weird nobody believes they belong here band of misfits, these numbers you think should have these guys nimbly holding onto a playoff spot, which of course these all are.
Group D: We don't play like we're supposed to:
Group D brings us some of the 2014-2015 NHL misfits. Let's introduce Vancouver (12,+16), LA (16,+14), Detroit (11,+13), Winnipeg (14,+12), and Anaheim (5,+8). Vancouver and Detroit have been sorta-strong performers in their conferences all year with Vancouver and Calgary oddly doing a dance together in the standings since about November 20th. Detroit and Winnipeg are the strong "whoa, who knew they would be this going" teams for their respective conferences, and here's the LA Kings pretending to run with the big boys as they looked poised to, beleive it or not, actually miss the playoffs. Add in the other weirdo California team in Anaheim, who has parlayed a historic run of skiluk (a word I just made up because nobody is sure if its skill or luck) involving their record in one-goal games.
Group E: Wait, you are supposed to score more than the other team?
Next up are Boston (18,+3), Dallas (19,-5), San Jose (22,-5), and Colorado (21,-8). All of them are pretty close to even-steven in the goal differential department, and all of them are having what could charitably be described as disappointing seasons. Boston and Dallas were expected to run roughshod over their competition this season, and that just hasn't panned out mostly due to troubles between the pipes. The other other weirdo California team, the perpetually Captain-less San Jose Sharks, need to win six of their next nine just to pass where Winnipeg holds down the last wild card spot today. Colorado, meanwhile, continues the "no, Patrick Roy isn't the greatest coach in history" season in earnest.
Group F: Keeping their fingers crossed for the Draft Lottery:
Okay, now we're really descending rapidly into the basement. After Colorado comes a 13 goal dropoff to our next group which is Florida (20,-21), New Jersey (24,-22), Philadelphia (23,-23), Columbus (25,-30), and Carolina (-26,-34). All of these eastern conference teams are just flat out bad, and in need of serious repairs going into next season. Florida didn't quite get the performance out of Roberto Luongo they had hoped for: he sits ranked 14th in goaltenders SV% which isn't what you pay his contract out for. New Jersey, meanwhile, is getting everything out of Lou's old teammate Corey Schneider† they asked for (he's 3rd in SV% behind Carey Price and Devan *spit* Dubnyk). Now if only they could score a goal from time to time.
† Are you allowed to refer to one of these goalies now without mentioning the other one? I don't think so: regardless, their stories match up pretty well.
Group G: Just plain fucking terrible:
This group has only one member: the Toronto Maple Leafs (27,-44). Their goal differential is as far away from Boston's as Boston's is from the New York Rangers.
Group H: Absolutely fucking terrible:
Again, only one member in this group: the goal differntial difference between the Edmonton Oilers (28,-78) and the Winnipeg Jets is so huge, that if Toronto had that extra 90 goals on the season they'd be third in the league behind New York and Tampa Bay.
Group I: Unbelievably terrible. Like, cartoonishly terrible:
And they keep getting even worse! Welcome to Phoenix (29,-92), the other team to give away Devan Dubnyk, and it shows.
Group J: Every night I masturbate dreaming I was as good as Edmonton:
Finally, the group where Group I seems a dreamy pie-in-the-sky achievement. Buffalo (30,-107) is further behind Toronto than Dallas is behind Minnesota and Calgary combined. Buffalo is on par to have a -120 goal differential by the end of the season. The bottom of the league doesn't break into categories easily, since the distances just get more and more vast. But here Buffalo sits.
Enjoy either McDavid or Eichel, my friends. You totally deserve it.
The worst thing? This is probably ranked somewhere around 53,310 in the list of weird British things you'll find with a map.
Was "Colonel" "Tom Parker", the famous manager of Elvis Presley, a murderer on the run?
The Smithsonian makes a pretty convincing case.
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The Harper Conservatives, let's all remember, are about to be wiped out in Edmonton due to their failure to secure Expo funding.
Hey, remember Expo? That's that big expensive event that probably would get 1/100th the coverage of Crashed Ice.
Don't forget to bookmark this post so that after the next federal election (likely later this year) we can test Paul Marck's genius theory.
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A report into the "missing plane" from last year has been completed and an interim copy released.
The biggest bombshell? The great expense in hunting for the plane's locator was all for naught: the battery expired a year before the plane even took off.
You can read the actual report here, if you don't want to read through media (or my) reports.
I haven't really written about this stupid plane before: when it was the big worldwide story last year I didn't pay it a lot of attention. I knew the basics, which the report covers fairly nicely (if a bit technical, for those who don't remember playing Flight Simulator back in the day).
The disappearance of the radar position symbol of MH370 was captured by the KL ATCC radar at time 1721:13 UTC [0121:13 MYT]. Military radar and radar sources from two other countries, namely Vietnam and Thailand, also captured the disappearance of the radar position symbol of MH370 at about the same time.
This would be the infamous disappearance of the plane. At first blush, this would have seemed to be where the plane went down, but of course we know now that the story was much more complicated.
At 1721:13 UTC [0121:13 MYT] the Military radar showed the radar return of MH370 turning right but almost immediately making a constant left turn to a South Westerly direction.
At 1730:35 UTC [0130:35 MYT] to 1735UTC [0135 MYT] the radar return was on heading 231 magnetic (M), ground speed of 496 knots (kt.) and registered height of 35,700 ft.
At 1736 UTC [0136 MYT to 1736:40 UTC [0136:40 MYT] heading was 237M, ground speed fluctuation between 494 and 525 kt. and height fluctuation between 31,100 and 33,000 ft.
At 1739:59 UTC [0139:59 MYT] heading was 244M, ground speed 529 kt. and height at 32,800 ft.
At 1752:35 UTC [0152:35 MYT] radar return was observed to be slightly south of Penang Island.
It was noted by the Investigation Team that the position and heading of the radar return from both Civilian and Military Radar, suggested that it was from the same target.
After the last radar return disappeared from KL ATCC Primary Radar at 1752:35 UTC [0152:35 MYT], the Military Radar continued to track this radar return as it headed towards Pulau Perak, a small island over the Straits of Malacca. The time registered over Pulau Perak was 1802:59 UTC [0202:59].
The tracking by the Military continued as the radar return was observed to be heading towards waypoint MEKAR, a waypoint on Airways N571 when it disappeared abruptly at 1822:12 UTC [0222:12 MYT],10 nautical miles (Nm) after waypoint MEKAR.
This would be the various military radars catching MH370 after its transponder was turned off and the plane "went dark". About this same time, the plane began jigging and assumed a new course, likely the southward route that led it deep into the Indian Ocean.
The report doesn't refer at all to some of the issues suspected with the pilot, Captain Zaharie Ahmad Shah. From the report:
The Captain’s ability to handle stress at work and home was good. There was no known history of apathy, anxiety, or irritability. There were no significant changes in his life style, interpersonal conflict or family stresses.
Versus reports in the New Zealand Herland and the NY Daily News:
But Shah was also seeing another woman — and that relationship was reportedly also in trouble, the friend said.
Investigators looking into the mysterious disappearance of the Beijing-bound Boeing 777 on March 8 are looking into the possibility that a suicidal Shah deliberately veered the plane off course at sent it hurtling into the Indian Ocean
It's unclear whether the report even is authorized to look into the details: the heading for this information is "Factual Information" and may, since the report isn't supposed to assign blame, be less interested in lurid details of the pilot's personal life. The report did note:
On studying the Captain’s behavioural pattern on CCTV recordings on the day of the flight and prior 3 flights there was no significant behavioural changes observed. On all the CCTV recordings the appearance was similar, i.e. well groomed and attired. The gait, posture, facial expressions and mannerism were his normal characteristics.
The plane is, as you might have expected, in good condition. There was a minor collision in Shanghai back in 2012, which was the only incident report filed against the vehicle.
A review of the Mandatory Occurrence Reports (MORs) for the B777 fleet raised by the Engineering & Maintenance Quality Assurance Department of MAS revealed that only one was raised for 9M-MRO, and this was related to the right wing tip damage stated above. A total of 77 MORs were raised for the MAS fleet of 17 B777 aircraft. MORs raised by the Quality Assurance department are primarily related to technical issues with the fleet. The average age of the B777 fleet as of 01 March 2014 was 14.35 years. 9M-MRO was 11.75 years old.
The report notes an interesting fact about the Emergency Locator beacons installed on modern aircraft:
A review of ICAO accident records over the last 30 years indicates that of the 257 accidents, only 39 cases recorded effective ELT activation. ELTs were carried in 173 of these cases. This implies that of the total accidents in which ELTs were carried, only 22.5% of the ELTs operated effectively
MH-370 had four ELTs installed: one in the roof of the aft passenger compartment, one portable one in a closet in the forward cabin, and two ELTs on two of the slides that turn into rafts in those cool graphics on the safety card you never look at anymore. The batteries for these ELTs were all good with expiration dates in November 2014 or later, for all the good they would do.
Even when the beacon and its antenna are functioning properly, signals may not be adequately transmitted to the Cospas-Sarsat satellites because of physical blockage from aircraft debris obstructing the beacon antenna or when the antenna is under water
The Cospas-Sarsat system does not provide a complete coverage of the earth at all times. As a consequence, beacons located outside the areas covered by these satellites at a given moment cannot be immediately detected, and must continue to transmit until a satellite passes overhead.
Cospas-Sarsat (that's not easy to say!) also doesn't detect anything other than the 406MHz distress signal, not the 121.5MHz one. Lower frequency waves in general travel further through the atmosphere than their high-frequency counterparts, meaning that tge 406MHZ signal is less likely to make it to the satellite in the first place.
The big part that the media has picked up on was the ULB (underwater beacons) that are supposed to direct rescue crews to the "black box". There are actually two "black boxes": the SSFDR (which records flight data) and the SSCVR (which records the pilots talking). Of these two, only the SSFDR battery expired (in December 2012) and likely hadn't been up to snuff when transmitting flight data. The SSCVR battery expired in June 2014 and should have been just fine. As per the report:
The SSCVR ULB battery however was replaced, as scheduled, with the next expiry in June 2014. There is some extra margin in the design to account for battery life variability and ensure that the unit will meet the minimum requirement. However, once beyond the expiry date, the ULB effectiveness decreases so it may operate, for a reduced time period until it finally discharges. While there is a definite possibility that a ULB, will operate past the expiry date on the device, it is not guaranteed that it will work or that it would meet the 30-day minimum requirement. There is also limited assurance that the nature of the signal (characteristics such as frequency and power) will remain within specification when battery voltage drops below the nominal 30-day level.
While it certainly wouldn't help that one of the two "black boxes" didn't have a fresh battery, it seems unlikely that the failure to detect any ULB signals can be blamed on the battery alone. In a brief Google search, I haven't found any instances where only one black box has been recovered, meaning that it's highly unlikely that the SSCVR "black box" -- which had a fresh battery -- wouldn't have been discoverable at the time its twin was unavailable. Oddly enough, it's a 9/11 conspiracy busting site (go figure) that has the most comprehensive single page outlying cases where black boxes haven't been recovered. There's never been a case where one could be found while another was lost. Hey, remember how I started off this post?
The great expense in hunting for the plane's locator was all for naught: the battery expired a year before the plane even took off
That fact was endlessly reported in the media: too bad it isn't true. Only one of the two locator batteries was expired. Expired batteries may have still performed. The story being passed off in the press doesn't match the (interim) report.
There is some other stuff of some note in the report. I don't recall hearing about this during the round-the-clock CNN wormhole coverage:
MAS holds an Air Service Licence (ASL) and Air Operators Certificate (AOC) for scheduled and non-scheduled operations. It was public listed in 1985 with the Government holding a golden share. At its peak, MAS was having an extensive network of operations with more than 100 destinations spanning over 5 continents around the world. The recession in 1994 affected the airline’s business significantly when the operations were drastically scaled down.
The airline’s performance for the last 5 years had been a subject of great interest as it had suffered financial losses. Competition from emerging Low-cost operators significantly contributed to the negative performance of the Company. MAS had in its fleet the A380, A330, B747-400, B777-200 and B737-400 and B737-800. Its subsidiaries Firefly & MASWings operates the ATR-72 plying most of the domestic network in Peninsular & East Malaysia
In spite of its scaled down operations it is still a fairy large organisation (Figure 1.17D below shows the Organisation Structure of MAS), with a staff strength of more than 20,000 employees.
All that we heard about in the wake of MH-370 (and the Ukranian missile incident, which of course is just a freak coincidence) was their above-average safety record. If the finances are mentioned, it's usually an aside into a story about the airline's future.
The report also mentions a couple interesting quirks regarding Air Traffic Control (ATC) activities on the day MH-370 disappeared.
The last radio transmission between KL ATCC and MH370 took place at 1719:30 UTC [0119:30 MYT]. A contact should have occurred at around 1722 UTC [0122 MYT] when passing the waypoint IGARI. The first DETRESFA11 message was transmitted by KL ARCC at 2232 UTC [0632 MYT].
Thus a total of 5 hours and 13 minutes had passed by between the last message expected from the crew and the transmission of the first message triggering the Distress Phase12. It was only at 0330 UTC [1130 MYT] on 08 Mach 2014 that Malaysian aircraft took off heading to the search areas.
As the ‘custodian’ of the airspace, the KL ATCC was the key witness to the event, having transferred MH370 to HCM ATCC 3 minutes before the estimated time of arrival (ETA) over the Transfer of Control Point13 (TCP).
The estimate14 of the aircraft for IGARI which was 1722 UTC [0122 MYT] had been passed to, by KL ATCC, and duly acknowledged by HCM ATCC, as stipulated in the Operational Letter of Agreement between DCA Malaysia and Viet Nam Air Traffic Management.
The Operational Letter of Agreement between DCA Malaysia and Viet Nam Air Traffic Management stipulated that “the accepting unit shall notify the transferring unit if two-way communication is not established within five (5) minutes of the estimated time over the TCP”.
At 1739:03 UTC [0139:03 MYT] HCM ATCC queried KL ATCC for news on the MH370.
After MH370 was transferred to HCM ATCC, the time of transfer was not recorded manually on the paper Flight Progress Strip as stipulated in MATS Part 2-Gen Section 11 FLIGHT PROGRESS STRIPS.
Is this big about the transfer between Kuala Lumper and Ho Chi Minh not being recorded onto strips thing important? Probably not, with the large deluge of paper supposed to be processed, it was probably just missed. In a single day at work I've probably "missed" 15-20 little paper pushing exercises and record keeping I just didn't do. It doesn't mean I've blown up a jet aircraft. It does, however, cause a problem for the search:
Event that followed was at time 1804:39 UTC [0204:39 MYT] KL ATCC Radar controller informed HCM ACC; “…reference to the company Malaysian Airlines the aircraft is still flying, is over somewhere over Cambodia”. And thirty one minutes later, at time1835:52 UTC [0235:52 MYT] MAS Operations Centre informed the position of the aircraft was at latitude N14.9 0000 and longitude E109 15500, which was somewhere east of Vietnam and this information was relayed to HCM ACC.
At 1930 UTC [0330 MYT] MAS Operations Centre called in and spoke to Radar controller, admitting that the information from the ‘flight tracker21’ was based on projection and could not be relied for actual positioning or search (Watch Supervisor logbook entry)
In retrospect, MH-370 appeared determined not to be found, so it's unlikely that this incident, though unfortunate, in any way impeded discovery of the plane. It gave them early inaccurate information about MH-370, but the later information was equally inaccurate.
The plane's cargo has also been scrutinized, particularly the Lithium Ion batteries that were on board.
The shipment did not go through secuirty screening in Penang but was inspected physically by MASKargo personnel and went through Custom’s inspection and clearance before the truck was sealed and allowed to leave the Penang Cargo Complex. The shipment arrived at KLIA Cargo Complex on the evening of 07 March 2014 before being loaded onto MH370 without going through additional security screening.
Both of the batteries were not regulated as Dangerous Goods because the packing adhered to the guidelines as per Lithium Battery Guidance Document (3. Section II - Packing Instructions 965-970). This document is based on the provisions set out in the 2013-2014 Edition of the ICAO Technical Instructions for Safe Transport of Dangerous Goods by Air and the 55th Edition of the IATA Dangerous Goods Regulations (DGR).
While the British press leaped on the batteries as dangerous, the IATA rules trump Fleet Street. Especially since, as anybody versed even remotely in IATA rules knows, they seriously error on the side of caution. If something isn't IATA Regulated, it's safer than baby oil (and yes, I did double check that baby oil doesn't have a UN number). The mangosteen fruit on-board, as you might guess, is also not dangerous.
There's only one non-appendix tidbit in the report left to cover, and it pretty much covers it all, doesn't it?
SECTION 1.19 – NEW INVESTIGATION TECHNIQUES
Not applicable at this stage of the investigation.
Conservative activist Steven Crowder has decided to put the ridiculous trannies in gyms controversy in the only sensible light.
The full video is coming out on Wednesday, but he has put up a teaser:
I hit a pretty cool Twitter milestone this week.
Today is "Pi Day". Of course, all you people texting and tweeting this are complete and miserable failures unless you did it precisely at 1:59:26am.
Red Bull Crashed Ice (or, "Red Bull Crushed Ice" as my coworker keeps annoyingly calling it) is coming to Edmonton for the first time ever this weekend.
I took a few photos of the track in progress last week, which I'll post below. But so far the big story has been the unseasonably warm weather and what the impact on the event might be.
Crashed Ice uses a refrigeration system to keep the track icy. I've seen a similar one in operation for the skating rink at Rockefeller Centre in New York City. When I was there in 2013, people were able to skate despite it being +22 degrees Celsius on December 22nd. Having seen the system "plugged into" the course, I wasn't remotely worried about the ice conditions, but a lot of people were.
Oh calm down everyone, Edmonton is basically the coldest city on the planet. Crashed Ice has been in Germany, Holland, and Northern Ireland so they've had to deal with warm weather before. You might think that, at first glance, but it turns out not to be true. Yes Crashed Ice has been to Valkenburg, Niagara Falls, and Lausanne. They had events in Munich (which is, it's worth noting, at Edmonton's latitude). But they've also been in Moscow, Helsinki, and Sweden. Their U.S. stop was in Minnesota which isn't exactly known for balmy winter weather.
So the question is, what's the temperature typically at for a Crashed Ice event? I went through and actually figured out the answer to the question:
Note a couple caveats: I picked the daytime high for each day that Red Bull Crashed Ice took place. Since the events take place in the evening, the actual temperature at racetime will almost certainly be lower. It does indicate what the track would be like. I also had to use the value for Trondheim, Norway for the Åre event in February 2012, since Åre doesn't have any historical data available (all figures are from weatherunderground.com). Landgraaf Netherlands in 2013 hosted a Crashed Ice event on Saturday February 9th, however no temperature data is archived for that day: I used the high on Friday February 8th instead. Finally, obviously, Edmonton is still just a forecast: I picked the forecasted high of +15 for Friday. The Saturday high is only +12.
Edmonton is the hottest temperature in Red Bull Crashed Ice history.
It's funny, but there it is: never since Crashed Ice started running in 2010 has there been a daytime high for an event above +11. The lowest temperature was of course Moscow, but St. Paul was right on their tail.
If the forecast holds, Edmonton will be setting a new Crashed Ice record on the thermometer, even if the crowds don't.
(click any of these pictures to view full-sized)
Update, 3:57pm: CTV weatherman Josh Classen notes that before 2010 Red Bull did do Crashed Ice-style events on a smaller scale.
@FACLC yep! it's also only the "World Championships" era. there are single run events dating back to 2001.
— Josh Classen (@joshclassenCTV) March 13, 2015
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Grantland's Michael Baumann doesn't like how the Chicago Cubs are treating Kris Bryant.
Okay, strictly speaking it's about the MLBPA's chief Tony Clark objecting to how the Cubbies are treating Kris Bryant, which is to say...treating him exactly like every team treats every rookie.
Which brings us to why Clark is all cheesed off. It’s widely accepted that even if Bryant proves this spring that he’s ready to break camp with the major league club, the Cubs will send him down to Triple-A for a few weeks. That’s because if, at the end of the 2020 season, Bryant has accrued six years of service time, he’ll be able to become a free agent, but if he’s accrued five years and 171 days of service time, he won’t, allowing the Cubs to control him for another year.
Holding back Bryant this April will give the Cubs another prime year from their blue-chipper at the cost of missing his bat for only a few early weeks in a season in which they might not contend anyway. From a business standpoint, it’s a no-brainer.
From a fan standpoint, it's equally a no-brainer. The Baumann/Clark objection here, that the Cubs aren't going to "burn up" a year of Bryant's entry level contract, is a familiar one to Edmonton Oilers fans. We've been complaining about management burning up ELCs for years, from Taylor Hall† to Ryan Nugent-Hopkins to Nail Yakupov...and those are just first overall picks! To say nothing of the folly of burning a year's eligibility on Magnus Paajarvi, Jeff Petry, Leon Draisaitl, etc. "Don't burn ELCs when you're going to finish last in the league" says Oilers blogger Derek Zona, which is advise that Cubs fans probably are taking to heart.
†Bonus line from Brownlee about why he's glad Hall's ELC got "burned up": after four straight seasons out of the playoffs, telling Hall and Paajarvi to wait a year as part of the big picture might be a tough sell for the majority of fans. With the Oilers just adding a ninth playoff missing season, I'm not sure fans are as happy watching Taylor Hall have to play losing hockey for half a decade as Brownlee suspects.
The NHL salary cap is a major factor to consider, though. Unlike the Edmonton Oilers, if the Chicago Cubs discover in 2021 that their payroll has ballooned to $120M and they've only signed 30 players, they can just spend another X million on the 10 players they still need to sign. If X happens to be another $120M, so be it. The ultimate impact is on the bottom line of the team, which is the most profitable in the Majors. It's different in a salary cap league, where if the Oilers discover 15 guys have eaten up $60M in salary (well, cap space, specifically, but let's not get confusing here) they only have $9M left to sign the remaining 5 spots, meaning those last 5 spots have to average $555,000 a year where the league minimum is $550,000 ($575,000 next season). In other words, they'll have to fill those spots with the worst players available. The Cubs don't.
Regardless, however, there is a real "salary cap" in the form of the revenue generated by the Cubs organization to fund the payroll. So therefore Cubs fans, knowing that they can't just sign the 40 best players in baseball and be done with it, have to realize that the more money a player makes with the organization, the less in in the kitty to go and get other good players to play with him. For Cubs fans, this is the important consideration. They may be Bryant fans now because the 6'5" third baseman is with their team, but that's the main motivation. Few Cubs/Bryant fans today will be Cubs/Bryant fans when he moves to another team [assuming he does, which isn't something you can say for sure about Bryants -ed], so in a battle between their loyalties the Cubbies will win every time [which isn't something you can say for sure about Cubs -ed]. Michael Baumann tries to make the argument that fans should be rooting for Bryant or the MLBPA because of the Major's protected legal status, but his moralistic argument is impeded by his massive factual error:
Believing that professional athletes make too much money is the logical equivalent of preferring for that money to remain in the hands of the owners — who are rich already, whom you don’t know, and who enrich themselves directly off your tax money — rather than in the hands of the players you love watching and whose labor is literally the only thing of value that the owners have to sell
The emphasis above is, of course, completely wrong. Owners of businesses, even ones with court-mandated legal monopolies, are not "enriching themselves off your tax money". That's the exclusive purview of public school teachers, government bureaucrats, etc. Baumann may be trying to mae a comment about sports teams trying to secure tax money for stadium construction, but again that argument isn't going to work for the Chicago Cubs. So no, those greedy owners aren't getting "your tax money".
Owners, like an oil company or your cable provider, are the middlemen you have to go through to access the thing you want. I don’t know anyone who roots for a cable company.
Grantland is the "middleman" to get the thing you want, in this case, something to read, but I digress.
But that’s why we have labor unions, right? Clark’s belated objection is nothing more than a union boss doing his job. Yet even so, the MLBPA, one of the most successful labor unions in the country, will almost certainly do nothing to end the exploitation of amateurs and minor leaguers, or the stunning underpayment of pre-arbitration players.
That’s because the money in baseball, though it comes in unimaginable quantities, is finite and divisible; and because the MLBPA comprises major league only players; and because its leadership tends to comprise mostly veterans. If the owners are willing to change the rules to open up free-agent expenditures in exchange for a worldwide draft and amateur spending caps, the union will sell out the kids and the amateurs faster than you can say “moral hazard.” Going to war over Bryant would mean spending either literal or social capital that the MLBPA could use to help current union members instead.
Ah, now we get to the crux of the matter: Baumann is trying to lay out a case for why the MLBPA needs to take action to stop the Cubs from leaving Kris Bryant in the minors even though there's literally no action they can take and while they totally want the thing to happen that's happening. None of the parties involved are breaking the rules, Baumann admits, but thinks that acting within those rules (these are commonly dismissed as "loopholes" but in this case even that bit of rhetoric is too strong) is something that a union President, who has a signed agreement with the owners determining what those rules are, should be upset about. Said union President is even upset about it!
But he has no real grounds to be upset. And if you're a Cubs fan hoping that your team will be competitive in 3-8 years (you could be hoping for this year, but you're a Cubs fan, not crazy), you absolutely should love this news. Even if you also love Bryant.
The Windsor Library camgirl has been arrested and charged with performing an indecent act.
People are outraged that she performed lewd sex acts in front of children at a local library, instead of an elementary school like she's supposed to.
If you don't use Micro$oft, you still need to FR3AK
What's your first impression from this Financial Post story?
First you'd see the headline: "Microsoft Corp warns ‘Freak’ security bug leaves hundreds of millions of PC users vulnerable"
You might make your way to the opening paragraph, though, where you'd read that the "FREAK" security bug was initially thought to "only threaten mobile devices and Mac computers".
That's good, because the FREAK bug totally impacts every single modern communications device on the planet.
News of the vulnerability surfaced on Tuesday when a group of nine security experts disclosed that ubiquitous Internet encryption technology could make devices running Apple Inc’s iOS and Mac operating systems, along with Google Inc’s Android browser vulnerable to cyberattacks.
Microsoft released a security advisory on Thursday warning customers that their PCs were also vulnerable to the “Freak” vulnerability.
The weakness could allow attacks on PCs that connect with Web servers configured to use encryption technology intentionally weakened to comply with U.S. government regulations banning exports of the strongest encryption.
If hackers are successful, they could spy on communications as well as infect PCs with malicious software, the researchers who uncovered the threat said on Tuesday.
So the Financial Post didn't do too badly about the news about FREAK and Microsoft.
Unfortunately, they were seemingly in the minority. Kelowna Now's headline reads "PC Users Left Vulnerable by Security Flaw" and at no point in the article does it mention non-Microsoft products are impacted. The Christianity Today headline says "FREAK bug: Microsoft issues security warning on latest bug for Windows OS users" and you have to make it to paragraph three before you find out that Android, Blackberry, and Apple devices are also impacted. Global TV News says "‘FREAK’ security flaw affecting Microsoft PCs" with the opening paragraph implying the problem is exclusive to Microsoft before spilling the beans a couple paragraphs down. Maine News Online also waits until paragraph three to mention the FREAK bug's long reach, sticking to "Microsoft warns Windows PC users about ‘FREAK’ vulnerability" as it's headline. very few sites, such as Tech Week Europe have both headlines and opening paragraphs that explain the bug well.
Why is this a big deal, you ask? Easy: the casual reader, especially the kind who don't use Microsoft products (your low-info tech people), are going to see articles like this and be convinced that they're immune from the FREAK bug, a worldwide SSL exploit that impacts all devices.
When Zine Report puts a giant "Microsoft" photo on with it's article, it gives people the inaccurate impression. When we're dealing with a software vulnerability such as FREAK, it's a dangerous tactic that gives some of the most impacted users (clueless smartphone owners) a chance to unwittingly expose themselves to the flaw.
If you're going to write this story, you should really invest in a headline like "Microsoft joins Apple, Android as tech giants impacted by FREAK bug", along with a picture of a computer chip or a keyboard or a person using an electronic device. Microsoft did announce it was vulnerable, yes that is news. But it's only part of a larger story, and one that much of the audience may not have been listening to. Framing the story like this means fewer of them will.
The Tories backtrack on Bill 10 -- backwards into the filth
Faggot-Familiar Alliances are coming to schools
On Tuesday Education Minister Gordon Dirks announced that he would be altering the infamous Bill 10 to require all public schools in the province to endorse the advocacy groups that teach your children sodomy is cool, rather than the sick demented lifestyle choice that it is.
It immediately garnered all the support by the sickos who promoted Faggot-Familiar Alliances over the past six years (six years which, I stress, I was at the forefront warning you against). Ben Henderson's wife started lying pretty much the moment a microphone was stuck in her face:
Today’s announcement is a victory for safety and inclusivity, and proof of the value of an effective Liberal opposition,” said Blakeman.
Last April with Motion 503, Alberta Liberals began the fight for Gay-Straight Alliances in any school where they are needed. When the PCs voted down that motion it prompted a backlash that they never expected. They underestimated the progressive, and inclusive values that Martha and Henry’s children hold dear.
Faggot-Familiar Alliances are never needed: they are a political advocacy organization that the sick and immoral 2% of the population requires so they don't fatally despair themselves over the truth of the lifestyle they've succumbed to. As for the backlash, that's where the Familiars come in. Remember, there aren't many faggots, it's their enablers, the Familiars, who are the root of the problem, and they're just as immoral and just in need of being stopped -- by any means necessary -- as the faggots themselves. Blakeman only the most public face of these sick weirdos.
We understood those values because they are our values, progressive values. So we brought forward Bill 202, the most comprehensive bill to protect the LGBTQ community that this province has ever seen. While the PCs used cynical political tactics to kill Bill 202 before it ever could be debated, we again saw an inspiring backlash at their regressive alternative, Bill 10.
Blakeman just keeps lying here. Bill 10 was Bill 202 in basically every single aspect. There was nothing to distinguish them save a minor passage about requiring courts to stop principals who wished to do the right thing and tell the little fudge packers to take a hike.
So now Bill 10 is coming, just as I warned you (noticing a pattern here? the pro-uranist lifestyle moves and I'm here to warn you, to help you stop them. Neglect that at your own peril). Now, schools are required to give these groups that expressly push their political agenda special recognition. Principals are forbidden by law to deny a Faggot-Familiar Alliance, yet if you decide you want to start an anti-poofter group in schools, you can be denied official promotion and recognition eight ways from Sunday. If you want to start a pro-life group, you can be denied. If you want to start a chess club, official recognition can be denied.
If you're a pillow biter, though, your club has special rights and privileges written into provincial law.
But hey, Faggot-Familiar Alliances aren't "political" or anything, remember? Sure, they demanded special government legislation, and spoke out in favour of said legislation, and oppose other legislation, but when was something like that political?
And just in time for this sudden betrayal by the ruling Progressive Conservatives came the "Rocky Mountain Civil Liberties" society (which apparently thinks that denying those who speak the truth about the sick lifeless lifestyle of sodomy the chance to express themselves and promoting a political organization in public schools against parental and taxpayer wishes is a "civil liberty") published a ridiculous push poll by sodomite activist Austin Bender that found that citizens were in favour of Faggot-Familiar Alliances.
But were they? Mrs. Laurie Henderson wasn't the only pro-uranist activist willing to tell lies about the demented agenda that Faggot-Familiar Alliances would be pushing in schools. Metro Newspapers, led by sodomite columnist Mike Morrison, did nothing but tell lies and half-truths about Faggot-Familiar Alliances. A full double-page spread in Metro was "people talking" about FFAs, and not a single one of them wasn't a far-left pro-sodomite. Likewise Global Edmonton, which hosted sodomite University of Alberta coward Kristopher Wells almost daily to lisp his sssssupport for thissss propossssthed legisssthlation, and the Edmonton Journal which like Metro gave endless support for those in favour of these sick groups. You know, of course, what the CBC was up to this whole time.
Did they give any time for those who opposed? The SUN chain gave column-inches scraps to Bishop Henry in Calgary, and even he only opposed Catholics endorsing these faggy little clubs, he gave not even lip service to the parents who don't want this immoral agenda being given special privileges in public schools. Otherwise, not a word of anybody in the media who didn't like Faggot-Familiar Alliances or didn't want them to be given special treatment. The Edmonton Journal wouldn't even publish any critical letters. If you were following the media, you'd be unaware that parents rejected these groups that had twice been defeated in the Legislative Assembly. Media outlets talked up that the groups were "voluntary", which is supposed to be the consolation, without noting that all student groups are voluntary, but that Bill 10 (or Bill 202, they were essentially identical) exclusively gave these faggy little clubs the power to compel principals and school boards to recognize them. That plenty of FFAs were formed (and even recognized!) without legislation compelling principals to do so was also glossed over.
Bill 10 was a horrible piece of legislation, really, and now it's been made even worse, without even the safeguards that permit parents even the smallest amount of autonomy over the immoral garbage being fed to their kids. Why? In part because of the push poll by the Rocky Mountain Civil Liberties group, which found that 80% of people polled, when first told all the Blakeman/Wells lies about Faggot-Familiar Alliances said that they thought they should be allowed in schools (which, as you know, they already were). Even then, 20% were opposed which is pretty good considering how loaded the questions were to begin with. For reference's sake, that means those opposed to the fairy-tale (pun intended) FFAs described by the media still outnumber the homos 10-to-1. Now you know why I devote such energy to confronting the idiocy of the familiars! (It doesn't hurt that they're pretty mush-brained and it won't take much pushing to get them back on the side of right). Imagine what it would be if Faggot-Familiar Alliances were noted to be advocacy groups, asking for a special right not available to any other group, and being guaranteed official recognition no matter their conduct? Also worth noting is that less than half still were okay with these groups forming in private schools.
So what comes next?
If you've read this blog before, you know what comes next. Don't back down. Don't give ground. And above all, don't give the faggots what they are trying to get with this legislation, which is quiet acceptance. Still feel free, when you see some kid who's a poofter, to tell him that he's immoral, that his "feelings" are false, that he's not yet normal and he should be. Don't let these irrational fears of teen suicides disuade you. Kids commit suicide for the stupidest of reasons, and if they cannot handle being told the truth about their incorrect lifestyle choice, that's hardly the fault of the person telling them. It's another symptom of the mental disease that caused them to choose this lifestyle in the first place. You don't cure a disease by pretending it doesn't exist: you attack it.
Don't let Faggot-Familiar Alliances get away with the "GSA" moniker. They are illegitimate groups of both poofters and the idiots who bought into their spin. Tell them this every day. Form groups opposed to them. Tell your school you don't want them to recognize it. Make this law not worth the paper it's printed on. Once the poofters go on the defensive, the familiars won't be so quick to back them up.
Faggots are trying to change the conversation. No. They're the ones who need to change, and if you stand still they will either change, or go away.
Either way, victory is still attainable, but much work and vigilance will still be required: don't think that they are done pushing their agenda. Don't let a single battle dissuade you from the cause of right.
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Jeremy Clarkson, the car-loving BBC version of Don Cherry, has been suspended by the Beeb.
Clarkson apparently had an argument with a producer over an incident where he recited the common nursary rhyme:
Eeny, meeny, mynie, mo
Catch a nigger by the toe
If he hollers let him go
Eeny, meeny, mynie, mo.
As per the Guardian, Clarkson mumbled through the immortal second line of the song, but that wasn't good enough for the diversity enforcers. Anti-liberty activist Aliya Mohammed declared "racism is illegal".
Possibly related: Clarkson is in negotiations for a new contract with the BBC, and Clarkson's company made about $1.2M in profits last year despite selling the rights to Top Gear to the BBC for almost $10M a few years back.
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Don Martin, the former Calgary Herald columnist Edmonton businessman and one-time Wildrose Alliance candidate, announced on Monday that he had been barred from the Progressive Conservative nomination in Edmonton-Decore.
Balraj Manhas, a cab union president, was also told he was required to drop out of the race in Edmonton-Ellerslie. Manhas didn't have much to say on his forced removal except that it seemed to be on technical grounds:
Manhas said 25 signatures were required from members to allow him to run and he says he supplied 30.
“They asked me to pull out or they said they would put in the public that I was disqualified or something like that,” he said. “I only had a few minutes to decide.
Manhas reluctantly pulled out. He said he’d sent another email Monday morning inquiring for more information about why he would have been disqualified but hadn’t received a response.
“I need an answer from the party...if they open the nominations it should be fair for everybody,” he said. “If they don’t want to open the nominations, that’s fine.”
Manhas being barred may be related to this story from May of last year where Manhas attacked the City of Edmonton's Vehicle for Hire Industry Advisory Group. As per the SUN story, his own organization (United Cabbies Association) didn't like how drivers and owners weren't permitted onto the advisory group and that the meetings were closed-door.
When asked about the closed-door nature of the group's meetings, city staff explained that because the group is simply there to provide expert advise to the executive committee and not make binding decisions, it does not have to meet in public. The public, staff explained, can voice concerns about the industry at the committee meetings held at city hall.
It was also mentioned that Manhas' organization was somewhat ad-hoc and repeated requests for his membership list or terms of reference have been denied.
Manhas said his members are afraid their jobs could be at risk if their names are given to the city and become available to license owners. Meanwhile, he said licences are being sold on the black market for up to $200,000 while the industry remains without a watchdog.
Seems so long ago, the pre-Uber days, don't they?
Unlike Manhas, though, Don Martin isn't keeping remotely mum about the details.
On Friday March 6th 2015, hours before the Edmonton-Decore nomination, at around 6 pm I was given notice that I was disqualified as a Progressive Conservative Party nomination candidate for the provincial riding of Edmonton-Decore. I received a call from the Executive Director, Kelley Charlebois informing me of this disqualification. According to Mr. Charlebois an affidavit outlining misconduct on my part had been sworn, the contents of the document had been shared with the nominating committee, and that the committee had voted to disqualify me as a candidate.
Mr. Charlebois, when notifying me of this disqualification, exhibited highly irregular behavior. At the time he phoned me he briefly made me aware that the affidavit had been sworn, and then issued me an ultimatum – withdraw voluntarily within 5 minutes or a press release would be issued stating that I had been disqualified. Since I had not seen the affidavit, since the author was, and still remains unknown to me, and since I regarded Mr. Charlebois, actions akin to a Star Chamber proceeding, and morally equivalent to blackmail, I declined to withdraw.
It is my position that I was being asked to accept a finding misconduct that was completely unverifiable. Mr. Charlebois, in response to my statement on blackmail, immediately stated that we had no more to discuss and notified me that the press release stating that I was disqualified would be released. For reasons unexplained an unusual, he then phoned me back several minutes later in an attempt to somehow rationalize to me that his actions did not constitute blackmail, coercion, or otherwise. When I restated my disagreement with his actions he again hung up stating that he had nothing further to say to me. It would appear that despite using similar tactics, with affidavits of possibly dubious nature in the nomination contest in Edmonton-Ellerslie, he is not quite comfortable with this script yet.
At this time I am unaware of who swore the affidavit. I was also, at no time offered the chance to review the contents of the affidavit, nor given the opportunity to find out who swore the affidavit. Also an actual copy of the affidavit, to my knowledge, was at no time shared with the nominating committee. In fact it is my understanding, at this time, that Mr. Charlebois merely communicated his understanding of contents of the affidavit to the committee. At no time was I allowed to defend, explain, nor was I even aware of the existence of the affidavit prior to it being shared with the nominating committee.
As of today, I have still not seen the affidavit, nor am I aware of its contents or its author. Indeed, aside from oral statements made by Mr. Charlebois there is no actual physical proof, to me at this time, of its existence.
It is my opinion, in a fair and just democracy, that persons accused have reasonable right to recourse as well as the right to face their accusers. It is also my opinion that prior to submitting this affidavit to the nomination committee that the party had a moral obligation to consult with me in a private manner regarding whatever contents are in that document, if it exists, before a decision was made. I should have also been afforded the right to submit any explanation or evidence, as it may or may not be needed, to the nomination committee.
On the morning of Saturday, March the 7th, my campaign team sorrowfully labored in informing more than 400+ supporters that their choice in who would be their nominated PC party candidate would be deprived, along with their right as party members and supporters to cast a ballot. It was disheartening to witness the many new Canadians on my team, born in countries where there are minimal if any democratic rights to vote, contacting their friends and peers to inform them that their opportunity to vote had been taken away from them. When pressed for an explanation, all they could offer is that this was due to some backroom proceeding that neither they nor I understood. Many volunteers on my team are community leaders from visible minority communities; a beautiful cross-section of cultures, religions, and backgrounds. I was humbled that they were and remain willing to support me; I am morally outraged that they have been disenfranchised.
The next logical step will be to obtain this affidavit and to learn the identity and motivations of its author. I will be pursuing this course of action using whatever resources necessary. I hope while doing so I will have the co-operation of our party. At this time I do not believe that what occurred was done with the knowledge of the leader of our party, but rather a small, cohort of persons with motives unknown at this time. There have been numerous nomination irregularities throughout the last month or so - Edmonton-Ellerslie, Calgary-Cross, Calgary-Cross, Calgary-McCall, and Sturgeon-St. Albert have also had highly irregular nomination contests indicative of a power struggle within. The rank and file grassroots are suffering for it and are being used as pawns.
I am not certain how events will unfold going forward; however, I will not allow what has occurred to stand on merits of some empty threat over a telephone. I am fully prepared to be honest and upfront regarding anything that emerges. I challenge those who would dare to deprive their own members due process and the right to vote to do the same.
Martin doesn't disclose what that misconduct is: either he doesn't know, which means Charlebois is probably taking action on misconduct that didn't happen; he does know, which means Charlebois is taking action on misconduct that Martin is hoping the PC Party isn't too keen on disclosing publicly; or Don Martin is guilty of misconduct but he doesn't realize that he did it, either a disagreement over what the misconduct is or misconduct done by members of his campaign team without his knowledge.
If there is no misconduct, it's a witch hunt by Charlebois and company that doesn't want Martin in the party. Seeing how he's a former Wildrose guy, he's the sort of "big tent name" that you'd think the party would be happy to have. Hell, they had no problem with Chris LaBossiere, the far-left Alberta Party guy that decided he was interested in the reins of power after all. Why not Martin? If instead of Martin we were dealing with a small fish guy who carried baggage (LaBossiere or Manhas both fit that bill, you may note), you could see the PCs trumping up some charges to clear the way for the nominee they want. In this case though, the nominee is Janice Sarich, one of the leftish Red Tories who worked with the distasteful pukes over at Public Interest Alberta (ironically enough, in the "Democracy Task Force") and finds herself agreeing with David Eggen. She was part of the anti-Redford dissidents, and while likely a Prentice loyalist there's nothing there to hint that the PC leadership is that keen on her. Certainly not enough to risk what's happening now: public exposure of 'dirty pool' tactics, making false claims about misconduct in order to keep a 'bad guy' out who wasn't really that bad. You'd expect this sort of executive-level bungling during Stelmach or even Redford, but not Prentice.
If there is misconduct, and Don Martin knows about it, we certainly wouldn't expect anything from his Facebook post quoted above. He'd exclusively cover the good things about his work with the party and with his strength in the constituency, hoping that the negative press he was putting on the party made them more fearful of backlash over quashing his nomination than any backlash over letting somebody run who had conducted misconduct. This would be shades of Trudeau welcoming Eve Adams into the federal Liberal party: yes yes, Don Martin is guilty of some electoral misconduct, but he's a biggish-named Wildrose guy etc. etc. etc. The problem with this strategy is that despite what I wrote in the last section, Martin isn't a big enough "score" that he'd be worth bringing in despite nomination irregularities. Eve Adams is a sitting MP, Martin got 20% of the vote for Wildrose in the last election. I said above that Martin isn't bad enough to risk getting political flack for inventing charges, but here he's not good enough to risk getting political flack for ignoring misconduct. Moreover, surely Don Martin and/or his team are saavy enough to pick up on this. When a public spat like this is declared, it's because you're trying to force your opponent's hand. Charlebois's hand in this scenario is so amazingly strong he has no reason to fold. He's got a capable MLA already in the riding, and a newcomer who's been caught in misconduct. The only way out of this scenario for Martin is if the PCs don't want to say explicitly what the misconduct is: Maher Arar style, they're too worried that the misconduct can be easily replicated. Unlike Arar, which had national (and international!) security implications, this doesn't seem likely in a nomination battle in provincial politics.
If Don Martin took actions that the PCs consider misconduct and he does not, then we're in Jian Ghomeshi territory. And like Ghomeshi, that means that the Don Martin Facebook post can be gleaned for clues as to what the PC party considers misconduct that Martin thinks is perfectly justified and standard procedure. We're almost not talking about rough sex with pretty starlets here, but let's see how far the analogy spreads. The first thing I noticed when I looked at the post was that Don Martin, who's whiter than Eminem, suddenly thought to play the race card.
It was disheartening to witness the many new Canadians on my team, born in countries where there are minimal if any democratic rights to vote, contacting their friends and peers to inform them that their opportunity to vote had been taken away from them. When pressed for an explanation, all they could offer is that this was due to some backroom proceeding that neither they nor I understood. Many volunteers on my team are community leaders from visible minority communities; a beautiful cross-section of cultures, religions, and backgrounds. I was humbled that they were and remain willing to support me; I am morally outraged that they have been disenfranchised.
Was this because he actually was morally outraged that people who planned to vote for him had their option removed? Was there a particular reason that he had secured such a large ethnic vote? I can't say I'm familiar enough with Martin's 30+ years at the Calgary Herald years in the Edmonton business community to say whether he expressed or showed an intense interest with issues related to immigrants or minorities, so maybe the interest in his campaign stems from mutual respect and admiration, or maybe even a little quid pro quo. But what if the pro quo comes before the quid? What if the strong support from those "born in countries" other than Alberta, the same supporters who Martin specially highlights as important, are the reason for his ouster from the party? It wouldn't be the first time a Conservative candidate in the Edmonton area tried shady tricks and an ethnic bloc to gain a nomination, and if Martin wasn't breaking the rules as blatantly and publicly as Uppal then it might explain why we're only learning of this now. It's also quite possible that Martin was bending rather than breaking those rules, and that the fine line between "bend" and "break" (which is more of a fuzzy smear akin to where electrons are) is interpreted differently whether your name is Don Martin or Kelley Charlebois. Similar struggles impacted the Liberal Party of Canada in Vancouver South in November, so we aren't really talking too deep into the realm of fiction. And like Ghomeshi with the "kinky sex that people may dislike" defense, it may be that the "morally outraged about disenfranchising" bit takes one element of the truth and spins it in a way that paints the ousted party as the victim, the target of the wrath of a cruel organization, making the ousting itself repugnant. There may well be other instances where Martin's campaign did some rule-bending that is now being admonished as worthy of disqualification, and that there is no hint of them in Martin's Facebook posting, though the odd devotion to the ethnic community line does set off my spidey-senses.
Finally, if Don Martin's campaign team is guilty of misconduct he was unaware of, the situation starts to get murky. For one, it means that Don Martin doesn't "control his people", which you would think isn't the worst sin in the world but when it comes to political staffers is a damning indictment. The guy running for office, like the captain of a starship, is responsible for the conduct of the men and women under his command. It also explains Don Martin's confusion over why everything was blowing up, why he posted the Facebook posting, and possibly why Charlebois wanted him to quit outright and not release the details of the affidavit. In his Facebook post, Martin asks why he's not being allowed the opportunity to face his accuser. If this is the scenario, then Martin has no accusers, at least not as such. The affidavit could very easily be one of Martin's own campaign team, or somebody in the party who found it fishy. It's possible that Charlebois didn't want to divulge too much info about who reported whom, and also that the plan was to see what Martin knew. If it was, it's obviously a misjudge on Charlebois and the Progressive Conservative Party's part, the whole incident is still blowing up in their face.
So which of these scenarios is true? At the moment, we don't know and perhaps never shall. The charges against Uppal were much more public than the ones against Martin, and Uppal still has more than enough defenders. It's quite possible that more information over the next few days will start to "firm up" some of the uncertainty here. There may still be a flip-flop by the Progressive Conservatives, and if it's scenario one or four watch that flip-flop be in the form of trying to parachute Martin into a neighbouring constituency such as Edmonton-Beverly-Clareview, where he ran for Wildrose in 2012 (currently held by the New Democrats). If the charges by the Progressive Conservatives hold up, or partially hold up, or don't reveal anything that Martin can disprove, it could be back to the Wildrose. Or the a newspaper. Or everything is forgiven when a new leader replaces Prentice.
Update, March 11 2015, 6:01am: This would be the Don Martin the Edmonton businessman, not the Don Martin Herald reporter.
Cultural differences can be a killer. This is why this story about Jackie Chan hurts the brain so much.
It seems that a recent "parliamentary" session will feature Chan (he's been part of the assembly apparently as payback to get his movies endorsed to 1.2 billion possible audience members), and to show their satisfaction with the ruling body they have been...endlessly playing an old commercial where he made the sound "duang".
What does "duang" mean in Chinese? Special effects, apparently, though it seems to make no difference to the meme in question. He said "duang" once, so people are making mashups of it over and over to show they're upset that the organization that Chan is in is meeting ineffectually.
How does that work? Beats me. I wonder if China gets #PrenticeBlamesAlbertans.
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Bert Schramm's Diary - Encountered enemy's rear guard this morning and captured thirteen hundred prisoners. I think we will have a few days spell here now. We are camped at present about ten miles north east of Damascus along the Aleppo road. The official entry into Damascus takes place today.
9th Light Horse Regiment War Diary - 0515 Hogan, Lieutenant LR, reported a large column of infantry moving north one mile east of Regimental bivouac. Doubt existed as to whether they were enemy or part of Sherifian Army.
A mounted patrol from A Squadron was immediately dispatched to investigate and report and message signalled to Brigade headquarters reporting presence of column about 2000 strong and asking for information. B and C Squadrons were ordered to turn out in light fighting order mounted.
0530 A few shots were heard from direction of column and shortly after a galloper from 8th Light Horse Regiment standing patrol came in hurriedly along the road and reported that the column was enemy infantry. Remainder of Regiment less heavy packs was now ordered out. Reconnoitring patrol had now returned and confirmed 8th Light Horse Regiment galloper's report.
0545 The Regiment less heavy packs moved out to attack. Just after moving following messages received from Brigade Headquarters: - Believed to be Germans and move out at once and investigate 8th Light Horse Regiment and machine guns will be ready for support you if required." With B Squadron in advance and Sharp, Lieutenant RC; and, his troop from A Squadron as right flank guard the Regiment moved at 0545 at a fast trot north east along main road for about half a mile then swung towards the left through the vineyards. The rear of enemy column was now observed about one mile ahead on main road. The Regiment by increasing the pace and moving towards the foothills rapidly gained on the enemy who had by now mounted several machine guns and pushed out several small parties to his left flank to endeavour to hold up our advance. Although the Regiment came under machine gun and rifle fire the enemy failed to check the speed of our advance the Regiment soon reaching a favourable position about one mile from left flank and opposite centre of enemy column.
0700 Orders were now issued for A Squadron to move rapidly whilst B Squadron took up a position dismounted and brought fire to bear on to centre of enemy column. Regimental Headquarters was established about in Water Channel and touch gained by heliograph with Brigade.
0735 Regimental Headquarters moved to B Squadron position leaving a signal station to maintain touch with Brigade. A and C Squadron were now observed to be ahead of enemy cavalry advanced guard and to be swinging in towards main road to seize Khan Ayash and Khurbet i Asafur thus completely cutting off all chances of enemy retreat. About this time the head of main column of enemy seemed to be in a state of uncertainty and their leaders appeared to be conferring. Simultaneous with the final movement of A and C Squadron remainder of Regiment under orders from Daly, Major TJ mounted, drew swords and charged the main column detaching a small party from B Squadron to gallop around the rear of enemy. The combined movement was entirely successful. The main column surrendered before our troops reached them. A and C Squadron with drawn swords quickly charged the enemy advanced troops composed mostly of cavalry. A Squadron seized the pass and captured two 745mm guns near Khurbet i Asafur. The whole enemy force amounting to 91 officers, 515 cavalry, 1064 infantry, six Germans, 26 machine guns, one mounted gun [No. F7524], two 7.5 cm M15 GKM guns, twelve automatic rifles, 254 rifles, 285 animals was captured within one hour of the Regiment moving from bivouac at Khan Kusseir, approximately seven miles. Amongst the officers captured was the Divisional Commander who defended Shunet Nimrin against our attacks in May 1918. The Regimental Standard of the 46th Regiment was captured. Personnel captured belonged mostly to 45th Regiment.
The rapidity of movement contributed largely to the success of the operation but much credit is due to both Charley, Major WT; and, Bleechmore, Major C, for the skilful manner in which they manoeuvred their Squadrons in so quickly seizing Khan Ayash and the main road entering the pass at Khurbet i Asafur. Also Daly, Major TJ, for ordering charge and Shaw, Lieutenant OJ, for quick issue of orders.
0800 Freebairn, Lieutenant DT, with troop escorted the prisoners to Brigade Headquarters. After the past strenuous fortnight the horses responded to this additional test with wonderful vigour. Ground over which the Regiment advanced was fairly rough and covered with small loose stones. Except for a few small dry wadis the line of advance was devoid of cover. When main column surrendered Smyth, 902 Signaller RN; and, Halliday, 1258 Signaller NC, were moving back to Regimental Headquarters signal station when they encountered a party of the enemy composed of three Germans and 35 Turks taking up a position within a few hundred yards of the signal station. A German officer was mounting an automatic rifle when Smyth and Halliday with great gallantry under bomb fire rushed the German officer taking his pistol and fired into the enemy and seized the automatic rifle. The enemy were so surprised that they surrendered in a body. This promptness of action prevented the enemy obtaining reverse fire on to the portion of the Regiment guarding the main column of prisoners.
0900 After collecting the captured war material into one dump the Regiment returned to bivouac at Khan Kusseir.
1400 A Squadron moved out to reconnoitre country for stragglers six miles east of bivouac. They returned at 1700 reporting country clear of enemy. Our casualties for the day - one man accidentally injured [crushed by his horse which was shot under him] Animals - one ride killed, four rides wounded.
Shortly alter 0600 a local inhabitant reported to Brigade Headquarters that there was a party of two hundred Turks asleep five kilos to the east of our camp. Instructions were at once sent to the 8th Light Horse Regiment [with four machine guns] to go and collect them. Before the 8th Light Horse Regiment had left it's lines however, [it was bivouacked about a mile towards Damascus] the night outpost of the 10th Light Horse Regiment [the forward Regiment] observed at 0615 a column of infantry moving north, one mile east of Regimental bivouac. The Regiment at once saddled up. Brigade was asked if it were known who they were, Brigade replied that believed to be enemy and to move out at once and investigate, and that the 8th Light Horse Regiment and four machine guns would support. It will be remembered that the 8th Light Horse Regiment and four machine guns had been warned some time previously to move out. The 9th Light Horse Regiment moved at 0645. It was apparent that the enemy column was making for the pass, where the Aleppo road enters the hills at Khurbet i Asafur. The 9th Light Horse Regiment had tried to intercept the enemy there tin' previous afternoon, so knew exactly what to do and the country over which they would be required to pass. The remainder of the Brigade was ordered to saddle up and follow. The Brigadier and Staff went by motor car along the Aleppo Road. The 9th Light Horse Regiment moved out at a gallop. It was imperative that they should get to the pass before the enemy could occupy it with machine guns and hold us off. The Regiment then pushed along the road for half a mile then left it wand swung to the left under the foothills. At this time the rear of the enemy column was about one mile ahead on the main road, The Regiment soon gained on the column which had now mounted several machine guns and pushed out small left flank guards. Although the Regiment came under rifle and machine gun fire its pace was not checked and it soon reached a favourable position about one mile from left flank and opposite the centre of the enemy column. A Squadron then raced for Khan Ayash and C Squadron for Khurbet i Asafur. The remaining squadron, B, dismounted and opened fire on the centre of the column with a view to throwing it into disorder. By 0735 the two leading squadrons had got level with the cavalry advanced guard of the column and was swinging on to the main road. The head of the enemy column now appeared to be in a state of uncertainty and their leaders appeared to be conferring. Simultaneous with the final movement of the two advanced squadrons the remainder of the Regiment drew swords and charged at the main column. The combined movement was entirely successful. The main column surrendered before our troops reached them and the Hotchkiss Rifles which were covering this advance were ordered to cease fire. A and C Squadrons, with drawn swords, quickly charged the enemy advanced troops composed mostly of cavalry. A Squadron at Khan Ayash rushed a machine gun just as it was mounted and ready to fire. C Squadron seized the pass and captured two 75mm guns near Khurbet i Asafur. The whole enemy force amounting to 91 officers, 318 cavalry, 1064 infantry, eight Germans, 26 machine guns, one mountain gun two - 75mm - GKN guns, twelve automatic rifles, and 285 animals were captured within one hour of Regiment moving from bivouac at Khan Kusseir, approximately seven miles.
Amongst the officers captured was the Divisional Commander who defended Shunet Nimrin against our attacks in May 1918. The Regimental Standard of the 46th Regiment was captured. Personnel captured belonged mostly to the 46th Regiment.
When main column surrendered Smyth, 902 Signaller RN; and, Halliday, 1258 Signaller NC, were moving back to Regimental Headquarters Signal Station when they encountered a party of the enemy composed of three Germans and 85 Turks, taking up a position within a few hundred yards of the signal station. A German officer was mounting an automatic rifle, when Smyth, 902 Signaller RN; and, Halliday, 1258 Signaller NC, with great gallantry rushed the German officer, taking his pistol, fired into the enemy and seized the automatic rifle. The enemy were so surprised that they surrendered in a body. Both these signallers were awarded the DCM.
Our force suffered one casualty in this engagement.
At 6.15 a.m. on the 2nd October 1918, Hogan, Lieutenant LR, Officer in Command outpost, reported that a large force of enemy infantry were moving north, one mile east of his post. Doubt existed as to whether the advancing troops were actually enemy or Sherifian troops, and a mounted patrol of B Squadron was rushed out to investigate and report. A message was despatched to Brigade Headquarters reporting the presence of approximately 2,000 infantry, and asking for information.
The Regiment was at breakfast when the report from Hogan, Lieutenant LR, was received, but within ten minutes horses had been saddled and the Regiment paraded ready to move. At 6.30 a.m. a few shots were heard from the direction of the column, and shortly afterwards a galloper from the outpost reported that the column was composed of Turkish infantry.
Orders were at once issued, and the Regiment moved out to the attack, and as the head of the Regiment cleared the olive grove the following message was received from Brigade Headquarters; "Party believed to be Germans; move and investigate at once; 8th Light Horse Regiment with four machine guns will be ready to support, if required."
With B Squadron in advance and Sharp, Lieutenant RC; and, his troop of A Squadron as right flank guard, the Regiment moved at a rapid pace north-east along the main road for about half a mile, then swung to the left among the vineyards. The rear of the enemy column was now observed about one mile along the road.
By increasing the pace and moving towards the foothills the Regiment rapidly gained on the enemy, who had now mounted several machine guns, and pushed out several small parties to their left flank, in an endeavour to hold up our advance. In spite of the heavy machine gun fire the Regiment pushed forward and reached a favourable position about one mile to the left, and opposite the centre of the enemy column.
Orders were given to A Squadron to move rapidly and seize Khan Ayash, and to C Squadron to seize the main road in the vicinity of Kubbet i Asafur. C Squadron immediately galloped forward, followed by A Squadron, under heavy fire, whilst B Squadron dismounted and opened a heavy fire on the centre of the enemy column. Regimental Headquarters established themselves near the water channel and gained touch with Brigade Headquarters by heliograph.
The two squadrons who had been sent forward were now seen to be well ahead of the enemy advance guard, and to be swinging in towards the main road to seize the villages, thus cutting off all chances of escape for the enemy. The head of the main body of the enemy seemed to hesitate as if doubtful of its next move, and their leaders appeared to be holding a conference.
As the two squadrons swung round the remainder of the Regiment under orders from Daly, Major TJ, mounted, and with drawn swords, charged the main enemy column, detaching a small party of B Squadron to move round the flank. This move had the desired effect; the main body of the enemy promptly hoisting the white flag before the charging troops reached them.
In conjunction with this move, A and C Squadrons drew swords and charged the enemy cavalry advance guard. This was the first time the Light Horse, armed as cavalry, had the chance to try conclusions with the Turkish cavalry who were armed with sword and lance, and it was expected that they would put up a fight. The determined front shown by our men must have taken all the heart out of the enemy cavalry, as they surrendered without the slightest show of resistance.
A Squadron, moving forward, rushed a machine gun just as it was mounted and ready to open fire, whilst C seized the pass into the hills, and captured two 75 cm. guns near Kubbet i Asafur.
The Regiment collected together the various portions of the enemy force and proceeded to take stock of the bag, which gave the following totals: 91 officers, 318 cavalry, 1,064 infantry, eight German machine gunners, 26 machine guns, one mountain gun [No. F 7524], two 75 cm. [M 15, G.K.N.] guns, twelve automatic rifles, 264 rifles, and 285 animals. This force was captured within one hour of leaving the bivouac at Khan Kusseir, seven miles distant.
Amongst the officers captured was the General who commanded the Turkish Division defending Shunet Nimrin in the Jordan Valley, against our attack in May, 1918. The standard of the 46th Regiment was also captured, and is believed to be the only enemy standard captured during the war. That such a force could be taken in open country in such a short time and with so few casualties, appears astounding, but the fact must not be lost sight of that they had been driven from pillar to post for the past three weeks, with no rest and little food, facts which had, no doubt, taken the heart out of them.
The rapidity of our movements contributed largely to the success of the operations, but great credit is due to both, Charley, Major WT; and, Bleechmore, Major C, for the manner in which they manoeuvred their squadrons, in seizing the pass and main road ahead of the enemy columns. Daly, Major TJ, who conducted the operations, deserves special mention for his quick decisions and plan of operations, in which he was ably seconded by Shaw, Lieutenant OJ, the Adjutant,
In spite of the hard work of the past three weeks, the horses responded bravely to this additional call, and covered the ground in fine style. The ground passed over was devoid of cover and fairly rough, being covered with stones and broken by numerous small wadis.
When the main column surrendered Smyth, 902 Signaller JM; and, Halliday, 1458 Signaller NC, who were moving to the Regimental signalling station, in galloping over a rise were suddenly confronted by a party of the enemy composed of three Germans and 85 Turks, who were taking up a position within a few hundred yards of the signal station. A German officer was mounting a machine gun when Smyth, 902 Signaller JM; and, Halliday, 1458 Signaller NC, with great gallantry, and under a shower of bombs, rushed at the officer and snatched his revolver, which he had hastily drawn, from his hand. With this revolver they fired into the enemy and seized the machine gun, the prompt action so surprising the enemy that they surrendered.
Smyth, 902 Signaller JM; and, Halliday, 1458 Signaller NC, were both awarded the Distinguished Conduct Medal for this gallant act, which prevented the enemy establishing a post from which a destructive fire could have been turned on the rear of the Regiment.
Freebairn, Lieutenant DT, with one troop, escorted the prisoners to Brigade Headquarters, where they were handed over. After collecting the captured war material into one dump, which was placed under a guard, the Regiment returned to bivouac to finish its breakfast, which had been so rudely interrupted. At 2 p.m. A Squadron was sent out to reconnoitre the country six miles east of the bivouac for stragglers, returning at 5 p.m. and reporting "all clear."
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Australian Light Horse, Tactical Training of the AIF at Zeitoun, Rearguards
Topic: AIF - Lighthorse
Australian Light Horse
Tactical Training of the AIF at Zeitoun
Rearguards
The following entries dealing with the emerging tactics taught to officers and NCO's at the Imperial School of Instruction, Zeitoun and are extracted from a very informative handbook called Lectures by Commandant, School of Instruction, Zeitoun, 1916. At one time or another, all officers and NCO's within the Light Horse were inculcated with the tenets expounded by the lectures.
REARGUARDS.
Rearguards are used to prevent the march of the mainbody, from being hindered by attack.
A rearguard is above everything a Fighting Force. It is divided into a Main Guard and Rear Party, corresponding to the divisions of an advanced Guard. They are linked up in the same way by connecting files.
If not engaged the duties of a Rearguard are easy, but when attacked by an enterprising enemy the commander has a very difficult and dangerous task to perform.
The chief duties of a Rearguard are:
1. To offer enough resistance to allow the main body to retire unmolested.
2. Not to allow the enemy to approach and to engage too closely. The commander must watch his flanks most carefully in order not to let the enemy envelope him and cut him off.
To achieve the above, the Commander must observe the following points:
(1) Choose positions with an extended field of fire, to force the enemy to deploy early and so occasion him delay, occupying positions with fiery wile extension.
(2) Open fire very early with the same object as No. 1.
(3) Quit positions before the enemy approaches too closely.
(4) The whole of the Rearguard never retires at the same time.
(5) One portion retires and occupies another position the other portion holding on to the original position, the first portion then retires through the second line and takes up a third position, and so on.
(6) It is better to sacrifice a portion of the rearguard than to allow the evenly to fall on the rear of the mainbody, and so possibly turn the retirement into a rout.
It is essential for a Rearguard to be strong in Artillery as by shelling the evenly at long ranges, the enemy will be forced to extend, which enables the retiring force to gain time, a most important factor.
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Citation: Australian Light Horse, Tactical Training of the AIF at Zeitoun, Rearguards
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“BOTH”ness – Rav Motti Berger
This week’s Parsha relates the story of how Rivka became Yitzchak’s wife. Avraham didn’t want Yitzchak to leave Eretz Yisrael, and instead sent his trustworthy slave Eliezer to find a wife for Yitzchak from among Avraham’s relatives back East.
Eliezer asks Avraham (Ch 24:vs 5), “Perhaps the woman (meant for Yitzchak) won’t want to return with me?” Avraham responds that under NO circumstance was Yitzchak to leave Eretz Yisrael, and that Eliezer would not be held accountable for the failure of his mission in such a case.
RASHI points out that the word “Perhaps” (“oolai”) is usually spelled with FOUR letters – ayin, vav, lamed, and yud but that in THIS instance it is spelled WITHOUT a vav. In such a case, the word ayin, vav, yud can be pronounced “aylai’ as well as “oolai”. Oolai would be translated as “perhaps”, but aylai would translate as “for me”. RASHI says (Ch 24:vs 39), that Eliezer was giving us a dual message. That while he wanted to fulfill his mission for his master Avraham, he was a little bit disappointed that now Eliezer’s own daughter – whom he wanted to be Yitzchak’s wife and a matriarch of the Jewish people – would be denied that possibility once and for all.
But the great Chassidic Master known as the Kotzker points out a problem. The story in this week’s parsha is actually told TWICE, once when the Torah tells us the story and again when Eliezer repeats the story to Rivka’s family. But the spelling of “oolai” – perhaps – in a way that can be read as “aylai” – for me – only happens in the REPETITION of the story! In the first telling, it’s spelled ayin, vav, lamed, yud, and can ONLY be read as “perhaps”, and NOT as “for me”. The Kotzker says that this tells us something very powerful about our own hidden subjectivity. It’s telling us that when Eliezer first went on his mission(Ch 24: vs 5), he was totally unaware of his unconscious desire to fail in bringing Rivka to Yitzchak. He thought that he was totally focused on succeeding in his mission. Only AFTER he succeeded in fulfilling his mission did he become aware that a tiny part of him was disappointed in his success.
We, too, should always remain aware of the duality within ourselves – in our
“BOTH”ness – and thereby understand ourselves on a much deeper level.
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Potatoes vs people: govt moves to protect top vege-growing
August 14, 2019Article, Business, PressReleaseComments Off on Potatoes vs people: govt moves to protect top vege-growing
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Potatoes vs people: govt moves to protect top vege-growing land
By Pattrick Smellie
Aug. 14 (BusinessDesk) – Lifestyle blocks and new subdivisions will be far harder to develop on areas of rich soil under a new national policy statement on highly productive land unveiled for submissions by the government today.
In incubation since the 2017 election, the draft statement was launched today in a market gardener’s warehouse in Tuakau, set on the deep, brown volcanic soils of Pukekohe where much of the country’s vegetables are grown.
“If we don’t protect these soils, the price of vegetables will go up,” said Environment Minister David Parker, who launched the draft NPS with Primary Industries Minister Damien O’Connor.
The gardens are nestled near new housing that is spreading across the flat plains and Bombay Hills south of Auckland, where both central and local government are encouraging the city to grow in coming decades.
The policy seeks to deal with fears that if too much prime horticultural soil is lost to housing, it will reduce New Zealand’s capacity to grow staple foods.
The NPS seeks to control the unplanned encroachment, particularly of lifestyle blocks, which today’s consultation document says can carve up highly productive land into inefficient parcels. It will require local government to plan for suburban expansion to try and preserve so-called ‘elite soils’.
Urban Development Minister Phil Twyford is due to launch a further NPS creating national requirements for the growth of New Zealand’s cities and in Auckland, in particular, where house prices are among the highest in the developed world as a proportion of average household income.
The focus for the immediate future is on the South Auckland-to-Hamilton ‘corridor’, where the government is seeking to develop better rail and other public transport options while preserving the area’s food-basket status.
That NPS was part of stopping “house prices going crazy”, said Parker.
“We need to house our people and to feed them too.”
O’Connor said highly productive land, often found near existing towns and cities, had become taken for granted and been lost to food production in recent years.
“We cannot afford to lose our most highly productive land. It brings significant economic benefits including employment for nearby communities, and adds significant value to New Zealand’s primary sector,” he said.
Parker said councils had approached the issue on too much of an ad-hoc basis and “the pressure for urban growth has over-run the capacity to maintain our productive base.”
Asked whether it was fair to deprive the owners of market gardening land the chance to sell for subdivisions at higher prices than the land is worth for horticulture, Parker said all private land is subject to zoning and other restrictions on its use.
“The horticulture sector wants these changes,” he said.
Once decisions are reached, councils will have five years to identify and then organise protection for areas with elite soils. Both ministers conceded there is nothing to stop existing landowners selling for subdivision or lifestyle blocks, except to the extent that those areas were already covered by documents such as the Auckland Unitary Plan.
The new process will use a decades-old land use category database, which the draft acknowledges is not detailed enough for pinpoint identification of elite soils or to undertake the detailed spatial planning that modern resource management regulation will increasingly require.
Submissions on the draft NPS are open until Oct 10.
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Grand Duchess Olga Romanov of Imperial Russia Antique Signed Christmas Card 1952
Bibelotslondon Ltd is a UK registered company based in London Bridge dealing in ephemera and curiosities from Britain and around the world. Our diverse inventory is carefully chosen and constantly evolving. We work very hard to offer the highest quality works at competitive prices. Our inventory is listed online, and we strive to keep our website completely up to date, so our customers can easily check availability. We believe in offering clients items that are unique and rare for aficionados of the antique and collector's world. Bibelot is a late nineteenth century word derived from the French word bel beautiful, meaning a small item of beauty, curiosity or interest. The word ephemera is derived from the sixteenth century Greek word ephmera meaning a printed or hand written paper not meant to be retained for a long period of time. Charming Christmas card from Grand Duchess Olga Alexandrovna of Russia (1882 1960), for 1951/1952 (dated Old Style and New Style), witten in Russian and addressed to a family friend Konstantine Efimovich and congratulating his family for his child's name's day and birthday.
3-1-52 21-12-51 Dear Konstantin Efimovich, From the bottom of our hearts we congratulate dear Tamarochka and Kolenka with the name day and a birthday boy. On this day we will be at the church and will eat holy bread for your health, and in the evening we will transfer to you in our thoughts and we will remember how well and comfortably we used to spend it together. We welcomed in the New Year as always at the Volnovs, and during the dinner, my little scamp raised a glass to Tamarochka, which made us all laugh: true love never grows old. First there was the Ninth Wave. I won 250 fr, which was nice especially on New Years.
Did you celebrate with your family as well, or did the owners already return for the holidays? If so, you probably were very busy. Are you happy with your apartment? Is it difficult to climb stairs without an elevator? We have here many forests of Christmas trees in the city as never before, they are all dressed and lit with lots of Christmas lights. At Victoire its like a carnival. The weather was warm and sunny all the time. Just two days ago it suddenly became cold, and we could feel it. There are horrible storms around, but God still watches us.
When reading about your snow and storm, we were worried that they would affect your health xxx. Knowing how busy you are, and how you want to rest at your leisure time, do not bother writing letters of reply, but when you decide to drop a line, it will be a great pleasure for us. Keeping you in mind, your friends xxx xxx xxx She was the youngest child of Emperor Alexander III of Russia and younger sister of Tsar Nicholas II. She was raised at the Gatchina Palace outside Saint Petersburg.
Olga's relationship with her mother, Empress Marie, the daughter of King Christian IX of Denmark, was strained and distant from childhood. In contrast, she and her father were close. He died when she was 12, and her brother Nicholas became emperor.
In 1901, she married Duke Peter Alexandrovich of Oldenburg, who was privately believed by family and friends to be homosexual. Their marriage of 15 years remained unconsummated, and Peter at first refused Olga's request for a divorce.
The couple led separate lives and their marriage was eventually annulled by the Emperor in October 1916. The following month Olga married cavalry officer Nikolai Kulikovsky, with whom she had fallen in love several years before.
During the First World War, the Grand Duchess served as an army nurse at the front and was awarded a medal for personal gallantry. At the downfall of the Romanovs in the Russian Revolution of 1917, she fled to the Crimea with her husband and children, where they lived under the threat of assassination. Her brother and his family were shot by revolutionaries. Olga escaped revolutionary Russia with her second husband and their two sons in February 1920. They joined her mother, the Dowager Empress, in Denmark.
In exile, Olga acted as companion and secretary to her mother, and was often sought out by Romanov impostors who claimed to be her dead relatives. She met Anna Anderson, the best-known impostor, in Berlin in 1925.
She led a simple life: raising her two sons, working on the farm and painting. During her lifetime, she painted over 2,000 works of art, which provided extra income for both her family and the charitable causes she supported. In 1948, feeling threatened by Joseph Stalin's regime, Olga emigrated with her immediate family to a farm in Ontario, Canada. With advancing age, Olga and her husband moved to a bungalow near Cooksville, Ontario. Colonel Kulikovsky died there in 1958.
Two years later, as her health deteriorated, Olga moved with devoted friends to a small apartment in East Toronto. She died aged 78, seven months after her older sister, Xenia. At the end of her life and afterwards, Olga was widely labeled the last Grand Duchess of Imperial Russia.
Size: 15 x 14 cm approx. Photos form part of the description. The item "Grand Duchess Olga Romanov of Imperial Russia Antique Signed Christmas Card 1952" is in sale since Sunday, November 25, 2018. This item is in the category "Collectables\Autographs\Uncertified Originals\Historical".
The seller is "bibelotslondon" and is located in London. This item can be shipped worldwide.
Type: Historical
Sub-Type: Royalty
Object: Signed Cards
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eBroselow SafeDose Scan: Eliminating medication errors
In a medical emergency, half of all medication administrations are wrong. That’s according to a 2012 study from the University of Pittsburgh School of Pharmacy, which also revealed that 14 percent of those errors were potentially harmful or fatal.
Thanks to the new SafeDose Scan,TM medical care personnel can save precious minutes, eliminate manual math, quickly access accurate knowledge, provide documentation, and improve patient outcomes. SafeDose ScanTM is part of the eBroselow suite of medication safety products that proves, for the first time, that it is possible to eliminate medication errors.
“A patient’s life should never hinge on the accuracy of the calculations scrawled on their bed sheets,” said Dr. James Broselow, inventor of the Broselow tape, an effective visual system used in emergency rooms throughout the world. SafeDose ScanTM is a portable scanning device that immediately displays accurate medication information at every point of care.
Available in hospital grade plastic, SafeDose ScanTM is a handheld product equipped with a laser scanner. By scanning the U.S. National Drug Code (NDC) barcode of any medication, the device displays critical dosing and administration information for any patient—adult or child. A comprehensive, independent device, SafeDose Scan operates offline and can serve as a backup in the event of a disaster or during power, Internet, or EMS failure.
SafeDose ScanTM is designed to be a fail-safe throughout the entire acute situation, providing the correct dosage, dilution, and delivery, and ensuring that the intended treatment is correctly communicated and properly administered.
Medical errors rank as the third leading cause of death in the United States—right behind cancer and heart disease—according to a 2016 study from Johns Hopkins Medicine, and medication errors are the single most common type of medical error in hospitals.
Children and the elderly are most vulnerable when it comes to errors in acute drug administration. Depending on the drug, a ten-fold error for a premature infant—just a few extra milliliters—could be a fatal dose. According to the Patient Safety Movement Foundation, many health care systems are built around the needs of adults, and lack staff trained in pediatric or geriatric care.
But in general, it’s not a question of training, said Broselow.
“Even if your doctors and nurses all graduated at the top of their class, they still have to run through the dosage calculations, and look up the dilution specs and delivery rates. Accuracy costs time—but in so many emergency situations, we can’t afford it.”
Most nurses and doctors have a heard the story of one late night when, bleary-eyed from too many hours on the job, somebody forgot a decimal point or added two numbers wrong, said Broselow. Maybe it was a close call that ended well, he said. Maybe not.
With SafeDose ScanTM, Broselow believes we won’t have to sacrifice accuracy anymore. It standardizes and simplifies medication safety, provides the right information for the individual patient, and offers peace of mind for medical practitioners.
Researchers from the University of Kentucky demonstrated this in a 2014 study conducted at Kentucky Children’s Hospital. Their results showed that when medical practitioners used the eBroselow system, clinically significant errors were completely eliminated, and the accuracy of prepared medications increased about 25 percent. In addition, medications were prepared about eight minutes faster with the eBroselow system versus standard dosing references.
“We guarantee that eBroselow can reduce acute medication errors,” said Broselow.
Collaborating with Honeywell, eBroselow customized and integrated their medication safety software with a Honeywell scanning device to develop SafeDose Scan.TM eBroselow is working with Informs, a Honeywell reseller, to distribute SafeDose Scan.TM
eBroselow LLC, headquartered in Blacksburg, Virginia, is dedicated to developing a simple, safe, and effective international standard for acute drug administration. Co-founded by Drs. James Broselow and Robert Luten in 2010, eBroselow offers the latest medical innovations to improve care, increase treatment efficiency, and save lives.
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Thursday Links: Basquiat Rules Basel, documenta 14 Fails Artists?
by Michael Anthony Farley on June 15, 2017
Basquiat’s Baby Boom (1982). © The Estate of Jean-Michel Basquiat, ADAGP, Paris and ARS, New York.
Well, the blue chip market seems to be doing just fine, if sales at this year’s Art Basel VIP opening were any indication. [Financial Times]
….and apparently lots of art from the 1980s has now entered the blue chip club. Basel is chock full of 80s nostalgia with high price tags. [artnet News]
Industry researchers predict that the United States will need to add 4.6 million new apartments by 2030 to keep pace with demand. So far, most cities have failed to add enough new units of housing, and what gets built is usually just for the luxury market, leading to the affordability crisis nationwide. [Curbed]
Alexander Forbes argues that documenta 14 curators have failed the artists involved. This is mostly due to the near total absence of wall text, including artists’ names. It seems like the organizers overlooked a lot of details here. [Artsy]
A new art fair, Upstairs Art Fair, is coming to the Hamptons this July. Why the hell are they doing this? Multiple fairs have cancelled their Hamptons iterations recently because they tend to be the lower-profile events as the calendar is too damn full of art fairs. Dealers and collectors alike are stretched too thin. [ARTnews]
Monday Links: Don’t Blame Roberta Smith for Donald Trump
by Paddy Johnson and Michael Anthony Farley on May 15, 2017
Jeff Koons’ sculpture “Play-Doh 1994-2014” has paved the way for Donald Trump, according to Alex Melamid. Is it because there’s a melty orange blob in the center and a weird yellow thing hanging off the top?
Of everything that’s been written about Trump’s unlikely ascendence and the art world, Alex Melamid’s recent piece in TIME might just be the most specious and bizarre. According to Melamid, artists and critics have created a culture that idolizes avant-garde thinking, infantilism, and publicity above all else—thus legitimizing Trump’s outrageous approach to candidacy and governing. Two of the most laughable moments: Melamid citing Roberta Smith’s praise of Jeff Koons’ “Play Doh” sculptures (because the average Trump voter is an avid NYT Arts reader, I’m sure?) and the wildly out-of-touch statement “plagiarism in the arts has mutated into what’s now called appropriation, a term stripped of any negative judgment.” LOL. [TIME]
For anyone else who ever thought the Harvard campus reminded them of Hogwarts, you’ll enjoy this bit of news that sounds like something out of Harry Potter. The Harvard Art Museums is restaging “The Philosophy Chamber,” a sort of wunderkammer from the university’s early history that became the basis for the museums’ present collections. [The Harvard Crimson]
A lottery has opened for affordable housing units in a new Long Island City high rise, starting at under $1,000/month. Apply now! There are only 34 slots, sadly. [Curbed]
Coming as a shock to no one, Anne Imhof’s “Faust” has snagged a Golden Lion at Venice. The “health goth”-esque performance was by far the most talked-about piece of the Biennale. [ARTnews]
Adiós Utopia: Dreams and Deceptions in Cuban Art Since 1950 at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston is being lauded as the biggest and most important exhibition of Cuban art in recent history. Patricia Restrepo, however, feels that the Cisneros-backed show is lacking in nuance. We haven’t seen the show ourselves, but if you’re in Texas, it looks like a must-see. [Terremoto]
AFC friend Jeanette Doyle has launched “CF” at the Research Pavilion in Venice and is looking for artists and curators to participate. The framework: you chose a nation you want to represent and an art work and stage it. CF will present these staged works via a series of projections chosen at random with the help of a computer algorithm. Deadline for submissions is August 11th. Submit here. [Art & Education]
Steven H Silberg has launched an art-making project titled “In Care of the White House”. Artists are invited to create works in response to the Trump administration, which the organization will document and send to the White House, with the idea that all the pieces will end up as a document of dissent in the National Archives for posterity. [In Care of the White House]
Sotheby’s, Christie’s and Phillips are looking to auction off over $1 billion worth of art this week, including a 6-foot Basquiat at Sotheby’s that’s valued at $60 million. These auctions are being watched closely as a litmus test for the art market. Since Russian and Middle Eastern bidders have retreated from the auction scene due to lower oil prices, it’s been a buyer’s-market-boon for American and Asian collectors. But now the market might’ve bounced back, as the auction houses are hoping. [CNBC]
15 Art Deco buildings not to miss. [Curbed]
Friday Links: Matthew Barney’s Perineum and Alexander McQueen’s Skin
by Rhett Jones on July 22, 2016
Barbara Gladstone Gallery will recreate, “Blind Perineum,” the performance that put Matthew Barney on the map 25 years ago. Gladstone has borrowed the original elements that were used in the performance in which Barney climbed around the gallery ceiling with ice screws and a harness. The anniversary show is scheduled for September 8th. [New York Times]
Robert Irwin is just finishing up a permanent installation at Donald Judd’s Texas outpost Marfa. It will be the first new permanent work in 16 years. It’s hard to tell from the photos what exactly this project is but it will be officially unveiled to the public on July 23rd. [The Art Newspaper]
The latest artist to jump into the Trump protest fray has built a wall around the Donald’s star on the Hollywood walk of fame. I know that this election has been hard on everybody but try a little harder people. Most of the protest art has been pretty weak. [BBC]
Heads up video artists, Japan is making its final VCR this month. It might be a good time to pick one up for that retro project you wanted to do or to back up those old tapes for posterity. [Mental Floss]
The internet was freaking out, yesterday, over this sculpture of a human evolved to withstand a car crash. His name is Graham and he’s pretty gross. [Jalopnik]
Kurt Cobain’s daughter, Francis Bean, is selling her art online. All we can say is it’s … affordable. [depop]
A design student, in London, wants to make a bag out of Alexander McQueen’s skin. The proposed project would involve using stem cells from the late designer’s hair to manufacture new skin. The student, Tina Gorjanc, is actually trying to patent McQueen’s genetic information and sees this as a larger piece of social commentary. [artnet News]
A number of big name artists will be taking over the prison that caged Oscar Wilde for an exhibition entitled “Inside.” Participants include Ai Weiwei, Patti Smith, Marlene Dumas, Robert Gober, Nan Goldin, Steve McQueen, Jean-Michel Pancin, and Wolfgang Tillmans. [artnet News]
John Stewart gets behind Colbert’s desk and lets it all out. [YouTube]
Wednesday Links: Tiffany Trump’s “Music” Discovered, Larry Gagosian Pays Taxes
by Paddy Johnson and Michael Anthony Farley on July 20, 2016
Yet another art app no one asked for: Google Arts & Culture. It seems to do many of the same things as Artsy with an eye cast more toward art history. And users can visit architectural wonders using Google Cardboard. And of course, search for artwork by color. I’d try it myself, but my phone has limited space thanks to all the immovable, self-updating “bloatware” apps Google has already snuck on there. [The Next Web]
In other Google news, the tech giant asked artists Marina Esmeraldo and Mallory Heyer to make a mural using the dreaded Google Sheets app, seemingly to make accounting look cool? Congratulations Google, there’s now a wall in Brooklyn that looks like a Miami juice bar/Zumba studio, thanks to the fun magic of spreadsheets. [The Next Web]
Sales reports from the first half of the year are down for Sotheby’s and Christie’s. Both auction houses are seeing sales in the ultra high-end collapse, with Christie’s latest total down 37.5%. Contemporary art sales took a staggering 45% hit, totalling substantially less than a billion. The surprising news, according to Marion Maneker is that Europe nudged ahead of the US in terms of buyers. Also interesting: new buyers account for 25 percent of all sales at Christie’s. In any event, The Wall Street Journal is describing the report as bad news for the top end of the market and health in the middle market. Meanwhile the Art Market Monitor has used the statistic of new buyers to predict growth, and perhaps even a flashier market going forward. [The Art Market Monitor]
Queen is really pissed that the Republican National Convention used “We Are The Champions” on stage… especially after they already publically criticized Trump for using their music in his campaign. Though after Hillary’s AIDS comments earlier this year, it’s probably not a good idea for her to try to channel Freddie Mercury either. [CNN]
Here’s some music Trump can probably secure the rights to, but might not want to: his daughter Tiffany’s awful foray into auto-tuned trash pop. Listen now (if you dare) before the campaign gets this scrubbed from the internet. [Youtube h/t Mieke Gentis]
Erik Satie was really, really weird. But he might have invented performance art, and spent 8 days in jail for it. [Flypaper]
Concept art has been revealed for the upcoming Blade Runner sequel. Please, god, do not let them turn this into a CGI clusterfuck that looks like a video game. The original was so, so good precisely because of its practical special effect that still hold up compared to contemporary movies. [Shortlist]
Related: in this tribute to Star Trek actor Anton Yelchin, it’s revealed that they started making the latest of the terrible, terrible JJ Abrams reboots before having actually written a script. This film is directed by the same guy who brought us The Fast and the Furious…. A subtle joke from 30 Rock about a movie from that franchised being advertised as “Written by No One” now seems tragi-comically prescient. [Fox News]
An old Bronx courthouse has been scouted as the site for a new hip hop museum. [Curbed]
Larry Gagosian has finally agreed to pony-up $4.3 Million in unpaid sales taxes, including interest and penalties, after an investigation by the New York Attorney General. Given the scope of his art empire, it’s frankly surprising that number isn’t higher. [The Wall Street Journal]
Monday Links: Art Market Gazes at Navel, Approves
by Paddy Johnson and Michael Anthony Farley on June 13, 2016
John William Waterhouse, “Echo and Narcissus,” 1903.
The Wall Street Journal’s “Black Friday” guide to shopping at art fairs recommends pretty much everything that would piss off gallerists short of “touch the art”. [The Wall Street Journal]
Here’s an excellent explanation of the features and policies of suburbia that make it such a soul-crushing realm. [Quartz]
We’re relieved to hear that Kenya Michaels—the tiny Puerto Rican drag queen who won America’s hearts on Rupaul’s Drag Race and countless GIFs—escaped the shooting at Pulse in Orlando. Kenya performed at the club at midnight, and apparently managed to make it out shortly after the shooting starting. [Paper Magazine]
Jonathan Jones makes a pretty compelling argument that space photography is the best photography. [The Guardian]
WNYC has launched a new week long series discussing affordability in New York for artists, called “Making it in New York”. The first feature gives a very broad overview of the problem. Naturally, PS109, an artist only affordable workspace launched by artspace is featured, along with plenty of discussion about gentrification. [WNYC]
This year’s Art Basel First Choice VIP card gets holders exclusive access to exhibitions, private lounges, champagne toasts, brunches… and free rides on Basel’s public transit? Yep. Leave the chauffeur at home, because your little pink card is good for unlimited tram and bus rides. [artnet News]
As Art Basel approaches, the art market stories come fast and furious. Here’s a comparison between venture capitalist backed unicorns (tech start-ups valued at over 1 billion) and the art market. The take home? Evaluate the product not its monetary value. [The New Yorker]
A couple of interesting snippets from the first of a four part series on the art market produced by Artsy and UBS. First, an unidentified collector explaining that for artists, being acquired by a private collection is actually better than a museum because they give artists more show freedom than a museum would. The second being Josh Baer postulating that there are not art movements—except the art market. LOLOLOL. Does the art market really need an ad for itself? Because that’s essentially what this series is. [Artsy]
Wow. An anarchist collective that runs a live/work performance space in Detroit just beat a developer in a competition for lots adjoining their property. This is unusual good news in the gentrification wars. [Detroit Free Press]
Wednesday Links: Does a Market Crash Lead to an Art Boom?
by Paddy Johnson and Michael Anthony Farley on August 26, 2015
Patrick Hogan tours the University of Wisconsin: Milwaukee’s abandoned Second Life campus.
Remember Second Life? apparently most colleges don’t. When there was a lot of hype over the virtual environment nearly a decade ago, many universities opened “campuses” in the video-game-like platform. Today, these are mostly abandoned and really weird. Patrick Hogan decided to tour some of them—encountering weird features such as teleportation-accessible classrooms, board rooms on pirate ships, creepy art collections, and even squatters. [Fusion]
After this weekend’s “$1.5 million punch” of a Seventeenth Century Paolo Porpora by a Taiwanese boy, a look at the costliest art accidents. [BBC]
Apply to be a TED Fellow. Fellows, of which there are 20, get an expense paid trip to the TED conference, give a TED talk, plus coaching, mentorship and connections to the network. They’re looking for “groundbreaking” projects and ideas “worth spreading”, which isn’t the way most art worlders would chose to describe themselves, even if accurate, but it’s a powerful platform, so probably worth the small amount of time it will take to apply. [TED]
Good news: the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s annexation of the former Whitney building sounds like it’s going to be great. The “Met Breuer” is undergoing a renovation to restore the Marcel Breuer structure to its high-modernist glory and will feature free performance/installation space, a “book bar” for artists’ books, and a reopened cafe. [ARTnews]
Other Met milestones: the addition of non-western art in the 1960’s. Here, a look at how the inclusion of what was then called “Primitive Art” changed the course of museum culture. [Observer]
Non-profit administrators and grant writers will appreciate this piece on how some grant applications can perpetuate inequity. It’s basically a list things granting agencies do to make the task of applying so complex, that applicants can spend up to 70 hours applying grants they may not even get. Is this not any government grant application ever? [NonProfit With Balls]
A guide to eating oysters that makes us want to eat oysters. Unlike farming salmon and shrimp, farming oysters is good for the environment! This piece is beautifully illustrated too. [Lucky Peach]
Is anyone else totally confused by how the commercial art markets work? Apparently the global stock market crash has resulted in a lot of attention being unseasonably poured into art investments, as collectors are looking for liquidity in their assets. [Bloomberg]
Jillian Steinhauer visits the Icelandic Folk Art and Outsider Art Museum. OMG, it looks so good. So much weird figuration. [Hyperallergic]
How to feel about this? A real estate developer who admits to targeting artist-friendly neighborhoods for gentrification has announced the Slate Property Arts and Culture Endowment, which will dole out $80,000 worth of grants for projects in North Brooklyn. Is this actually a way for Slate to “give back to the community” and help artists avoid displacement? Or is this more PR propaganda that might actually grease the wheels of gentrification? If anything, it threatens to align the art community with developers in the minds of other residents—driving one more wedge between artists and other low-income groups who need to be building coalitions to keep neighborhoods affordable. [DNAinfo]
Dealers Report: The 2015 Armory Show Is Legit Awesome
by Corinna Kirsch on March 5, 2015
Writing about the Armory Show comes with a caveat: people lie. Ask a dealer if they’ve made any sales, and they’ll often say “yes,” whether or not they’ve actually sold anything. Often, though, those tales reveal themselves. Some lies come with errors. This year, for example, a dealer told us collectors only buy at the end of a fair—an obviously false statement—but yes, she’d sold some small works. Other tales reveal themselves years later. Like when a dealer tells you he was “losing his shirt” at a past fair, forgetting that he’d told you that very same year that he’d sold out the booth.
Selling Women: Collectors Still Pay More for Male Artists
And by how much?
A Brief Look at the North Korean Art Market With Jane Portal of the Boston MFA
by Corinna Kirsch on May 2, 2014
On collecting and purchasing North Korean art.
Monday Links: Code Douche
by Paddy Johnson Whitney Kimball and Corinna Kirsch on April 28, 2014
Image courtesy of freeimages.com
A stock image found using the search term, “feminism.” Worst “feminist” image ever? [Free Images]
Codebabes is a website that looks like a really dumb joke. It’s not a joke. The website promises lessons from scantily clothed women teaching courses for the “HTML Virgin,” “CSS Virgin,” “Programming Virgin,” and “PHP Virgin.” The further you get in your courses, the fewer clothes the instructor will wear. [CodeBabes]
CodeDicks, a response to codebabes, in which every course advancement takes you closer to achieving the label “douche.” Intermediate stages include “sexist” and “asshole.” [CodeDicks]
Required reading: A history of the 1990s net art scene in Berlin. [frieze d/e]
News rolls in daily about the new towers, as Lower East Side shops continue to close and relocate. [Bowery Boogie]
Kara Walker makes a mammie sphinx out of sugar she says could never be beaten into submission. [The New York Times]
Diego Rivera’s murals at the Detroit Institute of Arts have been designated national historic landmarks. Bankruptcy hearings for the city of Detroit continue. [Associated Press]
Ladies Home Journal is shutting down its print publication after 130 years. This despite having a circulation that is amongst the highest in the country. [Bloomberg]
The online market climbs slowly, surpassing $1 billion in annual sales. [The Art Newspaper]
The Fridge Art Fair’s press release notes that the fair will be held in Long Island City this year and will include an opening ceremony with American Idol’s Hunter Monroe. The move comes because the Angel Orensanz Center, their previously slated venue, was given a forced evacuation order by the New York Department of Buildings due to building violations. [Fridge Art Fair]
AFC’s one-time Roastmaster Christian Viveros-Fauné and Blake Gopnik talk about the Sigmar Polke retrospective. Gopnik nervously recounts Polke factoids and Fauné has to fight hard to get a word in. Very annoying, because he’s come prepared. [Artnet News]
A pretty shitty situation: China’s propaganda campaign to push professional women into marriage. One government article says: “As women age, they are worth less and less…by the time they get their M.A. or Pd.D., they are already old, like yellowed pearls.”[Foreign Policy]
It’s a tale of two art markets! Lower-level collectors are now being priced out of the painting market, forcing them to buy works on paper and prints. [The New York Times]
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2018 NCAA Elite 8 | 2017 NCAA Round of 16 | 5 NCAA Tournaments | 4 Conference Titles
Babson Park Regional
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6 - Shannon Roseen
Hometown: Malden, Mass.
High School: Mystic Valley
2018: As a senior, appeared in 32 matches…finished the year with career highs in kills (239), attempts (757) and blocks (24)…averaged 2.39 kills per set to go along with a .209 hitting percentage…put away seven kills and hit .389 while recording a season-high three blocks in a 3-1 win over Texas A&M International on August 31…also recorded 14 kills and hit .429 in a four-set loss to Missouri S&T on August 31…had nine kills and three blocks in a 3-0 victory over Lasell on September 7…recorded nine kills in a 3-0 triumph at WPI on September 11…hit .520 and totaled a season-high 15 kills in a 3-0 win over Emerson on September 18…matched her season high with 15 kills in a four-set victory at Endicott on October 6…registered 12 kills in a 3-0 win against Springfield on October 16…contributed eight kills, three digs and two blocks in a 3-0 victory against Middlebury on October 19…had nine kills and a season-high six digs in a 3-2 loss at Wellesley on October 23…recorded 11 kills in a 3-0 NEWMAC Tournament quarterfinal win over Coast Guard on October 30…followed it up with 10 kills in a 3-1 NEWMAC semifinal victory at MIT on November 1…registered 14 kills and two blocks in Babson’s four-set conference tournament final win at Springfield on November 3…had eight kills and two blocks in a 3-0 NCAA Tournament second round win over Wellesley on November 10.
2017: As a junior, appeared in 24 matches and made 12 starts at outside hitter…finished with new career highs in kills (213), kills per set (2.57), hitting percentage (.234) and points (228.0) despite missing eight matches due to injury…recorded double-digit kills in 11 matches…had 11 kills and hit .550 in a 3-0 win over Mount Saint Mary (N.Y.) in the season opener on September 1…finished with 10 kills and six digs in a three-set victory over Rhode Island College, and followed it up with 12 kills in a 3-0 win against Franklin on September 2…contributed 14 kills and season highs of six digs and three service aces in four-set triumph over Roger Williams on September 9…followed it up with 15 kills while hitting .375 in a 3-0 victory over WPI on September 12…hit .481 with 13 kills in a 3-1 win over Roger Williams on September 16…recorded 12 kills and hit .345 in a three-set sweep of Wentworth on September 28…had 11 kills in a four-set victory over UMass Boston on September 30…missed eight straight matches from October 7-24…returned with 11 kills while hitting .429 in a 3-0 win at Mount Holyoke on October 28…had eight kills in a four-set NEWMAC Tournament quarterfinal victory over Springfield on October 31…recorded a career-high 16 kills in Babson’s five-set NCAA Tournament second round win at Clarkson on November 11.
2016: As a sophomore, appeared in 28 matches and recorded 178 kills, 59 digs, 35 service aces and 20 total blocks…averaged 1.96 kills and finished with a .192 hitting percentage…recorded double-digit kills on six occasions…hit .700 with seven kills in a 3-0 win over Rhode Island College on September 3…had nine kills and three blocks in a 3-1 loss to Endicott on September 10…had six kills in six attempts and recorded a career-high six service aces in a three-set win over Mount Holyoke on September 13…hit .458 with 12 kills in a three-set victory over Wellesley on September 22…finished with a season-high 13 kills and six digs while hitting .313 in a 3-1 loss at Clark on September 24…also had 13 kills and hit at a .435 clip in a 3-0 victory over Coast Guard on September 27…finished with 10 kills apiece in three-set conference wins over WPI on October 4 and Emerson on October 6…recorded nine kills and a season-high seven digs in a four-set win over Middlebury on October 21…hit .385 and smashed 11 kills in a five-set loss to Roger Williams on October 29…recorded nine kills and matched her career high with six service aces in a 3-0 win over Coast Guard in a NEWMAC Tournament quarterfinal on November 1.
2015: As a first-year, appeared in 16 matches at outside hitter…finished with 25 kills and averaged 1.09 kills per set…had four kills in her collegiate debut, a 3-0 win over Lasell on September 1…recorded five kills and hit .364 in a three-set victory over Colby on September 12…finished with a season-high seven kills while hitting .417 in the Beavers’ 3-0 triumph over Mount Holyoke on September 15…matched her season high with seven kills in a 3-0 victory over Lasell on September 19.
Nov 1 at MIT W, 3-1
Nov 3 at Springfield W, 3-1
Nov 9 Mount Saint Vincent W, 3-0
Nov 10 Wellesley W, 3-0
Nov 11 Bowdoin W, 3-0
Nov 15 at Wisconsin-Eau Claire L, 3-0
Aug 31 vs. Texas A&M International W, 3-1 - 4 7 0 18 .389 0 0 1 1 1 0 3 0 3 0 8.5
Aug 31 vs. Missouri S&T L, 3-1 1 4 14 2 28 .429 1 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 14.5
Sep 1 vs. Lynn L, 3-0 1 3 1 6 16 -.313 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 1.0
Sep 1 at Nova Southeastern L, 3-0 - 3 3 5 23 -.087 0 0 0 0 2 0 1 0 1 0 3.5
Sep 7 Lasell W, 3-0 1 2 9 5 17 .235 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 0 3 0 10.5
Sep 8 vs. Roger Williams W, 3-1 - 4 6 1 23 .217 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 6.0
Sep 8 vs. Morrisville St. W, 3-0 - 3 3 2 21 .048 0 1 0 1 4 0 0 0 0 0 4.0
Sep 11 at WPI W, 3-1 1 3 9 3 17 .353 0 0 0 0 2 0 1 0 1 0 9.5
Sep 15 at Clark W, 3-1 - 3 7 2 23 .217 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 7.0
Sep 15 vs. Johnson & Wales (RI) L, 3-0 - 3 4 1 30 .100 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 4.5
Sep 18 Emerson W, 3-0 1 3 15 2 25 .520 0 0 0 1 3 0 0 0 0 0 15.0
Sep 20 at UMass Dartmouth W, 3-0 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
Sep 22 Smith W, 3-0 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
Sep 22 Keene State W, 3-0 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
Sep 29 at Coast Guard W, 3-0 - 3 6 2 17 .235 0 0 0 0 3 1 0 0 1 0 7.0
Oct 2 at MIT L, 3-1 - 4 8 3 36 .139 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 8.0
Oct 4 at Colby-Sawyer W, 3-0 - 1 2 0 2 1.000 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 2.0
Oct 6 vs. Plymouth State W, 3-0 - 2 6 0 13 .462 0 2 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 8.0
Oct 6 at Endicott W, 3-1 - 4 15 4 48 .229 0 0 0 0 3 0 0 0 0 0 15.0
Oct 9 Wheaton W, 3-0 - 3 7 3 19 .211 0 0 0 1 1 0 1 0 1 0 7.5
Oct 11 Simmons W, 3-0 - 3 6 0 18 .333 0 1 1 0 4 0 0 0 0 0 7.0
Oct 16 Springfield W, 3-0 - 3 12 2 28 .357 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 1 0 12.5
Oct 19 Middlebury W, 3-0 - 3 8 2 24 .250 0 0 0 0 3 0 2 0 2 0 9.0
Oct 20 vs. Tufts L, 3-1 - 4 7 2 21 .238 1 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 1 0 7.5
Oct 20 vs. Williams L, 3-0 - 2 7 1 19 .316 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 7.0
Oct 23 at Wellesley L, 3-2 - 5 9 7 43 .047 0 0 0 0 6 0 0 0 0 0 9.0
Oct 27 Mount Holyoke W, 3-0 1 3 5 1 19 .211 1 1 0 0 4 0 0 0 0 0 6.0
Oct 27 Worcester State W, 3-0 - 2 3 0 5 .600 0 0 0 0 0 1 2 0 3 0 5.0
Oct 30 Coast Guard W, 3-0 - 3 11 2 23 .391 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 11.0
Nov 1 at MIT W, 3-1 - 4 10 3 28 .250 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 10.0
Nov 3 at Springfield W, 3-1 - 4 14 5 47 .191 0 0 0 0 3 0 2 0 2 0 15.0
Nov 9 Mount Saint Vincent W, 3-0 - 3 5 7 19 -.105 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 5.0
Nov 10 Wellesley W, 3-0 - 3 8 2 38 .158 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 2 0 9.0
Nov 11 Bowdoin W, 3-0 - 3 7 2 29 .172 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 7.0
Nov 15 at Wisconsin-Eau Claire L, 3-0 - 3 5 4 20 .050 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 5.5
2015-16 16 23 25 1.09 15 96 .104 0 0.00 0 0.00 4 0.17 0 2 2 0.09 26.0 1.1
2016-17 28 91 178 1.96 71 558 .192 3 0.03 35 0.38 59 0.65 2 18 20 0.22 224.0 2.5
2017-18 24 83 213 2.57 70 610 .234 2 0.02 9 0.11 56 0.67 2 8 10 0.12 228.0 2.7
2018-19 32 100 239 2.39 81 757 .209 3 0.03 5 0.05 55 0.55 2 22 24 0.24 257.0 2.6
Total 100 297 655 2.21 237 2021 .207 8 0.03 49 0.16 174 0.59 6 50 56 0.19 735.0 2.5
Total 32 100 239 2.39 81 757 .209 3 0.03 5 0.05 55 0.55 2 22 24 0.24 257.0 2.6
Conference 9 30 78 2.60 25 227 .233 1 0.03 1 0.03 23 0.77 1 3 4 0.13 81.5 2.7
Home 12 34 96 2.82 28 264 .258 1 0.03 2 0.06 19 0.56 1 11 12 0.35 104.5 3.1
Wins 23 69 181 2.62 50 521 .251 1 0.01 5 0.07 42 0.61 2 17 19 0.28 196.5 2.8
August 2 8 21 2.63 2 46 .413 1 0.13 0 0.00 2 0.25 0 4 4 0.50 23.0 2.9
October 14 42 106 2.52 27 318 .248 2 0.05 4 0.10 28 0.67 1 7 8 0.19 114.5 2.7
November 6 20 49 2.45 23 181 .144 0 0.00 0 0.00 7 0.35 0 5 5 0.25 51.5 2.6
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Carlos Soria: Dhaulagiri, take nine!
Carlos Soria doesn’t give up. The now 79-year-old Spaniard set off again to Nepal to climb his 13th of the 14 eight-thousanders. Already for the ninth time, Carlos will tackle Dhaulagiri. Last year, Soria and Co. had had to abandon their only summit attempt in the upper part of the 8,167-meter-high mountain because they had missed the right route while the fog had become denser. Later heavy snow had impeded a second try. “This time I am sure that we will succeed,” said the probably fittest of all climbing seniors optimistically before his departure for Kathmandu.
27. March 2018 | 11:59
14 eight-thousanders, Carlos Soria, Dhaulagiri, Khumbu, Nepal, Shishapangma
Shishapangma South Face, take two!
Shishapangma South Face
This wall has enthused him. The second spring in a row, the German professional climber David Goettler will try to open a new route through the South Face of the 8027-meter-high Shishapangma in Tibet. After his failed attempt in 2016 with the Swiss Ueli Steck, the 38-year-old is now on the road with Hervé Barmasse. The 39-year-old Italian is a very experienced climber who has made headlines in recent years, especially with new routes on his home mountain, the Matterhorn. Hervé has also succeeded spectacular first ascents in the Karakoram and in Patagonia. Barmasse has not yet scaled an eight-thousander. I got a hold of Goettler on the phone, just before his departure to the Himalayas, on the way to the airport.
David, you’re just on your way to Nepal. What is your feeling?
5. April 2017 | 16:07
Chukhung, David Goettler, Herve Barmasse, Island Peak, Khumbu, Nepal, Shishapangma South Face, Tibet, Ueli Steck
Steck and Goettler: Five questions, five answers
Ueli Steck (l.) and David Goettler
He couldn’t stop thinking about it. When the Swiss top climber Ueli Steck solo climbed the South Face of 8027-meter- high Shishapangma in only ten and a half hours five years ago, he discovered a possible new direct line. This spring, the 39-year-old – along with the 37-year-old German professional climber David Goettler – returned to the 2000-meter-high wall to have a try at the new route. If everything works perfectly, they plan to descend from the summit via the north side, thus traversing the eight-thousander.
Before heading off to Tibet, Ueli and David acclimatized in the Everest region in Nepal – including trail-running over extremely long distances. I sent them five questions to their Base Camp at the foot of Shishapangma South Face.
Ueli and David, the pictures which you published on Facebook in recent weeks, remind me of Speedy Gonzales or Road Runner, two cartoon characters of my childhood: continuously in high speed mode, because hunted. At the same time each of you let us know that the other is really, really fit. Honestly, who of you is actually rushing whom? Or from what are you trying to escape?
David Goettler, David Göttler, Earthquake, Khumbu, Mountain trail-running, Nepal, New route, Shishapangma, South face, Tibet, Ueli Steck
Safe in Khumbu
Trekking in Khumbu
Safety is primarily a feeling. Often we don’t even realize the lurking objective danger. And if we do, then usually only if we have no other option than facing the danger. A week ago I have returned from my trekking in Khumbu, the region around Mount Everest. Eleven months have passed since the devastating earthquake in Nepal. I think that my senses were quite sharpened because it was an objective of my journey to inform myself about the consequences of the quake. I can send all the people who want to travel to the region for trekking or climbing on their way with my experience: I felt perfectly safe in Khumbu.
Earthquake, Khumbu, Mount Everest, Namche Bazaar, Safety, Sindhupalchowk
Burning mountains
Mount Everest, Lhotse, Makalu (from l. to r.)
Perfect timing. Just when we reach the 5380-meter-high summit of Gokyo Ri, the clouds around the top of Mount Everest, Lhotse and Makalu turn orange. „The mountains are burning“, our guide Dipak Giri says. Step by step the first sunlight also meets the other summits around us: the eight-thousander Cho Oyu, the six-thousanders Cholatse, Kantega, Thamserku and in the distance Gaurishankar. A 360-degree panorama which is without equal. We were the only ones, who set off from Gokyo at 4,770 meters at 4 a.m. to admire this unique spectacle. Now we are sitting below the prayer flags and hardly believe our eyes.
Cho Oyu, Gokyo Ri, Khumbu, Lhotse, Makalu, Mount Everest
Return to Manaslu
Tamara (l.) and Simone on Island Peak
Manaslu, next attempt! The South Tyrolean Tamara Lunger and the Italian Simone Mono flew back by helicopter to the base camp at the foot of the eight highest mountain in the world. In early March, the two climbers had fled Manaslu due to heavy snowfalls and extremely high avalanche danger. It looks as if our camp was quite destroyed”, Tamara wrote in her blog.
Island Peak, Khumbu, Manaslu, Nepal, Simone Moro, Tamara Lunger
Ines Papert climbs 6000er in Khumbu
Ines Papert on the summit of Pig Pherado Shar
Great success for Ines Papert: The German top climber tells on Facebook that she and Thomas Senf have opened a new route through the north face of 6718-meter-high Pig Pherado Shar in Nepal. The mountain is located near Namche Bazaar, the main village of the Khumbu region close to Mount Everest. The 39-year-old woman climber reached the summit alone. “Unfortunately Thomas couldn’t climb to the highest point because of incipient frostbite on his toes”, Ines writes on the Facebook page of one of her sponsors. “It was the coldest adventure of my lifetime.”
20. November 2013 | 14:24
Ines Papert, Khumbu, Likhu Chuli I, Pig Pherado Shar, Thomas Senf
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Nigerian Reverend Sisters Dance To Chop To Money By PSquare.
They were dancing during the wake of Rev Sister Vincentia Aribe, abeg they should carry go joor, after all David danced and we would dance in heaven.
Actress Bimbo Akintola.
Is it just me or does Bimbo Akintola look worse for wear, she was spotted at the nollywood at 20 event. Whats up with her face, her eyes look dull, looks like she has been made down, looks like she rubbed dusting powder on her face or MOJU powder, her teeth...........looks like all the years of smoking and drinking excessively are beginning to take its toll on her. Another picture after the cut
Azazi And Yakowa Died Due To Human Error.
The cause of the Nigerian Navy helicopter that crashed late last year, which led to the death of the former national security adviser, General Patrick Owoeye Azazi (rtd), Kaduna State governor Patrick Yakowa and four others, has been traced to either human error or material failure. In case you missed the original story, Read Here. According to a statement issued by the naval authority in Abuja yesterday and signed by its spokesman, Commodore Kabiru Aliyu, the cause of the disaster has been traced to human error or material failure; he ruled out sabotage as being speculated in some quarters.
6 Reasons Why Men Love Confident Women.
An ideal woman, a girl friend or a life partner must exude confidence. Gone are the days when men crave for an opportunity to be a knight in shining armor. They don’t like weaklings or delicate darlings, but smart, street intelligent and confident women who know what they are doing and what needs to be done. A confident woman is determined and head strong, and it’s what guys look for beyond looks or sex appeal. Here are 6 reasons why men like confident women.
Pictures From 2Face And Annie Traditional Wedding.
Innocent And Annie Idibia.
It was held in Eket, Akwa Ibom State home of the Bride. According to guests that attended the event, there were not alot of Entertainment stars/ colleagues of the couple present, roughly about a handful of them. How fickle of them i guess they are all waiting to show face in Dubai. Fake People.
How To Handle The Haters - Toke Makinwa.
They are everywhere and sometimes we need to know how to handle them.
Nigerian Baby Rap Sensation.
The 9 month old Nigerian rap sensation Khaliyl whose rap video went viral with almost 3 million. Here he raps with his daddy. C-U-T-E.
Wisdom By Femi Fani Kayode.
Kim Kardashian And Baby Fine.
Kim Kardashian was recently rushed to the doctors in tears on Tuesday night, fearing that she had suffered from a miscarriage, it has been reported. She was said to have felt ill shortly after arriving back in Los Angeles from Paris and made an emergency trip to the doctors. A source told the New York Post: 'Kim started feeling ill on the plane from Paris. She was discharged the next day and told by her Doctor to take it easy. The reality star is fine and is said to be on bed rest.
Playing Safe Staring Ini Edo, Tonto Dike, Jibola Dabo And Steel.
It’s a story of young ladies (Ini Edo and Tonto Dikeh) who draw lessons from past failed relationship, thereby out of fear, not ready to put their eggs in one basket and choose to play safe. But the game becomes tough and the quest to play the right card becomes impossible even as the clock ticks and desperation sets in. It was shot in Lagos, Ghana and Dubai.
Mother Who Arranged Strippers For Son Arraigned In Court.
Judy Viger, 33, of Gansevoort, New York, denied the charges of endangering the welfare of a child at her arraignment in the Town of Moreau Court, according to a court spokesperson. If convicted, she would face up to one year in jail. In case you missed it, Read Here. She was arrested after parents of five teenagers who attended the party saw pictures on Facebook.
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OLODO.........Civil Defence Commandant Can't Tell His Organisation's Web Address
The Lagos State Commandant of the Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corp (NSCDC) Obafaiye Shem has said that he has never visited his organisation's website. Speaking as a guest on Channels Television's breakfast programme, Sunrise Daily, Mr Shem said the website opened by impostors to defraud unsuspecting job seekers would be automatically closed. Asked to mention the NSCDC's web address, Mr Shem said "I cannot categorically tell you one now." Probed further to name the organisation's website, the commandant said the address is: www.nscdc. A Channels Television's reporter checked the web address and noticed that it was incorrect. Further search on the internet showed that the correct web address for the Civil Defence Corp is www.nscdc.gov.ng. He should have simply said he didnt know or remember.
Happy International Women's Day.
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International Women’s day - Praise Fowowe.
The woman is the most endangered specie on the planet at the moment. She has been reduced to breast, sex symbol and a thing that must be used by men. Her voice is not heard because she is perceived a weaker vessel and not seen by many as good enough for the No 1 seat in most nations. She has been beaten and battered by many that she has had to pay for marrying a man with her life yet no one is fighting her battles. She has worked herself to death trying to play her domestic role while he sits in front of TV not lifting a hand to assist yet wants a piece of her body at night not considering her tiredness.
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Free Speech Now Under Attack by Congressman Castle
H.R. 5175 is now being pushed through the house. This is the bill co-written by Delaware's own Mike Castle which is intended to reverse the Supreme Court decision from earlier this year that upheld that per the First Amendment's Freedom of Speech clause, government has no business regulating political speech. Those opposed to the ruling said it would flood politics with corporate dollars which would of course dilute the all powerful Union money and of course even out the system and allow EVERYONE a voice. Progressives and their union friends can't have that now can they?
Once again Congressman Castle has his heart in the right place with this bill but he overreaches again with his Progressive friends in Congress. The bill seeks to prohibit government contractors and those negotiating for government contracts from participating in electioneering on behalf of candidates and/or parties. The question is, would this include the unions like SEIU, AFSCME and the AFL-CIO? Would the unions who currently hold government contracts be excluded from the bill? According to the Campaign for Liberty, thanks to the NRA's sweetheart deal that provides "parity" across ideological lines, the answer is yes. Organizations with more than 1 million members across all 50 states and who have been around for more than 10 years would be exempt from this provision. Why not just say no to everyone regardless of size if they have a government contract? Also, why does the bill limit the size of the contract to to above $7,000,000 taxpayer dollars in order to qualify for these rules? If you really want to stop these expenditures by government contractors why don't we stop them all regardless of the size of the contract?
The bill also stops foreign business owners from influencing elections. I haven't read anything in the bill relating to this condition that I do not think is fair. There's no reason foreign nationals should be influencing American elections.
The next section details coordinated campaign communications. This portion of the bill explains that American groups/corporations/unions cannot coordinate their messages with the political campaigns. The bill states that it stops donors from evading “contribution limits by making campaign expenditures which, while technically qualifying as independent expenditures under law, are for all relevant purposes coordinated with candidates and political parties and thus raise the potential for corruption or the appearance of corruption". Someone should talk to SEIU and Barack Obama about that. I guess that means no more block walking with their union shirts on?
The next section mandates that all persons/corporations who make independent expenditures exceeding $10,000 must file an electronic report which will be made public. Corporations must also release the individual names of their employees who contribute to 3rd party funds that are used to make independent political expenditures. The bill further goes on to mandate that companies use specific types of their own funds for candidate assistance and even suggests that they should use a separate bank account.
Disclosure must include the name of the organization, the top funder (if an individual) or the top 5 funders if a group. Each must make a statement authorizing the message.
As usual, government's solution to the problem is to stand on liberty's throat. What we need in the bill is the following AND ONLY THE FOLLOWING:
1.) It must prohibit active government contractors and those negotiating for contracts(including labor unions) from engaging in electioneering.
2.) It must stop majority owned foreign corporations and foreign nationals from engaging in electioneering or contributing to political segregated funds.
3.) It must mandate full disclosure of each organizations total expenditures per candidate and mandate that ever political advertisement contain a full disclosure of the core group that funds it. (this means if the ad is placed by "Working Families for Skunks and Possums" which is funded by ACORN...ACORN must be identified as the funding group)
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Labels: Congress, government, Mike Castle, U.S. Constitution, union
David June 24, 2010 at 2:43 PM
Seriously, he was for it before he was against it.
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She Came, She Saw, Kimbra Absolutely Owned the Stage REVIEW+PHOTOS: KIMBRA @ MOD CLUB THEATRE 2/2/18
Jackson Fleming, 2 years ago 0 2 min read
TORONTO, ON- Probably best known for being featured on Gotye’s world-renowned and massively successful hit song ‘Somebody That I Used to Know’, Kimbra Lee Johnson (aka Kimbra) played to a sold out crowd at the Mod Club February 2nd in Toronto. With already finding commercial success in both Australia and her birthplace of New Zealand, Kimbra’s 2011 debut album Vows has been certified platinum in both countries. Although since then she has flown somewhat under the radar, Kimbra seems to finally be getting the recognition she deserves with the release of her recent singles “Everybody Knows”, “Top of the World” and most recently “Human”.
Kimbra @Mod Club Theatre 2/2/18. Setlist.
Arriving at the venue about an hour before doors opened to get a good front row vantage point, I could already see a sizable line of excited and eager fans lining up in the frigid cold. Nothing, not even the bitter wind, could deter these loyal fans. With the stage set about two hours later and the ground floor and mezzanine packed to the brim with people, the long-awaited performer took the stage. Not really knowing what to expect due to my unfamiliarity with Kimbra and her music, I was immediately struck by her unique stage setup. Being in the center of an elaborate work of four tall screens that came together to form a prism-like shape, she was illuminated by the very cool and artistic designs being displayed onto the four screens from two projectors. The dreamy tones that played off the screens added an already intriguing air about Kimbra that really captivated my attention.
Kicking off the night with a B-side from her first album, Kimbra’s soulful and powerful voice rang throughout as a mysterious synth played eerily in the background. Any pre-conceived notion that I had of her being another generic modern day pop singer completely flew right out the window within the first minute of her opening set. Blending a killer mix of both blues, indie rock, jazz and pop, Kimbra’s performance definitely made a fan out of me.
With her charming demeanor that boasts elegant looks and also a relatable quirky personality, I really appreciated and saw the look of gratitude she displayed to the audience when she thanked the crowd for coming out to support her. Encoring not once but twice, this alone was an enough to make it very clear to me just how much of an impact her performance has on new and returning fans alike that witness her musical prowess in it’s entirety.
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Kimbra @ Mod Club Theatre 2/2/18. Photo by Jackson Fleming (@JacksonHFleming) for www.BlurredCulture.com.
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Preview new augmented reality App to launch 3D printing effect video
Refer to Wikipedia: augmented reality (Augmented Reality, AR for short), is a real time calculation of camera images of locations and angles with corresponding image technology, the objective of this technique is on the screen to interact in the real world and the virtual world. This technology estimated that by 1990. With the operational capabilities of portable electronic products, it is expected that augmented reality will be more and more widely used. 3D software for cost reason has not yet widespread popularity, but the power you have: you can print firearms, houses, and even beef. But also because of high costs, seen on computer models and physical difference in the end, this led to a new App--Augment. Display enhanced techniques used by the software, the user can preview the final result in the phone and tablet.
CS engineer is a professional, founder, CEO Jean-Fran ç OIS Chianetta from age 8 on their own programming, CTO Cyril Champier also has a deep background of cognitive science. The project was a project at his own expense, at present there are 20,000 active users, depending on the customer needs also have paid version available. Software support for STL, Collada, OBJ, 3DS, and a variety of hybrid file format, Augment itself is free software, but there are also "See This On Your Wall and" See This In Your Room "paid features.
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Xbox One eternal pain an exclusive masterpiece has failed to 1080p
Broken Xbox exclusive masterpiece is One of this year's flagship quantum has finally come, however it is their host before you make capital got a blow – and the resolution is to blame.
Although developers had previously promised that the quantum of crushing can be 1080p, but after the test, players discover its actual resolution of only 720p. 720p and 30fps frame rate, it is some shabby.
Generally, hosts an exclusive first party and second party loudly, anyway in the resolution and frame number is to be assured, that after all is the function displayed is the host's face. So, the quantum broken so players will be so surprised at.
But then again again, taking into account the use of the quantum broken so many technologies such as space, lighting, ambient light shield, such as global illumination, Xbox One struggle with in reason.
Microsoft has confirmed the Xbox One is likely to be eligible for a hardware upgrade in the near future, and does not require players to teardown. When can we expect it to dafanshenzhang, provided that the Sony PS4.5 4K game is a fake message.
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Editor's Note: since December 9 after the press conference, Ant has been the subject of controversy from the VR, for closer understanding the logic behind Ant-depending on the product, Lei feng's network came to the Ant technology, direct dialogue with the Ant CEO tanzheng, hoping to clean enough to respond to everyone's question, here is the dialogue records. (Deletion) Disney phone case
Lei feng's network: someone questioning the optical scheme of Ant is to sacrifice perspective for distortion-free, this will affect core immersive virtual reality, what do you think of this?
Tanzheng: first of all, our programme is the largest in the distortionless condition can do perspective. Second, the Ant as the screen is square, and Oculus screen is round, so in the Oculus must be four sides more than the Ant, in this case, Oculus can get better than our sense of immersion.
The problem was, Oculus vision is not clear, it is the clarity of the picture one level lower than the ants. There is a reason that we consider the compatibility of products, although I agree with the perspective of virtual reality is the most important, but it is not unique.
Now we all believe that Oculus is better that way, which I do not deny that, but there is no right or wrong in the way virtual reality, the only thing I think is questionable, since everyone thinks Oculus good that way, why should that other manufacturers do? Wants more users to get relatively inexpensive knockoffs do?
Lei feng's network: it can be understood as the ants want to do, though, is a head-mounted display, a feature of virtual reality can only come in?
Tanzheng: there is no clear divide above is virtual reality, I can tell you, those so-called virtual reality glasses on the market now, they view more than 70 degrees, I think Ant has been emphasized and the oculus may be different, it will certainly have some fans of oculus used this point to attack us, it's normal.
Lei feng's network: that is divided from each other, different definitions of virtual reality?
Tanzheng: Yes, more direct is less 10 ° is not virtual reality? Ant is on the point of distortion maximum angle, oculus crossed that threshold, software correction to virtual reality. Images without distortion, the best thing is that you can make use of existing resources. And this is also a good display must have attributes, all in all I don't think less 10 ° is not virtual reality.
The concept of virtual reality who is not proprietary, Oculus redefines the virtual reality, but it is not the definition of complete, Oculus has no rights to exclusive virtual reality. I believe that ten years later, the definition of virtual reality is quite different, perhaps similar to the inception that is virtual reality, before those that lie on the monitor is garbage.
Lei feng's network: what do you think of compatibility means that do not have highly customized, without a highly customized experience of the early users of virtual reality is not good?
Tanzheng: we've tested a lot of 3D games, run Ant in the game when we define it is a 3D display, which looks like it is better than spending two thousand or three thousand dollars for 3D display. And we are common 3D format that is compatible, so the film this is not a problem. Two pieces I don't define the Ant as virtual reality, so if you play normal game experience is bad, does not mean that virtual reality is to junk.
Situation is now no good virtual reality games, including those that Oculus is only a Demo of the game, if by Oculus that way, China may have to wait two years before they experience the same games. That gap in these two years, players in the country playing? Our idea is to get people to use it, we can and games manufacturers, China's own virtual reality games. Demo done fun, after all, is only a Demo, not a game.
Lei feng's network: did it ever occur to you, if you don't Ant to put on "virtual reality" label may not result in so much controversy?
Tanzheng: I don't understand why less 10 ° is not virtual reality, especially those old Oculus manufacturer, I'd love to know what their future is going to? Don't want to copy the success of oculus, then Tencent collection?
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Tanzheng: is there a user is considered to be wearing glasses, Oculus ' lens is closer to the human eye, so the same lenses can do bigger perspective, and Ant to glasses users reserved space, without considering this, we can do diagonal angle of 120 °. Such a compromise is well worth it, because so many of our players are wearing glasses.
Lei feng's network: considering the light leak problem, how did you consider?
Tanzheng: it is an inevitable problem of folding, we found when testing, there is little light will affect the gameplay experience, and, in some cases, the next light is also a protection for the user, when the next user can feel light.
Lei feng's network: Yes, it will lose the user experience?
Tanzheng: I do not think that there is too much damage, we do the test found, only next to the glare can cause screen glare light is not reflected in the other direction go to the user's eyes. Can't open it's just not that important next, open may be a bit better, but the design will be very cumbersome thing. Our position is mainly for down-home play recreational games, will not develop the horror game. While it can be used to watch 2D/3D movie, so there's no need to design perfect closure.
Lei feng's network: about the differences, you haven't doubted it?
Tanzheng: I think there are different discussion value, plagiarism is definitely easier to us, but we have our own considerations, even in the future, reality tells me is wrong, I'll pay the tuition fee, but Ant is not just a product. We will continue to explore the future of head-mounted displays, even if the product we were wrong, at least we still.
Lei feng's network: Ant's production schedule now to?
Tanzheng: helmet, gun in around the 20th of the month and down-home can deliver, no helmet camera so complicated, a lot of technology is relatively mature, so it will be shipped as soon as possible.
Lei feng's network: that of cooperation ever talk?
Tanzheng: Yes, many game companies are also on the sidelines, they are choosing between different virtual reality glasses, Ant, I believe if this programme is in line with China's national conditions more competitive. Small teams, we will always have to cooperate.
Lei feng's network: If the Internet giant to do virtual reality, such as Tencent, what kind of impact do you think will need to form?
Tanzheng: I think the Giants in this business, do something more selective, Tencent should follow the software more, it missed so much hardware wave, big advantage is money users, but the company who is not specifically to do this.
Lei feng's network: they can acquire professional team to do, if one day the company to talk to you about that thing, what would be your attitude?
Tanzheng: well, this is a reasonable approach, but as I said, we do not focus on virtual reality, if it sold the company at this stage would be a pity, Ant, and there are many more stories to tell.
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New generation of Samsung Gear VR is about to accept a predetermined
Samsung recently released with Galaxy S6 and S6 Edge-compatible Gear VR virtual reality head-mounted device for S6, this product will be in local time on April 24 in the United States best buy corporate website started booking, Samsung and best buy will then be available at official website.
It is reported that the new Gear VR is formed by the Oculus company's VR accessories to create, no screens, new flagship phone with Samsung Galaxy S6 series matches. Guerlain iPhone 5 Case
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Gear VR gave me the feeling is similar to popular smart watch, VR equipment there is no ability to completely replace other electronic equipment, especially Gear VR itself also needs to rely on a Samsung Smartphone, and if it is in use, there is an incoming call, SMS or email, users will also need to answer phone out from Gear VR treatment.
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As the conscience in mobile phone rare enterprise, LG for the maintenance of old equipment can not abandon not give up, pushes the system relatively quickly, with rare efficiency in large international companies. Samsung, for example, not only for product adaptation, optimization systems, also for long product lines provide updates and therefore have lower efficiency. In contrast, LG, not only in the recent LG G5 using the Android system 6.0.1, 6.0 also includes the LG G3/G4 push the Android system, even the Korean version of the G3 Cat.6 with high version 6.0 has received Android update, today, we take you to experience what LG latest Android 6.0 upgrade.
This LG G3 Cat.6 version, the use of mycophenolate mofetil 805 processor and is equipped with a 3GB operation and 32GB internal storage memory and supports SD card expansion, compared with Xiao long 801 version has more configuration, such meagre version 6.0 has received Android update, LG's efficiency can be seen. LG pushes the 6.0 version for Android, instead of the latest 6.0.1, but so quick to upgrade to 6.0, we have been very pleased.
6.0 system style continues the LG's design style, icon and interface does not change much, does not use a LG that new UI on the G5, but 5.0 systems are very close with the G3.
6.0 icon will still square icons for LG G3, LG on the G5 uses a more rounded icons. System comes with picture style the same, but the image size slightly larger, paired with third-party applications with a little incongruous. Because it is a Korean version of the mobile phone, built-in Google full kit.
Widget style is relatively clean, compared with the overall style mix practicality as well.
Initiators have left to activate the smart little secret design, with LG's health, schedule, music and intelligent function. Activate LG health, to remind the movement every day.
Drop down menu and settings exactly the same interface and the Android 5.0 style, only in color with some fine-tuning.
6.0 the biggest upgrade is, of course, for improvement of fluency, although LG G3 Cat.6 Xiao long 805 25.6GBps 2K screen is memory bandwidth to meet demand, but under the LG official 5.0 system, there's always that feeling of little Cottonwood. In we will LG G3 Cat.6 upgrade to 6.0 zhihou, smooth degrees can be described as sharply upgrade (LG G3 international version for mycophenolate mofetil Dragon 801, memory bandwidth only for 805 of General, for 14.9GBps, actual performance may will slightly poor), except in more task switch interface upper and lower sliding still has off frame of phenomenon exists outside, other part of operation almost not exists off frame or Caton of problem, using experience has has not small of upgrade. In addition, the LG 6.0 still isn't in as Samsung provides three nebulae localized, personalized features such as and s Assistant, to know the hardware more and more homogenous today, after buying mobile phones, manufacturers later catches the user support service of heart, LG still remained to be done in this regard.
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Steve Ballmer Linux threat and gates no longer go road
15 years ago, former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer to open source system Linux as a "cancer", recently, his attitude began to soften.
On Wednesday at a dinner organized by the fortune, Ballmer said, when his position was correct, and current threats to Microsoft's Linux has entered a "rear view mirror".
Ballmer said: "by that war, Microsoft is full of a lot of money. Ensure the Windows position on the company's revenue is very important. "
Recently, before Microsoft began to change hostile attitudes. This week, Microsoft announced that it will sell Linux-compatible SQL Server database software.
Ballmer said that he would like to see this change. He also sent a message to the incumbent CEO support.
Ballmer reiterated his views put forward last December for the shareholders ' meeting: more transparent information disclosure. Microsoft should disclose separately in software, hardware and cloud computing business revenues and profits.
In January 2000, as Microsoft CEO Ballmer, in later years, because the "Internet bubble" burst, technology stocks continued to fall. During Ballmer's entire tenure, Microsoft's share price has dropped by more than 40%. In 2013, he resigned, and left the company.
Ballmer also has explained the reasons for resigning, is the speed of change because the Board was unhappy with Microsoft. Mr Ballmer said: "no matter how fast I drive at a speed of change, there will always be doubts in all aspects, including employees, directors, investors, partners, suppliers and customers, and so on. They doubted whether I was serious, and may even suspect me. "
So he decided to retire and hopes that Microsoft's next CEO will be able to change more quickly. In explaining his decision, Ballmer was in tears. He said: "maybe I'm old-fashioned, I need to move on. I love what you are doing works, but lead Microsoft into the new era is one of the best ways to speed up the change of the new leader. "
However, Ballmer has led Microsoft to more than $ 20 billion in net profit but it is indisputable fact. He has said that under his leadership, Microsoft is the most profitable company on Earth, and this made him very proud. Paul Frank iPad Air 2 Case
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Ballmer said the Nadela is a good CEO, market sentiment changed only because of a new Chief Executive. Paul Frank iPad Air 2 Case
He said: "the mobilization of knowledge caused a change in market sentiment. "
In addition, he also acknowledged that he and Bill Gates no longer close, and went their way.
Ballmer is a very positive and optimistic person, after I left Microsoft, he did not go to other tech companies, but in 2014, with a record $ 2 billion offer, winning the NBA Los Angeles Clippers (Los Angeles Clippers) ownership, he seemed to be enjoying the feeling of having a team.
Earlier this month, the Clippers home game at Staples Center, Ballmer put on amazing scene, his trampoline, completed an action stretching hands Dunks, everyone was shocked, although is a Spring mattress, but not smooth, full marks.
Recently, Forbes magazine announce the 2016 world rich list, NBA Los Angeles Clippers boss Steve Ballmer with his net worth of $ 23.5 billion, has become the most wealthy team owners.
After leaving Microsoft, Ballmer also participated in the exercise, which has become his interest. He said: "you have a lot of time to exercise, meditation, relaxation. This is a very good thing. "
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Samsung s new patented headset can play 3D holographic projection
Remember when back in September 2014, Samsung has obtained a patent, the patent is the new Samsung smart bracelet, but now, it is clear the patent is still has the potential to become future devices. In addition to the competition between Samsung and Apple hardware, software services, it is clear that patent war is the friend of another stage that dogfight.
This week, the United States Patent and Trademark Office announced a new Samsung's patent, and the patented feels like a smart evolution version of the bracelet, because it turned into can let us wear on a neck of "smart necklaces." Disney iPhone case
The device is designed to be wireless headphones for listening to music, if you think it's just listening to music, then you're wrong, we simply set up, it is going to become a communications headset, we can use it to answer the phone. Even more amazing is that in addition to these two features, the device can also make use of the 3D holographic projection display in the user interface in the air, if everyone in the street using a 3D holographic projection display interface, the scenes can be very interesting. Disney phone case
Of course, is also an old saying, to obtain a patent does not mean that this device will actually appear on the market, Apple look at Samsung's old friends, we often can see Apple's new patent, but when is it that these patents can see the rising of the Sun, there is no spectrum.
But times and technology will eventually be developed, as with virtual reality and augmented reality devices, more and more hot, perhaps these science and technology vendors are going to think about the 3D holographic projection might, after all, if our smart devices can bring us anywhere, anytime 3D holographic projection, which can bring our life quite a bit of interest.
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Small series the newspaper covered some of the more unusual and interesting gadgets, this is the most common, but the most practical suction cup bracket.
Is about two small things, both Chuck's accessories.
The small suction cups can be easily adsorbed on the phone back, adsorbed on the smooth back it works best on your phone.
For adsorbed on the Samsung Galaxy chart on S3, but S3 is curved at the bottom, so upright a little bit unstable, if the bottom is more flat, 2 such as millet or MX 2 very strong stable support.
If it is in the back, there is no pressure. To adjust the angle, simply suckers and adjustment position. This simple little suckers, but is the most practical and convenient. Small series on some selling cell phone accessories shop with RMB 1 buy.
And this sucker, it is the phone can be adsorbed on the smooth surface of a suction cup accessories. Dolce Gabbana
For example, you put it on the back of the phone, this sucker.
Then you can phone the adsorption on glass ... ...
Of course, this action is wrong, leisure time to play can be, this sucker is not absorbed for a long time, because of gravity, the longer, suction capacity will be less. So maybe an hour or two, it will fall off, if adsorption lighter phones can absorb more long. Dolce & Gabbana iPhone 6 Cases
Now a lot of people in front of the steering wheel flat, place a friction, silicone mat placed cell phone, phone does not easily slide, but in some urgent cases such as brake, turn, inertia will make the phone drop. If you use the direct adsorption of sucker pads as long as it is not subjected to strong human pull or force, basically won't fall out. So the great use of this suction cup accessories are in your car, put mobile phone trapped in cars. Small series of accessories in-store purchase price of 3 Yuan.
The most effective, instead, it is often the simplest.
This suction cup accessories do you like? If you want to see what kind of accessories can also make mention that when small series after sweeping the streets will pay attention to that particular aspect of the parts, and then write the introduction.
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Chinese version of Pebble smart watches
A lot of people told me, after a fresh, their Apple Watch most commonly used is the "view alerts" and "view" these two functions. Pebble that two things can be done, and whether the iPhone or Android phone, are qualified for the job. Even if it is on a business trip, as long as a week, do not need to bring the charger.
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It’s been a while since I haven’t presented a pet project on this site (or really, anything at all), and for a good reason: I haven’t done any. You see, 6 months ago I began a master program in computer science – not software engineering, and as you’ll see the two are quite different from each other. And ever since I started, I hadn’t had any idea of things I could develop in my spare time. I’d like to say it’s because I have too much work to do, but the truth is, I never worked less than since I’m here. Not because there is nothing to do, far from it, but because every day that passes see me losing more and more interest for the computer arts. I’ve lost my fascination for the source code, my thrill at the idea of building from scratch and more globally the curiosity toward the virtual world that characterized me some years earlier.
I can see some reasons for that: first, I, like a lot of people (particularly men, it seems), am a creature of passion. Ever since I was a kid I’ve been frequently victim to sudden strikes of interest toward a particular project or idea, spending a lot of time and energy on it at first, then gradually losing interest until I just kinda pushed the whole thing under the rug and forgot about it. I’ve been doing it for everything: hobbies, software projects, video games – hell, even romance in a way. So I now find myself wondering whether this whole software developer thing was just another fad, one that lived for a very long time sure, but still a fad. I don’t really buy it, but I know myself and that definitely sounds like the kind of things I’m capable of.
Another, more likely explanation come from the lack of inspiration raised by my studies. Last year, I was in what is called in France a professional bachelor programme. That is, a very vocational programme, aimed at producing ready-to-work technicians. That meant a school system that looked more like high-school than academia, with fixed teachers, regular hours, long days, and a small class of only 20 students. The classes focused on real-world technologies, involved actual developers coming to give lectures, and included plenty of hands-on lab work where we built databases, toyed around with android UIs, and studied the inner working of the JVM and other tools. Sure, we didn’t learn about big-O notation or algorithm theory or that kind of stuff, so some might find those studies undignified, but I find it was both practical, inspiring, and still challenging. I mean, it’s still software development. Just because it’s not entirely theoretical doesn’t mean we were breaking rocks with a stick in a carry.
By contrast, my new studies are about real, actual Computer Science, the likes of which you find taught on american campuses and criticized as useless and too removed from the real world on Hacker News. We’re talking automata, tree traversals and compiler construction here. Some might find it interesting, and if you’re pursuing in research in academia it could be the right choice for your, but for people who actually expect to work in software development, it’s almost entirely useless. I’ve heard people saying that it build your mind, but sorry, I don’t see it. I’ve been programming long before I’ve learned what goes into a compiler, and you don’t have to know all about timed non-deterministic automata networks to be proficient in design patterns, software architecture or other actually useful topics, all of which would be a much better use of time than what we’re “learning” now. As a result, my motivation for my studies have really dropped since the first time I started going to school, 20 years ago (we start that shit early over here).
No just… no
Anyway. I’ll have to do it whether I want it or not, since I can’t conceive dropping out, and I don’t have the budgets to add extra semesters to my studies, so I guess I’ll just have to man up and take it. The problem being that it’s what I’ve told myself for months and I’m still almost physically unable to focus on my studies, choosing instead to devote my attention to literally anything else (in this particular case, this blog post, while I should be reading and working on an assignment related to the stuff in that slide up there). My involvement with the VIS is particularly tricky in this regard, as it gives me a lot of things to do, while avoiding the guilt of not working. Hey, I’m still doing stuff! Yeah, except not doing it will not get me kicked out of the school.
I’m going to keep trying and hope that my motivation will come back, but so far, I’m not too confident. We’ll see.
Project: Progagil V8
August 2, 2012 Project
Last year’s summer was by far the longest one for me. 5 months, from April when I finished my associate degree to October when I started my next. So obviously I started a kickass roadtrip across Europe!
Ha, ha, not really. In fact, I pretty much spent the 5 months at my parent’s house. My nice, cosy parent’s house by the coast, but still. Fortunately, I wasn’t alone in this endless summer: An old friend of mine was here too, and he contacted me with an opportunity for a summer project. It turned out that his mother was heavily into dog sports, and especially “dog agility”, aka gymnastics (or army drills), for dogs: running, jumping through hoops, crawling inside tunnels, you name it.
There are contests of this thing, where people with way too much time on their hands run along their companions as fast as they can while trying to avoid making mistakes. Every dog sport club in France that wishes to organize an agility contest must be registered with the CNEAC, the “National Commission for Cynophile Education and Activity” (whose tag line is “For the betterment of the canine race” — as you’ll see, those guys kind of sounds like cartoon villains). They coordinate the ranking and contest of every single dog club everywhere in the country, so they must have a rock-solid IT system, right? Well, not really. They do, at least, force the canine clubs to use a single software to store the contests results.
Now this would normally be the point where I show you the face of state-of-the-art canine contest management software, except that it won’t work on my computer. Why ? Because my Windows 7 rig doesn’t support 16-bit instruction sets. Oh yeah, did I mention it’s a black and white text program ?
Either Zork, or dog contests. I’m not sure.
Yep, that’s a DOS program shoddily adapted for Windows. Progagil V6, as it is called, come straight from 1994, a year already blessed with the birth of Justin Bieber (no, really, google it).
Although it has been “maintained” over the years (this major version actually come from 2005, and minor bugfixes and addition might have been added no more than 2 years ago), the software is slow, buggy, cumbersome, requires a third-party (and commercial) software to use modern printers (it was designed with dot matrix printers in mind), stores its data in some sort of tricked out CSV files, and has a lengthy manual that contains the sentence “if you do exactly what I say, you shouldn’t encounter any problem” more times than any program should (Hint: it’s zero. The software adapt to the user, not the other way around).
Every time you start a contest you must spend several hours setting it up carefully, lest you ruin the whole endeavor at the tiniest mistake, and at the end you have to print dozens of results sheets with all sort of useless data and send it through slug mail to the CNEAC headquarter in Paris. “Kafkaian” doesn’t begin to describes it.
So the clubs rightfully complained that Progagil V6 was a huge pain in the ass, and in 2007, the CNEAC begrudgingly agreed that it was time to let the ole’ Progagil V6 go. I say “begrudgingly”, because, of course, it was the brainchild of a senior member of the association, who invested a lot of effort into it and didn’t want to see its baby tossed into the bin. But he eventually folded, and the association contacted a software vendor to try to make a new, non-insane software to manage dog contests.
2 years later, for undisclosed reasons (but I would be surprised if the fault was entirely on the developers’ side), the project failed, and now the CNEAC and the company are tied in a lengthy legal battle. Meanwhile, Progagil “15th anniversary edition” V6 was still in service.
In 2010, a new and younger (read : 50 years-old instead of 70) team of amateur programmers appeared in the ranks of the CNEAC and announced that they’ll do a new version themselves, using such cutting edge technology as PHP and SQL databases. The release of this shining piece of software was slated for summer 2010, then early 2011, then mid 2011… And not only was there no indication that the software was actually a thing (rumors stated that the man responsible for the new software had stopped everything in the spring and decided to restart from scratch), but the few reports of field tests of the software were disastrous. It was clear that Progagil “V7”, at is was temporarily called, would not be ready until a long time, if at all. And for the clubs, that meant several more months or years with a software that had seen the birth and death of everyone that was ever entered in its database (good thing it was canine sport).
Dogs died waiting for this thing.
So there was, in fact, an opportunity right here. The clubs were pressuring the central administration for change. The association had already proved that they were willing to show some cash for a new version of the program. The only problem was convincing them that we were actually able to deliver, which would be arduous, since, you know, the last guys that told them that were a professional company of developers, while we were only two students on summer vacations. To be honest, even I was dubious of my own ability to actually finish the damn thing, since most of my other projects were left suspended forever in a half-finished state (see: the rest of this blog), and that clearly wouldn’t have been enough if the software was supposed to be used by hundreds of clubs in a near-professional setting.
So we instead decided to stay hidden and wait until we had an already completed version of the software. We would then surface, contact the CNEAC, show them our product (probably by demonstrating it to dog club owners first so we could have a “popular support”), and tell them “So you can pay us right here and now and it’s yours, or you can continue your infighting and dabbling in software development for some years while your clubs are getting more and more pissed off”.
Sure, it wasn’t the greatest plan. It was a shitty plan, even, as :
We didn’t secure any exclusivity on the project, meaning that anyone (the software company, the original developers, but most of all the new guy) could release before us and almost certainly beat us, since they already had contacts inside the association, and
It put us at a disadvantage if we ever came to the sale process. If negotiations went awry, they could simply tell us “Ok, no deal. We can wait until our in-house developer finish its own version. But you, what are you gonna do with your ultra-specialized software? Sell it to another dog club federation? Whoops, looks like we’re the only ones. So what now?”. Sure, we might have been able to contact foreign dog clubs, but this wasn’t something that we were quite ready to pursue, at least not until selling our first copy in France.
So, grabbing the V6’s data files, sheets for a future contest in our town and some volunteers’ complaints, we started working on our version of Progagil, the V8.
The program itself is not really interesting. Glorified CRUD with a bunch of views for entering, sorting and displaying parameters about a contest, some neat statistics and other features, but overall, it didn’t exactly change the world. There are some interesting point, though: this was my first time using SQLite, as I always used MySQL or other “heavy” DBMS before. Installing a MySQL server on every dog club’s secretary’s computer was obviously impractical… or so it seemed, but as you’ll see later, not everyone agrees that it’s the IT equivalent of installing a nuclear reactor in the backyard of the house you’re outfitting with heating equipment. But anyway. Working with SQLite was great. I loved the simplicity and the lightness of the database-as-a-file concept.
Another point of interest, which I still don’t know if I should be proud or ashamed of, is the sort-of-ORM I handcrafted for the program. At first I looked for existing solutions, but it was insane. Everything was either awfully complicated or out-of-date, and most of the ORM were engineered toward big, millions-of-LOC enterprise programs running on Oracle databases. After failing to adapt the NHibernate tutorial to SQLite (it was written for SQL Server), I scrapped the whole thing and decided that dammit, I was going to do it myself! And so did I, by using a mix of reflection and standard parametrized SQL statements.
It was remarkably simple to use; you just created your objects with either an existing id (if you wanted to retrieve data) or no id (if you wanted to create a new one), and it will commit everything to the database for you. Every accessor was then completed with the appropriate SELECT / UPDATE queries, so it was pretty transparent: you just used your object like you’ll do normally, and everything was replicated transparently. Naturally, it lacked every single feature that you can imagine, including ACID transactions, complex queries and a bunch of other basic SQL perks, like sorting or grouping (I remember considering using LINQ, but dropped it for some reason). Also, the performance was, well, not that great. As could be expected for a reflection-powered piece of dark arts hacked together by someone who never took a theoretical programming class and couldn’t find out the big-O of his algorithms if his life depended on it. But it worked.
// This method re-fill the object's fields from the DB.
protected void refresh()
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string txtQuery = "SELECT * FROM " + this.GetType().Name + " WHERE id = " + id;
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//And this invoke it
object castedObject = castMethod.Invoke(this, new object[] { data.Rows[0][getFieldName(fields[i].Name)] });
fields[i].SetValue(this, castedObject);
I warned you it was dirty.
We toiled the whole summer until it started to look like we could make it fly. So we contacted a local contest organizer and asked them if we could use our system along with the official one, so we could try it out with real data, and maybe talk to the right people in the audience while we were at it.
Well, it turned out to be less of a commercial demonstration and more of a live debugging session, because, as Moltke the Elder famously said, no plan survives contact with the enemy. But it was fun, not to mention incredibly enlightening, to see everything that can go wrong where you’re on live current: bad data, duplicate data, missing data, unintended usages, unexpected usages, and of course, a whole bunch of “wow, this UI really sucks when you’re playing with more than 10 elements”.
After that event however, it was starting to look good. I wouldn’t say that I was proud of it, firstly because this is a goddamn dog contest management application, and also because the UI was ridiculous, with giant buttons and unnecessary progress meters, and the inner workings of the app weren’t exactly rock solid. I was (and still am) frustrated by the MVC model, which I think I never managed to implement correctly. Well I hope that I never did at least, because if that’s it, dear god, what a mess.
But anyway, by that point it was good enough to be at least presented to the CNEAC’s brass. Aaaaand of course, that’s when the news broke that the guys behind progagil V7 decided they had had enough of the vaporware label and actually released something. Or at least they started a beta. Or they will. Anyway, people at the CNEAC believed that this was finally over and were understandably reluctant to pony up some dough for a redundant software made by who-knows-who. And in fact, more than a year later, the “new” software has been deployed at least in some clubs, and the first reviews are, let’s put it gently, less than stellar. Mainly because it requires the installation of a whole WAMP stack on the club’s computer. No, really. Because it’s php, you see. The guy only knew php et MySQL and didn’t want to change his habits by chosing something maybe a bit more appropriate to the task at hand, so he’s now pushing this insanity to every single club in the country.
You know what, I think I better keep maintaining our version so we can sell it in 2027 when they’ll finally have had enough of this one.
Project: EDT Watcher
June 15, 2012 Project
EDT Watcher (a rather nonsensical working name, “EDT” standing for “Emploi du Temps”, a timetable) is a Java library and an unfinished Android app designed to access the timetables of my home university of Nantes in a more user-friendly manner.
Nantes uses a web-based timetable system by Celcat for almost every department (engineering, humanities, medical school, etc). Those timetable are comprised of a large (~ 7000 lines for my former class, though we were not the busiest one) XML file detailing the lessons and events of the whole year (although it starts out empty and is then edited throughout the year as lessons are scheduled), and a bit of HTML/CSS and Javascript to make it easier to browse. Quite simple, and fine for most use cases (eg., looking at your next lessons or visualizing your week workload). However, it lacked some advanced features, and more importantly, didn’t display on mobile phones, at least not android phones.
So I started working on a small Java program to retrieve the XML file, parse it, and store the data in appropriate beans so it can be used later. Nearly the whole university is using Celcat’s system, which is a huge advantage: I start by regexin’ this page to get every department’s timetable’s sub-site’s url, and then I go to the department’s site’s group index (typically the url, + “/gindex.html”, for instance this is the group list for my department), and, if it’s not password protected, I can access the groups’ timetables. Now I can easily get the XML file for a selected group and process it.
After that, the group’s data is stored inside a Timetable object, containing an array of 52 Week objects, themselves containing an EnumMap mapping weekdays to Day objects, which hold the lessons in an ArrayList. These lessons comprises a list of teachers, rooms and modules (collectively grouped in a Resource class), a start and end times, and an ascending link to their Day.
I have to admit that it is not the greatest architecture I have ever designed, and it might probably be easier to do away with the Week and Weekdays abstraction and just list the days with their lessons in a collection, but it allow to easily perform operations on a week, and it’s the easiest way to map to the original XML files, which don’t mention days, but use weekdays and week numbers instead. Well, not even week numbers, but a 52-chars-long string with either “N” or “Y” symbolizing the position of the week in the year. Weird.
All in all, the original material seems to be of dubious quality, with esoteric formatting and a lot of redundant information, but I tried to do my best. Also, there was a lot of date and time stuff and the Java native tools in this category are… a bit lacking, so I used the popular Joda Time library instead, and it was a huge improvement.
Once I finished the whole parsing thing I added a command-line interface and a Google Agenda exporter, and then I started to work on the Android app, and, well, that’s where I stalled. I did a welcome screen, two sets of list to browse through departments and then groups, and a screen indicating the next lesson, its location and data (teachers, start and end time…)
It was actually pretty useful, and I used it often throughout the year to find my room without having to walk through half the campus to read the only timetable displayed in a corridor, but it lacks advanced features that I wanted to implement, such as a week / month timetable, statistics, and maybe an alarm clock based on your actual timetable.
As I said elsewhere, I’ll be leaving Nantes University soon, so I’m unsure about releasing it because it would means that I might get tangled up in support mails and possibly legal issues with the University and/or Celcat. However I still want to work on it, and it would be a shame to let it go to waste, since unlike most of my other projects, this one has real, demonstrated use cases. I’ll think about working on it during my last months here, and either release it in a user-friendly form if I think I can handle the support or find a successor / publish the source code on github before leaving. What do you think ?
Project: Pong Fight
May 25, 2012 Project
Pong Fight (named like that because it was supposed to be AI vs AI) is a Java pong remake that I made during my sophomore year.
Part of our exams included creating 5 mini-projects illustrating the different skills that we acquired during the two years of our programme, including object-oriented programming, imperative programming, database integration, GUI-making and so forth. Most people made simple CRUD applications, and indeed this was the case of two of my 5 projects. The others included a very simple text encryption software, made 2 years earlier (thus being my first real project), and the Casio compiler that I already mentioned, which was even less completed then. And of course when I actually took the exam, the examiners, two old ladies, told me they “hadn’t time for games” and tested me on the filler CRUD software. I got a measly 13/20. What a bunch of dicks.
A graphic designer I ain’t.
But back to Pong Fight. It was from a time where we transitioned from procedural programming to OOP, even though we used Java from the start. So yeah, for more than a year we had “static” and “public class” keywords floating around and had absolutely no idea what they did, except randomly generating errors. So when I started the project, everything was in the same class. After a while I divided it, but this was a bit like dividing the code in multiple files in C: every single var and method were static, and the whole thing was completely contrary to everything the language stand for. So when we eventually learned OOP, I tried to restructure it, but it was a massive endeavor, especially since I wasn’t exactly a Java expert then and didn’t want to destroy the project while refactoring (which I did. Multiple times).
* Handles checkbox-style menu
* @param x (int) : x position of the click event
* @param size (int) : number of elements in the menu
public int checkboxMenu(int x, int y, int size) {
for(int i = 0; i< size; i++) {
if(x >= Main.settingsFile.getSizeX()/8 &&
x <= Main.settingsFile.getSizeX()/8 + 40 &&
y >= Main.settingsFile.getSizeY()/5 + i*50 &&
y <= Main.settingsFile.getSizeY()/5 + 40 + i*50) {
I made my own game “engine”, meaning that I had to reimplement everything from mouse events to menu widgets. It was fun.
The result is a bizarre accumulation of static elements, singletons and bona-fide classes and objects living in (relative) harmony. Another part of the game that was completely cobbled together was the features: at the beginning I wanted a simple pong game that two basic AIs could play together. But after a while I got caught in the project, and added player support, which meant I had to handle keyboard events. Then I added an (in-game) option panel, which meant that I had to handle mouse events and multiple screens. Then I added sounds. Then I added graphic options. Then I made it possible to resize the window. Then I added the jewel in the crown: network support. I delved into the Socket javadoc and eventually managed to make my pong playable across two computer in our lab, and then added spectator support, so other computers could connect to a game and watch it. My fellow classmates (and more importantly, my teachers) were in awe, and I got 19/20 at our mock exam when I presented it.
Too bad I didn’t get to present it at the real thing.
Dicks.
Project: Casio Basic Editor
I guess most of us had one of these ridiculously outdated graphing calculators in high school or college. You know what I’m talking about: 2 colors? 64K memory? One of the handful of items that still runs on AA batteries? Yes, these ones. Now, I guess real geeks had a TI calculator of some sort, or maybe another, more street cred-worthy brand. Well, I didn’t. I had a Casio. Specifically, a Casio Graph 35+, better know in the rest of the world as a Fx-9750 Plus:
Back then, "power graphic" didn't exactly mean what you'd expect.
It boasted a badass 128*64 screen, 763 features (of which I used maybe 30 in my whole education), the ability to program in a BASIC-like language, and absolutely zero computer connectivity. It only had a proprietary socket that allowed you to connect your Fx-9750 to other Casio calculators. Like you would connect Gameboys to exchange pokemons. Only, you know, sadder.
Since then they added a USB port, so for the low price of $80, you can allow your computer to discover how it feels to be stuck in the nineties. But seriously, that would have been a great tool to export and import some of the aforementioned Casio code to a computer where you could have edited it, tested it and so forth. Sadly, nothing of the sort existed back then, so I decided that even though there was nothing I could do on the connectivity part (short of jury-rigging a usb-to-casio cable, which apparently is possible, though I wouldn’t risk it), I could try to act on the edit and test part.
So I fired up Eclipse and set to work on a Casio BASIC Editor, with a poor man’s IDE, a simplified emulator and a compiler (well, interpreter, technically). It was a fun project, but also a hard one, since I had no previous experience in compilers, languages and that sort of things. I was helped by a friend of mine, and at the end I managed to obtain something that wasn’t too shabby. I divided the application in several parts :
A system unit, simulating the memory and screen of the calculator,
public final static int SIZEX = 128;
public final static int SIZEY = 64;
public final static int NB_FILES = 6;
public final static int NB_LISTS = 6;
* The user has access to 60 kB of memory.
* Each number in the list represent 10 bytes of memory,
* therefore the theoretical maximum size of a list
* is 6 000 numbers.
public final static int NB_ROWS = 6000;
private int currentListFile = 1;
private Stack<Double> stack = new Stack<Double>();
private Stack textStack = new Stack();
private Vars var = new Vars();
private boolean[][] screen = new boolean[SIZEX][SIZEY];
private double[][][] lists = new double[NB_FILES][NB_LISTS][NB_ROWS];
A GUI, displaying the screen of the device, a code editor, and a debug console,
And obviously, the compilation unit.
The parsing of the code is divided in three parts. First, the code goes through a lexical analyzer that removes the syntaxic sugar and other human-friendly features to reduce the code to its basic elements.
Then, the lexed code is parsed. In my case, it was basically a large switch structure that created a tree of the program. Each instruction was turned into a class, which defined its name, behavior during execution, and more important, the kind of data or statement that it contains. So for instance, a statement like NUMBER (representing any kind of numeric constant) can only contains a number, but a statement like PLUS contains two parameters, which can be statements too. Some statements are even more complex and involve entire blocks of instructions (IF or LOOP, for instance). Finding and parsing the parameters of each statement is thus a bit complicated, especially since there are infix, prefix and postfix operators, control structures (including GOTOs), and ambiguous statements (the “-” sign can be used both to denote a subtraction, but also to indicate a negative number). So in the end, I obtain a list of statements that contains statements that contains statements, repeated ad infinitum.
Once the list is complete, it executes it. Each statement has an exec() method that represent what it’s supposed to do. Sometime it’s assigning a variable, sometimes it’s writing to the screen, but most of the time it’s retrieving, modifying and pushing numbers from and to the memory.
Let’s take an example :
0->A
A+1->A
Locate 1,1,A
This code initializes the variable “A” (there is only 28 variables, A-Z and two special symbols) to 0, then increments it, then prints it on the top left corner of the screen. Once lexed, this resolve to :
NUMBER(0) ASSIGN VAR(A) EOL
VAR(A) PLUS NUMBER(1) ASSIGN VAR(A) EOL
LOCATE NUMBER(1) COMMA NUMBER(1) COMMA VAR(A) EOL
Numbers and vars are encapsulated in appropriate keywords and instructions are ended by an EOL token, but it’s little more than the uppercase version of the code above. The real magic happens during the compilation:
Assign ENumber(0.0) to EVar(A)
Assign Plus
(EVar(A), ENumber(1.0)) to EVar(A)
Locate ENumber(1.0), ENumber(1.0), EVar(A)
There are three top-level statement here: the initial assignment, that takes the number parameter and assigns it to the var parameter; the second assignment, that takes a plus parameter and assigns it to the var parameter; and the locate statement, that outputs the var parameter to the two number parameters. Note that the plus statement contains itself two parameters, the var and the number.
The code tree is then executed, which means that “0” is pushed onto the stack, then moved to the A var, the content of the A var and 1 are pushed onto the stack, they are retrieved, added, pushed to the A var, then 1, 1 and the content of the A var are pushed onto the stack, then used to write to the screen on the tile (1,1). And a beautiful “1” appear on the corner of the screen.
I didn’t finish the project, sadly. Most features are implemented, including “if” statements and some loops, but there are still a bunch of issues that need ironing out, meaning it probably won’t work as intended for anything but the most trivial bit of code. The harder part is done though, so maybe I’ll get back to it one day to finish it, or at least clean it up nicely and release the source code on github.
If you’re interested, feel free to send me an e-mail (you’ll find it on the main site). I’ll be happy to talk about it, or about similar projects that you or others have been working on.
This is my nerd-friendly blog. Here I'll present things that I've done, things I should have done, things I'll do one day, and maybe even things I should never have done (like composing this sentence's syntax).
I'm a 21-years-old development student from Nantes, France, a quite dynamic city by the ocean. My main skill is Java programming, but I'm currently expanding my field of study to web languages. Additionally, I worked with various .NET technologies, managed several of the most popular DBMS, generally tinkered and fuddled with a bunch of miscellaneous techs, and even tried my hand at functional languages. I'm what you could call a jack of all trades, but I do expect to become master of at least one in the future :)
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Abcam plc
Leading off our roundup of tools for pharma and biotech, late June brought news that BioTek’s Synergy Neo2 Hybrid Multi-Mode Microplate Reader received expanded certification from Cisbio Bioassays for their proprietary HTRF technology, a TR-FRET assay platform used in the life sciences. Synergy Neo2 was recently updated with an optional TRF laser. The TRF laser provides ultra-fast measurement speed, along with optimal sensitivity for critical screening applications like time-resolved fluorescence (TRF) and time-resolved fluorescence energy transfer (TR-FRET) assays. Synergy Neo2 now offers HTRF certification with both its flash lamp and laser excitation modes, and is an ideal solution for high-throughput screening (HTS) and core labs facilitating ultra-fast processing of high-throughput biochemical and cell-based assay workflows.
“Optimizing a cellular or biochemical assay starts by choosing the right instrumentation and detection mode,” explained Xavier Amouretti, product management director at BioTek. “This is the key to the consistent assay performance necessary for the researchers who trust BioTek. Matching the new certified Synergy Neo2 TRF Laser option with the popular Cisbio proprietary HTRF technology brings the ultimate in speed and performance to many core and HTS screening laboratories.”
Mass flow controllers specifically for biotech
HATFIELD, Pa.—Brooks Instrument, a world leader in advanced flow, pressure, vacuum and vapor delivery solutions, has introduced two new mass flow controller (MFC) models designed specifically for biotechnology applications: the SLA5800 Series Biotech and the SLAMf Series Biotech. The company added special biotech option packages to both its industry-leading SLA5800 Series MFC and its hose-down/wash-down suitable SLAMf Series thermal mass flow controllers, creating a Performance Package and Premium Package for each platform.
Using the new performance-level SLA5800 Series Biotech MFC or the SLAMf Series Biotech MFC, manufacturers of biotech equipment can potentially reduce the number of MFCs they need for their equipment, allowing them to simplify their designs and reduce system costs. For end-users, the new MFCs will allow them to reduce purchasing complexity and spare parts inventory requirements.
“We focused on addressing several key bioprocessing industry challenges and developed features to enhance our proven SLA5800 Series and SLAMf Series MFCs with additional benefits for equipment manufacturers and end-users,” said Steven Kannengieszer, the company’s director of industrial marketing. “The result is a flexible, high-performance solution that combines simplicity and efficiency to deliver better gas flow control and reduce system cost and complexity.”
Abcam enters cell editing market through acquisition
CAMBRIDGE, U.K. & Beijing—Abcam plc, a global innovator in life-sciences reagents and tools, recently announced the acquisition of the entire live cell line and lysates portfolio of EdiGene Inc., a leading company focused on developing genome-editing technologies into novel therapeutics for a broad range of diseases and creative solutions to advance drug discovery.
Commenting on the acquisition, Cheri Walker, senior vice president of corporate development at Abcam, said: “We are excited to be able to bring the same level of industry-leading quality and data to the cell lines market as we have to research antibodies. The cell line market is in the early stages of development as a research tool, where the provision of more choice, with the right gene targets in the right cell lines, will allow the market to rapidly expand.”
Added Dong Wei, CEO of EdiGene: “Following our strategic decision to focus on advancing our pipeline of biotherapeutic products and high-throughput genome screening services, we are pleased to be transitioning our complete cell line portfolio to the team at Abcam. As recognized industry leaders in the provision of biologic reagents and tools, we are confident Abcam will be able to provide expert support to our global user-base.”
AutoGen launches the XTRACT 16+
HOLLISTON, Mass.—Earlier this year, AutoGen introduced its newest fully automated workflow, the XTRACT 16+, which provides fast and high-quality DNA or RNA from all molecular diagnostic, biological, clinical and forensic sample types. In addition to the applications customers have come to trust from AutoGen, this workflow offers solutions that fully automate the extraction of DNA and RNA from FFPE (including the deparaffinization step, without the use of xylene or harsh chemicals) and many other protocols.
“This instrument is a perfect addition to our already robust portfolio,” said Michael Messier, CEO of AutoGen. “The XTRACT 16+ provides solutions to the applications our customers have been asking us for. We’re proud to offer a reasonably priced, extremely reliable workflow that our customers have come to trust with our existing products. Of course, all of this will come with the same unwavering support and industry-leading service that we’ve been providing for 20 years.”
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Kobe Steel scandal deepens over quality of products used in cars and aircraft
Japan’s third-biggest steelmaker, Kobe Steel is embroiled in a deepening scandal over the quality of products including aluminium and copper used in cars, aircraft, space rockets and defence equipment.
On Wednesday, the company said it had found one case of falsified data on iron ore powder – mainly used in vehicle parts such as gears – that had been shipped to a customer. It follows Kobe’s admission at the weekend that it had falsified figures about the strength and durability of its aluminium and copper products, which are used in the transport and defence industries.
Kobe’s shares plummeted 18% after the iron ore admission, which brought the company’s stock-market losses since the scandal broke to $1.6bn (£1.2bn). It is examining other possible data manipulations going back a decade.
Toyota, one of its customers, described it as a “grave issue”.
A new bullet train at Tokyo station. The Central Japan Railway Company said some parts from Kobe did not meet industrial standards, but there were no safety issues. Photograph: Hiroyuki Ozawa/Alamy
Kobe’s customers – the firm said more than 200 were affected – are rushing to check the safety of their products. The company supplies materials to carmakers Ford, Toyota, Honda, Mazda and Subaru as well as aircraft-makers Boeing and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries. Hitachi said trains exported to the UK were affected, but the trains had not started operating yet.
Toyota, Nissan and Honda have all confirmed that they have used aluminium supplied by Kobe in hoods and doors. Toyota said it was “rapidly working to identify if any of our vehicle models may potentially be affected, and via which components.
It added: “At the same time, we are considering what measures need to be put in place going forward to address this matter. Toyota has long requested its suppliers to be thorough in matters related to compliance. We recognise that this breach of compliance principles on the part of a supplier is a grave issue.”
Nissan said: “We have confirmed that aluminium from Kobe Steel is used in the hoods and doors of some of our vehicles. As hoods are related to pedestrian safety, we are working to quickly assess any potential impact on vehicle functionality.”
Kobe has also begun an investigation into Kobelco Research Institute, which tests products for the company, and found 70 cases of tampered data on materials used in optical disks and liquid crystal displays.
Toyota is among the carmakers supplied by Kobe Steel. Photograph: Yuya Shino/Reuters
“Data in inspection certificates had been improperly rewritten ... and the products were shipped as having met the specifications concerned,” the company said, describing the actions as “improper conduct”.
Kobe, one of Japan’s oldest industrial companies, said it was contacting its customers and working to establish whether the products it had supplied were safe. At the moment, it does not believe that safety has been compromised. “Verification and inspection to date have not recognised specific problems casting doubts on the safety of the nonconforming products,” it said.
The company has set up a committee headed by its president, Hiroya Kawasaki, to investigate the quality issues, and hired a law firm to conduct an external investigation of all its businesses, including overseas. It discovered the misconduct during internal inspections and “emergency quality audits”.
The Central Japan Railway Company said some parts it received from Kobe for its bullet trains did not meet Japanese industrial standards, but there were no safety issues.
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Nov 28, 2019 · It is said that there is a river in Bœotia wherein the fish appear golden, but taken out of those their native waters, they have the natural colour of other fishes: afflictions are so; if we look at them outside God’s will, they have their natural bitterness, but he who considers them in that eternal good-pleasure, finds them all golden, unspeakably lovely and precious. The budget of the municipal enterprise for improvement and gardening has been reduced by 17 million som and approved at 74 million som. la - Online dictionaries, vocabulary, conjugation, grammar Toggle navigation. com and get award-winning PM tools that can help you manage projects from start to finish. Muito fácil de mexer até para quem não está muito familiarizado com a idéia de drivers. Till now you might have got some idea about the acronym, abbreviation or meaning of SOM. 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About M HKA / Mission Statement
The M HKA is a museum for contemporary art, film and visual culture in its widest sense. It is an open place of encounter for art, artists and the public. The M HKA aspires to play a leading role in Flanders and to extend its international profile by building upon Antwerp's avant-garde tradition. The M HKA bridges the relationship between artistic questions and wider societal issues, between the international and the regional, artists and public, tradition and innovation, reflection and presentation. Central here is the museum's collection with its ongoing acquisitions, as well as related areas of management and research.
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The M HKA Ensembles represent our first steps towards initiating the public to today's art-related digital landscape. With the help of these new media, our aim is to offer our artworks a better and fuller array of support for their presentation and public understanding.
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Policymakers must be mindful that transfers to households to support young children will also be used to finance parents’ leisure and consumption
Del Boca, Daniela, Flinn, Christopher and Wiswall, Matthew (2014) Policymakers must be mindful that transfers to households to support young children will also be used to finance parents’ leisure and consumption. LSE American Politics and Policy (21 Aug 2014). Website.
There is a growing consensus among academics and policymakers that interventions in early childhood to improve cognitive skills help to boost those made later during adolescence. In new research, Daniela Del Boca, Christopher Flinn, and Matthew Wiswall find evidence to support these interventions, but they argue that policymakers need to understand that households do not act solely to maximize their child’s development. They write that while government transfers of money and goods to households to support young children will be used to support them, they may also be used by parents to finance their own purchases of consumption goods and leisure.
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Amazon’s Audible brings Choose Your Own Adventure Stories to Alexa devices
Choose Your Own Adventure-style stories have been making a comeback, thanks to Netflix’s adoption of the format for kids TV and other interactive tales, like “Black Mirror: Bandersnatch,” as well as earlier efforts, like HBO’s Mosaic. Now Amazon is testing out the genre for Alexa devices, with the launch of professionally performed, voice-controlled narratives from the publisher of the original Choose Your Own Adventure book series, ChooseCo.
You may remember ChooseCo from its lawsuit with Netflix over the Black Mirror episode. The company claims that Netflix never acquired the proper license to use the “Choose Your Own Adventure” trademark.
But clearly, ChooseCo still aims to benefit from the attention, and from Netflix’s ability to make this storytelling gimmick popular with a younger generation of tech-savvy consumers.
In collaboration with Amazon’s Audible division, the two companies are together releasing a (properly licensed) Alexa skill that will bring ChooseCo’s Choose Your Own Adventure stories to life on Alexa-powered devices, like Echo smart speakers, which are controlled through voice commands.
The voice skill itself was jointly designed by Audible, ChooseCo and the Alexa team, and will launch with two narratives to start: “The Abominable Snowman,” which takes listeners to the peaks of Himalayas in search of the yeti, and “Journey Under the Sea,” which ventures to the underwater Lost City of Atlantis.
The former offers 28 total endings and the latter offers 37.
Instead of Alexa’s robotic voice, the stories are narrated by voice actors Josh Hurley (Abominable Snowman), and Stephanie Einstein (Journey Under the Sea.)
Those of a certain age will remember reading Choose Your Own Adventure stories as kids, but these Alexa versions are meant to entertain all ages, Audible claims. Of course, it’s debatable how often adults will want to listen to fantastic but familiar tales like this, after satisfying their initial curiosity following the format’s smart speaker debut.
The stories will vary in length, depending on which narrative branch listeners take, but can provide “hours” of entertainment, Audible tells TechCrunch. In addition to responding to the questions about what to do next, you can also use voice commands like “go back,” “start over,” and “change story” to navigate the app.
Currently, the stories are free, as is the skill. Audible declined to say if a subscription or in-app purchases would be offered at a later date in order to provide listeners with access to more stories. Likely, the skill’s future is still being considered – for now, the companies are looking to see if consumers adopt and engage with the format on voice devices, or if the skill flops.
If the stories take off, however, others could be sold or Amazon could even opt to bundle the stories into its Audible Channels offering, which is used to entice Prime subscriber sign-ups.
To try the stories out yourself, you can say “Alexa, open Choose Your Own Adventure from Audible.” This will enable the skill so you can get started.
The stories begin with a warning similar to those you might remember from the kids’ books – that this story is different, and that “you alone are in charge of what happens.” It warns you that there are dangers, adventures and consequences ahead, and that your choices could “end in disaster…or even death!”
The stories then progress as you’d expect, with a bit of narrative before asking you to pick the next path. On Alexa devices with a screen, some simple illustrations are shown.
Audible’s new Choose Your Own Adventure stories aren’t the only example of this format coming to audio. In addition to ChooseCo’s own online audio-based games, there’s also a comedy game show that uses the format, and The NYT even tried a choose-your-own-news adventure in 2017. There are also skills for interactive stories, that aren’t using the ChooseCo trademark.
The official Audible skill is here on the Alexa Skills store.
This post was originally posted at http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/HAyIedUw0-0/.
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Board index » Chiff and Fipple Music Forums » Irish Traditional Music Forum
jig or 6/8 march
Steve Bliven
Post subject: jig or 6/8 march
Location: Dartmouth, Massachusetts, USA
I'm a bit befuddled about differences between a 6/8 jig and a 6/8 march. Is there a way to tell one from the other (other than the name)? Is there a difference in playing techniques/style between the two? For example, is the Butcher's March/Butcher's Fancy a jig or a march—and does it matter?
Thanks and best wishes for the holidays.
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Post subject: Re: jig or 6/8 march
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I would say that The Butcher's March is an ordinary jig. That's how it's usually played, it seems to me. There are 6/8 marches - Parnell's March springs to mind (although somewhere I've heard that it's more properly a "military two-step").
There are definitely differences between the sound of a jig and the sound of a 6/8 march. A march, to me, has a more insistent strong beat on each half bar rather than the 6 in a bar with accents feel of a jig. Trying to write it makes it sound like a pretty subtle difference, and I suppose it probably is. It still sounds different though.
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While there are many tunes that are clearly one or the other, there's always going to be a grey area. A lot of tunes from the old 6/8 marches have been recycled into jigs. The Butcher's March would be one of them. It's played as a jig and perfectly fine that way, whatever it was before. There are many examples of the practice, I would be able to name a few more but it's early and the coffee is only just sinking in. Later. Tunes like Hunt the Squirrel or the Drocketty (see the Bakerswell recording), March of the King of Laois are all firmly in marching territory.
The Butcher's March really shone on Ciarán MacMathúna's famous recording after the Miltown Fleadh of 1958 of Séamus Ennis playing in Doolin. Most pipers will still play Tá'n Coileach ag fógairt an Lae after it, as Ennis did on the recording. Another coupling you hear often is with the Clare jig, after Tom Ennis and James Morrison's 78rpm.
FWIW, I have seen Parnell's march convincingly written in 12/8.
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Mr.Gumby wrote:
The Butcher's March..... Another coupling you hear often is with the Clare jig, after Tom Ennis and James Morrison's 78rpm.
Not having the recording, does the Clare Jig also go by a different name. Didn't find it on the mustard pages.
Thanks and best wishes.
it's this one eAA fAA faf gfe dBG GFG BAG B.....
I'll send a link for both clips later.
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I'd say the Butcher's March, Alexander's/Alistraum's March (both or all of them), O'Sullivan's March, and others can be used as jigs or as marches, and I don't think there's any structural difference, but there would be a played difference. Like Ben, played as march would be slower and with a stronger / more insistent strong beat, and maybe a bit straighter.
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Random Thoughts... [Entertainment Edition]
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He killed Blll Murray, so you should be annoyed that he won't be in the sequel.
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Bill Murray probably will be in it, but as a real zombie, and he'll probably kill Jesse Eisenberg.
Zombieland was one of those rare movies that I thought was absolutely perfect. Bringing everyone back... 10 years older... I hope it's good, but that's a tough ask.
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I can't remember now who at Ringmeet put me on to The Expanse but whoever it was, thank you. I've just finished watching season 2 as that's all they have on Netflix and I've loved every minute of it so far. I don't think I've been hooked on any fictional series like this before. One tiny criticism though:
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While it was nice to see Adam Savage in the final episode, for me it really broke the immersion of the whole show for me. Fortunately it was right at the end, if it had been earlier in the season I don't think I would've enjoyed it as much.
Looking in to ways of getting Season 3, it isn't currently on Netflix.
I... kinda... want to see this.
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Farming Simulator 2019 comes out on Tuesday, I have to say I'm excited, despite being fully aware of how ridiculous the game is and how it sounds when you tell someone about it. I was going to just buy the Steam version but the bastards have gone and upsold me the collectors edition already with this little haul for a mere tenner:
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How can I turn down this much ridiculous swag for ten measly pounds? The C64 emulated version looks like a big laugh, as do the modding tutorials that don't appear to be online already. The rest of the swag is just funny and cute, especially the hat to wear while playing the game. :lol:
I ended up on related items and saw the special Saitek controller is down to a reasonable price now, but what the fuck is going on here Amazon?
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PSA: The Expanse Season 3 has been added to Amazon Prime.
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Oh it bloody would now I paid £40 for it on Blu-Ray a month ago...
It was still worth it.
Netflix has a series called The Umbrella Academy that is really good. Based on a comic, so I am sure there will be more seasons.
Netflix with the throwback to shitty teen movies
Funny thing is that I was just reminiscing with my friends about these movies a few weeks ago, and now they're all up and streaming.
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The choice to have Ben Affleck's Dark Knight kill in Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice proved controversial for many fans of the character. However, director Zack Snyder still defends the decision, and he has strong words for those who confront him about it.
A Reddit video shows the director answering questions at a charity event screening director's cuts of several of his films. At the Q&A for Watchmen, Snyder explained how that film colors his work and should influence how it's understood. He used the example of Batman killing, saying, “Someone says to me: [Ben Affleck’s] Batman killed a guy. I’m like, ‘Fuck, really? Wake the fuck up.'"
Snyder then went on to talk about how Watchmen differs from other superhero movies. "I guess that’s what I’m saying," he continued. "Once you've lost your virginity to this fucking movie and then you come and say to me something about like ‘my superhero wouldn’t do that.' I’m like ‘Are you serious?’ I’m like down the fucking road on that. It’s a cool point of view to be like ‘my heroes are still innocent. My heroes didn't fucking lie to America. My heroes didn't embezzle money from their corporations. My heroes didn't commit any atrocities.' That’s cool. But you’re living in a fucking dream world.” [...]
Sure, just shoot the joker in the head the first time you encounter him. Who needs a moral dilemma for storytelling anyway?
You wanna make a realistic gritty super hero movie? Sure. Go ahead. But maybe not pick a franchise that's not about that.
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Didn't think it worth creating it's own thread as I'm not sure where else it is (or will be broadcast) but there is a new show on Sky One right now called Curfew.
Junior is quite into it so we are watching it with him. If you can imagine an amalgam of Death Race, The Walking Dead and The Running Man but without any of their production values you'd be about right.
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And it has Sean Bean in it.....
.... but, as usual, not for very long.
Just saw that Sealab 2021 season 1 is on Amazon Prime. This makes me very happy.
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I just stumbled upon "Torchwood" on TV while zapping. Two thoughts:
No wonder it never caught on in Germany, the dubbing is atrocious.
Oh my time lord, the visual effects haven't aged well...
Torchwood was dreadful even when it was current.
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This. I tried watching it after my first time through Doctor Who and I couldn't get through more than 3 or 4 episodes before vomiting all over my computer.
Apart from anything else there were too many Welsh people in it. I've nothing against them personally, but that lilting, sing-song accent doesn't lend itself to being taken seriously as protectors of the Earth from malevolent scum from across the universe.
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Why does wangan midnight only have 26 episodes and 5/42 of it's volumes scanlated this is an outrage.
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Perry's voice on David Pack's new song.......SAD
by Free » Fri Jul 08, 2005 7:29 am
For anyone who thinks that Perry didn't tour for the TBF record because of health reasons, listen to this new clip with his voice on David Pack's new one.
I for one have beat up on Augeri's voice this tour. But if you had Perry up there now, it would be horrible.
Perry certainly did the right thing by retiring even though I didn't want him to. I just wish he would have been truthful about why he didn't want to tour anymore.
But I know. His voice hasn't changed. Right Perry heads?
by jrnyman28 » Fri Jul 08, 2005 7:32 am
I had to re-read that post to realize what you are saying...you are saying that Perry doesn't sound good on this clip right? I am surprised. I think he sounds very good. But it would be completely different live then in the studio.
jrnyman28
by Liz22562 » Fri Jul 08, 2005 11:13 am
Free: You are absolutely entitled to your opinion.
One question though, ARE YOU NUTS? lol
I suppose my speakers and ears are tuned differently. The little that you can hear, he sounds amazing as always!
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by Marabelle » Fri Jul 08, 2005 12:49 pm
your comments lead me to consider; if his voice sounds so bad and Steve's the echo of Mr. Pack's voice than I would conclude that David Pack's voice would also be suspect to your critical ear. i would also conclude that if Mr. Pack did not like the voice than surely he would not want it on his record. He's heard it and evidentically decided the voice warranted to be on his record. I can only surmise that David Pack was so honored to have his vocal abilities on his record otherwise you and the rest of us would not be listening to it on this site and others. And since Steve is his own worse critic; I am certain if he did not like the way his voice mastered the material irregardless how much David wanted it; we would not be hearing it on any record whistling, singing or humming or shadowing.
by Monker » Fri Jul 08, 2005 12:57 pm
Marabelle wrote: your comments lead me to consider; if his voice sounds so bad and Steve's the echo of Mr. Pack's voice than I would conclude that David Pack's voice would also be suspect to your critical ear. i would also conclude that if Mr. Pack did not like the voice than surely he would not want it on his record. He's heard it and evidentically decided the voice warranted to be on his record. I can only surmise that David Pack was so honored to have his vocal abilities on his record otherwise you and the rest of us would not be listening to it on this site and others. And since Steve is his own worse critic; I am certain if he did not like the way his voice mastered the material irregardless how much David wanted it; we would not be hearing it on any record whistling, singing or humming or shadowing.
Oh, give the propaganda a rest. Steve Perry could sing like a frog and David Pack would want him on the CD simply for the publicity and the posibility of selling a few hundred more CD's to the Perry fans.
And, I haven't heard this song. I simply don't care enough to give it any attention.
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by Marabelle » Fri Jul 08, 2005 1:04 pm
oh monker, bite me!
i don't think steve would let anyone use his voice just to sell a few hundred records. he likes to sing but he has a bit more pride than
that. hundred! lol! it hasn't gotten that bad yet. lol!
by Andrew » Fri Jul 08, 2005 1:46 pm
He does sound good, but he is singing WELL within his old range - nothing challenging there. I posted something about this in the main song thread.
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by mamos » Fri Jul 08, 2005 5:28 pm
He does sound good on the track as we would expect. And it's really good to hear his voice again.
But hasn't he been singing well within his range for years now. Not really anything challenging on 'Strange Medicine or TBF either.
mamos wrote: He does sound good on the track as we would expect. And it's really good to hear his voice again.
Quite correct.
by perryfaithful » Fri Jul 08, 2005 10:41 pm
Oh for cryin out loud! The poor man can not make an appearance without singing something deemed "challenging?"
"In Journey, all the hit songs we had were based around Steve Perry's vocals."
perryfaithful
I think the point is, a point that I have been repeating for over ten years, that Perry has been 'experimenting with his lower range" since the Frontiers album. He moved from 'experimenting' to using his 'lower range' basicaly exclusively. That lower range is not how most JOurney songs were written. So, how and what Perry has chosen to sing from the ROR tour on seems to show that he has lost his upper range and it is very doubtful that he can sing Journey songs even close to the range they were written in.
by OpeningAct » Sat Jul 09, 2005 12:08 am
Monker wrote:
Nice post Monker! I believe some of Perry's best vocals were on "Street Talk." Listen how low his voice is at the start of "Captured by the Moment." Absolutely loved his voice on this album. Sounds as though he had a BLAST signing as well.
by heardonthestreet » Sat Jul 09, 2005 12:24 am
Higher range my ass.! He looks different today. He's not that skinny kid with the high voice and that voice suited him then but his voice changed and matured as he did. I feel that all of the Journey songs would be greatly enhanced if he sang them today in his beautiful, more mellow voice. He himself made fun of the way he sounded back when he sang "Open Arms." It was perfect for then but I expect a more mellow sound from the way he looks today, but then I thought that his voice for WYLAW was perfection, so I guess it's all in the ear of the beholder. The only thing about that song is that when I first heard it, I thought he started it out with "If my wife asks you where I've been,"..............and It's stuck in my head that way.
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by Hippie » Sat Jul 09, 2005 12:49 am
It was perfect for then but I expect a more mellow sound from the way he looks today
That's the problem. He is more mellow now. There's nothing wrong with that mind you, it sounds fine. FTLOSM was a great album.
But the rest of Journey don't want to be mellow; they still favor a hard rock sound. (similar to the rift in Styx).
So what's wrong with the two camps taking separate paths? Let Perry go on and do mellow and let Journey go on and do hard rock.
Seems like a win win situation to me.
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by NealIsGod » Sat Jul 09, 2005 12:53 am
I agree, Hippie. I think we all break out the lite stuff once in a while. Perry could really do well in that genre, and has already with Foolish Heart and songs of that ilk.
by perryfaithful » Sat Jul 09, 2005 1:21 am
NealIsGod wrote: I agree, Hippie. I think we all break out the lite stuff once in a while. Perry could really do well in that genre, and has already with Foolish Heart and songs of that ilk.
Yet, I think he sounded great on "Message of Love" as well. So........
As for Street Talk, YES YES but go a little further and find some outstanding vocals on ROR. Why Can't This Night was stunning, just stunning!!
by jrnyman28 » Sat Jul 09, 2005 1:35 am
heardonthestreet wrote: Higher range my ass! ... but his voice changed and matured as he did. I feel that all the Journey songs would be greatly enhanced if he sang them today in his beautiful, more mellow voice.
Funny. You feel the songs would be enhanced, yet everyone talks about wanting the 'Perry' sound. Which would refer to the sound that made him famous.
by NealIsGod » Sat Jul 09, 2005 1:42 am
[quote="perryfaithful"]Yet, I think he sounded great on "Message of Love" as well. So........
As for Street Talk, YES YES but go a little further and find some outstanding vocals on ROR. Why Can't This Night was stunning, just stunning!![/quote]
He sounded good on Message of Love, but in his mid-range voice. And Raised on Radio was sooooo long ago. It seems most of us feel like he has lost the high range, and that he is more suited to sing the lighter stuff now. Without Journey, I don't see him putting out a "rock" CD. I could be wrong, but it's just my feeling.
Can anyone tell me why, when I quote someone, it does not display in a white box?[/quote]
by Red13JoePa » Sat Jul 09, 2005 1:55 am
YEa, howdaya get that look to the quotes? I need that too.
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perryfaithful wrote: Yet, I think he sounded great on "Message of Love" as well. So........
Can anyone tell me why, when I quote someone, it does not display in a white box?
NIG, to clarify myself
I was addressing the "rocking" issue with Message of Love, nothing to do with range
"Why Can't this Night" was stunning. I hadn't even considered range in making that comment
As for the white box, are you guys using the quote button to respond??
Yes, but it still comes out like that. Weird.
Yes, I have no doubt Perry CAN rock, but I don't think his heart is with the rock stuff anymore. I think he really prefers soulful, melodic "light" rock. They guy is almost 60, so I don't blame him. I am mellowing out already, and I'm not even 40 yet.
by Rockindeano » Sat Jul 09, 2005 3:00 am
Lying to yourself makes one at peace one's self?
Perry flatout sucked on TBF.. Those songs where you could here him gasping for air was embarrassing.. Please just be honest. Most of those songs were not that hard to sing. Deen could nail all them, and sound much better doing it.
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True, Deano. I was just trying to be nice!
by sadie65 » Sat Jul 09, 2005 3:06 am
NealIsGod wrote: Yes, but it still comes out like that. Weird.
Forgive me for stepping in here...
To quote the entire post, you only need to use the quote button. To quote a portion of a post, first hit quote button. Then highlight section you want to quote and hit quote button again. That section will then come up in white when you respond. Hope that helps.
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Thanks, Sadie, but that is exactly what I am doing. It used to work fine for me, but has not for that past month or two. Maybe it has something to do with the checkboxes underneath where I type my post? Which ones should be checked?
TBF Material:
You guyz heard Augeri front Message, Castles and Can't Tame The Lion? Does a fine (and I mean that in the true sense of the word, no the "OK" sense) pretty much Perryesque job.
by Monker » Sat Jul 09, 2005 3:09 am
jrnyman28 wrote:
Exactly. It's a contradiction. On one hand Perry fans say that Journey doesn't sound like they did in 198x...and critique Augeri and Journey because of it. Then they admit (which took a LONG time for most of them to do it, and some still don't, BTW) that Perry's current vocal ability would change how Journey songs are performed. But, of course they would have prefered Journey 'waiting' for Perry's return to Journey.
It's nothing but one contradiction after another.
I don't even want to think about a song like "Any Way You Want It" being performed in a "more mellow voice". Songs like that were not written for that type of voice.
If I had a choice of Perry coming back to Journey, or keeping Journey the way it is, I would DEFINITELY keep them the way they are. I hate TBF, and I don't think Perry fits with Neal anymore.
NealIsGod wrote: Thanks, Sadie, but that is exactly what I am doing. It used to work fine for me, but has not for that past month or two. Maybe it has something to do with the checkboxes underneath where I type my post? Which ones should be checked?
I have no boxes checked save my signature. What do your options look like?
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Book Review: Shashi Kapoor The Householder, the Star by Aseem Chhabra
Indian actor Shashi Kapoor was Bollywood's stunner with dashing looks. The romance with Jennifer Kendal through his association with English theatre – studded his married life with a strong sense of stability.
Aseem Chhabra's book: Shashi Kapoor The Householder, the Star with a Foreword by Karan Johar is not based on the tabloid rage and gossip. The author has invested on a fair amount of research to bring out his work with solid substance. He has successfully mixed and matched the gathered material by the interviews he conducted with Shashi Kapoor's family and actors, directors who worked with him. The photos from the archives flow charmingly with the stream of the pages.
The reader feels like the insider who has entered the courtyard of hero – Shashi Kapoor. Where the factual realities interlock with multiple circumstances of life, one can see the actor's whole personality, almost. He had a large heart with not much sense of style for hard core business. That was utterly true. Actor Rishi Kapoor describes this by saying, 'As with all Kapoors, Shashi Uncle didn't get much. He should have made a lot more. But the money got siphoned off here and there.' Shashi Kapoor's son, Kunal agrees. 'My father was basically conned. You can hide and fudge the accounts if a film is semi-successful, but with a super hit, how much can you hide?' And with his spouse passing away with the infliction of cancer, Shashi Kapoor was quite rudderless on his own.
Aseem Chhabra's book is a kind of special gift available to future generations of cinema lovers who will get material on how Shashi Kapoor has worked and lived his days. Everything is connecting till the end. However, the real end is also the type to tell that, presently, Shashi Kapoor has totally fallen apart with health. This is so sad.
The book is published by Rupa.
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The unfettered rage of dismal denial
I knew that climate scientists were on the receiving end of some nasty emails, but it was still a shock to read James Hansen’s recent communication, in the course of which he gives a sample of the emails that he’d had in just the one week. They’re a dismal example of the unfettered rage which marks at least some sectors of the denialist world. Imagine receiving this sort of thing in your mail not just on the odd occasion but regularly:
You rework your temperature data sets every time Mother nature proves you wrong, in an effort to force Her to agree with your ill conceived ideas about energy and nature. You, in fact, are the one committing crimes against humanity by lying, conniving, and concealing the truth about climate change on our world.
What a pile of nonsense, Hansen. You take money and junkets hand over fist from people who pay you to mouth off trash like that. You aren’t exactly “forthcoming” about the “sources and amounts” of your graft – I mean, “gifts.” You ought to be ashamed of yourself,
You sir are a walking crime against humanity and you know exactly why. You lie constantly about man-made global warming.
You are not a scientist by any stretch of the imagination. You are a global warming shill and a con-artist.
Are you some kind of lunatic??
And those are just my extracts from his selection from a week’s haul.
Hansen is not asking for sympathy, though I must say he has mine. His sharing of the email sample is offered as an indication of the lengths to which the denial of climate science is being carried. He also reports that in the past year he has been bombarded by numerous Freedom of Information Act demands for his emails and other correspondences and suits have been filed against NASA for his personal information. “Information obtained in these ways seems to be fed to people or organizations that broadcast a distorted picture of reality and question my ethics.” He references a post in Watts Up With That? last November which claimed on the basis of records obtained from NASA that Hansen had not been reporting some income as required by law.
A friend advised him not to respond to the attacks, but Hansen sees them as part of a professional effort to discredit climate science and is concerned that if he does not respond “their whoppers are ratcheted up, bigger and bigger,” and public confidence in the science is affected. He has therefore made a point-by-point reply to the specific allegations. I won’t detail them here, but needless to say they show the accusations to be groundless, as well as malicious.
Hansen is a notable scientist, but he’s not a lone scientist. He’s one representative of a now substantial body of climate science. Denialists frequently try to isolate him and a few others as if they were a small cabal working to undermine the economic fabric of society. Against the implacable fury of their attacks Hansen, in this communication as always, repeats the basic scientific reality from which his concern arises. Earth is warming, with most of the warming caused by human-made greenhouse gases, overwhelming natural variability. There is substantial global warming still “in the pipeline”. Extreme climate anomalies have increased in frequency to such a degree that they can be ascribed to global warming with a high degree of confidence. Paleoclimate data show that additional global warming of even another degree Celsius would cause irreparable harm to humanity and other species.
“The upshot is that we cannot burn and emit to the atmosphere most of the remaining fossil fuels.”
There’s the rub. That’s the reason for the vicious and determined campaign to deny the science and prevent governments from acting rationally to protect the human future. Hansen writes trenchantly:
“…fossil fuel kingpins manipulate public opinion and the government into supporting policies that are great for fossil fuel billionaires and awful for the public.”
He aims to help people recognize manipulation of public opinion that corrupts government energy policies to favour special interests of the few over the general good. There’s a great deal more at stake here than in the political argument which normally accompanies democratic dialogue. In fact Hansen describes himself politically as a moderate conservative, not the flaming radical that some like to accuse him of being. It’s the enormity of the issue which elevates it to unprecedented importance. In this document he repeats yet again what those who lobby for business as usual are steering towards:
“Burning all fossil fuels would create a very different planet than the one that humanity knows. The paleoclimate record and ongoing climate change make it clear that the climate system would be pushed beyond tipping points, setting in motion irreversible changes, including ice sheet disintegration with a continually adjusting shoreline, extermination of a substantial fraction of species on the planet, and increasingly devastating regional climate extremes.”
It’s a fearful prospect. Yet it’s still one that many vested interests are prepared to deny, furiously if need be, rather than turn their backs on the profitable industry of mining and burning fossil fuels.
Hansen and the many other scientists equally concerned — and equally abused — can do little more than keep on telling us what the science reveals. We must keep hoping that the message will finally break through to wide and rational acceptance, but for the time being it struggles to make itself heard against the power wielded by the heedless wealthy and against the inertia of politicians and a media which generally does not communicate adequately what the science is saying. And for the time being respected scientists continue to endure contumely from the acolytes of denial.
Author Bryan WalkerPosted on February 10, 2012 Categories Climate cranks, Climate politics, Climate science, environment and ecologyTags GISS, Hansen, NASA, Watts
38 thoughts on “The unfettered rage of dismal denial”
I had dinner with him once, with 3 other people. I think his “moderate conservative” characterization is accurate and I’d say his natural style was fairly quiet and unassuming. One thing I am sure of is that he loves his 2 young grandchildren, whose pictures he pulled out to show us at dinner. I suspect that had something to do with his increased level of outspokenness in the last few years, as it is clear that he fears for their future.
Sadly there are very few “moderate conservatives” left if the candidature for the GOP is anything to go by. Conservatism used to be about conserving what one had, and to make change slowly. Now it appears to be the platform for those who wish to rape and pillage the earth.
We had the good fortune to hear James Hansen speak when he visited NZ last year. What he said was sound and made good sense. Sadly our government has cloth ears when it comes to hearing good sense.
It is a sorry state of affairs when those who deliver the message are attacked so viciously by the ignorant.
SCM says:
JH’s comment above is spot on the money for Australia right now with Gina Rinehart (mining billionaire) buying into Fairfax media. She funded that last trip to Australia of Monckton where he advocating that the ‘super rich’ should do exactly that (eg buy into media) so Australia could get a ‘good dose of free market thinking’. (as seen in the recent viral video doing the rounds.)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=aX2kMAfJggU
I wonder if she’ll get the influence she craves or if she’ll just lose a load of cash (even if it is small change for her).
andy here is already laying links to her infamous pet media puppet Bolt.
caerbannog says:
Here’s the angle that I’ve been pushing — “Dismal Deniers” are completely incompetent. And here’s my reasoning (duplicated from a post I made over at the excellent climatecrocks.com web-site):
What really strikes me about Watts and his minions is not just their viciousness, but their *incompetence*.
Watts and Co. have spent *years* making all kinds of unfounded claims about the surface temperature record. They’ve claimed that UHI is responsible for the global-warming signature. They’ve claimed that the warming trend was a product of “station deletion”. They’ve claimed that station siting problems are responsible for the warming trend. They’ve claimed that the warming trend was created by data “homogenization” and “adjustments”. They’ve spent *years* making these claims.
But the bottom line is, *all* of these claims can be completely disproved with just a few days of work, as I found out when I “rolled up my sleeves” and dug into the temperature data myself. The only technical skills needed are a mastery of high-school math and college-undergraduate programming ability.
Run the raw GHCN data through a straightforward gridding/averaging program that an on-the-ball college compsci/engineering college-undergrad could code up and you will get results amazingly similar to the NASA global-land-temperature index.
Process raw and adjusted GHCN data separately, and you will get very similar results (minor differences, but similar warming trends).
Process GHCN urban stations and rural stations separately, and you get nearly identical results.
To counter objections that stations may have been mislabeled as rural, then pick 50-60 rural-designated stations randomly around the globe, copy/paste their lat/long coordinates into GoogleEarth to verify their status via hi-res satellite imagery, and use just those stations to compute global-average temperatures. Do that, and you will *still* get results very similar to the official NASA results. That’s right — throw out ~99 percent of the stations and process just a few dozen verified rural stations (distributed around the world so as to get full global coverage), and you will get the same global-warming trend that you get when you process *all* of the GHCN stations.
All of the above can be done in just a few days by someone who has decent (or even mediocre) programming/analytical skills. I know this for a fact because I’ve done it all myself. And I am not the most talented programmer around, not by a long-shot.
The fact that Watts and his followers (some of whom claim to smarter than many climate scientists) have been unwilling and/or unable to do in *years* what I was able to do in a matter of *days* in my spare time should tell you all you need to know about them. Watts and his fans are nothing more than a bunch of lazy, incompetent, loud-mouthed bullies.
The vile Watts is a popular icon of the hard-right/libertarian flavour of denirers, none of whom know what they’re talking about.
I’m afraid, caerbannog, that’s it’s the standard chevron bracket ‘i’ html mark-up for italics over here!
Some of the folks who drop by – as a public service – over here know the IPCC is wrong, though they don’t know how it’s structured, don’t know what it actually does (and what it doesn’t do!) and they haven’t actually read any of the reports it’s put out.
But still, despite the fact that they’re the first people to decry ‘political correctness’ when they perceive others as benefiting ahead of themselves on fewer credentials, it seems we must all respect that their profound ignorance is really just an alternative way of knowing… 😉
And you wouldn’t believe how golly-gosh brainy-smart they are! Why are they wasting their time here arguing with the likes of us? I often wonder…
Thought I’d follow up to prove that I wasn’t kidding about being able to get very good global average temperature results from just a few dozen GHCN temperature stations. The plot below shows results from just 45 rural stations scattered roughly evenly around the globe.
The station selection process involved dividing up the globe into very large grid-squares and picking the rural station with the longest temperature record in each grid-square — I didn’t look at any of the station data beforehand — just ran with the stations that my simple selection process chose for me.
I ended up with 45 stations, most of which did not report data for every year. So each individual year’s results were computed from as few as 12 (but no more than 44) stations.
The plot shows the “45 stations” results, along with the NASA/GISS global land-temperature index (copy/pasted directly from the NASA/GISS web-site) for comparison purposes.
http://img580.imageshack.us/img580/771/results45ruralstationsv.jpg
No “cherry-picking” or “trial and error” runs involved. The above results are from my very first attempt at using so few stations.
The only place where my results diverged significantly from NASA’s is the 1880-1885 period. But only 12 of my selected stations reported data prior to 1900, so the divergence should not be surprising. From the early 1900’s to the present, 25-44 stations reported data in any given year (with the average being 35-ish — eyeball estimate from the program’s diagnostic dump).
The procedure used to compute global-average temperatures from the raw station data is surprisingly straightforward — basically, it boils down to a somewhat fancy averaging process. It could be broken down into a series of reasonable homework assignments for first-year programming students. Keep that in mind the next time you hear some denier huffing and puffing about all the scientific experts who have supposedly proved that the NASA/NOAA/CRU global-temperature results are the product of “data manipulation”
Just following up to make it clear that I used *raw* (not adjusted) GHCN temperature data,.
Hansen states in the document you link to
1. Climate Science, Fossil Fuels, and Governments
Earth has warmed in the past century by about 0.8°C, with most of the warming caused by human-made greenhouse gases, mainly CO2 from fossil fuel burning
Does the IPCC concur with this, that MOST of ALL of the 20th century warming was caused by CO2, when most of the warming occurred in the early part of the 20th Century, and little or none has occurred this century, despite a much greater increase in CO2 emissions compared with 100 years ago?
Thank you for helping to prove the point I was making in my previous post here.
[Andy, I struggle to see that your comment is on topic, and we’ll avoid name-calling on this thread thanks. I’ve deleted your offering. Bryan]
Andy, I struggle to see that your comment is on topic, and we’ll avoid name-calling on this thread thanks. I’ve deleted your offering. Bryan
But it’s “on topic” to refer to me as a “rent boy”? (a male prostitute, on the open thread)
It’s your blog so your rules, so I defer to them, but some of your commenters are stretching the limits I would have thought.
Bryan Walker says:
Andy, Gareth is away for a few days, so it’s a different referee and a new thread. I’ll endeavour to see that you’re treated fairly, though I hope no further intervention will be needed.
OK, point taken, and thanks
[Snipped. Rob, I understand, indeed share, your exasperation with Andy, but after deleting one of his comments I’d rather we let the exchange along this particular line stay outside this thread]
[Snipped. Andy, I’ve removed the comment to which you were replying here.]
Bryan, can I recommend using square brackets if you’re culling out material, as it’s clearer then that the text is not what the commenter is saying?
([snip] is good, too!)
Noted thanks Bill, though I hope there’ll be no further need while I’m keeping an eye on things for the next few days while Gareth is away.
Why don’t you read the report,? here is a brief summary:
“This Synthesis Report (SYR), adopted in Valencia, Spain, on 17 November 2007, completes the four-volume Fourth Assessment Report (AR4), which was released in various steps throughout the year under the title “Climate Change 2007”. It summarises the findings of the three Working Group reports and provides a synthesis that specifically addresses the issues of concern to policymakers in the domain of climate change: it confirms that climate change is occurring now, mostly as a result of human activities; it illustrates the impacts of global warming already under way and to be expected in future, and describes the potential for adaptation of society to reduce its vulnerability; finally it presents an analysis of costs, policies and technologies intended to limit the extent of future changes in the climate system. ”
Andy, you are simply repeating what you have picked up on the deniers’ circuit. For a simple explanation of the scientific picture of warming over the past century try this page on Skeptical Science. It’s pointless joining a thread on Hot Topic and regurgitating these canards. If you haven’t something more sophisticated to offer best to stay silent.
So I looked at Skeptical Science and they say this:
“What caused early 20th Century warming?”
Before 1940, the increase in temperature is believed to have been caused mainly by two factors:
Increasing solar activity; and
Low volcanic activity (as eruptions can have a cooling effect by blocking out the sun).
Other factors, including greenhouse gases, also contributed to the warming and regional factors played a significant role in increasing temperatures in some regions, most notably changes in ocean currents which led to warmer-than-average sea temperatures in the North Atlantic
http://www.skepticalscience.com/global-warming-early-20th-century.htm
So in other words, there are other factors than just CO2 involved in the 20th Century warming, which is the point I was trying to make, and was accused of “denialism” in the process.
You poor dear! Keep reading, it gets better…
Andy, your original comment was doing a good deal more than simply saying there were other factors than just CO2 involved in 20th century warming. But I won’t argue with you. Your combination of disingenuousness and injured innocence is pretty plain and doesn’t merit response. I rather hope others will also cease engaging with you. You’re receving more attention than you warrant.
Precisely. DNFTT.
Did you see what went to Katherine Hayhoe?
Yes, it is obvious that denialism is a scam, because its practitioners invariably lie, dissemble, threaten or abuse you once you strip away their pseudo-scientific “comfort blanket”….
It seems clear to me that there is some sort of concerted troll attack being mounted here at present – I can’ t recall a time when so many of them have been around, regurgitating their long discredited rubbish. The intention is to distract, annoy and confuse – and again, I question the utility of giving them such a free rein.
Johnmacmot says:
Generally their comments are a waste of space, RW. Same old repeatedly debunked, unscientific crap that we’ve seen many times before, as you point out.
Their presence does provide more evidence of the bizarre mentality of locked -in denialism – it’s a strange beast indeed.
[Snipped. You are just rehashing old material and looking to provoke an argument centred on yourself. If you have nothing material to add to the thread stay away. Bryan]
While takes some moral courage to simply admit to being dead wrong for so long, you would think that somewhere one of two of them would do just that – here’s hoping, even though it’s not essential for the salvation of science, sanity and humanity.
I’m with you on that RW.
None of the trolls here seem to demonstrate any sign of learning anything, they merely pepper this site with meaningless propaganda and we seem to be following their terms of reference.
Have you noticed also that none of the trolls nor Bryan Leyland in his “Global warming myth” article, mention, discuss ice melting, glaciers, Arctic etc.
I found a good synopsis here:
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1272/is_2790_139/ai_n57203029/
This appears to be happening in a world that hasn’t warmed in the last 15 years! Or so we are led to believe. I’m sure Joe Fone has a good explanation for it, he just doesn’t want to tell us because there is no point, we are all just climate change religious zealots driven by peer reviewed scientific propaganda so no point in trying to educate us!
We shouldn’t be dithering on climate change, the alarm bells should all be ringing, a sharp U-turn is in order.
Kiwipoet says:
Jim Hansen and other climate scientists deserve a medal of bravery for the furious ideological assault they are suffering for quietly insisting on the facts. The brusque, rude, dismissive treatment Hansen received at the hands of Radio NZ’s Kim Hill when he was here being a prime example. Hansen’s unflappable calm in the face of that assault was, to my mind, truly heroic by any measure of the term. Perhaps, perversely, it’s the integrity of the evidence, the stubborn nature of the data, and the even more stubborn laws of physics behind the data, that provoke such rage. The rage of the helpless.
And here we have AndyS insisting that there has been no warming trend in the 21st Century when not a single data set supports the claim. What can you do?
What’s that saying? There’s none so blind as them that will not see.
Carol Cowan says:
I had the pleasure of a brief chat with Dr Hansen when he was in Southland last October. He was kind, polite and fatherly. Although obviously tired after his speaking tour he was willing to talk to anyone who approached him. Having suffered the venom from climate change deniers locally who just about foam at the mouth with anger when face to face with me (a rather short and unintimidating middle-aged woman), I know who I would rather listen to.
I’m rather late to the discussion, very interesting and worthwhile comments. [excluding the trolls]
There is a new (to me) denier accusation: Deniers are on the receiving end of death threats, from ‘warmists’.
I have no idea if there is any shred of evidence in this. But since deniers have notoriously invented quotes and commonly strip genuine quotes of their orginal context and placing them in a false one, I remain sceptical.
Note to trolls: Go away.
I did receive a reply from a troll, which was ignorant and disingenuous as to be expected. I have no intention to reply, but it did remind me to support what I had already said, plus adding some clarification.
I would like to add, that of course the campaigns aimed at intimidation and harassment provoked by the denial industry lackeys who stir-up their zombie armies are well documented. There is of course documentary and other evidence. For instance John Mashey’s excellent research in ‘Crescendo to Climategate Cacophony’, in particular the chronology 3.1.
Here is just one example [from some time ago] of a combination of zombie-like mindlessness and obedience to the quote-mining expert.
http://i40.tinypic.com/24exjqw.jpg
and the rabble-rousing inspiration
http://i49.tinypic.com/2pr6zbr.jpg
Quote-mining examples
McIntyre Quote mining – clearly intended at rabble-rousing. It is clear that given sufficiently ignorant, malleable and malicious rabble, it works.
http://tinyurl.com/6wu26np
David Lewis says:
Quoting from the back cover of Hansen’s book Storms of My Grandchildren:
“If you want to know the scientific consensus on global warming, read the reports by the IPCC. But if you want ot know what the consensus will be ten years from now, read Jim Hansen’s work”. – Dr. Chuck Kutscher NREL
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Mya MacAleese won the 100-yard breaststroke and placed second in the 50-yard freestyle. The freshman took the breaststroke in 1:19.50 and claimed silver in the freestyle in :27.83.
Bekah Brunner put forth a golden effort in the 100-yard butterfly, touching the wall in 1:18.77. The junior also claimed third in the 200 IM, clocking in at 2:46.13.
Brunner and MacAleese teamed up with senior Alyssa Brinkman and freshman Jacee Dammeier to win the 200-yard freestyle relay. The quartet topped the race in 2:04.75. Another Lady Viking quartet placed third in the race. A foursome consisting of seniors Alayna Stroup and Brenna Mason and juniors Kaylee Levy and Victoria Damsleth-Aalrud stopped the timer in 2:19.83.
The Lady Vikings triumphed in the 200-yard medley relay. A quartet comprised of MacAleese, Brinkman, Aschliman and Shaw won the race in 2:08.99.
Aschliman and Shaw subsequently teamed up with Mason and Brunner to place second in the 400-yard freestyle relay in 4:35.63.
Individually, Brinkman captured second in the 200-yard freestyle and the 100 backstroke. She finished the freestyle in 2:30.96 and the backstroke in 1:16.64.
Victoria Damsleth-Aalrud rounded out the team’s top-three finishes with a runner-up showing in the 100 freestyle. The junior clocked in at 1:10.35.
The Huntington North boys’ varsity swim team lost to DeKalb, 78-27.
The Vikings got a pair of wins from Colten Schulte and Jeff Gross. Schulte, a sophomore, topped the 200-yard freestyle in 2:06.89 and the 100-yard freestyle in :55.09. Gross triumphed in the 200-yard individual medley in 2:49.56 and in the 100-yard backstroke in 1:19.89.
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Doctors who began providing abortions before Roe v. Wade tell their stories
At New York Magazine, seven doctors who began providing abortions before or shortly after Roe v. Wade reflect on what it was like in those early days, and how anti-choice violence and legislation has affected them in the decades since.
Many of them discuss how seeing the horrors of illegal abortion first-hand as young doctors or med students influenced their decision to provide the procedure. Dr. Warrne Hern, who performed his first abortion in 1973, says:
As a medical student in the early ’60s, I was regularly taking care of women who were suffering and dying from the complications of illegal abortions. There was a woman who had been turned down for an abortion at a nearby hospital. She went home and shot herself in the uterus and then drove herself back to the hospital.
Dr. Sadja Greenwood, who performed her first abortion in 1968, says:
When I was 20 I had an illegal abortion in New York City. Thankfully, my father used his connections so I went to a doctor’s office and had it done by an ob-gyn. I really saw the gap between people that had means and people that didn’t. I got mine in a safe, sterile doctor’s office, and other women weren’t as lucky. Later, when I was in medical school, I saw a woman die of an illegal abortion. It’s something I still think about to this day.
Dr. David Grimes, who performed his first abortion in 1972, says:
When I was in medical school in North Carolina, I got a page one night to tend to a patient with a 106 degree fever. I assumed that number was made in error. It wasn’t. When I examined her I found a red rubber catheter protruding from her cervix. Another day, I was paged for a young co-ed in septic shock with barely any blood pressure. There was a fetal foot protruding from her cervix. The first had gotten an illegal abortion, the second had tried to do it herself.
Awful stories of unsafe pre-Roe abortions are a powerful reminder of the truth — a verifiable reality, despite the anti-choice movement’s instance otherwise — that, regardless of its legality, people will go to great, dangerous lengths to end an unwanted pregnancy. And many of the doctors voice concerns that post-Roe generations, with no memory of a time when abortion was illegal, have lost a viseral sense of that truth.
And that’s likely true to some degree. But, still, there’s plenty of evidence all around us that women today are doing whatever it takes to get an abortion. They’re driving for hours upon hours. They’re pawning possessions and skipping meals. They’re walking through gauntlets of hateful, shaming protestors.
And, as this anecdote from Dr. Suzanne T. Poppema shows, they’re getting abortions even when they believe, thanks to lying anti-choice crisis pregnancy centers, that the procedure is performed with a medival fucking torture device:
No matter how much you shame and scare them, women will still come for abortions. Pretty recently I had this young woman, 15 maybe, and we did the procedure. I said, ‘Your uterus is empty, the procedure is over. I have to go check to make sure we got everything,’ and I left the room to examine the tissue. Then I came back and told her, ‘Everything’s fine, your uterus is healthy.’ And she said, ‘So … when are you going to use the steel ball?’ I picked my jaw up off the floor and said, ‘Steel ball?’ She said, ‘Well, I went to the crisis pregnancy center and they told me you’re going to put a steel ball that’s covered with sharp blades into my uterus and twirl it around.’ And this kid still came! I was thinking, How did you ever make yourself walk in the office believing I was going to do that?”
Header image credit: Physicians for Reproductive Health’s Facebook page
Here’s How You Can Join the Fight Against Trump’s Abortion Gag Rule
Activists are responding to Trump’s abortion gag rule in full force.
A quick refresher: The abortion gag rule — also known as the “Protect Life Rule” — would block federal Title X funding from any healthcare center that provides or refers patients for abortion care. By attempting to bar providers from sharing medically accurate information about abortion, Trump’s proposal is a direct attack on people’s reproductive choices, especially low-income and uninsured patients who rely on providers like Planned Parenthood and local healthcare centers for affordable and essential healthcare.
Title X grants support family planning services like contraception, testing, and treatment for sexually transmitted infections, cancer screenings, and general reproductive health exams. If ...
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I like working with young people in and around Philly. I think it's important that those of us who have been fortunate to achieve some success in life reach back to help out our community when we can.
Here in Philly, there are a lot of people doing just that. They act as mentors, coaches, teachers, and volunteers in various parts of the city, putting in work and contributing to society in a positive way.
This is why the following story pisses me off so much.
"Ask the 9-year-old football players on the West Philly Tarheels what they think makes their team unique, and they sound like a pro football team.
"Our passing game."
"We improved our defense. We only gave up 12 points all year."
"We don't talk smack. We just show it on the field."
A pro team they're not. With almost no players over 100 pounds, the entire team of 17 barely out-weighs the five Eagles on the offensive line (about 300 pounds each).
However, the Tarheels, who wrapped up their season in the Pop Warner League's Mighty Mites division last weekend with a 18-0 win, leaving them undefeated with an 11-0 record, are feeling like they lost.
That's because a mid-season organizational change canceled their dream of playing the Pop Warner Super Bowl in Disney.
"Finding out we weren't going down to Disney, it really hurt in the inside of my body. I really wanted to make it down there," said player AJ Redmond, 9.
While the league had a playoffs system with winners heading to the bowl at Disney World in Florida last year, it was changed this year to an invitation-only bowl -- and the Tarheels didn't get the invite.
"The kids thought they were going to Florida. Florida was their incentive," said team mom Caiya Whitehead.
Some parents even said they only joined this league for the chance to play in Disney, which ended up being a mirage.
"Last year, we were in the Keystone League," said Danielle Tucker-Mills, a mother of another player. "We switched to go to Pop Warner League because we knew there was a chance, if the kids won, they could go to Disney."
The decision to change plans occurred in October due to problems involving numerous complaints from various teams, said Pop Warner spokesman Josh Spruce.
"The playoff structure just brought a lot of challenges when playing with kids who are 7, 8, and 9 years old," Pruce said. "We decided not to play anything that looks like a playoff game."
Somehow the decision, made in October, didn't trickle down from the Liberty League Athletic Association to the Tarheel parents until two weeks ago -- right after winning a game they believed would set them on the path to the playoffs.
"The day we found out, we couldn't even have practice. They all broke down crying," Whitehead said.
"It was conveyed to our children that if they actually won all their games, they would advance to Disney," said Tucker-Mills. "All of a sudden you change the rules and no, we're not going to Disney."
"I'm sorry if they were misinformed. It's unfortunate circumstances," Pruce said.
Now, the Tarheels are focusing on moving forward.
"This team is special. I've never seen nothing like this team," said Kareem Baylor Sr., one of the team coaches, whose son is on the team, during a recent practice. "Seventeen 9-year-olds changed my life."
Parents and coaches said the Tarheels' football skill is only continuing to grow.
"It's really instilled in them that 'This is what I want to do,'" Tucker-Mills said. "Even when they're not at practice, they practice. They will move on, they're resilient, they will bounce back." [Source]
I would love to ask Mr. Spruce what some of those "complaints" were. And people wonder why I am so cynical. Come on grown ups, lets make this happen for the little guys. It's not like they are linked to murders or any of those bad things that would sully Disney's "pristine" reputation.
When I read stories like this I can't help but feel the way I do about the adults who are supposed to be controlling things. No compassion for the poor kids who are going to have their hearts broken.
I have my own opinions as to why this team got snubbed ( I know some of the back story) but I am going to leave that to your imagination.
*Photo by Charles Mostoller for the Metro.us.
Labels: AJ Redmond, Caiya Whitehead, Disney World, Josh Spruce, Kareem Baylor ., Pop Warner League's, West Philly Tarheels
Poop Warner said...
"I have my own opinions as to why this team got snubbed ( I know some of the back story) but I am going to leave that to your imagination."
Let me guess: It was the Klan!
The team was from Philly and they were Black. That's why! But listen: As JOSH say,
"These kids are too sensitive. Who the fuck is raising these little black monsters to make them so damn sensitive? We, Blacks and Whites, all know what the problem is.... These kids have no father."
So there you have it. Straight from the mouth of an unbiased-fair-minded wm.
This is the new America. When Black people excel beyond the stereotype of racists, the backlash is to deny excellence. I've seen it quite a bit over the past 2 years daring to conduct research based significantly in computer science. I used to say that excellence trumphs ignorance. Lately I've added tenacity, perseverance to that saying too.
I hope the folks in Philly can put together a fund to send the kids to Disney anyway. If they do so publicly, please post a link.
Great post as usual!!!
Yeah, because telling 20-somethings in college, who CREATE their own racism as fiction, and then huddle up and cry, are the exact same as little kids playing pee-wee league football.
Look at how you're type-casting all blacks just to have a go at me!
You want so badly to cling to everything that "JOSH" says, that you don't even pay attention to what the fuck you're saying.
Dude. Seriously. I'm a total fucking stranger. We will never meet in our lives. My opinions and stances on things have absolutely 0 net effect change on your life. Yet you follow me around like a lost puppy, constantly chanting my name like you're in the grips of an orgasm, and metaphorically shit all over your fool self in an attempt to insult me.
You have the literal brain function of these children in Pop Warner.
As to the kids: I don't know how it works there. By the time my youngest brother was of the age to play PWF, we had moved to Northern VA, and there the parents of the 8 teams had to pool their money together just to get the league going, as it wasn't an official PW league, I don't think. They had to buy the uniforms, pay the refs (coaches were volunteer parents), rent the baseball stadium from the town, pay fees to a faux union-style local, etc. They weren't part of any greater league or anything. Parents even had to go to the local sports shop to have trophies ordered for winners (sorry, this was before the days of participation trophies, so losing teams only got certificates).
I'm not familiar enough with the set-up to say what should or shouldn't happen in this particular league. But if they're part of a greater league that promised them a trip, then honor that trip, you fucking assholes!
Unlike the UoM students (ANON!), these kids have a legitimate beef. They're not creating hoax racism out of whole cloth for an ends-justify-the-means power play to have selfish, childish demands met. They have a legitimate gripe, and adults in charge should do better, or just join Congress with the rest of the fuck-ups and cement your legacy as a worthless human being.
One would expect a child to cry if they've been fucked over. One--well, at least not everyone--expects 20-somethings to cry even harder because they've deluded themselves into believing that their fake racist claims were made manifest when media claimed they were angry black people with their fists in the air (because every piece of video evidence showed them as angry black people with fists in the air).
Black folks, we share this fucking world with you. Stop getting so butthurt that some of us aren't shamed enough by crybullies to not call bullshit on bullshit. UoM is a racism hoax, like every other one to happen in the past few years (do you morons need a list or something?). You backed the wrong horse, anon. Stop blaming it on me! Do some fucking research before you pick your random Jeebus.
I hope uptownsteve tears josh a new one like he usually does.
This is the new America. When Black people excel beyond the stereotype of racists, the backlash is to deny excellence.
Yep, white folks once again denying the stereotype that blacks are good at football.
My God, you are dumb. Try reading what you wrote first before you hit "Publish Your Comment".
Can you walk and breathe at the same time?
Man, blacks sure are entitled. They even think they should get free trips to Disney! SMDH.
Uptownsteve shouts that I'm a "LIAR," as the facts prove that he is in fact the objective liar. But because he screams it, and these anon ticks I have on my nutsack for some reason back him up, I reckon Steve's right. Dude has yet to make any logical argument against me for anything. I've challenged him to provide evidence for his "racist" claims dozens of times, and the best he did was point out that I was having a conversation with someone about the OOW birthrates in the black community -- because, according to him, and other black people who can't stop tripping over their own stupidity, white people are supposed to be in the dark about "black thangs" and are racists if they speak about them.
I reckon it's supposed to be a secret that most mothers in the black community raise bastards on welfare. Sorry, it's not a secret. Just like the multi-billion-dollar weave industry, we know. Sorry if that hurts your feelings, like you've been keeping your dirty laundry in-house, but we know.
Cruisin' down the street in my lace front...
I enjoy Steve. I've been enjoying speaking with Steve for two years now, since he showed up as a multi-account troll at Bernie's, arguing with himself while pretending to be a racist (UoM, anyone?), and then creating the Carlos name so it appeared to be two black men vs. 1, when ALL THREE WERE STEVE!
Yeah, he tears me a new one. He tears my fucking side to pieces at how hard I laugh at his delusional ass. Didn't I just tell y'all to do more research before picking a random Jeebus? WTF is it with your brain blockage? It's like you enjoy being objectively wrong about every single thing you hold dear.
Mr Hung, it's YOU who should try reading what YOU wrote before hitting the "Publish your comment" button.
Yisheng said nothing about football, you idiot. In fact, she rarely talks sport. She talks educational skills beyond football....can you comprehend that? Probably not.
Lance Schmellmea said...
"I've seen it quite a bit over the past 2 years daring to conduct research based significantly in computer science."
I think the word you are looking for is "substantially", rather than "significantly".
And Googling for fake Fendi bags and pictures of Long Dong Silver does not count as computer science.
Josh, as long as you are the judge of Blacks, there will be nothing they can do that will be commendable to you.
As you said to Blacks, "It's like you enjoy being objectively wrong about every single thing you hold dear."
As a wm, I am embarrassed and ashamed that we have such racists in our midst.
Speaking of Black excellence and SMASHING stereotypes, the new TV show staring Morris Chestnut features him as a Black Pathologist and his sister as a Black Toxicologist!!
Blacks in STEM and medicine, YES!!!!
"As you said to Blacks"
As I said to the ANONS. They are not "Blacks." And WHY THE HELL do you keep capitalizing an adjective? Digital whiteface. Per the POW-AH of PX, I decree that no white person would ever capitalize an adjective as a proper noun.
"Race" is a noun. "People" is the noun. "Black" is a fucking descriptive.
I'm not speaking to "blacks," you retarded motherfucker. I'm speaking to YOU IDIOTS who keep spamming me with these nonsensical complaints and accusations yet are unable to make any sense.
Look, moron. You fucking see me here all the time. You know I don't hold my tongue, as it were, if I have to something to say. If I meant "Black people, it's like you enjoy being objectively wrong..." don't you think I would just say BLACK PEOPLE? I mean, y'all say I'm a racist (0 evidence to date) no matter what I say. Why wouldn't I just say "black people" if I meant black people?
Stupidity: Level over 9,000
What is your impediment to logical thought?
Racism. Okay. Evidence, please. (BTW: Your moronic projections and objectively wrong assertions of "you" meaning "all black people everywhere" does not suffice as evidence of my racism, but rather evidence of your boundless ignorance."
Chesty Morgan said...
Yes, TV and movies are great at showing unrealistic portrayals of blacks doing things that only white people can really do.
Harvey Weinstein said...
"Speaking of Black excellence and SMASHING stereotypes, the new TV show staring Morris Chestnut features him as a Black Pathologist and his sister as a Black Toxicologist!!"
What's next, a new TV show starring Jackie Chan as an Asian pimp and his sister as an Asian crack whore?
Crazy talk!
Josh, "Look, moron. You fucking see me here all the time. You know I don't hold my tongue, as it were, if I have to something to say. If I meant "Black people, it's like you enjoy being objectively wrong..." don't you think I would just say BLACK PEOPLE? I mean, y'all say I'm a racist (0 evidence to date) no matter what I say. Why wouldn't I just say "black people" if I meant black people?"
FYI, you keep capitalizing adjectives such as "Black". Yet you say no white person would ever capitalize an adjective.
For a wm, you really fly off the handle....a lot more than a bm. You sir, are full of rage, an insult to Whites. I say that as a wm. You are DISGUSTING! Please excuse my capitalization but it needed to be done in order to illuminate your condition in the white race.
uptownsteve55 said...
Most blacks are NOT on welfare. I know you're upset but this hysterical ranting is just making you look even more pitiful.
No free trip to Disneyworld? What a racist hell-hole America is!!!
Honestly Field, how ridiculous does the whole racism chasing thing have to get before it all implodes?
All over the country there are pampered black middle class kids who attend college for free going on strike because everyone is not paying enough attention to them.
We see all these Blacks basically rioting on these campuses, and the media is like “yeah they’re angry because people are doing racism against them,” and people are like “but what specifically though?”
So NYT puts out a call for people to submit specific instances of racism, and people are like “one time someone called me a mean name,” “one time someone didn’t ask me a question,” “one time someone said something mean about me on the internet.”
They should not have published this. They should have left it vague, and led people to believe that the KKK was burning crosses and lynching Blacks on campus. This just looks horrible, that they are making all of these demands and their complaints are so nonsensical.
Even if people saying mean things is as serious a problem as the media is claiming, there isn’t anything that can be done about it.
The idea that there can be an institutionalized solution to name-calling by random people at a school is insane. Presumably, the schools all already have policies where you can get punished for discrimination if you’re a student and it’s reported that you called someone a racial slur. What more can possibly be done? What are they asking for?
Do they actually even want that? Or is it just the Jews stirring them up? How does any of this protesting serve the interests of Blacks? What are they trying to achieve?
Again with this NYT list of complaints, we see that racism is being defined as a conspiracy to hurt people’s feelings. Is there any evidence of this conspiracy, beyond claims of random people saying mean things?
I am an actual racist, in that I believe White people have a right to their own countries. But I don’t go around calling people names or trying to hurt their feelings – what purpose would that serve?
This is all just plain gibberish.
And it is the Jews. As I recently proved with my trolling of the #PrayForMizzou hashtag, you can get Blacks to go along with anything as long as you know what they have trained to believe.
The Jews are using these Black students as yet another battering ram against White America.
"Again with this NYT list of complaints, we see that racism is being defined as a conspiracy to hurt people’s feelings."
The big "in" thing inside of universities today is for "professors" in genders studies, AA studies, critical race theory, etc, to ask their students to define racism!
I'm not smart enough to think this shit up. This is really what's happening in universities today. They have created a term called "microaggression," and teachers ask students to tell them what makes them feel hurt based on what people say, do, act, etc. Here are some of the horrible instances of racism black students cite:
1) If a white person asks me where I'm from, this person is telling me that I do not belong and should not be treated as equal.
2) If a white person says "I treat everyone as equals," this white person is whitewashing my identity as a black person. Why aren't they respecting my identity as black but instead try to take it away?
3) If a white person assumes that he/she can just say I'm a black person, without respecting my chosen identifier as an African-American. It's hurtful. They are not respecting my boundaries as a human being.
4) If a white person asks me why I wear "I LOVE my BLACKNESS" clothing, or asks what sort of racism I have suffered, it's racism. They are assuming that our struggle is not equal to the struggle of slaves, which we were, and they are stealing our pain.
As can plainly be seen, it's a catch-22. If you're white, you're racist.
"Most blacks are NOT on welfare. I know you're upset but this hysterical ranting is just making you look even more pitiful."
Straw-man. I never said most blacks were on welfare. I said most black single mothers are. (Fact. Most black single mothers are on some form of welfare, and there are nearly a dozen from which to choose: Uncle Charlie's housing assistance, WIC and food stamps, healthcare subsidies, transport/phone subsidies, daycare subsidies, monetary checks, etc.)
Steve, get through one response without committing a logical fallacy, which is an objective gauge of a flaw in your reasoning capabilities, and then we'll make some progress.
You can't. In whatever you spam across the screen, I'll be able to pick out at least one logical fallacy, tell you what it is, and how you're making it. You don't possess the self-awareness to stop yourself from committing them; you don't have the reasoning capabilities of a normal functioning brain. This was originally evidenced by the menage a trois you were having with you troll accounts at Bernie's, and got busted for it. You have carried your lunacy on in every incarnation of "Steve" subsequent.
"I say that as a wm."
Okay, digital whiteface. Whatever you say, buddy.
PX, I like your POW-AH, bruh. Feels gooood.
If you're white, are you not concerned about the racist standard you just used, whereby you took one black person, assumed that ALL black people were exactly, precisely identical, and extrapolated that one black person equates to all black people?
What kind of sick fucking racist does that? Man, maybe some therapy or something would heal your heart. Thinking that every single black person is the same, like one big person. That's disgusting.
Blogger Yīshēng said...
Hot damn, they're adding Taye Diggs as a Black Physician colleague of Morris Chestnut!! HELL YEAH to fine, chocolate Black man Wednesdays!!
As a white man, I must say that Josh is kinda retarded.
Bil said...
Most blacks are NOT on welfare.
You can understand his confusion.
Every time a right-wingnut politician talks about cutting welfare benefits the liberal media always show pictures of Black mothers to show how racist the right-wingnuts are for wanting to cut welfare.
Why don't they have Bokeem Woodbine? Fucking white racists, always trying to keep the black man down. I guess he's too black, whereas Taye-Taye and Babynuts are coonin' for the white man, steppin' 'n fetchin' for massa's coffee. Bokeem is too powerful for whitey.
(But I can't resist LOL @ actors "smashing stereotypes" by pretending to do something they are objectively unqualified to do IRL. Hooray for the small--some might say nonexistent--victories!)
"I must say that Josh is kinda retarded."
Own your racism, bro. You think that one black person = all black people, thus all black people are exactly the same.
How do you sleep at night, you prick?
@Steve -
I remember you from Goldberg's website, and found you to be rational and level headed, even in the face of being showered with abuse by the cult followers and the so-called "moderators" alike.
@Josh -
I don't recall anything like Carlos or any of the other accusations you have made happening on Goldberg's website. Can you provide a link?
Complaints? Hmm, let's see ...
-noise
-acting like wild animals
-threatening and menacing other teams
-dancing like savage baboons after ever win
Lance Cockstrong = Yet another uptownsteve sock puppet.
I see what you did.
Dude, if you want to go see Steve and his "rational" self, they're on the first two posts of Bernie's site. Dude is in there literally spamming people as racists and/or warmongers over 50 times because...wait for it...they're white.
The second down, or maybe third, is where uptownsteve and DarkStar meet up, only to find they're both the same person.
Those other instances about which I'm speaking are over a year old. Buried 60 posts deep. Maybe I'll feel like digging them up later, but probably not. You have already provided your conclusion, before asking for the evidence, which sorta defeats the purpose of asking for evidence. Next time do that the other way around, Lance. Ask for the evidence first, at least pretending that you're willing to be objective.
I mean, if you think I'm stupid, that's fine by me. But don't honestly expect that I'm stepping into that obvious a bear trap.
For anyone to reach the conclusion that Steve was the one "showered with abuse" rather than showering it on everyone else -- well, suffice to say that we exist in two distinct realities. There's what actually took place, and then what your confirmation bias chooses to see.
I cannot be held to account to change your perceptions of reality. You walk through the world an individual and are entitled to make of your reality what you will.
Here's a quick way you can dig up the old accounts: Go to John Daly's post. Find his email listed at the bottom. Email him and request the story. He is a site moderator, with access to the IP information and the old Steve Fair/Carlos comments.
Like I told Steve earlier: His explanation seemed very reasonable. But if true, why was he in there with both names, at the same time, defending his damn self with two separate accounts, acting like they were different people?
Uptownsteve is a delusional lunatic. If you choose to view him as a rational person, showered by cult abuse, that's your right, most certainly. But facts exist independent your personal interpretation. Reality exists independent your participation.
Looks like Rethug America's love affair with Dr. Carson is OVER, LOL!!
And I'll bet Cruz fights like a girl, how dare he challenge the POTUS to a debate!!
Carly Fiorina could kick Obama's ass. Did you see the workout video of him with his girly weights? LMAO!
The GO fucking P said...
Hey, we tried. We just can't seem to find any black people up to our standards.
This is something you have to learn early in life, as soon as you start succeeding at something suddenly the rules start changing. Always been that way. Those who don't understand history are doomed to repeat it, those who do are doomed to watch helplessly as they do it.
Those who do understand history are not doomed to repeat it, those who do not are not doomed to watch helplessly as they don't do it.
@Josh
Confirmation bias? Yeah, sounds a lot like something Daly would say. I provided my conclusion based on what I witnessed. I talked to Steve. And you too. No I don't think you are stupid, far from it. Bear trap? I didn't ask you for anything but to document the specific allegations that you make and keep reverting back to. There are others here besides you and me and Steve, so for their benefit, not asking too much for you to provide some backup, don't you think?
@Lance: You mean you talked to yourself, or steve talked to himself, because your are himself or he is yourself
Word to PX @11:19PM.
This is something you have to learn early in life, as soon as you start succeeding at something suddenly the rules start changing.
The rules never change for Yisheng.
Former GOP senator Rick "Frothy mixture" Santorum said...
Hey, we tried. We just can't seem to find any blah people up to our standards.
I'm with Trump, Carly's face would knockout anyone without a punch thrown.
You Know Who said...
Lance Cockstrong = not an uptownsteve sock puppet.
Man, whites sure are entitled. They even think they should get free trips to Disney! SMDH.
uptownlance = Steve Cocckstong
"Those who do understand history are not doomed to repeat it, those who do not are not doomed to watch helplessly as they don't do it."
What about those who don't understand history but choose not to do it or even to watch it? Or those who do watch but get some help? In this way doom can be averted.
I mean, y'all say I'm a racist (0 evidence to date) no matter what I say.
Bwwwwwwwwwwwaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhaaaaaaaaaaaaaa! This motherfucker is delusional. He says racist shit all day every day but will never own up to it.
Well, nothing to fix here.
uptownlance = Steve Cockstrong
Anonymous The Fixer said...
Da' hell it ain't, a stalking, Black obsessed, unsuccessful, half Asian, phalic lacking but obsessed, gay, banned from his family, racist, retard.
"not asking too much for you to provide some backup, don't you think?"
I have told everyone here on at least a dozen occasions now, precisely what they can do, the steps to follow, in the event they want to uncover the story.
I'm not wasting my time on stuff that's pointless.
Here's how it will go: "Daly and Webb are right-wing moderators of a right-wing site, so they're lying about brother Steve. It's what they do; they lie. It's lies. They're assaulting Steve."
How do I know this is how it will go? Because this is exactly how it went when I first mentioned it here. It's how it's going right now. It's what you're doing right now. Steve hid under the bed for two weeks, waiting to see how folks here would react, and nobody--not a single person, save one anon, and we can't be sure he/she's not just a troll--gave a fuck. And, really, IDGAF either. The only reason I even called him out was because he kept shouting at me, "Why are you here on a BLACK WEBSITE as a white person!? Because YOU'RE RACIST!" Over and over and over and over again, claiming he was "spanking" me.
So, I decided to tell people about the time Mr. Steve was caught trolling a white website with multiple accounts, and kept coming back with new accounts despite being caught, because he's delusional. He is demonstrably delusional.
I honestly don't care if anyone else on the entire planet believes me. Steve called me out for coming to Field's, I called him out for going to Bernie's. Turnabout being fair-play, tit for tat, I did it to show that he's not only a hypocrite but a lunatic. He knows the truth. I know the truth. I don't care who else does or doesn't.
"He says racist shit all day every day but will never own up to it."
The standards of "racism" now include:
- Disagreeing with black people
- Having a different ideology than black people
- Insulting a person who happens to be black
- Pointing out that fatherlessness is a huge issue
- Not believing the objectively lying UoM Civil Rights reenactors
So, yeah, I can duck it no longer. I'm a racist. Since some people here apparently have the power to change what words mean, I cannot avoid being a racist. I have done all of those things listed above, numerous times. Guilty as charged.
Notice the number of white people who don't give a fuck about your "pain" and "struggle" rise directly proportional to the amount of woof-tickets sold on "racism."
Figure it out or don't. I cannot walk you through it like a baby.
Janice from accounting said...
Who gives a fuck what white people think?
Josh is too dumb to know what he writes is racist. Or he just writes racist shit to stir the pot to have another internet argument. Either way he is a fucking loser.
Inquiring minds said...
Does Josh get paid by the word?
I can't believe how quickly common decency has disappeared in America. On Monday, Alabama & North Alabama's (Michigan's) governors said they'd exclude New Syrian refugees from their states. On Tuesday, Roanoke VA's mayor proposed interning those already here in concentration camps. On Wednesday, a Tennessee lawmaker proposed using that state's national guard as an ethnic militia to drive them from its borders. I expect that on Thursday, someone will propose lining them up in front of pits and shooting them, and that by Friday it will be gas chambers and crematoria. There have been times in my 56 years when I've been less than proud of my country, but this is the first time that I've been actually ashamed of it. I wish that I had my brother's dual citizenship, because I'd be retiring to the UK if I did.
I'm sorry about the kids trip to pickpocket makebelieveland, but something much more important has gone very, very wrong in the country this week. I'm beginning the think that Adolf Trump or Mullah Carson might actually have a shot at the whitehouse.
"Who gives a fuck what white people think?"
Everybody except for people who want to thumb my eye, apparently.
Just shout "NUH UH" to anything I say. Claim it's racism without explaining how or why. Yeah. Embrace the stereotypes -- then blame other folks for using them.
Great tact.
"Our feelings," "Listen and believe," "Don't ignore our pain," "Nobody cares about us," etc, etc, etc...
Arrogant white male said...
Nope, nobody gives a fuck. White men are so fucking arrogant, jeezus.
The Guardian had a good article on why terrorist attacks in the West are more highly reported than those that happen elsewhere.
The writer echoes some of the points I've made about terrorist attacks being seen as "ho-hum" and unsurprising in certain countries, and therefore receiving less coverage, than those in countries where they are not expected:
"It is also not as neat an imbalance as you might think. The nature of the news incident is also important. There is some combination of factors that render something a news story worthy of supreme attention – an certain out-of-the-ordinariness, the presence of a simple evil assailant.
A mass attack in the heart of Paris is a less frequent event than a bombing in the Middle East. By the same token, a campus shooting is a more common occurrence in the US than it is anywhere else, and coverage of shooting events have lately been relegated down the front pages, due to frequency. It sounds churlish, but that is news."
So there you go. If you live in Bombing Central, nobody bats an eye when you get bombed. It's not big news. It's just another Tuesday in Bombing Central.
She also brought up another consideration I hadn't thought of, which is that a lot of the reporting resources are in the West. So a bombing in a poor country is likely to get less coverage simply because there are fewer reporters present in that location to report on it in the first place.
Anyway, here's the article.
Why do deaths in Paris get more attention than deaths in Beirut?
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/nov/18/deaths-paris-beirut-media
Who's Josh?
"I'm sorry about the kids trip to pickpocket makebelieveland, but something much more important has gone very, very wrong in the country this week. I'm beginning the think that Adolf Trump or Mullah Carson might actually have a shot at the whitehouse."
No, they don't have a shot at the White House. In fact, I'd say their whole party better get used to losing a whole lot of elections, because that's what their near-term future looks like.
I am, however, concerned about what the temper tantrum is going to look like when they realize they've blown up their party and can't win anymore. Things may get violent. You can already see the efforts being made to hold onto what they've currently got, via undemocratic cheating (i.e., gerrymandering and voter disenfranchisement and unlimited campaign funding). And what happens when that shit isn't enough anymore?
Also the rhetoric is over-the-top racist and crazy. Tyranny and treason. Second-amendment remedies. It's practically an invitation to start shooting if they don't get their way.
Da' hell it ain't, a stalking, Whooteemoo obsessed, unsuccessful,black, phalic lacking but obsessed, gay, banned from his family, racist, retard.
As a black man, I must say that Josh is kinda smart.
Cheif Whooteemoo said...
In the alleged minds of white libs and blahs, "common decency" replaces the desire to keep Americans save. Of course white libs don't mind illegals murdering Americans so why should they care if terrorists are murdering Americans?
"FYI, you keep capitalizing adjectives such as "Black"."
The anon that doesn't understand grammar on even a grade-school level. I literally cannot believe that you are back. You don't understand quoted text at all, and have failed miserably at showing any ability to comprehend the subject matter when it is explained to you.
I credit you for lacking all shame and sense of self-awareness, coming back to show everyone how entrenched you are in stupidity. That's a victory, I guess. Just because you're objectively the most unintelligent person to post here, do not let that silence you! You have every right to post your opinions, even if they are demonstrably stupid and you fail to grasp to concept of quotation marks and quoted text as a literary device.
Who cares if you have never read a book in your life? Ever. Not a single time. Completely incapable of understanding quoted text. "'Black' here is the beginning of a sentence and needs capitalization," Josh exclaimed to anon. "But I cannot understand what you mean," were the first tragic thoughts of anon. "Truly, I don't know what those little line thingies are. Stop being stupid and speak in a way I can understand!"
Don't let 'em take your POW-AH! It's people like you who remind us that our education system is failing.
nuestro said...
I can't believe how quickly common decency has disappeared in America. On Monday, Alabama & North Alabama's (Michigan's) governors said they'd exclude New Syrian refugees from their states
Is there any limit as to how many refugees we are required to take in before you think we are "decent"?
Are there such things as incompatible cultures?
Anyone who wants common decency, please, I invite you to eat the bowl of jellybeans I have put together.
In a beautiful, sparkling glass bowl, I have 1,000 jellybeans that are shiny and plump, made with the finest raw sugar and all-natural ingredients. They are quite tasty! Go on; reach in and grab a handful. Let your children grab a handful. Before you do so, however, let me warn you: 1% of those jellybeans (10 in total) are injected with a poison that will kill you.
Go on, Whitey. Allow your child to grab a handful of my jellybeans and mang away! To not eat them will be discriminatory. 99% of those jellybeans are perfectly fine! Discriminating against the 1% that will kill you is Jellyphobic, and there is no place for Jellyphobia in a modern western liberal society supposedly operating with a shred of moral decency. Do not profile all the jellybeans. Reach in, grab a big, heaping handful, and chomp away.
Here's what you do: Build a tent city on your property, tell the government that you are willing to accept these poor refugees, until you're filled to capacity, and welcome them with open arms.
It worked out so well for France. Because, you know, it's not as if terrorists migrated through Greece and into France pretending to be helpless refugees or anything.
The Mystery of the Vanderbilt Poop Hatecrime Solved: It Was a Blind Girl's Seeing Eye Dog's Poop, Which She Had Left on the Ground Because She Couldn't Find a Trashcan
So a poop was found on the ground at Vanderbilt. This was reasonably assumed to be a human poop, and further reasonably assumed to be a Deliberate Hate Crime Provocation Designed to Make the Minority Community Feel Unsafe.
All of those assumptions are, of course, completely warranted, and well worth having a panic and witch-hunt over.
But sometimes, even given assumptions so very modest and reasonable, things turn out differently than that which has been imagined.
Motivated by the fake protest at Mizzou, Vandy decided they needed to have their own anti-racism protest. The day after the protest the protest group's wet dream happened -- there was poop in a black bag on the front steps of the black cultural center.
Racist poop!
WE'VE GOT RACIST POOP!
This Vandy group immediately denounced the poop on the steps as a hate crime:
"The Hidden Dores team is appalled to announce that our demonstration yesterday was met this morning with a vile act. This morning someone left a bag of feces on the porch of Vanderbilt University's Black Cultural Center. The center has served as the nexus of many aspects of Black life on Vanderbilt's campus since it's inception 31 years ago. The violation of a place that in many ways is the sole home for Black students is deplorable.
Who was the horrible racist who left dog poop on campus steps?
Well, it turns out that it was a blind female student whose seeing eye dog pooped on campus and she couldn't find a trash can.
She posted this on Facebook:
I would like to inform everyone on this campus that no racial threat occurred. I am a blind student on this campus with a guide dog. I was meeting with a group last night to go over our debate for one of my sociology classes. My dog did her business outside on the grass and I picked it up and put it in a bag like always...I did not want to bring the feces inside and make the building smell, so I left it outside by the door...Everyone is going to point me out now as the blind girl who left her dog feces by the black cultural center. I am sorry that I do not know where all the trash cans are on main campus...
I didn't understand the full dimensions of the butchery in Paris until I read this shocking tale of the discovery of some dog poop in a doggie bag on the ground.
Now, I understand.
Well Ben Stein apparently has figured out why Obama doesn't care much for America. In fact, he claims Obama hates America because he is part Black.
Now think about that for a minute. What is Ben saying about Blacks in America?
This guy sounds a lot like JOSH. In fact, he just might be JOSH. Does anybody know if JOSH has other fake identities? I mean, Yisheng has already figured him out to be an Asian pretending to be White and very racist toward Blacks.
I am concerned that JOSH has not revealed who he truly is on FN while others do. It's unfair.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/ben-stein-wonders-if-obama-hates-america-because-hes-part-black_564d0721e4b00b7997f930fe?utm_hp_ref=politics&ir=Politics§ion=politics
Why is it that a complete and total stranger on the Internet has such a total hold over your attentions, Anon?
Do you not have a job? Are you using some chick's computer, shacked up there mooching off of her baby's cereal and apple juice?
What is it about a person who views the world differently than you do that causes you to stalk him around every single comment thread and to scream his name, over and over, in the grips of an emotional orgasm? "JOSH, JOSH, JOSH."
I hope JOSH..
I'm concerned JOSH...
I'm worried JOSH...
Where is JOSH...
Maybe JOSH...
Are you even a grown-up?
I cannot even bring myself to insult you at this point. You finally get your wish. My heart has changed. You have begged for my attention so often, shouting my name randomly, that I've been forced to your sophist position. I view you as a tragic figure and I get this hot flash, this mild stomach upset, when I think about just how intellectually inferior you are, how insignificant you are to the world, and how it must be emotional torture to live that way. I cannot imagine anything more heartbreaking. You just want someone to care about you, sometime to validate your worth as a human being.
But why are you choosing me? Why is your lost-puppy-in-random-park ass following me home for the love?
Dear Brother Field, 2016 is approaching fast and I just want to warn you that there will be a substantial increase in rates from Anon, Inc. In the past we gave you substantial 'decreases' in rates while we charged your white counterparts at Stormfront a lot more.
We have been notified that our practices are discriminatory and frankly racist against Whites who can't afford such payments. In addition we have been discriminatory in the quality of Anons assigned to blogs. That is, we have assigned our 'best' to you while assigning mediocre anons to fine blogs like Stormfront and Breitbart.
Well, the government has stepped in and pretty much said, "This shit has got to stop. FN is not hurting in the least and has been getting 'unnecessary relief because it's a black blog. This offends some Whites(see comments by Mr Josh and James Bold and others on your blog).
I won't go on with the details but just wanted to give you a 'flavor' of why we are raising rates on FN. In addition, your payment history in the past indicates that even with the 'deep, deep' discounts, you STILL didn't pay as you should.
Now you must agree that your payment behavior patterns is TNB. Even Mr UpTownSteve and Yisheng would agree.
Hence Anon Inc will be raising your monthly payments from damn near 'zero' to $10/WEEK, which is the same as Stormfront. This is America and we all must be treated equally.
As Always, We love you, the Blacks, and the Whites for bringing joy to America and the Island of PR(teary eyed).
Anon, Inc
This explains why dumbocrats have been pushing the income inequality agenda...
But in 2014, median net worth for Democrats went to $1.1 million, up from $946,511 in 2013; Republicans suffered a slight loss, from $1,107,017 million in 2013 to $1,093,279 in 2014.
http://www.opensecrets.org/news/2015/11/personal-wealth-a-nation-of-extremes-and-a-congress-too/
Dumbocrats in congress got richer as they were campaigning against income inequality.
Josh, "Do you not have a job? Are you using some chick's computer, shacked up there mooching off of her baby's cereal and apple juice?"
Mr Josh, why do you have such sinful racist thoughts? I am not following you, I am just trying to help and convert you from the dismal trail you walk on. I want to you better your character and I have faith that you can do it 'if only' you will confess your sins.
Will you confess, right now? right here? on FN? Think how 'healing' that would be for you and all FN Blacks, including Yisheng and Uptownsteve. Your confession could be the one that shakes the earth into a positive climate change. It just might end terrorism...
You alone, could possibly turn humanity and the earth's climate around and save the world...maybe even the universe. The Lord would be very pleased with you and the devil would run like hell from you.
What do you say, Mr Josh?
"What is it about a person who views the world differently than you do that causes you to stalk him around every single comment thread and to scream his name, over and over, in the grips of an emotional orgasm? "JOSH, JOSH, JOSH."
Maybe JOSH..."
OMG! This narcissistic dude is off the charts.
Nothing to fix here.
Bill is an F'n Idiot said...
Because Bill's dumb ass forgets that Republicans have been pushing that shit too. He did it himself.
As an idiot, I must say that Josh is kinda smart.
In the alleged minds of white conservative assholes, "owning muh guns" replaces the desire to keep Americans safe. Of course white conservative assholes don't mind white psychos murdering Americans so why should they care if terrorists are murdering Americans?
Another cop ambush
A Downey police officer was apparently targeted when he was fatally shot while sitting in his personal vehicle in the station's parking lot
http://ktla.com/2015/11/19/police-officer-found-shot-dead-in-downey-pd-parking-lot/
The number of police attacks via ambush is way up the last couple years.
The dumbocrats need to distract and instead talk about total cop deaths being down.
Josh grunts....
"I never said most blacks were on welfare. I said most black single mothers are."
That's a lie too that you couldn't prove if your sorry acne ridden racist life depended on it.
You crack me up.
You just make shit up, toss it against the wall, and then posture as if you are some empirical researcher.
As an idiot, ...
Nothing to fix here
Blacks are six times more likely than whites to be on welfare.
Negro Wash-Woman said...
In the alleged minds of liberal assholes, repealing the second amendment and allowing terrorists to enter America keeps us safe. Of course liberls assholes don't mind brown and blah psychos murdering Americans so why should they care if terrorists are murdering Americans?
Lance Cockstrong
Hey I remember you too.
Thanks for exposing Josh.
Don't hold your breath waiting for evidence of his assertions.
Josh doesn't do "proof".
@ upstrongcock:
Of course you remember Lance, you are Lance.
President Halfwhite said...
Taye Diggs Under Fire for Saying He Wants His Son to Identify as Bi-Racial, Not Black
http://www.breitbart.com/big-hollywood/2015/11/18/taye-diggs-fire-saying-wants-son-identify-bi-racial-not-black/
I LOVE how this generation of Black college students have decided, since Mike Brown's death, that they ain't gonna take ANY MORE SHIT off these Whooteemoos anymore!
What kind of shit?
Whooteemoola said...
"What kind of shit?"
I guess when Yisheng says "they ain't gonna take ANY MORE SHIT off these Whooteemoos anymore" she means they are going to turn down preferential admissions, free tuition, racially-adjusted grades, dedicated black dorms, black student centers, and subsidies for black only programs.
That's refreshing - black people finally want to stand on their own two feet and put their begging hands to work! Maybe even graduate, and get a job! Halle-fucking-lujah!
Whooteemoola,
Please produce some examples of free tuition for blacks, racially adjusted grades and subsidies for black only programs.
I went to college and missed all of that.
I'm currently paying tuition for my black son as well.
He must be really dumb.
Free tuition (plus fees, room/board, plus meals) are rewards for high SAT scores, high grades, and extracurricular activities. Those are the reasons why my daughter is in her second year of college, on a full scholarship studying Engineering at major institution.
Don't let these whooteemoos get the FACTS twisted, though it's understandable why the word "scholarship" has NO MEANING to them, LOL!!!
I'm really dumb.
And you're jealous that successful Black kids of successful Black parents, have the life you're too stupid to obtain for yourself.
How are you successful? Thirty five years in school and you can't get the degree you want.
And everyone knows how much lower the bar is set for blacks. You should know better than anyone.
"That's a lie too that you couldn't prove if your sorry acne ridden racist life depended on it."
Ad hominem. Begging the question. (Let's get your typical logical fallacies out of the way first...)
1) http://blogs.wsj.com/economics/2013/11/25/about-half-of-kids-with-single-moms-live-in-poverty/ - In the aggregate (which means the whole) half of single mothers are in poverty. This includes all those millions of moms who are not impoverished skewing the numbers. (Do you need me to explain further what "aggregate" means, Steve?) Obviously the inner cities and suchlike are hit harder.
2) http://articles.latimes.com/1990-07-17/news/mn-91_1_young-black-men - As is axiomatic to anyone who's not just an idiot looking to trip over his own stupidity on a blog, things that are issues in the aggregate are exacerbated in the inner-city and become much, much larger problems; e.g. the percentages of poverty in inner cities are greater than surrounding areas, hence why they're called "inner cities" to begin with. (The stupidity is amazing.)
3) These things are axiomatic to morons not named Steve because the definition of an "inner city" is a location with at least a 1.5x higher poverty rate than surrounding suburb and metro area. Ergo, if poverty is, say, 20% in the aggregate, you can expect that to be substantially higher in the inner city, at least over 35%. (The word "DUH!" comes to mind. But, then again, it is Steve, and I am white. Therefore, I'm wrong...because reasons.)
4) Therefore, it's easy to conclude that if half the single mothers live in poverty and receive some type of welfare in the aggregate, those numbers are more than half in the inner city. 51>49 = most. If 72% of black mothers are single mothers in the aggregate, it's axiomatic those numbers are higher in the inner cities. If half of that aggregate lives in poverty, it's axiomatic those numbers are higher in the inner city. Whose fault is it that your non-math-knowing ass probably thinks it must be 99% to be "most"?
"You just make shit up, toss it against the wall, and then posture as if you are some empirical researcher."
Right. I make shit up. Your shamelessness is amazing, only matched by your lack of self-awareness. The guy who literally talks to himself with two of his own names -- it's everyone else who makes shit up. I get one word wrong about what you said, I'm a LIAR and BUSTED and got spanked. You get 80% of the entire quote wrong that I say, miss the context completely, and your illogical ass cannot grasp the difference between a statement of fact and a rhetorical point, but, oh, that shit don't count.
"Most"
1: The greater quantity
2: The majority of instances; e.g. 50.01%
3: Greater in size or extent
What Steve thinls "most" means
1: Josh saying 99% of black people are criminal thugs
2: Josh saying 99% of black mothers live entirely on welfare
When speaking with Steve, get ready for brand new versions of math and English that you've never seen before.
Thanks, Lance. Honestly. Steve has been spamming looking for validation. He finally got some. Now he'll appeal to populous, because his entire fucking life is a logical fallacy, and he'll sleep well thinking he's won something.
You are so much more successful than me and my entire family. Thirty five years on earth, and you and your entire family have degrees in STEM that I can't get even though I'm a Whooteemoo.
There you go snookums!
[ Yisheng now crypt walks off the thread, ROTFL!!!]
Anonymous Anonymous racist said...
And yet you still don't have shit, and as dumb as potting soil. If the bar is set sooooo low for Blacks, why is it that you haven't achieved anything? What does that say about you?
Penis envy much???
"What do you say, Mr Josh?"
Kiss my ass, you mental midget.
You cannot separate your own projections from "racism" yet feel qualified to psychoanalyze a complete stranger on the Internet. The hubris is astounding. I assume you made it to 9th grade before you finally gave up on school. But you can be anything you want online!
I suggest you may be mooching off of a chick, eating her baby's food with your broke ass, and you instantly think "black people."
Yet I'M the racist? Me? You're the fuckwit who thinks only black people would do that.
Who's going to heal your heart? Who's going to convert your bigoted ass? When are you going to confess?
Stop projecting your own issues outward on me, you creepy motherfucker. I'm a stranger on the Internet. Get a hold of your life.
LOL @ anon #2's gross inability to follow a conversation. I don't even know what to say anymore. I thought creationist Christians were knuckleheads, but I find a new level of stupidity here daily.
Let me add this preemptively, because I know Steve is going to throw some sort of "dat ain't pruhv nuttin" hissy fit because he literally cannot process logically the information for a case that A = B.
If you need help walking through it, Steve, just ask. I won't hold it against you; promise. Just let me know which bits are frustrating you and making you lash out, and we'll take a deep breath and use coloring books or flash cards to help get you through it.
little dick josh babbled:
"Let me add this preemptively, because I know Steve is going to throw some sort of "dat ain't pruhv nuttin" hissy fit, blah,blah,blah."
Have you even seen Steve write like that, or do you ASSume all Blacks talk, hence write, like this. You are one delusional, sick, racist piece of shit. (who probably smells like feet and stale cigarettes.)
“Hey Judge, I don't have to show you any stinking evidence! You want it you go find it”. I wouldn't be your own attorney if I were you. Typical right winger, your idea of a debate - if you can shut them up you win the debate, so just abuse, insult and annoy them until they shut up. That is how right wing scams like Goldberg operate. Hope Goldberg is paying attention and you pass the audition. You will fit right in alongside petulant preppie fuckboy Daly and alcoholic Webb.
Lance, you don't have the sense of a fucking caged chicken, I swear to goodness.
You shout this across the screen, "That is how right wing scams like Goldberg operate," after already admitting that you're GOING TO TAKE STEVE'S SIDE, and then still expect that I will literally waste my time, spending hours of my life, to present, for your personal viewing pleasure, what happened with Steve? You expect that I'm going to go dig it all up, from more than a year ago, just to have you ignore it and/or call it a lie!?
Dude...stop treating me like I'm a fucking moron.
You have not given me one good reason to do so. If you would have simply requested it, I would have been happy to oblige. But you started out dismissing entirely the possibility that you would be objective.
This isn't a trial, you simple bitch. This isn't any sort of formal charge levied against Steve which requires his innocence to be maintained until which time the charging body produces proof beyond a reasonable doubt.
This was simply my "Steve" story. Believe it or fucking don't!
Why are you having difficulties processing this?
The blend of ignorance and arrogance is something that I admit is only found on this blog. For the fucker to sit there, in repeated posts, telling me that he already sides with Steve, and basically that he's not going to believe shit from those "right wing scams," yet doesn't realize he's not only tipped his hand but has been playing the game with his hole cards flipped up to the world; I don't know a word to describe how facepalm-worthy that is.
If you actually knew anything at all about the environment over there, you would know Jeff Webb and I do not really like one another, and that 90% of my posts are telling those stupid people about evolution, that being gay doesn't mean you're unequal, etc. Ironically enough, the first time Steve called me a racist was when I was defending Obama against right-wing attacks! LMFAO
Jeff and I have been arguing for a year about SSM, Kim Davis, etc. I'm about as welcomed at Bernie's site as I am here! In John Daly's most recent post, I called his ass out too.
All you folks have more in common than you think. Any time anyone disagrees with you, or uses a standard that doesn't satisfy, here come the crybullies.
Anonymous, you have some serious brain damage thing happening that I cannot even begin to figure out. What about my mocking Steve's stupidity makes you think "black people"?
Why is it my fault that if you read broken-ass English, your first thought is, "Hey, that's BLACK PEOPLE!"?
YOU are the fuckwit who views black people this way. Stop projecting it on me because you feel guilty about it.
Josh the idiot
"In the aggregate (which means the whole) half of single mothers are in poverty. This includes all those millions of moms who are not impoverished skewing the numbers"
But you said "Most black single mothers are on welfare".
This statement does not prove that. Don't scream and rant.
Just prove your point.
It would be the same as Field telling me to show him the link. Field said, before he said anything else, that right-wing websites lie. He started out admitting that he wouldn't believe it.
If you tell somebody that you're not going to take their evidence seriously as evidence because you believe the source is a lie, why do you continue to ask for evidence?
1/2 rhetorical; I apologize. Folks aren't actually trying to meet a standard of evidence. Fuck knows they don't require it for their pet causes like UoM liars, Elmer's, etc. It's just to thumb my eye on a personal level.
I'm okay with that. I imagine it's hard to dig through that bag of tricks when it was only a sandwich bag containing one bologna-sandwich trick in the first place.
(Enter Anon with some projection beef about blacks and bologna...)
You are relentless my man. Keep tilting at windmills. There is a lot of Donald Trump in you. Are you blowing yourself right now?
"Just prove your point."
C'mon, Stevie. You can do it. Read the rest of it. Process it logically.
Aggregate = A
Uptick in inner cities = B
C'mon, sweetheart. I have faith in you. You can read all the information there, those couple of hundred words, and piece together the logical case being made that B necessarily follows A.
I have faith in you, Carlos! TRY HARDER! It's literally right there in the exact same response, where you quote-mined (another logical fallacy, no surprise) a simple sentence and literally ignored the other 90% of the argument.
Lance, are you seriously still going to question why I don't waste my fucking time making a case about anything? I type 92wpm, so it's no sweat to offer a response. But look at how folks treat a logical case. Steve, to be fair, is not intelligent enough to understand what he's supposed to do, much less do it. But even if I showed a video clip of somebody's personal god saying it was true, he would still come back: "You didn't prove anything!"
Also: But you said "Most black single mothers are on welfare". Another quote mine. In the direct context, this explicitly had to do with inner city singe mothers, not the aggregate.
Four short sentences, four separate logical fallacies (1 ad hominem, 2 quote-mines, 1 weird version of denying the antecedent/cherry-picking hybrid).
@Josh-
92 WPM? With one hand while jerking off with the other hand?
I cannot say I'm shocked; I mean, at this point it's to be expected. But I had no idea that so many grown-ass men on this board were obsessed with male genitalia. Hey, I'm part of the skeptic community, which makes me socially very liberal (not progressive; just liberal). I'm all for gay rights. I accept your lifestyle choices. If you and PBJ want to display an obsession with the male penis--other men's penises, to boot, which is just creepy--then far be it from me to stand between you and ha-penis.
Ha-Penis? That's a good one. Ok. I know when I'm licked.
Ah, I highly doubt that's mine originally. I probably heard it somewhere and stole it. Cultural appropriation.
When you talk to Dildo Daly and Webb-Masterbater, tell them I didn't say hello!
Blogger Josh said...
My God, man. Why are you so emotional and profane? What did I ever do to you except be born Black? Are you angry at me for that?
I just want you to know that I'm 'for' you not 'against' you. I want to help you become all that you can be. Brother JOSH, don't let those black folks get you down when one of them like UTS or Yisheng blindside you intellectually. You don't have to rant and rave at me because of them. That makes no sense, JOSH.
Just tell me how I can help you overcome your misery at black folks. I am a treasure of recommendations.
Dear President of Anon Inc.
Please be advised that I am currently consulting with my accountant to see if I will be able to meet your demands for a raise in monthly fees.
Keep in mind, however, that I have been getting offers from other Anon groups who have promised to get me more interesting posters at less the cost.
Out of loyalty to you I will keep you for the rest of the year.
"What did I ever do to you except be born Black? Are you angry at me for that?"
If you're black, that's not the issue I take regarding how you were born. You have 0 self-awareness. You kick a bee hive and then cry that the bees stung you. You cannot attempt to bully someone then cry when you lose!
Throughout my tenure here, you have habitually insulted me as a racist, claimed I need to change my heart, suggested that I'm evil, suggested that everything I say is racist against blacks, then you go and fine some random asshole who says something stupid and then you say, "This is just like JOSH." You habitually, continually, unrelentingly insult me as a racist, malign my morality, shovel shit on my character and then pull the race card when I put your stupid ass in check.
And the tragedy here--I mean true tragedy, like would make some people cry--is that you literally have no idea why someone would take offense at you constantly running them down as a bad human being who needs to be fixed. You are honestly too stupid to figure it out.
Because you're black? No. Because you're you, dumb-ass.
You can't go around calling somebody racist and evil and a bad person and say they need to change, and then play the "dindu nuffin" card when they call your stupid-ass stupid.
You are a mental midget.
I never, not once in my life, went through here, read a random anon's comment, and put them on blast, much less fucking stalked them around every single thread screaming their name. But since the first time ever you read my posts, you have been maligning my character, insisting I hate black people, and condescendingly--like someone's mother or preacher--saying that you're going to "help" me change, as if your accusations against me are reality.
That you are literally too intellectually inferior to even understand you're doing this tells me what I need to know about you.
Because you're black? No. Because you're you.
Yingling couldn't blindside a humming bird intellectually. This bitch is dumber than rocks, lying about some "STEM MASTER" nonsense, when she objectively does not even grasp high-school biology. Not only does she fail to show an expert understanding of even the simplest biological terminology, she doesn't even show a rudimentary grasp. One would think she would use Google to strengthen her phony persona. But she's not even intelligent enough to figure out how to do that.
Has it ever crossed your mind, even one time, that perhaps people who say anything negative against you do so because of your personality? I know that's why people say shit against me. I'm harsh. I'm abrasive. I don't bite my tongue. I say what's on my mind. I call bullshit on bullshit. That's not the white person on bent knee begging for forgiveness that black collectivists are used to. So obviously the nonstarter "racist" is just a smear to shut me the fuck up. I realize that this is my personality, not my skin color.
What's your impediment to following that process? Why can't I be insulting you because you're a condescending asshole? Why does it HAVE TO BE because of your skin color?
Get a hold of your life. This "magical thinking" and black as an ideology makes you look stupid.
Sorry if there are typos and whatnot in that. I am literally laughing too hard to focus. Dude has been calling me racist and saying I need help for months now, and he just said he "dindu nuffin" except being black. lol ... I cannot express how light-headed and out of breath I am from laughing at the cognitive dissonance and total lack of reasoning faculties displayed by one individual.
"When you talk to Dildo Daly..."
Not sure John wants to talk to me. He is 100% anti-Trump. Like, on the warpath against him. I don't like Trump either. But he was busting someone's balls for voting for Trump because the person said "because he's different." So I asked John WTF his reasons were for voting. I highly doubt they're altruistic. He probably needs a Christian, and a Christian that thinks exactly how he does. So why bust other people's balls for voting the way they want, as if he's the king of everything?
But don't believe that. We right-wing Bible-thumpers and gun-toters just lie. Challenge me 20 times to provide evidence for it, making sure you tell me preemptively you won't believe it even after I show it. lol
Jeff Webb is still mad at me because I called him a dumb-ass that he couldn't see the difference in supporting something as a right and supporting something because you agree with it; e.g. I support SSM because a free American should have the right to marry whomever he/she wishes (so long as they're legal age, sound mind/body, aren't forced, et al), but the concept of "marriage" is stupid in general IMO. He shouted that I therefore agree with, support and defend the idea that man-man marriages are exactly the same as man-woman marriages. I let him know I could not help him with his ignorance. He didn't like that much.
Yeah, they'd listen to you before me.
No they wouldn't. Daly vindictive little bitch that he is has no brains or balls but he has a delete button which he thinks makes him a very impotent man. And not only my current posts but damn near everything I have ever posted there since 2012. Webb deletes my posts when he sobers up which is not very often.
Well, Lance, you must have been on some serious spam shit for you to outright be deleted. They don't even delete Steve. His two newer names are still intact. DarkStar, Uptownsteve -- they called him out, most folks had a good laugh, but he wasn't banished from the site.
And we're talking about a guy whose thought process is thus: A) Is the person white? Yes? B) Call them racist.
If that doesn't get deleted, I cringe to think WTF you're saying to people in there! lol
Josh, we have had this conversation before, if I remember correctly I sent you several links (the few that weren't busted by Sheriff Daly). It's real simple. Daly has a job to do which is to keep the cult followers believing that there is a right wing revolution and that they are a vital part of it. Getting his butt kicked by a liberal is bad for business. If they can't win the debate they better win the insult game. If they can't win that either then they must delete you.
I don't know anything about that. It's like we're thinking of different people maybe.
Have you read the entire comment and put it together yet? I'll check back tomorrow. You can do it, little buddy. Remember, B follows A.
In West Philadelphia born and raised
On the pee wee gridiron they spent most of their days
They were told to work hard to reach the Disney goal
Work hard they did with all their heart and soul
They won 11 games too many
White folks got scared
Let's change the rules
We can't let them go there
It's sad how a young child's smashed dreams and tears
Disappear beneath white folks anger and fears
These kids will always remember
The first fire that burned them
They'll know the first rules of racism
And how they learned them
It will always hurt when they look back
Hard work matters less
As long as you're Black
I've listened to "Josh" for a long time now and his style reminds me of a racist poster I've come across a few times over the past few years who used to call himself No Slapz.
Same attacks. Same method of quoting posts he doesn't agree with. Same bullshit racism. He goes to different blogs run by black people and pretty much takes over the comment section. I've dealt with him in my humble blog space. So has Abagond.
He never has anything useful to add. Just vulgar attacks against black people.
For any white people watching, this is what racism is. Deciding that hatred against black people is more important than Black people having a voice at all.
I'm pretty sure that Josh and No Slapz are the same poster. The only thing I'm surprised about is that it took me so long to recognize him.
RhodyRam said...
I just happened across this blog while waiting for my train and most of you seem like idiots to me. What decent, productive, happy person spends their time arguing back and forth on the internet?
"Same bullshit racism."
Same lack of evidence.
Same mouth-foaming paranoia.
Racism if you:
- Disagree with a black person
- Use a harsh tone toward a black person
- Say a curse word to a black person
- Beat down illogical nonsense
- Speak about "black" issues they would rather keep secret
- Have the audacity to be a white person
Try not to be so transparent as anon. "Josh is evil, racist, mean, cold, needs to change, let's help him..." "STFU, moron!" "What did I ever do to you besides being born black?"
Maybe that's the issue there. Stop leading with that, leaning on that, carrying it around like the world's biggest all-time shield, and you might stop tripping over it.
If you're an asshole, prepare to be called an asshole. If you're a black asshole, well, you cannot be called an asshole. Obvious racism is obvious. MUH SHEEELD!
When white folks say "pull the race card," this is precisely what they're speaking about.
Stop the pathetic evasion and prove your point.
You won't because you CAN'T.
Because you're a lyin petty obsessive lil racist BITCH.
For the record John Daly is starting to stalk me. I'm getting email notifications from him claiming to have challenged me on Goldberg a week ago and I'm supposedly "hiding" from him. Real sick bastards these righties are.
I don't know why I'm bothering to address Josh, but seriously, one of your suggestions to me in another posts was that maybe I need to address my hygiene.
lol, That's tantamount to "You're ugly and your mother dresses you funny. And by the way you're black and all black people smell bad, so there." There is no intelligence in an insult like that. Just the usual nastiness that people like you try to dress up with a few three syllable words but is really just the same old racist tripe.
You're an insulting, racist ass. Why Brother Field is putting up with you, I have no idea, but the sooner he bans your IP, the better off we'll all be. Of course if you are No Slapz, and I firmly believe you are, then you'll be back eventually. But hopefully we'll be free of your idiocy for a little while.
MY response to you, Deborah, was that you need to address your hygiene? You have me confused with someone else; must be this No Slapz delusion you're having. The only time I ever mentioned your name, I spoke kindly to you and of you, saying that you have never spoken an unkind word to me and that I would not speak one to you, and asked you a simplistic question, to which I received no response.
Though I see that impression of you was totally a bad judgment call on my part. Live and learn.
Field, if I am No Slapz, PLEASE BAN MY IP! I beg you. Seriously. I don't mind being called "racist" by fuckwits who are unable to point to the actual racism. It's obvious it's ideological; it's apparent it's just a smear to attempt to shut me up. Ideologues cannot stand dissent. The out-group must be the enemy, or else they lose their justification to be so entrenched in the collective. But these paranoid delusions about me being all these other people are just ridiculous.
Steve, little buddy, you can do it! Read the entire post, not just that one sentence. Look at the links. Look at point A, look at point B. Look at the case made to link them together. You can do it, Steve; I have faith in you. My little champ! You're my good little boy; you can do this.
Just try hard. Focus up. Read what's on the screen in front of you, try to think it through critically. "Hmm..if A is B, then how does B become A? What is the process that makes B necessarily true from A?" Piece it together, little man.
Uncle Josh will take you to McDonald's and get you a Happy Meal if you can figure it out!
As to John, I won't say you're lying. John and I started out as semi-kinda-sorta-friends, seeing as we're both writers. Though he's kinda gone off the deep end lately. I don't know what's up with homes.
So, Lance, you still think I'm lying on Steve and that he isn't a troll who's the most delusional fucker ever to use a computer? Just look at dude. Read the newest Field post.
"Josh, just tell me why you posted the link!"
-long, thorough, polite explanation, telling Steve exactly why I posted the link-
"Josh, just tell me your motives! JUST TELL ME!"
LOL. Seriously. Just read our exchanges. I do not need to make shit up about the man. How the fuck could I even create a better story than the lunacy he blasts here every time we meet? Asks for something, has it spoon-fed to him, shouts instantly that you didn't give it to him, give it to him again, shouts LOUDER that you still didn't do it, on and on. And let's not get started on his inability to make a single post without committing at least one logical fallacy.
Homes, I don't need to lie on Carlos. This delusional nitwit shows his ass habitually. All one need do is look on it with a modicum of objectivity.
Of course if you are No Slapz, and I firmly believe you are, then you'll be back eventually. But hopefully we'll be free of your idiocy for a little while.
Really, it's No Slapz??
Bawhahahahahaha, well no wonder, ROTFL!!!!
@Steve and @Josh
This isn't my fight Josh, just testifying what I witnessed. I can't be any more objective than that. But why would you take Daly's word that Carlos is Steve when you just said Daly has gone off the deep end? Well, at least we can all agree that Daly is a fucked up individual, and now Josh is sweet on Lilac, so maybe there is hope.
and now Josh is sweet on Lilac, so maybe there is hope.]
This is what happens to things that are so f**ked up that no one in real life wants it, it goes after yet another woman it can never have.
As I said, this is only recently my experience with Daly. It was Daly and Jeff's word, and also observation.
I mean, really. Look, I understand. You can't be seen admitting Steve is delusional. No pressure; I get it. But understand that the MO ended up the same on every name.
Carlos: "Just prove X to me and I'll leave." "Just prove it!" "That doesn't prove anything!" 20 logical fallacies, a refusal to read what anyone else writes, etc.
Steve Fair: "Just prove X to me and I'll leave." "Just prove it!" "That doesn't prove anything!" 20 logical fallacies, a refusal to read what anyone else writes, etc.
DarkStar: "Just prove X to me and I'll leave." "Just prove it!" "That doesn't prove anything!" 20 logical fallacies, a refusal to read what anyone else writes, etc.
It modeled accurately the reality of the situation what was happening. I mean, just literally like two days ago, I gave him a direct route to my home, telling him exactly what he could do to meet me. He instantly said, "I don't want to meet you in person." Okay, fine by me. But, today, he's GHETTOD Steve again, wanting to whip a white man's ass, so he's shouting for me to give him my address. He's claiming I haven't, I won't, and I skeered.
Homes is delusional. Daly doesn't have to create the fiction. All one need do is watch uptownsteve unravel. Seriously. In the past three posts here, dude has shown a propensity for lunacy that I could not make up. If I went back to Bernie's and told the story of what's happening here, they wouldn't fucking believe me. They'd say even Carlos isn't that stupid a person.
Any honest person can see here the case I laid out that illustrates perfectly why most inner city single mothers are on welfare. Though I didn't even make the argument, according to Steve. Any person can see that I explained thoroughly my motives for posting a link from BET.com. But according to Steve, I refused to give him my motives. And on and on this goes for another two dozen topics. It's been going on for two years. I warned the folks at Field's the level of crazy he was. Nobody believed it. He's black, I'm white; I'm wrong, he's right.
Okay, carry it like that. Have it your way. But homes is a very special level of crazy that can barely be accurately described. If he gets protection under the SHEEELD, so be it.
I owe Josh an apology. He is correct. I confused him with another poster who is more of an ass, James Bold.
I still feel Josh is a racist troll. Which is mainly why I got the two mixed up.
So again, Josh, I apologize for accusing you of being No Slapz when I really meant James Bold.
It's pretty easy to spot James "Bold" (hint, hint), I thought. But, then again, when one views all dissenting white people here as the same type of racist, it's understandable. Don't let your mix-up stop you from your quest to racially profile all dissent at The Field Negro.blogspot. Without the Hands, the Field stands empty.
"I still feel Josh is a racist troll..."
Yeah, well, Deborah, there's absolutely nothing I can do about that. There's something in the culture of victimhood--and it's far from only a black collectivist thing--that demands it be everyone else held responsible for the way YOU "feel."
My father would have punched me dead in the nose and told me to get a handle on my fucking feelings. But not in the world today. Did you know that the United States federal government literally holds college money hostage with the demands that a college must protect students' "feelings"? Used to be college was a place you went to have your ideas challenged. Used to be free speech was the best part about it. These days, however, you cannot challenge another's views, as that might come across as "triggering" or "hurtful."
I remember in the early 2000s when networks like Blogger were just taking off. It used to be people like you, Steve, PC, Yisheng, etc, reveled in the chance to have their views challenged, if only so they could blast away the keys in saying how right they were. But those days are long, long gone. Now, it's all about your feelings. If I have an idea you don't like, a stance you don't like, a position that makes you "feel" uncomfortable, you're not looking to dialogue with me. You're not looking to debate the point. You are literally looking to shut me up!
You don't want to participate in an environment wherein your views will be challenged. You don't come here to take part in the open marketplace of ideas. You want a literal safe space wherein what you believe cannot be challenged; wherein you can say what you want to like-minded people, but people cannot say anything back to you in disagreement. So when it's something I type you don't like, your only thought, your only visceral reaction, is to shut me the fuck up so that you don't have to "feel" any way you don't want to "feel."
Enter: Racist! That's racism! What evidence? I don't need evidence. You're racist because I feel you're racist and what I feel is your reality!
Why is it someone else's responsibility to guard your feelings? I cannot understand that. Not just you, obviously. Jonathan Butler, of UoM, literally said, which can be found on tape: "I am oppressed because people can say what they want to me." READ THAT! I am NOT making it up, I swear! According to him, which is embraced openly by the entire CS1950, because someone has the freedom of speech, it is LITERALLY OPPRESSING HIM that, if they want, they can say things to him that he doesn't like. Slaves, fuck your chains! Jim Crow blacks, fuck your segregation! The new black: "Your ability to speak is OPPRESSIVE!" They demanded, and got, Missouri police to shatter the Constitution of the USA by making "hurtful speech" against the law.
Appreciate the apology. Rare is the case anyone offers that. However, it was not necessary. I'd much rather folks like you (not black, I mean ideological collectivists) not lead with your feelings and not create an out-group to hold as an enemy.
But we both know that's never going to happen. You still "feel" X and Y, therefore X and Y are real. It's real because I feel!
Though you are right about the troll part. I don't mean to say you're completely wrong. These anons think they're trolling me, and I bend them over a table and show them who their daddy is, as I troll their asses to within an inch of their lives! And they go to bed at night thinking I'm being serious with them. lol
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Home Letters The simmering resentment between Guyanese who stayed and the diaspora must end
The simmering resentment between Guyanese who stayed and the diaspora must end
Almost daily, I check out Mr. Freddy Kissoon’s editorial in the Kaieteur News. Some days I nod my head in agreement with his commentary on the state of the nation and the hypocrisy of too many of our elected officials on all sides of the aisle; other days I shake my head in wonder at his pronouncements; and on a few occasions, I have actually laughed out loud. What I absolutely admire about Mr. Kissoon is that he has the courage of his convictions. On Wednesday, 20 November 2019, however, I was saddened by the stance Mr. Kissoon chose in his Op-ed “The words of Carl Greenidge.”
Mr. Kissoon’s column ended with these words: “I am not against expatriate Guyanese taking important jobs in Guyana; I just feel if we have local talent available, their sacrifice should be recognized.” There is not one reasonable Guyanese who would argue this point. I believe that Mr. Kissoon could have put a well-deserved exclamation point after the word available. However, he also stated that his “ideological position is INFLEXIBLE and DEFINITIVE – rulers…not give preference to diaspora people who had opportunities the locals longed for.” Who are these “diaspora people” Mr. Kissoon refers to? Fellow Guyanese?
This divide, the simmering resentment between Guyanese who “stayed”, and the diaspora must end now, before it is too late. It poisons every transaction between us. My friends have said to me on several occasions, “We stayed!” and I reply, “We PAID!” Annually, the hundreds of millions of US dollars (amounting to more than 7% of Guyana’s GDP) pouring into this country through remittances, come at huge sacrifices to those who live and work abroad.
Mr. Kissoon is well aware that those in the diaspora pay for land bought and homes built and for thousands of children to be better educated right here at home, an experience many wish they could afford their own children “in foreign.” Sacrifice is also being away from one’s beloved country, family and friends; lost time with and loss of our elders and loved ones; the constant indignities played out in micro and macro acts of racism and xenophobia; adjusting to climates most hate, especially super storms and bitter winters; the extra work shifts; etc. Guyanese in the diaspora try in myriad ways to ease the suffering of loved ones at home.
Migration is not a Guyanese story. It is the story of all humanity told through religious texts, archeological digs, mythology, history books, biographies and fiction. It is thousands of years, possibly millions of years old, and sacrifices are made by those who stayed, as well as those who ventured off to new lands.
At a function recently, where she was a panelist, Ms. Paloma Mohamed (Mr. Kissoon mentioned her in his column) was asked how to breach the divide between those who stayed and those in the diaspora, to which she replied, and I quote “When yuh abandon…, yuh got fuh beg back.” I wanted to ask her “Why?” If this is the thinking of our educated minds, we have no chance, and we can just give the country over to the REAL foreigners, who are laughing all the way to their banks with our resources, while we verbally, emotionally and physically fight one another. Do we really need another thing that divides us?
With less than a million people, resource rich, and a massive land mass, we are still a struggling, Third World nation, and oil alone will not make us less so. Guyana needs ALL her children, period! If it were not so, this country would look more like Singapore, which gained
independence only one year before Guyana, has a population of 5.6 million, 278.6 square miles, and pitiable natural resources.
If Guyana’s “stayed” population does not make space for her children who wish to return and genuinely serve with their expertise gained abroad, then other countries will continue to benefit from the great minds we have produced, and Guyana will be the slower and poorer for it. We are everywhere contributing to other societies. This July, every newspaper in Kenya and many beyond mourned the death of Bob Collymore, a Guyanese, who oversaw the expansion of Safaricom into East Africa’s biggest mobile network operator.
I can only dream of what we could have done with his expertise in the land of his birth.
Should Mr. Greenidge be made to feel ashamed of the opportunities his parents afforded him? What percentage of this population would have rejected similar opportunities? Bringing his gifts of decades of experience, we so desperately need, should our country not benefit because “untold numbers in Guyana could not have accessed” his academic opportunities?
If you had a brain tumour and you had the choice of a world-renown Guyanese brain surgeon (and I have a friend who happens to be one) and the best of a locally educated one, whom would you choose? Who cuts off their nose to spite their face? Then again it appears as though we do. Although there are well respected Guyanese experts in the diaspora, none accompanied the uninitiated sent to negotiate on our behalf with the world’s corporate oil giants, and we all know how that ended.
Mr. Kissoon you are an important a member of our civic society, and I am asking you kindly to replace your intransigence on this important issue and instead use your platform to foster a national discourse on bridging the divide between those who stayed and the diaspora. We could all air our grievances, ‘buse out a little, cry, laugh and heal together. Lest we forget, we are family, and Guyana is home.
Cheryl E. Noel
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Sojourn back to the landscapes and wildlife of Namibia
On February 1, 2019 - Africa, Etosha National Park
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Namutoni: Day 9 at Etosha National Park
On February 13, 2013 - Africa, Etosha National Park, Travels
Day nine of Gordon Donovan’s journey back to Namibia’s Etosha National Park. It’s time to start heading back towards civilization even though I don’t want to leave.
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Day eight of Gordon Donovan’s journey back to Namibia’s Etosha National Park. My first full day out of the Namutoni Camp. Lets see if my fortunes continue.
On February 8, 2013 - Africa, Etosha National Park, Travels
Day seven of Gordon Donovan’s journey back to Namibia’s Etosha National Park. Not having much success at the Halali Camp, I headed west to find predators in the open plains back at Okaukuejo.
Halali: Day 6 at Etosha National Park
Day six of Gordon Donovan’s journey back to Namibia’s Etosha National Park. I am not having much success at the Halali Camp. This was the best camp during dry season last October. Now it is wet season and it’s a total miss as far as finding predators.
Africa, Etosha National Park, Travels
Day five of Gordon Donovan’s journey back to Namibia’s Etosha National Park. I move on to the Halali Camp hoping better fortunes come my way. Have you seen Carl?
Okaukuejo: Day 4 at Etosha National Park
Day four of Gordon Donovan’s journey back to Namibia’s Etosha National Park. Today I must find the lion pride of Okondeko or the nomads at Olifantsbad near the Okaukeujo Camp.
On February 1, 2013 - Africa, Travels
Day three of Gordon Donovan’s journey back to Namibia’s Etosha National Park. Today we head east to the busiest camp in Etosha, Okaukuejo.
Dolomite: Day 2 at Etosha National Park
On January 31, 2013 - Africa, Etosha National Park, Travels
Day two of Gordon Donovan’s journey back to Namibia’s Etosha National Park. My first full day of photographing during the wet season at the Dolomite Camp.
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Massive dam project at center of China-Myanmar talks
FILE - In this July 29, 2016, file photo, Myanmar's Foreign Minister Aung San Suu Kyi greets leaders of armed ethnic groups during their meeting at a hotel in Naypyitaw, Myanmar. Suu Kyi on Wednesday, Aug. 17, 2016, began a formal five-day visit to China to bolster ties with her country's dominant northern neighbor. It's her first trip to China since her party won a historic majority in 2015. (AP Photo/Aung Shine Oo, File)
BEIJING — Efforts by Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi this week to bolster ties with her country's dominant northern neighbor China may hinge on whether she can resolve the fate of a massive, Chinese-funded dam project blocked by overwhelming local opposition.
Suu Kyi was to be greeted with a formal welcome ceremony on Thursday as part of a visit ending Sunday that will include talks with Chinese President Xi Jinping and Premier Li Keqiang. It's her first trip to China since her party won a historic majority last year.
Now leading Myanmar with the title of state counselor, Suu Kyi is a Nobel Peace Prize winner who spent 15 years in house arrest under Myanmar's former military junta, which was supported for years by the authoritarian Communist Party-led government in Beijing. But analysts say Suu Kyi has shown pragmatism and a desire to re-order Myanmar's relationship with China, its top trading partner and a major investor, while also reaching out to the United States, Europe and Japan.
Key to both sides is the $3.6 billion Myitsone dam project in northern Myanmar, funded by Chinese power interests but suspended in 2011 by Myanmar's former military-backed president, Thein Sein. A spokesman for Myanmar's foreign affairs department said China was expected to raise the dam dispute this week.
China sees the dam as an important part of a national strategy to reduce its reliance on fossil fuels and meet its targets to cut pollution. It has pursued a charm offensive in Myanmar partly to push for construction to resume.
But opponents in Myanmar, also known as Burma, say the reservoir created by the Myitsone dam would create massive flooding on the Irrawaddy River, endangering ecologically sensitive areas and displacing thousands of people. They also question the previous arrangement of China taking 90 percent of the dam's power, while nearly 70 percent of Myanmar has no access to electricity, according to the World Bank.
The dam is one of several Chinese-backed projects stalled due to protests from Myanmar citizens newly emboldened to speak out following democratic reforms, part of a larger backlash against China's economic domination of its poor southern neighbor.
Suu Kyi's government recently announced a commission to review all hydroelectric projects along the Irrawaddy. Zhao Gancheng, director of the Asia-Pacific Center at the Shanghai Institutes for International Studies, said that announcement might be a signal that a compromise was possible.
"To handle it well will help create a favorable condition for future trade and economic development between the two countries," Zhao said. "Otherwise, obstacles will emerge in attracting investment from China in the future and that is not what the new Burmese government and Aung San Suu Kyi want to see."
Aaron Connelly, a research fellow for East Asia at the Lowy Institute for International Policy in Sydney, said Suu Kyi could offer an alternative plan that mollifies China and at least some of the opposition in Myanmar.
"That would be the question on the Myanmar side," Connelly said. "Is there something that can be offered that meets the expectations, but does not create a lake the size of Singapore on the Irrawaddy?"
Suu Kyi remains an icon to many of the people of Myanmar, and that may give her the standing to seek a deal that allows the dam to go forward under different circumstances, Connelly said.
She is also likely to seek more cooperation from China as her government begins a peace conference at the end of August with ethnic minorities from the region where the dam is planned, and may tie the two issues together, Connelly said. China has been involved previously in negotiations between the government and Kachin rebels, who have fought for decades in regions near the Chinese border.
"She constantly surprises in what she's willing to do in terms of political agreements that she's willing to strike, and because she's such a singularly popular figure," he said. "She can potentially make a deal here that would be very unpopular and bounce back from that."
Beijing supports the peace process because "a politically stable and economically prosperous Myanmar is in China's best interests," China's official Xinhua News Agency said in an editorial Wednesday.
"Given the fact that a strong China-Myanmar partnership is important for both sides, it is welcome that Suu Kyi, a key figure in the Myanmar government and the leader of the ruling party, plays a greater role in helping secure a healthy Myanmar-China relationship," Xinhua said.
China considers Myanmar strategically important as a gateway to the Indian Ocean and Bay of Bengal, and wants to secure oil and gas pipelines running across the country to the Chinese border.
Along with stalled projects, friction between the countries has erupted over fighting between Myanmar's military and ethnic minority rebels along the border that has killed Chinese farmers and sent a flow of refugees into China.
Associated Press writer Esther Htusan in Yangon, Myanmar, and researcher Yu Bing in Beijing contributed to this report.
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Home American Jewish News BREAKING: Mike Pence’s Middle East Visit Rescheduled
BREAKING: Mike Pence’s Middle East Visit Rescheduled
A photograph of Republican vice presidential candidate Mike Pence holding a poster that says “Make America Great Again” in Hebrew. Credit: Courtesy
Vice President Mike Pence will visit Israel later this month, his office announced.
Pence will travel to the Middle East Jan. 19-23, with other stops in Egypt and Jordan to meet with their leaders.
In Israel on the last two days of the trip, the vice president is scheduled to meet jointly with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and President Reuven Rivlin, and to address the Knesset. He also is scheduled to visit the Western Wall and Yad Vashem.
Palestinian Authority leaders refuse to meet with Pence in the wake of President Donald Trump’s recognition last month of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital.
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Pence postponed a planned mid-December visit to Israel so he could preside over the vote on a tax overhaul favored by Trump. It was believed that the vice president may have been needed to cast the deciding vote in the closely divided Senate, but he was not as the plan passed.
The original trip had included meetings in Bethlehem with Palestinian Authority officials.
On the newly scheduled trip, prior to visiting Israel, Pence will meet in Egypt on Jan. 20 with President Abdel Fatah al-Sisi and in Jordan on Jan. 21 with King Abdullah II.
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Home News Academics Students hope to make UCF first university to launch rocket into sub-orbit
Students hope to make UCF first university to launch rocket into sub-orbit
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By: Megan Scavo
A UCF undergraduate research group is reaching for the stars.
The group called SORCE consists of 15 active members working towards a common goal: to send a rocket into sub-orbit.
“I’ve noticed that other universities across the nation are actively working on becoming the first university to launch a student-built rocket into sub-orbit. Of course, after finding out I thought, ‘why isn’t UCF embarking on this mission?’” said Gligur Georgievski, the group’s project leader.
“We like to think of it as an undergraduate research group filled with people who believe in what we do, each supporting the project with regular contributions,” said Georgievski, a senior studying Aerospace Engineering at UCF.
SORCE is not a registered club at UCF, but instead an organized group formed by students passionate about their mission.
Georgievski said UCF has an edge over other universities, including being the number one supplier of engineers to the aerospace and defense industries. UCF produces more graduates who get jobs in aerospace and defense companies than any other university in the nation, according to Georgievski.
SORCE started their mission by competing in NASA-FSGC’s hybrid rocket competition over Spring Break in which they placed first in the max altitude category with a rocket that launched 6,400 feet. “A number the FSGC judges have never seen before,” said Georgievski.
The rocket took 6 months of designing, building, testing and optimizing for it to reach this new height.
SORCE member James Bell, a senior at UCF studying mechanical engineering, brought his adopted skills to the group after interning with NASA last summer.
“When I worked at NASA last summer, I was interning in the Logistics department which was contracted out to Jacobs Technology,” said Bell. “My main role was to help improve the efficiency of their warehouse on base and create databases so we could analyze areas of improvement.”
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You’ve been in this industry for a while now, you started off being a teenage radio host then had a career in dancing and now you’re in music, how has the transitions of your journey been? Radio will always be my passion, dancing was just a thing I just did in school, I did drama at school which influenced my dancing interest but radio has always been my first love.
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3.2 NCOs
Pontoniers have a very old tradition in the Austrian Army. Large rivers like the Danube, Drave, Save and others played an important role in the wars against the Turks. The lack of stone bridges usable by the army made it necessary to erect temporary pontoon bridges (Schiffsbrücken). This was the job of the pontoniers.
These troops were assigned to the Shipmaster office (Schiffsmeisteramt) located in Vienna. This office was also responsible for transports on the Danube river.
Around 1600 the first mobile pontoon bridge was designed. By 1624, two mobile pontoon bridges were available to the Austrian army.
In 1702, Prince Eugène de Savoie organised the first permanent pontoon bridge train of 12 copper pontoons. It was stationed Vienna.
During the Rákóczi's Rebellion (1703-11) and the Austro-Turkish War (1716-18) who followed, the pontoniers under Captain Gössinger built several pontoon bridges. Between 1711 and 1715 they erected permanent pontoon bridges at Buda, Szegedin and Szolnok. In 1712, in connection with the coronation of Charles VI as Holy Roman Emperor, Captain Gössinger built a pontoon bridge in Pressburg (present-day Bratislava/SK).
In 1717, the Shipmaster office received the order to prepare 3 large bridges counting 100 pontoons each.
At the end of 1734, Michael Duke of Württemberg recommended to the Hofkriegsrat (War Council) to buy a Prussian bridge train which was at that time used by the Reichsarmee in Germany. It consisted of 40 tin pontoons. The costs, including the necessary equipment and 218 horses, was of 29,397 talers. The complete train was under the command of Brückhauptmann (captain) Berger. In 1737, the complete train was increased to 60 pontoons and stationed in Hungary.
In 1741, at the outbreak of the War of the Austrian Succession, a bridge train of 40 pontoons commanded by Captain Johann Karl Fromb was sent from Peterwardein to Neipperg's army in Silesia. By 1742, the Shipmaster office already had 474 boats available. In addition, 170 boats and 16 pontoons had been captured from the French. After the surrender of Prague, 40 copper and 52 wooden French pontoons were also captured.
In 1748, the Pontonier Corps was reduced. Its equipment was concentrated at Kuttenberg (present-day Kutná Hora/CZ) in Bohemia while Captain Fromb and 121 pontoniers were stationed in Hungary.
In 1749, the pontoniers were organised in two companies:
First coy: 34 men under Captain Johann Ferdinand Eschenauer
Second coy: 34 men under Captain Johann Karl Fromb
In February 1754, the corps was increased to a total of 127 men with 120 wooden and 80 tin pontoons.
During the Seven Years' War, the successive commanders of this Shipmaster office were:
in 1756: Claudius Le Fort du Plessy
from 1759: Lieutenant-Colonel Johann Karl Fromb
In 1767, after the Seven Years' War, the corps was completely reorganised:
“Hauskompanie” (4 officers and 85 men)
Pontonier (1 bn of 4 coys), each coy consisting of:
2 NCOs
61 men
The commander of the Shipmaster office was Ludwig Rudolf Baron von Riepke. Major Karl Friedrich von Magdeburg assumed command of the Pontonier Corps while Captain Josef Hütter commanded the battalion. The commanders of the various companies were:
“Hauskompanie”: Captain Paumann
First coy: Captain-Lieutenant Jahn
Second coy: Captain Schwäger
Third coy: Captain Bärtling
Fourth coy: Captain Adelsgruber
The “Hauskompanie” was responsible for all shipyards (Schiffsamt) of the Monarchy and regrouped the men of the two old pontonier coys.
The garrison of the Pontonier Battalion was Klosterneuburg.
At the outbreak of the Seven Years' War, the two Pontonier companies were (a total of approx. 120 men) had their quarters in Pest and Presburg. However, detachments were in charge of the bridges on the Danube in Hungary. The colonel of the Shipmaster office was posted in Vienna. There were 100 wooden pontoons in Presburg and 20 wooden and 80 tin pontoons in Vienna.
In 1756, the second coy of Captain Fromb was assigned to the Army of Bohemia with a train of 80 pontoons.
In 1757, Fromb was promoted Lieutenant-Colonel, replacing Claudius Le Fort du Plessy, and took the command of the Shipmaster office. The first coy was placed under the command of Captain Peter Sigmund Gastel; the second, under Captain Johann Christoph Paumann.
During the war the corps was gradually increased. Thus each company of the two companies comprised:
1 drummer
112 pontoniers (later increased to 160 or even 180 men)
Uniform in 1755
as per Brinner and the Bautzener Bilderhandschrift
Coat cornflower blue with white buttons
Collar ponceau red
Shoulder Straps probably cornflower blue with a white button
Lapels ponceau red with white buttons, each with 6 white buttons
Pockets no information available
Cuffs ponceau red, each with 3 white buttons
Turnbacks ponceau red
Waistcoat cornflower blue with small white buttons
Breeches cornflower blue
Crossbelt no information available
Waistbelt white with a brass buckle
Cartridge Box no information available
Scabbard brown leather
From 1755, pontoniers were armed with an infantry musket and a sabre.
NCOs
NCOs wore the same uniform as the pioneers with the following distinctions:
black tricorne laced silver
Officers wore the same uniform as the pioneers with the following exceptions:
black tricorne laced gold
Brinner: Geschichte des k.k. Pionnier-Regimentes in Verbindung mit der Geschichte des Kriegs-Brückenwesens in Österreich, Vienna 1878
Grosser Generalstab Kriegsgeschichtliche Abteilung II: Die Kriege Friedrichs des Grossen, Part 3 Der siebenjährige Krieg 1756-1763, Vol. 1 Pirna und Lobositz, Berlin, 1901, App. 4
Harald Skala for the initial version of this article
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(b) Information Collected From You About Others
If You decide to invite a third party to create an Account, We will collect Your and the third party"s names and e-mail addresses in order to send an e-mail and follow up with the third party. We may maintain this information indefinitely in Our database and may also use this information to help us establish networks of contacts, document relationships, facilitate referrals, and improve Our Services. We may also use this information to show You and other users that You may know each other or have shared contacts. We rely upon You to obtain whatever consents from the third party that may be required by law to allow us to access and upload the third party"s names and e-mail addresses as required above. You or the third party may contact Us at support@CONTRIB.com to request the removal of this information from Our database. The e-mail that is sent to Your friends will come from Your e-mail address so that Your friends know that You want to invite to Our Site and Service.
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You may use Our address book and contacts importer to upload Your contacts from other services into Leadcart.com. When You import Your contacts, We may indefinitely store the contact information in Our database, including Your contacts' names, e-mails, phone numbers, locations, and relationships to You, subject to applicable law. We do not store any passwords You provide as part of the contact import process. After We import Your contacts, We will use this information to help Us establish networks of contacts, document relationships, facilitate referrals, and improve Our Site and Service. We may also use this information to show You and other users that You may know each other or have shared contacts. We rely upon You to obtain whatever consents from the relevant third parties that may be required by law to allow Us to access and upload the third parties" names, e-mail addresses, and other contact information. You or such a third party may contact Us at support@CONTRIB.com to request the removal of this information from Our database.
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Has Carpooling Really Grown ? Evolutions of Carpooling in France from 1974 to 2008.
Submitted by Yoann Demoli, Laboratoire de Sociologie Quantitative on 2 February, 2018 - 14:29
Yoann Demoli; Axel Villareal
Several sets of questions will be adressed : to what extent has formal carpooling reduced informal carpooling ? Who are the pooled drivers ? Which are their motivations of pooled drivers ? What are the most frequently shared routes? Why are they so frequently shared ? In what way does the current practice of intermediated car-sharing hamper the development of other modes of carpooling? How can we better understand these practices?
We use two French national representative surveys : the serie of the French National Transportation Surveys, conducted in 1974, 1993 and 2008, and an original panel survey, named Lifestyle and Environnement. From 1974 to 2008, the databases extracted from the French National Transportation Surveys will allow us to measure the incidence of the different types of carpooling and identify its users, by describing their socio-demographic profiles and the characteristics of their (shared) trips. The Lifestyle and Environnement survey, currently conducted through a representative French panel, is able to identify both the incidence and the (ecological and economical) motivations of carpooling. In the same time, we will present the first results of CONDUIRE project, based on hypotheses constructed by a lexicometric analysis of the issue at the national level, and feedback from experiences and excerpts of user interviews encountered during a survey in Loire-Atlantique.
Thème: Embedding the automobile in societal contexts: new services, new uses, new integrated mobility systems, new business models
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Huam-dong
The hillside neighborhood on the southern slope of Namsan Mountain is a layered community
“Huam-dong is a neighborhood with a rich diversity of things in it, in the very heart of Seoul.”
Lee Jun-hyeong, an architect with the architectural cooperative Dosi 0gam, sits in Huam Seojae, a shared library and study his organization operates. “You can see how Korean homes have changed over different eras and the communities those eras produced,” he explains. “I think Huam-dong is a space where you can relax while experiencing the various layers of Seoul in peace since it’s not too commercialized like Haebangchon or Yeonnam-dong.”
Indeed, exploring Huam-dong’s narrow hillside alleyways can be a bit like riding a time machine into days past. Stately houses built in mixed Western and Japanese styles, where wealthy Japanese lived during the colonial era, coexist with smaller, humbler homes built after the Korean War, when refugees from northern Korea and elsewhere settled on the slopes of Namsan Mountain. Higher in the hills, design-conscious families live in sleek, stylish homes with panoramic views of the city below.
The architectural diversity comes with demographic diversity. On the streets, elderly residents mingle with young couples and small children. Huam-dong’s urban ecology shelters everything from traditional markets and old fashioned snack stalls to hipster cafés and hot restaurants trending on Instagram. And unlike some of Seoul’s more gentrified districts, the neighborhood still feels like a neighborhood, an organically developed space where people actually live as well as visit, a minor miracle given its position between the up-and-coming Seoul Station area and increasingly trendy Haebangchon.
The 100 Food Truck is a very scenic spot to enjoy a meal.
In Namsan’s embrace
Huam-dong is wedged into a steep valley on the southern slope of Namsan Mountain, just below Seoul’s old city walls. The steep hillsides and streams flowing down the mountain discouraged large-scale settlement. After Japan’s forced annexation of Korea in 1910, however, many wealthy Japanese settled in the area, which was near major institutions of imperial power such as the colonial central bank, the government-general, the railroad and the sprawling Japanese army camp at Yongsan. Their homes blended Western exterior elements with Japanese interior elements, including tatami mats. These homes, called “culture houses” or munhwa jutaek, reflected Japanese efforts to Westernize in the early 20th century.
Though the Japanese left in 1945, many of their homes survive, easily recognized by their pointy, gabled roofs, often with dormer windows. The Seoul Museum of History believes over 300 of these houses remain in Huam-dong. Most are still homes, lived in by Korean families who took over the houses in 1945 or after. Some, however, have been repurposed. One such place is Anarchy Bros (T. 070-4069-6356), a popular café and pub near Sookmyung Women’s University Station combining Japanese woodwork with beam projections of music videos on the wall. The guest house Ji Wol Jang (www.jiwoljang.com) was the site of the specious villa of a Japanese railroad executive.
After the Korean War, many families fleeing what is now North Korea settled on the slopes of Namsan Mountain, forming dense communities of narrow alleys and humble homes climbing the hillside, their layers connected by flights of concrete steps. These neighborhoods, once common in Seoul, have largely disappeared from the city. In Huam-dong, however, they remain, even if some of the homes are being converted into cafés and bed-and-breakfasts. As you climb the hills, you might catch a glimpse of Namsan Mountain at the end of a narrow alleyway, or get a panoramic view of southern Seoul with its skyscrapers and rolling hills of homes and offices. Naturally, you can enjoy the best views from the top of the hill — from Namsan Public Library, Yongsan Public Library, the old fortress wall or one of the eateries with open rooftops such as The 100 Food Truck or Oriole (see the Dining and Nightlife sections).
Huam-dong has a vibrant outdoor market, too, one blessed with a dramatic location in the shadow of the futuristic Centreville Asterium Seoul apartment complex.
Mid Century Mood Coffee’s Wave Toast is an Instagram favorite.
Run by achitectural cooperative Dosi Ogam, Huam Seoje is a shared study and library.
Youthful vibe
Though Huam-dong is an old neighborhood, younger people find it an increasingly attractive place to live and work, drawn by the views, the central location, the cozy atmosphere and, of course, the relatively cheap rents. As new cafés and restaurants pop up throughout the area, word of the area’s charms is getting out, especially on social media. This has some locals worried. Haebangchon and Gyeongnidan-gil, the latter now a byword for gentrification, are within walking distance, after all.
For now, however, Huam-dong remains mostly residential. Moreover, some of neighborhood’s more recent arrivals have taken pains to respect the local character and involve residents in their activities.
The architectural cooperative Dosi 0gam (www.facebook.com/dosi0gam), formed by a team of young architects, opened its office in the neighborhood in an old house near Huam Market. It also operates two shared spaces — Huam Seojae, a shared study, and Huam Jubang, a shared kitchen where young people who live in the area can cook and share a meal. The cooperative sketches historic homes in the neighborhood, publishes a magazine and sponsors other cultural activities, too.
Just down the alley from Huam Jubang Is Café Woorida (T. 070-8886-1210), a tiny renovated space run by a returned local that makes up what it lacks in size with friendliness and delightful concoctions that include double cream mochas, matcha cream lattes and even butter coffee.
In a second floor overlooking the rotary in front of Yongsan Middle School, the café Sowolgil Milyeong (02-779-1992) offers more than just beverages and baked goods in an exceptionally cozy setting. Its owner, Kim Gyu-wan, a long-time resident of Huam-dong, has spent years documenting the neighborhood’s history. His maps and paintings adorn the walls of his café, which also serves as a local salon.
Another lovely spot with some local history is Café Hooam-dong (010-2251-8232), on the main road to Yongsan High School. As its name would suggest, the owner really loves the neighborhood, and her café doubles as a local rest spot. The shop roasts its own coffee, too.
The more artistically minded should stop by Wooyeon Sujib (02-778-0759), a craft space hidden in an alleyway below the old city walls, not far from the Hilton Hotel. The shop offers classes in a variety of crafts, including string art and lighting crafts. It also teaches classes at local schools.
Young creatives are giving Huam-dong a bit of flair, too. A few houses up from Huam-dong Sejae is Mid Century Mood Coffee, a.k.a. MND Coffee (02-6449-0177), where the design takes its cues from mid-century American hotels. Its Wave Toast, served with lashes of pastel pink or blue cream cheese, draws the Instagram crowd.
Man Two Ron (070-7776-3333), a macaron shop run by — sit down for this — two dudes, combines simplicity with a macaron line-up that includes classics and creative experiments such as sweet pumpkin and Injeolmi powder. Hidden in a hole-in-the-wall near Huam Market, I Like Question (ilikeq.co.kr) sells hand-crafted scarfs and hand towels. These shops, and others mentioned in this issue of SEOUL, add a bit of chic to Huam-dong’s earthy grit.
Sookmyung Women’s University Station (Line 4), Exit 3. From there, you can catch Bus 202, which takes you to Yongsan Middle School Rotary.
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Old Is New Again Hadong and Gurye
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Who was John M. Hay?
The Stevens Museum
Birthplace of John Hay
The Pioneer Village
The Depot Railroad Museum
Cemeteary Records
Miscellaneous Material
Washington County Cemetery Burial Database
Washington County Cemetery Directions
Old Settlers’ Days
John Hay Center > The Pioneer Village
The Pioneer Village was the dream of Everett Dean. Lyle Yake dismantled the logs and helped to reassemble them. The first building was the cabin. It was built in the 1980’s by Dale Marshall and the Salem High School Industrial Arts groups. Roy Robertson, Pete Hoke, and several Green Thumb men built the buildings. Some of those were Huey Bishop, Claude Roop, Dale Wheeler and Warren Meadows.
A constant project for the John Hay Center, the Pioneer Village continues to grow by leaps and bounds. The village is a replica of an 1830’s community featuring a jail, blacksmith, school, church, Haganman house, smoke house, barn, bell tower, loom house, and New Philadelphia Post Office and General Store.
At various times during the year, volunteers portray excellent renditions of various community figures such as the blacksmith or loom worker.
The village is located directly behind the Steven’s Museum and is within walking distance of all other attractions. Besides being a step back in time, the pioneer village is an ongoing project for the John Hay Center and will continue to grow for many years to come.
This village is used throughout the year at special times during special occasions. During school tours, open house periods along with the annual Old Settler’s Day weekend. During these special time periods, people can be found in the village appearing with early 1800’s clothing talking with visitors and re-enacting activities.
The John Hay Center
The John Hay Center is committed to the preservation and remembrance of the heritage of Washington County, Indiana.
Cost of Admission
Museum Tours: $3 each
Village Tours: $3 each
Depot Tours: $3 each
Genealogical Library: $3 each
Yearly Membership Includes Admission
Tue - Sat 9:00am - 5:00pm
Steven's Museum
Salem, IN 47167
info@johnhaycenter.org
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Someone call a Texas Ranger
What a mess and a prime example of why politics, grand juries and prosecution are never a good mix.
Judge blisters Harris County DA over Medina case
Says Rosenthal's error nullified the grand jury's work
By BRIAN ROGERS and DALE LEZON: Houston Chronicle
A judge criticized the Harris County District Attorney's Office on Tuesday for not supporting a grand jury's decision to indict a Texas Supreme Court justice and his wife for a 2007 arson that destroyed the couple's Spring home.
Why did they bring the case to the grand jury if they didn't want the grand jury to do its job?" state District Judge Jim Wallace asked. "At that point in time, you ought to stand by, and abide by, what the grand jury wishes to do."
Adding another twist in a case that has brought accusations of political favoritism and juror misconduct, Wallace disbanded the grand jury that last week indicted David Medina and his wife, Francisca, citing a procedural error by Harris County District Attorney Chuck Rosenthal's office. At least two months of grand jury work is now nullified because the District Attorney's Office failed to file the proper paperwork to extend the jury's term, the judge said.
The ruling added to growing frustrations among the grand jurors who believe their efforts were wasted, while the prosecutor in charge of the case defended his actions to have the Medina indictments dismissed Friday.
The case should have been investigated further before dismissing the indictment, Wallace said.
"The unusual aspect of this case is that it was dismissed so quickly," said Wallace, a Republican judge who has served for 14 years. "It should have been allowed to run its course."
The procedural mistakes by the DA's Office also make it more difficult to find citizens to serve on grand juries, he said.
"That's my concern, because I know how hard it is to impanel grand jurors," Wallace said. "They think 'Why waste our time?' "
In all, Wallace ruled that the Medina indictments, plus more than 30 others in an unrelated mortgage fraud case, are now null and void.
'This is sheer lunacy'Grand jury foreman Bob Ryan said he is frustrated that the jurors' work on the Medina case, and others, is now irrelevant.
"I think voters of Harris County are entitled to a more competent staff in the District Attorney's Office than they have today," Ryan said Tuesday. "This is sheer lunacy and incompetence on the part of the elected district attorney. If it weren't so serious, I would be amused."
Ryan, along with seven other grand jurors, met with reporters Tuesday and criticized Rosenthal's office for frittering away time and resources by presenting evidence to a grand jury that lacked legitimacy.
The foreman and other jurors have already criticized the prosecutors for their decision to dismiss the indictment. David Medina's attorney, Terry Yates, requested a hearing to find them in contempt for speaking about grand jury proceedings, which are secret. That request is now moot, the judge said.
Assistant District Attorney Vic Wisner, who presented the arson case to the grand jury but also sought to dismiss the indictment, stood by his decision Tuesday.
"Regardless of my personal belief in the merits of a case, I cannot ethically proceed forward if I believe the prosecution will not survive an instructed verdict of not guilty and be an exercise in futility," Wisner wrote in an open letter to the Houston Chronicle. "I do not, nor should any prosecutor, conduct show trials."
Wisner's statement also addressed accusations of favoritism.
"If I wanted to help the Medinas and bury the case," he said. "I would never have brought it to a grand jury in the first place."
Wisner wrote that he has asked an "outside investigative agency to pursue the remaining investigative leads" in the arson case. Reached Tuesday by phone, Wisner declined to identify that agency.
His statement also notes that Ryan was a foreman of a previous grand jury which, despite the wishes of the prosecutor, returned several indictments of public officials.
"They were of course also immediately dismissed," he wrote.
Wisner would not identify the case. Ryan said later Tuesday that he recalled the case, but could not remember who it involved.
The DA's Office plans to move forward on one case Wallace dissolved Tuesday. Assistant District Attorney Lester Blizzard, whose division is handling the mortgage fraud case, said new indictments would be sought and secured today.
The grand jurors, including the foreman, had said they would consider reindicting the couple. Investigators have determined the fire was intentionally set.
Rosenthal on Tuesday denied that politics played a role in the decision to dismiss the case.
"Absolutely not," Rosenthal said. "It's part of my oath that I don't prosecute people if I don't think there's enough evidence to do so."
Rosenthal said there isn't enough evidence to justify pursing an arson charge against Francisca Medina and an evidence tampering charge against the judge, but that his office continues investigating.
He said the procedural mistake occurred when the prosecutor who was handling the mortgage fraud case asked that the grand jury be held over, beyond their three-month term. Rosenthal said the prosecutor didn't file the correct paperwork.
He said the chief of his grand jury division retired about a year ago and the new chief didn't catch the mistake.
He said he didn't think other grand juries have been held over for the past year, so there aren't any other cases that might suffer the same procedural snag.
The grand jurors' charge of political favoritism comes at a time when Rosenthal is battling to save the rest of his term. He withdrew from seeking a third term in office after e-mails surfaced with notes of adoration for his secretary, racist jokes and sexually explicit images.
Rosenthal also answered charges from fellow Republicans and community groups who have asked for his resignation.
"They've got their First Amendment rights to say anything they want to. I don't think it's true," Rosenthal said. "I think that people who have known me for a long time know that I'm neither sexist or racist. I haven't changed."
More financial shennaigans from Clinton, Inc.
yeah sure, and if you believe that i have a bridge...
He can be forgiven but should he stay as Mayor?
No car is worth this price
I'm trying to get some help, Y'all!
A raw deal
Don't Taze me Bro, Number 8
Another cockroach caught II
The angels weep
True Lies (not)
Another cockroach caught
Boo, I see you
Cage boy
My cup runneth over
Helloooo, Mr. Obvious
Fly the naked skies
You can (or should) trust the Man (or Woman) who w...
Trust and the thin blue line
Congratulations Dr. Lofgren!
Tracking 'em down
The sky is falling
They made me do it
She who laughs last
This is True I
Oh no he did...ent
A Monster walks among them
out to porn
I'm Baaack
Look at thine own house
Woo! my room is spinning!
Questioned travel expenses
What a mess
Under a microscope
Britney says he's gone! Y'all!
Sorry law suit
McDonald's declares war on old people
Hey Blondie!
Borat to the Alabama Supreme Court: High fives!
Fried brains anyone?
Don't Taze me, Bro, VI
A crisis brewing in investigating child abuse case...
Justice will be served
Fall down, go BOOM
Well, I'll be a monkey's uncle
And she's only 31
Law School the debt that keeps on giving (you hear...
The Supremes sing in unison on this
Big Brother coming to MS Office soon
He's outta there!
(not) Having it your way
The Juice ain't loose, for now
Weep for the future
Hey look at me, I'm Nekid, Y'all!!
Bye Bye, don't let the door hit you in the ass on ...
False Alarm?
Punish them all
More head cover stories
Here I come to save the day!
How the mighty hath fallen
Strike 3, you're outta there!
My hat's off to the Judge
Britney says No, Y'all!
A wee bit full of himself ain't he?
Britney, Britney, Wherefore art thou Britney,Y'all...
We can rebuild him. We have the technology...Bette...
Britney, Role Model
A hugh pair
WTF, Officer?
Squeezing the juice
Newsflash! Hell freezes Over!
Starbucks will kick Ronald McDonald's Ass
Maybe it was part of the Stash from Congressman Je...
More incredible madness and sadness
Call in the Food Police
What's the frequency, Dan?
The government arena
Tell me Lies, Tell me sweet little lies
Doctor, I have these stabbing pains
Be safe out there
Fries with that coffee?
'bout time
Lethal Injection arguments heard
Just Sick
The end of DWI?
A souless comment?
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A Benzimidazole-pyridine-2,3-dicarboxylic Acid Bridged Zinc(II) Coordination Complex–crystal Structure,Quantum Chemistry and Luminescence#br#
WANG Jia-Jun;SUN Han-Yang;LI Chuan-Bi#br#
a (Key Laboratory of Preparation and Application of Environmental Friendly Materials,Ministry of Education, Jilin Normal University, Changchun 130103, China)
b (College of Jilin Province, Engineering Research Center of Medicine Intermediate, Siping, Jilin 136000, China)
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The structure of a zinc(II) coordination complex (1), [C14H10N3O5Zn1.5]n or [Zn1.5(bzim)(pydc)(H2O)]n (H2pydc = pyridine-2,3-dicarboxylic acid, Hbzim = benzimidazole), has been determined by X-ray crystallography and characterized by elemental analysis, IR spectrum and luminescence. Chemical formula: C14H10N3O5Zn1.5. It crystallizes in the monoclinic system, space group P21/c with a = 12.303(4), b = 12.052(4), c = 10.212(3) Å, β = 104.147(4), V = 1468.3(8) Å3, Z = 4, Mr = 398.30, Dc = 1.802 g/cm3, F(000) = 800, μ = 2.501 mm-1 and S = 1.000. The 2-D network architecture of 1 is constructed from benzimidazole, zinc and pyridine- 2,3-dicarboxylic acid. The quantum-chemical calculations have been performed on ‘molecular fragments’ extracted from the crystal structure using the B3LYP method in Gaussian 09. The luminescence spectrum shows that complex 1 emits blue luminescence.
Received: 19 January 2018 Published: 06 September 2018
Supported by the Jilin Province Science and Technology Development Plan Item (No. 20140204080GX), the Project of the Education Department
of Jilin Province, China (No. JJKH20180777KJ) and the Science and Technology Development Projects of Siping City (No. 2017057)
Corresponding Authors: jiajunwang@jlnu.edu.cn E-mail: jiajunwang@jlnu.edu.cn
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Posted on 4th October 2019 by Tim Cundle
“Star Wars” & “Frozen” Fans Around the World Celebrate Today’s Unprecedented Global Product Launch…
After months of anticipation, retailers around the world are celebrating Triple Force Friday and Frozen Fan Fest as all-new products from a trio of original Star Wars entertainment releases and Disney’s “Frozen 2” hit shelves, marking the first-ever simultaneous global product rollout for two entertainment juggernauts.
Following a week of epic product reveals – which included a Star Wars live-streamed event featuring film talent, and global product debuts from hundreds of celebrity Frozen fans and social influencers – fans can now get their hands on a wide array of new products spanning toys, apparel, fashion accessories, housewares, tech, books, consumables and more.
“This week marks the biggest retail event ever for The Walt Disney Company, giving fans a unique opportunity to connect more deeply with their favorite stories and characters from Star Wars and ‘Frozen 2’,” says Ken Potrock, President, Consumer Products Commercialization. “We can’t wait for fans around the world to experience the newest products, games, books and more tied to these beloved characters and their new adventures.”
Frozen Fan Fest and Triple Force Friday Retail Celebrations: Disney Store will kick off Frozen-themed in-store events in selected Stores across EMEA from 5th November and selected dates throughout October. Guests are invited to join in a Frozen themed sing-along and how to draw Olaf classes.
On 4 October, both at Disney Stores and online at shopDisney.co.uk, guests will be able to add the coolest key to their collection when they make a purchase of £15 or more from the new Frozen 2 range.
Fans can also visit shopDisney.co.uk to shop a wide assortment of merchandise for the whole family from across both franchises.
Star Wars fans in Anaheim and Orlando started the celebration at Downtown Disney and Disney Springs with midnight shopping at World of Disney and The LEGO® Store. LEGO Star Wars fans at Disney Springs are also invited to join a LEGO Star Wars Millennium Falcon Master Build Event taking place throughout the weekend. Frozen Fans in Anaheim can enjoy Frozen-themed photo opportunities while guests in Orlando will have the chance to purchase special “Frozen” and Star Wars-themed food and beverage offerings throughout the celebration.
Additionally, there will be retail festivities across 500,000 stores globally for both Frozen Fan Fest and Triple Force Friday. Across EMEA, select retailers in major markets will open from midnight on 4 October, featuring the new range of products from both properties as well as a selection of limited-edition commemorative products. Fans can also expect the momentum to continue through each content release and beyond.
Throughout the weekend (4 to 6 October), key retailers across the region including Smyths, Amazon, The Entertainer, GameStop, El Corte Inglés and Sainsbury’s will join in to celebrate Triple Force Friday.
And fans will have the opportunity to join in the Frozen Fan Fest at various retail points. From E-commerce (Amazon, Zavvi, Argos and ShopDirect), specialist shops and high street retailers such as Primark or Marks & Spencer to the grocers, there really is something for everyone!
About Triple Force Friday: Triple Force Friday celebrates the launch of a range of brand-new products inspired by a trio of upcoming original Star Wars releases, including:
• “Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker”: the highly anticipated final installment of the Skywalker saga, which hits theaters December 20
• “The Mandalorian”: The first-ever Star Wars live-action series, which will debut in the U.S. on November 12 exclusively on Disney+, The Walt Disney Company’s new streaming service
• “Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order”: a brand-new action adventure game from Respawn Entertainment, releasing November 15
On September 26, hundreds of thousands of fans around the world tuned in to the Triple Force Friday Global Reveal livestream from Pinewood Studios in London where, via live and recorded vignettes, an ensemble of Star Wars talent revealed all-new Star Wars products that are rolling out globally today, October 4.
About Frozen Fan Fest: Frozen Fan Fest is a global celebration that kicked off with hundreds of celebrity Frozen fans and social influencers from around the globe taking to social channels on Oct. 2 to reveal the all-new assortment of products for fans of all ages, including apparel, fashion accessories, toys, housewares, books and more. Fans were encouraged to share their favourite Frozen moments and follow along with #FrozenFanFest across all social platforms.
The celebration will continue at retailers worldwide as new products will continue to roll out leading up to the theatrical release and beyond.
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When are construction permits not required?
The Minnesota State Building Code identifies the types of construction work that can be done without a permit. The following information is a summary from MN Rules 1300.0120:
A building permit is not required:
(1) Water tanks not exceeding 5,000 gallons
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(11) Fences not over seven feet in height
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Electrical permits are issued by the state of Minnesota. Contact the State Board of Electricity for exempt work.
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(1) Portable heating, cooking, or clothes drying equipment
(2) Replacement of any minor part that does not alter approval of equipment
(3) Portable fuel cell appliances not connected to a fixed piping system and are not interconnected to a power grid
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(2) Replacement of the internal working components of existing water closets, faucets, or valves.
(3) Replacement of sink faucets when the work does not include alterations to the existing plumbing piping system; or
(4) Replacement or resetting of water closets when the work does not include alterations to the existing plumbing piping systems.
(5) Replacement of a clean-out plug
(6) Minor repair of broken drain, waste, and vent pipes
(7) Minor repair of leaking fixtures
(8) Minor repair of leaking water pipes
(9) Replacement of a dish washer
(10) New or replacement of garbage disposals
Additional information regarding plumbing work that may be exempt can be found in the Minnesota Plumbing Code MN Rules Chapter 4715.
Emergency repairs can be done without first obtaining the necessary permits but the permits must be obtained after the work has been completed within a reasonable timeframe.
The information provided is a summary of the Minnesota State Building Code. For a complete description see MN Rules 1300.0120.
The value of work that is exempt from a permit may still be used in determining the total valuation of work that does require a permit.
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Author: Kevin Graham [ Thu Aug 12, 2010 5:11 am ]
Post subject: Metcalfe Schryver Debate Set to Go
Well, it looks like Brent called Will''s bluff. Over in pundits at MAD he accepted Will's challenge to a public debate. Here is what Brent said:
I've not responded further to Will's theories because I recently learned that John Larson of Mormon Expression is interested in interviewing me about the manuscripts in the Book of Abraham collection. I expressed openness to the request and began sifting through online forums for issues that may interest cybercitizens. I knew that Will's celebrated FAIR 2010 presentation would figure prominently, but I didn't expect to stumble across such a gracious offer from Will himself...
[William Schryver:] As for [Nomad's] desire to see a debate between me and Metcalfe on the topic of the meaning and purpose of the KEP, I have to agree with him that I don't believe Brent would consent to such a thing. That said, lest there be any question whatsoever, I would welcome such an opportunity.... I would consent to such an arrangement in a heartbeat.
[William Schryver:] At any rate, I admit that the notion of a Schryver/Metcalfe debate is merely a fleeting fantasy. I suspect that, after a suitable period of silence, he'll finally just quietly agree with my findings and that will be the end of that.
Well, I'm happy to turn Will's "fleeting fantasy" into stark reality.
In short, Will, I accept your invitation to publicly discuss the Book of Abraham—and John Larson of Mormon Expression has agreed to stream it live over the Internet. He has also agreed to allow FAIR (or the organization of your choice) to subsequently distribute the Mormon Expression podcast.
I'd like our discussion to focus on three questions:
- Were Abraham 1–3 and Facsimile 2 dictated by Joseph Smith in early July 1835?
- Are the three Egyptian Alphabet manuscripts and the bound Grammar and Alphabet of the Egyptian Language dependent on Abraham 1–3 and Facsimile 2?
- Was William W. Phelps—in lieu of Joseph Smith—the authorial mind behind of the Egyptian alphabet and grammar project?
If I understand your thesis, you would answer each of these questions in the affirmative. I, rather obviously, disagree. Still, I'm confident that we can have a civil exchange of ideas.
Let me know when you're available for a recording session and I'll get you in touch with John.
</brent>
Everyone place your bets!
I'm betting Will is s***ing himself right now. But either way this can't be good. If he shows up, he gets creamed. If he doesn't, well, that would be even worse for Will and his pet theory.
Author: beastie [ Thu Aug 12, 2010 5:29 am ]
Post subject: Re: Metcalfe Schryver Debate Set to Go
It will be interesting to see if Will can defend his theory. He certainly wasn't able to do so in Chris's thoughtful thread, and instead just personally attacked Chris. I would think even Will's fans would be embarrassed by such a performance, but since that's also the method of fans like Nomad, as well, perhaps it won't disturb them.
Wilbur responds accordingly:
My “offer”?
Where, exactly did I “offer” anything?
I have read the quotes cited, and I see only that I expressed a willingness to engage in a hypothetical debate which someone else had suggested.
In view of such manifest exegetical deficiencies, one might well wonder why Mr. Metcalfe is apparently so willing to publicly debate anything.
Nevertheless, while I am most certainly not interested in some rinky-dink podcast chat of these very important issues, I will enthusiastically welcome a formal public debate with Mr. Brent Metcalfe on The Meaning and Purpose of the Kirtland Egyptian Papers, according to the following general terms and conditions:
First of all, I will publish, within a reasonably short period of time, in a popular Mormon Studies journal (most likely The Journal of the Book of Mormon and Other Restoration Scripture), a detailed article describing the findings upon which my FAIR presentation was based.
After that article is published, Mr. Metcalfe must publish, within a reasonably short period of time (in a journal of his choice) an article rebutting my arguments and evidence as presented in my previously published article.
Following the publication of the Metcalfe article, a mutually acceptable moderator will be selected, and arrangements made for a public debate of the merits of the opposing viewpoints, in a mutually acceptable venue, such as a Sunstone or FAIR conference. The debate will be limited to the arguments previously presented in the published articles.
The parameters of the debate will conform, in structure, to the long-established Lincoln/Douglas debating format, and according to the following time limits for each speech:
•Schryver Affirmative Constructive Presentation – 40 minutes
•Metcalfe cross-examination of Schryver – 10 minutes
•10 minute break
•Metcalfe Negative Constructive Presentation – 40 minutes
•Schryver cross-examination of Metcalfe – 10 minutes
•Schryver Affirmative Rebuttal – 15 minutes
•Metcalfe Negative Rebuttal – 30 minutes
A total of 3 hours.
A formal contract stipulating the terms and conditions of the debate will be prepared, and upon its signing by both parties, the countdown to the debate will begin.
I look forward to the ongoing discussion of these matters and the opportunity to publicly debate the merits of our respective arguments.
William Schryver
Wilbur is so full of ____. He is trying to raise the stakes so high as to make Brent disinterested again. Why in the bloody hell MUST Brent publish something in a journal, in a "short period of time"(!) before Will is willing to debate him? Because Will doesn't want to be blindsided. He wants to know exactly what it is Brent will be arguing. WIll was the one taunting Brent and now he is refusing to debate unless he can make all these ridiculous stipulations. Three hour debate that needs only an hour? A friggin legal contract? Brent has to be puiblished in a "short" time? How short is short?
What a wuss.
If he were half as confident in his positions as he has been deceiving his followers into believe he is, he should have no problem debating Metcalfe in a podcast or online even. And there is nothing "rinky dink" about podcast debates and it is certainly a step up from these online debates that Will obviously has no problem doing. This is just another lame Schryver excuse. He acts like he is a 19 year-old Mike Tyson refusing to fight anywhere but Madison Square Gardens with the biggest contract (again, this is all about Will's ego wanting the brightest spotlight, nothing more), when in reality he is just bluffing again. He doesn't want this debate. AT ALL.
Author: truth dancer [ Thu Aug 12, 2010 5:44 am ]
Well, I suppose this is Will's only out.
I mean he surely can't debate Brent and come out standing up, and he doesn't want to decline the "invitation," and look foolish, so what else can he do but come up with ridiculous requirements so outrageous that no one in their right mind would agree to it?
Would we expect anything else?
Oh well, it will be nice to listen to Brent's podcast!
~td~
Author: Paul Osborne [ Thu Aug 12, 2010 5:46 am ]
AS A SIDE NOTE --
Now is the time to keep the pressure up on the apologists and not lose sight that the BofA controversy is a painful thorn in their side. Isn't that right, Kevin? I think it was the BofA problems that finally knocked our dear Kevin off his apologetic horses' ass. (That's payback for calling me the board ass)
I know you all hate it it when I keep bringing up Facsimile No. 3, but I really feel that those points are serious death blows to the credibility of Joseph Smith. The church leaders are no doubt concerned about how this makes the church look.
Seriously though, can anyone here imagine a conference talk extolling the truthfullness of the Explanations of Facsimile No. 3? I've yet to ever hear a General Authority say he knows those things are true. William Schryver knows they are not true and certainly wouldn't be surprised if the church removes them from his scriptures and leave them buried in the Times & Seasons. The church likes to bury things in the past or lock them up in the vault.
Paul O
Now, as the thread topic goes, I think William is scared to death of Metcalfe, and rightfully so. Schryver would be hacked to pieces by Metcalfe and he knows it. Schryver doesn't want to have to answer direct questions in a conversational debate. I don't blame him. I wouldn't want to either if I was in his shoes. But duty calls.
William Schryver is a pussy.
Author: Trevor [ Thu Aug 12, 2010 6:04 am ]
Will Schryver wrote:
OMG!!! He totally chickened out. Get this, people of much greater academic stature than Will have appeared on John Larsen's podcast, and Will acts as though he is too good to do so. He's full of crap. He totally chickened out. What a disappointment.
Author: Nomad [ Thu Aug 12, 2010 6:09 am ]
Trevor wrote:
Metcalfe bets a wrinkled ten dollar bill, which Schryver then sees and raises to a thousand dollars--and then is characterized as "chickening out."
Only in the Mormon Discussions Wonderland can such things occur.
I know. And get this. Will says it is because the debate topic is of such tremendous importance that it needs a more prestigious venue (nevermind the fact that a podcast would be heard by a much wider audience than a closed room session somewhere in Utah).
And yet just prior to his presentation he admitted that this argument wasn't really that significant at all because it doesn't address any of the critical arguments against Smith's ability to translate ancient documents. I mean really, even if what Will argued is true, it still doesn't change much as far as the toughest Book of Abraham criticisms go. Joseph Smith still proved he could not translate Egyptian, and we still know that it derived from a breathings text that has nothing to do with Abraham.
Now he acts as though the pinnacle of Book of Abraham apologetics rests on the question of whether or not the KEP came before or after the original translation?
Seriously??
I can't stop laughing at all of this. Will we already knew was an intellectual fraud and now we know he is a coward. He taunts Brent, and Brent called his bluff. Now Will is trying to quit while he's ahead, refusing to address valid criticisms of his theory online (already saying his time in Mormon Studies is near an end) and now trying to "stipulate" his way out of a very embarrassing exchange with the guy who has mopped the floors with him on the forums for years.
Nomad, you're worshipping a walking vagina.
Get over it.
No, Will has been throwing down these taunts and challenges for years, and he never expected Brent to agree to one. He said he'd agree to a debate in "a heartbeat" and now suddenly a heartbeat has become long drawn out list of stipulations about whether a debate can or should occur.
Will is a coward, period. He has proven this for years. I have refuted so many of his dumb comments on this forum it is hard to even keep track of them anymore, and everytime I challenge him to explain how he could get so many points incorrect and not be flat out lying, he flees the scene every time. WIll never had any intention of debating Brent. The "demands" he places on him before agreeing to one now are unprecedented in the history of debate. It is a joke that only moron like yourself could interpret as some kind of noble effort to "raise the stakes" to a higher level.
An intense debate covering the relevant issues can be handled in podcast just as well as in person. And Brent lives in Washington State. I don't suppose Will would be willing to travel that far to debate would he? No, of course not. Not enough Mormons there to cheer him on.
Again, this is all about Will's ego, and nothing more.
Nomad wrote:
Because anyone with two brain cells to rub together (a requirement that apparently puts you out of the running) is able to see this for what it is: Will chickened out.
Indeed, it is only in the Fantasyland of Mega-Dittos Nomad that Will's obvious desperation is turned into "raising the stakes."
Here's what really "raising the stakes" would look like:
Pretend Will wrote:
OK, Brent, you're on! But I want this debate to take place this weekend, and I want FAIR to run the podcast, since I don't think many good Mormons will listen to John's podcast. FAIR will then make the podcast available on their website. Deal? Obviously, since I have recently presented on this topic and have an article coming out very soon, I am confident that I can wipe the floor with you. May the best man (me) win!
LOL! What in the world does it matter if Brent publishes an article anywhere and more to the point, Will wants him to publish an article rebutting his argument? WT... Will can't just debate a few points but insists the debate is about the presentation? (roll eyes smiley here).
Ha, ha, ha. :-) Yeah, put the debate out a year and limit the argument to Will's presentation.
WIlbur responds to Larsen:
No offense intended, John, but I am not willing to "play for peanuts" when it comes to these things.
Brent Metcalfe has never formally committed himself to any set of arguments concerning the meaning and purpose of the Kirtland Egyptian Papers. I obviously have. In order to "debate," there must necessarily be two established positions to be debated. There is now, in the form of my summary presentation at the 2010 FAIR Conference, at least an outline of my position. I have therefore assumed the role of the "affirmative" interlocutor. I will greatly elaborate on those arguments in my forthcoming published article, at which point Mr. Metcalfe (and the general public) will be able to consider those detailed arguments and accompanying evidence, and then, for the first time ever, publish his counter-position on the issues.
After the publication of these competing views, we will finally be in a position to consider the merits of those views, at which point in time a formal public debate will be appropriate. I am confident that the public interest in these things warrants the formal debate format I have proposed. Such a format is best adapted to an elucidation of the respective viewpoints, and will permit a substantial audience to consider the conflicting arguments. I would expect that the debate could be both recorded and simultaneously webcast in order that interested parties worldwide will be enabled to participate in the proceedings.
I very much look forward to Mr. Metcalfe's acceptance of my "offer" to engage him in this public debate concerning the meaning and purpose of the Kirtland Egyptian Papers.
Play for peanuts? What exactly is Will saying here, that this is about what he receives in return? Gee, isn't that this what we've all been saying? Will only cares about what's in it for him, nothing more. He's an attention hound. But I'm hoping his reverse psychology doesn't work and Brent goes through with all his dumb demands.
Will says it is necessary that Brent first publish his views, but why is this so? He already knows what Brent plans to argue, so what is he afraid of? Will just wants to be able to examine Brent's argument, get help from smarter individuals (which, let's face it, Will doesn't do much research on his own - even the prized piece of evidence he used in his presentation was something he culled from Chris Smith's paper) to better develop his presentation. But is what Will says is true about Brent's untenable positions and "deficiencies" as he describes them, then he should be anxious to take advantage of the situation.
No, Will is scared and he has very good reason to be scared because his history with Brent has been rather embarrassing for him and FAIR.
This nonsense about the sake of a huge "public interest" is dumb because the majority of those wanting this debate are people on the internet. So let's keep it on internet. This should be about the sake of truth, not the quality of "peanuts" that Will receives in return.
I am confident that the public interest in these things warrants the formal debate format I have proposed. Such a format is best adapted to an elucidation of the respective viewpoints, and will permit a substantial audience to consider the conflicting arguments. I would expect that the debate could be both recorded and simultaneously webcast in order that interested parties worldwide will be enabled to participate in the proceedings.
Public interest? Worldwide?
How many people the world over have even heard of the Book of Abraham? How many Mormons even know of the issues and problems associated with it? How many have heard of Will's argument? LOL!
Some apologists, a handful of hobbyists, and a few dozen interested critics are about the only ones in the world who know about this Book of Abraham topic let alone are interested in hearing a debate!
This is not a presidential election! ;-)
Author: The Dude [ Thu Aug 12, 2010 7:12 am ]
Public debates are a poor way to resolve complex issues because there isn't time for careful examination and response. For the sake of fuller understanding of the two sides, it would be better to debate in print exchange, like a blog, journal, or even the Pundits forum. On the other hand, since Will is a thespian, I would think he would have an advantage in a dynamic public exchange -- much like a charismatic EV preacher stomping an evolutionary biologist even though the preacher's creationist arguments suck.
But Will wants to pass up his tactical advantage and play "pretend" academic instead -- I think that is foolish of him.
Kevin Graham wrote:
It sounds to me like he has let his friendship with Royal Skousen go to his head. Listen, as we have seen from the various LDS podcasts around, scholars of much greater stature than Will are happy to take the opportunity to share what they know with just about any small audience that will give them a chance to trot out their wares.
The real issue, obviously, is that he is intimidated by the thought of debating someone. Debating is really quite a different kettle of fish than presenting at a conference or publishing an article. Often, it is not about who is right so much as who is better at debating. I don't blame Will for balking at a debate. Frankly, I wouldn't want to debate Metcalfe or Vogel publicly.
Who knows but that if I had put myself out there like Will and acquired a fawning follower like Nomad that my little minion wouldn't have suggested I debate Vogel after my Sunstone paper? Man, I would not have wanted to step into that minefield. And that would not have been about my lack of confidence in my paper so much as my lack of confidence as a live debater. Unfortunately for Will, he has cultivated a little minion in Nomad, who suggested this crap, and instead of diverting, Will felt obliged to puff out his chest and act eager to do it, thinking, of course, that Brent would never bite.
But he was wrong, and now he has to find a way of getting out of it, or massaging the terms in such a way that he has a better chance of success or, at least, avoiding embarrassment. And frankly, I don't blame him. If I were in his position, I would do exactly the same thing. I am no better than Will except in perhaps this one way: I am not cultivating the type of wing-nut fans who would put me up to such nonsense.
The Dude wrote:
Will is a thespian, I would think he would have an advantage in a dynamic public exchange -- much like a charismatic EV preacher stomping an evolutionary biologist even though the preacher's creationist arguments suck.
You may be off here. It could be that this is the reason why Will wants a live venue instead of a podcast. He wants to be in a place where he has better "presence" and a crowd packed with his boosters. That would give him more leverage than John's podcast.
As amazing as Will thinks he is, I'm pretty sure Will knows that in a live debate, in a public forum, even on stage, Brent has the clear advantage!
truth dancer wrote:
I have never been one to trust in what Will thinks he knows. I do trust that he has a giant ego.
Author: Doctor CamNC4Me [ Thu Aug 12, 2010 8:05 am ]
It is clear Mr. Schryver isn't as confident in his knowledge of the KEP and BofA as he would belie. People who are truly well-versed in their perspective discipline don't have a problem debating it. They're confident in their knowledge and grasp of the subject.
Doctor CamNC4Me
Author: harmony [ Thu Aug 12, 2010 8:10 am ]
This is one rebuttal short for Brent.
I understand the kind of panic that produced this outline, though. To actually have to stand up in public and talk about this nonsense as... well... truth is pretty frightening. And even worse, to be recorded in a podcast, when all your fluttering and sputtering is captured forever. And debate isn't a team sport.
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I’m Megan Thomason, author of the award-winning, bestselling daynight series.
The daynight series has been optioned for film. Full article here. I’ve met with the film production team, and they are awesome! While there are no guarantees that the films will get made, I’m excited about the direction that they are taking and grateful for their hard work to bring my series to the big screen.
The series begins with daynight.
Kira Donovan has signed up to be a Recruit with the Second Chance Institute (SCI) for a year in exchange for a full ride college scholarship. The SCI assigns to her to one of their “remote” locations to work with those in need of a “second chance” at life.
Kira’s running from bad memories. After Winter Formal, she found her boyfriend and best friend hooking up. And the one guy who could have helped her forget about it that night—Ethan Darcton—disappeared shortly after she met him. Her boyfriend, best friend, and classmates all died in a fiery explosion at that party. All the bodies were accounted for, except Ethan’s. He’s MIA. Kira might have died in the tragedy herself if fellow classmate, Blake Sundry, hadn’t saved her life that night.
The SCI puts Kira on a boat out towards the middle of the sea. Where’s she headed for her year stint as a Recruit? Earth’s sister planet, Thera, where everything is backwards—where there is land on Earth, there is sea on Thera and vice versa; residents sleep by day and work by night; the sun rises in the West and sets in the East.
When Kira sees Blake Sundry on Thera—the guy who saved her from the explosion and now fellow Recruit—she’s shocked, unhappy, and wants to return to Earth.
The SCI denies her request to leave.
So she’s stuck with Blake Sundry as her Recruit partner. But, he has his own agenda for being on Thera. Raised in Exile, he has trained his whole life to infiltrate and take down the SCI.
Ethan Darcton has been raised by SCI Elite and is expected to do their bidding. His father—SCI leader, Brad Darcton—forbids Ethan from pursuing his new Recruit, Kira Donovan, and interfering with Brad's plans for her. Ethan may stand aside for a while, but if forced to wait too long, he will defy orders.
Stuck on Thera, Kira decides to make the best of it—until she finds out that the SCI’s plan is pure crazy and all evil.
Kira and Blake must decide whether fight or flight is the best course of action:
Here’s a quick “prequel” scene that I wrote for the series in the form of a “Dating Game” dream that Kira Donovan has just prior to the events of daynight.
The harsh lights and cameras startle me. An announcer welcomes the crowd to “The Dating Game,” and I realize I’m in the hot seat. Oddly, I’m not stressed to be here. Sixties-style decor, dominated by a ghastly orange overpowers the small studio. Four shadowed figures sit across from me, and I can sense their stares; maybe even a couple smirks. A couple profiles seem familiar, but I can’t put faces or names to them. The cameras shift from me to the guys to show the viewers at home what I’m not allowed to see. I strain my neck to see past the equipment, but I can only discern hair color. Light blonde, dark blonde, dark with platinum streaks, and dark brown. A producer steps forward, fully blocking my view, and in a hushed voice explains the game basics. I ask the questions provided on the teleprompter and they all must respond.
“Welcome, Kira Donovan,” a tall, lanky man with wavy chocolate hair and glasses says. “Let’s get started, why don’t we.” Yes, let’s. I want to see these guys fully lighted, and the only way to get my wish is to play the game.
The teleprompter suggests an opening question, tamping my nerves. “Where did you grow up?” Should be simple enough.
Contestant one, the dark-haired blonde says, “San Diego, California.” My hometown. Do I know him? The voice sounds so familiar, and memories prick the edge of my consciousness but don’t penetrate.
Contestant two, the boy with platinum streaks in his dark hair, says, “No place you’d know or want to know. It’s a bit off the beaten track, and so primitive you’d think we were cave men.” He chuckles, obviously privy to a joke he’s not willing to share.
I want to delve further, but the mic shifts to contestant number three, the one with dark brown hair. “Well, Kira,” he says with a nervous chuckle, “I spent my early childhood pretty isolated… in a town called Garden City, far from here.”
Before I can ask more, contestant 4, the light blonde pipes up with “You could say I grew up in the Heart land, but we travelled so much that I really felt like the worlds were my oyster. In fact, I’ve been to all of these fair lads’ hometowns.” The words roll off his tongue like honey. But, “worlds”? And, if contestant 2 grew up in an unspecified location in the boonies and contestant 3 lived in a city that I’ve never heard of, how could contestant 4 be so confident he’d been there? Perhaps they shared stories with each other before the show started.
The teleprompter flashes, interrupting my thought process and I stumble over the words, “What would you consider to be the perfect date?”
Contestant 2 begins this round. “I’m thinking high adventure. Not for every date. Just the first. Skip the heavy makeup and heels. We could zip line. Bungee jump. Surf. Board. White water raft. I don’t really care what it is. Just something where I can see what you’re really made of and not just what you pretend to be for a guy.” OK. I get it and appreciate the sentiment. There’s so much pretense that goes with dating. We girls don a pretty mask, speak words that want to be heard, and mold our personality to fit the guy or situation.
Contestant 1 goes next. “We’d have a great time, gorgeous. I’m thinking steak and lobster. A bottle of champagne. Maybe a little hot tubbing later on. I’ve got the perfect gold bikini in mind for you,” he says, licking his lips. I can feel all 4 guys and all the men in the audience picturing me in contestant 1’s bikini. Super. I smooth out my floral dress, in effort to cover up a little more of my legs.
I imagine contestant 3 rolling his eyes at 1, before saying, “I’d want to take you someplace we could talk and get to know each other. Like a picnic on the beach at sunset.” Ah, the romantic of the bunch. I’m up for some romance.
Contestant 4 says, “The perfect date? Whatever would make you happy, love.” I can’t help but smile at the sweet talker, wondering how many hearts he has broken.
The rounds continue. From what I can tell, One is a real tool. Sure, he has charm, but everything about him screams “ layer." Two’s all over the map. One minute he seems annoyed to be here and not the least bit interested in me. The next, he shows real vulnerability, drive, and appealing character. Three oozes sex appeal. He shies away from talking about himself, but I managed to learn that he’s in law school, lives with his uncle, and has some real issues with his parents. Apparently his parents follow some really antiquated customs that he wants no part of. Four’s a real enigma, his words carefully chosen and laden with meaning. His favorite virtue? Patience. Most attractive thing about a girl? Her thoughts—beyond simple intelligence, but how she sees and processes reality. His voice and words envelop me, confuse me, mesmerize me.
Finally, last question. “Why should I pick you?” The boys visibly squirm in their seats and adopt defensive body language.
Four: “I don’t see this as a competition, love. Some couples are meant to be. Some aren’t. The heart will want what the heart wants at each appointed time.” I want to listen to him talk all day and to comprehend his meaning, but I can’t without more clues. A facial expression or gesture, perhaps.
Three: “A girl like you will have her choice of any guy. And I won’t claim I’m perfect. I’m flawed. My own parents probably wouldn’t think I’m worthy of you. But, I think they’re wrong and I’d like a chance…” His voice trails off. Sweet, sexy, and humble.
Two: “I’ve never been one to really need anyone else. To depend on another person. But, I just get the sense that we’d be amazing together… better together than apart. Like we could really accomplish something great.” I do get the sense that Two has the potential for greatness. And that being with him would be a continual adventure.
One: “I’m feeling the chemistry, gorgeous. Like really feeling it. You are stunning. I’m not going to lie. When we get together it’s going to be so hot, there’s going to be fire… an explosion. I know you’re feeling it, too.” Modesty is not One’s strong suit.
I’m supposed to pick. Without seeing them. The announcer says my choice will be for life. What the hell? No way will I agree to be with one of these guys for life after a few questions answered in vagaries. It’s supposed to be the Dating Game, not Mating Game. I will the lights to turn on. My protestations turn verbal. The guys each step from the shadows towards me and encircle me. I spin, taking them each in. One: Bodybuilder frame, dark blonde hair, and familiar warm chocolate brown eyes. Two: Runner’s build, dazzling emerald green eyes, and platinum streaked dark hair. Also, familiar, but from where? Three: Wavy brown hair, stunning sapphire blue eyes, and a five o’clock shadow. Holy smokes, he's hot. And, Four: disheveled light blonde hair and blue ringed, gold eyes on the face and body of a god. They are four of the most beautiful guys I have ever laid eyes upon. I continue dizzily spinning, knowing I have to stop on one, but how do I choose? Just when clarity hits, a loud noise pierces my consciousness.
I awake to my alarm, heart hammering, breathing belabored. A dream. It seemed so real. The details grow fuzzy, faces blur together. Bizarre. Thank goodness I’m in no position of having to choose who I want to spend the rest of my life with on a whim. I check my clock. I’ll need to hurry to make it to iHop to meet Tristan and Bri for breakfast before I spend all day taking my Recruit test for The Second Chance Institute. I don’t want to take the test, but the promise of a full ride college scholarship in exchange for a year’s service is too appealing to ignore. Wait, forget the test—something’s bugging me. Was one of the guys in my dream Tristan? I shake off the sensation that I may have dreamt my boyfriend was a complete tool. We’re in love. I’d never even consider choosing anyone else—even if things have been less than perfect lately. I shrug it off, drag myself out of bed, and get ready, dream dismissed and focus shifted. Time to spend time with my boyfriend and best friend, and then go win myself a scholarship.
daynight is full of competing agendas, romantic entanglements, humor, twists and turns. It received a 2012 Book of the Year Finalist Award, Foreword Reviews and has been lauded by industry reviewers:
“Sure to win over YA readers looking for a dangerous, dystopian adventure story” —Kirkus Reviews
"Gripping young adult dystopian novel; compelling conflicts; high stakes; powerful narrative; surprises keep coming; strong writing; page-turner; engaging characters; Readers will be hungry for the sequels.”—BlueInk Review (starred review)
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Rupert Murdoch's News Corp., which will be CMS Superintendent Peter Gorman's employer come mid-August, has a contract with Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools via the recently-acquired Wireless Generation.
Gorman will join former New York City schools chancellor Joel Klein in developing the corporation's new education division. That division is charged with carrying out Murdoch's vision of creating digital learning products that customize education the way consumers now "customize their clothing, their cuisine, their news, and most anything else they want to buy."
Before Gorman signed on, News Corp. bought Wireless Generation, a Brooklyn-based company specializing in technology for testing, curriculum and educational data-gathering. Since 2008, Wireless has had a contract with CMS to provide the software and platforms used to track pre-reading skills in all CMS elementary schools. The most recent yearlong renewal, which runs through August, was for $568,173.
Testing and data-gathering became a touchy subject during Gorman's final weeks. It could be interesting to watch how the digital learning opportunities he and Klein craft mesh with whatever direction the CMS board and new leadership chart.
Labels: News Corp., Wireless Generation
All future superintendent contracts should have a clause that prevents dealing with the district on behalf of a new employer to prevent cronyism of this kind.
You weren't surprised by this, were you?
Disgusting!
Not surprising since Arthur Griffin was head of the school board and he left and then joined a book publishing company who then sold to CMS. Cozy such deals are the norm in Charlotte.
Cut all ties with this weasel.
'air ya go Petey-Boy. Become a corrupt, amoral lobbyist buying biz'ness for Rupert Murdoch and Company. Methinks you've finally hit rock bottom, my man, congrats on your selling out.
Such outrage!
How dare someone leave and go to work for a company that does business with CMS!
If you succeed in getting CMS not to do business with Gorman, perhaps you should then turn your outrage towards all politicians in Washington and lobbyists who benefit from each other.
Bettywhite said...
Glad to see you multi-tasking while at work.
In fairness, it would be very hard to argue that Gorman signed the Wireless Generation contract in 2008 in hopes of landing a job with a yet-to-be-formed company that would acquire Wireless.
In fairness?
OK, The Gormanator is still technically on CMS's payroll until August 15th (?) so let's continue to eat him alive - until this discussion turns to the next superintendent who is so fabulously wonderful with all sorts of dog and pony show ideas that will most certainly (this time) save the day.
So that's why Gorman added 52 new standardized tests!
"In fairness, it would be very hard to argue that Gorman signed the Wireless Generation contract in 2008 in hopes of landing a job with a yet-to-be-formed company that would acquire Wireless."
But it might have a lot to do with why he added 52 new tests.
It's summer during a time I transform into being a full-time stay at home mom without a part-time job. Translated - I'm bored (besides collecting cans of food for Charlotte's Harvest Food Bank. Please interrupt for this important commercial announcement: Your donations are most appreciated!).
Time to brainstorm, people.
What else can we discuss here besides Dr. Gorman's past, present and future salary and job title?
BoredMom said....
OK, now we're talking! About those 52 new tests? (after defending The Gormanator).
Ty Betty!
I had my 1 1/2 hour lunch appointment today, revamped some presentations for my boss on calls he is making this afternoon and we're going out later and have a great dinner!
So for the next two hours, I'll be in my hotel room keeping you informed on my next move, which is to try and get earlier flights out of Portland on Thursday.
See, I really do, do it all!
BoredMom said...
Here's an idea since someone suggested naming a closed school after Dr. Gorman which is a rather risky thing to do when you consider the number of famous people with names that have landed on something before spectacularly falling from grace.
Speaking of NYC...
How about simply assigning a number to all 178 CMS schools like they do up north (you know since they do it so much BETTER up north which might finally start some lively discussion).
I say we start with Myers Park High - the "Crown Jewel" school which is not to be misconstrued as having any interested, whatsoever, in seeing someone's Twittered crown jewels from or associated with this school. CMPS (Charlotte-Mecklenburg Public School) #1?
https://www.cytiva.com/wgen/details.asp?wgen1418
Interesting job notice...
I'm fairly certain Betty is bored too.
6:11, that is interesting! Esp this: "This new business targets the School Improvement Grants that have been set aside for the lowest performing 5% of schools across the country. Successful candidates will be responsible for selling multi-year professional services engagements to the larger school districts across the country."
Notice the amount of the contract is $568,173 and the budget of CMS is 1.1 Billion.
Now Gorman is most likely going to make around 300K so why would he play with something so small?
We need to quit looking for bad guys here. Yes I personally do not like Gorman but this does seem to have left off the off set to balance out what the numbers mean, like I have done.
From Anonymous at 5:27--OK, The Gormanator is still technically on CMS's payroll until August 15th (?) so let's continue to eat him alive - until this discussion turns to the next superintendent who is so fabulously wonderful with all sorts of dog and pony show ideas that will most certainly (this time) save the day.
You've nailed it. Reporters and bloggers will continue to feast on Dr. Gorman until the next superintendent comes along. They'll give him or her about 2 years and then the attacks will start again.
If you really wanted to be fair to Gorman, Ann, why was this posted with a headline "Pete Gorman as CMS vendor?" Just going for more meat in my opinion.
-BoredMom 5:27.
On another note, why weren't we informed that the NC legislators were looking at a bill that would add 5 more school days to the school calendar.
Am I going to have to look elsewhere for news and look to the CO to provide me with the daily fodder?
The Senior Center is hoping in Charlotte, you should come by. Only two men had to be revived today. If you get an early flight back may be you can teach us about Star Trek or World of Warcraft.
Ann Doss, you must continue to keep us informed of all dealings Pete Gorman is doing as long as he is being paid with my tax dollars, and as long as his corrupt business deals continues to involve our community schools! Expose this roach to the light!
Amazing how Pete Gorman has so rapidly become the devil incarnate. I hope all who contributed to this are proud of themselves.
Answerman said...
Under Gorman:
Achievement improved and CMS was the only large district ever to emerge from NCLB District Improvement Status - all while cutting and redirecting budgets - and Gorman himself declining a bonus for 3 straight years. He wasn't perfect, but he did a very good job.
The Gorman bashing that is going on in this community continues to amaze me. As the previous poster said overall performance has improved considerably under Dr. Gorman, especially for minorities. Yet some "leaders" in the minority community (and I realize that in the school system that are not really "the minority") long for the good old days of CMS and are thrilled to be rid of Dr. Gorman.
Richard McElrath stated at the last Tuesday Morning Breakfast Forum "We want someone who can lean more towards our side". Exactly what does "their side" want? (See "This Weeks Announcements" at http://www.tueforumclt.org/). And should an elected school member, even though he's a district rep, be talking about "sides" when making decisions for our school system?
How about following up on Richard McElrath's comments, Ann. Also check out the Swann Fellowship's webpage http://www.swannfellowship.org/, "What Type of Leader?" Quite obvious what Steve Johnston, scribe of the Tuesday Morning Breakfast Forum, has in mind. Of course, according to Steve, we all know that busing opponents have always only cared about "convenience" for themselves.
Thanks for those last two web links! We will definitely be reporting in on the various views of who/what the next superintendent should be. 9:43 a.m., I could not begin to describe the views/aims of a "side" that includes Richard McElrath, Joyce Waddell and Kaye McGarry.
On the five-day calendar addition: Agreed, it would have been much better to have this openly discussed in advance.
From a legislative point of view, that might have been more likely if someone had introduced a school calendar amendment/bill rather than burying that change on p. 58-60 of 343-page budget bill.
I plead guilty to not bird-dogging the legislature, or even going online to pore through what appear to be nine versions of the budget bill (http://www.ncga.state.nc.us/gascripts/BillLookUp/BillLookUp.pl?Session=2011&BillID=h200), while covering the beat in Charlotte. And we just don't have as many reporters stationed in Raleigh as we once did.
My sense is all the folks who might have been all over this and tipped us off were absorbed with the dollars and jobs. So yeah, not ideal -- wish we had gotten this earlier.
Anyone else notice "the jewel in the crown" has fallen to #439 in Newsweek's Top Public High Schools?
And, gasp!, Providence came in at 186. A new jewel in the crown?
CMPS #186, Providence High - "L'Etat, c'est moi"! Let the coronation begin.
Note to school board members: The translation and history of the phrase "L'tat c'est moi" will be on your next pay-for-performance test in Elective Dance. Points will be taken off for incorrect accent marks which I did not include. Now stand up straight, chin up, shoulders down and pay attention - that means you too, coach. And 5,6,7, 8...
Joyce, Richard and Kaye - a rather odd trio. Oui?
oops, L'Etat.
Courtesy Spark Notes because I'm trying to HELP you people!
Louis loved ballet and frequently danced in court ballets during the early half of his reign. He danced four parts in three of Molière's comédies-ballets—plays accompanied by music and dance. Louis played an Egyptian in Le Mariage forcé in 1664, a Moorish gentleman in Le Sicilien in 1667, and both Neptune and Apollo in Les Amants magnifiques in 1670. However, performances at court and in Paris differed substantially. Performances at court were often accompanied by suitably majestic music, especially for those ballets danced by the King. Moreover, the lyrics usually conveyed royal power and benevolence as the patron of the arts. On the other hand, parts played by the King no longer stood out from those of other performers when performed in Paris. In fact, the plays which most overtly promoted Louis's royal image were not performed at all outside of court. This testifies to Molière's readiness to adapt his plays according to the venue and the audience
I think Kaye's been taken for a ride by Joyce and Richard. Kaye at least does seem to be interested in the whole of Mecklenburg County, although I don't think much of her style. Joyce and Richard wear blinders regarding anything but their own districts. Kaye, aligning yourself with these two is not going to help you improve CMS--could lead to a disastrous choice for school superintendent.
Has anyone heard anything about the fate of middle school sports?
The Pope, Billy Graham, George Washington, Mother Theresa, your own mother or father....No one will ever be good enough to run CMS. Dr. Gorman did a great job with what he had. NOONE expected the economic downturn our community took over the past few years. Instead of lambblasting him, acknowledge his successes (which translate to our students' successes) and give him a break. I would hate to be the next person to lead the schools. I would sincerely hope that the school board includes a shield and a gift card to the local ABC store; they'll need it with this populus.
Pete sucks eggs and everyone knows it.
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AUTENTI - one-click e-signature
Autenti, a platform for approving documents and signing contracts online, will use Blockchain technology for additional security of data and operations credibility level increase. In introduction of technology of distributed ledger, as well as dynamic development of the company in areas of sales and marketing, Autenti will be supported with PLN 6.3 million (EUR 1.5M) funding by Black Pearls VC and Innovation Nest.
Autenti is a platform for approving documents and signing contracts online. The unique combination of innovative application of electronic signature, easy access to the cutting-edge technology, and legal basis of national and European law regulations, allows entrepreneurs to escape the necessity of signing printed agreements by hand and exchange their physical copies by the involved entities. It’s the first solution of this kind in Poland and one of a few in Europe. In 2016, global market of electronic signature was worth USD 631.5 million. Analysts predict that the market CAGR increase will amount to 26.4% in 2017-2025, and will reach USD 4.98 billion before the end of 2025.
The idea of giving up paper in favour of new technologies is no longer merely a fashion among organizations, but an urgent need. Our conversations about e-signatures in various companies finish not with “if” but “when us?” Thanks to the support of Black Pearls VC and Innovation Nest, we have a chance to seize the right moment to significantly speed up by fulfilling ambitious plans of foreign expansion and increasing data security level. It’s the competence, experience, and international contacts of our partners that are crucial for the dynamic development of Autenti.
Grzegorz Wójcik, CEO, Autenti
As a lead investor, Innovation Nest allocated for development of Autenti PLN 3.3 million from the Innovation Nest II fund, focused on support of projects developing software used in business solutions.
The most crucial characteristics of the project that has the largest chance to succeed is significant influence on process effectiveness in the company. Autenti certainly shows this characteristics by offering a feature which will allow to fundamentally speed up and optimize process of signing contracts and other business documents. Simultaneously, it is guaranteed that the signed document is the right one, and that it will never be lost.
Marek Kapturkiewicz, Innovation Nest, Partner&Co-founder
Black Pearls VC provided PLN 3M of funding for the project basing on LQT Fund II created under the National Research and Development Center’s BRIdge Alfa program. The strategy of LQT Fund II assumes supporting development and commercialization of life quality technologies.
Autenti optimizes contract conclusion process to the revolutionary degree. The project is a model solution of Life Quality Technologies area, in which we want to support about ten projects with significant commercial potential and Autenti perfectly fits our strategy.
Tomasz Woźniak, Black Pearls VC, Principal
Autenti had its debut on the market 3 years ago. The solution is a project of leading managers of Internet industry in Poland, who combined their experiences from companies such as Interia, Onet, TVN, and Allegro, with their passion and competences, to fulfil one of the most urgent needs of business. The mastermind, Grzegorz Wójcik, long-time manager and specialist on digital media and e-commerce, became the leader of the project. The founders team was completed by Łukasz Rzepecki (CTO), Tomasz Plata (CMO), and Bartosz Wojciechowski (CLO). Last year, Autenti noted significant increase of interest in the e-signature feature, which resulted in several dozen of new contracts, won contests and tenders, and participation in the international program Google Campus Residency.
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Investor Relations and Communication Manager at Black Pearls VC
Nomi Biotech Corporation raises EUR 240k investment from Black Pearls VC
The Polish-Japanese Nomi Biotech Corporation specializes in the design and production of innovative nutraceuticals combining nutritional values and characteristics of pharmaceuticals. Startup has already introduced to the market its first product – the alcorythm® and rec...
Nanoxo investment
Nanoxo is a Polish company with scientific backround developing its own technology for producing quantum dots of zinc oxide (ZnO QDs). Recently, Black Pearls VC has supported NANOXO with EUR 232k investment. Quantum dots are an extremely innovative material currently use...
Combining VR and behavioral therapy, Prosoma will help cancer patients fight anxiety and depression
Founded by a group of Polish innovators and scientists, Prosoma helps cancer patients fight anxiety and depression by combining behavioral therapy and virtual reality technology. The company has just acquired an investor - the Black Pearls VC fund, which will support the...
Black Pearls VC invests in Xopero: small and medium enterprises will be able to protect data as large corporations do
EUR 230k has been invested by Black Pearls VC in Xopero - a company developing unique emergency recovery technology and ensuring continuity of companies' IT systems in the event of a breakdown or attack by hackers. In terms of technological advancement and speed of backu...
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newswire article portland metro 16.Feb.2003 23:25
MoveOn to do anti-IRAQ war leaflets across US - in PDX for Fri nite rally
author: Brian Thomas e-mail: indy@rivertext.com
Over the next 2 weeks MoveOn.org has 14,000 people signed up to coordinate a nation-wide anti-war leafleting campaign (see attached thumbnail of one of the leaflets they're still working on). They are asking their 750,000 members to fill out the leafleting crews. They are also hoping to sign up new members. I'm leading one of the crews. Below you'll find an article providing some background about MoveOn.org.
MoveOn is, arguably, the most active MAINSTREAM anti-war activist group. However, MoveOn is basically just a large and powerful mailing list -- there are no dues or fees of any kind. I'm posting this on Indymedia for a couple of reasons.
1. I'd like to get suggestions for the best places to leaflet on the weekends. It might be raining. I'd love to do shopping malls, but my understanding is they are all private property and that anyone that they will arrest you is you carry on any kind of political activity there.
2. My first choice for a place to leaflet was the evening rush hour around Pioneer Square and later, perhaps, the trendy spots in Old Town or around Powell's. I have already committed to coordinating a Friday 4 PM Pioneer Square / Bus mall rush hour leafleting sweep. This means we will be around for the Friday night Peace rally. I hope we will be welcome to join the march for a ways and then break off to do more leafleting.
3. If you are interested in leafleting you could sign up with MoveOn.org. However, keep in mind it is a mainstream organization and they have 2 rules that you have to agree with which they sum up this way:
a. Educate, don't irritate
b. Don't argue.
They especially don't want their leafleters to attack or in any way express a lack of concern for our soldiers.
This doesn't mean that MoveOn is timid about criticizing the Bush Administration. For example, they are recommending distribution of the powerful anti-war speech that Senator Byrd delivered on the floor of the Senate last Wednesday:
"I truly must question the judgment of any President who can say that a massive unprovoked military attack on a nation which is over 50% children is 'in the highest moral traditions of our country'". - Senator Byrd.
I have already printed out 500 carefully typeset copies of this great speech. If anyone wants some to pass it out on their own I will have plenty of extra copies at the Friday rally.
As the facts listed below the following article excerpt prove, MoveOn has been sensationally successful at raising money and placing national anti-war ads. This leafleting is something new and untried. I might be the only MoveOn member at the rally, or I might be introducing a bunch of mainstream citizens to what it feels like to march without a permit through the streets of Portland to the beat of the drum corp.
In any case, this may be our last rally before the darkness descends -- see you next Friday at the SW corner of Pioneer Courthouse Square at 5 PM.
ABOUT MoveOn.org
Berkeley -- The Berkeley couple who once won fame for putting flying toasters on the world's sleeping computer screens is famous again -- this time for waking up the computer world to serve as a powerful anti-war tool.
Moveon.org, the brainchild of Wes Boyd and Joan Blades, has moved on from its beginning as an anti-impeachment movement during the Clinton administration four years ago and now ranks in the minds of many as the nation's leading pioneer of harnessing the Internet for political activism.
Moveon.org's best-known recent feat -- the "daisy" TV ad linking war with Iraq to a nuclear bomb explosion -- was made possible by thousands of donations from moderate, middle-class, mostly liberal Americans who have joined the group's growing online community, which now has 750,000 members in the United States and 380,000 abroad.
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2003/02/09/BA242682.DTL&type=printable
other facts about MoveOn:
:: in December MoveOn raised $300,000 in 48 hours for anti-war ads in the nations most prestigious newspapers
:: MoveOn raised $6.5 million in the last 2 elections for politicians that stand up to the Republicans
:: last week MoveOn raised $75,000 to put Inspections, Not War billboards in Detroit, LA and San Franciso and to put these signs on 25 per cent of the buses in Washington D.C.
Viacom, the company that has the contract that entitles it to lease out these spaces refused to place the anti-war messages. MoveOn suggested that its 750,000 members might call Viacom for an explanation. 24 hours later Viacom changed its mind and decided to place the anti-war signs.
http://www.moveon.org/
homepage: http://www.rivertext.com/stuff.html
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The Pearl Project: Searching for Daniel Pearl's Killer
The Montana Journalism Review by Colette Maddock, 2011 Issue
Daniel Pearl, a foreign correspondent for The Wall Street Journal, was abducted and murdered in Pakistan in 2002. His death did not go unnoticed by millions of people across the world and inspired a class at Georgetown University to investigate and report on the truth behind his murder.
The Pearl Project: Bringing colleges into the investigative ecosystem
Neiman Journalism Lab by Eric Athas, April 26, 2011
Does a piece of the future of in-depth reporting include a pack of students, a couple of veteran journalists-turned-academics and some college credit? At Georgetown University, Barbara Feinman Todd and Asra Q. Nomani believe they have created an investigative journalism model that will bolster the type of intensive long-form reporting that’s fading from many newsrooms. [...]
Student, Faculty add evidence to Daniel Pearl murder case
The Hoya by Katherine Braun, January 25, 2011
A special report compiled by Georgetown faculty, graduate and undergraduate students released last week provided never-before-seen evidence about the murder of The Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl by al-Qaida operatives in Pakistan in 2002 - including confirmation of the identity of his killer.[...]
The Women who Chase Terrorists
The Huffington Post by Abigail Pesta, January 24, 2011
The Pearl Project began as a journalism course three years ago at Georgetown University. This class had no ordinary syllabus. Its goal: nothing less than to expose the hidden details and motivations behind the 2002 kidnapping and murder of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl. [...]
New investigation into the murder of Daniel Pearl released
The Long War Journal by Thomas Jocelyn, January 21, 2011
On Thursday, The Center for Public Integrity released a new report detailing the circumstances of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl's kidnapping and murder. The report confirms that 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed (KSM) was the terrorist who ultimately killed Pearl. [...]
The trust that once flowed between journalists and locals has gone sour
The Independent by Bina Shah, January 21, 2011
In Mohsin Hamid's short story "A Beheading," published in Granta Pakistan last autumn, an unnamed man is dragged from his bed in the middle of the night and kidnapped. The man knows he's as good as dead when he is taken in the trunk of his assailants' 1981 Toyota Corolla. Within four paragraphs, the man is bound and gagged, on his knees in front of a video camera, remembering a goat that was sacrificed for Eid. Within six, he's begging them: "Tell me what to write. I'll never write again." And by the seventh paragraph, he has been beheaded. [...]
Report says Militants in Pearl Killing Still at Large
New York Times by Jane Perlez, January 21, 2011
Nine years after the American reporter Daniel Pearl was captured and killed by operatives of Al Qaeda in Pakistan, more than a dozen of the militants involved in his murder remain at large, a testament to the lack of will by Pakistani authorities to prosecute the cases, according to a report released Thursday.[...]
Study Tracks Pearl Murder Probe
Wall Street Journal by Matthew Rosenberg, January 20, 2011
A new report on the murder of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl reveals that U.S. officials used a forensic technique called vein analysis to corroborate the confession of the self-professed killer, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, who also is suspected of planning the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on the U.S.[...]
Report: Top al-Qaeda figure killed Pearl
Washington Post by Peter Finn, January 20, 2011
A recently completed investigation of the killing of Daniel Pearl in Pakistan nine years ago makes public new evidence that a senior al-Qaeda operative executed the Wall Street Journal reporter.[...]
Al-Qaeda saw 'opportunity' in killing journalist Daniel Pearl in Pakistan
Bloomberg by Flavia Krause-Jackson and Tony Capaccio, January 20, 2011
Al-Qaeda took over the kidnapping of journalist Daniel Pearl on orders of one of Osama bin Laden’s closest lieutenants, who is still free and reportedly leading anti-U.S. militants on the Afghanistan Pakistan border, according to a study.[...]
Report Faults Daniel Pearl Murder Investigation
New York Times by Ashraf Khan and Nahal Toosi, January 20, 2011
KARACHI, Pakistan (AP) — The four men imprisoned for killing Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl were not present during his beheading but were convicted of murder because Pakistani authorities knowingly relied on perjured testimony and ignored other leads, says a report released Thursday.[...]
Report: Forensic evidence ties 9/11 plotter to Pearl's killing
USA Today by Doug Stanglin, January 20, 2011
A 31,000-word inquiry into the killing of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl says U.S. investigators used "vein matching" from an al-Qaeda video to conclude that Pearl was killed by 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed.[...]
Must Read: The Truth Left Behind
The Council on Foreign Relations, January 20, 2011
The Council on Foreign Relations says The Truth Left Behind is a must read.
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MPS Journalism Professor Asra Nomani Appears On C-SPAN's "Q&A"
Asra Nomani Commentary On Upcoming Daniel Pearl Movie
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From USA Today: Pearl's Murder Inspires Scholarly Search For Truth
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It’s over, folks, it’s over.
It's over. Global Service Jam 2014 is over.
This is the ninth time we have written those words, as they (or something very like them) have closed every Jam since the first Global Service Jam in 2011. In those three short years, the Global Jams - Service, Sustainabillity and Gov - have grown and evolved. Where three years ago we fought to persuade people to stop discussing and start building, now our “doing not talking” mantra can remain unsaid. It has entered the DNA of the Jam and is understood by even the newest Jammers and hosts. People are on their feet, people are out on the streets - building, testing, breaking and building again. And they are having fun while being productive in ways they never thought possible. It is wonderful to see.
That is not our doing. That is the Jam. It is the hundreds of Hosts (over 320 names were on our organisers’ list in this Jam) who spend their own time making this happen, and add thier own creativity to the advice of their peers and forerunners. It is the Mentors and Experts who freely donate the skills they normally sell because they want to share. It is the sponsors who decide that this strange little event is worth their support and implicit approval. And it is the Jammers from six continents who are willing, over and over again, to throw energy, intelligence, openness and heart into this endeavour.
No-one makes a cent out of the Jam (except perhaps some local pizza shops and sticky-note salesmen). It’s simply amazing - an event in well over 100 marvellous locations run on a budget of nearly nothing. It only works because of generous people.
Thank you to the amazing Global HQ team who gave up way more than just 48 hours - without even getting to play. Ruth (RM) in Australia, Ren Chang (RC) in Malaysia, Ana (AML) who travelled from Italy to be in Finland, Tim (TO) in Sweden, Andi (AF) and Anna-Lena (AL) in Germany, and Natashe (NP) in Brazil. Your reward was sleepness nights, sore eyes, stiff backs - and our enormous gratitude, always. Thank you to our special video guests Paul, Belina and Matt who gave us new improvisational ways to play and grow this time.
Thank you to the Secret Global Council who helped create our most innovative Secret Theme yet. Thank you to the Hosts, Experts, Mentors, Judges and everyone else who gave of themselves for the Jammers. Thank you all! There will be more Jams coming soon, and we hope to see you there, adding your creativity and experience to the Jammer’s passion. Please help us fan this fire!
But most of all, as always, we must thank the Jammers. People from so many different backgrounds, with many different expectations and needs, all willing to throw themselves into the unknown in the hope of sharing, learning, meeting, and experiencing a weekend of fun. Where we failed, you forgave us. And if we succeeded, it was you who made it real.
We are tired, we are sore, we have work in the morning. We need to sleep. But we are thrilled and humbled by what you all have made the Jam.
Take the time to visit Planet Jam and look at some of the amazing prototypes and uploads there. Share your thoughts and comments with your fellow Jammers.
We will see you again at the Global GovJam in the first week of June, 2014.
But until then, it’s over, folks, it's over,
Global HQ, over and out. JAM OFF.
Your Adam and Markus
P.S. Oh, just one more thing. In the next few days, we will announce the dates of TWO new Jams. Keep watching! ;)
The theme of 2014
Submitted by markusedgar
Here is is: the official Secret Theme video for the Global Service Jam 2014 (no longer secret, as all Jammers know the Theme now).
Secret Theme Video, Global Service Jam 2014 from Global Service Jam on Vimeo.
The JAM is on fire again!
We are very happy to have more than 100 locations confirmed with over 2000 Jammers on 6 continents!(We will know final numbers on Sunday). The Global Service Jam 2014 is as multicolored as life. From small Jams with less than 10 Jammers to really big ones with more than 100, from very experienced to newbie Hosts and Jammer - everyone is rocking the Jam like a rockstar!
We are grateful that all of you come together, collaborate, learn new tools and methods, create tangible prototypes of service ideas and have so much fun, spending 48 hours of your life! We hope the Jam-experience is worth for it.
Many thanks to all of you and our supporters who set this Global Service Jam on fire!
If you are jamming with us, thinking about jamming next time or just want to have a look at people filled with creativity and cool ideas, please follow the global buzz on Facebook, Twitter and Youtube by using the tag GSJam or hahstag #GSJam.
Thanks again and remember: YOU ARE THE JAM!
Now keep on rocking!
The Jam GlobalHQ will be in... Turku, Finland!
The Jam has an awesome headquarters team, made up of volunteers working around the world and around the clock. But one special location is always the “Official Jam GlobalHQ". After having a hot and steamy time with the amazing Bangalore Jam crew last year, we are happy to announce that in 2014 the Global HQ will be heading north!
Thanks to the generosity of Turku Science Park, Logomo and various members of the city's administration, business scene and local Jammers, we will raise the Global Jam HQ flag beside the Jammers in Turku, Finland.
Two of our HQ team - Adam and Ana - will be working there, and will drop in on the Turku Jam whenever they can. Otherwise, they will be helping Jammers worldwide with technical issues, keeping the Jam Buzz going, and spreading the best of the Jam worldwide. Adam says, "It will be a crazy weekend with little sleep and lots of work to do, but sharing the buzz and amazing location of the Turku Jam will make it much more fun. Thanks Turku!"
Besides the two-person crew in Finland, other HQ members will be on duty in Australia, Indonesia, India, Poland, Germany, and Brazil. Our thanks to these selfless people who are giving up their weekends so that others can Jam!
(Image from the Global Service Jam "Treasure Map" by Eva Johanna Lundqvist.)
Ready to rock?
It's just a matter of days until the first Jams kick off on Thursday, with the majority of Jams joining them on Friday. We have Jams on every continent and from the Arctic circle to the Antarctic Ocean..
There are more than 100 sites signed up for this year's Jam, and we believe it will be better than ever. Can you find your site? For a closer view, see the Locations page...
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Panel Borders: Barbara Nessim – a (comics) artful life
Continuing a month of shows about the connections between fine art and comic books, Alex Fitch talks to acclaimed artist and illustrator Barbara Nessim about her work and the many connections it has with sequential art, as its influence and subject. A selection of Nessim’s work is currently on display at the Victoria and Albert Museum, with her Wonder Woman analogue “Star Girl Banded with Blue Wave” (1966) being used as the focus for the marketing of the show; Alex talks to her about this work, the use of panel based sequential images in her Flag series and others, and her unlikely appearance in a anti-drugs fumetti, facilitated by Gloria Steinem and published in Warren Magazines’ Help! periodical in the 1960s.
Barbara Nessim – an artful life is on display at the Victoria and Albert Museum until 19th May 2013
(Orignially broadcast Monday 13th May 2013 on Resonance 104.4 FM)
Superman carrying girl with green shoes, Star Girl banded with blue wave, Fumetti from Help! magazine, Chopin a la moog, Swedish Lives, A / B, The Night is Silent by Barbara Nessim
For more info and a variety of different formats you can stream or download, please visit the home of this podcast at www.archive.org
Links: Barbara Nessim’s website
Info about the Barbara Nessim exhibition at the Victoria and Albert Museum
Article about Nessim’s installation at Centria Building
Recommended events:
When is a graphic novel not a comic? When it’s a…
A panel debate at the Brighton Festival exploring the dimensions of narrative art, in association with Myriad Editions, and featuring Myriad authors Woodrow Phoenix and Nye Wright, with Hannah Berry and Tim Pilcher.
‘The graphic novel as a literary form is really coming into its own at the moment, and we’re very lucky that we have one of the best graphic novel publishers here in Brighton – Myriad – so we’re putting on an event with them that I’m very excited about’ – Mathew Clayton, Literary Programmer, Brighton Festival
Woodrow Phoenix produced a giant comic for his MA at Brighton University, exploring – literally – the dimensions of what a comic is. Co-winner of Best Book in the British Comics Awards, he and fellow graphic novelists Nye Wright and Hannah Berry debate the different ways of creating narratives: whether pen and paper, ceramics, embroidery or sculpture. Art schools are now hot-beds of new cartoonists, and the traditional US comic is giving way to a more modern, domestic graphic memoir. How did this sea-change come about? What makes a comic, when does it become a graphic novel, is it all just marketing? A panel debate at the Brighton Festival, chaired by comics guru Tim Pilcher and in association with Myriad Editions.
Location: Studio Theatre, Brighton Dome, New Road, Brighton
8 – 9pm, Wednesday 15th May, 2013
More info / tickets: www.brightonfestival.org
Laydeez Do Comics at Brighton Festival
A free event in the Studio Bar, in association with Myriad Editions, and featuring the artists, authors and organisers of Laydeez Do Comics, Nicola Streeten and Sarah Lightman, with guests: illustrator and manga artist Chie Kutsuwada and artist curator Kim Pace
After the panel event in the Studio Theatre, the audience is invited to join the legendary Laydeez Do Comics in the Studio Bar. The UK’s first women led graphic novel forum will be presenting a series of invited speakers from 9-10.30pm. This is a non-ticketed event and is open to all members of the public, so please come along and have your eyes opened to some of the amazing work going on in the comics world.
Laydeez Do Comics regularly attracts more than 100 guests at its monthly meetings in London, and groups have now set up in Chicago, San Francisco, Bristol and Leeds with pop-ups in New York – and now, for the very first time, Brighton!
Nicola Streeten’s first graphic book, Billy, Me & You, was published by Myriad in October 2011. It first appeared in serialised form in Liquorice Magazine.
Location: Studio Theatre Bar, Brighton Dome, New Road, Brighton
9 – 10.30pm, Wednesday 15th May, 2013
Tripwire Launch with Michael Moorcock, Peter Milligan, Mike Carey, Roger Langridge & Christopher Fowler
Since its launch back in 1992, TRIPWIRE has been the UK’s leading features-driven comics and genre publication. Its emphasis on British comics and creators and left of centre mainstream has garnered it fans around the world. In 2013, to commemorate its 21st birthday, TRIPWIRE will be publishing TRIPWIRE 21, a must-own celebration of 21 years of the magazine. To mark this, Foyles and TRIPWIRE present a panel that includes Michael Moorcock (Mother London), Peter Milligan (Hellblazer), Mike Carey (The Unwritten, X-Men), Roger Langridge (The Muppets, Fred The Clown) and Christopher Fowler, creator of the popular Bryant & May book series in discussion with TRIPWIRE editor-in-chief Joel Meadows.
Venue: the Gallery at Foyles
Thursday 16th May 2013 6:30pm – 8:30pm Charing Cross Road Literary Event, Chargeable Event
More info / tickets: www.foyles.co.uk/Tripwire
Image Duplicator at Orbital Comics
Pop artist Roy Lichtenstein currently has a show on at the Tate Modern. While the public is intimately familiar with his work, what they may be unaware of is that many of his images were directly “appropriated” from comic artists like Irv Novick, Russ Heath, Jack Kirby, John Romita and Joe Kubert, who received no fee or credit.
Is this an act of brilliant recontexturalisation? The elevation of commercial “low” art to “high” art? Art world snobbery? Artistic licence? Gallery shortsightedness? Cultural annexation? Or something else entirely? This show brings together real comic-book artists and other “commercial artists” – illustrators, designers, cartoonists – to ask these kinds of questions and share their views, via their work.
Each artist was asked to “re-reappropriate” one of the comic images Lichtenstein used: to go back to the source material and twist it into something interesting and original, and in the process to comment on the act of appropriation.
Money raised from selling prints and originals will be donated to the Hero Initiative, which helps down-on-their-luck comic book veterans.
Take Back the Art!
16th May – 31st May 2013, Orbital Comics, 8 Great Newport Street, London WC2H 7JA
More info: www.orbitalcomics.com
Help launch The Black Cloud
Support Charles Cutting’s new graphic short story compilation… If you think it’s the kind of thing you would be cool with posting about, liking and sharing on Facespace and Twitter, Charlie would be most grateful…
Over the last year and a half Charles has produced three short stories in graphic form for three different authors.
‘After The End’ is penned by Tauriq Moosa and deals with a secret scientific experiment.
‘Two Little Boys’ concerns an intriguing coincidence linking the lives of Adolf Hitler and Ludwig Wittgenstein and is written by Christian David. It first appeared in Issue 29 of The Illustrated Ape.
The final story ‘The Bleeding Horse’ is an adaptation of a macabre story by Brian J Showers about a haunted Irish pub.
Charlie needs $2000 to cover the printing and shipping costs. By pre-ordering a copy of Black Cloud via Indiegogo you will be entitled to various perks depending on how much you wish to chip in to the campaign. These cost between $15 and $200 and include sketches, advertising space and original artwork.
http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/black-cloud
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Political Lindsey Domestic Politics Another Senate Republican Puts Up A Roadblock On Taxes
President Trump Has Another Republican Call It Quits
It’s enough to make Americans who voted for Trump want to scream. One of the central issues of President Donald Trump’s Make America Great Again plan is revamping the amazingly complex and confusing tax code foisted on the people of the United States in 1986. There’s a lot of horse trading in the plan itself, with offsetting credits and line item deductions, as well as an adjusted rate bracket schedule, but in the end, the middle class was supposed to be the primary beneficiary of the whole kit and kaboodle.
Then the tax plan went to the Senate where a thin margin of the majority means that not only does every vote count, but any defections put the entire MAGA agenda in jeopardy.
At one point, Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky claimed he was not going to vote for the plan. Now, he says he will. So, the Republicans came up with a different sacrificial lamb.
#BreakingNews: Sen. @SteveDaines aides to FBN: "No" on tax bill but optimistic about changes pic.twitter.com/2P07bfGIZo
— FOX Business (@FoxBusiness) November 27, 2017
Montana? Oh, yeah that’s going to go over well.
Daines joins Wisconsin’s Ron Johnson in opposing the American middle class. Their specific concerns?
According to Politico, Daines and Johnson have similar objections: They both believe the bill is too generous to corporations while not doing enough to help small businesses, many of which would benefit from a more charitable pass-through rate. For “pass-through” entities, taxes are generally filed through the individual income tax code and not the corporate tax code.
There are millions of these entities, and they are most often sole proprietorships, limited liability companies or partnerships.
Of course, the small business people file their taxes only based on personal income. The business and corporate rates would kill them otherwise and make owning a small business less palatable than it already is.
Senate leadership claims to be trying to address these concerns, but, as the Senate is where legislation goes to die, there might be more than one hurdle there. See, there are a number of senators, some of them lame ducks, who are considering voting “no”.
Per the Hill, they are:
Sen. Bob Corker (Tenn.) – Corker told reporters he wouldn’t vote for a bill that raises the deficit.
Sen. Susan Collins (Maine) – Collins told reporters she is “still trying to change” the Senate bill.
Sen. Jeff Flake (Ariz.) – “I remain concerned over how the current tax reform proposals will grow the already staggering national debt by opting for short-term fixes while ignoring long-term problems for taxpayers and the economy,” Flake said in a statement. “We must achieve real tax reform crafted in a fiscally responsible manner. I look forward to working with my colleagues during a full and robust debate on the Senate floor to deliver on that goal.” Flake is retiring after his term.
Sen. James Lankford (Okla.) – Lankford said in a Nov. 27 news conference that he would like to support the bill but has concerns about the debt.
Sen. John McCain (Ariz.) – McCain praised the Senate Finance Committee for moving the bill through regular order, but has also raised concerns about the impact on the deficit.
Sen. Jerry Moran (Kan.) – Moran told constituents over the Thanksgiving recess that he has “encouraged the leadership” to drop the repeal of the individual mandate and questioned the bill’s impact on the deficit. Moran also raised concerns about a provision of the House bill that would tax qualified tuition waivers as income.
Sen. Lisa Murkowski (Alaska) – Murkowski backs a measure to repeal the ObamaCare individual insurance mandate in the tax bill, but has not offered support for the full bill.
Seriously, whose side are these people on? It certainly is not the American people’s. We voted to ditch Obamacare and the doggone individual mandate. We also understand that when the economy is fully functional, deficits will go down because there will be increased tax revenue. History tells us that. Do these people not read? Or are they so wrapped up in the make-believe reality they have cloaked themselves in to understand that We the People are on to them?
We’ll soon find out…and they will find out just how deep the anger on the fruited plain actually runs.
Posted in Domestic Politics, Uncategorized Tagged Income Tax
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Choo Choos Sept 20, 2015 23:51:16 GMT
Post by expat on Sept 20, 2015 23:51:16 GMT
does anyone else remember the "Vanguard" which was the green steam engine which was used in the 50s/60s on Poole Park Miniature Railway??
It is still in existence up in Lincolnshire as part of a private collection.
Rode today out here in the Great White North behind a Bassett-Lowke 7in gauge Royal Scot. This Engine dates back to 1936 and is one of only three that made it to North America.
Three generations later and its still a great attraction for the kids. Just like those heroes in red and white!!
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Post by expat on Nov 14, 2015 1:11:07 GMT
We love PTFC
Just want to say I am thinking of the UK and Europe tonight.Stay safe
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Choo Choos Jan 21, 2019 2:29:31 GMT via mobile
Post by Steve47 on Jan 21, 2019 2:29:31 GMT
Sept 20, 2015 23:51:16 GMT expat said:
Expat, Vanguard is still very much alive and is still working albeit at a miniature railway in the Midlands.
I am heavily involved liasing with the council in the planning and running of the refurbished Poole Park Railway which is expected to be completed Summer 2019...
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