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by Dr. Hassan Elhais
The pith of criminal law depends on two elements Actus Reus and Mens Rea derived from the legal maxim "actus non facit reum nisi mens sit rea" which means no act is punishable without a guilty mind.
The examination of a mental component essential for wrongdoing will be limited with reference to the uti- lization of this term itself, in so far as it connotes the mental component important to convict for any wrongdoing, and just in regards to violations not based on negligent behaviour.
A bare review of the laws manifests that it is easy to de- termine the criminal intent of a person as he is always aware of acts and the consequences attached to it, yet it is one of the difficult tasks before the criminal court, depending upon varying circumstances of the case. The major difference between criminal intent and negligence, as understood by best Criminal Lawyers in Dubai, remains in the fact that whether or not the accused was in his state of mind to understand the consequences of the act he is committing.
The intention of the Law
The Federal Law Number 3 of 1987 concerned the UAE Penal Code (the Code) provides for the basis of criminal intention. According to the Code under Ar- ticle 38 the essence of a criminal act lies in the intent or mistake. Accordingly, the intent is based on three further elements which are knowledge, foresight and desire. Wherein, the knowledge in such circumstances known as actus reus or the act itself, foresight means the awareness of the consequences of such act under the law and desire leads to the outcome of such act.
Whereas, any act will be considered as a mistake if it was committed with sheer recklessness, negligence, non-observance of law, and carelessness. The Code has vested discretionary powers in criminal judges and prosecutors to determine the criminal intent by conducting comprehensive and intense interroga- tions from which they may conclude the guilt of the accused. On the contrary to the foregoing, a criminal judge is not bound by the evidence produced by the public prosecutor, he may take an altogether different path and dismiss the case.
Criminal Intent and Judicial Interpretation of UAE courts
Criminal judges, contingent on the courts, hold wide discretionary powers while passing a decision on a particular criminal case. Fundamentally, they frame their own beliefs while determine the element of criminal intent and asses the evidence presented by the public prosecutor and the defence submitted by the accused. Court's utmost focus is to achieve an ob- vious result on the basis of the evidence presented to either convict the accused of the criminal act or ac- quit him due to insufficient evidence to prove his guilt.
In this article, we will exhibit how the courts in the UAE at the diverse dimensions have approached and investigated the moral component of intent through various decisions of the Supreme Court.
The Supreme Court has through Cassation Court Case Number 478 of 2016 provided factors to estab- lish or set aside the criminal intent which includes merits of the case, evidence produced before the court, circumstances and the precedents. The fore- going case determined the criminal intent while es- caping the police custody. Supreme Court further held that in crime for desertion, the accused fulfils the moral element of criminal intent when he tried to escape from police custody. The happening of an event or the distance he travelled is irrelevant as long as the intention to do a crime is established.
The knowledge of possessing narcotics drugs estab- lishes the very criminal intent which was deduced from Court of Cassation Case Number 274 of 2016, wherein the court held that the criminal intent would exist if the accused was aware of the substances in possession. It is the right of the court to draw a nexus between the occurrence of an act along with the crim- inal intent on the basis of evidence and investigation by the prosecutor.
Another landmark judgement assisting us to under- stand the factors affecting criminal intent and varied opinion of criminal court judges is Cassation Court Case Number 730 of 2005. In the said case, the crime for misappropriation of funds or fraud by a public servant most definitely involves a criminal intent along with an intention to squandering funds of the government as claimed by the public prosecutor. However, the defendant pleaded not guilty and ar- gued on the basis of lack of moral intent, and no dam- age was caused to the funds. The Court of First Instance opined that the combined acts of all the de- fendants portray a moral unity which brought them together to commit such act. Along with moral unity, both the accused were informed about the conse- quences and the outcome of the criminal act. The court of Appeal supported the same opinion. How- ever, the Supreme Court set aside the order passed by First Instance and the appeal and ordered for a re- trial before a different bench of the Appeal court. The Court of Appeal had a disparate opinion and held that accused were not guilty of the offence as the ele- ments of criminal intent were not satisfied. The mat- ter again referred to the Supreme Court where they confirmed the criminal intent of the accused. The court held that implementation of specific contracts to avoid the lawful procedure built the very basis of criminal intent.
It Concludes that
The aforementioned precedents simplified by Criminal Lawyers in Dubai assisted the courts and the public prosecutor in analyzing the merits, evidence and the circumstances of the case in such a manner which highlights the mens rea along with actus reus. However, the evaluation or analysis may still vary de- pending upon the discretion and understanding of the criminal court in such circumstances.
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Grand Canyon rescue as dam bursts
Filed under: Latest — Tags: airlifted, dam bursts, Grand Canyon, Havasupai tribe, heavy rain, Los Angeles, people, Redlands Dam, Rescue, Supai, Supai canyon, US, village — expressyoureself @ 10:03 am
Dozens of campers and rafters have been airlifted out of the area
US rescue crews have airlifted some 170 people to safety from a remote village in the Grand Canyon after a dam burst following days of heavy rain.
Grand Canyon National Park spokeswoman Maureen Oltrogge said water from the Redlands Dam was causing flooding in Supai, at the bottom of Supai canyon.
The remote area, accessible only by foot, on horseback or by air, is home to 400 members of the Havasupai tribe.
Most people have been accounted for but searches will resume later on Monday.
Uprooted
The Redlands dam is on Havasu Creek. The creek feeds the Colorado River, which runs through the Grand Canyon.
After the dam burst, people were flown out of the Supai area and then taken on buses to Peach Springs, about 60 miles (96km) south-west of Supai.
About 16 people in a private boating party were among those who had to be rescued after becoming stranded on a ledge on the Colorado river when their rafts were swept away by flood water.
Some hiking trails and footbridges have been washed away and trees uprooted, although no damage or injuries were reported in Supai itself.
A flash flood warning remained in effect with more rain threatened.
The BBC’s Rajesh Mirchandani in Los Angeles says although more than four million visitors go to the Grand Canyon each year access to the lower areas is well regulated.
Are you in the area? Were you affected by the evacuation of the Grand Canyon? Send us your comments
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Children's Day held at Russian Higher League
by Eteri Kublashvili
7/1/2015 – A Children's Day is traditionally held during major chess events under the Chess in Museum program. Thanks to these master classes and simuls, young chess lovers can network with their idols in an informal setting, measure themselves up against renowned grandmasters and perhaps even beat one of them. This year the children were shown great exhibits, tours, and enjoyed lots of goodies.
The Russian Higher League, the 4th stage of the 68th Russian Men's Chess Championship and the 65th Women's Championship, is being held in Kaliningrad from June 21 till July 2 as part of the Chess in Museums international program implemented by the Russian Chess Federation together with the Elena and Gennady Timchenko Charitable Foundation.
On June 27, the Museum of the World Ocean hosted a simultaneous exhibition for 69 young chess players aged 5 to 16, who crossed swords with Russia's leading grandmasters: Europe's reigning champion Evgeny Najer and the winners of numerous events, Ernesto Inarkiev and Konstantin Landa.
2015 European Champion Evgeny Najer is interviewed during the event
The three grandmasters, Evgeny Najer, Konstantin Landa, and Ernesto Inarkiev shake hands
Konstantin Landa greets one of his young rivals
Ernesto Inarkiev, winner of the Moscow Open earlier this year, takes on his share of the games.
He later said he had been impressed by the standard of his young opponents.
The young players came from Kaliningrad and other parts of the Kaliningrad Region: Zelenogradsk,
Baltiysk, Gvardeisk, Yantarny, Ladushkin, and Svetly
Deputy Executive Director of the Russian Chess Federation Alexander Tkachev, leading expert of the Museum of the World Ocean Marina Egorova, and President of the Timchenko Foundation Lilia Timurova greeted the simul participants at the event's opening and wished them luck.
The museum's lobby also featured the exhibitions Chess in the War Years 1941-1945 from the collection
of the Moscow Museum of Chess and Our Chronicle opened under the auspices of the Timchenko Foundation.
Furthermore, all the simul participants, thanks to the support from the museum's administration, were able
to visit a unique aquarium, the exhibition Petergof ― Emperors' Sea Capital, and board the research ship Vityaz.
Chess is a game for everyone, so on this day members of the Kaliningrad Chamber of Commerce and Trade decided to join the children and played a blitz round-robin tournament of eleven rounds. Alexander Tarenenko was the winner, Vladimir Volkov was second, and Leonid Titov third.
It was all about art and chess, so improvising a blitz tournament was not too big a stretch
Once the impromptu blitz tournament was over, the exhibit was restored
As Alexander Tkachev noted at the closing ceremony, the simultaneous exhibition ended with a score 68.5:0.5 in favor of the exhibitors. Only one participant, Nikita Bedenko, was able to draw with Najer, while all the other games finished with the grandmasters winning.
Each of the exhibitors also spoke to the audience, sharing their impressions from the games and singling out the children who had played particularly well.
Konstantin Landa said that he had started playing chess by participating at simultaneous exhibitions at the age of five and a half. The grandmaster encouraged the young players to work hard on chess and wished them success.
Since the purpose is to combine chess and culture, there were guided tours of the exhibits on display
"I am pleasantly surprised by the level of my opponents," said Ernesto Inarkiev. "Today I had to make hard decisions, play combinations and defend; my endgame technique was also tested. It is so nice to see the attention with which the young children approached a game. My thanks go to all parents and grandparents who encourage the children's endeavors. I am convinced that this is the right thing to do and is good for their development."
After the simul, the children received a diploma and souvenirs
Evgeny Najer called the simul a training session before the Higher League's games. "You gave us a good training indeed, there were many interesting games. I agreed to draw with Nikita Bedenko without thinking twice because the position was such that I would hardly have won the game," the grandmaster pointed out.
All the simul participants received souvenirs from the organizers
The participants of the blitz tournament between members of the Kaliningrad Chamber of Commerce and Industry also received souvenirs from the Russian Chess Federation and Elena and Gennady Timchenko Charitable Foundation. Marina Fitsak, the Chamber's Vice President, thanked the organizers for the successful chess festival.
The Children's Day ended with an autograph session and group photos
What is Chess in Museum?
It is an international program run by the Russian Chess Federation (RCF) jointly with the Elena and Gennady Timchenko Charitable Foundation (the Timchenko Foundation). The idea to hold chess events in major cultural centers was implemented for the first time during a world chess championship match, which was held in 2012 in the Tretyakov Gallery under the initiative of Andrei Filatov and Gennady Timchenko. In spring 2013, the RCF, jointly with the Timchenko Foundation, held the Alekhine Memorial super tournament in the Louvre and the Russian Museum. This was followed by the Russian Chess Championship Superfinal held in Nizhny Novgorod museums in the fall of the same year. The 2014 Superfinal took place in the Kazan Kremlin's Khazine National Art Gallery. Chess is a special game that is closely linked with culture and history, and the Chess in Museums project seeks to make this link obvious for everyone. The organizers found a unique format bringing together sports and culture: holding chess tournaments in the best Russian and world museums.
Photos by Eteri Kublashvili
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Russian Higher League LIVE
7/3/2018 – Live games from the 2018 Russian Higher League, where top Russian grandmasters battle for one of five qualification spots to the 2018 Russian Championship Superfinal. The overall prize fund is 5 million rubles, or around 68,000 euros. | Pictured: Alexey Sarana | Photo: Dmitry Kryakvin / Russian Chess Federation
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Russian Championship LIVE
by ChessBase
9/5/2018 – The Russian Chess Federation calls the final round of its national individual championship the "Superfinal" and that's not an exaggeration. Ian Nepomniachtchi, Dmitry Jakovenko and Nikita Vitiugov are among the Russian stars in this 12 round Tournament is experiencing celebrating its 71st edition this year in Satka, from August 25th to the September 5th, 2018. Live games and commentary with GM Alexander Morozevich!
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The "Superfinals" of the 71st (open) and 68th (women) Russian championships are endowed with a prize fund of 9 million rubles (about €113,000). The winner receives 1 million roubles (about €12,500 euro). The new champions will receive an additional bonus in the form of a Renault "Kaptur" car, and the top three finishers qualify automatically for next year's Superfinal.
In both tournaments, twelve players face off in a single round-robin format.
The 12 men in the open championship (click or tap to expand) | Photo: Eteri Kublashvili
Live games and commentary
Players receive 90 minutes for 40 moves then 30 minutes to the end of the game, plus a 30-second bonus starting from move 1. No draw offers are allowed before move 40. In case of a tie for first place there will be a playoff consisting of two 15+10 rapid games and, if the score is still tied, a 5 vs. 4 Armageddon game, where Black wins if the game ends in a draw.
Current standings (open)
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The 12 women of the Women's Championship (click or tap to expand) | Photo: Eteri Kublashvili
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The Weekly Show with Lawrence Trent
9/4/2018 – Tuesdays at 18:00 CEST (5:00 pm UK time, Noon EDT) Lawrence Trent goes on air on Playchess.com for a free live show dealing with the latest trends, games and combinations from elite chess tournaments. This week Lawrence delves properly into the Spanish Championships! Afterwards the show will be available on-demand for ChessBase Premium account holders.
Superfinals of the Russian Championship begin
8/23/2018 – On August 24th the Superfinals of the Russian Championship will begin in Satka. The Superfinals feature an open tournament and a tournament for women. Both are 12-player round-robin tournaments and both have a strong line-up. In the open tournament Ian Nepomniachtchi is the number one seed, and in the women's tournament it's Alexandra Kosteniuk. | Photo: Eteri Kublashvili
ChessBase Magazine 181
Enjoy the best moments of recent top tournaments (World Cup, Isle of Man Open) with analysis of top players. In addition you'll get lots of training material. For example 10 new suggestions for your opening repertoire.
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2004–05 Birmingham City F.C. season
The 2004–05 season was Birmingham City Football Club's 102nd season in the English football league system, their third season in the Premier League and their 53rd in the top tier of English football. It ran from 1 July 2004 to 30 June 2005. Under the management of former Birmingham City player Steve Bruce, the team finished in 12th place, two places lower than the season before. They reached the fourth round of the FA Cup and the third round of the League Cup. The top scorer for the season was England forward Emile Heskey with eleven goals in all competitions, of which ten were scored in the League.
Birmingham City F.C.
2004–05 season
Steve Bruce
St Andrew's
(eliminated by Chelsea)
(eliminated by Fulham)
Top goalscorer
League: Emile Heskey (10)
All: Emile Heskey (11)
Highest home attendance
29,382 vs Aston Villa, 20 March 2005
Lowest home attendance
15,363 vs Lincoln City, League Cup 2nd round, 21 September 2004
Average home league attendance
Home colours
Away colours
1 Pre-season
1.1 Pre-season friendlies
2.1 Season review
2.1.1 August
2.1.2 September
2.1.3 October
2.1.4 November
2.1.5 December
2.1.6 January
2.1.7 February
2.1.8 March
2.1.9 April
2.1.10 May
2.2 Match details
2.3 League table
2.4 Results summary
3 FA Cup
4 League Cup
5 Transfers
5.3 Loan in
5.4 Loan out
6 Appearances and goals
Pre-seasonEdit
Pre-season friendliesEdit
Cheltenham Town A D 1–1 Izzet 16' 4,255 [2]
VfB09 Pössneck A W 5–0 Morrison (3) 5', 35' 50', John, Forssell 1,000 [3]
Erzgebirge Aue1 A L 0–1 [4]
SpVgg Weiden1 A W 4–1 John (2), Morrison, Barrowman [4]
SSV Ulm A L 0–1 [5]
Sheffield Wednesday A W 1–0 Forssell 77' 8,000 [6]
Hull City A W 4–1 Morrison 14', Izzet 35', Delaney (o.g.) 46', Savage 50' [7]
Exeter City A W 2–0 Forssell 72', Heskey 82' 4,000 [8]
Osasuna H D 1–1 Clapham 86' [9]
Note 1: Each match was 50 minutes long as part of a short four team tournament in Germany
Premier LeagueEdit
Main article: 2004–05 FA Premier League
Season reviewEdit
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AugustEdit
Birmingham opened the season with an away trip to Portsmouth. Steve Bruce was able to name four new signings, Emile Heskey, Mario Melchiot, Muzzy Izzet and Jesper Grønkjær, in the first team, with Julian Gray on the bench. A quick paced game fired into life in the tenth minute as Damien Johnson was fouled just outside the Portsmouth box, and Robbie Savage stepped up to curl the free kick into the top corner of Shaka Hislop's goal. Only five minutes later Portsmouth were level, after Steve Stone was pushed in the area, and a penalty was awarded. Defender David Unsworth made no mistake as he sent keeper Maik Taylor the wrong way. There was chances for both teams to take the points at Fratton Park, but none were taken and the team left the south coast with a creditable 1–1 draw.
Big spending Chelsea were next up at St Andrew's, where Birmingham put in an impressive performance, but lost out to a second half Joe Cole goal. The first half saw chances spurned at both ends, with Chelsea striker Didier Drogba missing perhaps the easiest chance of the half, but it was Birmingham who were doing to pressing towards the end of the first half, and almost took the lead through both Emile Heskey and Julian Gray chances. On the 68th minute, Chelsea took the lead, as Cole was given too much time in the Blues half, and he raced forward before beating Taylor at his near post. Cole had only come off the bench five minutes before his goal.
The first mid-week fixture of the season saw Manchester City come to St Andrew's. An eighth-minute goal from Emile Heskey was enough to snatch the points, and Birmingham ended a run of 11 Premier League games without victory. Australian Stan Lazaridis managed to find room on the left to cross the ball into Heskey who finished with a powerful header from 10 yards (9.1 m). Manchester City dominated large parts of the game, but the Birmingham defence stayed strong to secure their first three points of the season.
After a bright start at White Hart Lane against Tottenham Hotspur, the team found themselves pinned into their own half as Spurs started to dominate the play. The only goal of the game was scored in the 34th minute as Jermain Defoe managed to turn Kenny Cunningham, before cutting inside Matthew Upson and hitting an unstoppable shot from the edge of the area.
SeptemberEdit
Deadline day signing Dwight Yorke made his debut at the Riverside Stadium as Birmingham took on Middlesbrough, but could not prevent Mark Viduka taking the points. In the 27th minute, Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink found Viduka, who controlled the ball and slotted it past Taylor. Birmingham equalised in the 42nd minute, as Heskey flicked the ball on to Forssell, who returned the ball for Heskey to smash home after a neat run into the area. Just after half-time, Viduka got his second of the game. After a poor clearance from a Middlesbrough corner, Boudewijn Zenden got a cross into the area, which was flicked on by Gareth Southgate for Viduka to score from close range.
Yorke had more luck in Birmingham's next game, against Charlton Athletic. A weak cross from Jonatan Johansson was fumbled by Taylor, and Luke Young pounced to give Charlton the lead in the 49th minute. This got worse in the 57th minute, as Damien Johnson was sent off for a second booking after upending Johansson on the halfway line. Manager Steve Bruce decided to act, and in the 61st minute, be brought on Yorke and David Dunn, who was making his first start of the season after injury. Seven minutes later, an Izzet corner was met with a bullet header from Yorke, that left Dean Kiely no chance, and level the game.
Birmingham's next game was against Bolton Wanderers at Reebok Stadium. A free kick by Iván Campo was cleared poorly by Upson, and the ball fell to Radhi Jaidi, who controlled the ball before volleying past Taylor to give Bolton the lead. A better start to the second half saw Birmingham bounce back as Grønkjær found room in the area before flicking the ball inside for Izzet to hit a first time shot in off the bar.
OctoberEdit
Nicky Butt scored an equaliser when Newcastle United came to St Andrew's. Goals from Yorke and Upson had given Birmingham a 2–1 lead, but Butt pounced on 67 minutes to rescue the Magpies a point.
Birmingham held Manchester United to a goalless draw at St Andrew's two weeks later and also played out a 0–0 draw at St Mary's Stadium against Southampton after that.
But they were disappointing in a 1–0 loss at home to Crystal Palace on 24 October. Former Birmingham striker Andrew Johnson scored the goal for Palace, who were coming into form. Johnson ran clear of the Birmingham backline after a quick Palace counterattack.
NovemberEdit
Following a run of eight games without a win, Birmingham beat Liverpool 1–0 at Anfield. Veteran Darren Anderton scored the goal on 77 minutes. He turned home from one yard out after Upson had headed a corner across goal. It was Birmingham's first away win in the league all season.
But Birmingham fell to a 1–0 defeat at home to Everton the following week. Thomas Gravesen scored a 69th-minute penalty after Izzet handled a shot on the goalline. Referee Rob Styles sent Izzet off and awarded Everton the spot-kick. Heskey was denied a leveller by a great last-ditch block by Tony Hibbert and Yorke wasted a late chance from ten yards.
Birmingham wasted a two-goal lead at Ewood Park against Blackburn Rovers. Matt Jansen gave the hosts an early lead with an incisive finish but Anderton equalised 12 minutes later. Robbie Savage put Birmingham ahead on 38 minutes after Melchiot's marauding run down the right. Moments before half-time Dunn netted against his old side to give Birmingham a commanding 3–1 lead at the interval. But Steven Reid and Paul Gallagher's goals in the second period rescued Rovers an unlikely point.
Clinton Morrison gave Birmingham an early lead against Norwich at St Andrew's with his first goal of the campaign, but Darren Huckerby's stunning second-half strike denied the Blues their third league win of the season.
DecemberEdit
Arsenal thumped Birmingham 3–0 in early December. Robert Pires gave the Gunners the advantage before Thierry Henry netted twice.
Birmingham bounced back by beating arch-rivals Aston Villa 2–1 on December 12 at Villa Park. Clinton Morrison scored the opener after Villa goalkeeper Thomas Sørensen let the ball slip through his hands. Shortly afterwards, David Dunn doubled Birmingham's lead after a swift counterattack. He converted Damien Johnson's cross to silence Villa Park. Gareth Barry scored a late consolation for the hosts but they were unable to prevent another defeat to their city rivals.
City recorded back-to-back league wins for the first time that season when they beat West Bromwich Albion 4–0 at St Andrew's. Former Birmingham defender Darren Purse conceded a penalty by holding Morrison and Savage was able to net his third goal of the season. Morrison, who impressed throughout, scored his side's second on 23 minutes after a quick free-kick and, minutes afterwards, Heskey angled home Birmingham's third. Anderton heaped more misery on the struggling visitors by scoring a late free-kick.
And Birmingham moved up to 12th for the visit of Middlesbrough on Boxing Day. Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink had an early goal disallowed for offside before Morrison netted his third goal in as many matches. Heskey confirmed Birmingham's dominance when he headed in from six yards moments before half-time.
Birmingham's impressive December form continued at Fulham on 28 December. Heskey lashed his side ahead with a stunning drive on 25 minutes but Sylvain Legwinski equalised against the run of play. Darren Carter turned home a Heskey header to restore Birmingham's advantage four minutes before half-time. Savage sealed the win with a spectacular second-half volley. Tomasz Radzinski found the net late on for a consolation goal.
JanuaryEdit
Following a successful December, Birmingham slumped to four-straight losses in January and, by the end of the month, fell to 15th in the table. By the time Emile Heskey scored at St James' Park, Birmingham were already 2–0 down to Newcastle. Shola Ameobi and Lee Bowyer had scored. Kevin Nolan scored a last-minute winner as Bolton Wanderers won for the first time in the Premiership since October by beating Birmingham 2–1 at St Andrew's. Birmingham's dreadful run continued as they lost 3–1 at The Valley to Charlton Athletic.
Steve Bruce's side didn't manage to record a single point during January. Fulham won at St Andrew's on 22 January. An own goal by Moritz Volz gave Birmingham the lead on 51 minutes. Luís Boa Morte was soon booked for diving under pressure by Birmingham goalkeeper Maik Taylor but, minutes later, Fulham were awarded a spot-kick. Boa Morte went to ground again under Damien Johnson's challenge but contact appeared to be outside the penalty box. Referee Phil Dowd awarded the penalty and Andy Cole converted. Fulham won it after Papa Bouba Diop scored a late header.
FebruaryEdit
Birmingham signed striker Walter Pandiani and winger Jermaine Pennant on loans in January after slipping towards the relegation zone. The duo combined in their next game at St Andrew's against struggling Southampton. Pandiani headed home a Pennant cross on 12 minutes. Fellow new signing Robbie Blake scored from the penalty spot on 41 minutes after Melchiot was fouled. Southampton debutant Henri Camara netted a spectacular consolation in the second period.
Three days later, on 5 February, Birmingham lost 2–0 at Old Trafford to Manchester United. Wayne Rooney scored the pick of the goals against an injury-ravaged City team.
But resilient Birmingham bounced back to beat Liverpool 2–0 on February 12. Sami Hyypiä fouled ex-Liverpool striker Heskey in the box and Pandiani duly delivered from the spot on 38 minutes. Birmingham doubled their advantage moments before half-time. Pennant crossed for Julian Gray to head in his first goal of the campaign. Birmingham completed the double over Liverpool that season.
The win was followed by a 2–0 loss at Crystal Palace, who celebrated the double over Birmingham. Upson conceded two penalties, both scored by Andrew Johnson. The referee was Phil Dowd, whom Bruce publicly criticised after the match as he had now given three penalties against Birmingham in the past two games he refereed them.
MarchEdit
Birmingham began March poorly, with a 2–0 defeat at West Brom. The Baggies were fighting to stay in the division and easily saw off a lethargic Birmingham team. Neil Clement and Kevin Campbell scored the second-half goals.
Following an international break, Birmingham rallied to beat rivals Aston Villa and celebrated another double over their neighbours. Heskey put his side ahead on 52 minutes after another goalkeeping error by Sørensen. Gray sealed the victory late on with his second goal in four games.
AprilEdit
The win over Aston Villa saw Bruce's squad climb up to 13th in the table. They faced Tottenham Hotspur at St Andrew's on 2 April. Stephen Kelly, who would later go on to become a Birmingham player, netted Spurs' opener on 59 minutes but Darren Carter levelled for the hosts on 66 minutes with his second goal of the campaign.
Birmingham were denied a win against Chelsea at Stamford Bridge after a late Didier Drogba goal cancelled out another Pandiani strike. The Uruguayan was becoming a favourite with the fans, who were calling for him to be signed permanently.
Birmingham drew for a third time in a row on 16 April 16 when Portsmouth travelled to St Andrew's. Chances were at a premium in a dull 0–0 draw.
Manchester City thumped Birmingham City 3–0 on 20 April. Clinton Morrison thought he had given his side the lead early on but the goal was ruled out for offside. The hosts scored all their goals in the second-half, including an unfortunate own goal by Maik Taylor.
Birmingham scored an early goal at Goodison Park to take the lead against Everton. Heskey powered home from 20 yards but Birmingham were denied all three points late on. Experienced forward Duncan Ferguson scored after a goalmouth scramble to rescue Everton a draw.
MayEdit
Heskey continued his impressive form in Birmingham's next game, against Blackburn Rovers. Birmingham fell behind at St Andrew's to an early Jon Stead goal but, in the second half, Blake netted his second goal for Blues. Heskey won it on 80 minutes after rifling home a long-range strike with his weaker left foot for his 10th goal of the season.
But Birmingham were unable to cement back-to-back victories. They travelled to a Norwich City side fighting to stay in the league. The Canaries won the match 1–0, courtesy of a Dean Ashton penalty in the first half. Birmingham played most of the match with ten men after Damien Johnson punched an opponent.
Arsenal visited St Andrew's to complete the season. Pandiani gave Birmingham the lead on 79 minutes with his fourth goal for the club after a goalmouth scramble but veteran Dennis Bergkamp equalised on 88 minutes. An error by Philippe Senderos allowed Heskey in to crash home a winner in injury time.
Match detailsEdit
5th Portsmouth A D 1–1 Savage 10' 20,021 [10]
19th Chelsea H L 0–1 28,559 [10]
7th Manchester City H W 1–0 Heskey 8' 28,551 [10]
13th Tottenham Hotspur A L 0–1 35,290 [10]
14th Middlesbrough A L 1–2 Heskey 42' 30,252 [10]
14th Charlton Athletic H D 1–1 Yorke 68' 27,400 [10]
15th Bolton Wanderers A D 1–1 Izzet 49' 23,692 [10]
15th Newcastle United H D 2–2 Yorke 23', Upson 57' 29,021 [10]
14th Manchester United H D 0–0 29,221 [10]
14th Southampton A D 0–0 27,568 [10]
16th Crystal Palace H L 0–1 28,916 [10]
14th Liverpool A W 1–0 Anderton 77' 42,669 [10]
15th Everton H L 0–1 28,388 [10]
14th Blackburn Rovers A D 3–3 Anderton 17', Savage 38', Dunn 45' 20,290 [10]
13th Norwich City H D 1–1 Morrison 9' 29,120 [10]
15th Arsenal A L 0–3 38,064 [10]
14th Aston Villa A W 2–1 Morrison 9', Dunn 18' 41,329 [10]
14th West Bromwich Albion H W 4–0 Savage 4' pen., Morrison 23', Heskey 30' 28,880 [10]
12th Middlesbrough H W 2–0 Morrison 10', Heskey 45' 29,082 [10]
9th Fulham A W 3–2 Heskey 25', Carter 41', Savage 53' 18,706 [10]
12th Newcastle United A L 1–2 Heskey 64' 52,222 [10]
13th Bolton Wanderers H L 1–2 Upson 66' 27,177 [10]
14th Charlton Athletic A L 1–3 Melchiot 55' 26,111 [10]
15th Fulham H L 1–2 Volz 51' o.g. 28,512 [10]
14th Southampton H W 2–1 Pandiani 12', Blake 41' pen. 28,797 [10]
14th Manchester United A L 0–2 67,838 [10]
12th Liverpool H W 2–0 Pandiani 38' pen., Gray 45' 29,318 [10]
12th Crystal Palace A L 0–2 23,376 [10]
13th West Bromwich Albion A L 0–2 25,749 [10]
13th Aston Villa H W 2–0 Heskey 52', Gray 89' 29,382 [10]
13th Tottenham Hotspur H D 1–1 Carter 66' 29,304 [10]
13th Chelsea A D 1–1 Pandiani 65' 42,031 [10]
12th Portsmouth H D 0–0 28,883 [10]
13th Manchester City A L 0–3 42,453 [10]
13th Everton A D 1–1 Heskey 5' 36,828 [10]
12th Blackburn Rovers H W 2–1 Blake 61', Heskey 8' 28,621 [10]
13th Norwich City A L 0–1 25,477 [10]
12th Arsenal H W 2–1 Pandiani 80', Heskey 90' 29,302 [10]
League tableEdit
Further information: 2004–05 FA Premier League § League table
Qualification or relegation
Aston Villa 38 12 11 15 45 52 −7 47
Charlton Athletic 38 12 10 16 42 58 −16 46
Birmingham City 38 11 12 15 40 46 −6 45
Fulham 38 12 8 18 52 60 −8 44
Newcastle United 38 10 14 14 47 57 −10 44 Qualification for the Intertoto Cup third round
Source: Premier League
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored.
Results summaryEdit
38 11 12 15 40 46 −6 45 8 6 5 24 15 +9 3 6 10 16 31 −15
Source: [11]
FA CupEdit
Main article: 2004–05 FA Cup
8 January 2005 Leeds United H W 3–0 Heskey 11', Carter (2) 21', 65' 25,159 [10]
30 January 2005 Chelsea A L 0–2 40,379 [10]
League CupEdit
Main article: 2004–05 Football League Cup
Birmingham lost in the second round of the 2003–04 League Cup to Blackpool of Division Two.
3 October 2004 Lincoln City H W 3–1 Grønkjær 64', Morrison 77', Savage 80' pen. 15,363 [10]
27 October 2004 Fulham L 0–1 26,371 [10]
TransfersEdit
18 May 2004 Emile Heskey Liverpool £6,250,000 [12]
23 June 2004 Julian Gray (Crystal Palace) Free [13]
1 July 2004 Muzzy Izzet (Leicester City) Free [14]
9 July 2004 Mario Melchiot (Chelsea) Free [15]
12 July 2004 Jesper Grønkjær Chelsea £2,200,000 [16]
10 August 2004 Darren Anderton (Tottenham Hotspur) Free [17]
31 August 2004 Dwight Yorke Blackburn Rovers Undisclosed [18]
1 January 2005 Njazi Kuqi Lahti £400,000 [19]
5 January 2005 Robbie Blake Burnley £1,250,000 [20]
25 January 2005 Alex Bruce Blackburn Rovers Undisclosed [21]
Brackets round club names denote the player's contract with that club expired before he joined Birmingham City.
OutEdit
6 August 2004 Aliou Cissé £300,000 Portsmouth [22]
14 September 2004 Stern John £200,000 Coventry City [23]
1 January 2005 Jesper Grønkjær Undisclosed Atlético Madrid [24]
19 January 2005 Robbie Savage £3,000,000 Blackburn Rovers [25]
30 June 2005 Ian Bennett Free (Leeds United) [26]
25 April 2004 Dwight Yorke Cancelled (Sydney FC) [27]
Brackets round club names denote the player joined that club after his Birmingham City contract expired.
Loan inEdit
1 July 2004 Mikael Forssell Chelsea End of season [28]
18 January 2005 Salif Diao Liverpool End of season [29]
31 January 2005 Mehdi Nafti Racing Santander End of season [30]
31 January 2005 Walter Pandiani Deportivo La Coruña End of season [31]
31 January 2005 Jermaine Pennant Arsenal End of season [32]
Loan outEdit
2 August 2004 Andrew Barrowman Blackpool Three weeks [33]
16 September 2004 Darren Carter Sunderland 6 December 2004 [34]
22 October 2004 Colin Doyle Chester City One month [35]
18 November 2004 Neil Kilkenny Oldham Athletic End of season [36]
4 December 2004 Colin Doyle Nottingham Forest End of season [37]
9 December 2004 Ian Bennett Sheffield United One month [38]
16 February 2005 Ian Bennett Coventry City One month [39]
11 March 2005 Alex Bruce Sheffield Wednesday End of season [40]
Appearances and goalsEdit
Numbers in parentheses denote appearances as substitute.
Players with squad numbers struck through and marked
left the club during the playing season.
Players with names in italics and marked * were on loan from another club for the whole of their season with Birmingham.
Players included in matchday squads
Maik Taylor
38 0 2 0 2 0 42 0 0 0
Olivier Tebily
9 (6) 0 0 (2) 0 0 0 9 (8) 0 2 0
Jamie Clapham
18 (9) 0 1 (1) 0 1 (1) 0 20 (11) 0 0 0
Kenny Cunningham
Matthew Upson
Muzzy Izzet
Jesper Grønkjær
13 (3) 0 0 0 2 1 15 (3) 1 1 0
7 FW
Robbie Blake
2 (9) 2 1 (1) 0 0 0 3 (10) 2 0 0
Robbie Savage
Mikael Forssell*
Walter Pandiani*
9 (2) 2 0 0 0 (1) 0 9 (3) 2 4 0
Stan Lazaridis
15 (5) 0 1 0 0 (1) 0 16 (6) 0 1 0
Ian Bennett
Stern John
0 (3) 0 0 0 0 0 0 (3) 0 0 0
Njazi Kuqi
Emile Heskey
34 10 2 1 2 0 38 11 6 0
Nico Vaesen
Clinton Morrison
13 (13) 4 1 (1) 0 0 (1) 1 14 (15) 5 5 0
Salif Diao*
Julian Gray
18 (14) 2 2 0 2 0 22 (14) 2 0 0
Damien Johnson
36 0 0 0 0 (1) 0 36 (1) 0 8 2
Darren Carter
Stephen Clemence
Mario Melchiot
Darren Anderton
9 (11) 3 2 0 2 0 13 (11) 3 2 0
Mehdi Nafti*
Players not included in matchday squads
Colin Doyle
Neil Kilkenny
Martin Grainger
Mat Sadler
Chris Cottrill
Andrew Barrowman
Carl Motteram
Sam Oji
Sam Alsop
Peter Till
Alex Bruce
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EVENT OF THE WEEK: Day Out With Thomas
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Edaville USA – a fun family amusement park in South Carver, MA.
This family fun park is less than an hour from both Boston and Providence.
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Everyone’s favorite steam engine, Thomas the Tank, chugs into Edaville for 12 special dates in 2013! Take a magical ride on a life-size Thomas. Spend the day immersed in the storybook world of Thomas and meet his kindly but stern boss, Sir Topham Hatt. Enjoy great live music and storytelling, Thomas-themed activities and temporary tattoos at Imagination Station as well as unlimited use of 12 amusement rides – all included in your admission.
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Our dear friend, classmate, noted musician and painter from the Greater New Bedford area, WAYNE FERREIRA, has been living with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis since 2001. This disease has rendered him disabled and without the necessary financial reserves, a minimum of $60,000 is our goal to help Wayne with the after care of his bilateral lung transplant. We urgently need your financial support for this deserving man!
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EVENT OF THE WEEK: PAACA Celebrating 30 Years of Gratitude
PAACA Celebrating 30 Years of Gratitude
Positive Action Against Chemical Addiction, Inc., known throughout the South Coast as PAACA, will celebrate 30 years of service to the region at a special event in New Bedford’s Skyroom, 651 Orchard Street, New Bedford MA on Saturday, March 23, 2013.
PAACA has expanded its reach and scope to better serve the community by adding empowerment programs that build hope such as youth development, employment and training, housing, education and support programs. “That work doesn’t happen without hundreds of volunteers, staff, government leaders, law enforcement, educators, and clergy who have been working tirelessly with PAACA to make HOPE happen.”, said Carl J. Alves, Executive Director.
The celebration begins at 7pm with a diverse mixture of fun and entertainment, featuring R&B band “Urban Burn”.
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EVENT OF THE WEEK: Spinner Celebrates! Live Auction & Gala
SPINNER CELEBRATES! 32nd Anniversary Spectacular Fundraising Gala
To Be Held at New Bedford Whaling Museum Friday Evening, March 8, 2013
Spinner Publications will hold its “Spinner Celebrates!” 32nd Annual Fundraising Gala at the New Bedford Whaling Museum on Friday evening, March 8th, from 6 to 10 p.m. Highlighting the event will be a live auction of paintings and other works by renowned local artists, antique artifacts, rare books, and collectibles. There will be an open-bar cocktail party catered by Russell Morin Fine Catering; live jazz music by John Harrison and Dori Legge; and a silent auction, followed by the presentation of an original short movie including never-before-seen vintage film clips of New Bedford.
Tickets are priced at $75 and can be purchased at www.spinnerpub.com or by calling (508) 994-4564 through March 1st. Supply is limited; early reservations are recommended. Proceeds will support the nonprofit publishing company’s educational projects and new books, including A Picture History of New Bedford, due out in June 2013.
A Live Auction featuring art from some of the area’s most celebrated names will be the primary attraction at the Spinner Celebrates! 32nd Anniversary Fundraising Gala to be held at New Bedford Whaling Museum, Friday evening, March 8, 2013.
Headlining the Live Auction are works from these well-known artists:
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Robert Duff Chuck Hauck Dionysios Skaliotis
Al Doucette Judith Klein Anthony Fisher
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Additionally, a silent auction will feature antique objects—such as Pairpoint glass—rare books, signed prints, and gift items from merchants, restaurants, artisans and museums throughout the area.
Spinner Publications is a New Bedford-based, award-winning publisher of books, videos, and calendars focusing on the history and culture of southeastern New England. Among its most popular titles are Lincoln Park Remembered, A Picture History of Fairhaven, Drifting Toward the Southeast, Portuguese Spinner, Cranberry Cooking for All Seasons, Brick by Brick, Branded on My Arm and in My Soul and the Spinner anthology series, People and Culture in Southeastern Massachusetts. Perennial favorites are the two calendars, The New England Fisherman and Historic Southeastern New England. For more information, contact Spinner Publications at (508) 994-4564, visit www.spinnerpub.com, or look up Spinner Publications on Facebook.
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EVENT OF THE WEEK:
Ocean Voices Book Release:
Poetry Reading and Book Signing
To Be Held at New Bedford Whaling Museum.
Local poets whose work appears in Ocean Voices: An Anthology of Ocean Poems will read their poems at a book release event held in New Bedford Whaling Museum’s auditorium, Sunday, February 24, 2013 from 2-4 p.m. The poetry reading will start at 2 p.m. with a book signing following the reading. Ocean Voices will be available for purchase on that day. The event is free and open to the public. Ocean Voices: An Anthology of Ocean Poems is edited by Everett Hoagland and published by Spinner Publications.
Readers scheduled are: Everett Hoagland, Laurie Robertson-Lorant, Claudia Grace, Susan Grace, Askia Toure, Ken Hartnett, Catherine McLaughlin and Maggie Cleveland.
Ocean Voices is a collection of poems inspired by the sea. Walt Whitman is one of these voices, as are masters such as Melville, Dickinson and D.H. Lawrence. Celebrated twentieth-century and modern-day poets appear in the book, such as Pablo Neruda, Askia Toure, Amiri Baraka, Mary Oliver, Robert Francis, Derek Walcott, Lucille Clifton, Catherine McLaughlin and authentic fisherman poet, David Densmore. New England poets Claudia Grace, Laurie Robertson-Lorant, Susan Grace and former New Bedford poet laureates John Landry and Everett Hoagland also lend their voices.
Editor Everett Hoagland chose poems that speak directly about the ocean, using it as an evocative backdrop, poems written with a mix of autobiography, literary skill, and artful personification. “Since many of us in the New Bedford area live in or near a seaside community” explains Hoagland, “I put together this collection by poets from cultural backgrounds who variously give voice to the ocean’s impact on our thoughts and lives. The hope is that the anthology will help foster appreciation for the ocean and raise consciousness about the immediate need to care for it. As the ocean goes, so go we.”
In his Foreword, Hoagland advises us to hold this book to our mind’s ear, “just as we held sea shells to our outer ear during childhood visits to the seashore, and we shall hear the sea’s measured music…as well as moans from slave and convict ships.” In the book’s Introduction, Laurie Robertson-Lorant, noted author and Melville biographer, reminds us that although the ocean has been a source of creative inspiration and spiritual insight to human beings for millennia, human ignorance, greed and heartless disrespect for it have produced a continent-sized island of plastic known as “the Pacific gyre.”
Everett Hoagland is Emeritus Professor at University of Massachusetts Dartmouth and former Poet Laureate of New Bedford, Massachusetts (1994-1998). He is the author of several books including This City and Other Poems, and Here: New and Selected Poems. Professor Hoagland is published in anthologies such as The Best American Poetry 2002, The Oxford Anthology of African American Poetry, The Body Electric, African American Literature (eds Wardi & Gilyard), Liberation Poetry, Bum Rush The Page, and many others. His periodical publications include The Massachusetts Review, The American Poetry Review, The UUA WORLD. He has read his work to audiences in Asia, Africa, Latin America and all over the USA.
Spinner Publications is a New Bedford-based, award-winning publisher of books, videos, and calendars focusing on the history and culture of southeastern New England. Among its most popular titles are Lincoln Park Remembered, A Picture History of Fairhaven, Drifting Toward the Southeast, Portuguese Spinner, Cranberry Cooking for All Seasons, Brick by Brick, Branded on My Arm and in My Soul and the Spinner anthology series, People and Culture in Southeastern Massachusetts. Perennial favorites are the two calendars, The New England Fisherman and Historic Southeastern New England. For more information, contact Spinner Publications at (508) 994-4564, visit www.spinnerpub.com or look up Spinner Publications on Facebook.
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February 16th & 17th
HARRIFEST 2013
Celebrates the 10 year anniversary of the Tribute to George Harrison.
THE 10TH ANNIVERSARY OF GEORGE HARRISON TRIBUTE PRESENTS HARRIFEST 2013 a festival celebrating the music of the George Harrison and the Beatles, while raising money cancer support charities (Bristol County Visiting Nurses (Hospice) and Hasbro Children’s Hospital. Performers include Octopus’s Garden, the Mockers, The Oh Nos, The Cryers, One Sweet Dream (McCartney Tribute), Glass Onion, Rattled (a Wilbury tribute), Thatcher Harrison, Loose Salute, Sherman and the Waybacks and more…… Special guests include Brute Force (the King of Fuh), Shaun Weiss, son of Nat Weiss, the Beatles lawyer, who attended both Ed Sullivan shows, the Shea Stadium show and the Apple rooftop concert, and more… Includes a free after party, singalong/playalong jam at the hotel restaurant, Seaport Grill. Venders include custom Beatle art by For You Glue (the lovely Kathy Joyce), Beatle merchandise from the Nevermind Shop, Liverpool Productions and Steve Freedman’s Beatle’s Collectibles. Saturday, February 16, 2013 the bands begin in the afternoon and run until 11:00 PM. Then everyone is a musician as we start the after party jam!! All players and singers of all abilities welcome to participate. The next morning we will have a special Beatle Breakfast hosted by Cha Chi of WZLX’s Breakfast with the Beatles. Cha Chi will tell stories and trivia, have giveways and show you some rare Beatles memorablia.
Saturday— Doors open at 1:30; Show 2:00 PM to 11:00 PM
Sunday- Breakfast with Cha Chi 10:00 AM- 12:00 PM
Seaport Inn & Marina, 110 Middle St, Fairhaven MA. More info: 774-319-3579
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Is using “colored girls” as an incidental example offensive or unwelcoming?
A recent answer demonstrates its point with lyrics from a Lou Reed song.
This has prompted a flag to be raised, calling the lyrics "offensive and unwelcoming".
There is also a comment, with 20 comment votes, that suggests using the lyrics to "the wheels on the bus" instead of Lou Reed's lyrics.
So one (or more) of us has been upset by the lyrics and there is a valid alternative.
My question is: are the lyrics a problem?
To me they don't seem to be, but Lou Reed himself changed the lyrics when he performed live, later in his career, so perhaps they are.
I need help from the community determining the correct action.
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Matt E. Эллен♦Matt E. Эллен
It’s fine. Also, please, enough with the politics on Meta. This isn’t directed at you (Matt), or this particular post, and it’s warming to see a MOs solicit consensus from the community. But it’s been 4 or more posts about language policing in the last couple days, and if we make Meta about policing users’ language, it will destroy the site. I mean that. We’re here to discuss English, not to judge our fellow man. Let’s keep it that way. – Dan Bron Feb 26 '19 at 12:52
@DanBron meta is not about discussing English, it's about discussing site policy. And this is very much a question of site policy. While I personally find the idea of removing the quote absurd, this is precisely what meta is for. – terdon Feb 26 '19 at 12:54
Why is "doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo" offensive? Oh, it's the word "coloured"! But that's not the same as saying the N-word, is it? And I've heard American black actors use the term themselves. This is really trivial stuff, it's not in a title, and there are no comments telling the author that they feel offended or find it offensive. You got one flag, probably by someone making a point... – Mari-Lou A Feb 26 '19 at 13:42
@Mari-LouA Black actors etc. in the US do NOT use the term "coloured" (or "colored"). The term is actor/person/student/et cetera "of color", which also includes non-white people who aren't specifically Black. If you're interested in the evolution of these terms in the US, NPR's Code Switch has a good article. – 1006a Feb 26 '19 at 16:34
@1006a a person of color vs a colored person, I wasn't aware there was a difference in meaning or in connotations, in my ignorance I equated the two. But three or more so years ago a British actor was speaking about African American actors and used the term, once, "coloured", and it wasn't used or meant to be offensive, or belittling but the press and social media lambasted him. The same applies to the Lou Reed's lyrics, they are not offensive to anyone, and the user who posted the lyrics was, most very likely, blissfully unaware that anyone might cringe or wince at reading those lines. – Mari-Lou A Feb 26 '19 at 17:39
@Mari-LouA So now people know that there are people who do cringe and wince at reading those lines without any other context. The question is, do they care enough to either swap them out or add some context? – 1006a Feb 27 '19 at 0:26
@Mari-LouA the point is that the words were offensive to at least one person. So this is no longer a hypothetical example. So please don't say things like :*they are not offensive to anyone* after someone has explained quite clearly that they are indeed offensive to them. While you (or I, for that matter) may feel that perhaps they shouldn't be offensive, that's not our call to make. – terdon Feb 27 '19 at 17:44
"offensive or unwelcoming", that's POB. Does it violate the be nice policy? Can anything "quoted" ever violate it? If an answer doesn't align with your views, it is at your discretion to DV it. But if at anytime I'm disallowed to cite what someone else once said, that's censorship. – Mazura Feb 28 '19 at 0:20
Note that we're watching this discussion, and want to commend everyone involved for a level of tone and civility here that we feel bears a striking dissonance with how these conversations sometimes take place on other platforms. This community is designed to be self-governing and self-correcting, and we eagerly await to see where you arrive by the end of this week. We don't want to pressure you, but this is an issue that demands an extremely high sense of urgency, so a consensus on how to move forward needs to be clear to us by Friday afternoon. I have 100% trust that you'll do it. – Tim Post♦ Feb 28 '19 at 14:10
@TimPost I think the multiple answers on the subject are nowhere near a clear consensus. Also, is this from a mod as a mod ('we')? Of ELU or SE? And why the urgency? – Mitch Feb 28 '19 at 19:54
With the amount of attention brought to this answer, if it was a problem, enough people would have flagged it, and it would have been auto-deleted by now.... There can't possibly be any new problems that SE hasn't encountered in the last eight years. There's a reason it takes X number of votes to make stuff happen, which can bandwagon and thus fail. But for that to have not happened yet should tell us something. – Mazura Mar 1 '19 at 3:52
@Mazura Things aren't categorical here, there's degrees. 'colored' (at least in the US is currently disparaging, but not to the great extent as the n-word. Also, in quoting a very popular song, the choice of it could be considered naive and not at all a deletable offense. There's all sorts of solutions in between, like the much repeated "just be cool man, use another example". – Mitch Mar 1 '19 at 15:29
@Fattie I am under 40 (if only barely) and the main reason I objected to deleting the quote is because it's such a famous line I can't think of a better one. Some of us young'uns like good tunes! :) That said, I have changed my position after reading 1006a's answer. I will never consider the song offensive, but I if it makes people uncomfortable, I don't see any reason not to change it. – terdon Mar 1 '19 at 16:54
Is no distinction being made between quoting a song, and calling people names? Gees, I find the objections to quoting misplaced. Now, criticizing it is another story. No one is calling anyone here colored. Let's be very clear about that. If this quote is removed, tons and tons of other literary stuff would have to be too, including all the dirty jokes in Shakespeare. – Lambie Mar 2 '19 at 19:34
I don't know but seems I'm the only one who finds fattie's edit misleading. The expression "colored girls" was not used to illustrate a particular usage, it was the line "the colored girls go doo doo doo" Am I the only one thinking this? – Mari-Lou A Mar 5 '19 at 10:20
I flagged it.
I'm a woman of color (but not Black), and find the use of this example offensive and, in particular, unwelcoming.
Americans do NOT use "colored" in the twenty-first century, and we don't refer to grown women as "girls". If you think that the fact that those terms were considered socially acceptable by some people in the past means that no one will find them "jarring and uncomfortable" when encountering them out-of-context now, I refer you to Ralph Northam et al.
I don't find the existence of the lyric offensive (it is a product of its time, though that's not at all clear from the answer). I do not find discussion of the term offensive (this is a site dedicated to discussing the English language, and discussion of offensive language is part of that).
What I find problematic, and the reason I raised the flag, is that it's a cherry picked example, out of many possibilities, specifically chosen to illustrate a point about a language construction used mainly with children (the question is about the construction dog goes "woof"). There's no commentary on the lyric, or even a date to show just how long ago it was written—literally before I was born.
WHY? Why use this example in this context? What possible utility does this example, which contains language known to be hurtful to a large swathe of people and which could easily be replaced by dozens or even hundreds of other examples of the construction [people] go [sound], serve?
Maybe [I think to myself] it's just the first example the poster could find, and they didn't want to put too much effort into the answer. I'll be as helpful as I can, and find a possible alternative! The answer is focusing on song lyrics, so I'll look for some that match. Oh, hey, here is a song lyric in the same general genre as the question's lyrics, which contains examples of the usage for a thing making a sound, a person saying words, and a proto-person making a sound! I'll offer it up.
The suggested alternative is not taken up, or commented on in any way. I raise a flag, which ends up in a Meta question where the main response so far is "eh, history. Language police are stupid."
To me this feels very much like the author of the post and the community in general don't give a hoot (maybe that should be won't go "hoo") about whether women or people of color who come across this site feel that they can use it.
I imagine one of my children asking me "Mama, why does this book say 'the dog goes woof' and my other book says 'the dog says woof'?" If I didn't have a good explanation off the top of my head I would google it. I would find that page. I would read the top-voted answer, which starts out sounding very useful but ends with a slap in the face. And I would immediately move along, resolved not to use the site again.
Or, wait, maybe I'm a non-native speaker, or a white man! So instead of realizing there was a slap in the face, maybe I share the answer with my child, who could then go to school saying "My heart goes boom! Colored girls go doo doo!" Explosions and poop and cooties and a relic of America's abhorrent past, all rolled into one "English" lesson.
Once again, this isn't about "policing people's language". This is about thinking about what we write, and how it will affect other people. Of course it's harder to think about how it will affect people who aren't like us than people who have the same reactions we do. But every day when I come to this site I am reminded, in ways small and large, that it's mostly a bunch of highly educated, high income, racial majority men, who mostly don't much care if that's deeply uncomfortable for those of us who don't tick all those boxes.
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I respectfully submit that this post is a little unfair. The flag you raised is only visible to mods, so the OP had no way of acting on it (or even to be aware of it). The mod who handled the flag wasn't sure what to do about it, so instead of dismissing it, brought it here to open a discussion soliciting precisely the kind of response you just posted. There is no "main response" here yet. Just the first answer posted and, now, yours. Your assessment of the site may well be true, but your treatment of the mod and the OP does seem unfair. – terdon Feb 26 '19 at 16:41
On another subject, may I ask why you didn't just edit the answer directly? You have more than enough rep to do so and this is a collaborative site, after all. If you find something offensive, isn't it simpler to just fix it instead of flagging? Did you fear the OP would object? – terdon Feb 26 '19 at 16:43
I raised a custom flag, in which I noted that I had suggested an edit (which was ignored) and didn't want to start an edit war. Other comments suggesting changes had been addressed, so I assumed the OP made a conscious decision not to swap examples. @terdon – 1006a Feb 26 '19 at 16:43
My judgement about the "main response" was about the comments, as well as the answer. – 1006a Feb 26 '19 at 16:44
In searching for the earliest occurrence of a word or phrase, I occasionally find relevant examples that occur in the context of an appallingly racist or bigoted text. In deciding whether to cite the example or to ignore it, I consider whether the instance is historically important (as one of the first few instance in print) or merely typical (one of many available examples from that time period). But when I do include a repellent example on grounds of historical significance, I am aware that some readers may find it intensely offensive and I'm never entirely comfortable with my choice. – Sven Yargs Feb 26 '19 at 17:11
@Robusto The NAACP has apparently done some “internal wrestling” about continuing to use the word "Colored" in its name. I respect their reasons for maintaining that historical connection (though I think they probably should continue to wrestle with the question), but please note that the term "colored" is used exclusively in the name—in all other contexts they use "black" or "X of color" or "African American". (1/4) – 1006a Feb 27 '19 at 0:19
Shange is a poet; she chooses each word carefully and for effect, including “colored girls”— just as, I assume, she knows the standard spelling of "enough”. She has explained her use of this phrase as a way to connect to the language used and understood by her grandmother, and in the preface to the 2010 Scribner hardcover edition she also said that “for colored girls was meant for women of color”, meaning that she didn’t write the choreopoem with the sensibilities of others in mind. (2/4) – 1006a Feb 27 '19 at 0:20
As to what I tell my children: We’ve had conversations with them about how terminology changes over time, and why standards of politeness change (including the “euphemism treadmill”). When the oldest read Tom Sawyer we talked about why the polite terms from Mark Twain’s era are not the polite terms now (and why it is OK and even important to talk bluntly about race, including using the term “black”, even if their very sheltered white teacher had trouble with it). (3/4) – 1006a Feb 27 '19 at 0:20
We’ve also had conversations about how sometimes people use language about themselves that isn’t acceptable when used by outsiders—a beginning concept is that I can say my sibling is annoying, but no one else is allowed to say that (except my other sibs). A more advanced concept is that if I talk about how annoying my sib is in public, some strangers will take that as license to chime in, so it’s important to think about what message we send when we use “in group” language where anyone from outside the group can hear, and whether it’s worth the trade-offs. (4/4) – 1006a Feb 27 '19 at 0:20
@1006a: Thanks for your candid response. I appreciate hearing your point of view. Actually, I would very much like to hear more about what you think on these matters. Can you stop by ELU chat sometime , or some other chat if that suits you better, so we can talk without you having to part out your thoughts in comments? – Robusto Feb 27 '19 at 1:04
@mazura quoting something doesn't make it immune to common decency. There is a difference between use and mention, even when something is a quote. – Matt E. Эллен♦ Feb 27 '19 at 6:39
I have no such personal stake in the matter, and I also found it jarring; I'd probably tell people off for singing that in real life, and that's not the sort of thing I generally do. I think this is a cultural thing, where it's more <del>"acceptable"</del> <ins>normalised</ins> in the US. – wizzwizz4 Feb 27 '19 at 18:58
bravo, @1006a - I've put in an answer supporting your answer, and explaining the situation in the pithiest possible manner. – Fattie Feb 27 '19 at 19:49
@1006a I apologise if in asking this question I made you feel your hand was forced to reveal you were the flagger. – Matt E. Эллен♦ Feb 28 '19 at 11:13
Thank you for the labor you put into answering this, it is very much appreciated. – Tim Post♦ Mar 1 '19 at 16:21
The problem for Lou Reed was, "people of color" just didn't scan. Apart from "the N word," the casual use of which should always be discouraged, the way to refer to African-Americans has changed over the years.
The NAACP is The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People; the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. used the word "Negro"; "black" was the easy, catch-all term one heard chanted and saw on signs promoting "Black Power" ... yet now black people use the term "people of color" and, in the U.S., "African-American" quite a lot. It's been hard to keep up.
The problem for us seems to be "What words are safe and respectful to use?" I'd suggest that on this site, quoting what a songwriter wrote in 1972, which was certainly not thought of as offensive at the time (for comparison, see also the 1976 play For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide, written by an African-American woman and first performed four years after the Lou Reed song), should not be considered offensive.
I feel we are not responsible for legitimate references our users employ in their answers if those appear to be well-intentioned and offered in the spirit of inquiry (i.e., not written to troll the site).
On the other hand, if we had received 42 flags calling something in an answer offensive (as compared with the 42 up votes and two down votes the answer received), there would be cause for concern. I'd chalk this up to hyper-vigilantism on the part of whoever complained, and I would hope we don't react to censor in this case.
Let's bookmark this discussion and resurrect it when someone starts talking about a certain Joseph Conrad novel.
Addendum The OP had a different example originally, and it was my comment that caused him to add the Lou Reed lyric. Apparently it was the easiest thing he could think of off the top of his head where "go" was demonstrably used to mean "said".
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"colored person" and "person of color" are very different terms. "Person of color" is the accepted 'nice' way of referring to anybody non-white, but is only a very recent usage, unknown at the time Reed wrote that song. Referring to someone as "colored" is scandalous. A newscaster almost lost their job because of a slip where she referred to someone as colored. – Mitch Feb 26 '19 at 15:15
@Mitch: Not in 1972. And I hope your takeaway from my post is not that I don't understand the difference between the terms. – Robusto Feb 26 '19 at 15:19
What 'not in 1972'? Are you saying people used 'person of color' back then? – Mitch Feb 26 '19 at 15:20
No. Look at your last statement before my reply. I'm saying I doubt anybody lost their job in 1972 for using "colored" ... – Robusto Feb 26 '19 at 15:22
@JJJ: It just ain't that cut and dried. We don't have a rule saying "Don't ever use the word colored even when quoting what someone said in a song a long time ago." – Robusto Feb 26 '19 at 15:41
@JJJ precisely, and this post is an attempt to figure out what the rules are. Robusto is taking the position that no, this sort of thing should not be against the rules. And one of the arguments he presents to defend that position is that very few (or even one) person has objected, while many have upvoted which indicates the community at large does not object. – terdon Feb 26 '19 at 15:42
No one seems to want to deal with this: I may find something offensive, but if it is a quote I dislike because I feel offended, that does not mean the quote should be removed. My goodness. That's primary repression. My feelings are often insulted around here, but I don't go around saying ELUers should remove cited works of literature or songs because I find them offensive. If I do, TS for me. :) Right? – Lambie Mar 2 '19 at 19:58
Could you totally remove all the "jokes" from this answer as (1) it is just spectacularly not funny (in the sense of - dude, I hrte to tell you, but you're not funny. at all) (2) it is just spectacularly not funny (in the sense of .. gee .. don't joke about racism?) and (3) it vastly adds to the confusion already on this QA. Delete the first sentence, which you're previously stated was a "joke", but you've now deleted that comment. – Fattie Mar 3 '19 at 17:25
If you get feedback that someone finds an example you used offensive, and the bit they find offensive isn’t crucial to your answer, you should find another example. For every person that feels comfortable speaking up, there are likely many more not saying anything being distracted instead of helped by your example.
Even though I like the Lou Reed example because the song conjures warm memories for me, as an illustration it may not be the most suitable example because for some it detracts from instead of enhances your point.
Just to be clear, I don’t think it is necessary to determine whether the lyrics meet or don’t meet some threshold of offensiveness in this context. That they are controversial to some, and easily replaced should be enough reason to change them out. A question about the offensiveness of “colored” in modern usage might be interesting as an English question on the main site though.
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"For your second set of lyrics, I think "Wheels on the Bus" (the horn on the bus goes beep-beep-beep/the driver on the bus goes 'move on back'/the baby on the bus goes 'wah wah wah') would be an improvement on that example." Where is it mentioned that the lyric in question is hurtful, demeaning or offensive to black American people? – Mari-Lou A Feb 27 '19 at 1:25
@Mari-LouA Nowhere, and I don’t have a problem with someone not mentioning that they were offended, possibly not wanting to have to justify their feelings about it. No matter by what means you find out someone is distracted by your example, it makes sense to make it less distracting. – ColleenV parted ways Feb 27 '19 at 2:08
You are a moderator on ELL, what would you do if you read the same flag for the same post? 1. Ask the community for guidance, and reach a general consensus? 2. Deleted the entire post without explanation? 3. Deleted only the offending material? – Mari-Lou A Feb 27 '19 at 7:51
(+1) This isn't about rules, or politics, or censorship; but collegiality, & maintaining focus on the purpose of the site. – Scortchi - Reinstate Monica Feb 27 '19 at 8:20
@Mari-LouA If there was no prior history, I would talk to the author of the post first and see how critical they felt that particular example was to their answer. I don’t see any reason to make even one person uncomfortable over something that is easily changed. If the author felt they needed that exact wording or I had reason to believe that the person that flagged wasn’t acting in good faith, then my job gets hard and I bring in the rest of the mod team to figure it out. – ColleenV parted ways Feb 27 '19 at 11:36
@Mari-LouA Also, I probably wouldn’t ask the community as a mod handling someone else’s post, but I might ask about my own post to understand better what others think. It’s not our purpose as mods to decide whether someone is justified in feeling uncomfortable about language used in a post. We try to make sure everyone can enjoy the site and feel welcomed. That means both the author of the flagged post and the person that flagged it. – ColleenV parted ways Feb 27 '19 at 11:47
@Mari-LouA The entire reason sites have elected moderators is because rules and popular votes can’t fairly solve every issue that may come up. This is a judgement call, and we mitigate the risk by having more than one person involved and acting within general guidelines instead of strict rules. I don’t think the lyrics are offensive, but that’s not the point. Many people are happy to accommodate others’ sensibilities if they’re asked and not attacked. Most people who bring up a problem to us are sincere about their feelings. Every situation is a little different. – ColleenV parted ways Feb 27 '19 at 12:04
The entire post has been deleted by Tim Post and the team. I suspected that the user would have refused to edit his contribution (comment now deleted). – Mari-Lou A Mar 1 '19 at 15:58
@Mari-LouA That’s unfortunate. It would have been nice if it could have been handled with less drama, but I think this is an important conversation to have. – ColleenV parted ways Mar 1 '19 at 16:19
There are things that I find insulting and offensive on this site and in society. Not because of any of the usual categories: I have my own categories for that which I won't go into here. That said, there are TONS [caps mine] of things in literature, song, and history, that are offensive. If a quote is given, how can we possibly accommodate everyone's "feelings"? I often feel my feelings are not being accommodated. I basically am unable (head-wise) to object to anything that is quoted material from an existing work. Quoting something and insulting someone are two different orders of reality. – Lambie Mar 2 '19 at 19:54
@Lambie It’s not about absolute offensiveness. You commented once that “only people from the hollows of West Virginia” speak that ignorantly (paraphrasing). It was deeply offensive to me, and you probably don’t even remember it. You didn’t intend to (I assume), but you made my experience on ELL that day really crappy.That is the sort of unwelcoming speech the CoC is talking about. You’re free to flag whatever you feel in good faith is unwelcoming, but it’s not a good idea to water down your flags with stuff you don’t really care about. – ColleenV parted ways Mar 2 '19 at 23:03
First of all I'd like to thank everyone involved in the discussion here for their respectful behaviour.
Before I asked the question I was thoroughly conflicted. On the one hand there was an answer with a quote that didn't seem controversial to me, and on the other there was a flag that clearly stated the quote was unwelcoming. For some reason I could not make a decision. I even asked other moderators their opinions about the quote, which eventually led me to asking the question here.
The problem as I see it is that the question has never been about the quote in isolation. Without the wider context of the answer and the question it is posted on, the context of how words affect other people, and the context of how our members see themselves, evaluating the quote is nonsensical.
Basically my initial understanding of the situation was ignorant, so I asked a question to get less ignorant.
Having interacted with many of our more academically minded members in chat, I knew some people would decry the idea of censoring a quote. What I needed was the perspective of people I hadn't already interacted with.
I'm very grateful to 1006a for speaking up, as well as ColleenV. Thanks to them and others I was able to get a more rounded view of the situation.
The understanding I've come to is that there is no catch all for this sort of flag. As a moderator I need to try and understand the context of the situation. I can't just say "someone is upset" and change or remove the quote, and at the same time I can't just say "quotes relevant to the post are benign" and dismiss the flag.
In this instance, because there is a valid alternative and because the language has upset at least one of us, the best course is to ask the person who posted the quote to change the quote to either the one suggested or something else without language that demeans a marginalised group.
How are you going to implement this request? On a side note, my expectation is that the answerer will probably not use a less tendentious example given that they rolled back the most innocuous of changes. – Mitch Mar 1 '19 at 15:31
@Mitch It didn't turn out quite how I expected but 10Kers can see the result. I didn't realise they'd already been approached yesterday, so I was more hopeful than I should have been. – Matt E. Эллен♦ Mar 1 '19 at 15:59
Please explain to me how a quote from a song (not an insult directed at anybody) can violate the CoC. It would seem to me that one would have to have something like a "You are"+ [insult]"-type structure for that. – Lambie Mar 2 '19 at 19:46
@Lambie yes, precisely that. The author of the post was not insulting any user, and the CoC is there to protect users from abuse. – Mari-Lou A Mar 3 '19 at 8:41
@Mari-LouA Just to make a last comment in this regard: it seems there are reams and reams of comments that fail to overlook this basic fact. :) – Lambie Mar 3 '19 at 13:41
This is just making it way, way, way too complicated. In incidental examples there's utterly no reason to use hurtful language. It's just that simple. Lou Reed himself - for God's sake - no longer sings that lyric. – Fattie Mar 3 '19 at 17:24
@Fattie: Lou Reed - may he rest in peace - no longer sings anything. – Scortchi - Reinstate Monica Mar 3 '19 at 17:56
I had the man's iPhone app! (no - really!) gizmodo.com/… – Fattie Mar 3 '19 at 18:26
@Lambie I can't deny the failure to overlook a lack of negation. – Mitch Mar 3 '19 at 18:54
@Mari-LouA I don't think anyone thought the OP was attempting to insult anyone. The problem was not the intention of the person using the quote, but that it turns out (possibly unknown to the OP) that others might take offense at just having those particular words repeated. – Mitch Mar 3 '19 at 18:58
@Mitch all true but by deleting the post, the insinuation is that the OP cited racist language, ergo the OP is/was insensitive and disrespectful toward a minority group. – Mari-Lou A Mar 3 '19 at 19:10
@Fattie: "Have a Perfect Day with Lou Reed's iPhone app" - oh dear! – Scortchi - Reinstate Monica Mar 3 '19 at 19:44
Hey, it was the 2000s :) – Fattie Mar 3 '19 at 19:47
@Mari-LouA I think it is a big difference, people (mods, flagger) blaming the OP for intentional use of problematic language (which I think is what you are saying is the reason the mods deleted it) and just noting that there was problematic language without blaming anyone (ie the OP didn't realize). Benefit of the doubt would be the latter, but still the problematic language, whether quoted or not, could possibly be under CoC. – Mitch Mar 3 '19 at 20:28
I feel like there should be a main question about 1) 'colored' and 2) quotes. ... hm, quotes is not English-specific. – Mitch Mar 3 '19 at 20:30
We completely support everything Matt said in his answer and want to point out that he led proactively and diligently by asking for help when he knew he needed to hear more voices. We will be giving moderators even more information about the emotions that come with having the perspective of being a person of color, or non-binary, or Latinx and a myriad of others. We'll be giving this to the Internet as a whole, as we're able, and adapting it to the caveats of our system in guidance on how to apply and interpret it. It's okay to not know everything as long as, if you lead, you know when to ask for help.
I can't add much more to the current context than what 1006a did in her answer. In fact, you don't need to hear me reiterate her answer, what matters is I support it.
There were other thoughtful answers posted as well.
There were things that weren't ideal. There will always be things that aren't ideal. Let's just keep getting progressively better at having these discussions and responding to these issues.
A few thoughts from a more general sense, based on concerns folks vocalized:
Our language is the road to culture past, and what we use to push forward. Papering over words that were once bad is bad, because it looks like an attempt to try to hide the hurt and harm that words once caused.
We should talk about language that was a problem in the context of why it was problematic; the history of our language is often just as problematic as the events that led to it.
Academic discussions are different than everyday speech.
And we should, as far as sensibilities allow, be able to objectify a word for the purposes of talking about the problems it created. You can't talk about racial segregation or the Jim Crow period without talking about "Colored" entrances. And there's a whole lot of literature around it.
Some exceptions could apply, our need to talk about stuff has to be carefully weighed with people's need to not have unnecessary emotional triggers in their daily lives. If the front page was dominated with questions surrounding rape, murder, torture, etc - well, I think you see how unlikely that would be, but it's unlikely because we understand discretion.
We do not, however, couch insensitive phrases in pretend objectivity.
No post is worth the harm that it does in the forms of people not feeling supported and made safe by this community, or by us as a company.
Racist, sexist, homophobic, transphobic or any other language that goes against our code of conduct needs to be removed once pointed out. Our position is that providing people with an environment that doesn't deliberately make them feel unwelcome isn't a political one, but a moral one, and such things violate our shared moral contract that forms the basis of our expectations and our accountability as a company.
Censorship was a red herring here.
We're not a government, we're a community with rules on what you can and can't post. If your contributions violate our code of conduct but seem like they were made in good faith, we're going to point out what's wrong and help you find a way to make your contribution lasting.
If that doesn't sit well with you, then we're happy to remove your contribution because we wouldn't want your name on something that doesn't represent your views. We're just not under any obligation to provide a platform for those views, especially if they're misaligned with our sense of social accountability as an organization.
Citing a song is not calling someone names. Apparently, most people around here are having difficulty understanding that. – Lambie Mar 2 '19 at 19:43
This post seems somewhat bland, or perhaps general is the best word. Wouldn't y'all say? Does SO have anything to say about the issue at hand? (Hurtful/racist/uncivil/whatever language in incidental examples.) – Fattie Mar 3 '19 at 17:34
@Lambie Displaying such a phrase with accolade from this community is most certainly calling many people names, as defined by the hurt it causes. That's not an area where there's compromise available to achieve. We're either permitting and elevating racially insensitive content outside of discussing it as such, or we're not. As we, the company, have final editorial agency, we're going to choose not to do that, and people are going to need to be okay with that or find another place to participate if and until they are okay with it. – Tim Post♦ Mar 4 '19 at 13:45
@Fattie I think she nailed it and there was nothing for me to really add, except in the general sense going forward. But I see what you mean, the deference there isn't clear unless it's explicit. I'll make a small edit. – Tim Post♦ Mar 4 '19 at 13:47
@Fattie That change the blandness? The last thing this thread needs is a white dude coming in and saying everything a woman person of color just did, as if it only matters if he says it. But I made my deference to her answer more explicit. – Tim Post♦ Mar 4 '19 at 13:50
hi @TimPost in brief, I was just looking for a more direct, shorter, let us say "rule". So, I can imagine a sentence somewhere "Oh, and don't use racist/hurtful language in incidental examples". Indeed, in your comment just above, "We're either permitting and elevating racially insensitive content outside of discussing it as such, or we're not. [ ] we're going to choose not to do that" So, that's exactly what I was looking for, in my little universe – Fattie Mar 4 '19 at 14:16
Yes. This discussion illustrates why they are a problem, and it should have been clear that they were a problem from the first complaint.
If one is trying to write an instructive answer, clarity and focus are two key rhetorical demands. A broad readership needs to be able to understand answers on this site. A little humor in a selected example can help emphasize a point. In contrast, a controversial example may distract from the answer, diminishing the level of focus that answer has.
When an answer's example leads to an extended comment discussion (or meta question) about that example, or when I notice that the usage may inadvertently alienate readers, that should be a sign for further review. At that point, I'd propose three criteria for moderators to decide on the appropriateness of the example:
Is the controversial word / phrase / idea integral to answering the question? (Some questions could conceivably be valid in themselves but require the treatment of distasteful content. If its importance is unclear, the answer needs revision.)
Can no other examples be used to make just as effective an illustration of usage? (Sometimes examples may be rare or in a context that lends itself to no better example. If other examples are available, the answer needs revision.)
Does the phrase cross the Code of Conduct on bigotry below? (If it does, and the answer does not adequately address its example's potential to alienate its readers, then the answer needs revision or deletion.)
We don’t tolerate any language likely to offend or alienate people based on race, gender, sexual orientation, or religion — and those are just a few examples. When in doubt, just don’t.
In this case, my own reckoning of this example would work like so:
No, the controversial word is incidental to whether go can be used to introduce direct discourse.
No. Other examples are available. There are at least hundreds of popular examples of "go" being used in this manner, and many more common ones, like several verses in "The Wheels on the Bus."
This has offended or alienated people (including 1006a) on the basis of race, and it's neither integral to the answer nor unique in its use. As of this writing, the answerer makes no effort to address the elephant in the room.
Therefore, the lyrics are a problem. At minimum, I would downvote the answer and recommend it be edited in the comments. If the comment were not already under scrutiny, I would also flag the comment. Finally, if the answerer did not respond, I would be able to edit the answer myself, just as someone may edit my answer for formatting, typos, or information to make it more effective.
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I disagree, since there is no weighing of the positive value of the statement. The overriding criteria must be does the statement contribute to the answer. If it does so, I don't see why any of your criteria need be considered. I have never given a thought to not offending anyone, and doubt I ever will. I care about an answer that is understandable to the widest group of people. The site's overall concern for projecting a welcoming image is another matter. That is a sensible business policy. But given the huge quantity of offensive language that remains on the site, this doesn't even rate. – Phil Sweet Mar 6 '19 at 1:09
This answer really should have been a question, so I posted it here:
Does cited material merit special consideration when the content is offensive or unwelcoming?
I’m going to add another answer because I think it would be worth getting community feedback on the idea in this comment
"offensive or unwelcoming", that's POB. Does it violate the be nice policy? Can anything "quoted" ever violate it? If an answer doesn't align with your views, it is at your discretion to DV it. But if at anytime I'm disallowed to cite what someone else once said, that's censorship.
Vote on this answer (and comment if you like) based on your agreement with the idea that citing what someone else has said is held to a different standard than original text from the author of a post when it comes to violating the CoC.
Let’s assume the citation is not gratuitous. For the sake of discussion, the citation is relevant to the answer and the author feels that particular citation is critical to their answer but a significant number of people find it unwelcoming.
Let’s also not get hung up on the “censorship” part of the comment and focus on whether we should treat citations differently. Are there any mitigating qualities, like length, historical significance, etc that would cause us to keep a citation that we would remove if it wasn’t written by someone other than the author of the post?
It's unclear to me how to vote on this question. – Mitch Feb 28 '19 at 19:37
@Mitch do you mean unclear what an up-vote means, or unclear in the sense that it’s not really yes or no? – ColleenV parted ways Feb 28 '19 at 19:39
Unclear what an up-vote means. Also all the qualifications; it's a lot to navigate. – Mitch Feb 28 '19 at 19:43
That said, re "can anything quoted ever violate [the be nice policy]?", quoted things (things mentioned) are not black boxes. Something in them is relevant and should be known by the reader. If you are talking about an epithet or something taboo, you need to know which thing you're talking about. If I quote something, what's in the quote has meaning, just not interpreted in the same way as outside the quote. Suppose the quote is full of profanity. It'll still be shocking. Not as shocking as if you were directly applying them to me. But still shocking. – Mitch Feb 28 '19 at 19:51
@Mitch maybe I’ll have a go at rewriting when I’m off my phone. I mostly was hoping to generate some conversation about the idea that citations may not be exactly the same as original text. Probably easier to take a POV instead of trying to make it yes/no – ColleenV parted ways Feb 28 '19 at 19:54
My take on citations and quotes (reported speech) is that they are not the same as outright usage, but we are not blind to them. If the questionable material is central to the discussion (like a reference to a taboo word) then it almost must be allowed. But if it is not central, then it is optional or secondary, and there are very likely other quotes that would do just as well. – Mitch Feb 28 '19 at 19:58
@Mitch I probably should have made this a question instead of an answer. I’ll try to fix it after I get home. – ColleenV parted ways Feb 28 '19 at 20:04
@JJJ If we were talking about all the disparaging racial epithets people have for each other, of course we'd have to at some point mention those terms. But this is about 'goes' with lots of non-problematic examples. – Mitch Feb 28 '19 at 20:43
(I forgot to say... 'here on ELU in a disinterested examination of word meanings') – Mitch Feb 28 '19 at 20:51
@JJJ Conventions may change across time, but a consistent mod rule would accommodate changes in the verbal Overton window, so that in the occasional instances where an old post with currently problematic usage came to light, it could be reviewed accordingly, perhaps with new information or a disclaimer. That said, that scenario feels uncommon; I've not encountered posts from 2010 that would require review in 2018 or 2019. – TaliesinMerlin Feb 28 '19 at 21:23
This reminds me of a certain Twitter episode that happened some time in October. One person tweeted that they were offended by the titles of one or two questions on the HNQ and an SE site was immediately pulled out of the HNQ list. Can we please remind ourselves that the lyric was quoted b/c it had the verb go in it, there was nothing intentionally nefarious about the choice. – Mari-Lou A Feb 28 '19 at 22:27
Let’s also not get hung up on the “censorship” part of the comment the entire premise of the comment is about censorship. – Mari-Lou A Feb 28 '19 at 22:28
@Mari-LouA I was hoping to step away from the exact "Lou Reed lyrics" incident and ask a more general question about citing material that could be offensive. Sorry for the confused "answer", I would love to hear your thoughts on this topic rewritten as a proper question: english.meta.stackexchange.com/q/12063/80039 – ColleenV parted ways Feb 28 '19 at 23:45
@Tim Post
I hope I don't run the risk of being suspended myself if I ask why guest271314's account has been banned across the entire network for five years.
From what I can tell, the suspension seems to stem from their long, often rambling, at times controversial, posts on EL&U and on Politics SE. The two answers posted by @guest271314 have been deleted by Tim, (only visible to 10K users); however, the contents of their posts didn't appear to be harmful or disrespectful to any minority group in particular. As a contributor they posted questions on EL&U that interested them and in comments they simply aired their opinion. If several people disagree strongly with someone or dislike their contributions that should not make them liable to suspensions. Well… not for five years.
I would like to add that I disagree with the company's decision to suspend said user for that length of time and the brusque and abrupt deletion of the incriminating EL&U post which this discussion led to.
On Thursday (28/02/2020), the EL&U community was suddenly made aware that the SE team was following the contentious issue closely but instead of allowing us to arrive at a resolution at our own pace, you (Tim Post) took command, and informed everyone:
We don't want to pressure you, but this is an issue that demands an extremely high sense of urgency, so a consensus on how to move forward needs to be clear to us by Friday afternoon. I have 100% trust that you'll do it
If we had known beforehand that there was a time limit maybe, maybe, the EL&U community would have reached a compromise or greater consensus sooner.
Please remember that thousands of users and visitors saw the incriminating answer and didn't find anything objectionable about it. In fact, it was highly upvoted despite the c-expression (colored girls). There were no comments chastising the author. None. If the quote had been interpreted as abuse or an insult, rest assured more than one user would have openly voiced their disgust or expressed their concern and reservation in the comments. The answer would have been downvoted and then, possibly, deleted.
Interestingly, some may not be aware that the song, Walk on the Wild Side, talks about transgender people, homosexual prostitutes, drag queens, and drug addicts.
The song is all about acceptance and recognizing those who were considered “weird” or “different” as being “normal”.
When Reed wrote "then he was a she", "Little Joe never once gave it away", "Sugar Plum Fairy came and hit the streets", "Jackie is just speeding away", and “coloured girls go ‘Doo do doo do doo do do doo…’ he was not insulting black American women, or any of the characters in his song, he was celebrating all of them.
If SE sites start deleting posts that contain quotations that were cited in good faith, the company will be digging itself a deeper and deeper hole. Delete a post that was utterly and completely non-racist for quoting a Lou Reed's quote then where do we draw the line?
Saying that, I want to apologise to 1006a if my numerous comments hurt or caused her any pain or distress, it was the very last thing on my mind. She has my uttermost admiration (for putting herself on the frontline) and respect, I am but a clumsy middle-aged clot who has still a lot to learn about people and about Americans.
But whenever I see something, which I consider unfair or biased I cannot shut up. This is going to be a problem in the near future, I can tell. And, frankly I'm worried, it seems that the environment on EL&U and SE is quite oppressive and intolerant (see the Twitter Vs. HNQ debacle back in October) despite all the reassurances about inclusivity and mutual respect for every person.
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theguardian.com/music/2017/may/20/… – Mari-Lou A Mar 1 '19 at 20:09
I expect that guest escalated their behavior and it was quickly dealt with so we never saw the really bad stuff. I also will bet a fancy espresso drink that you will not get suspended for asking ;) – ColleenV parted ways Mar 1 '19 at 20:16
We don't suspend people for asking about why we've suspended users but we have a policy of not talking about suspensions. As to the post, this isn't a matter of bias. Having large numbers of people upvote it or not find it offensive doesn't mean that it's not problematic. 1006a eloquently explained why the post was problematic and many people agree (including five other answers here), so editing or removing that part of the post was necessary. The OP chose not to edit it out, so it was deleted for CoC reasons. Were the OP to choose to edit in the future, the post could be undeleted. – Catija♦ Mar 1 '19 at 23:48
@Catija do you realise what the song, Walk on the Wild Side, represents to the gay and transgender community of New York, those very people who were outcast and suffered injustices due to their sexuality and sexual preferences back in the 60s and 70s? – Mari-Lou A Mar 2 '19 at 7:00
The song talks about transgender people, homosexual prostitutes, drag queens, and drug addicts. The song is all about acceptance and seeing who is "weird" or "different" as being "normal". When Reed wrote "then he was a she", "Little Joe never once gave it away", "Sugar Plum Fairy came and hit the streets", "Jackie is just speeding away", and "coloured girls" he was not insulting black American women, or any of the characters in his song, he was celebrating all of them. – Mari-Lou A Mar 2 '19 at 7:00
@Mari-LouA: No-one's condemning the song or even the line that was quoted: just the selection of that line to illustrate a particular idiom, for reasons that have been explained at length. The Bible, needless to say, means a lot to Christians; yet there are passages it would clearly be inappropriate to quote (on this site) without good reason. – Scortchi - Reinstate Monica Mar 2 '19 at 16:55
I agree with everything @Mari-Lou has written and I fail to see how quoting a work of art (a song in this case) can be considered offensive. I don't think we should confuse works of art (of whatever kind and quoting them) and insulting people by naming calling. Obviously, no one around here would "get": "This is not a pipe", the Magritte painting. – Lambie Mar 2 '19 at 19:38
@JJJ to be clear, moderators can not give network-wide suspensions. – Catija♦ Mar 3 '19 at 7:31
"If SE sites start deleting posts that contain quotations ...." No matter how many times those on the "con" side refer to it as a "quotation" it doesn't change this simple issue. It's just an incidental example. As in Tim Post's "final word", "We're either permitting and elevating racially insensitive content outside of discussing it as such, or we're not." Of course, obviously, racist terms/etc can be discussed as such as a material subject. But it's just silly to use hurtful, sexist, racist terms in incidental examples. For goodness sake. – Fattie Mar 4 '19 at 14:25
Nobody cares about the silly song or its silly supposed meaning (or otherwise) at the time. Say there was a question (perhaps on a programming site) about RANDOM TEXT GENERATION. Say an example output was given, and, randomly, THE TOTALLY RANDOM TEXT OUTPUT HAPPENED TO BE HURTFUL, RACIST, SEXIST LANGUAGE What would you do? Of course - OBVIOUSLY - you'd just remove it and replace it with another example. It's whacky that this simple concept is causing so much discord! – Fattie Mar 4 '19 at 14:29
I think you're right @JJJ . It's frustration talking – Fattie Mar 4 '19 at 17:03
@Mari-LouA: Hear, hear! – Robusto Apr 11 '19 at 19:30
Preliminary Thoughts
I somewhat disagree with 1006a's rationale. Objectively speaking, although there was a drop in usage after 1970, Google ngrams shows that colored people is still used in the 21st century, and it is used almost as often as it was during the 20th century:
I restricted this to multi-word phrases predicated on the assumption that single words tend to be more popular than phrases in general, and generally more polysemous. Minorities is far more popular than any of these terms, and has applicability to mathematical contexts for instance.
By 2008, we can see that minority groups is almost on par with people of color, and people of color is far more popular than the closest equivalent, which is ethnic people, despite the fact that minority groups can include other classes of people. Moreover, unlike other racial terminology, the term's purpose was never inherently offensive. I do not think that use of the term in and of itself merits a flag, especially considering that it is much more popular than the closest equivalent, ethnic people, which almost flatlines. Also, considering how usage of black people and minority groups also dipped in a similar timeframe to colored people, the reason colored people is used less often today than it was in the past seems likely to be that we are discussing race less often than we were back then.
The closest thing I have found on our website to suggesting colored people is offensive is attributed to William Safire writing an unspecified October 28th 2001 article for the New York Times:
It's possible that the president coined the phrase; if so, it was on the analogy of women of color, a description adopted by many nonwhites. (Though colored people is dated and almost a slur, people of color is not in the least offensive.)
Suggesting that the term is dated seems almost contrary to my findings on ngrams, but more importantly there is a considerable difference between what is almost, and what is. It is a true statement, just as much as colored people isn't a slur. It does not presently show up on Wikipedia's List of Ethnic slurs, which makes sense since, insofar as I know, it was never meant as a slur.
Far more popular than the questin citing William Saphire is this answer citing George Carlin, who suggests that colored people and people of color should be considered equally offensive (or inoffensive), and prefers that we refer to africans in particular as black people.
What I take from all of this is that if we are going to appeal to contemporary sensibilities, you should use black people to refer specifically to africans, but colored people is probably acceptable in a broader sense. In my opinion, people of color and colored people are at worst, on the level of minced oaths, which makes sense considering that they were seemingly devised as euphemisms.
We're not talking about words that are as inherently offensive as the ones mentioned the last time a similar issue came up recently, and I don't think we should react anywhere near the same way.
What I Think Should Be Done in This Particular Case
I nevertheless suggest editing that example out of the post, despite my preliminary thoughts. Preferably after doing the poster the favor of replacing that example with a nonracial equivalent so that voting is not adversely impacted, or at least a comment explaining the edit. Minimally, a comment should be left.
Rationale for The Suggested Course of action
I do think that this is a minor transgression, likely made by accident and undeserving of any punitive action or answer deletion, but that it is nevertheless a transgression in need of editorial remedy in accordance to our policies. The quote should be removed, and preferably replaced with an equivalent context (pop song lyrics in this case) by the editor. I am less concerned about the language being used, and more concerned with how it is being used.
My overall interpretation of Stack Exchange's code of conduct is that we have very, very low tolerances for prospectively rude or demeaning behavior. Strictly speaking, the code of conduct has zero tolerance wording:
No bigotry.
We don’t tolerate any language likely to offend or alienate people based on race, gender, sexual orientation, or religion—and those are just a few examples. When in doubt, just don’t.
However, sometimes analytical need overrides that in the academic community because our first responsibility is to accurately representing the truth as we understand it, whereas politeness is our secondary responsibility. I think it would be detrimental to our credibility have a zero tolerance policy and I believe Jeff Atwood afforded us some amount of leniency in recognition of this while he was in charge which we may interpret to be standing orders unless and until instructed otherwise, but in consideration of the zero tolerance language of the Code of Conduct, I do think we need strict compliance guidelines, similar to the ones we have for lack of attribution and misattribution: Edit to fix as a first resort if possible.
You may be wondering why I am referencing this policy if I do not think the word is likely to offend. Well, it is not so much what words are being used, and how the words are being used which I find to be problematic.
In Random House Webster's Dictionary, Second Edition there is a basic manual of style, with a subsection called Avoiding Insensitive and Offensive Language that Excludes or Unnecessarily Emphasizes Differences spanning from page 2223 to 2225, and this guidance given on page 2225 seems like the compromise we should use:
Reference to age, sex, religion, race, and the like should only be included if they are relevant.
The racial example given is:
Instead of[__________________________________]Use
Arab man denies assault charge[_________________]Man Avoids Assault Charge
In this example a racial epithet is being removed because it is irrelevant to the principle message, despite the fact that, at least in and of itself, Arab is not considered an offensive word in English, and especially not so when this was likely to have been written, between the years of 1989–2001 (initial and final copyright dates of my copy), meaning that was likely written in a pre-9/11 world. Given that this section is not part of the addenda, I think it is even probable that the provision was written in '89.
Now yes, an assault charge is different from saying "doo doo doo", but that merely affects the severity of the generalization, and I don't see why colored people would be used except to emphasize a distinction. Such generalizations are often considered offensive, even in nonracial contexts, and the fact that a racial generalization is being made transgresses these guidelines.
So in accordance to this guidance, we should weigh the prospective offensiveness of the term to the necessity of its use. First of all, in context, the necessity of the racial epithet, the manners of the time and the history of the word may render the quotation mostly, if not completely inoffensive, but that does not necessarily translate into the here and the now at Stack Exchange. We are not lyricists; we are analysts of the English Language.
In our capacity of analysts of the English Language, I think that it is necessary to accurately quote external sources in order to accurately analyze the language, but that the selection of quotations is also subject to the code of conduct, which would mean that the analytical necessity of the quotation the answer must also be considered when considering our code of conduct. If the quotation is not needful, then the use of the racial epithet in the post is not needful by proxy. Since our first responsibility is to analyze th English Language.
The question does not specifically regard that particular quotation, racial language in general or historical use, and the answer makes no effort to uniquely analyze that specific quotation to explain how the word go is being used on context or even how the usage pertains to personal experience with the language. As it stands, the answer makes no effort to analyze or explain the presence of any of those quotations at all in fact, and merely provides them as evidence of usage and axiomatic applicability. As a matter of fact, I have trouble seeing the utility of the answer, since it is simply General Reference, with a couple of seemingly random examples of usage added to disguise the fact. That makes them all interchangable with quotations from similar contexts of similar fame and quality, and means that the meaning of the answer is not impacted by the removal or replacement of the quotation.
If any effort to integrate the quotation into the answer was made, I would suggest leaving it in this case, especially since the choice of words is not especially offensive, but since no attempt to integrate it into commentary was made, I really see no reason for this answer to contain a racial generalization of any sort.
Only the quality of the answer would be adversely affected, since this would constitute the removal of evidence, and only if no replacement is furnished. In order to avoid this changing the results of voting, on an otherwise well received answer, the courteous thing for an editor to do would be to:
A. Explain why the edit is being made in the editing summary, so that a the answer isn't rolled back without due consideration.
B. Find an equivalent quotation to replace it so that the answer can be rated just the same as it would be prior to the edit.
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It was a completely gratuitous choice of example.
Looking at #1006a's answer,
I flagged it. I'm a woman of color [ ], and find the use of this example offensive
I'm saying the same thing, but in a couple of words.
We (we, society) avoid choosing (say, incidental examples) of historic language that contains historic-offensive language.
Here's an interesting example totally unrelated to racism. The agricultural plant oilseed is also called "rape". Around small children, I don't refer to it as "rape" - I just use the word "oilseed". It's just a word coincidence, but for what possible reason would you use a very adult, disturbing, word around 7 year olds? It would be silly and pointless to do so.
Similarly, yes, in today's world when you choose an incidental example, indeed don't choose one that contains historically racist language -
For example - very simply - when you choose an incidental example, you don't choose one that is vulgar.
The situation is that simple.
Today, you no more choose incidental-examples that include historic-racist language, that you would choose incidental-examples that are vulgar.
Of course you can - if you're Beavis & Butthead. Hah hah, I got to say "Arse" in front of Teacher .......... because I was quoting Churchill.
I mean it's that level of immaturity, or just lack of style.
The question isn't whether you would use 'rape' to describe a plant that has been called that for centuries, but whether you should stop others caling it so. – Tim Lymington Feb 27 '19 at 23:21
@TimLymington , it is absolutely, totally, completely straightforward that on a forum like this site when someone (for example) "uses vulgar language" ............ it is "edited away". I'm afraid that reaching for the CENSORSHIP button ....... it's just not happening you know? (Consider, merely being mean to a newbie is now subject to a policy of being edited away on this site.) A style guide is not censorship or human rights. – Fattie Feb 27 '19 at 23:44
I feel it can't be said better than this: Today, you no more choose incidental-examples that include historic-racist language, that you would choose incidental-examples that are vulgar. In civil discourse - in the boardroom, the school, the article, the TV show, the restaurant - the sentence in italics really says it all. – Fattie Feb 27 '19 at 23:46
Please clarify as to whether a given term's vulgarity (as considered in this answer) is an objective property of a term, (and if so, how); or a subjective prejudice based on class; or a pathological post-traumatic word-association stressor; or something else. – agc Feb 28 '19 at 5:19
hi @agc, the two terms you have used (objective, subjective) have no meaning; you're echoing something unrelated you've read in a different discussion. Asking if a word is or is not vulgar (say .. "shit!") is exactly like asking the spelling of a word. No mystery. – Fattie Feb 28 '19 at 11:10
@Fattie, FWIW I'm not knowingly echoing whatever prior discussion you've alluded to, (assuming I've ever seen it), but please provide a link to that if it seems like it might be relevant or helpful here. Orthography is based on habits, history, happenstance, and the occasional standard bearers. Vulgarity, being the flip-side of aesthetics, is chock-full of mysteries... such as the theory that "shit" was once a Pre-Germanic euphemism. – agc Feb 28 '19 at 21:03
"Curse words" words (say, "words you 'can't use' on network TV" or "words Teacher can't use") are based on habits, history, happenstance, and the occasional standard bearers. There are no mysteries involved and it is totally unrelated to aesthetics. It's exactly like spelling. – Fattie Feb 28 '19 at 21:39
The question is not whether you would use it, as it is about whether an internet site about language can discuss its use. – JTP - Apologise to Monica Mar 2 '19 at 19:58
@JoeTaxpayer - I don't follow you at all, sorry. The question is extremely clear: "Should questions (ie, on the ELU site, obviously) use incidental examples which include racist language." (The answer couldn't be more obvious, "of course not.") – Fattie Mar 3 '19 at 16:14
Ok Fattie, thank you for setting me straight – JTP - Apologise to Monica Mar 3 '19 at 16:18
Well .. ok .. now time to get drunk – Fattie Mar 3 '19 at 16:26
Your point, about what is now referred to as grapeseed . We'd avoid 'rape' in front of kids, I agree, but it should be ok to discuss the plant and its name on a site about English. – JTP - Apologise to Monica Mar 3 '19 at 16:45
Hi @JoeTaxpayer I truly understand what you mean. I absolutely, totally, completely, fully agree that we should be able to discuss farmyard words (shit, cock, cunt, etc), hurtful words (poofter, hoe, bitch, politician etc) and racist words (nigger, abo, etc). The issue on this page is purely about incidental examples. (Note that, indeed, on this very page we are "discussing" the 60s music industry slang "the colored girls". Naturally, nobody (on this page) is saying "oh don't say that." Or for example recently I had a question about "queer".) The issue is PURELY incidental examples. – Fattie Mar 3 '19 at 17:21
Hi @JoeTaxpayer . In line with the usual total confusion on this site: The question title here is unfortunately totally misleading. It should be edited to express the situation at hand. (So, "Is using .. in an incidental example unwelcoming?") Trying to shade the issue as a "quote" is utterly ridiciulous. – Fattie Mar 3 '19 at 17:27
I see. I really do. But what if the reference was “all the girls go”? And a member is just offended by that? The song refers to transvestites, oral sex, etc. presumably the ‘girls’ aren’t under 18. As I’ve said, it’s still a slippery slope. – JTP - Apologise to Monica Mar 3 '19 at 17:45
Another sortie in the ancient battle between prescriptivist vs. descriptivist models of language.
The prescriptivists wish to make the world a better place, and believe this can be more efficiently achieved in part by deprecating certain "bad words" and ignorant constructions believed to transmit bad thoughts and wrong ideas, thus helping prevent a multitude of bad deeds. For them, Language is man-made, artificial and ever more controllable, so it would be reckless and irresponsible not to employ it to prevent needless future evils.
In which spirit many of the users on ELU firmly believe, (as taught in many academies), that the censoring of words like "colored", et al, (and censuring insensitive usages of such words), is the most ethical policy.
The descriptivists doubt that such methods can ever be feasible, and consider Language as a natural object in of itself, no more generally controllable than the oceans or dreams, but hope that through close and careful observation it might be learned how to better to navigate within it.
For them such konmari diction is much like the sort of germaphobic overindulgence in antibiotics that weakens gut flora and breeds super-bugs.
Once there were no descriptivists, only prescriptivists that disagreed with other prescriptivists. Side X is disgusted by things Side Y says, and vice versa, and so on for every set of opposing factions since creation. Their respective strengths wax and wane, endlessly, and that day's victorious wincers pay the piper and call the tune. An oscillatory stasis.
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Not my downvote, but the OP who is a mod, is asking whether the line is unwelcoming and/or offensive. Your answer has steered around this principle point. – Mari-Lou A Feb 27 '19 at 8:01
@Mari-LouA, Thanks, IMHO the OP is posing a tautology. The ritualistic answer would be that yes, it (or something like it) is, or eventually can be found that is, unwelcoming to a rising faction, and they'll prevail, and press on to further triumphs, until they weaken and the next faction has its way. – agc Feb 27 '19 at 8:43
I fully disagree with this line of thinking. Prescriptivism vs descriptivism is about grammaticality. The question here is about whether we, as a community, want to take into account the feelings of marginalised people when considering the words we use. – Matt E. Эллен♦ Feb 27 '19 at 9:29
@MattE.Эллен, Word choice is part of prescriptivism, ain't it? Re "The question here is about...": a leading question, posed to solicit a ritually communal "yes". When a faction enjoys the support of a larger community, they're not just un-marginalized, they've become, or rather they are, the prevailing community standard. Arrival... – agc Feb 27 '19 at 9:56
Yes, as you aptly demonstrate, prescriptivism is for keeping the perceived outgroup out through prejudicial word choice, silencing marginalised voices. The question is reversing the scenario, trying to include marginalised voices. Your posturing about the support of the larger community is not currently borne out in the discussion present on this very question. – Matt E. Эллен♦ Feb 27 '19 at 10:10
@MattE.Эллен, Is it possible to advance a marginalized wannabe censor without marginalizing other practicing censors? Side X says, that question is irrelevant since we're not censors but those other nasty criminals are; Side Y says, that question is irrelevant since we're not censors but those other criminal nasties are. Both sides really do believe that too. – agc Feb 27 '19 at 11:42
And then there are the people who say there are only two sides, and really do believe that. – Robusto Feb 27 '19 at 13:42
@Robusto, The reason I'd used the placeholders Side X and Side Y, (and not Side X and Side not-X), is because on the next cycle, one dogma will be gone, and then it'll be the remaining contender vs. Side Z, and so forth "On Beyond Zebra". – agc Feb 28 '19 at 6:47
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Tuesday Briefing: Beach Renourishment in Flagler Beach, Palm Coast Manager Search, Thespian Showcase
December 4, 2018 | FlaglerLive | Leave a Comment
From NASA’s Astronomy Picture of the Day: “The dust sculptures of the Eagle Nebula are evaporating. As powerful starlight whittles away these cool cosmic mountains, the statuesque pillars that remain might be imagined as mythical beasts. Featured here is one of several striking dust pillars of the Eagle Nebula that might be described as a gigantic alien fairy. This fairy, however, is ten light years tall and spews radiation much hotter than common fire. The greater Eagle Nebula, M16, is actually a giant evaporating shell of gas and dust inside of which is a growing cavity filled with a spectacular stellar nursery currently forming an open cluster of stars. This great pillar, which is about 7,000 light years away, will likely evaporate away in about 100,000 years. The featured image in scientifically re-assigned colors was released in 2005 as part of the fifteenth anniversary celebration of the launch of the Hubble Space Telescope.” (NASA, ESA, The Hubble Heritage Team, (STScI/AURA))
Today: Cooler. Mostly cloudy with a 20 percent chance of showers in the morning, then partly cloudy in the afternoon. Highs in the lower 70s. North winds 5 to 10 mph. Tonight: Colder, clear. Lows in the lower 40s. Northwest winds 5 to 10 mph. Details here.
Today’s document from the National Archives and the Astronomy Picture of the Day.
Today’s tides: at the beaches, at the Intracoastal Waterway.
Drought Index: 246
The OED’s Word of the day: puredee, adj. (and adv.)
Flagler Jail Bookings and Last 24 Hours of Incident Reports
Palm Coast Construction and Development
“To believe that patriotism will not flourish if patriotic ceremonies are voluntary and spontaneous, instead of a compulsory routine, is to make an unflattering estimate of the appeal of our institutions to free minds. We can have intellectual individualism and the rich cultural diversities that we owe to exceptional minds only at the price of occasional eccentricity and abnormal attitudes. When they are so harmless to others or to the State as those we deal with here, the price is not too great. But freedom to differ is not limited to things that do not matter much. That would be a mere shadow of freedom. The test of its substance is the right to differ as to things that touch the heart of the existing order. If there is any fixed star in our constitutional constellation, it is that no official, high or petty, can prescribe what shall be orthodox in politics, nationalism, religion, or other matters of opinion, or force citizens to confess by word or act their faith therein. If there are any circumstances which permit an exception, they do not now occur to us.”
–From Justice Robert Jackson’s majority opinion in West Virginia Board of Education v. Barnette, 319 U.S. 624 (1943).
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The Sheriff’s daily incident reports and jail bookings are posted here.
Beach renourishment: The Flagler County Commission, the Flagler Beach City Commission and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers hold a Joint Workshop to discuss the 6.25 mile Flagler Beach dune restoration project, at 1 p.m. at the Emergency Operations Center, 1769 E. Moody Blvd, Bldg. 3 (behind the Government Services Building), Bunnell.
Palm Coast Animal Control hearing at City Hall in Town Center, 10 a.m.
The Palm Coast City Council meets at 6 p.m. at City Hall in Town Center. Council members are expected to approve a joint agreement with the county on emergency communications services, and hear an update from their head-hunter on the search for a new city manager.
County Commissioner Joe Mullins hosts a town hall along with Emergency Management Chief, Jonathan Lord and Fire Marshal, Jerry Smith to discuss Community and Fire Safety, at 6 p.m. at the Espanola Community Center, 3570 County Road 205, Bunnell.
The Flagler Beach Planning and Architecture (or PAR) Board meets at 5:30 p.m. at City Hall, 105 S 2nd St.
The Rymfire Elementary School Advisory Council meets at 8 a.m. at the school’s media center.
Buddy Taylor Middle School holds its Winter Concert at the school’s cafeteria, 6:30 p.m.
Thespian Showcase: Matanzas High School, Flagler Palm Coast High School and Buddy Taylor Middle School hold a Thespian Showcase at the Flagler Auditorium, 5500 East Hwy 100, Palm Coast, 7 p.m.
Audition Call: Flagler Playhouse’s “A… My Name is Alice”: Audition dates/time: 6:30 pm at Flagler Playhouse. Looking for 5 talented females to play multiple roles in the musical, “A… My Name is Alice”. Voice types needed: 2 sopranos, 3 altos. Ages: 18 and up. Please prepare a song in the Pop genre for the audition. You will also be asked to read prepared selections as part of the audition process. If you are unable to make the scheduled audition dates, please email Michele at [email protected] for an alternate date. Performance dates : January 25 through February 10, 2019. Please park in the rear lot and enter through the cast door.
Blood Donations: The Big Red Bus will be at the following locations this week (schedule your donation by going to the website and entering a Palm Coast zip code, then locating one of the venues below):
Tuesday: Daytona State College, Palm Coast Campus, Building 2, 3000 Palm Coast Parkway, 9 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Wednesday: Post Office, 2 Pine Cone Drive, Palm Coast, noon to 5 p.m.
Thursday: Sandvik Kanthal Palm Coast, 1 Commerce Boulevard, Palm Coast, 11:30 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Saturday: Aaron’s, 229 St. Joe’s Plaza, Palm Coast, 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Sunday: Santa Maria del Mar Church, 915 North Central Avenue, Flagler Beach, 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.
Jail Bookings and Last 24 Hours' Incidents in Flagler, Palm Coast, Flagler Beach, Bunnell
Jail Bookings, December 30-31
Sheriff's night shift incident reports, December 30
Sheriff's day shift incident reports, December 30
Flagler Beach's night shift incident reports, December 30
Flagler Beach's day shift incident reports, December 30
Bunnell police's night shift incident reports, December 30
Bunnell police's day shift incident reports, December 30
Previous and archived reports
Sources: Flagler County Sheriff's Office, Flagler Beach Police Department, Bunnell Police Department. This is Flagler County's only comprehensive, one-stop compilation of all local law enforcement's daily day and night shift commanders' reports.
Teens-in-Flight took second place in Best Theme in Saturday’s Holiday Parade in Flagler Beach. (Seth Dolan)
Here are the winners of the 2018 Flagler Beach Holiday Parade hosted by Cindy Dalecki and Robert Snyder:
Best of Parade – Phun Coast Parrot Heads
Best Theme
1st Waste Not Want Not
2nd Teens-in-Flight
3rd Turtle Patrol
Best Marching Unit
1st Imagine Spirit Team
2nd Cub scouts/Boy scouts
3rd Greater Daytona Beach Clemson Alumni and Fan Club
1st Studio Z Fitness
2nd MHS marching band
3rd Paks Karate
Note: Some proceedings below can be followed live on the Florida Channel. Most legislative proceedings can be followed through the Senate or House websites.
CABINET CONSIDERS LAND DEALS: Gov. Rick Scott and the Florida Cabinet will meet and take up numerous issues, including a proposal to transfer state-owned land at the former Arthur G. Dozier School for Boys to Jackson County. Among other issues is a proposal to use money from the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill to help shield timber land in Dixie County from future development. Scott and the Cabinet will decide whether to spend $6.4 million to purchase what is known as a “conservation easement” on nearly 20,000 acres of timber land near the Suwannee River and the Gulf of Mexico in the sparsely populated county. In making the deal, the state is banking on a grant from the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation’s Gulf Environmental Benefit Fund. The foundation received $2.544 billion in 2013 as part of federal plea agreements with BP and Transocean stemming from the Deepwater Horizon explosion and spill. (Tuesday, 9 a.m., Cabinet meeting room, the Capitol.)
EDUCATION BUILDING MONEY EYED: The Revenue Estimating Conference will discuss issues related to the Public Education Capital Outlay, or PECO, program. (Tuesday, 11 a.m., 117 Knott Building, the Capitol.)
LOTTERY ANALYZED: The Revenue Estimating Conference will discuss issues related to the Florida Lottery. (Tuesday, 1:30 p.m., 117 Knott Building, the Capitol.)
JUDGE TAKES UP CONSERVATION FUNDING CASE: Leon County Circuit Judge Charles Dodson is scheduled to hear arguments on a request by environmental groups to lift a stay of a ruling that found state lawmakers did not properly carry out a 2014 constitutional amendment that requires spending on land and water conservation. Dodson in July ruled in favor of groups such as the Florida Wildlife Federation and the Florida Defenders of the Environment in a lawsuit arguing that lawmakers had improperly diverted money to purposes other than conservation. But the state quickly appealed, a move that led to an automatic stay of Dodson’s ruling. The environmental groups then filed a motion with Dodson to vacate the stay. The 2014 voter-approved constitutional amendment was designed to require the state to use money from a real-estate tax to bolster land and water conservation. Lawmakers and attorneys for the state have disputed that the money was improperly shifted to other uses. (Tuesday, 2 p.m., Leon County Courthouse, 301 South Monroe St., Tallahassee.)
TRAIL ALTERNATIVES ON TABLE: The Florida Department of Transportation will hold an open house on alternatives for the St. Johns River to Sea Loop Trail Project. The department is looking at shared-use path from Kennedy Parkway in unincorporated Volusia County to Dale Avenue in Edgewater. (Tuesday, 5:30 p.m. Edgewater City Council chamber, 104 North Riverside Dr., Edgewater.)
—-Compiled by the News Service of Florida and FlaglerLive
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culture and the performing arts
“Fireflies,” at the Daytona Playhouse @ Daytona Playhouse, 100 Jessamine Blvd., Daytona Beach.
“Fireflies,” at the Daytona Playhouse, 100 Jessamine Blvd., Daytona Beach. All performances at 7:30 p.m. except for Sunday matinees at 2 p.m. Retired schoolteacher Eleanor lives a quiet life alone as the most respected woman in a tiny town in Texas. A hole in her roof draws the attention of Abel, a smooth-talking drifter intent on renovating her house and her life. Can the sparks of late-life romance be trusted, or is the gossip true that Abel isn’t all he seems to be? The whole town is talking. Adults $20, Seniors 55 and up, $18, Youths 18 and under $8. Address: 100 Jessamine Blvd., Daytona Beach, or see directions here. Buy tickets online here. Box office: 386-255-2431.
Note: Most performers and shows do not allow any recording of their performances; therefore cameras and visual and audio recorders are prohibited in the Daytona Playhouse during the show. You are welcome to meet the actors after the performance (back stage) and pictures are permitted during the meet and greet.
About the Daytona Playhouse: since 1946, we have entertained appreciative audiences with wonderful performances in the very best community theatre tradition. The Playhouse, a nonprofit organization, is also a source of numerous and varied volunteer opportunities in theatre production and management. Read more about our history here.
Categories: culture and the performing arts
Neil Simon’s ‘They’re Playing Our Song’ at City Repertory Theatre @ CRT, City Market Place, 160 Cypress Point Parkway, Suite B207, Palm Coast.
“They’re Playing Our Song,” directed by John Sbordone, at City Repertory Theatre, at 7:30 p.m. Jan. 10, 2 and 7:30 p.m. Jan. 11, 7:30 p.m. Jan 17-18, and 3 p.m. Jan. 12 and 19. Both Jan. 11 performances are sold out. “They’re Playing Our Song tells the musical story of the real-life relationship of Marvin Hamlisch and Carol Bayer Sager, as a wisecracking composer finds a new, offbeat lyricist while Broadway history is made.” Angela Marie Young and Beau Wade bring a vibrant charm to this song-filled love story. Performances are at CRT’s venue in City Market Place, 160 Cypress Point Parkway, Suite B207, Palm Coast. Tickets are $30 for adults, $15 for students. For more information or tickets, call the CRT box office at 386-585-9415 or easily book online here. See the preview story here.
Stetson Faculty Recital: Lynn Musco, Clarinet, Sean Kennard, Piano @ Lee Chapel in Elizabeth Hall, 421 N. Woodland Blvd., DeLand.
Stetson Faculty Recital: Lynn Musco, clarinet, Sean Kennard, piano, 7:30 p.m. Lee Chapel in Elizabeth Hall, 421 N. Woodland Blvd., DeLand. All concerts are free and open to the public. Call 386/822-8950.
Dr. Martin Luther King Service at First Church of Palm Coast
The community is invited to First Church to celebrate the life and legacy of Dr. Martin Luther, King, Jr. at First Church of Palm Coast, 91 Old Kings Road North, Palm Coast, with two services–at 8 or 10:45 a.m. The services will honor King’s mission and commitment to human rights and equality. Special music has been arranged for the occasion. The Rev. Gillard S. Glover serves as the pastor. First Church can be reached at 386-446-5759.
Categories: spiritual
Colored Pencil Society of America Meeting at FCAL @ Flagler County Art League, 160 Cypress Point Parkway, Suite A-208, Palm Coast.
John Guiseppi’s ‘Gator Eyed’.
The Colored Pencil Society of America DC 117 St. Augustine meets at 1 p.m. at the Flagler County Art League, 160 Cypress Point Parkway, Suite A-208, Palm Coast. The public is welcome.
At the time DC-117 was established in 2005, it was designated as “St. Augustine” as the city is a central point on the First Coast. However, our meetings are held in Palm Coast and our members attend from a wide area ~ Jacksonville to New Smyrna Beach and west to Gainesville. Our Chapter, founded by Bill Shoemaker and Hanneke Jevons, started with a number of colored pencil enthusiasts and their desire to share and nurture their love of colored pencil as a fine art. Anyone who is interested is welcomed at our meetings – no experience necessary! Many people get started in this medium after going to one meeting or show. They are fascinated with the vast possibilities of colored pencil. Our Chapter also sponsors workshops with nationally-known artists to help us learn new techniques and refine our skills. We welcome all interested artists to attend a meeting where we share our talents and colored pencil art information.
LGBT Youth Group at Find Your Peace By Pieces @ Peace by Pieces, 300 Palm Coast Pkwy S.W. Unit 9 and 11.
A monthly gathering for the LGBT youth group, 4:30 to 5:30 p.m. at Find Your Peace by Pieces, 300 Palm Coast Pkwy S.W. Unit 9 and 11. Middle and highschoolers welcome in a place created for community and togetherness. This group is organized by Shoshanah Mercado, a licensed school psychologist at Buddy Taylor Middle School who volunteers her time at Peace by Pieces: Making friends, joining together, getting to know one another, talking about topics, or talking about life. Find Your Peace by Pieces creates a support system in Flagler County. Any donations go to help support the space and keep it available for all the donation based offerings and other affordable pieces of wellness we offer ♡ !
Categories: social services
Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) and Narcotics Anonymous (NA) in Palm Coast, Flagler Beach and Bunnell
Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) and Narcotics Anonymous (NA) open and closed meetings take place throughout the day seven days a week in various places in Palm Coast, Flagler Beach and Bunnell. Alcoholics Anonymous has six to nine meetings daily. See the full list here. Locations include AdventHealth, St. Thomas Episcopal Church on Belle Terre Parkway, Silver Dollar 2 on East Moody Boulevard in Bunnell, United Methodist Church in Flagler Beach, Dewey’s World in Daytona North, also known as the Mondex, Hammock First Baptist Church, and other locations. See Flagler County’s AA website here. Learn more about AA here. Read a daily reflection here.
Narcotics Anonymous has almost two dozen meetings throughout the week in the area, including at AdventHealth, Saint Mark’s by the Sea and Linear Park in Palm Coast, Santa Maria del Mar Catholic Church in Flagler Beach, and the Sunshine Business Complex in Bunnell. Go here for a complete list.
For Palm Coast Alateen Sereniteen and Al-Anon meetings, go here.
For help with alcoholism or if you think you have a problem with alcohol you can contact the Flagler County Helpline at 386-445-help (386-445-4357). SAMHSA’s (Substance Abuse and Mental Health Administration) National Helpline 1-800-662-HELP (4357) is a free, confidential, 24/7, 365-day-a-year treatment referral and information service (in English and Spanish) for individuals and families facing mental and/or substance use disorders. The referral service is free of charge. If you have no insurance or are underinsured, SAMHSA will refer you to your state office, which is responsible for state-funded treatment programs. SAMHSA can often refer you to facilities that charge on a sliding fee scale or accept Medicare or Medicaid. If you have health insurance, you are encouraged to contact your insurer for a list of participating health care providers and facilities.
East Flagler Mosquito Control District Board Meeting @ East Flagler Mosquito Control District, 210 Airport Executive Drive (off Belle Terre Boulevard), Palm Coast.
The East Flagler Mosquito Control District board meets at 10 a.m. at the district’s offices, 210 Airport Executive Drive (off Belle Terre Boulevard), Palm Coast.
Nar-Anon Meeting for Families and Friends of Addicts @ St Mark by the Sea Lutheran Church, 303 Palm Coast Pkwy.
The Nar-Anon Family Group for those affected by someone else’s addiction meets at 6 p.m. at St Mark by the Sea Lutheran Church, 303 Palm Coast Pkwy. There are no dues or fees. The only requirement for membership is that there be a problem of addiction in a relative or friend. We’re never affiliated with any other organization or outside entity. Do you need Nar-Anon? Ask yourself these questions.
Addiction is a family disease. It affects the relationships of those close to the addict: parents, spouses, siblings, children, longtime friends, and employers. If someone’s addiction is affecting you, first you must help yourself. Nar-Anon is a twelve step support group for families and friends of addicts. There are no dues or fees to join. Just come to a meeting. You will hear others, who are going through similar problems, talk about how they cope and find recovery. Watch the video:
Palm Coast Alateen Sereniteen and Al-Anon Meetings
Palm Coast Alateen Sereniteen and Al-Anon meetings: Alateen, part of Al-Anon Family Groups, is for teens bothered by someone else’s drinking. The group meets at 8 p.m. every Monday at Advent Health, 60 Memorial Medical Parkway, Palm Coast, at the south entrance, in meeting room D. Al-Anon meets at the same time. For more information about Alateen or Al-Anon, call toll free 1-888-4AL-ANON, or visit www.al-anon.org. Note: All Aalteen meetings are only open to teenagers who have been affected by another person’s drinking.
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Flagler Economic Opportunity Advisory Council Meeting @ Government Services Building, 1769 E Moody Blvd., Bunnell.
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Soul Reaver
Quote from: llamaparlante on April 09, 2018, 06:04:42 am
Quote from: Soul Reaver on April 09, 2018, 04:30:00 am
When I think 'Ur-Quan' I think enormous green predatory catepillar aliens, with a horrifying and tragic tortured past, their damaged psyche driving them to almost compulsively enslave all life around them, too blinded by their own past trauma to see the pain they are causing to other sentient species. I see imposing, enormous green ships with devestating fusion blasts and swarms of tiny fighters inexorably punching through the Alliance's defences.
I just want to say that I like the way you wrote this, I really imagined what you said. You are a writer? If you are not, you should write a book about The Ur-Quan Masters.
Thank you! Stories are important to me. I have a Masters in Media Studies and I write stories and design games as a hobby. I've designed and written a full-custom mod for Warcraft 3 (you can find the manual/lorebook here: http://www.warpstormstudios.com/tothebitterend/Files/TTBEManual.pdf), have spent many years contributing to a fantasy/sci tandem story, and I'm currently writing a gamebook.
None based on UQM I'm afraid...
Go to www.warpstormstudios.com/uqmmod for my dialogue and visual fixes for UQM and UQMHD!
kaminiwa
Quote from: Frogboy on April 08, 2018, 02:04:53 pm
Compare that to say Kaminawa. No history. No evidence of having posted anywhere. Could just be a lurker using a different handle. Could also be an interested party’s daughter wanting to participate under an alias.
I've been on Reddit for five years, and if you can't find evidence of me posting anywhere elsewhere it speaks rather poorly of you. I'll admit I don't discuss Star Control much anymore. If anyone here is old enough to remember the ancient 90s/00s Star Control 2 RPG forums, I was much more active back then as "goto-10" *waves at any super old-school fans*
I've no relationship to any of the interested parties - I'm just an old fan of the series. I've played out a few collaborations with other fans to tell various versions of the story, so I've got nothing against the idea of Stardock throwing their own ideas in to the multiverse - but I've also spent the last couple of decades hoping that someday we'd finally get the sequel Paul & Fred always talked about making. When Stardock announced Ghost of the Precursors, I got excited and started drifting back towards this community.
Wikipedia article that probably has the most information on the topic. It's seeming like names are generally in trademark territory, but they are close enough to being copyrightable that they can qualify if they pass certain tests that (to me) look pretty subjective. I'm also not clear on how the tests for particular fictional characters would translate into tests for fictional races. What this leads me to think is that Paul&Fred might have some grounds to claim copyright on some of the races, but it's not a sure thing one way or the other, and might go different ways for different races. In other words, it'll be a messy court fight, with the jury having to make a bunch of subjective calls.
Addendum 3 said that Reiche owned the alien names:
The Reiche Intellectual Property shall include proprietary rights in and to...names (of Starships and races)...in and to (a) - (d) above.
IANAL, but however we parse out the copyright and trademark boundaries Accolade certainly seems to have thought they needed his permission to use the names.
Quote from: Mormont on April 09, 2018, 11:49:21 am
Nice find. The question I'd have about it is whether this is saying "Reiche owns the names, and is licensing them to us", or "Whatever names Reiche owns, he's licensing them to us". In other words, is it an acknowledgement that Reiche owned the names, or just catch-all language to ensure that if Reiche did own the names, they were included in the license grant? If the latter, then it falls back to the earlier agreement to see what rights to names Reiche had.
There, if names are only trademarkable, not copyrightable, then 11.5 in the original agreement says that any trademarks are the property of the publisher. Stardock seems to be putting a twist into things by applying this to common law trademarks, which might include the race names. But I suspect that when this was written, the parties were really only thinking of the primary product name ("Star Control").
My (non-lawyer) understanding of contract law is that the court will try to determine the intent of the parties when the agreement was signed. I wonder if any of the original people on Accolade's side might get called upon to say what their intent was.
By the way, if anyone here happens to have access to a good OCR system, it would be amazingly helpful to OCR Exhibits 1-4 in P&F's amended response. They're currently only available as graphical PDFs, so cut and paste from them isn't possible. They're in what looks to be a standard fixed-width font (Courier?), so hopefully OCR wouldn't have too hard a time with them.
"Star Control" is the only registered trademark from Accolade, hence it would have been the ONLY trademark to have survived the lack of active use and the bankruptcy of Atari. From what I've read up so far, common law trademarks are practically non-transferable in this situation. They have extremely limited and very regional protections that are very fragile at best and are granted no federal level protections, and have to be in constant in use to keep remotely alive.
For example, "The Ur-Quan Masters" trademark filing should easily be undone by the existence of this very website, as it has been actively using the mark as a brand well before Stardock's filing. And that's all it takes to undo even a federal registered mark, is demonstration of active use before the filing. Since the ownership of "The Ur-Quan Masters" was never established officially via registration, Stardock could only maybe cite it's use with GOG.com sales as it's earliest use, (despite the fact it was just a subtitle after their registered mark) but... Technically, Fred and Paul were using it before Stardock with their GOG.com agreement and even before that ... So, Stardock has very little to stand on in that regard, as any other party's prior use before their cited use could invalidate the trademark. Reference: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6qzZL2yfUgI&feature=youtu.be
So the attempt to register the alien names by Stardock is very strange, since... Well, Fred and Paul and the The Ur-Urquan Masters project have precedence over Stardock, since they've been jointly distributing a product that uses the names actively well before Stardock even had a chance to buy anything from Atari and have been actively doing so well before Atari/GOG.com/Fred and Paul did a joint distribution deal through GOG.com.
bum783
Quote from: svs on April 08, 2018, 12:03:18 pm
If you cannot. You should STOP "acting" like you are some form of attorney. You are nothing but a troll throwing out garbage.
Frogboy said you have been on his forum for 11 years. Have you not been able to figure out what this type of outlet is used for?
engaging into a discussion about law while not being a lawyer is what public forums are generally used for. Similarly to talk radio people will talk about sports teams without actually being a professional athlete. They will talk about politics without being a politician, or talk about cooking without being a chef. I wont go on but the parenting forums are mind numbing LOL. Certain forms of media like discussion forums are acceptable outlets for opinion and potentially false conjecture. Its implied that the poster may not have the knowledge or qualifications to offer advice, legal or otherwise. Users should be and usually are aware of this (with some exceptions of highly moderated forums with qualified employees being the only people responding) Not only is Elestans posts par for the course in this form of media, they are fairly expected. By definition your post demanding a different behavior is more of a troll job than anything Elestan has posted.
Quote from: bum783 on April 09, 2018, 06:14:24 pm
Fair enough, Elestan can discuss it. It doesn't mean that I can't discuss how Elestan doesn't have any basis in knowledge or facts for his conclusory statements.
Elestan doesn't actually know the relevant law at issue (it takes years of practicing in this field to have a decent grasp of the subject) and doesn't actually know the complete body of facts (at this point, no party has access to all the facts - much less a non-party to the dispute). Elestan's conclusions are mere conjecture. In my opinion, it is unfortunate that Elestan's statements are being given any weight by any person. I'd have no issue if Elestan discussed what is clearly his opinion on what he'd like to happen or should happen. My quibble is that Elestan makes statements that are conclusive as to the legal outcome of specific issues in dispute with just enough legal terminology thrown into his posts to make the reader think Elestan knows what he is talking about.
I think there will be a great many *shocked* individuals on this forum by the time this dispute is resolved if they rely on Elestan's judgments.
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Elestan doesn't actually know the relevant law at issue (it takes years of practicing in this field to have a decent grasp of the subject) and doesn't actually know the complete body of facts (at this point, no party has access to all the facts - much less a non-party to the dispute).
Frogboy, you, Elestan himself, and im sure many many others have pretty much made that clear
In my opinion, it is unfortunate that Elestan's statements are being given any weight by any person.
Who cares if someone "gives them weight" nobody here has any impact on the outcome of the case. Its all just talk. I also don't think anyone here is so impacted by his statements that they suddenly wont buy Origins if they had originally intended to buy it...... I know I wont, in fact the more Frogboy talks about Origins the more excited I am about it.
I'd have no issue if Elestan discussed what is clearly his opinion on what he'd like to happen or should happen. My quibble is that Elestan makes statements that are conclusive as to the legal outcome of specific issues in dispute with just enough legal terminology thrown into his posts to make the reader think Elestan knows what he is talking about.
Its exactly what you just said CLEARLY his opinion. When it is CLEARLY an opinion (and it is pretty clear) I can tolerate a little conclusiveness to his statements.
With that said Im sure Frogboy is a little irritated with the non stop back and forth, but either way I dont think Elestans contributions to the the discussion are being taken as matter of factly by the people here as you think they are
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I think Elestan has hedged more or less every claim he's made with the caveat that he's not a lawyer and that his analysis is based purely on public documents and information. I don't see why he should be castigated for looking at the information in front of all of us and reasoning to the best of his ability (and sharing his outlook). I don't see anyone being misled.
So while I thank for your concern, svs, I think we're all adults here -- we can decide for ourselves how much weight to put in Elestan's point of view. If it consoles your anxiety, though, I certainly do include the possibility he is fully wrong on many counts (as, it seems, does he) and I can assure you I for one have the emotional wherewithal to withstand the disappointment of being mildly surprised should the dispute resolve itself in some fashion altogether different.
Quote from: Frogboy on April 09, 2018, 04:12:59 am
Altarians in GalCiv for OS/2:
[...snip...]
Full line up from 1992:
If I had been a fan of the original OS/2 GalCiv, I think my reaction to the Windows version would likely have been some variant of "Why did they change all these alien races from interesting and diverse species to reskinned humans?" Based solely on the examples you've posted there, I have to conclude that the OS/2 GalCiv is probably the best GalCiv; the newer aliens are just not interesting at all.
Talonious
Quote from: Death 999 on April 08, 2018, 01:52:10 pm
Krulle, thank you for giving me a hint of what svs must be feeling.
I cannot possibly see how your first argument is right. The announcement was definitely marketing.
Interesting, as I have not yet seen anywhere that the product will be sold.
I know, this is fa fetched, but I already once wrote I'd love to know the scope of the intended GotP project...
Marketing is also a very broad concept.
Advertisement and marketing are different, for the purpose of law. And the cited passage goes about advertisement, not marketing.
Nit-picking. But that will the lawyers be doing in the end.
TBH...
I think it's a stretch to assume that P&F are going to spend hundreds of hours creating a "true sequel" to Star Control 2 only to give it away for free. I mean, I suppose technically you can make the argument that they announced a brand new game after 25 years, immediately associated it with the beloved previous game that they had indeed sold, and that isn't definitive proof that they're planning on charging money (in some fashion or another) for the next game...
...but I'd consider that to be a bit of a reach just IMHO.
Those two positions are contradictory
Not necessarily. A recent discussion here suggested that race names are not subject to copyright. If this is correct, then I think he could put creatures called Spathi and Ur-Quan in SC:O...as long as he didn't make them similar enough to the Spathi and Ur-Quan in SC2 for a court to say that he was copying creative elements protected by Paul's copyright.
And that would be confusing as hell.
I suddenly have this mental image of a race acting like the Kohr-Ah with the name "Spathi" attached.
I mean, what would be the point of having the names if the species themselves have to be utterly dissimilar to the looks and traits of the species in question over the last 25+ years?
Quote from: Talonious on April 11, 2018, 03:43:25 am
A recent discussion here suggested that race names are not subject to copyright. If this is correct, then I think he could put creatures called Spathi and Ur-Quan in SC:O...as long as he didn't make them similar enough to the Spathi and Ur-Quan in SC2 for a court to say that he was copying creative elements protected by Paul's copyright.
I agree with you. When Frogboy stated:
For four years, we took lumps for not having Ur-Quan and Spathi and Orz in the Star Control reboot. People on this very forum have said "Why even call it Star Control if you won't have the Orz or Syreen?". That's how strongly people associate those names with the Star Control brand.
In my opinion, this is slanting the picture to fit Stardock's legal narrative. I value the personality, backstory, and appearance of the SC2 aliens (in that order) far more than their names, and I suspect that is true of most fans of SC2 - they don't want races called 'Orz' and 'Syreen'; they want "The Orz" and "The Syreen" from SC2. I suppose we could do a poll on /r/starcontrol to see what a larger sampling thinks.
Future Star Control games will have the Spathi, Ur-Quan, etc. They will not contain anything that would violate any copyrights that Paul and Fred may have. Our Spathi and Orz and such will be expressed very differently due to being in an obviously different universe.
From a bit of reading, it seems like one of the reasons that it's hard to prosecute claims of 'substantial similarity' is that it's pretty hard to prove that one work was really derived from another. But in this case, Stardock would be putting the aliens in a similar game under the same name as the one the original races came from, and Brad has explicitly said that he's doing it to please the fans of the original races. To me (as a non-lawyer), that would make it hard to credibly argue that any similarly there might be isn't derived from the original. It seems like they'd almost be forced to make them radically different, just to make sure they weren't too similar.
I'm really struggling to see what Stardock gains by using the original names, given the restrictions they'd be under. They could choose a fresh new name, and have total creative freedom to tell a great story without worrying about any legal consequences. Instead, this course would anger a lot of the old fans, while tying their own hands creatively. I just don't find it credible that there are enough people who only care about having the names to justify going this way...which, unfortunately, leaves me grasping for any explanation for it other than spitefulness. I really hope Stardock will reconsider.
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I suspect you're right on this. I can't comment on the legality question but from what Frogboy is saying, it sounds like he believes Stardock can make a race called "The Spathi" or "The Orz" so long as they are substantially dissimilar to the versions of those races that existed in Star Control 2.
There's even a pretty good setup on how to go about this. The whole "many universes" thing that Origins is predicted upon can be pretty easily reused as a narrative explanation for any differences between SC2 versions of a particular race and how they would be used in a future game. It's how different that they'd have to be to pass legal muster that makes me wonder the value of having them.
On the other hand, I COULD potentially see some fun ways to play around with it depending on how the legal proceedings play out. For example, what if the Ur-Quan had never found the Dynarri? The Ur-Quan's appearance could be radically changed (back to their original brown for instance before the Dynarri tampered with them) and so would their background, history and, most importantly, personality. So would the entire galaxy's history really. There's a lot of fun "what if" scenarios that could be explored by the many universes concept.
But it really depends on just how dissimilar the new versions of the races would have to be to avoid infringing on stuff that belongs (allegedly) to P&F. If they have to be so dissimilar that they are effectively just some brand new race that happens to have the same name as one that the fanbase associates with something completely different slapped onto them then I don't think that will work.
If, on other hand, they don't have to be changed to that extent then it certainly opens up quite a few possibilities in conjunction with the many universes approach.
Edit: The idea that the Dynarri are actually found thousands of years later than they were in the canon of SC2 when the Ur-Quan are basically the leaders of the Sentient Milieu and Earthlings are just now starting to discover warp travel is a pretty fun idea. The Dynarri could be the "big bad" of a new game with the Ur-Quan, and not the Chenjesu or the Chmmr, serving as the leaders of the good guys.
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Applying occam's razor: Legal retaliation. In my eyes, that's all it is really.
All other justifications are just unconvincing for the reasons already mentioned in this thread.
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Podcasts I like or don't like
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Re: Podcasts I like or don't like
Post by dreamrock » Fri Jun 11, 2010 9:14 pm
I totally agree on your statement re: StarShip Sofa. They run a fair amount of good stories, but there's so much editorial that I listen about once a quarter and delete episodes as soon as I find out the title sounds unappealing. I feel bad badmouthing Tony's podcast, but someone needs to edit his episodes after he does.
I'm not sure it's for everyone, but I'm enjoying the hell out of Paulette Jaxton's Empress Sword. It's technically fantasy and some of the info dumps are almost noticable. However, they're not nearly as ... extensive as SF info dumps. I'm not huge on Fantasy in general, and still enjoyed this.
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Post by tbaker2500 » Fri Jun 11, 2010 10:31 pm
I'll give it a try.
After you recommended it, I've fallen in love with Black Jack Justice and Red Panda. So incredibly pulp, but good.
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Post by Goldenrat » Mon Jun 14, 2010 5:15 am
I disagree about Star Ship Sofa. Tony's editorials don't bother me at all and I like the extra features in addition to the main fiction piece(s). I think his stories have been much better than Escape Pod's over the last six months. He does tend to go for longer stories and I can see where the length would turn a lot of people off but when I have a long drive that is always my podcast of choice (after Drabblecast, of course).
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Post by dreamrock » Mon Jun 14, 2010 5:55 am
The extra features don't bother me. I especially like History of Science Fiction and Jay Campanella's segments. But Tony meanders something fierce and even on my mp3 player's "fast mode," it's more than I can put up with on average. It's a case of a show that would clearly benefit from the Chapters function of M4A if my mp3 player supported M4As.
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Post by normsherman » Mon Jun 14, 2010 7:06 am
dreamrock wrote: The extra features don't bother me. I especially like History of Science Fiction and Jay Campanella's segments. But Tony meanders something fierce and even on my mp3 player's "fast mode," it's more than I can put up with on average. It's a case of a show that would clearly benefit from the Chapters function of M4A if my mp3 player supported M4As.
I very much agree with that statement, even thought about writing Tony about getting a format with chapters. The facts are:
A. SSS regularly runs top sci-fi stories by top-authors. That's not a 100% gaurantee for story success but it certainly keeps the odds high. The cast runs great stories much more often than not.
B. They get diverse readers who usually also do a kick ass job. Again, more often than not.
C. The episodes are long, the stories are long. Like Goldenrat says, this is good for people on trips or with long blocks of empty-- for me, I like short, for a multitude of reasons.
D. It is host heavy. Tony is someone I'd love to meet. He's a big fan of DC, he's stupendously nice, I always listen to his commentary. But most people I send his way aren't that into it and wanna get to the stories etc. A & B are +'s, C is subjective, D is subjective but can also be helped here w/o Tony changing his style, which many of us like.
It's extra work having chapters and the additional MP3 feed but I feel like we're in the same boat as Tony to some degree, and I don't want anyone to miss out on a good story by Krystine Rusch just because I insist on rapping about fastfood diarrhea beforehand.
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Post by alhilton » Mon Jun 14, 2010 2:24 pm
normsherman wrote: It's extra work having chapters and the additional MP3 feed but I feel like we're in the same boat as Tony to some degree, and I don't want anyone to miss out on a good story by Krystine Rusch just because I insist on rapping about fastfood diarrhea beforehand.
Several of the short fiction podcasts (yours, Dunesteef, SSS) attempt to hook people not just with stories, but with a cult of personality. When it works, it hooks people so much harder than stories alone and will keep them coming back even through several episodes of stories they didn't care for. It offers something truly different from print format. But it can backfire. Unfortunately, for me (and other people who've chimed in) your style works and Tony's doesn't. SSS is too long to support that kind of wandering monologue. I already put off listening to it because it looks like this huge time commitment. Often, I'm pleasantly surprised that the story itself is not extraordinarily long, but I don't know that when I'm looking at it in my player. When I listen to Tony, I often start off smiling and nodding, but at some point I get frustrated, and then I'm fumbling around in the episode trying to find the story. Chapter divisions would be nice, but that's just a bandaid. Better would be actually making the cult of personalty work for him. There's no reason it shouldn't, what with that pleasant demeanor and awesome accent. He just needs to set a timer and stop talking after 3 - 5 minutes!
Someone's going to say, "But Dunesteef can babble for an hour and it's entertaining!" Yes. Yes, they can. I have no idea why. Maybe because there are two of them.
And, for all I know, Tony's cult style is working for most people and we're just the outliers. This sort of thing is so individual. Pass the Kool-aid, Norm.
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Post by dreamrock » Mon Jun 14, 2010 3:20 pm
Apparently, there's something called ID3v2ChapterTool which adds some of the benefits of M4A to mp3s, but the format additions aren't well supported by players at the moment. I guess we, as podcast fans, can start pressuring player makers to support it. But I doubt we'll see any major improvements in that field in the short term.
And I have to echo all the nice things everyone has said about Tony. I really do hate to say anything bad about him at all because he is a stand up guy. From what I can discern just being a fan, I'm pretty sure he's one of the nicest humans to ever exist and who ever will exist. If I didn't listen to 47+ podcasts, plus regularly listen to LibriVox books (at an average of more than one a week), I doubt I'd be bothered by the SSS editorials.
Post by Talia » Thu Jun 17, 2010 5:48 am
Must say I too enjoy Tony's rambling editorials. But I understand the points of view who those who don't, I am assuming the new format being offered is in part a response to this (I have no doubt we are the only ones commenting so) but for the short term it doesn't necesarily seem effective if it does not work on most mp3 players.
I do imagine they are open to suggestions on formatting options that will make everyone happy, though.
Post by normsherman » Sun Jun 20, 2010 1:05 am
Also, blows my mind that Starship Sofa is a nonpaying "for-the-love" market and gets great stories donated by people like Terry Bisson, Ben Bova, David Brin, Spider Robinson, Nancy Kress, Dave Levine, Rob Reed the list goes on. Only a guy as nice as Tony could somehow pull that off.
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Post by doubleU46 » Mon Jun 28, 2010 4:18 pm
I really enjoyed "Weather Child" by Philippa Ballantine. Also "Metamor City" podcast by Chris Lester.
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Post by Mikes » Tue Aug 03, 2010 6:24 am
SSS has stories by Ben Bova? Hat damn, I missed that one.
Before I skip on over there to search, I've been listening regularly to Jonathan Stahan's Notes from Coode Street: http://www.jonathanstrahan.com.au/wp/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Not stories, but Jonathan's a sci fi editor and has weekly discussions with Gary K Wolf about current books in the genre and what's upcoming. It's current affairs approach means it's really not worth listening to back episodes, but it's only been going for a few months, so it's not like you're missing anything.
Also, they've started doing a segment called 'Books You Don't Have to Read', which take a genre classic and distill down what it's important and what it gave to following writers, giving you lots of geek knowledge to impress your friends with without having to wade through archaic language.
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Post by BarryJNorthern » Mon Aug 23, 2010 11:47 pm
There's so many I like and listen too, including some great factual ones from the BBC, such as In Our Time and Science in Action, but recently I've been getting into the Dunesteef and Julie Hoverson's 19 Nocturne Boulevard -- I tell you, it's dangerously close to out-weirding the Drabblecast.
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Post by themorg » Mon Sep 13, 2010 7:42 am
doubleU46 wrote: I really enjoyed "Weather Child" by Philippa Ballantine. Also "Metamor City" podcast by Chris Lester.
I just got into Metamor city and i have to say it is really good. A new one i just started listening to is The Tolkien Professor. It really breaks down everything Tolkien ever wrote and discussion form a class that he teaches.
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I have read and am re-reading to follow with their lectures and it is really fun.
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Post by Non-Euclidean Geo. » Thu Sep 23, 2010 2:09 am
My commute is an hour and fifteen minutes one way, so I've got lots of time for podcasts.
These here are the ones other than Drabblecast that I look forward to the most every week.
H.P. Lovecraft Literary Podcast (required listening for fans of the man from Providence)
The Moth (true stories told on stage. subscribe this second)
Selected Shorts(weekly, but it's all reruns in the Summer so it's not the time investment it appears to be)
This American Life (Pure f-ing genius)
Radio Lab (Pure motherf-ing genius)
Skeptoid (listen and feel superior to others within minutes)
Escape and PseudoPod
Beware the Hairy Mango
Now, about Starship Sofa; holy cow what a weight off my chest. I thought I was the biggest dick in the world for getting annoyed with the uber-nice host with an adorable accent, Tony Smith. Seriously, SSS is a great podcast, but how does he pull in such high-caliber stories for nothing. I remember a year back or so I actually unsubscribed for a couple months after he slammed the author Greg Egan on his podcast for not giving SSS a story free of charge. I missed me my Amy Sturgis and her science fiction history lessons, so I resubscribed, tail between my legs. Still, I'm scratching my head as to why authors give him anything when there are podcasts that pay (even if it's only beer money). Aren't there any other Harlan Ellisons out there?
Post by Mikes » Thu Sep 23, 2010 2:12 am
I'm still new to SSS, but I'd assume they don't get the Hugo for best fanzine for nothing. They must have a decent following.
Post by Talia » Fri Sep 24, 2010 3:51 pm
Regardless of whether you normally care for SSS, everyone really should take a listen at this week's episode. It starts off with a phone interview with sci fi legends Frederick Pohl and Jack Vance, both at once. Now, Pohl is 91 and Vance is 94, but they're both still sharp as tacks (though Vance rambles. Pohl seems aware of this and cuts him off several times, which is kind of funny), and its really fantastic hearing them talk to each other and to Tony.
The episode starts right off with the interview, so you can even skip the rest of the podcast if you're so inclined.
Post by tbaker2500 » Fri Sep 24, 2010 4:03 pm
I'm really enjoying "The Returning", by our very own eggyolk.
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Providing a fresh take on alien abductee stories, it surprises me with tackling plot head on, rather that just alluding to horrors. Good stuff!
Post by swamp » Fri Sep 24, 2010 4:14 pm
Talia wrote: Regardless of whether you normally care for SSS, everyone really should take a listen at this week's episode. It starts off with a phone interview with sci fi legends Frederick Pohl and Jack Vance, both at once. Now, Pohl is 91 and Vance is 94, but they're both still sharp as tacks (though Vance rambles. Pohl seems aware of this and cuts him off several times, which is kind of funny), and its really fantastic hearing them talk to each other and to Tony.
That interview was fantastic! They barely let Tony get a word in edgewise. I love how they still argued over a disagreement they had years ago, but did so in a friendly way.
I have just recently started listning to SSS, largely because of the discussion here. I've heard about it for years, but have never listened because I was woried about the time commitment. But it is great! Fantastic articles, interviews, and fiction. I had the same thought: "And he gets all of this great content for free!?" I will continue to listen.
tbaker2500 wrote: I'm really enjoying "The Returning", by our very own eggyolk.
I've been meaning to listen to that.
Post by normsherman » Sat Sep 25, 2010 7:41 am
Non-Euclidean Geo. wrote: Now, about Starship Sofa; holy cow what a weight off my chest. I thought I was the biggest dick in the world for getting annoyed with the uber-nice host with an adorable accent, Tony Smith. Seriously, SSS is a great podcast, but how does he pull in such high-caliber stories for nothing. I remember a year back or so I actually unsubscribed for a couple months after he slammed the author Greg Egan on his podcast for not giving SSS a story free of charge. I missed me my Amy Sturgis and her science fiction history lessons, so I resubscribed, tail between my legs. Still, I'm scratching my head as to why authors give him anything when there are podcasts that pay (even if it's only beer money). Aren't there any other Harlan Ellisons out there?
First off, good podcast suggestions, my list is about 80% the same!
Second, I wanted to chime in on that episode of SSS, which I remember distinctly myself. I listened to that one right after I had decided and announced that we were doubling our pay rate to authors (which is quite a financial commitment for the rest of a market's history!) I can understand Tony's frustration-- I've been blown off by Neil Gaiman's people after literally asking them to name their price for a story. But if people don't want to sell you something, they don't have to, and they definitely shouldn't be villianized for not giving it away for free. I'd be lying if I said I wasn't just a bit jealous of SSS for getting all that top-notch fiction regularly donated, but at the same time I'll be even more proud when we're able to double our rate again, paying authors even more for their hard work.
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Patrick Stewart: Beloved By The Geeks
We love this man.
Most geeks first experienced seeing Patrick Stewart in the role of the very un-Kirkish Captain Jean-Luc Picard on Star Trek: The Next Generation. Stewart had been an actor for years at this point, having been trained as a Shakespearean actor who played the London stage in tights that looked every sillier than the spandex uniforms he was asked to don for the first two years as Picard (Gene Roddenberry’s death allowed the producers to switch to more comfortable wool uniforms later in the series run). Later on, he played a character that sheer dumb luck was designed to look exactly like him, Professor Charles Xavier. Ask a number of geek fans if they know any other role he’s done, and they might be hard-pressed to name something.
Geek Love is not misplaced in this instance. We should love Patrick Stewart if for no other reason than he seems to be having fun most of the time, and he may very well be up for anything.
Here’s something a lot of geeks may not know: Patrick Stewart did not begin his geek-cred career with Star Trek. He did appear in minor roles in both David Lynch’s film version of Frank Herbert’s Dune and played King Leodegrance, father to Guinevere, in John Boorman’s excellent movie version of the life and times of King Arthur, Excalibur. He also appeared in something called Lifeforce, which dealt with a naked vampire woman from space sucking the life out of people.
I have gotten far too much use out of that photo of Watson.
But Stewart is probably the guy everybody secretly, or not so secretly, wishes could be their cool British grandpa, and not just because that would make Ian McKellan their cool, British uncle.
That wouldn’t be a bad thing either.
Look at some of the other things he’s done, things geeks should love:
Campaigns against domestic abuse of women. Nothing funny about that. That’s just awesome. It also puts him one ahead of Sean Connery.
Posed for Halloween in a giant lobster costume and put the photo online.
Goes way against his image any time he agrees to do voicework for Seth McFarlane, be it for the movie Ted or playing a character that looks a lot like Stewart himself on American Dad.
Does numerous appearances on various late-night shows, where he uses his natural gravitas to look as outright ridiculous as possible, including being among the large crowd to see off Stephen Colbert on the last episode of The Colbert Report.
In the making-of documentary from the first X-Men movie DVD, Stewart was the only cast member who admitted to reading comic books before signing on for the movie, though he added the caveat that he read British comics, not American superhero stuff.
Wrote an intro to one of the trades for Transmetropolitan.
Routinely pals around with Ian McKellan and takes adorable pictures with him. McKellan even acted as the officiant at Stewart’s most recent wedding.
Is not related at all to Kristen Stewart.
That is not his niece on the left.
I’m sure we can come up with other reasons, but really, geeks love Patrick Stewart. And the best thing may be, it does appear he loves us back. At the very least, he’s having a grand time being himself.
Posted on February 13, 2015 February 12, 2015 Author tomk74Categories Movies & TVTags David Lynch, Dune, Excalibur, Frank Herbert, Ian McKellan, John Boorman, King Arthur, Lifeforce, Patrick Stewart, Star Trek The Next Generation, Stephen Colbert, Transmetropolitan, Twilight sucks, X-Men
6 thoughts on “Patrick Stewart: Beloved By The Geeks”
TheHuntressDiana says:
Most excellent post Tom!!
I do recall Sir Patrick Stewart from Dune and Excalibur — but my memory is so fuzzy I cannot remember it all that well.
Even my husband, who is not a geek, likes him. Okay, okay, my husband tolerates him but he doesn’t cringe or roll his eyes when I share posts that involve him any more. So I see that as progress and exposure to the non-geek fandom.
Reblogged this on Musings of The Huntress Diana.
Agreed! He is awesome!
thegeekoutletllc says:
I especially liked the last point of why we love him: he is not related to that untalented hack that lacks expression, I mean, the star of those horrible teeny-bop, I glitter-in-the-sunlight-so-I’m-a-vampire, I mean well-told movies, Kristen Stewart.
Sorry my comment’s so late to the party but I felt the need to share. 🙂
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Int'l J. of Communications, Network and System Sciences
Vol.7 No.8(2014), Article ID:48569,8 pages DOI:10.4236/ijcns.2014.78031
Accident Prevention and Reporting System Using GSM (SIM 900D) and GPS (NMEA 0183)
Rashida Nazir, Ayesha Tariq, Sadia Murawwat*, Sajjad Rabbani
Department of Electrical Engineering, Lahore College for Women University, Lahore, Pakistan
Email: *sadia.murawwat@hotmail.com
Received 9 June 2014; revised 9 July 2014; accepted 30 July 2014
The Rapid growth of technology has made our lives easier. This advancement in technology also increased the traffic hazards. Hence the ratio of road accidents take place frequently increases that cause immense loss of life due to poor emergency facilities. Main causes behind these road accidents include: lack of training institutes, unskilled drivers, poor road conditions, use of cell phone during driving, over loading and poor governmental plans in this regard. Our research provides a solution for accident detection and prevention for human life safety. It enables intelligent detection of an accident at any place and reports about the accident on predefined numbers. Our system consists of two parts, alarming part and messaging part. The hardware includes SONAR ranging modules, vibration sensor, three modules GPS receiver (NMEA), Microcontroller (AT89S51), GSM modem (SIM 900D) and an Alarm. When distance is too short between the vehicle and obstacle then alarm will be “ON” as an indicator to move vehicle in other direction which is safer but when a vehicle faces accident despite of alarm, immediately vibration sensor will detect the signal and then Microcontroller sends the alert message through the GSM modem including the location to predefined numbers that can be reserved for a rescue team. Our designed system has been tested at different locations and found to be effectively working by sending alert messages to mobile phone user.
Keywords:Accident Protection, GSM Modem, GPS Modem, Sonar System, Vibration Sensor
Rapid development of economic construction and people’s living standard continues to improve well as road traffic accidents take place frequently which causes huge losses of life and property to the country and people. The development of a transportation system has been the generative power for human beings to have the highest civilization above creature in the earth. Despite many efforts taken by different organizations all around the world by various programs to aware against careless driving, accidents have taking place every day. However, many lives could have been saved if the emergency service could get the crash information and proper help provided at time.
Although different organizations all around the world carry out workshops and other training programs to make people aware of careless driving, this whole process is not very successful till date. For example, according to WHO (Word Heath Rankings) data published in April 2001 Road traffic accidents death in Pakistan reached 2154 or 1.58% of total deaths [1] showed the situation. In developed countries, many accident prevention technologies have been used. Since Pakistan is an underdeveloped country and not very efficient in technology usage. It will prove beneficial in Pakistan because it is not using any advance technology i.e. airbags use in western countries to secure the accident victims [2] . This system can also use in that car which is using technology of air bag because sometimes air bag doesn’t open and accident victim gets injured. The designed circuitry consist of five SONAR ranging modules from which four modules placed at the corners of the vehicle to keep an eye on the blind corners and one at the front of the vehicle. This SONAR is used to determine the exact position of the obstacle and gather range information from all around the car. The other circuitry which could detect accident, searched the location of accident and sent a massage on predefined numbers automatically. Application of this system significantly determines the accident site. Location detection and transmission of information are fully automated which win valuable rescue time. This paper is organized as follows introduction, novelty, methodology, hardware sections and implementation, software, results and conclusion.
2. Novelty
A smart phone based accident system is proposed by Thompson [3] . However smart phones are very expensive and due to false alarm filter it may not detect all accident. Accident detection by utilizing an impact sensor reporting system by wireless module is proposed by R.K Megalingam [4] . But a wireless reporting infrastructure is very expensive and difficult to implement as installation of repeated receives on the road at a very short interval are required. In [5] and [6] , no accident alerting system is available in the circuitry. In contrast, our system includes alarm alert system which will give warning to driver to slow down his speed when distance becomes less than threshold. This will reduce the chances of accident.
The system is working in four steps: alarming system, initialization of message circuitry, detection and information transmission. Figure 1 and Figure 2 show the work flow of our detection part.
3.1. Alarming System
The designed circuitry consist of five SONAR ranging modules from which four modules placed at the corners of the vehicle to keep an eye on the blind corners and one at the front of the vehicle. This SONAR is used to determine the exact position of the obstacle and gather range information from all around the vehicle. SONAR emits short, high frequency sound pulses at regular intervals. The minimum detection distance which ranges between 15 cm to 35 cm [7] . When the distance is less than this range, an alarm turns “ON” so that the driver get beware of accident.
3.2. Initialization of Messaging Circuitry
This system will be installed in the vehicle. LCD (Liquid Crystal Display) is attached adjacent to dash board from where the proper working condition of the system can be observed. The system will start automatically when the vehicle is ignited. The circuit will get power supply from the battery of vehicle and we can use separate battery too. Total voltage needed for circuit is 1 V voltage regulators are used for distribution of supply voltage. GSM needs 4.2 V for operation. LM317 with the combination of a resistor and regulator knob is used for
Figure 1. Work flow of our detection system.
Figure 2. Work flow of message transmitting system.
providing the desired voltage which is needed. 5 V are needed for operation of LCD, GPS, Microcontroller, 7402IC (NOR gates) and 7400IC (NAND gates) which is provided by 7805 voltage regulator. The network status pin does depict the status of accessing network and GPS antenna will be attached with window. So GPS can get signals continuously from satellite. GPS will take approximate same value with in distance of 40 meters. However value of location will be different in decimals during testing when we move system on adjacent locations. Whatever location is detected by GPS, it will be displayed on LCD.
3.3. Detection
Vibration sensor is connected with microcontroller through 7400IC. When collision of vehicle occurs, vibration sensor will sense the immense vibration. One of the inputs of NAND gate will goes high. It sends interrupt to microcontroller.
3.4. Transmission of Information
When Microcontroller will receive interrupt it will enable the GSM modem. It will send SMS on predefine numbers already store in microcontroller. When information will send through message “sending SMS (Short Message Service)” statement will be showed on LCD (Figure 3).
4. Hardware Section and Its Implementation
Hardware sections used in our detection system includes GPS modem, GSM modem, alarm module, microcontroller and vibration sensor.
4.1. Sonar Sensor
An ultra-sonic sensor transmits ultrasonic waves in the air and detects the reflected waves from surrounding objects. Ultrasonic sensor generates high frequency sound waves and evaluates the echo which is received back by the sensor. Sensor calculates the time interval between sending the signal and receiving the echo to determine the distance to an object. It uses very high frequency inaudible to humans. Sonar emits short, high frequency sound pulses at regular intervals. These propagate in the air at the frequency of sound. The minimum detection distance which ranges between 15 cm to 35 cm [7] . SRM-401 is SONAR ranging module standard that utilizes a SONAR ranging IC (PW0268) for ranging purpose.
4.2. GPS
The Global Positioning System (GPS) is a popular technology which was developed by American Department of Defense (DOD) for military use. Later on it was available for civilian use. It can be utilized for wide range of applications such as location, direction, speed, timing, surveying, logistic traffic management, security etc.
Figure 3. Physical realization of system.
Nowadays, it became an integral part of a vehicle system for tracking and navigation speed [8] . Each GPS satellite transmits data that indicates its location. All GPS satellites synchronize operations so that these repeating signals are transmitted at the same instant. The signals (moving at the speed of light) arrive at a GPS receiver at slightly different times because some satellites are further away than others. The distance to the GPS satellites can be determined by estimating the amount of time it takes for their signals to reach the receiver. When the receiver estimates the distance from at least four GPS satellites, it can calculate its position in three dimensions. In this system the GPS protocol National Marine Electronics Association (NMEA)-0183 is used.
The sensor for the location detection is the GPS receiver [9] . A very sensitive and accurate GPS signal acquiring device is required for the system. Its 20 parallel channels and 4000 search bins provide fast satellite signal acquisition and short setup time which is <8 seconds in hot start and <40 seconds in cold start. Tracking sensitivity of −159 dBm offers good navigation performance even in urban areas [10] .
4.3. GSM
GSM modem is similar to mobile phone without any display, keypad and speakers. This accepts a SIM card, and operates over a subscription to a mobile operator. GSM modem can accept any GSM network operator SIM card and act just like a mobile phone. More than 690 mobile networks provides GSM services across 213 countries and GSM represents 82.4% of all global mobile connections [11] . Besides the voice communication it also offers short messages services (SMS) and General packet radio services (GPRS) to transfer data. GSM digitizes and compresses data, then sends it down a channel with two other streams of user data, each in its own time slot. It operates at either the 900 MHz or 1800 MHz frequency band, in addition there are two others frequency bands but most common are mentioned above. The transmission rate of GSM is 270 kbps. The GSM modem utilized the GSM network to send the location of the accident. The modem can be controlled by the microcontroller.
The GSM modem has capacitors and resistors for their proper working and LEDs for indicating the network status. The network status pin does depict the status of accessing network right away when we turn the circuit “ON”. To represent it we used a green LED whose status will be that it will blink rapidly when like to acquire network and blink slowly after the assessment of network.
4.4. Control Unit
Atmel AT89S52 microcontroller is used for our control unit and it is a heart of detection system. It receives data from the GPS, processes all data and detects the accident location from processed data. Location of accidents also sends by microcontroller. ATMEL AT89S52 is a high performance low power 8 k bytes microcontroller of in-system programmable flash memory. The device is manufactured using Atmel’s high density nonvolatile memory technology and is compatible with the industry standard 80C51 instruction set. The on-chip flash allows the program memory to be reprogrammed in system or by a conventional nonvolatile memory programmer. AT89S52 is a powerful microcontroller which provides a highly flexible and cost effective solution to many embedded control applications.
The software used is Keil μ-Vision is a Windows based front end for the C Compiler and Assembler. μ-Vision IDE (Integrated Development Environment) allows developers to create embedded applications using the Keil development tools. Keil Software provides you with software development tool for the 8051 family of microcontrollers [12] . With these tools; you can generate embedded applications for the multitude of 8051 derivatives.
Proteus VSM allows professional engineers to run interactive simulations of real designs, and to reap the rewards of this approach to circuit simulation. Proteus 6 Professional separated into two main components, which are ISIS 6 Professional and ARES 6 Professional. ISIS 6 Professional mainly involved on circuit designing and simulation.
Code for this system is written in assembly language in Keil (Appendix). Then we connect our circuit on Proteus and burned the code from Keil on microcontroller and simulate the circuit in Proteus for verification that the system is working properly or not (Figure 4).
6. Results and Conclusions
An automatic accident prevention and reporting system is designed and implemented using wireless technolo-
Figure 4. Hardware connection of messaging system.
Figure 5. Snapshots for alert messages for accident detection.
gies like SONAR to prevent accident, GPS modem for finding the location of vehicle in terms of latitude and longitude, as well as GSM for sending message on mobile at the receiver end. As we conclude our paper here with the entire stimulus along with, we are still willing to upgrade the application of enhanced technology for the electronic equipment usage efficiency.
The snapshot indicates the messages alerts when our accident alert system is tested at two different locations near to one another. Hence, there is a small variation in the coordinates, the initial value of latitudes and longitudes are same but the fractional value changes with small difference. The first SMS shows that the testing accident has occurred at latitude of value 3132.80 along North direction and longitude of value 7419.64 along East direction. The second SMS is representing the values of latitude and longitude as 3132.77 North and 7419.61 East respectively (Figure 5).
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Here's Why You Should Add HEICO (HEI) Stock to Your Portfolio
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A strong balance sheet and cash flow generation capacity provide HEICO Corporation HEI financial flexibility in matters of incremental dividends and earnings accretive acquisitions.
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Zacks Rank & Surprise History
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The company has an average four-quarter positive earnings surprise of 9.47%.
Price Performance & Long-Term Growth
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Welcome to the Fowler Rotary Club website! We are located in Benton County, Indiana, the "Soybean Capitol of the World", and the "Home of Indiana's First Wind Farm Project"!
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Have You Referred a Member to Join Fowler Rotary Lately? Let's Get Started Today!!
RI President's Message -
Here in the United States, another summer is winding down. And for the Maloney family, every summer ends with a return to my hometown of Ridgway, Illinois, for the annual Popcorn Day festival, where I am honored to serve as the “Popcorn King,” the master of ceremonies for the day’s events.
Regardless of the season, every family has its own traditions. I would like to suggest a new one for yours: Find an opportunity to introduce your family to Rotary. One of my family’s traditions is to take our daughters and grandsons to the Rotary International Convention. The 2020 convention in Honolulu will be a wonderful way to introduce your children and grandchildren to the internationality of Rotary. We are planning many family-oriented events for everyone to enjoy.
Any time is a fabulous time to bring family members on a Rotary service project or to a fundraising event. But perhaps you have not seen many family-friendly events at your club. That is precisely why one of my top priorities this year is to make most Rotary events welcoming to family members.
We must foster a culture where Rotary does not compete with family, but complements it. We should never expect our members to choose between the two. That means being realistic in our expectations, considerate in our scheduling, and welcoming of children at Rotary events on every level.
Often, the young professionals that Rotary needs to attract in order to remain a dynamic 21st-century service organization are the very people who have the greatest family responsibilities. We must not keep these prospective young members away from their families by holding events on evenings and weekends at which their children are not welcome.
For too long, we have closed the doors of many Rotary events to children and sometimes even spouses. What wasted opportunities these are! Every chance we have to pass on the gift of Rotary to young people is one we must take if we are going to grow Rotary and ensure that the next generation is fully engaged in our mission.
So let us open our doors and do it in a fun way, with opportunities that make our children and grandchildren want to learn more about Interact, Rotaract, and Rotary membership. Start small if you must — perhaps by holding some of your meetings at more family-friendly times — but think about how you can continue these kinds of events for years to come.
Bringing children to Rotary events is not just fun; it also exposes them to the world! Make this a memorable year for your family — and an unforgettable year for the ever-expanding family of Rotary as Rotary Connects the World.
There was once a strong young man who was offered a job as a woodcutter. He set about his task with energy: The first week, he turned 18 trees into firewood. The second week, he worked just as hard, but was surprised to find he had chopped only 11 trees. The third week, despite working nonstop from morning till night, the number was six, and he went despairingly to the foreman to offer his resignation. "I am losing my strength. I can no longer cut as many trees as I once could." - See more at: http://portal.clubrunner.ca/50034#sthash.Q6bH4k37.dpuf
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Do Good With Us: The Rotary Foundation
Since 1917, The Rotary Foundation has spent more than $3.7 billion helping people and communities here at home and around the world.
Give Me Five, A High Five
Ni hao, Rotarians!
I hope you are making plans for the upcoming Rotary International Convention. Rotarians who live near the Pacific Ocean are especially excited! Next year’s event is in beautiful Hawaii, and I know everyone is eager to make the journey to that island paradise.
So “give me five” by signing up right now for the Honolulu convention if you haven’t already — and make a plan for how you are going to help The Rotary Foundation reach new heights in 2019. We are transforming lives everywhere, and it’s all because of you.
We remind you often about the importance of giving to the Annual Fund. These donations are making the world a better place, not just by helping to end polio now and forever. Your donations make every type of Rotary grant around the world possible.
But many of you don’t know something just as important: Contributing to the Rotary Endowment ensures our future. I hope you will consider creating your own legacy by making a gift to the endowment. The idea behind it is simple and very powerful. Rotary’s Endowment supports Foundation programs today and into the future.
We have a goal of $2.025 billion by 2025. We will reach that goal with your support. And once we do, amazing things will be possible. Just by drawing from the annual investment earnings, the Foundation will have about $100 million every year — year after year — for all kinds of life-changing and lifesaving projects. This will be an amazing accomplishment and will truly secure our Foundation long into the future.
This month, I want to give out two very special high-fives. The first goes to the Rotary Club of Taipei Roundtable. Members collected and donated $10,000 to End Polio Now during the installation ceremony for Club President Jeff Lin. Then, during a changeover ceremony a few days later, District 3750 in Korea inducted six new Arch Klumph Society members, bringing their total to eight. Congratulations for the outstanding job by new District Governor Yun Young-Jung!
The generosity of Rotarians continues to give my life great joy and purpose, and I hope it does for you as well.
Gary C.K. Huang
Foundation Trustee Chair 2019 - 2020
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Fowler Rotary Club on Facebook - Like Us
That's right folks! Fowler Rotary is now on Facebook. An invitation was sent out to each Fowler Rotarian to join Facebook, if they were not already members, to then check on the Fowler Rotary Club Facebook page. You can set up a Facebook personal account on your computer, then search for Fowler Rotary Club. After you see the Rotary info available, we hope you will click on the Like us button at the top of the page. You will then receive our club and important district updates, as well as those from your friends that you decide to choose, on your own Facebook personal page to keep you up to date with great information available with this social networking opportunity.
You can also get in touch with your many friends, as well as other Rotary clubs and Rotarians from around the world. Our good friends at the Boswell Rotary, Otterbein Rotary and Kentland Rotary Clubs also have a Facebook page, as well as Rotary International and Rotary District 6540. Check them out today, and become a friend on Facebook!
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What will Your Rotary Legacy Be?
Have you thought about what your Rotary legacy will be?
The Permanent Fund builds long-term stability for the future of The Rotary Foundation of Rotary International by providing an extra stream of income to meet an increasing demand for the Foundation's educational, humanitarian, and cultural programs. We invite you to invest in tomorrow by joining Rotarians around the world, and throughout District 6540 in their efforts to improve and enrich lives of people around the globe.
A Benefactor of The Rotary Foundation is anyone who informs The Rotary Foundation in writing that he or she has made a provision in his or her will or other estate plan, naming the Foundation's Permanent Fund as a beneficiary; or by making an outright gift of $1,000 or more to the Permanent Fund. Benefactor recognition consists of a certificate and insignia (Angel Wings) to be worn with a Rotary pin.
The Rotary Foundation also recognizes those couples or individuals who have made commitments in their estate plans totaling $10,000 or more, as a Bequest Society Member. Donors may elect to receive an engraved crystal recognition piece and a Diamond Circle pin commemorating the commitment.
This support goes above and beyond your current Every Rotarian Every Year (EREY) annual contributions to The Rotary Foundation. It is a commitment to the future in your estate planning.
If you would like to receive a gift commitment card to complete, please contact any member of the Rotary District 6540 Foundation Committee or any member of the District Leadership Team. Your legacy will make a lasting difference in the world! Thank you for your consideration.
Do You Wear Your Rotary Pin Everyday?
By Arnold Grahl, Rotary International News –
Luanne Triolo was several weeks into a challenge to wear her Rotary pin for 60 days straight when she realized she had missed a day.
So the 2009-10 president of the Rotary Club of Carol Stream, Illinois, USA, started all over again to meet the challenge William Ferreira, governor of District 6440, had set before all his club presidents.
"You get used to it. It's something that is really good to do," says Triolo. "Different pins do catch people's eye in different ways."
Share Your Passion for Rotary!
How You Can Get More Involved in Rotary
Are you a new Rotarian looking for more ways to get involved in your club? Or maybe you're a club leader trying to get your members more involved.
Take the new e-learning module on how to get involved in Rotary to learn how Rotarians all over the world have become more involved and have encouraged others to participate.
This interactive module features personal examples and ideas from Rotarians from every continent. Some mention using their skills, while others suggest taking on a leadership role. Navigate the module by choosing the part of the world you want to read about.
You can also learn more about getting involved in Rotary by visiting the Rotary E-Learning Center.
Dolly Parton's Imagination Library is in Benton County!
That's right, all preschool children (birth until their fifth birthday) living in Benton County are eligible to participate. There is no cost to you thanks to the Benton County Imagination Library, the Benton Community Foundation and the many organizations, businesses and individuals who support this excellent program.
Each month a new carefully selected book will be mailed to your child's name, directly to your home. They can look forward to new and exciting reading adventures from Dolly Parton's Imagination Library until they turn five years old, as long as you remain a resident of Benton County.
Register your child today by calling (765) 884-0541 for more information, or you can visit your nearest public library in Benton County to get a registration brochure.
The Fowler Rotary Club is proud to be an annual sponsor of this excellent program to benefit the pre-school age children of Benton County.
Rotary Clubs have Water Projects on Tap
By Arnold Grahl and Ryan Hyland - Rotary International News
Billions of people lack access to safe drinking water and proper sanitation. Rotarians are involved in projects worldwide, from building mechanized water systems to teaching better personal hygiene.
Villages in four regions of Ghana are being equipped with ventilated pit latrines, showers, and boreholes featuring hand pumps and mechanized pipes through the efforts of dozens of Rotary clubs in Latin America, North America, and Ghana.
The effort is part of the International H2O Collaboration, an alliance between Rotary International and USAID. Launched in 2009, it works to implement long-term, sustainable water, sanitation, and hygiene projects in the developing world. The first phase of the partnership has focused on three countries: Ghana, the Philippines, and the Dominican Republic.
This is Rotary!
Rotary is an opportunity to build lifelong friendships and experience the personal fulfillment of providing volunteer service to others.
Rotary International Credit Card Application
All U.S. Rotarians can earn $50 for your Rotary club by applying online for the Rotary International Platinum Plus MasterCard credit card at the web link below and make qualifying purchases with your new card. At the same time, you will be supporting Rotary's $200 Million Challenge to eradicate Polio from the face of the earth.
Historic Moments: Paul Harris Fellow Recognition
By Susan Hanf, Rotary International News - November 16, 2010
The Paul Harris Fellow recognition acknowledges individuals who contribute, or who have contributions made in their name, of US$1,000 to The Rotary Foundation of Rotary International.
It was established in 1957 to show appreciation for and encourage substantial contributions to what was then the Foundation's only program, Rotary Foundation Fellowships for Advanced Study, the precursor to Ambassadorial Scholarships.
Fowler Rotary Club Service Projects
The Rotary Club of Fowler serves the community of Fowler, IN, the surrounding area in Benton County, and international projects, by providing direct monetary support. Some of the organizations and projects that we have supported in recent years include:
More About Fowler, IN - "The Heart of the Prairie"
Fowler, Indiana is a town of about 2,400 people located in Benton County in rural Northwest Indiana. Fowler is an agricultural community known for its rich fertile soil that produces near record crops of corn and soybeans every year. Thus, the self proclaimed title for Benton County - the "Soybean Capitol of the World."
The Benton County, Indiana Website
If you have the opportunity, go check out the new Benton County, Indiana website. It will be a great resource to promote what we have to offer as a county-wide community. To view the website, click on the Benton County Website in the left toolbar area of this page.
Time is Right to End Polio
By Arnold R. Grahl, Rotary International News -
New tools, new tactics, and increased support from political leaders have put Rotary and its partners in the Global Polio Eradication Initiative in the best position ever to finish the job of ridding the world of polio.
What does it mean to be a Rotarian?
Do you truly appreciate the significance of being a part of this glorious past and present? As Rotarians, you are special people and millions around the world would be happy to confirm that fact.
What is a Rotarian?
• A Rotarian is a person who digs wells from which they will never drink,
• A person who vaccinates children they will never meet,
• Who restores sight for those they will never see,
• Who builds houses they will never live in,
• Who educates children they will never know,
• Who plants trees they will never sit under,
• Who feeds hungry people, regardless of race, religion or politics,
• Who makes crawlers walk half a world away,
• Who knows real happiness, which as Albert Schweitser said, can only be found by serving others.
Inside A ShelterBox USA
The need exists, the need persists.
Shelterboxes are being sent to the people of Haiti and Chile on a regular basis from the donations of individual citizens including many Rotarians, Rotary Clubs, other service & community groups, schools, church groups, businesses, corporations, and small private foundations. The following will explain what is a Shelterbox, and the contents of them, depending on the disaster they serve.
Materials are ordered from a range of suppliers selected for general use, long-life, quality and price. Shelterboxes are prepared and packed using all new materials as delivered from manufacturers, at the Shelterbox warehouse based in Helston, Cornwall. The standard Shelterbox weighs 110 lbs. and has approximate dimensions 2'3" x 1'4" x 11". They are sealed and banded for transit and security. Box contents vary depending on the nature of the disaster requiring their use.
The price of a complete Shelter Box is $1,000 (US). This includes the purchase of new Box items, assembly, warehousing and their subsequent delivery to the site location, (covering transportation, handling, insurance) and standard administrative costs.
Smaller donations are also gratefully accepted. ShelterBox USA will combine partial donations and distribute a complete box when funds equal the cost of an entire box. All donations submitted with a mailing address will be sent a tax-deductible receipt, noting the Box number their contribution funded.
For more information on how you can help by making a donation, go to www.shelterboxusa.org
Boxes are sometimes packed with two 10-person tents in them, (to the exclusion of some smaller items, to maximize shelter capacity. Some of the selected Box items that are available for inclusion in the Box are:
How We Choose To Live and Conduct Our Daily Lives
One of the most widely printed and quoted statements of business ethics in the world is the Rotary International 4-Way Test. It was created by Rotarian Herbert J. Taylor in 1932 when he was asked to take charge of a company that was facing bankruptcy. Taylor looked for a way to save the struggling company mired in depression caused financial difficulties. He drew up a 24 word code of ethics for all employees to follow in their business and professional lives. The 4-Way Test became the guide for sales, production, advertising and all relations with dealers and customers, and the survival of the company is credited to this simple philosophy.
Herb Taylor became president of Rotary International in 1954-55. The 4-Way Test was adopted by Rotary in 1943 and has been translated into more than a hundred languages and published in thousands of ways.
THE FOUR- WAY TEST
Of the things we think, say or do:
First: Is it the TRUTH?
Second: Is it FAIR to all concerned?
Third: Will it build GOODWILL and BETTER FRIENDSHIPS?
Fourth: Will it be BENEFICAL to all concerned?
The Object of Rotary is to encourage and foster the ideal of worthy enterprise and, in particular, to encourage and foster:
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22-year-old man sentenced to life behind bars for murdering 3 people in downtown Lawrence
Posted 1:31 pm, August 1, 2019, by AP
Anthony Laron Roberts Jr.
LAWRENCE, Kan. — A 22-year-old Topeka man was sentenced to life in prison after being convicted of killing three people in downtown Lawrence.
Anthony Laron Roberts Jr., was sentenced Thursday in the October 2017 shootings that killed 22-year-old Leah Elizabeth Brown, of Shawnee; 20-year-old Colwin Lynn Henderson III, of Topeka; and 24-year-old Tre’Mel Dupree Dean-Rayton, of Topeka.
The Lawrence Journal-World reports two other men were shot but survived. Brown was the only victim who didn’t know anyone involved.
Two co-defendants, Ahmad Malik Rayton and Dominque Jacquez McMillon, both of Topeka, pleaded to lesser charges earlier this year.
The shooting started with a fistfight between two groups of Topeka men who had previous confrontations and ended when more than 20 shots were fired.
Breaking: Last man sentenced in Massachusetts Street triple shooting gets life in prison. Details to come: https://t.co/nwvnDyhhdN pic.twitter.com/69ZiMyaODN
— Mackenzie Clark (@mclark_ljw) August 1, 2019
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If you just can't find the means to schedule a trip to Vegas this year, don't despair. A great gambling experience can still be yours. And best of all, it can be experienced in the comfort of your own home with Natsume's Virtual Casino.
With a list of playable games that include Roulette, Seven Card Stud, Baccarat, Blackjack and Slot Machines, Virtual Casino is filled with play that can be enjoyed for hours. There is even an option to play Baccarat and Roulette against a friend in Two-player Mode. For the. gamer looking for a challenge beyond what just the games can bring, there is also a Story Mode to enjoy. This style of play starts you out with a menial sum of money and forces you to acquire a predetermined dollar amount in that specific game before moving on to the next. Then the whole process repeats itself for the next game.
Many players will consider the graphics to be below par compared to more complex titles, but they do work fine with the low demands of a casino title where play is more important than graphics. Between-game cinemas in the Story Mode are also kept to a minimum, brining nothing but pure gambling to players.
Players in search of a gambling title with plenty of replay value need to look no further. Grab your imaginary money and try to avoid the fictional poor house!
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Fans of casino gambling get ready-virtual Casino is here. This one is a heck of a lot of fun. The graphics are super sharp and the music fits the game perfectly. The Story Mode is cool, but the computer usually has an unfair advantage. For instance, in 7 Card Stud, the computer received four straight flushes to my one. There are some nice save options though (even to memory cartridge) that make saving money and continuing easy. Some of the games were difficult to leam but after looking over the manual they got easier to play through. The VS. Mode is a neat option that really increases the replay value of the game.
Talk about tantalizing FMV! That's the Japanese for you-open about sexuality. On the game itself, I liked Virtual Casino very much. It is what I would expect from a 32-Bit gambling title. The game has great graphic, though I would've preferred something a bit more colorful and fun. The graphics gave Virtual Casino too much of a serious feel. The Story Mode is a great feature, but a few more games should've been included. Five small casino events just isn't enough to hold my attention. Here's a gambling tip for you-don't bother trying to bluff the computer at 7 Card Stud. It's too stupid to realize what you are doing.
As far as video-gambling games go, VC is okay. It covers all the mainstay gambling games, from Blackjack to slots, and the graphics are sharp. I really like the Story Mode, which lets you build a virtual fortune by progressing through a series of gambling games. Still, I wish there were more games to play (there are only five). The Two-player Mode ain't all that exciting, either. You can only choose from the two gambling games-Roulette and Baccarat-in which it doesn't matter if your opponent sees what you're up to. The developers should have added more multiplayer games and trusted players to hide their eyes.
I'm not sure if this is the best usage of a 32-Bit system like the Saturn, but it's still great for avid gamblers. The Story Mode is the best feature, allowing you to take on Vegas with a vengeance by setting goals to advance to the next level (and the next type of game). The Practice Mode is great for learning about gambling techniques, and is highly recommended if you want to win the Story Mode. The Two-player Mode is weak, sporting only two games and no fun. The background music is a nice touch, but can get annoying after a long Roulette session. If you like gambling, check this one out or cash in your chips.
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From: New connections in the prokaryotic toxin-antitoxin network: relationship with the eukaryotic nonsense-mediated RNA decay system
Contextual information and an ordered graph of gene neighborhood and domain architectures of the PSK network. The top panel shows the gene neighborhoods (predicted operons) for some of the PSK systems and other relevant gene clusters. The arrows indicate the direction of transcription. For each gene neighborhood, representative gene names are given below the depicted operon and the phyletic distribution of the operons is provided in brackets. The organisms are abbreviated as Figures 1 and 2. If an organism has more than one representative of a given PSK system, that number is appended before the organism's abbreviation. If one of the organisms has additional functionally relevant genes in the neighborhood, then these neighborhoods are shown separately, and linked to the core conserved gene neighborhood with an arrow. The lower right panel shows the ordered graph for the contextual information contained in conserved gene neighborhoods and domain fusions. The red edge in the graph denotes a neighboring gene, while the black edge denotes domain fusion. The direction of the edge denotes the order of the genes or the order of the fusion of domain in the polypeptide. Members of the vast assemblage of DNA-binding domains that share common structural features, namely the HTH (helix-turn-helix) and the RHH (ribbon-helix-helix) folds, have been colored blue. The triangles indicate toxins and the stars indicate anti-toxins/transcription factors. Domain architectures of a select set of proteins discussed in the text are shown in the lower left panel. The domain abbreviations are: abhydr, alpha/beta hydrolase; eif2G, translation initiation factor eIF-2, gamma subunit; FF, protein-protein interaction domain from human hypa/fbp11; Frpts, tetratricopeptide repeats; HTH Psq, HTH of the pipsqueak variety; LRR, leucine rich repeats; N, amino-terminal alpha-helical domain found in MloA-like proteins; RpoE1, DNA-directed RNA polymerase subunit E9; RpoE2, DNA-directed RNA polymerase subunit E99; S6E, ribosomal protein S6E; S24E, 30S ribosomal protein S24E; S27AE, 30S ribosomal protein S27AE; Sag, Yersinia/Haemophilus virulence surface antigen; TPR, tetratricopeptide repeats; YjeFKin, YjeF-like ribokinase. The species abbreviations are as shown in Figures 1, 2 and additionally: Pab, Pyrococcus abyssi; Pfu, Pyrococcus furiosus; Pyae, Pyrobaculum aerophilum; Hsom, Haemophilus somnus; Pmul, Pasteurella multocida; Spne, Streptococcus pneumoniae; Styp, Salmonella typhimurium; Ypes, Yersinia pestis.
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Harcourt, Rivers State, on Sunday, as the state police command confirmed the arrest of 320 Boko Haram suspects.
Though details were still sketchy as of the time of filing this report, Nigerian Tribune gathered that the suspects were arrested from a convoy of 17 commuter buses, all coming from Jigawa State.
However, sources at the State Criminal Investigation Department (SCID) confirmed that the arrest was made after a tip-off.
According to the sources, the suspects, arrested in the convoy led by one Bala Marto Danbam, were all travelling in buses belonging to a transportation company owned by a former Inspector General of Police.
“The arrest started from about 1.00 a.m till about 7.00 a.m at different points; some were arrested as they were entering the state boundary, while others were arrested from places like Mile One and other parts of Port Harcourt.
“Three hundred and twenty of them, men and women, were arrested and the manner of the travelling was deemed suspicious; so many people in those buses and at that time of the day was suspicious,” the source said.
When reached for comments, the state Police Commissioner, Joseph Mbu, confirmed the development, adding that the state command would not comment on the matter yet for security reason.
“It’s a top security issue. I don’t know how you got the information and I won’t ask you, but there cannot be any comment now from the Rivers police command until we finish the investigation. I will make no comment,” Mbu said.
It could not be confirmed if arms or other incriminating objects had been discovered with the suspects, but they, alongside the buses that conveyed them, were inside the premises of the police department.
Nigerian Tribune observed that security had been tightened around the SCID on Sunday evening, as movements into and around the area were under close watch.
Journalists who tried to access the premises were strictly barred by policemen on guard.
It was also observed that the areas close to the SCID premises were thronged by people believed to be friends and kinsmen of the arrested suspects.
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“Making inroads into the elimination of child poverty may just be the remedy we all need for the ever increasing costs to the health system. Keeping people well, it seems, is the much cheaper option.”
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An article in the 15 December Manawatu Standard, Inequalities stymie health gains for Polynesians, makes a poignant statement and raises important concerns on Māori and Pacific health. Highlighting statistical data gleaned from the New Zealand Health Survey results for 2013 and 2014, the report covered the wide gap in health outcomes between Māori and Pacific and other ethnic groups. A staggering array of both causes and conditions were listed, describing a situation in which certain social groups experience a greater burden of disease than their existing counterparts (see ‘Health promotion, human rights and equity’ on the Health Promotion Forum website).
Most of these outcomes can be attributed to social inequities; that is, those unfair, avoidable and unjust factors that impact negatively on the health of social groups. A closer look shows that these outcomes are systemic and relate to what Sir Michael Marmot has described as the social determinants of health (see HPF paper ‘Health and social inequalities; issues of justice and fairness’)
In the article, interviewee Chrissy Paul touches on a number of key points as to why these disparities may persist. As she accurately points out, these outcomes cannot simply be put down to ethnicity. It can also be shown that they cannot be classed as behavioural or cultural but rather structural i.e. how society is arranged. The entire breadth of a situation must be considered when questioning why any health outcome occurs. For example if Māori and Pacific people are experiencing higher rates of psychological duress then the reasons for this could emanate from a range of social, environmental, political and economic factors. Chrissy further provided an important clue by referencing the fact that negative health statistics are found in “[Deprivation] Decile 10 areas,” that is communities that experience higher levels of deprivation.
On this topic it is timely, for proponents of preventative health, that a nationwide discussion has focussed on poverty and the widening gap between the ‘haves’ and ‘have nots’. For example, Bryce Edwards, in his NZ Herald opinion piece on Monday 15th December suggests that ‘Inequality’ could be the word of the year in New Zealand politics. The correlations between poverty and health outcomes are now very well-known and understood. It is true that poverty exists across all ethnicities but it is hard to overlook the stark contrast between Māori and Pacifica peoples and other groups.
Children are a case in point. The Child Poverty Monitor: 2014 Technical Reportshows that 1 in 3 Māori and Pacifica children live in poverty as compared to 1 in 6 European children. It also states that three out of 5 of these children are likely to live this way for many years. The impact of this on health across the life continuum is obvious, not to mention extremely costly. For example rates of hospitalisations for children living in the most deprived areas (NZDep deciles 9–10) were nearly 3 times higher than for those in areas with the least deprivation (NZDep deciles 1–2). Further the majority of hospital admissions were due to infectious and respiratory diseases among children aged 0–14 years. During 2009–2013, 82% of these admissions were for asthma and wheeze, acute bronchiolitis, acute upper respiratory infections, gastroenteritis, viral infection of unspecified site, skin infections or pneumonia (bacterial, non-viral). In many cases these outcomes were completely preventable.
One simple solution is to reinstate a universal child benefit; to lift not only poor families, but all struggling whānau, above the bread line. Other answers can be found in the Office of the Children’s Commissioners report Choose kids: why investing in children benefits all New Zealanders.
Making inroads into the elimination of child poverty may just be the remedy we all need for the ever increasing costs to the health system and our communities. Keeping people well, it seems, is the much cheaper option.
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UH gardening gurus set invasive-species classes
Hawaii gardeners have the advantage of a year-round growing season that allows us to pick up plants any time of year and add them to our backyard collection. And local garden centers carry an abundance of ornamental shrubs, trees and herbs from which to choose.
The University of Hawaii Cooperative Extension Service wants to help home gardeners to be knowledgeable when choosing plant material. The UH Master Gardeners on Oahu have teamed up with the Hawaii Invasive Species Council to provide classes and demonstrations to the public. (See the Star-Advertiser’s Home & Garden calendar for class listings.)
What is an invasive species? Technically, according to HISC, an invasive species is an alien species — plant, animal, or microbe transported by humans to a location outside its native range — whose introduction has caused or is likely to cause economic or environmental harm or harm to human health.
Basically, foreign plant material that propagates at warp speed and those seeds or plant parts that can travel long distances to naturally forested areas are termed invasive. These plants often demonstrate rapid and aggressive growth, production of numerous seeds that are spread easily by wind, wing or water, and the ability to grow under many different soil and climatic conditions.
What is the impact of invasive species? It’s the plants whose “keiki” reach the natural forested areas that take the largest toll on our native species and ecosystems. They threaten native plant habitats, reducing the number of native plants and affecting plant biodiversity, as well as the insect biodiversity that depends on those plants.
Aside from harming the environment, the control of invasive plants costs manpower and money. The elimination of infestations requires herbicide applications or back-breaking work cutting down or pulling out plants, and can take years. The small efforts to prevent the spread of invasive species or catch an infestation early on are still the most cost-effective ways to keep invasive plants out of our local landscapes.
Urban gardeners in Hawaii can help by becoming knowledgeable about invasive species. Several UH College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resources publications have been produced to inform the public about non-native plant alternatives. For example, “Non-Invasive Landscape Plants with Fragrant Flowers” lists Champaca (miulana melemele), a beautiful evergreen tree with yellowish-cream to orange flowers that blooms year-round. Other plants listed include plumeria, Tahitian gardenia and southern magnolia, all widely available in local garden centers.
Please call your local UH Master Gardener Helpline to be directed to these publications for full details of each plant (call 453-6055 on Oahu to inquire about your local Helpline number).
Prevent the introduction of invasive species in the landscape by learning to identify those plants with invasive potential and being knowledgeable about alternative noninvasive species.
“Plant Pono!” is the theme of this month’s Second Saturday from 9 a.m. to noon Saturday at the Urban Garden Center in Pearl City. Classes on invasive species will be held at 9:30 and 11 a.m. The cost is $5. Other activities include guided tours and a seed sale. For more information, visit www.ctahr.hawaii.edu/ougc or call 453-6055 or 453-6050.
Jayme Grzebik is an urban horticulturist with the University of Hawaii-Manoa Cooperative Extension Service, part of the College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resources. Reach her at grzebik@hawaii.edu.
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New portable $2 saliva test detects Zika in 40 minutes
Current gold-standard tests to detect the virus require expensive lab equipment and trained personnel.IANS | July 01, 2016, 07:39 IST
New York: Scientists have now developed a new $2 test that has been found in the lab to accurately detect low levels of the virus in saliva.
The World Health Organization (WHO) recently announced that there was no need to postpone or move the Olympics from Brazil due to Zika's presence, but concern over the virus' spread and its link to serious birth defects is far from allayed.
Public health experts debate whether WHO made the right call. But while the discussion continues, scientists are working on new tools to help manage the outbreak.
Current gold-standard tests to detect the virus require expensive lab equipment and trained personnel.
Changchun Liu from University of Pennsylvania and colleagues wanted to design a rapid, low-cost, and more reliable point-of-care detection test.
To ensure their system would be highly selective for Zika without confusing it with similar viruses, the researchers looked for and found a stretch of genetic code that is nearly identical for 19 different strains of the Zika virus infecting people in the Americas but not in other pathogens.
Then, with materials costing $2 per test, they developed a diagnostic system, which only requires the addition of water to operate.
If the Zika-specific genetic sequence is in a saliva sample, a dye within the system will turn blue within 40 minutes, the researchers reported in Analytical Chemistry, journal of the American Chemical society.
The test even works if low levels of the sequence are present, the study said.
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Crucial contact
Artificial skin makes nursing robots sensitive
Sensitive synthetic skin enables robots to sense their own bodies and surroundings – a crucial capability if they are to be in close contact with people.
Inspired by human skin, a team at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) has developed a system combining artificial skin with control algorithms and used it to create the first autonomous humanoid robot with full-body artificial skin. The artificial skin developed by Prof. Gordon Cheng and his team consists of hexagonal cells about the size of a two-euro coin (i.e. about one inch in diameter). Each is equipped with a microprocessor and sensors to detect contact, acceleration, proximity and temperature. Such artificial skin enables robots to perceive their surroundings in much greater detail and with more sensitivity. This not only helps them to move safely. It also makes them safer when operating near people and gives them the ability to anticipate and actively avoid accidents.
This might not be as important in industrial applications, but in areas such as nursing care, robots must be designed for very close contact with people
Gordon Cheng
The skin cells themselves were developed around 10 years ago by Gordon Cheng, Professor of Cognitive Systems at TUM. But this invention only revealed its full potential when integrated into a sophisticated system as described in the latest issue of the journal “Proceedings of the IEEE”.
The biggest obstacle in developing robot skin has always been computing capacity. Human skin has around 5 million receptors. Efforts to implement continuous processing of data from sensors in artificial skin soon run up against limits. Previous systems were quickly overloaded with data from just a few hundred sensors.
To overcome this problem, using a NeuroEngineering approach, Gordon Cheng and his team do not monitor the skin cells continuously, but rather with an event-based system. This reduces the processing effort by up to 90 percent. The trick: The individual cells transmit information from their sensors only when values are changed. This is similar to the way the human nervous system works. For example, we feel a hat when we first put it on, but we quickly get used to the sensation. There is no need to notice the hat again until the wind blows it off our head. This enables our nervous system to concentrate on new impressions that require a physical response.
Prof. Gordon Cheng and his team developed a system combining artificial skin with new control algorithms.
Image: Astrid Eckert / TUM
With the event-based approach, Prof. Cheng and his team have now succeeded in applying artificial skin to a human-size autonomous robot not dependent on any external computation. The H-1 robot is equipped with 1260 cells (with more than 13.000 sensors) on its upper body, arms, legs and even the soles of its feet. This gives it a new “bodily sensation”. For example, with its sensitive feet, H-1 is able to respond to uneven floor surfaces and even balance on one leg.
With its special skin, the H-1 can even give a person a hug safely. That is less trivial than it sounds: Robots can exert forces that would seriously injure a human being. During a hug, two bodies are touching in many different places. The robot must use this complex information to calculate the right movements and exert the correct contact pressures. “This might not be as important in industrial applications, but in areas such as nursing care, robots must be designed for very close contact with people,” explains Gordon Cheng.
Gordon Cheng's robot skin system is also highly robust and versatile. Because the skin consists of cells, and not a single piece of material, it remains functional even if some cells stop working. “Our system is designed to work trouble-free and quickly with all kinds of robots,” says Gordon Cheng. “Now we're working to create smaller skin cells with the potential to be produced in larger numbers.”
Source: Technical University of Munich (TUM)
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Image guidance and robotics in the OR improve precision in the OR
Key trends in computer-assisted surgery and robotics dominated the agenda of the annual congress of the German Association for Computer- and Robotics-Assisted Surgery (CURAC), reports Michael Reiter.
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Meeting with EH editor Brigitte Dinkloh, Congress Secretary Professor Alexis Ulrich MD (left), Assistant Medical Director at the Clinic for General, Visceral and Transplant Surgery at the University…
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Heart Hammer
so much headbeaten heart hammer silver —Paul Celan
I suspect it's clear to anyone who has popped by over the past few weeks that the lights have gone out here.
Which is to say "click".
And good night.
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If you have a moment, pay a visit to the Tarpaulin Sky web page for Danielle Dutton's forthcoming book, Attempts at a Life. The book is terrific, one of two Dutton has coming out in the near future (the other, Sprawl, from Clear Cut).
Also, Sandy Florian's excellent Telescope is almost out (or is out??) from Action Books. For more info on it go here.
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Brian Evenson's The Open Curtain is out from Coffee House. Awfully nice to be in his company this season. There is a fine review of it here.
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Too true?
"...life is short, reading is long, and literature is in the process of killing itself off through an insane proliferation."
Milan Kundera (in the October 9th issue of the New Yorker).
Time Out NYC and Seattle's The Stranger generously accord The Ex some column inches.
Duncan Barlow's cat, Monkey, approves of the book too.
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Dead Souls meets the Yellow River:
CHENJIAYUAN, China — For many Chinese, an ancestor is someone to honor, but also someone whose needs must be maintained. Families burn offerings of fake money or paper models of luxury cars in case an ancestor might need pocket change or a stylish ride in the netherworld.
But here in the parched canyons along the Yellow River known as the Loess Plateau, some parents with dead bachelor sons will go a step further. To ensure a son’s contentment in the afterlife, some grieving parents will search for a dead woman to be his bride and, once a corpse is obtained, bury the pair together as a married couple.
“They happen pretty often, especially when teenagers or younger people die,” said Yang Husheng, 48, a traveling funeral director in the region who said he last attended such a funeral in the spring. “It’s quite common. I’ve been in the business for seven or eight years, and I’ve seen all sorts of things.”
The rural folk custom, startling to Western sensibilities, is known as minghun, or afterlife marriage. Scholars who have studied it say it is rooted in the Chinese form of ancestor worship, which holds that people continue to exist after death and that the living are obligated to tend to their wants — or risk the consequences. Traditional Chinese beliefs also hold that an unmarried life is incomplete, which is why some parents worry that an unmarried dead son may be an unhappy one.
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One thing the pompous can't stand is ridicule.
Not superheroes, really, just people in funny costumes. You could as easily take it as a joke about the relentless march of tawdry American culture. But the important thing is that IT'S NOT FUNNY.
"Did you hear what he said?"
The news this week is sounding more and more like a junior-high rumor mill. I'd heard that former president Obama made a crack about "mommy issues" and wondered what that might be referring to. Once again, a Google search of recent articles about what sounded like a hot topic left me scratching my head. Mr. Obama uttered the phrase, the consensus seems to be that the audience laughed knowingly (or tittered nervously?), and a few people are asking whether it's obvious whether he was taking a jab at President Trump's relationship with his mother.
I had not previously been aware of the minor cottage industry in analyzing Mr. Trump's supposed failure to bond with a primary caregiver in infancy. In any case, some reports of Mr. Obama's curious remark are skeptical that he was even referring to Mr. Trump at all, though quite a few analyzed the strategy of throwing out comments without mentioning the sitting president by name. If the press were a little more curious and evenhanded, at least a few of the articles might have adopted an attitude of wonder that the former president was making such inscrutable remarks to apparently appreciative audiences. There would be talk of dog whistles. If President Trump had tweeted about "mommy issues," I suspect there'd be more 25th Amendment chatter this week.
For my own part, I wouldn't assume the remark referred to Mr. Trump at all. I'd assume it was a crack about what keeps people from voting for wonderful candidates like Hillary Clinton (or even Angela Merkel?). It was perhaps a less incendiary version of the "ex-wife issues" excuse for Clinton's perceived loathsomeness.
But it's a sign of the state of the press that people are grasping at these pieces of fluff instead of discussing anything concrete that someone currently in power is actually doing. "I heard Mary didn't sit next to Susie at lunch today."
Thanksgiving menus
Neighbors are joining us for Thanksgiving dinner tomorrow, which also happens to be my husband's birthday. That means he gets to choose the menu and no static of any kind from me. He's going to try an oyster-bread-cornbread stuffing this year, while reprising a number of brined-turkey and brussels-sprouts dishes that he likes, and probably a wonderful little seafood-in-bordellaise thing in puff pastries.
He doesn't care about cranberry relish, but I decided to think of the others. My own favorite recipe has a lot of peppers and grapefruit chunks and jicama and nuts and sambal oelek and Chinese five-spice; unfortunately no one but me much likes it, though I can eat it with every meal for a week. Instead I tried an Anthony Bourdain uncooked relish that's simply raw cranberries and an orange pulsed in a food processor, with sugar added to taste. Three ingredients, no cooking. five minutes, delicious. I'm sold.
I was also planning a Caesar salad until I found that the grocery store has combed its shelves and removed every trace of Romaine, answering the frantic call of the CDC this week. I was prepared to buy up a lot of Romaine packages marked with skulls-and-crossbones and 90%-off stickers, but the store chain's managers weren't born yesterday: cheaper to put the product on a bonfire than contend with lawsuits in the face of an unambiguous (indeed hysterical) recall notice. We switched on the fly to an old favorite with spinach leaves, oranges, green olives, and candied toasted pecans.
We've been lazy this fall and haven't put in our usual winter greens crops. Time to get moving on that, before the CDC loses its mind completely.
Now I'm fascinated
It's become my settled habit to click on articles about Facebook to see if anyone, anywhere will mention what Facebook has done wrong. Today's catch is a New York Magazine article explaining that it's looking pretty grim for the embattled giant. It seems that Zuckerberg failed to attend properly assembled corporate meetings to discuss Morally Complex Decisions. Also, FB allowed itself to function as a Vector for bad things. Those stories you heard about censorship of conservative views, though? Those were spurious, though they may help us construct the Growing Bipartisan Consensus. And anyway we're not talking about censorship. Stop talking about censorship. We're not even talking about destroying the company, but these issues Aren't Going Away. There are a few specifics in today's article, in the form of statistics on how FB employees feel about the future of the company, which demonstrate conclusively that FB is on the wrong side of history.
It's becoming standard for the author of such an article to explain that nobody goes there any more, it's too crowded. I guess some people still go there, though, which is a Bad Thing, because of the vector and stuff. The people who don't know enough to quit logging in are still being inoculated with improperly curated views.
All I'm getting out of this flap is "nice business, wouldn't want to see anything happen to it." How is it that FB can't figure out how to be the victim instead of the villain in this fuzzy drama? Does Zuckerberg not have someone on staff who tells him how big a check to write and to whom to write it?
I continue to use Facebook for the simplest of practical reasons: it's the easiest way to keep an eye on news and opinion in my little county. I mute all the national nonsense as quickly as I can figure out how. It doesn't matter in the least whether I like the platform: I'll use whatever platform a majority of my neighbors use, because their presence is the only important thing. They're the ones I'm trying to talk to conveniently. I notice, however, that my "blogging," as the current county leadership describes my activity, arouses significant hostility in the powers that be, particularly as it so clearly got me elected at about 5% of the cost that most of them are used to spending on a campaign. I guess that means I'm a "vector" too.
A Blog on Runes in Orkney
A grad student working on runic inscriptions there has put together a fun blog out of the things that she isn't putting into her dissertation. Those of you interested in such things may enjoy it.
Powerline records the exact moment when the serpent finished consuming itself:
I was reading an old lecture on Aristophanes by Leo Strauss when I came across these very usable sentences:
When about to enter a place at at which we are meant to laugh and to enjoy ourselves, we must first cross a picket line of black-coated ushers exuding deadly and deadening seriousness. No doubt they unwittingly contribute to the effect of the comedies.
Strauss had in mind of course the typical college professoriate of our time. These lines came springing back to mind when you come across a story like this:
MICHIGAN COLLEGE CANCELS ‘THE VAGINA MONOLOGUES’ BECAUSE ‘NOT ALL WOMEN HAVE VAGINAS’
As an unwoke ciswoman, I denounce myself.
Schumpeter Thought Otherwise
Pointing out a UC Berkeley class on destroying Israel and erasing its Jewish history (and, presumably, population), a hopeful author writes:
But good will come of this. Since there are no constraints on what universities do, they are increasingly moving toward the extremes. In doing this, they undermine their own legitimacy and their bogus claims of serving a societal good or promoting civic virtue.
Eventually, such a system will collapse because the larger society will recognize that it is paying for its own delegitimation and destruction through courses that view America and Western Civilization as the roots of all evil in the world.
The great economist Joesph Schumpeter thought the opposite. He believed that this very feature of the university's education of the rising elite would eventually destroy the West and capitalism itself.
We seem to me to be closer to Schumpeter's vision with every generation. Indeed, in Schumpeter's day Marx was recognized as disproven; now the Marxists are resurgent, and whole fields that are utterly Marxist in their frames of interpretation and criticism often do not even realize how wholly they have been subsumed.
The Second Must Not Be A Second Class Right
A piece at National Review by John Yoo, part of a series on restoring constitutional order, addresses the issue.
Everyone here knows my position, which I see no need to repeat after 15 years of blogging. If you don't know what I think about it, or just about anything else, it's in the archives. As a matter of fact, I could probably stop writing this blog just anytime, returning to it only when I change an older opinion for some reason. My opinion on the 2nd has not changed at all.
Good Advice Democrats Will Ignore
Joan C. Williams more-or-less accurately explains what Democrats need to know about attracting non-elite votes. To whit, stop treating economic concerns as pure racism; stop playing up race and gender issues, and focus on helping ordinary people; stop thinking that you and your fellow elites are so much less racist than ordinary people anyway. (Williams doesn't quite have the courage to go beyond 'ordinary white people,' and explain that racism is more or less universal and just as unhelpful in every demographic; but maybe The Atlantic isn't ready for that yet.)
Stop, in other words, focusing on demographic change as a solution. Quit telling white working class voters that you plan is for them to die so they stop being a problem for your agenda.
[P]eople on Twitter ask whether I’m finally ready to admit that the white working class is simply racist. What my Twitter friends don’t seem to recognize is their own privilege. If elites cling to the idea that working-class whites are perpetrators of inequality, rather than both perpetrators and victims, perhaps it’s because they want to believe that they are where they are because they’ve worked hard and they’re the smartest people around. Once you start a conversation about class, elite white people have to admit they have not only racial privilege but class privilege, too.
Acknowledging this also requires elites to cede yet another advantage: the extent to which they have controlled Democrats’ priorities. Political scientists have documented the party’s shift over the past 50 years from a coalition focused on blue-collar issues to one dominated by environmentalism and other issues elites cherish.
I’m one of those activists; environmentalism and concerns related to gender, race, and sexuality define my scholarship and my identity. But the working class has been asked to endure a lot of economic pain while Democrats focus on other problems. It’s time to listen up. The only effective antidote to a populism interlaced with racism is a populism that isn’t.
Needless to say, she is being totally ignored.
Democrats thinking about running for president in 2020 are dramatically changing the way the party talks about race in Donald Trump’s America: Get ready to hear a lot more about intersectionality, allyship, inclusivity and POC.
White and nonwhite Democratic hopefuls are talking more explicitly about race than the party’s White House aspirants ever have — and shrugging off warnings that embracing so-called identity politics could distract from the party’s economic message and push white voters further into Donald Trump’s arms.
I'm pretty sure that ordinary people -- and not just white people -- will be very impressed by intersectionality. Negatively impressed, but deeply impressed all the same.
Biker In Chief Stares Down Putin
The President is a little soft-hearted for my tastes, but for whatever it is worth, our VP is solid.
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Men of the North
A longstanding question of the Hall, posed rhetorically but meaningfully, has been 'where are our Wagners, our Beethovens, today?' One of them is Jeremy Soule.
Soule writes for Bethesda Softworks, and produced some few years ago one of the greatest orchestral pieces since Wagner.
If you have the nearly-four-hours, it is well worth your time throughout. The songs, echoing Tolkien, are in an invented language originally belonging to dragons. Although the game is an adventure, most of the music is peaceful rather than stressful: mostly it focuses on the beauty and wonder of creation, rather than the strife between creatures. But when it does consider conflict, it rises into the epic scale.
He has a new album out this year, which is symphonic sketches on the same scheme. It does not aspire to epic, and so it is not quite as powerful, but it is also well constructed.
An Interview with Paglia
Definitely the most interesting voice currently participating in that movement broadly called 'feminism,' Camile Paglia has given one of her periodic long and wide-ranging interviews. They are usually worth reading, and this one is no exception. For me there is always much to disagree with, but surprising points of commonality. For an example of the latter:
Claire Lehmann: You seem to be one of the only scholars of the humanities who are willing to challenge the post-structuralist status quo. Why have other humanities academics been so spineless in preserving the integrity of their fields?
Camille Paglia: The silence of the academic establishment about the corruption of Western universities by postmodernism and post-structuralism has been an absolute disgrace.... Most established professors in the 1970s probably believed that the new theory trend was a fad that would blow away like autumn leaves. The greatness of the complex and continuous Western tradition seemed self-evident: the canon would surely stand, even if supplemented by new names. Well, guess what? Helped along by a swelling horde of officious, overpaid administrators, North American universities became, decade by decade, political correctness camps. Out went half the classics, as well as pedagogically useful survey courses demonstrating sequential patterns in history (now dismissed as a “false narrative” by callow theorists). Bookish, introverted old-school professors were not prepared for guerrilla warfare to defend basic scholarly principles or to withstand waves of defamation and harassment.
It's hard to find anyone in academia now who will openly proclaim that the Western canon represents something categorically superior to, well, anything else. Western philosophers will still quietly murmur to each other their recognition that what they are doing is both categorically different from, and better than, what goes by the name of "Eastern philosophy." But they won't say it in public, and in private only among trusted friends.
"Fix it, Facebook"
I've been following the most recent flap over Facebook in a desultory way. I assumed if I clicked on a few articles I'd find one that explained what FB was supposed to have done wrong this time. Instead, I found article after article that assumed I understood the obvious crime(s), and lots of increasingly desperate acknowledgements by FB that it can and should "do more."
Particularly interesting were the sprinkling of references to FB's failure to "do more" to stem ethnic violence in Myanmar. Wait, what? Did something just happen in Myanmar? When I click through on the Myanmar references I get more comments about "doing more," but no dates or particulars. Even FB's 60-page white paper on "doing more" fails to explain what happened in Myanmar before it drifts off into an extended discussion of the history of censorship and repression in that country. Finally a general search for "Myanmar Facebook" took me to reports of a violent flare in 2014 said to be connected to someone's publishing a deliberately false rape report in a FB post in an apparently successful attempt to stoke racial violence in that benighted country. It seems that FB did not already have Burmese-speaking moderators in place on the night the false allegations were made, despite its clear responsibility for understanding how dangerous communication can be in a country with a history of such iron repression. After failing to reach FB executives in the first few hours of the crisis, Myanmar officials simply disabled FB in their country, which apparently caused things to calm down by morning. Those terrible people at FB, however, took more than a year to put its Burmese-speaking moderation operation into place, complete with operatives well-versed in the entire social and culture quagmire that is Myanmar. And in the meantime FB callously allowed the Myanmar people to continue communicating with each other.
So why the sudden interest in FB late in 2018? The New York Times apparently is investigating again, and--as helpfully summarized by the San Francisco Chronicle editorial page--this time has discovered that FB is engaged in denial and deflection. It hired consultants to discredit its critics, mostly in the context of the Russian influence on our 2016 election, but Myanmar keeps getting thrown in the mix, too. FB downplayed the seriousness of reports from its own executives about something apparently related to these concerns. It deflected blame onto its rivals. It sought special favors from politicians. (These are nearly direct quotations; I'm not removing any references to specifics.) And it took these unprecedentedly vile measures to escape blame for--what, exactly?
Well, it seems FB isn't taking its trust, transparency, and privacy problems seriously. FB is not doing enough to combat false news and information on its platform. Its failure in Myanmar four years ago shows that it's not willing to be an aggressive defender of human rights. Its shaky steps to improve transparency haven't been thorough or consistent. It uses contractors to hit back at critics. Social media platforms are being used to sway and divide people, and the new House Democrats are thinking of doing something about it, so FB had better get with the program.
I feel an unwilling sympathy for Zuckerberg, trying to punch back against this amoeba. I can't wait to see what the incoming class of representatives are drafting up. It shall be a federal crime to operate a social media platform when your head isn't in the right place?
Way back in 2014, someone apparently had the bright idea of pursuing a successful criminal prosecution against the woman who first published the deliberately false rape claim in Myanmar.
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"I Deserve Ballon d'Or" - C Ronaldo
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Cristiano Ronaldo says he deserves to win the Ballon d'Or for a sixth time, over rivals including Antoine Griezmann, Luka Modric, Kylian Mbappe and Lionel Messi.
Ronaldo helped fire Real Madrid to a third consecutive Champions League crown before joining Juventus and he is in no doubt he should win the Ballon d'Or for a record-breaking sixth time.
"I said many times, winning a sixth Ballon d'Or is not an obsession," Ronaldo said in a France Football interview . "And I do not ask the question in these terms.
"I already know, in my heart, that I am one of the best players in history. Of course, I want to win, this sixth Ballon d'Or!
"It would be a lie to tell you the opposite. I work for that. As I work to score goals and win games without being an obsession. The Ballon d'Or, yes, I think I deserve it."
Five-time world football of the year Cristiano Ronaldo became the most following person on Instagram on Monday.
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Cuban Blockade: Cruel & Unusual
It’s time again for the international community to remind the United States how absurd and futile their blockade of Cuba is. The vote to condemn the blockade is a UN affair (equally as absurd and futile perhaps, since the Cuba policy is largely a US domestic issue and UN votes are notoriously toothless) – the 20th of its kind. Last year, 185 countries condemned the blockade, with 2 nations dissenting: the USA and Israel (surprise! surprise!).
For those needing a bit of a primer, the US embargo was first enacted in 1962 – before many of us were even born. The purpose of the policy, then as now, is to isolate the country to such a degree as to foment regime change (seems they’re a bit obsessed up north with the ‘C’ word – in this case Castro). After about 30 years of the means failing spectacularly to attain the desired end, the policy was strengthened through the Helms-Burton and Torricelli Acts so brutally that today, it violates the most basic human right of 11 million Cubans – the right to self determination.
This chaps my ass. What also irks me is when analysts, academics, and others somehow hitching their wagon to Cuba’s star call the policy an ‘embargo’ when it is, in fact, an economic, commercial and financial blockade. Semantics you say? Not for those of us here suffering under it. And not for those who understand the difference between the two. It’s one thing to prevent your own government, people, and businesses from dealing with Cuba, it’s something entirely, extraterritorially else to penalize other countries for doing same.
Consider this explanation by Peter Schwab in his book Cuba: Confronting the US Embargo:The embargo blockade disallows Cuba from using US dollars in international trade, costing the country additional money for exchanging currencies. US regulations also disallow the export of US products from a third country, while products even developed through the use of US technology or design [emphasis mine] cannot be sold to Cuba.
Not only vicious, the policy is ridiculous in its application: there was the incident at the Mexico City Sheraton, when staff refused rooms to Cuban guests in 2007 in town for a conference; an Oslo hotel owned by Hilton repeated the gaffe with a Cuban trade delegation that same year. In October 2010, Twitter blocked messages originating from Cuban cell phones, citing the blockade as justification. Twitter quickly capitulated, but isn’t the convergence between the “free” market, politics and censorship interesting to consider? Taken together, all the elements petty and severe of the blockade have meant over $100 billion in losses for the island over the years.
What really boggles the mind, however, is the bang-your-head-against-the-wall determination with which the policy has been pursued, despite its failure to reach its stated goal. It puts me in mind of Einstein’s definition of insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.
Yes, folks, this is an insane policy. What policytroublemakers in South Florida, Jersey, and D.C. doggedly ignore and don’t want you to know is how this policy lowers quality of life, separates families, and kills people on both sides of the Straits. Before I rant about the specific ways in which this policy makes life harder here as well as there, allow me to extend my deepest condolences to all the families, Cuban and otherwise, who have suffered under the blockade. I’d also like to voice my deepest respect and admiration to all those working towards a change in policy and the 11 million Cubans – 70% of whom have only known life under the blockade – affected daily as a result.
So you might better understand how this translates on the ground, I offer these snapshots of how the blockade has affected me and my loved ones.
I can’t hear you! Can you hear me?! – Phone calls originating from the USA get routed through China, Argentina and who knows where and cost upwards of $1/minute (except to the US naval base at Guantanamo, adding insult to injury). Getting a call to actually connect may take half a dozen attempts and forget wishing someone well on Christmas, New Year’s or Mother’s Day, when over 1 million Cubans living off island are all trying to do the same.
When the call actually does come through, it sounds like my sister is underwater and my mom is in a cave so deep, her voice is echoing off the walls. My PBS producer, meanwhile, may as well be talking into a Dixie cup on a string the delay between what she says and I hear is that long. To give you an idea how severely this affects communication, consider that in almost 10 years living here, only two friends have called me a total of three times – and I have some very devoted, (albeit poor), friends. For all these reasons, you can understand why I maintain my PO Box here, though even letters from the USA sometimes don’t leave domestic soil due to blockade politics. Thankfully, FaceBook and other social media aren’t blocked by either country.
Can I connect? No, you cannot – Recently PayPal threatened legal action and said my account would be blocked for trying to access the site from an ‘embargoed country.’ This is more serious than it may seem: like many freelance writers, I receive earnings from some clients via PayPal, and this prevented me from collecting payment for services rendered. Only I after I enlisted my own counsel and provided voluminous paperwork proving that I’m a journalist with US Treasury permission to be here (another absurdity: the US prevents it’s residents and citizens from traveling freely to the country of their choice, in this case Cuba), did they reinstate my account. I still can’t access it though and so only have use of my funds when I’m off-island. Other sites blocked for the same reason are iTunes and Tiger Direct. LinkedIn is also LockedOut thanks to US embargo.
Cash on the barrelhead – If you’ve been to Cuba, you know US credit and debit cards don’t work here. When I first moved to Havana in 2002, I thought my HSBC card would work. Silly me. Despite being a London-based bank, HSBC has offices in the USA (like most banks worldwide), and therefore cannot do business with Cuba under the terms of the blockade. I love how globalization works for those holding the reins. For the rest of us? Salsipuede.
Think of all the things you do with plastic funds. How would you live without debit and credit cards 24/7/365? How would you pay for webhosting or buy a plane ticket or god forbid, get money in an emergency? Anyone from the USA who travels or is based in Cuba has to do everything in cash – no exceptions (see note 1).
You’re sick and will stay that way – Of the more than 300 major drugs on the market since 1970, nearly 50% are of US origin and effectively blocked from export to Cuba (see note 2). The stories of people on both sides of the Straits who are denied life-prolonging or -saving medication due to the collusion between US big pharma and politics are heartbreaking. There’s the US drug Prostaglandin E1 – used in children born with congenital heart defects – is denied to Cuba. In fact, 90% of the products used to correct these malformations are manufactured by US multinationals or their subsidiaries and therefore are not available here due to the blockade. Anesthesia, diagnostic equipment and parts, and the latest in antiretrovirals to treat HIV are likewise unavailable. Cruel? You tell me.
But sadly, the policy affects US folks too. A dear friend of mine recently died of lung cancer. Had the breakthrough Cuban therapy Cimavax-EGF been available to her, she could have lived up to 5 years longer (if recent clinical trials in Europe are any indication); even if she didn’t respond optimally to the treatment and lived another half decade, the therapy certainly could have improved her quality of life at the end. The same holds true for meningococcal B outbreaks in college campuses across the country. Were the Cuban vaccine for the disease VA-MENGOC-BC available, these outbreaks could be averted. These Cuban therapies and vaccines, along with Heberprot-P, used to treat diabetic foot (a major cause of morbidity in diabetics) and blue scorpion venom used in cancer patients, are unique in the world. Thanks to the blockade, if you’re in the USA, you can’t have them.
The blockade causes pain, suffering, and grief. But it also strengthens our resistance, creativity and resilience. To Obama on down I say: stick with your failed blockade policy. Over here, we have 52 years proving unequivocally that Yes We Can!Notes
1. The Canadian company Caribbean Transfers issues debit cards for use in Cuba and American Express Traveler’s Checks work in some banks here, but for the overwhelming majority of us, we’re forced to live entirely in a cash-based economy. This means carrying drug dealer type wads of cash on any Cuba trip.
2. See The Cuban Cure by S.M. Reid-Henry, pp 39.
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61 responses to “Cuban Blockade: Cruel & Unusual”
Hi Conner- I bring medicine to cuba each year and will continue to do so BECAUSE of the aforementioned blockade- for myself and other like-minded travelers, what medicines could be most useful in Cuba? any specific suggestions? Thanks for the inciteful writing!
Awesome Dan. Just today, one of my favorite little old ladies asked for Vitamin C. Other over the counter stuff in short supply/high demand is:
Multivitamins, calcium, Ibuprofen, childrens cold medication
I recently helped coordinate a donation to a local church and in addition to that listed above, they requested (they have many older adults in their congregation)
– Glucosamine-Chondroitim
– Acetaminophen
– Voltaren (diclofenac sodium; injectable and tablets)
– Claritin
– Cough medicine (for children & adults)
– Vicks Vap-o-Rub (or equivalent)
– Vicks cough drops (or equivalent)
– Anti flu medicine
– Mucosolvan (Chlorpheniramine)
– Atorvastatina (Lipitor)
– Tea tree oil/balm
– Atenolol
– Isosorbide mononitrate
– Triamcinolone
– Flufenazin
– Murine ear drops
– Ipatropium bromide inhaler (asthma)
Timoney Ambrose
Okay, I have lived in Key West for 61 years and know all too well of what you speak and I agree totally but it’s a hard pill to swallow and say we “the USA” have made a mistake especially when 99.9% of our politicians depend on the Cuban vote. I have yet to meet a Cuban National that is for the ending of this fiasco. Though they have family’s still in Cuba their hate of the Castro Politics is stronger than the thought of ending this completely. Just sayin
I hear Key West is beautiful – hope to make it there some day.
99,9% of our politicians depend on the Cuban vote? How do you figure?
Cuban National – you mean people living on the island or people in the diaspora? Either way, I can introduce you to scads of Cubans in every corner of the world who want an end to this policy. Tip: try talking to a Cuban emigre under 60.
David Norman
The 99.9% comes from the fact that Florida has become a “must win” state in the Presidential election, and even those running for Congress and Senate in Florida have to tip their hat to the Cuban emigres. When you consider that older people vote at a higher rate than younger, the anti-Castro community ends up throwing around a disproportional amount of weight.
However, just like the next generation of Jews has formed J Street to counter AIPAC’s weight in U.S. Politics in order to find true peace with the Palestinians, many of these younger people are starting to organize and lobby – and the emigres are “aging out”. The result is a way too slow but inexorable push towards more openness.
OK, sounds reasonable. Except did you know that Cuban emigres donate EQUALLY to both parties, at all levels? Even my District 17 long-incumbent (and anti-Cuba) representative Eliott Engel has his finger in the pot. Giving to both sides is so cover-your-assets, typically Cuban, I love it, but just goes to show: there is only one party in the USA, the party of green ($$$, not Nader).
Well, you have finally come fully out of the closet, Conner.
You state that it is Helms Burton which “violates the rights of 11 million Cubans” without a tip of the hat to the biggest violaters of any Cuban Citizen’s rights- Two Despot brothers, who are the long lived Champions of such violations for 53 years now.
And medical supplies and food do not fall under the provisions of that Act.
If you are saying end the embargo-you as a journalist should know the difference between an embargo and a blockade- then I am with you. It is a failed policy which allows the Castros to attribute every failing of the ill thought out programs of the communist system to its existence. It is a crutch for them, and should be Gone.
But you are disingenuous to the extreme when you bypass who is really responsible for the suffering of the Cuban people.
I expected better from You.
Sweetie, I was never in the closet, all the boys and girls know that!
You are correct in one thing: not only medical supplies, but also medicines, and food CAN be sold to Cuba but (there’s always a but, ain’t there? es la vida mi hermano) according to terms so distorted it makes it not worth it (more so for medicines than food due to inputs. subsidies and a host of other factors that warp food production in the US)and, Cuba can’t export to the US, of course. Sure, we’re talking small potatoes: rum, cigars, nickel, biotech, but it adds up.
My point, put differently: level the playing field, get your boot off the neck for a second and see what Cubans can do. I’m sure it would be nothing short of amazing.
Never been to Cuba, guess I’m what someone like Ole would call “naive”. “Disingenuous” is a polite way of calling you a liar. But I can add: If the Castros were such ogres and Communism were so bad, Cuba would have collapsed long ago. If the Castros had a fleet of Mercedes, or a gold plated yacht, or a huge mansion, pics would have been on the Drudgereport before you could say Joseph Stalin! One needs only read the venom sprayed on the Castros by the Miami press, couched in one unctuous cliche after another, to ask oneself “Hmm, they protesteth too hard. I wonder why?”
I read a profound statement from a Cuban, quoted on yahoogroups Cubanews(you should link to it!): They cry, You’re drowning! while holding your head underwater.
CubaNews is a terrific aggregator of Cuba items and reporting. I rec’d subscribing for anyone interested in news and developments on the island.
Max: you seem so passionate on the topic. I suggest you come for a visit to see exactly what gets you so hot under the collar/keyboard.
This post was inciteful, indeed Dan.
Just not too insightful.
Well, I see your reply to Dan, so I guess you have decided not to post my comments.
Perhaps you could get a job with Granma? It seems you are comfortable with only one side of a story being presented.
never mind. I should have not doubted you, and I apologize.
let’s agree to disagree on this subject, OK?
Wow, accusatory and disrespectful in one comment.
Remember folks: Im on dial up. These days it’s 20k or so – just because your comment doesn’t show up immediately doesn’t mean I’m not responding to it/have responded to it.
What a maroon! As if the “side” you “present” was straining to be heard.
“The American Obsession”. That is what they call U.S. policy towards Cuba in Europe, and they are right. America is incapable of admitting mistakes in foreign policy, even across parties and administrations. It is this thinking that explains why no one is being investigated for lying us into the Iraq war. It is why we stayed in Vietnam long after our own military had concluded we could not win.
vHowever what makes our Cuba policy even worse is the blatant hypocrisy. We engage with China based on the concept that open engagement with a nation that doesn’t really need our help will be changed from within by our open dialog. Yet at the same time Cuba, a nation that can both benefit from and be a benefit to the USA is ostracized because engagement would be “condoning” Castro.
I am no fan of Castro, but on his worst day he does not violate the rights of the Cuban people to anywhere near the level that the Chinese government does routinely to their people. Our behavior towards Cuba is inexplicable and, yes, obsessive.
The OCD Policy (Obsessive Compulsive or Over Castro’s Dead body). I like it!
“No fan of castro.” Why not? He strafes, bombs, robs, incinerates no one. Nor does he hire others to do so. His people grumble but don’t rebel despite their poverty. He doesn’t have a villa on the Adriatic or a Swiss bank account. There isn’t a whiff of the contempt for the underdog that oozes from your well-coiffed “liberal” “democrats” as from an open wound.
Say it with me: Yo corazon Fidel mucho!
Why not? The active squashing of any dissent or disagreement with his policies, leading to hundreds if not thousands being imprisoned for simply believing differently. For not giving the Cuban people the basic right to CHOOSE him as their leader. That is why.
OK guys, I’ll let you duke it out (for now), but will correct errors.
Not “any dissent or disagreement” leads to imprisonement. Ladies in White? Dissenting, actively, weekly, not in jail. Eduardo de Llano? Pedro Pablo? And The Pablo (Milanes)? Disagreeing, publicly, actively. None in jail. During natl debates last and this year leading up to 6th Party Congress, millions of Cubans were disagreeing (and debating) about how to move the country forward. I participated in these debates and while the culture of debate is nascent (to put it mildly), it’s happening and without imprisonment as far as I know. So, if the issue is imprisonment for dissenting views, let’s keep it to current events – ie those imprisoned in 2010 onward and let’s also underscore those dissidents who were released.
Little known fact: Cubans do choose their leader, in regular, monitored elections. In many ways it is more democratic than the way it’s handled in the USA (think: redistricting to suit needs and PACs to start). True there is only one party here in Cuba, but to even have such a discussion, we’d have to agree on: what constitutes democracy? what constitutes free speech? What is Cuba doing better/different? What could it do better/different?
The following links are to reports from Amnesty International of the arrests without charge of 11 dissenters and 3 family members, as well as a crackdown on the aforementioned “Ladies In White” over the last four months.
As for the definition of democracy, yes that is debatable. There is a strong argument to be made that we, the USA, are no longer a true democracy. However, one of the basic tenets of any democracy is the right of the people to form their own political parties and run for office. No nation that lacks this basic right can be considered democratic. If you can only vote for one party – even if it nominates more than one man for leader (correct me if I am wrong – but this is NOT the case in Cuba) can consider itself democratic.
http://www.amnesty.org/en/library/asset/AMR25/005/2011/en/f1325a4e-4f3e-458d-84f4-679d41d6ab6b/amr250052011en.html
http://www.amnesty.org/en/library/asset/AMR25/004/2011/en/2559286a-0a6d-43d8-b38d-23bf0fb81ab4/amr250042011en.html
thanks for the links Dave. As far as I know, Amnesty has never been allowed into Cuba to observe, so this second hand info must be taken with a grain of salt (yes, I understand the irony there). Im not saying these reports are not necessarily true, just asking that readers consider the possibility that they are not true.
Also, Cuba has never proclaimed itself a “democracy” but does lay claim to being “democratic” in some areas. Semantics? Perhaps. But what isn’t??
In Amnesty’s defense they are VERY careful about their sourcing and confirmations. For example, there numbers for political prisoners in Cuba are 90% lower than those claimed by most Cuban anti-Castro groups. It is highly unlikely that their numbers or information is false.
It is worth noting that until these recent arrests Cuba had made outstanding progress in this area, but with a caveat. Between January and May of this year the number of political prisoners in Cuba, according to A.I., dropped from 39 to 0. Of the 39, 27 were released in a deal between Cuba, Spain, and the Catholic Church on the condition that they go into exile in Spain. The other 12 refused the deal and were initially still held, but were released provisionally in April. Provisional release means that they are subject to re-arrest based on the previous charges at any time.
So is it progress? Yes, quite a bit no doubt. Is it enough? No, it is still not true freedom if you have to either shut up or leave. Claims to being “democratic” are questionable at best. That said, I still believe strongly that the U.S. should lift ALL sanctions. They are not productive and, given our behavior elsewhere in the world, amazingly hypocritical. China, anyone?
Thanks for the data Dave.
Sourcing from family members of dissidents and the dissidents themselves is a shaky, at best, evidence-base, especially because dissidence in Cuba is a cottage industry with cash on the barrel head awards and intl funding (ie: there’s an economic interest added to the political axe they’re grinding). Saying AI is more reliable than anti Castro groups is like saying Britney Spears is more talented than Snooki (ie they both suck, one just royally more than the other). Im not saying AI info is false to their knowledge. But I do know Cubans and how they manipulate others – particularly foreigners – when there is $$$ at stake. The bottom line (was a club in the village): no one really knows WTF goes on with these dissidents but I do know they collect their rations, and live in and off of subsidies provided by the government. In other words: they’re shitting where they’re eating and that’s unattractive, to say the least. I did not know there were conditions placed on those released this year…..nor did I know of their “provisional release”
True freedom exists only on paper (and in our minds – if we’re lucky).
thanks for following up on this.
Funny dating back to Trudeau, there is occasional rumbling about Canadian companies trading in Cuba. I have met with Americans that Canadian have Cuba to themselves when it come to the Agricultural trade and American would like in. Canada proudly has said F.U. to American pressure selling to Cuba and the U.S. has meekly protested. Gotta love all those McCain French fries in Cuba. PEI and Atlantic Canada has a 200 year history trading with Cuba.
Oh, to be Canadian. I’ve dreamt of it often.
Yes, Canada has big trade ties w Cuba and is the top country of origin for tourists. In fact, there was just a huge corruption bust of a Canadian company here.
thanks for writing in
My thanks Conner for giving us a clear list of stuff we can carry- no matter how people feel about the “embargo” we should all fill our packs to the max with these and other things to bring to our cuban neighbors…..
Andi of My Beautiful Adventures
I couldn’t agree with you anymore! I have been saying the same thing for years!!!
Oh Conner, When I say Cuban National’s I mean the wet foot, dry foot Population who risked their lives to escape Cuba via anything that will float. Of course the younger population is all for a change. Most have never been to Cuba or have had a limited experience of the daily grind their people endure. It’s usually a weekend trip to go see Grand Parents and then back to work on Monday. The average Cuban voting age in this part of the world is 53. If it were 40 we would be discussing the wonderful week I had just spent in Varadaro and drinks with the Commodore. As far Key West and it’s beauty, forget it it. They are going to dredge the channel as to accommodate more and bigger cruise ships. Our beautiful Old Town reeks of stale beer and vomit and is littered with cheap drink coupons and cigarette butts. My God I envy you and your place in life and the place you call home.
Timoney
Gotcha. For those who don’t know what the ‘dry foot/wet foot’ policy is, this is another of the US’ deadly tools used against Cuba (and only Cuba mind you, which is just disgusting, seeing as there are people in the world who are suffering real political violence and persecution in their countries and they don’t get this “free pass”): if a Cuban even touches US soil, they get immediate residency, plus a basket of other perks which can include $ to resettle, job training, temporary housing, English-language classes. So what does this mean? Cubans risking their lives to get that toe onto US soil: via speed boats, rafts, and as T says ‘anything that floats’. It also means they hire mules to take them across the Mexico border: while the Mexicanos are caught and herded into a detention center and back across the border, the Cubans are received, welcomed, and given residency.
The USA also maintains a program for Cuban doctors working around the globe who want to defect to the US. These folks receive even more support (as you might imagine) to get them to go over to ‘the other side’
Not wanting to be disrespectful, Conner, but I must correct you here- Cubans do not have to be smuggled by mules into the US from Mexico. They simply walk across from Mexico into the US Immigration building and they are granted automatic entry under the Cuban Adjustment Act (wet foot/dry foot) And then they are given the plethora of benefits which you describe, and automatic Permanent Residency in the US after 366 days. At which point they already have their flight booked back Home to Cuba.
“Not wanting to be disrespectful” This is a case of barn door open, horse already gone Ole!
I personally know three Cubans who contracted mules to take them across the border. Why? Who knows? They have their reasons, Im sure.
Well put Conner but that is only the shiny side of this well worn coin. What about the thousands if not ten’s of that have tried to make it to the U.S. And have failed since the beginning of the embargo against Cuba? They will be faced with only two options in their failure to reach the ‘Dry Foot” status they seek. The lesser of two evils will be that they will be found at sea and still alive by the Coast Guard after only drifting at the whim of winds and currents and hopefully for only a few days. They will be given food, water and emergency medical care. Placed on deck under what is referred to as a “migrant shade” which is a tarp suspended by rope or metal frame to protect them from the sun. They are photographed and interrogated, but not harshly, as well as cataloged as per Coast Guard regulations. These “ Deserters of Cuba” will be most grateful to some extent for the food and shade but they know the worst is yet to come. They will be repatriated back to Cuba, a grim prospect to say the least. Yes they will weep and beg and plead their case to who ever will hear their words but to no avail. You can be sure they will not be given “ A basket of goodies and an ice cold Mojito” by the Cuban government.. When they are turned over to Cuba they will suffer the consequences of their actions against the state, ‘ which I understand is not as severe as it was thirty years ago” and their family will also suffer. All this is still the shiny side of that well worn coin. For the the rest of those that didn’t make it here there was only death. Death from starvation, dehydration, murder and drowning. Yes murder. There are as you know unscrupulous people willing to take a family or a couple of people to America in a fast boat for a few thousand to tens of thousands of dollars. All they have to do is swim off shore to the waiting boat and after paying for their passage and getting under way they are never heard from again. What kind of Country are we to encourage an other human being to risk their life crossing 93 miles of shark infested open ocean by any means possible with the promise that IF and only IF you can touch this shore by hand, foot or body you are welcome in America. This really pisses me off.. But hey, if you die well you died trying. It ain’t right Conner, nor is this embargo..
Yes, if there’s was no guarantee of residency, how many people would risk those conditions to reach the US? There are stories, too, of people jumping ship, “fast boats” engaging in dangerous bob. dodge, and weave high sea maneuvers to avoid being caught by the coast guard, and people dying in the intent to reach a US shore, any shore.
Absolutely. As I said, across parties and administrations.
This absolutely breaks my heart whenever I read about the effects this is having on Cuba. I flat out disagree with the embargo and always have … It isn’t any wonder that us Brits (and most of the world) use generalisations for the USA in thinking they’re nothing but money-hungry apes. I know not all Americans are like this but with cutting off everything to a country who threaten the capitalist society they created in the ‘New World’, it’s just ridiculous and too extreme.
The more I read your blog, the more I love how informed I am about this information from the inside. (I had to Tweet a link to this.) I see a big change coming for Cuba in the next 20-30 years.
money-hungry apes! A girl after my own heart (a little broken too, with all these political shenanigans)
Thanks for writing in and RTing.
Yes, “Money hungry apes”,…is indeed how they are viewed, in the UK.
Cheby
Hi Coner
Thanks for putting some real life examples of how the embargo effects individuals both in Cuba and abroad. My feeling is It needs to end.
I read a local news story with interest this week (I,m from Atlantic Canada) about a young Prince Edward Island man proposing a solution to the closing of their small towns medical center due to lack of Doctors.
He proposed a “Potatoes for Doctors” type trade deal with Cuba. In his words Cuba has a shortage of Potatoes and small town Atlantic Canada is a hard place to recruit Doctors.
On the surface I can see the logic..
Two things concern me about this.
I fully understand and appreciate the fact that Cuba steps up in times of need in supplying Doctors abroad but it seems to me it is of a humanitarian nature vs a Business venture, It bother me the potential of the Brain Drain on Cuba. I am sure any of the many well qualified Doctors in Cuba could make a “great Living ” in Canada. (If what you consider a “great Living ” to mean lots of money… believe me that would not be my definition)
How does this however further the efforts or support the fact that as a country Cuba has educated these Doctors for the common good of its people,
Second.. and this is part of my education about a country I have come to love but struggle to understand, why would there be a shortage of Potatoes or the equivalent starch type food in Cuba, I would fully understand a shortage of processed potatoes or frozen processed fries etc. But I cant seem to rationalize “potato shortage” in what I see as a very lush country”.
I am proud that Canada “seems” in most cases to set its own agenda in regards to its relations with Cuba, the embargo, etc. I hope that this only improves.
Hi there Cheby. You ask some very poignant (and complex) questions. I have written extensively about Cuba’s international cooperation abroad in health and medicine. You can search on that, ELAM (Latin American Medical School), PIS (the program that posts doctors overseas, but in Global South; ie not canada) at MEDICC Review.
There’s a simpler solution: attract one of the 10,000 grads educated for free at the 6-year Latin American Medical School in havana (founded to turn brain drain into brain gain). These young doctors (all from the developing world, except 140 or so kids from the USA, recognizing that there are ‘third world’ health pockets in the US) make a moral commitment to return to work in vulnerable communities upon graduation and it seems PEI (and Hawaii for that matter; Ive tried to get HI involved w ELAM for a while now!) would qualify.
Cuba may look lush, but we still import 80% of our foodstuffs. I, for one, would love more potatoes!
Ole – the CAA allows for those rights once the REACH the immigration center. It does NOT grant them passage TO it. Cuban passports and Visas are NOT accepted by US Immigration at Mexican/American crossings. Nothing is more disrespectful then claiming as fact that which is demonstrably not.
You are incorrect, Sir. A Cuban does not need a Visa- once his foot hits the American side they are accepted, and a Cuban passport or a carnet will do just fine for INS.
Automatic entry for any Cuban once his/her foot touches US soil.
It is entirely possible that what Conner says is true-some Cubans do not want to enter that way for various reasons (all of them Bad), so they cross surreptitiously. But that is because they could not stand up to the scrutiny INS for some reason.
Whatever the logistics, I take exception, Ole, on you passing judgement on these folks. How can you judge people’s reasons as “bad”? And draw the conclusion that they can’t stand up to the INS? The decision to leave Cuba is difficult and complex no matter who you are, your circumstances or the “ganas” you may have to leave. I respect that people have their reasons for emigrating and I cannot, in good conscience, judge them for that.
READERS:any Cubans out there with personal experience emigrating to the USA via Mexico want to weigh in?
Actually, we are both right. Yes, you can cross the border and be processed on the same day. However, depending on whom the INS judge is hearing those cases you can also be thrown into a detention center and exported. Also, Mexico is not supportive of this, so the deadly boat ride to Florida has become a deadly boat ride to Mexico. The attached article is very informative.
http://www.houstonpress.com/2008-01-10/news/immigration-cubans-enter-u-s-at-texas-mexico-border/
Conner- Unlike any other single person on the Planet, a Cuban may just show up on US soil and be given immediate, unconditional entry, and benefits which are nothing to sneeze at. Plus automatic Permanent Residence status after one year.
Any Cuban who does not enter in this manner, to avail themselves of this sweetheart deal ,is hiding something. A criminal, a Spy- who knows, but that person is up to no good, and you are naive if you don’t know it instinctively.
Or maybe they have a minor in tow or maybe they have mobility issues. Life is rarely black and white.
Can we call this a draw and move on? Yawn.
You are so easy on this schmuck.
I like to let others do my smacking down for me……Im good at delegating like that!
Neo – again you are ignoring a basic reality, which is that GETTING your foot on the ground is no easy thing.
Yeah, but we are the “disingenuous” ones.
Oops – meant Ole.
ScaredyGato
Cubans going to the USA via Mexico have other challenges to face: the narco-kidnapping gangs and Mexican immigration. The latter will deport them to Cuba for illegal entry to Mexico. The former will (and have) torture the hell out of you while holding a cell phone connected to your family back in the USA, and demand ransom. Having lived in Mexico for five years, I recommend any Cuban misguided enough to believe that they “must” leave Cuba should take the Florida Strait route. The sharks are more forgiving than the evil narcos in this country.
Posting anonymously ’cause the narcos have been killing people who so much as tweet about them here.
Here’s a note from Oct 6 about US leveling fines against domestic & foreign companies for “trading with the enemy.” Que mierda.
U.S. Government Strengthens Commercial Persecution against Cuba
HAVANA, Cuba, Oct 6 (acn) For the third time in the past two months, authorities from the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) of the U.S. government imposed a fine on an enterprise trading with Cuba, accused of violating the laws of the U.S. blockade against Cuba.
The Flowserve Corporation, a worldwide leader in the supply of equipments and services for the energy industry, based in Irving, Texas, was charged with a
502,000 dollars fine for selling oil prospecting equipments to companies trading with the Caribbean island.
According to a communiqué by the director of OFAC, Adam J. Szubin, Flowserve Corporation must also pay 2,500,000 dollars to the Bureau of Industry and Secuirity (BIS) of the U.S. Department of Commerce to face the charges of transgressing American export regulations.
Prensa Latina news agency reports that due to these measures, Flowserve
Corporation announced the termination of all kinds of business with countries
subjected to unilateral sanctions by Washington.
There have been other similar penalties recently, such as that imposed against
the French container shipping enterprise CMA CGM, which was fined with 374,400 dollars for offering its services to Cuba.
Nine days after that, the JP Morgan Chase Company was imposed a sanction of 88.3 million dollars.
This just in. Interesting emigration data + that smuggling across the Mexican border business…
Posted on Sun, Oct. 09, 2011
Illegal Cuban migration, after years of decline, is up again
By Alfonso Chardy and Juan O. Tamayo
jtamayo@ElNuevoHerald.com
Reversing a three-year trend downward, the number of undocumented Cubans intercepted at sea or who reached U.S. shores in the past 12 months soared by more than 100 percent — sparking questions about the reasons behind the new trend.
About 1,700 Cubans were interdicted or landed in fiscal year 2011, which ended Sept. 30, according to figures compiled by El Nuevo Herald from Homeland Security Department agencies. That compares to 831 in fiscal 2010.
U.S. Coast Guard interdictions at sea rose from 422 to 1,000, while landings on U.S. shores climbed from 409 to almost 700. Meanwhile, arrivals at U.S. border posts — almost all from Mexico — barely changed from 6,219 to 6,300.
The figures reflected the first hike since fiscal year 2007, when the total hit 19,710, up from 16,226 for fiscal 2006. The number dropped back to 16,260 in 2008 and plummeted to 8,113 the following year.
While the uptick over the past year would seem relatively modest, the reversal of the downward trend and the growth of 14 percent in the overall figure has triggered much speculation on exactly what drove the increase.
Arturo Cobo, a Key West businessman who is in regular contact with some of the undocumented migrants and their families, said that the island’s stalled economy is leading many Cubans to try to seek better lives abroad.
Havana activist Elizardo Sánchez agreed. “The economy is worse each day. Less money, less food, less everything,” said the head of the illegal but tolerated Cuban Commission for Human Rights and National Reconciliation.
Havana blogger Orlando Luis Pardo Lazo said perhaps the uptick is simply a part of “the natural tendency of the Cuban anthropology — to escape — a process in which the numbers drop but the pressures accumulate, and then the numbers grow.”
Raúl Castro’s government also may be “turning a blind eye to some of the departures as an escape valve for the growing discontent,” Cobo noted, referring to the increasing number of dissident protests over the past two years.
Also possible, he added, is that the easing of the U.S. economic crisis made it easier for Cuban Americans to pay the fees demanded by smugglers to bring relatives and friends from the island, usually about $10,000 a head.
The increase in attempts by undocumented Cubans to reach the United States appears to be in line with the Cuban government’s own figures, which show that legal emigration grew by 3 percent from 2009 to 2010.
With a population of 11.2 million, Cuba recorded 38,165 legal emigrations last year, compared to 36,564 in 2009, according to a report this summer by the National Office for Statistics (ONE).
Indeed, about 318,000 Cubans arrived in the United States both legally and illegally between 2000 and 2009, according to a recent study by Jorge Duany, a professor at the University of Puerto Rico who tracks the Cuban Diaspora.
There’s little doubt that large numbers of Cubans want to leave the communist-ruled island, according to a 2009 dispatch written by U.S. diplomats in Havana and provided by WikiLeaks to McClatchy, which owns El Nuevo Herald.
“Emigration remains a virtual obsession with many Cubans, especially, but by no means exclusively, with the young,” the cable noted. “Much of the Cuban public [is] still eager to leave the island.”
Cuba’s emigration flows have varied widely, with massive spikes in 1980, when the Mariel boatlift brought 125,000 refugees to U.S. shores, and in 1994, when the so-called “Rafter Crisis” created 37,191 migrants.
But it’s much more difficult to figure out why the numbers of undocumented Cuban emigrants rose from fiscal year 2003 to fiscal 2007, started dropping in fiscal 2009 and have now risen again.
When the numbers were dropping, analysts argued that was due to the U.S. economic crisis and the hardships paying the smugglers’ fees; improved patrolling by the U.S. and Cuban Coast Guards; and stepped up U.S. and Cuban prosecutions of people smugglers.
The WikiLeaks cable noted that the Mexican Embassy in Havana had reported 31 Mexicans were jailed in Cuba in 2009, “all but a handful convicted on migrant smuggling charges.”
But the cable argued that the U.S. economic crisis may not have been a factor because Cuban migration “historically has not been strongly influenced by economic fluctuations in the United States.”
Instead, the dispatch claimed, the main reason for the drop was the expanded opportunities for legal migration created by changes in U.S. visa procedures and Spain’s citizenship requirements.
The U.S. Cuban Family Reunification Parole program, designed to expedite the issuance of visas and residency permits, cleared a huge backlog of applications for legal entry, according to the cable.
And a new Spanish law allowed tens of thousands of Cuban descendants of Spanish grandparents to apply for Spanish citizenship — which brings with it the right to leave Cuba without the exit permits required of Cuban citizens.
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Da vote is in:
LIFT blockade: 186
DON’T LIFT: 2
ABSTAINED (ie cobardes): 3
Just discovered ANOTHER site blocked by US: Target. Screw it!
Well, I can’t “duke it out” directly with David Norman, since the reply button doesn’t seem to descend that far into the thread. But he’s apparently still reading, so I’ll say this:
1)The Ladies in White are a crass rip-off of an Argentinian group of women who’s children were disappeared. IOW, murdered, at the hands of a US-sponsored military. Go here to learn more, ie, if you’re not in the mood to regurgitate yanqui talking points:
http://machetera.wordpress.com/2011/10/28/sticky-fingers-at-ladies-in-white-in-cuba/
2)Cuba is a minnow in a tank with a shark. They can’t be expected to allow traitors to gather in the streets of Havana and spout lies about their own govt.
3)There’s only one political party in the Home of the Depraved. It has two wings, like a vulture. Only a dolt would believe his vote means anything. Did the American people actually “vote” for the US to wander the world bombing, strafing and looting.
BTW here’s a pic of a famous “dissident”, at home, in his own apartment with his christmas tree. Yeah, the poor abused soul.
http://miamiherald.typepad.com/cuban_colada/2010/12/top-news-in-other-news-cuban-dissident-guillermo-fari%C3%B1as-will-receive-in-absentia-the-sakharov-prize-for-free-thinking.html
Just to keep you abreast of how the USA enforces this policy – frequently. Don’t they have bigger fish to fry?!
Arrival of Cuban delegation forces change of Caribbean summit venue in Trinidad
By Associated Press, Updated: Wednesday, December 7, 2011
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad — Cuban President Raul Castro arrived Wednesday in Trinidad for an trade summit with Caribbean leaders, forcing a last-minute change in venue because of the U.S. trade embargo of his country.
The conference had to be shifted from the Hilton Trinidad & Conference Centre because U.S. law bars it from providing services to the Cuban delegation. The hotel is owned by the Trinidadian government but is managed by a U.S. company.
Trinidad’s Foreign Minister Suruj Rambachan said the government moved the conference to the National Academy for the Performing Arts.
“Trinidad and Tobago respects international law, and until that is changed, the hosting of the function at the Hilton will not be possible,” he said.
Delegations from other countries will stay at the Hilton while Cuban officials have been accommodated at the nearby Kapok Hotel.
Hilton said in a statement that it was not able to obtain a license that would exempt it from a measure that prohibits U.S.-based companies from providing services that would benefit the Cuban government.
Officials with the 15-member Caribbean trade bloc have not issued an agenda for Thursday’s summit, which is expected to focus on trade relations. The summit began a decade ago to mark the 1972 stand taken by Trinidad and Tobago, Barbados, Jamaica and Guyana to re-establish relations with Cuba despite strong objections from the U.S.
Castro received a 21-gun salute shortly after arriving on Wednesday and insisted on inspecting local troops despite heavy rain. He then met with Trinidad’s president and prime minister before placing a wreath at the statue of World War II soldiers.
Love in Cuba
It’s really very cruel. It made people develop other ways to survive, many no nice ways.
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SONY and the World Cup
Author: Gina Mason
The World Cup is set to kick off in Brazil in just a few weeks and fans everywhere are gearing up for a month of soccer mania. From June 12-July 13, 2014, the world will be watching as 32 teams battle it out to see which country will be crowned champions of the world. Outside of the competition, the World Cup is the world’s most followed and watched sporting event, making it an ideal platform for brands to expand their reach to an international audience.
During the 2010 World Cup, more than 3.2 billion people or 46.4 percent of the population watched live coverage for a minimum of one minute, according to FIFA.com. That is an astounding statistic! Not to mention, that statistic is expected to significantly increase due to the growth of the internet, viewing capability on mobile devices and social media. Social media in particular is expected to dominate the World Cup conversation and coverage. Twitter is anticipating “60% of all tweets during matches will be World Cup-related during the month-long soccer tournament,” according to a recent Ad Age article.
With that kind of engagement and attention, we can expect brands that are sponsoring the World Cup, like McDonalds, Visa and Johnson & Johnson to step up their marketing and advertising campaigns to expand their reach. One brand in particular came up with a unique tactic to not only show off its newest technology during the World Cup, but also drive fans to its website and keep them engaged during the competition. That brand is SONY and it created a new social networking platform that can be accessed by its website (http://football.sony.net/onestadiumlive ) called One Stadium Live.
According to a SONY press release, “One Stadium Live brings together football-related social media content from Twitter, Facebook, and Google+ into a single platform, with topics and posts from around the world.” That information will be organized “according to people’s interests and relevance” as well as “sorted to show the most popular, latest, relevant news and posts on football.”
Optimized for smartphones, tablets and computers, One Stadium Live makes it easy for sports fans to interact with each other and keep track of World Cup news. So how does this platform work when people from all over the world speak different languages?
One Stadium Live’s technology is incredibly advanced and it “studies and learns language patterns as opposed to monitoring key words, [and] is the result of 14 years of research at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) that applies artificial intelligence and a database of 17 million facts to appropriate common sense knowledge to text mining.” Content can be further filtered by preferred languages and the social network site, “[it] accommodates six languages including English, French, German, Japanese, Portuguese, and Spanish.” If that doesn’t make your head spin, One Stadium Live will also “deliver a second screen experience with a real-time, filtered stream of what all fans around the world are saying about that particular game.”
I think this marketing strategy for SONY is sheer genius and I am predicting that it will be incredibly successful during the World Cup (barring any technical difficulties). For SONY to align its brand with the biggest sporting event in the world and engage an international audience in a new and exciting way is revolutionary. The best part of this technology is that it will for the first time truly bring the world together in the name of sports. No language barrier will limit brand messaging or people the discussion of all things related to this exciting world event.
What are your predictions for the 2014 World Cup? Will you use One Stadium Live to stay up on the latest soccer updates?
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Assistant Marine Coordinator, Maui
The Nature Conservancy OFFICE LOCATION Makawao,Hawaii,USA HI402 A LITTLE ABOUT US Founded in 1951, the Nature Conservancy is a global conservation organization dedicated to conserving the lands and waters on which all life depends. Guided by science, we create innovative, on-the-ground solutions to our world's toughest challenges so that nature and people can thrive together. We are tackling climate change, conserving lands, waters and oceans at unprecedented scale, providing food and water sustainably and helping make cities more sustainable. One of our core values is our commitment to diversity. Therefore, we strive for a globally diverse and culturally competent workforce. Working in 74 countries, including all 50 United States, we use a collaborative approach that engages local communities, governments, the private sector, and other partners. To learn more, visit www.nature.org or follow @nature_press on Twitter. The Nature Conservancy offers competitive compensation, 401k or savings-plan matching for eligible employees, excellent benefits, flexible work policies and a collaborative work environment. We also provide professional development opportunities and promote from within. As a result, you will find a culture that supports and inspires conservation achievement and personal development, both within the workplace and beyond. YOUR POSITION WITH TNC The Assistant Marine Coordinator performs and participates in marine conservation operations including the maintenance, management, development and coordination of conservation programs. This position is funded from February 15 - July 30, 2020. ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS The Assistant Marine Coordinator (AMC) coordinates with staff and partners to ensure the community support and implementation of marine conservation management plans and strategies on Maui. The AMC supports TNC programmatic and science efforts. The AMC also provides administrative and logistical support for the Maui marine team as needed. RESPONSIBILITIES AND SCOPE Supports on-island marine resource management, coral restoration, volunteer management, outreach and educational events. Supports on-island research activities with marine science team, including data collection, logistics, scheduling, preparation, execution, and data management for biological, water quality, reef resilience and other monitoring as needed. Supports technical, administrative and professional staff on project management, training and development. Works directly with local communities, coastal businesses, landowners and government partners to support collaborative conservation management and policy initiatives. Provides logistics support for meetings and workshops. Provides administrative support for the Maui marine team, including contracts, purchasing, trainings, and safety planning. 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MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS B A/BS/AS/Technical or vocational degree in science-related field and 1 year related experience in marine natural resource management or similar field or equivalent combination of education and experience. Experience working closely with a variety of partners, including media, government officials, community partners, landowners, businesses and scientists. Experience applying science to decision-making. Experience using common software applications such as Word, Excel, web browsers, etc. Knowledge of current trends and practices in conservation, marine management and natural resource preservation in Hawai'i. Ability to snorkel for 3 hours at a time in challenging weather conditions. Must have a valid driver's license. DESIRED QUALIFICATIONS 1 - 2 years experience managing marine ecosystems with Hawaiian values and cultural practices and/or practitioners. Experience managing volunteers or entry level staff. 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Joseph M. Bagley, Boston Archaeologist
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1154 Boylston Street, Boston, MA 02215-3695
Travis Jacquess, University of Mississippi
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Henry Adams, Case Western Reserve University
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Rahul Mehrotra, Professor of Urban Design and Planning, Harvard Graduate School of Design
Tarun Khanna, Director, Harvard South Asia Institute; Jorge Paulo Lemann Professor, Harvard Business School
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Home Research > Constituencies > 1820-1832 > Tavistock
Published in The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1820-1832, ed. D.R. Fisher, 2009
Available from Cambridge University Press
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in the freeholders
Estimated number qualified to vote:
5,483 (1821); 4,221 (1831)1
11 Mar. 1820 JOHN PETER GRANT
JOHN NICHOLAS FAZAKERLEY
22 May 1820 HUGH FORTESCUE, Visct. Ebrington vice Fazakerley, vacated his seat
12 June 1826 LORD WILLIAM RUSSELL
HUGH FORTESCUE, Visct. Ebrington
2 Aug. 1830 HUGH FORTESCUE, Visct. Ebrington
WILLIAM RUSSELL, Lord Russell
27 Nov. 1830 LORD JOHN RUSSELL vice Ebrington, chose to sit for Devon
30 Apr. 1831 LORD JOHN RUSSELL
13 July 1831 JOHN HEYWOOD HAWKINS vice Lord John Russell, chose to sit for Devon
25 Oct. 1831 FRANCIS RUSSELL vice Russell, vacated his seat
Tavistock, situated in the Tavey valley 15 miles north of Plymouth, was one of the principal market towns of Devon. It was not entirely agricultural: it had an old tradition of coarse woollen manufacture and was located at the centre of the west Devon copper, tin and manganese mining district, though all these industries were in decline in this period. It was connected by a canal, opened in 1817, to the River Tamar and Plymouth.2 It had no corporation and was governed by a portreeve, elected annually by 24 freeholders at the court leet of the manor, who also acted as the returning officer.3 Since the 1730s electoral control had been in the hands of the Russell family, dukes of Bedford, who by 1830 owned some 454 acres in the town, which constituted almost all its property. They had a further 12,000 acres in the surrounding area, including a substantial cottage at nearby Endsleigh, which the 6th duke and other members of his family used periodically.4 The right of election was in the freeholders, who had fallen in number from just over 100 in the early eighteenth century to little more than 30 by 1820. There had been no contest since 1734. Bedford, a dedicated Whig, was a considerate, though not an indulgent landlord and an attentive electoral patron, who laid the foundations for the striking improvement in the social and economic condition of the town which was carried into full execution by his successor. In 1823, William George Adam, the auditor of all Bedford’s estates, wrote to Andrew Wilson, who in that year combined the positions of Bedford’s borough steward and land steward at Tavistock:
I see no danger to the duke’s political interest from parting with the control of houses that confer no votes, as any lands or gardens that can be objects to connect with freeholds may be retained. The objections to leases for lives on farms do not apply to property in a town and I can see no danger of any persons getting influence in getting popularity as we find universally that the middle man exacts rents too high to make them objects of regard.5
While Bedford’s electoral control was in practice impregnable, it and his pervasive influence were not without their local critics. The chief among these, and the bane of the life of the alarmist Wilson, was John Rundle†, a partner in the Tavistock Bank, who had additional interests in his large family’s iron founding and timber businesses. His politics were distinctly radical. His daughter, the authoress Elizabeth Charles, recalled:
The bank ... was a focus and centre of the neighbourhood. Men of all classes came to hear what he thought of all matters political and social. He was liberal to the core ... With him politics meant public spirit in the largest sense; reform, radical reform, not destroying except as the seed destroys the husk, uprooting nothing but weeds, to give room for all good things to live and grow.6
Lord Holland described him in 1832 as ‘the head of ... the radical party’ in Tavistock and ‘a good reformer, but considered and even called by many of the electors a dictator or despot, and governing even his democratical crew as much by fear as love’.7 His leading allies were his business partner John Gill, John Flamank, a draper, John Hornbrook, a surgeon, and the Rev. William Evans, a Unitarian minister.
At the general election of 1820 Bedford returned the staunch backbench Whigs John Peter Grant, a debt-ridden Scottish lawyer and laird, and the popular John Fazakerley, a close friend of his son Lord John Russell*. Like Grant before him, Fazakerley had suffered financially as Member for Grimsby. Two months later Bedford reluctantly turned out ‘poor dear Faz’ in order to accommodate the Devonian Lord Ebrington, the son of the 1st Earl Fortescue and a rising star of opposition, who had been ousted from his county seat. Bedford reported that the electors of Tavistock were ‘delighted to have him’.8 On 16 Oct. 1820 Rundle chaired a meeting of the inhabitants which resolved to send a petition to the Commons against the prosecution of Queen Caroline;9 it evidently did not reach the House. A petition complaining of agricultural distress did so, 1 June 1820.10 Rundle carried a petition for relief from distress by means of retrenchment, tax reductions, revision of the tithes system and parliamentary reform at a ‘crowded’ meeting, 15 Feb. 1822.11 At the Bedfordshire county reform meeting, 20 Apr. 1822, when Bedford spoke forcefully for reform, a Tory clergyman made a pointed allusion to the fact that Tavistock was in his pocket. In reply, the Duke said that
he was free to confess that the freeholders of Tavistock generally did him the honour of considering his wishes; but he pledged himself that he never asked for place or pension or favour for any elector ... the moment the representation of that borough was thrown open to the town, and every inhabitant paying scot and lot was entitled to vote, would be the happiest moment of his life.12
Petitions were sent to the Commons for repeal of the coal duties, 10 Mar. 1823, 10 Mar. 1824, 21 Feb. 1825;13 against licence duties (from the licensed victuallers), 29 Mar. 1824;14 for the abolition of slavery, 10 Mar. 1824, 23 Feb. 1826;15 and for inquiry into the prosecution of the Methodist minister John Smith in Demerara, 27 May 1824.16 Among the signatories of a declaration of confidence in the Tavistock Bank during the panic of late 1825 were Wilson, the Rev. Edward Atkins Bray, vicar of Tavistock, and Colonel William Bray, Wilson’s predecessor as Bedford’s borough steward.17
At the general election of 1826 Ebrington came in again, but Grant made way for Bedford’s eccentric and impoverished younger brother Lord William Russell, who had sat for the borough from 1807 until 1819, when he had vacated for Grant and headed for the continent.18 In May 1827 Ebrington, who approved the Whig coalition in government with Canning, which horrified Bedford, offered to resign his seat, but the duke would not hear of it:
Our objects are still the same. I have no desire to form a party or to join any party against the present government and were you to give up your seat ... I should care so little about your successor that I should not interfere in his election, but leave it to the freeholders to elect Mr. Rundle or Mr. Gill, or anyone else they might take a fancy to.19
Protestant Dissenters of Tavistock petitioned the Commons for repeal of the Test Acts, 30 May, 6 June 1827, 18, 22 Feb. 1828, and members of the established church petitioned the Lords likewise, 21 Feb. 1828.20 Local maltsters petitioned for repeal of the Malt Act, 14 Mar. 1828.21 That year began a dispute between Wilson and Rundle, into which Adam and Bedford were drawn, over the site for and financing of a gas works to bring lighting to the town; it dragged on until the summer of 1831.22 On 23 Feb. 1829 Bray chaired a meeting to petition Parliament and address the king against Catholic emancipation, which Bedford and his Members of course supported, though Russell seems to have been too unwell to vote on the issue. The speakers included at least three other Anglican clergymen and some of the neighbouring Tory gentry, among them Arthur Chichester and William Courtenay*. The petitions were entrusted to Holdsworth, Member for Dartmouth, and Lord Rolle, a former county Member. Wilson, who apparently tried to impede the progress of the petitions, later complained to Adam of Bray’s ‘inflammatory sermon’ and unrelenting bigotry.23 In early February 1830 there was a riot, involving about 90 pauper labourers, which was apparently provoked by a decision of the magistrates on the disputed ownership of some faggots. Rundle, who spoke at length for reform and retrenchment at the Cornwall county meeting, 22 Mar., largely blamed the magistrates. Wilson deplored the existence of lawless elements in the town and of agitators, notably one Samuel Finn, eager to stir them up, though he also accused the clergy and magistrates of failing to exercise moral leadership and Rundle and the respectable radicals of ‘conceit and ingratitude’.24 The Commons were petitioned to break the East India Company’s commercial monopoly, 13 May, when Tavistock bankers and traders petitioned for mitigation of the punishment for forgery, as they did again, 24 May 1830.25
At the dissolution that summer Lord William Russell retired on account of the ill health which had badly interfered with his parliamentary attendance. He later told his nephew Lord George William Russell* that he had wished to step down two or three years earlier, but had agreed to stay in as a course ‘more advisable as affecting the election interests at Tavistock’. His replacement was Bedford’s grandson and heir presumptive Lord Russell, a shy young man just down from Oxford, who only came of age at the beginning of July 1830. Bedford told his son Lord George William, whom he had decided on good advice to drop as Member for Bedford, where his non-attendance and neglect had put the family interest in jeopardy, that ‘the same reasons would operate against my proposing you for Tavistock, where the electors are not at all disposed to submit to a non-attending representative’.26 Ebrington, warning that he would almost certainly in the next session take a ‘more decided’ line of opposition to the Wellington ministry, of which Bedford largely approved, offered to stand down; but the duke had no qualms about bringing him in again. Although the inhabitants of Tavistock presented addresses to Joseph Hume and Daniel O’Connell praising their parliamentary conduct in late July, the election of Ebrington and Lord Russell seems to have been undisturbed. Eleven days later Ebrington was also returned at the head of the poll for Devon.27
As Lord John Russell was defeated at Bedford, where he stood in his negligent brother’s room, he was the obvious replacement for Ebrington at Tavistock, though there was some talk, which came to nothing, of his standing for the vacant Southwark seat.28 Meanwhile, Wilson had become increasingly agitated about the state of feeling in Tavistock, where Rundle, Evans and Flamank had promoted a meeting, 30 Aug. 1830, which had adopted an address to the French people congratulating them on their ‘glorious triumph ... over tyranny’. Wilson reported soon afterwards that Rundle
as the head of a party is never at rest, and must dictate in everything, however unreasonable or inconsistent it may be. His whole aim seems to be directed against ... [Bedford] and agents, constantly uttering every expression of detestation at the way in which the borough is held, and that titles are only nicknames.29
Rundle and the Rev. William Rooker, a Unitarian minister, got up a meeting to petition Parliament for the abolition of slavery in early November, and further petitions to the same effect were presented during the 1830 Parliament.30 When Russell went to Tavistock to canvass the electors later in the month, just at the time that the Wellington ministry was being brought down, he was supposedly ‘threatened by an opposition’, but Bedford had no doubt that it would ‘end in smoke’. On his arrival, Russell ascertained that the ‘notion of an opposition’ seemed to have originated in Wilson’s alarmism and had no substance. The writ was delayed for a few days in order to ‘avoid the trouble and expense of two elections’ after his appointment as paymaster-general in the Grey ministry. Having returned to London when an offer of office was first communicated to him, he pleaded pressure of business as his reason for not attending the formalities.31 In December 1830 Rundle and 16 other electors petitioned the Commons for an extension of the franchise to the inhabitant householders and the introduction of the secret ballot.32 Rundle, Flamank and Evans took the lead at a meeting to endorse and petition in favour of the reform bill introduced by their Member, 15 Mar. 1831.33
At the general election which followed the defeat of the bill, Lord John and Lord Russell were returned again, though the former only came in for Tavistock in case of failure in his bid for one of the county seats. Rundle, who seconded his nomination, led a chorus of praise for the bill, while Lord John spoke at some length in its defence.34 There was idle speculation that if he was returned for Devon (which he duly was), his replacement at Tavistock would be Edward Divett† of Bystock.35 Bedford’s awareness of ‘the ticklish state of the borough ... and the risk there might be of proposing a stranger’ led him to decline Lord Holland’s application for his son Charles Richard Fox*. He offered the seat to Lord George William Russell, who had been mortified at being turned out of Bedford, but only on condition that he attended assiduously until the reform bill was passed. Russell, who was contemplating a diplomatic career, asked for time to consider; but in the interim Bedford was informed that ‘there was some movement going on’ in Tavistock among the ‘influential freeholders’ to ‘recommend to me to bring in’ John Heywood Hawkins, a villainously ugly young man who had made a great splash with his speech in support of the bill in the previous Parliament, had been ousted from his seat for Mitchell in a coup engineered by the Tory Lord Falmouth and was seen by leading ministers as someone for whom it was desirable to find a seat. Bedford still gave his son the first refusal, but he offered to step aside for Hawkins. The duke invited the latter to come in and observed to Lord George William that
with regard to any future influence my family may possess in the borough, I think that would be improved by my bringing in Mr. H. rather than you ... Russell being already in with John, and your succeeding John, our enemies there (for we have some of course) may say that before reform I made a family borough of it; whereas if I bring in a person wholly unconnected with me, but solely for the sake of promoting the great measure of reform, the feeling would probably be materially different.36
After establishing that the offer was free of political and financial strings, Hawkins accepted it, so putting paid to the hopes of the reformer Sir John Byng*, a protégé of Lord Anglesey, the Irish viceroy, who was anxious to obtain a seat.37 After his election Hawkins reported to his father that on his arrival in Tavistock he had
accompanied the duke’s steward and another agent round the town, to canvass the small constituency; rather above 30. Reform feeling very strong, with a slight feeling of republicanism. Very cordially received indeed. I find that the first proposal to return me emanated from some of the freeholders; the duke adopted it very readily ... This morning duly and unanimously elected, after sundry speeches from such of the electors as take a strong interest in politics; very complimentary to myself, very laudatory of the reform bill, and somewhat vituperative of tithes and parsons. I talked to them at some length, chiefly on ‘the bill’.
The other principal speakers were Francis Willesford, who called for the abolition of ‘abominable sinecures and unnecessary expenses’, John Bray, an attorney, and Rundle, who complained that when advocating reform outside Tavistock he was accused of having been ‘seduced by the duke of Bedford’, but that ‘in the borough’ he was ‘calumniated by the agents of the duke for acting in opposition to his Grace’. He traced to Bedford’s agents a rumour that the purpose of his recent visit to London had been to secure the nomination to the vacant seat for himself. He denied this and insisted that he was at present too preoccupied with his business concerns to contemplate entering Parliament, though he did not rule out standing on a future occasion. Wilson, who presided over the meeting in the absence of the portreeve, was suitably outraged at Rundle’s impertinence.38
Rundle and company met to petition the Lords to pass the reform bill, 29 Sept. 1831. News of its rejection was greeted with public expressions of mourning; and Gill, Rundle, Flamank and John Bray promoted a meeting to address the king in support of the measure and the ministry, 13 Oct., when the language used was studiously moderate.39 Soon afterwards Lord Russell, finding his health unequal to late sittings of the House, vacated for Bedford’s nephew Francis Russell (the eldest son of Lord William Russell*), a Waterloo veteran, man-about-town and inveterate gambler. At his quiet election, Bray and Rundle again advocated ‘patience and forbearance at present’, though they showed a ‘full determination of resorting to all rightful means of obtaining ... their cherished object, should unforeseen difficulties occur’.40 They organized a petition to the Commons for the supplies to be withheld until reform was secured, 23 May 1832.41
As the proprietary borough of a Whig magnate, and one with which Lord John Russell was so intimately connected, Tavistock’s treatment in the reform bills attracted close scrutiny in Parliament. Its population of well over 5,000, according to the 1821 census (which in fact included the whole of the parish, of which the borough formed only a part) put it comfortably outside the disfranchisement schedules of the first measure. When Alexander Baring, sore at the proposed disfranchisement of his own borough of Callington, complained, 3 Mar. 1831, that Bedford’s ‘monopoly’ would not be infringed, Lord Tavistock, Bedford’s son and heir, indicated that he would personally support any motion to have the borough included in schedule B, though he disingenuously denied that his father ever influenced his tenants ‘as to the manner in which they should give their votes’. Four days later William Peel remarked on the unfairness of depriving Tamworth, where his family had influence, of one Member, while Tavistock and the minister Lord Lansdowne’s borough of Calne went unscathed. He was taken to task by Bedford’s nephew John Russell (another son of Lord William), who argued that the bill was not intended to destroy such ‘just and proper influence’ as Bedford’s at Tavistock and would significantly increase the unacceptably small electorate. On 18 Apr. Sadler observed that while Tavistock might meet the requirements of population, it was not ‘famed for any particular pursuit of national industry’, whereas Rochdale, the centre of flannel manufacture, had been ignored. Outlining the reintroduced reform bill, 24 June 1831, Lord John Russell explained that further inquiries had revealed that the number of £10 houses in Tavistock had proved to be almost the same as those enumerated in the tax office returns, which ministers had found to be defective in many other instances. He cited the fall in the number of Tavistock electors during the past 110 years as an example of the abuses which had crept into the representative system and which the bill was designed to eradicate.42 Edward Littleton*, one of the team directed to collate the boundary commissioners’ reports in late October 1831, recorded that on 28 Nov.
Lord John Russell paid us a visit at the council office, principally to ascertain what had become of Tavistock, whether Captain Beaufort and I had examined the case, and whether we were of opinion that it should lose a Member or not. The duke of Bedford had written to him urging that he should not hesitate an instant about its partial disfranchisement. We had found the documents about it defective, and accordingly had not yet formed an opinion on it.43
There was an expectation that Tavistock would be put in schedule B in the revised bill of December 1831;44 but when Russell introduced it on the 12th, it emerged that as things stood the borough was to retain both Members, having been placed 95th in the scale of boroughs calculated by a formula based on their number of houses and amount of assessed taxes. At the same time Russell indicated that the case was still under investigation, as some of the information was suspect. Seeking to pre-empt criticism, he asserted that it was ‘utterly false and unfounded’ to suggest that ‘any unfair rule had been attempted to be established with respect to that borough’ or that ‘any unfair advantage has been taken of my official situation, for the purpose of placing it beyond the reach of disfranchisement’. The boundary commissioners, after sending down a surveyor to check the facts, recommended the extension of the borough to the whole of the parish except the manor of Cudliptown, which would create a constituency with a population of 5,602 and 380 £10 houses.45 In the House, 23 Jan. 1832, Russell was harried over Tavistock by Sir Richard Vyvyan, but it emerged that he had failed to take note of the new documentary evidence. The change in Tavistock’s parliamentary boundary increased its area from 0.5 to 17.4 square miles, but even so it had a nominal registered electorate of only 247 at the time of the 1832 general election, when fewer than 200 voted.46 In July 1832 Bedford wrote that ‘the line which I (and those connected with me in Tavistock) take is to be perfectly neutral with respect to the election of a second candidate’; and when offering a seat to Charles Fox soon afterwards, he told Lady Holland that he would ‘come in not as my Member, but as the town Member’, though he added that Lord John ‘will manage it’, even though ‘I cannot interfere myself directly’. This circumspection had been forced on him by the activities and energy of Rundle and his associates: as the election approached, he suspected Rundle, ‘the O’Connell of Tavistock’, of ‘playing his own game’ by professing friendliness.47 When Francis Russell died suddenly in late November 1832, Lord Russell was pressed into standing again. He and Fox were returned comfortably enough at the general election, but only after the first contest for nearly a century, provoked when Hume, at the instigation of ‘a mad radical’ (presumably Rundle), as the Russells believed, sent down the young ‘Benthamite Baronet’ Sir Francis Charles Knowles of Lovel Hill, Windsor to oppose Fox, recently appointed a member of the government.48 The Russell interest remained predominant, but Rundle secured a seat in 1835 and held it until 1843.
Author: David R. Fisher
1. The 1821 figure is for the whole parish, the 1831 figure for the borough alone.
2. C.E. Hicks, ‘Tavistock’, Trans. Devon Assoc. lxxix (1947), 155, 159, 165-6; Pigot’s Commercial Dir. (1823-4), 251-3 and (1830), 259-60; P.V. Denham, ‘Duke of Bedford’s Tavistock Estate’, Trans. Devon Assoc. cx (1978), 24-31.
3. J.J. Alexander, ‘Tavistock’, Trans. Devon Assoc. xlii (1910), 259; Denham, 22-23.
4. Denham, 19-21; M. Brayshay, ‘Bedford’s Model Cottages at Tavistock’, Trans. Devon Assoc. cxiv (1982), 129; Greville Mems. vi. 89-90.
5. J.J. Alexander, ‘Tavistock’, Trans. Devon Assoc. xliii (1911), 378-80; Denham, 23.
6. Denham, 21-22; Hicks, 166; Alexander, Trans. Devon Assoc. xliii. 402; Elizabeth Charles, Our Seven Homes, 6-7, 39-41, 44-45, 49, 54, 61-64, 95.
7. Add. 51786, Holland to C.R. Fox, 22 Aug. 1832.
8. Add. 51654, Lady Holland to Mackintosh [3 Apr.]; 51667, Bedford to Lady Holland, 22 May; 51782, Holland to Fox, 4 Apr.; Trewman’s Exeter Flying Post, 18 May 1820.
9. Alfred, 24 Oct. 1820.
10. CJ, lxxv. 263.
11. Alfred, 26 Feb. 1822; CJ, lxxvii. 84.
12. Cambridge and Hertford Independent Press, 27 Apr. 1822.
13. CJ, lxxviii. 102; lxxix. 144; lxxx. 102.
14. Ibid. lxxix. 222.
15. Alfred, 2 Mar. 1824; CJ, lxxix. 143; lxxxi. 96. See also LJ, lviii. 56.
16. CJ, lxxix. 422.
17. C.E. Hicks, ‘Banking Crisis of 1825’, Trans. Devon Assoc. lxxxi (1949), 290-1.
18. Add. 52011, Mrs. Fazakerley to H.E. Fox, 1 Feb. [1825]; Trewman’s Exeter Flying Post, 25 May, 15 June 1826.
19. Devon RO, Earl Fortescue mss, Ebrington to Bedford, 8, 12 May, reply, 10 May 1827; Russell Letters, i. 65.
20. CJ, lxxxii. 505, 521; lxxxiii. 78, 96; LJ, lx. 56.
21. CJ, lxxxiii. 169.
22. Denham, 31-32.
23. Woolmer’s Exeter and Plymouth Gazette, 28 Feb. 1829; CJ, lxxxiv. 141; LJ, lxi. 233; Denham, 46.
24. Denham, 41-42; West Briton, 26 Mar. 1830.
25. CJ, lxxxv. 416, 463.
26. Russell Letters, ii. 249, 251, 255; Blakiston, Lord William Russell, 212; Earl Fortescue mss, Tavistock to Ebrington, 15 July [1830].
27. Earl Fortescue mss, Ebrington to Bedford, 6 July, reply, 7 July; Woolmer’s Exeter and Plymouth Gazette, 24 July, 7 Aug. 1830.
28. Add. 51580, Carlisle to Lady Holland, 4 Sept.; 51670, Bedford to same [?22 Aug.]; Russell Letters, ii. 269; Earl Fortescue mss, Russell to Ebrington, 20 Oct. [1830].
29. West Briton, 3 Sept. 1830; Denham, 42-43.
30. Woolmer’s Exeter and Plymouth Gazette, 6 Nov. 1830; CJ, lxxxvi. 56, 176, 454; LJ, lxiii. 69, 449.
31. Russell Letters, i. 159; Add. 51680, Russell to Lady Holland [c. 15 Nov. 1830]; Denham, 43; Walpole, Russell, i. 158-60.
32. CJ, lxxxvi. 179; West Briton, 31 Dec. 1830, 21 Jan. 1831.
33. Plymouth, Devonport and Stonehouse Herald, 19 Mar. 1831; CJ, lxxxvi. 406.
34. Trewman’s Exeter Flying Post, 5 May 1831.
35. Woolmer’s Exeter and Plymouth Gazette, 7 May 1831.
36. Add. 51663, Bedford to Holland [31 May 1831]; Blakiston, 231; Russell Letters, ii. 340-2.
37. Cornw. RO, Hawkins mss 10/2162; Russell Letters, ii. 343; Grey mss, Stanley to Grey, 3 June, reply, 6 June 1831.
38. Hawkins mss 10/2163; Plymouth, Devonport and Stonehouse Herald, 26 July 1831; Denham, 47.
39. West Briton, 30 Sept., 14, 21 Oct.; Western Times, 22 Oct. 1831; LJ, lxiii. 1037.
40. Add. 51670, Bedford to Lady Holland, 24 Oct.; Plymouth, Devonport and Stonehouse Herald, 29 Oct. 1831.
41. CJ, lxxxvii. 332.
42. See PP (1831), xvi. 88.
43. Hatherton diary.
44. Keele Univ. Lib. Sneyd mss SC17/64.
45. PP (1831-2), xxxviii. 129-30.
46. N. Gash, Politics in Age of Peel, 73, 74, 432.
47. Denham, 23-24; Brougham mss, Lord J. Russell to Brougham, 29 June; Add. 51671, Bedford to Lady Holland [14, 15 Aug.], 10 Sept. [13 Oct.]; 51786, Holland to Fox, 22, 24, 25 Aug. 1832.
48. Add. 47223, f. 64; 51671, Bedford to Lady Holland [28 Nov.] [13 Dec.]; 51787, Holland to Fox, 12 Dec. 1832; Russell Letters, iii. 32-33, 35.
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Suspect with assault rifle arrested at ‘Pizzagate’ restaurant
Since the inception of the Hampstead SRA hoax in early 2015, parents, teachers, and clergy have lived with a terrifying possibility: that all the kidnapping and death threats spouted by promoters and followers of the hoax might take root and result in tragedy. “All it takes is one lunatic”, people have said—and with good reason.
Yesterday afternoon local time in Washington, D.C., police were called to Comet Ping Pong, the target of the “pizzagate” phony news story, where a gunman armed with an assault rifle was apprehended.
According to witnesses, the restaurant, popular with families, was full of customers at the time. Fortunately, no one was injured.
The Washington Post reported:
D.C. Police responding Sunday to a report of a gunman at a popular pizza restaurant in Northwest Washington detained a man armed with an assault rifle, according to a police spokeswoman.
D.C. police Chief Peter Newsham said a lone suspect in his 20s walked into the front door of Comet Ping Pong with an assault rifle. Newsham said it appeared as if the suspect may have fired one or multiple shots into the ground. The man has not yet been identified and his motives were not clear.
But Comet Ping Pong, a pizza restaurant on Connecticut Avenue with ping-pong tables that is popular with families, has been caught up in a wave of conspiracy theories and fake-news stories that spread during the presidential campaign that have prompted death threats to the restaurant and nearby businesses.
Startled patrons rushed out of the restaurant onto Connecticut Avenue, taking shelter in nearby businesses and remaining locked down for more than an hour.
Newsham said the license plates on the suspect’s car were not from D.C., Maryland or Virginia. Police said the man may have had an additional weapon, possibly handgun, in his car
Police received a call about a man with a weapon a just before 3 p.m., said Aquita Brown, a spokeswoman for the department.
She said there were no reports of injuries.
It’s not clear what motivated the suspect in Sunday’s incident. The restaurant, however, was swept up in the onslaught of fake news that was prevalent during the presidential campaign.The restaurant’s owner and employees were threatened on social media in the days before the election, the New York Times reported, after fake news stories circulated claiming that then-Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton and her campaign chief were running a child sex ring from the restaurant’s back rooms. None of it was true, but the fake stories and threats persisted, some even aimed at the employees’ children. The restaurant’s owner was forced to contact the FBI, local police, Facebook and other social media platforms in an effort to remove the articles.
Within an hour of reports beginning to emerge, conspiracy theorists had started screaming “false flag!”, claiming that the reports were either untrue, or were part of (yet another) conspiracy to discredit the conspiracy theorists (following all that?).
On Sunday, Washington Post reporters involved in reporting on the story were the target of online threats shortly after it posted.
What does this mean for Hampstead?
We think the relevance to Hoaxtead is pretty self-evident. We’ve discussed how some of the Hoaxtead mobsters have desperately jumped aboard the “pizzagate” fake news story as they try to breathe new life into the dying Hampstead hoax, and we’re all too familiar with what an upsurge in the hoax could mean.
Death threats are just another fact of life for anyone who disagrees that a cult of baby-eating, child-raping Satanists run an industrial-scale baby import business out of a church and school in a busy North London neighbourhood.
Here are just a couple, taken from a video posted by Aaron Dover:
If you have the stomach for it, check out the Trolls page on this blog for a nice cross-section of death threats we’ve received in the year and a half since we took this blog online.
Now, imagine that someone like the Washington suspect reads one of those threats and decides to make good on it. Not a pretty thought, but it’s one the people of Hampstead cope with daily.
Yesterday’s gunman only serves to underline a point we’ve all been screaming from the rooftops since Ella and Sabine published the names and personal information of Hampstead residents online: all it takes is one crazy person with a weapon to tip this thing from madness into tragedy.
Update: Shooter identified
According to The Washington Post, the shooter has now been identified as 28-year-old Edgar Maddison Welch, of Salisbury, N.C. He “walked in the front door of Comet Ping Pong and pointed a firearm in the direction of a restaurant employee. The employee was able to flee and notify police. Police said Welch proceeded to discharge the rifle inside the restaurant”.
“The man told police he had come to the restaurant to “self-investigate” an election-related conspiracy theory involving Hillary Clinton that spread online during her presidential campaign”.
“Police said in addition to the assault rifle, they also recovered two firearms inside the restaurant; an additional weapon was recovered in Welch’s car. Bomb-sniffing dogs and at least one armored vehicle were present at the scene”.
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Guess being like most of your commenters, seeing hoaxstead for what it was early, our biggest fear was this type of scenario or worse. As Alex Jones is pushing that this is now “worldwide” Its going to cause a lot more chaos than Hampstead. However, we need be on our toes for how many are using Hampstead as substantial evidence to push this shite. This could get very serious over there. The comments of youtube are wild as hell. I truly hope no harm comes to anyone over there, and hope there are no repercussions for Hampstead.
I feel lucky enough to have once been one of these knee jerking conspiracy theorists and thankfully got to the other side.
Yes, I’m glad you were able to move past the knee-jerk conspiracy thing too—glad to have you here.
I do worry about violence in Hampstead, but as you say, even more about violence in the USA.
Naturally, this frightening development will prick Angie’s conscience and make her wind her neck in.
Oh wait…
This is terrible. Its probably done for some form of martyrdom. A joint investigation into nothing but speculation, breed from 4chan. Yet 4chan supports mayhem, suspect images of young teens, racism, and pushing teens to suicide (An hero) Yet this has become the source for this nonsense, joint investigation into complete hell for these business owners and politicians. I admit to first debating with some, but become easily jaded to the response that its “Well known” the elites are all up to this, as well as being cannibals. I can’t and won’t debate or argue with stupid. You cant win.
If anything is a false flag, its this whole Pizzagate. Creating useful idiots. However, she should acknowledge how dangerous this could and probably will get.
Hopefully this will throw pizzagate into the mainstream where it belongs.
On hols says:
Angela doesn’t care about any danger she causes to anyone. She just likes to create drama. Grooms youngish men and gets them in all sorts of trouble. Causes devastation in her wake.
Well that’s not surprising, whats surprising is nobody’s been killed yet.
Yes, I think 4chan has a great deal to answer for. At least Reddit had the common decency to shut down the “pizzagate” thread; but it has simply moved over to Voat, under the guise of “free speech”.
The problem is that most of the people who bleat about “free speech” don’t have the slightest idea what that term really means: it means, simply, that anyone can express dissenting views, free of government interference. It doesn’t mean “I can publicly accuse anyone I like of anything that takes my fancy”. That’s where slander, libel, defamation, and harassment laws come into play. And in the extreme, accusing someone of, say, running a paedophile ring in the back room of a family restaurant, and then exhorting people to “take action” and do something about it, takes it into the realm of hate speech and death threats.
If she admitted that this could get very dangerous very fast, she’d have to admit the same about Hoaxtead.
Yes, I think it’ll be useful to have the cold glare of public scrutiny turned on it.
The co-owner of a bookstore across the street from the restaurant says that the gunman came in “looking for the alleged tunnels” where children were supposedly hidden and tortured. He also said that many businesses in proximity to Comet Ping Pong have also received threats. All of this sounds dismally familiar.
She has already inspired an American to travel to London, financed him and urged others to do likewise.
The Jo Cox murder is the UK’s first casualty in this bizarre new war and many have posted congratulations on websites praising her killer.
Apparently the Ping Pong Pizza restaurant has been packed nightly with local supporters wanting to send a message they will not be intimidated by these creeps but that could have meant more innocents could have been hurt.
Other restaurants on the same Washington block have also had loyal customers flocking there but owners and staff have also received death threats just for being close-by.
We have a president-elect in the USA who seems happy to fan the flames of bigotry and conspiracy just for his advantage who is apparently clueless to the forces he has unleashed not just in the US but abroad.
As you can see with the appalling Angela Power-Disney there is simply no respite from their hysterical wickedness and nothing can divert them (such as facts) from their wicked crusades.
Authorities should have come down like a ton of bricks on these internet defamers and harassers – even here in Oz it is a criminal offense to use libel on the internet, by telephone and so on to cause fear in a person with a possible 5 year prison sentence but try getting police to actually do something- they barely knwo the law themselves. Same same UK. It will probably take another Jo Cox tragedy before they wake up.
I also think the Redit response was too little, too late just as Facebook, Youtube, Blogger etc allow this stuff to flourish.
I hope you’re wrong—that another innocent person won’t have to die to bring this message home to our law enforcers and courts. But I do think the police here ought to be paying extremely close attention to events in the USA right now. Yesterday’s Comet Ping Pong episode could have turned tragic very quickly, and the same could quite easily happen in the UK.
I agree with you that the primary Hoaxtead mobsters ought to have been arrested right away quick; I’m somewhat heartened by the recent spate of arrests, but frankly feel that they should have been made more than a year ago.
Yes, I agree. The fact that they allow it in the first place, and don’t shut it down the minute names and addresses start being bandied about, speaks volumes.
Angela can bite me.
Interesting that on Twitter right now, the main reaction seems to be “oh, here it comes, they’re going to start blaming everyone who participated in #pizzagate now, it’s just an excuse to try and make us look bad”.
Well yes, we are going to start blaming all the knuckleheads who participated in a witch hunt based on a bunch of pretend magic symbols and alleged super-dooper code words. We’ve seen it all before: people who put 2 and 2 together and get 9,485. Think of “researcher” Charlotte Ward and the mental midget Kris Costa, neither of whom can reason their way out of wet paper bags in a rainstorm: do we really want people like this encouraging the not-very-tightly-wrapped among us to commit acts of violence in the name of their crackpot theories?
I suppose the one positive thing about the “they’re just trying to make us look bad” whinge-fest over on Twitter is that at least a few of these numbskulls seem to realise that having some goon show up in a family restaurant carrying an assault rifle and a couple of other weapons is going to make the ninnies behind #pizzagate look very, very bad indeed. Yeah, they look bad now. They looked bad before; it’s just that no one knew about them. Now they’re out in the public view, and that’s a good thing. Watch them twist themselves into pretzels trying to explain this one.
D D'Coy says:
You mention Jo Cox; let’s not forget that her killing was very much a copy-cat crime. One that was encouraged over a decade ago by one of the most notable attention-seeking nutcases in Britain…
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/sweden/1441452/Eurosceptic-hails-Lindh-murder.html
It took a dozen years for someone to take up the nutter’s clarion call, but taken up it was! And that same headcase is still around – somewhat depleted thanks to being exposed for being the fantasists he so surely is – but still out there abusing and terrorising people; making them fear for their safety etc. Immune, it seems, from the law of the land.
Hoaxtead is one issue.
These games have been played for decades and take many forms. It’s ridiculous and completely unacceptable that certain individuals seem untouchable, the Police and other authorities just don’t take these things seriously – even to the extent they’ve been known to fuel the fires with their inept (some say suspiciously so) bungling!
Hoaxtead happened – and let’s not forget that it real families have had their lives utterly disrupted; at least one has been uprooted from its home and forced to move to the opposite end of the British isles…
And what of the recent spate of arrests? Once wrists are gently slapped they’ll be back on the job. – Rupert Quaintance fully expects to be back in looneyland with his gun-toting mommy for Christmas. Oh, he’s quiet enough just now, but don’t expect that to last once he’s out of reach of the Bobbies.
Given that the Jo Cox tragedy was itself another Anna Lindh tragedy, how many lives need to be wrecked or destroyed before we get to a stage where the Police WILL get off their arses and do what they should be doing?
In my experience the situation is getting worse. – Phone the police about any common issue and you will probably find yourself talking to an operator whose main job is to find an excuse not to despatch officers…
I reported a burglary in progress the other night; the robbed family are STILL waiting on the Police to attend three days later; that’s just the way it is these days.
I also blame Wikileaks & Julian Assange for their blatant partisan campaign against Clinton. While they have every right to support politically who they want they knowingly allowed sensational emails to be published knowing there were 1000s of lunatics out there who would misinterpret them.
Many people are saying it was because a campaign had begun to accuse Assange of being a pedophile- a claim I don’t believe – but they have actively promoted this garbage knowing there are a million rednecks, armed to the teeth, who thrive on this stuff.
As for Assange, I believe he has gone mad and has completely blown any notion he may receive leniency from the US and it is becoming apparent as I argued with many who actually thought Trump may give him a pardon (although what for as he hasn’t been charged or convicted of any crime yet), the opposite is happening – anyone with half a brain could see Donald Trump is a person who will use you and dump you as soon as your usefulness has vanished. Now that Ecuador has cut of this internet access and I doubt they will restore it, I think Assange has become a millstone around their neck and may end up rotting in that Embassy for years to come.
## Wikileaks were repeatedly tweeting the false Podesta ‘Satanist’ claims and tweeting links to phony stories about then right up until the day of the US election. They have several million followers. If there are any tragedies that come out of all of this Wikileaks and Assange will wear it like a cross of thorns. And like true cowards they remain anonymous while they set out to destroy lives and pervert democratic elections.
### I still believe some sort of control of the internet is on the cards. The Bush government actively pursued the idea that access to the internet could be controlled by just a handful of internet providers who pay the US government $$millions for the privilege and then put ‘gates’ which price out the average consumer or condemn them to a frustrating slow service. Rupert Murdoch is an active proponent for this.
TN says:
Yes, authorities and social media companies need to get a grip on this Pandora’s box.
It’s been neglected because let’s be honest they either don’t know how or don’t have the will to address it. IMO it’s quite shameful that innocent peoples’ rights to live free from persecution – surely a key role for the state – have not been defended. Since when did death threats start to become a daily fact of life for people? Is this the kind of society we have to accept? How long do people in this community or others for that matter have to live in fear?
Police seem to have been ill prepared for this. While likely they are decent and diligent they are overstretched and seem to lack the understanding, expertise and will to address this failing. Too little too late, I say!
Social media companies need to step up and take responsibility for the monster they have helped create. We all know this is not about free speech, laws are being broken. Present company accepted, it seems that deeply disturbing to me that people are losing sight of what’s decent, real or true anymore.
Julian Assange is a little creep who also happens to be wanted for sexually abusing two former colleagues, if he is innocent then he should turn himself in
A good analysis of how this fraud was perpetuated including the very first Tweet about it by an obvious phony “DavidGoldbergNY” – an apparent attempt to give credibility by using a Jewish name in New York with it’s huge Jewish population.
This has been a carefully planned plot and achieved it’s desired result.
Not sure how the members of Morons Are Us like Power-Disney feel about being played like a cheap violin.
https://www.buzzfeed.com/craigsilverman/fever-swamp-election?utm_term=.hyr57PZlrE#.soZRKDGk6M
How The Bizarre Conspiracy Theory Behind “Pizzagate” Was Spread
The Hampstead madness brought Rupert Wilson Quaintance IV to London from USA looking to break down doors and entertaining notions of having sex with children. All sleazy stories are going to motivate the mentally ill and deviants to act upon them.
Angie has set her epic fail silent rant to private so now only close allies can now bask in her masterclass of twattery.MK Devils are quick off the mark to preserve this timeless classic as a monument for the rest of humanity,lest we forget.
Failed human being Angie claims a fag shortage for her latest scurry into the undergrowth albeit the timing is uncanny with a fair bit of shit about to hit fans in the coming weeks.Angies boomerangs of shit are it seems coming home to roost 🙂
So-called ‘social media’ companies won’t take responsibility simply because it is not what they’re about. They make their money off social discord and conflict, and have no regard for the damage they cause. Nor will they ever until it starts hitting them in the pocket. – It’s the same thing with online selling platforms; they pay lip-service to consumer protection – but are quite happy to have systems that are obfuscatious and conflationary so as to make it difficult or impossible to uphold consumer protection laws…
The internet is a kind of ‘wild west’. Made all the worse by the fact that at local level there is no resource and no will to uphold the laws which theoretically protect people.
Sam has a point in that this will ultimately give those with an agenda to do so an excuse to try and restrict the internet; but the nature of the beast will render that all but impossible. And the real issue here is the reluctance to apply existing laws. This isn’t helped by the fact that civil remedies are practically impossible to access for the average person.
Excellent article (thank you!) and excellent, insightful comments by everyone.
Please let me share with you an experience that I’ve had, (and in some ways, that I’m still having).
In the fall of 2010, I sent the FBI a brief detailing my reasons for believing that unrestrained dissemination of paranoid conspiracy theories and fraudulent rumor-mongering, by political ‘outsiders’ in the US, was likely to incite mentally ‘confused’ and/or deluded persons to commit acts of violence, possibly including assassination attempts, against American political, judicial, military or law enforcement leadership or associated front-line personnel, and that specific academics and activists in certain fields might also be targeted.
I stated that I did not perceive a volitional conspiracy between these political outsiders, but rather a complex web of public communication connecting persons, groups and communities, with a variety of professed primary interests, many of whom would be unlikely to have personal knowledge of each other.
I stated that elements common to many of these conspiracy theories and rumor-panics included; fantasies & delusional beliefs about an international elite of predatory pedophiles in business, government, law enforcement and social institutions, who prey upon the children of less advantaged citizens through complex “ritual abuse” and “mind control” conspiracies, or fantasies & delusional beliefs about secret “brain-washing” programs run by national governments on behalf of an “Illuminati” or “New World Order”.
I named some individuals whom I had reason to believe were engaged in dissemination of such material with genuinely malicious intent, and some individuals who appeared to be targeted by campaigns to incite widedpread, indiscriminate hatred of them.
On January 8, 2011, a paranoid schizophrenic named Jared Lee Loughner attempted to assassinate U.S. Representative Gabrielle Giffords, near Tucson Arizona, killing 6 people and wounding 13 others.
I knew nothing of Loughner, he wasn’t ‘on my radar’ at all, but he was alleged to be obsessed with conspiracy theories promulgated by anti-government theorists. Gabriellle Giffords wasn’t on my lists either, but she was a victim of an apparent assassination attempt by a disturbed individual.
I was far beyond stunned, by this seemingly coincidental tragedy. I went around in a daze for weeks after. I became fearful, even paranoid, about people around me that I knew were sympathetic toward any of the above listed ideas. I probably had a wee ‘break-down’ going on.
Since that time, there have been multiple cases in the US and Canada, of police officers being assassinated by persons obsessed with anti-government conspiracy theories. My prediction continues to be validated, or my mind insists on interpreting events in this way. I sent a short follow-up to my brief, to various authorities, pointing out the apparent validation of my prediction. I’ve never received any replies, but I did become aware that some persons I named were advised by someone to tighten their personal security. I’ve been at a loss, what I could/should do since 2011. So, I do nothing. Just wait for more shoes to drop.
What is this old crow really on about? She must be in her 60s. Does she really think the Truther ‘movement’ is going to adopt her as a star? Clearly she can’t afford a hairdresser with that bleached mess on her head. She should remember that dumping pure bleach on the crown is what killed Jean Harlow as it rotted through to her brain.
You know I think her claim she has a place in Lanzarote is total bullshit. She may have been there for a holiday and posts snaps from that time but her looks do not match. You have to question every single thing this dame says- it’s all smoke and mirrors as she attempts to create a persona that is anything other than what she is- a washed up has-been who has drifted, conned and lied her way through life.
Yes, her goal isn’t to protect anyone’s interests but her own. Self-promotion is the name of her dirty game.
I’m now reading that some of the people who’ve been tapped for roles in said President-elect’s cabinet have actually sent out tweets supporting the pizzagate hoax. The apples don’t fall far from the tree, and all that.
Yes, Assange’s leaks were very conveniently timed, I thought. And yes, if tragedies result from Wikileaks and Assange’s actions, they will have a great deal to answer for.
When I began looking into Hoaxtead, one of the people I met in my internet travels was utterly convinced that the rationale behind the hoax was to justify a UK government clampdown on the internet. I still don’t completely buy this argument, for a couple of reasons—including the fact that the hoax itself, while we think of it as large and all-encompassing, is in fact tiny and obscure in internet terms.
However, I do think that ultimately the unfettered sewage that currently comprises a large part of the internet today will need to be dealt with, and I expect that various governments will begin looking for ways to stem the flow. How ironic that the behaviour of those who bellow and moan the loudest about “repression of free speech” will, in the end, have contributed to its demise online.
Ah, but you see, it’s all part of the stitch-up! (At least, that’s what he claims.)
Yes, those who claim “if what I’m saying is untrue, why haven’t I been sued for saying it?” are being disingenuous at best. The fact is that it costs a huge amount to launch a lawsuit, and while there are some lawyers willing to accept such cases on a “no-win/no-fee” basis, most people simply lack the resources to push ahead with lawsuits.
That’s not to say that none will result from Hoaxtead: we’ve talked about this in the past, and I can see a few glints of hope on the horizon.
But most people, when faced with harassment of this sort, will turn to the police for protection—in fact, the police urged many who were targetted by the Hoaxtead mob to do so! But the police are sadly under-equipped to cope with the flood of complaints; the laws exist, but it can take herculean efforts to ensure they’re enforced.
“When I began looking into Hoaxtead, one of the people I met in my internet travels was utterly convinced that the rationale behind the hoax was to justify a UK government clampdown on the internet. ”
There is quite a body of opinion – which includes some very credible people – that takes something similar to this line. And it does seem to be something of a pattern when the authorities seek to impose more power. i.e. some crisis that has been allowed to fester is cited that justifies some new impingement on our freedoms.
Some people really do seem absolutely immune to the law of the land, and the question that needs to be answered there is why? Who sanctions this? Then there is the reluctance to apply the law and/or bizarre actions taken by prosecuting authorities that leave more questions than answers. Something stinks.
As I said elsewhere, Hoaxtead is just one case. As you say it is tiny and insignificant in terms of the wider internet. But there does seem to be a pattern and almost a common cast with these things. Hoaxtead had its prototype did it not – the guy up north who abused his own daughter by getting her to repeat his sick fantasies into a mobile phone to frame her grandpa? Where does the storyline for pizzagate emerge from? A tiny insignificant corner of old London town perhaps?
Under-resourced certainly, and lacking in will. Too many take the line that this is all just ‘kids in the playground’ stuff. And certainly when you consider some of the misfits and scroungers involved I can see why there is a temptation to hang back and just let them carry on ‘bitchfighting’.
I obviously don’t know Julian Assange as well as you appear to but the point was that he didn’t trust that Sweden would not simply hand him over to the yanks. Frankly I don’t blame him.
He has stated that he would be happy to be questioned in the UK and I fail to see why that was an issue for Sweden. After 6 years Sweden finally got around to questioning him last month, they could have done that any time in that 6 years. They have left it so long that some of the charges are past statute of limitations, the prosecutor should be sacked for incompetency.
If Sweden wanted to keep him in the country then they shouldn’t have questioned him, closed the case and let him leave.
I have no opinion on the guy either way but this whole thing smells of some Swedish prosecutor on a fishing trip on behalf of the yanks.
It dosent work like that, when someone is accused of a crime (especially if more than one person accuses) the police arrest them, lock them up in a cell for a few hours and then question them, why should Assange be treated different? fact is Britain have an extradition treaty with the US that is much quicker than swedens. the point in arresting and questioning suspects in the nick is to take you out of your comfort zone
When Rupert peed on the church that really made my blood boil, if one of us did that in America we would be lucky to get home alive, even though its not my church I really wanted revenge.
I take your point, but I still cannot really get behind the idea that Hoaxtead, the gentleman you refer to up north, and “pizzagate” were all part of an elaborate ploy on the part of the Powers that Be to restrict internet freedoms. I do think that these small puzzle parts could become part of the basis for an argument that some sort of control is needed, and I suspect that whatever controls are put in place will benefit the corporations that now seem to “own” much of the internet’s prime real estate, rather than those of us who simply want to use it for our own purposes.
Fascinating timeline, GS. Thanks for sharing it. You’re right that it does look pre-planned, particularly given the way it started. And some of Trump’s minions are still trying to spread it around, surprise, surprise.
Yes, although I’m far from a religious person in the standard sense of the word, that act hit home for me as well. I feel the same way when I discover that mosques or synagogues have been desecrated by hoodlums. Something about the deliberate desecration of a sacred space, even if that space isn’t my own, really goes against the grain.
Thanks, Justin. The attempt on Gabrielle Gifford’s life, and the murder of six people and injury of 13, filled me with shock and horror at the time. I actually did not realise that Jared Lee Loughner was yet another conspiraloon—and it must have been a terrible feeling to know that you’d passed along warnings, but this one had slipped under the radar.
Similarly here: we have created briefs on any number of Hoaxtead mobsters, but the ones that concern us most are the ones we don’t know about…yet. We don’t know if/when some mentally disturbed person will decide to conduct what Kris Costa euphemistically calls “open source investigation”, possibly involving weaponry. We hope it won’t happen, but when people like Rupert show up outside Christ Church School bragging that they’re armed with a knife, they can expect a swift reaction from the community.
What I can confidently predict, however, is that if/when such a thing happens, the fruitcakes will argue that:
* It didn’t really happen.
* It was a false flag event designed to discredit the fruitloops.
* News reports are biased and unfair and waah waah waah ad infinitum.
* The person or persons involved were stitched up because they “knew too much”.
* The event in question was reported upon before it actually happened, because these morons don’t seem to grasp the concept of “time zones”.
Assange is also a borderline antisemite.
The pessimistic way of looking at this: oh shit, this is like Hoaxtead with guns.
The optimistic way of looking at this: thank fuck Hoaxteaders aren’t allowed guns.
Back before Angela completely changed her mind and decided that her parents had abused her 😀
You sure about that, Spiny?
How did this work out for you, Angie?:
Coyote said “…it must have been a terrible feeling to know that you’d passed along warnings, but this one had slipped under the radar” – yes, somewhat. More intense, I think, just sheer shock that my hypothetical scenario became a reality, and such a horrific one to boot. I actually caught myself wondering if I could have caused the tragedy by imagining similar scenarios – very irrational.
A friend did eventually help me to see, that the info I provided authorities was much too general for anyone to have acted on in any case. My belief that I was “sending a warning” was probably a tad delusional in itself.
In any case, the days of consequence-free misuse of this internet tool, created to facilitate the flow of beneficial knowledge originally, has to come to an abrupt end. Soon.
And the ridiculous assumption that “new technologies” can’t be harmful in themselves, only in how they are used, has to be confronted. You create a technological wonder, you better build into it some means to prevent its misuse. What if this guy had killed everyone in the pizza place? No one else could be held responsible? Grrrrr!
I don’t think Angie ever says “I love you” with complete honesty unless she is facing a mirror.
Very true. Nice positive reframe there. 🙂
The notion of an elaborate ploy implies that there is some sort of coherent forethought and planning. No, it’s not as clear as that – on the part of the authorities, it’s simply a failure or refusal to act and in some cases that appears to be quite deliberate. Nobody’s sitting in an office in Whitehall dreaming these things up.
The hoaxers themselves act quite organically IMHO… i.e. the idea for putting the kids on youtube via a mobile phone video was inspired by the failed Aberdeen hoax; didn’t they take that guy’s kid off him? . In turn pizzagate, or an element of it at least, seems to draw from Hoaxtead. The UK mob seem to be a relatively small inter-connected clique as far as I can see. And it’s not surprising that some across the pond would pick up on the ‘failed scripts’ from over here.
Ah..the alleged secret tunnels/secret rooms. A big favourite of the hoaxer conspiranoids.
Oh, sorry, I didn’t mean to imply that you were saying there’s a deliberate ploy to shut down internet freedom—more that this is a thing I’ve heard argued, and I don’t believe it.
I do think that the hoaxes tend to feed off one another, and that those who perpetrate them tend to try things their friends might recommend (like getting kids to do video clips about alleged abuse, “just like that other fellow did”).
Yes, if one’s mind were of a Freudian bent, one might really have a field day. 😉
I had a good laugh at one guy’s video who filmed inside Comet Ping Pong who was conspiratorially saying “There’s children going in and out of that back secret room.”
I had just watched another video of the owner of Comet Ping Pong showing another conspiranoid around the premises and happily showing him the back room which is the room the children and their families celebrate their Birthday parties.
Establishments like this have always had private rooms for family events such as Birthdays.,,,but oh no the conspiraloons don’t believe a family establishment celebrate children’s parties.. they “conduct paedophile activities and child trafficking!”…Sigh..
No, nothing is ever as it seems in the mind of the conspiranoid.
Angie likes to blag on that she is soooo well connected and has sources of “intel” from very high places including even a personal hotline to Mr God at Universe command HQ.
IMAGINE FOR 30 SECONDS Mr God cant be arsed with her whinging either and has given her the number to a premium intergalactic piss take line.Her phone bill will have been astronomical.
Sigh … You are probably right of course about social media companies. I think I have come, reluctantly, to realise this. I hope – rather than believe – that a tipping point will be reached where it will become socially unacceptable to be facilitating hate crime and disgusting hoaxes; where it will start to hit where it hurts for no-conscience corporations and where it is required that police are helped not hindered.
I also agree that the real issue is the reluctance to apply existing laws and we’ve seen this very clearly on the Hampstead case where numerous laws have been broken but not enforced. I think that as we see more attendant issues, law enforcement will be forced to address the post truth internet age. They will need to skill up significantly to do this!
Things getting desperate at CCN.Here Bigears brings up his ring after taking on board psychoactive frog juice.All of course in the name of making the world a better place.
Delivered courtesy of MK`s Devils.
WARNING:Bigears in his underpants.
OMG! HAHAHA!
Notwithstanding the Insanity of Bigi’s Shamanic Bathroom Habits and Fecal Channeling of Mel Ve’s Soul, this “hoax” harassment of innocent victims online has gotten very dangerous. That Jerad Miller guy in Nevada who killed two cops in CiCi’s pizza is another prime example. The people at Comet must have been terrified. The unmitigated Gall of these Bums is astounding! What can people do to curtail this criminal activity. The Sandy Hook Hoaxsters have encouraged crimes and perpetuated threats also. Imagine how the deceased children’s parents feel? Why no injunction for their sake? Baffling.
It doesn’t work like what? Did you read what I put? Sweden had already questioned him, closed the case and let him leave a free man.
Suddenly after the leaks they wanted to ask more questions and for 6 years he has been inviting them to pop over to the embassy and question him over tea and scones, no problem at all. The prosecutor didn’t want to but strangely now has after refusing to do it for 6 years.
All this doesn’t strike you as being a little odd? Why on Earth would you simply not jump on a plane to go and see the a guy and question him? British police go abroad to question people all the time so what’s the issue that you are on about? It is nothing unusual at all.
Do you really think it is a coincidence that after the leaks and the yanks wanting him, Sweden suddenly changes it’s mind and wants him back for a cosy chat in one of their cells?
Britain can’t extradite somebody under the protection of an embassy, so I fail to see the the point of extradition timescales as he would be in a Swedish cell and they can take as long as they wish.
You do believe in innocent until proven guilty, yes? If Sweden has a case then let them present it, it doesn’t appear to have been able to the first time around though, they closed it and let him go!
There are injunctions in place; the issue is getting them enforced.
I think the problem is a deeper one, and has to do with the unfettered ability for nutcases to share their deranged theories with others, especially when those theories involve targetting innocent people. We need to start looking into the way social media platforms and search engines aid and abet this victimisation, and they need to become subject to laws regarding defamation and harassment, just as any other corporations or individuals are, under the law.
I really don’t see any other way to get this thing under control, and I fear what could happen if it isn’t reined in as quickly as possible.
I wasn’t aware of any Sandy Hook Injunctions only Hampstead? Agree with your conclusion!
Oh, sorry, when you were mentioning injunctions I thought you were referring to Hoaxtead. You’re right, I’m not aware of any Sandy Hook injunctions.
Alex Jones has retracted research into Pizzagate now. He probably understands it’s a conduit for the fake news purge, which means infowars could fall victim to it.
Pizzagate won’t go anywhere – it’s not like they had testimonies from victims and medical reports showing evidence of sodomy, is it?
For some reason I find it hilarious that Jones would drop pizzagate like a hot coal once he realises that the dreaded MSM has figured out, and is telling a very interested general public, that it’s fake news. As you say, I think the fake news purge is currently building up to tsunami strength, and sites like Jones’ will be swept away. The thought makes me smile.
Let’s hope so EC!
After looking at that Aussie Cult he was raised in, he looks like “Lebensborn” too! lol I never trusted him or anything that has “wiki” in it’s name, especially “wikipoet”!! hahaha I’ll bet that idiot “Sands” is conducting a “tunnel search” like the “sandy hoaxers” in the defunct Fairfield Hills Mental Asylum!
Interesting discussion. I have read that a man was recently arrested for threatening a Labour MP on social media. If the threat was credible and real, and not just stupid banter, then yes, he should be held to account for his actions. But making a threat is not the same as actually carrying it out.
Among other events, in the last twelve months, we have seen a political assassination – a brutal murder – take place on UK soil – the first in a quarter century to occur in the UK.
The man convicted of her murder, in spite of leaving a ‘trace’ (having a history of ordering far right magazines and the like) and also apparently having been photographed at least one extremist right wing political rally, apparently wasn’t on the radar screen of the intelligence services……so it seems to me that the vast complex of state intelligence failed to protect a democratically elected MP (regardless of your views on her personal politics – that is, or should be, irrelevant).
Why has May, and Cameron before her, not called in senior people from M15, M16, etc and read them the proverbial riot act? Why have senior people not resigned? Why, for that matter, have the mainstream media only given grudging coverage to the trial of her assassin?
Some posters want to see massive increases in resources for the police to, well, police pretty much everything on the net. But the UK is in (as far as I tell) ‘cost-cutting’ mode. I am not seeing how this circle can be squared. If you want more police, you should vote for parties that want to increase the size of the state sector, but the UK electorate largely votes for the Tories and UKIP that want to reduce, the size of the state sector, to lower taxes, and to, well, screw the poor, basically.
The actions of the idiots, nutters, and in some cases, criminals (whether deluded, reckless, or intentional) behind the Hoaxstead and Pizzagate hoaxes do seem to me to lend weight to those forces who wish to increase governmental controls on freedom of speech on the internet. On the other hand, the right wing gutter rags like the Mail and Sun will continue to ply their trade (they being part of the ‘mainstream’, ‘respectable’ media). El Coyote – unless I misread him/her, apologies if so – isn’t troubled by this potential outcome and seems to fully support it.
@Spiny Norman
Indeed. Restrictions on gun ownership in the UK are much stronger than in the US, particularly since the Michael Ryan case of the 1980s and the Dunblane murders in 1996.
” I still don’t completely buy this argument, for a couple of reasons—including the fact that the hoax itself, while we think of it as large and all-encompassing, is in fact tiny and obscure in internet terms. ”
IIRC, it was claimed that there were several million views for the footage of the kids talking to camera that was put on Youtube. I don’t know if these stats were ever validated, and if so was it made clear that it was several million discrete IP addresses, or a relatively small number of addresses repeatedly viewing the same Youtube video.
I’m actually not sure what the answer to this conundrum is, tdf. I am in favour of free speech as a principle, and don’t think it should be curtailed. However, to my mind there’s a difference between free speech and hate speech/harassment, and I’d be in favour of looking at ways to ensure that the latter could be policed more effectively. People need to understand that just because their words are “spoken” online, they don’t go into a huge void, never to be seen or heard again. As with any other form of publishing, the internet can be dangerous if misused. And people who misuse it need to face the consequences of their actions. How do we get from here to there, though? That’s a discussion we all need to have, and it goes far beyond the purview of this blog. I think these are important questions you raise, as they speak to the idea of checks and balances between freedom and responsibility, privacy and public safety. The question, as always, is where to draw the line, and who should draw it?
I don’t know if they were ever able to verify which it was, but in terms of the scope of the internet, a few million views is really just a drop in the bucket. That said, for those affected by the hoax, a thousand views of something vile with one’s child’s name on it is huge.
@Justin Sanity
The experiences you’ve shared here put me in mind of the experiences of people who warned the authorities of the developing bubbles and, in some cases, outright frauds in the years running up to the 2008/2009 financial crisis – specifically IIRC there was one financial analyst who repeatedly warned the authorities in relation to the Madoff funds.
@El Coyote
Yep I know what you mean. It’s a complicated conundrum, and my own thinking is in flux also.
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It’s been some time since we had news about Sabine McNeill’s convicted paedophile friend Brian Pead, but we learned yesterday that he has been arrested yet again, on another breach of restraining order.
Mr Pead, who is prevented by restraining order from contacting his daughter or grand-daughter, has a long history of alleging that he is the victim of police corruption.
In a recent “open letter” to London Metropolitan Police Commissioner Cressida Dick, Mr Pead enumerated any number of ways in which he believes he has been maltreated.
In relation to his current circumstances, he wrote:
I do not think it will have escaped you that I mentioned earlier that a Restraining Order was issued against me contrary to the rule of law on 01 November 2011 for a period of 18 months.
I regret to inform you that the Police are still claiming that it is active. No paperwork to support their lies is ever produced. I am also presently banned from the entire London Borough of Bexley (where my family live) because the police are perpetuating the myth that I am a danger to my family and that they need protecting. The only people my family need protecting from are corrupt police officers.
It seems that Mr Pead’s daughter would beg to differ.
Over the years, Mr Pead has found multiple creative ways to breach the order prohibiting him from contacting his daughter and grand-daughter, including recruiting unwitting accomplices to hand-deliver written material to their address. This time, he managed to dupe an 83-year-old associate of the controversial millionaire farmer Tony Martin, who in 1999 shot dead a teenager who was burgling his home, and seriously injured his accomplice. Mr Pead convinced the elderly lady to write to his daughter on his behalf. When the police turned up at her residence, they were able to arrest Mr Pead, and collected a mass of evidence.
Surprising as it may seem, when he is not being arrested and cooling his heels in custody, Mr Pead acts as a McKenzie friend, accompanying people to court in order to not represent them at all, no, no—and he most definitely did not respond to a judge’s query as to whether he was acting as counsel to the accused by stating yes, because that would have been impersonating a barrister, and that would have been a very, very bad thing.
No, he said he was a “counsellor“, but the judge misheard him. It was all a stitch-up, not Mr Pead’s fault at all.
In fact, Mr Pead has stated in his letter to Commissioner Dick, that he is completely not guilty of “allegedly impersonating a barrister (I have acted lawfully as a McKenzie Friend for Tony Martin and others) – when I have never spoken on another person’s behalf in Court, I have never worn a wig or gown in Court and never portrayed myself as a barrister at all”.
Nor, he states, was he guilty of the crime for which he was convicted, “the incitement of a female aged 14 to engage in sexual activity (s.10 Sexual Offences Act 2003) – there never was a female and the SOA requires there to have been a ‘Person B’ to have been incited”. In fact, the “Person B” in the case was an undercover police officer.
Mr Pead is currently in custody in Bromley, Kent. We will continue to follow this story.
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Ew….just Ew.
“In fact, the “Person B” in the case was an undercover police officer. ”
So the US custom of entrapment is recognised in British law?
Strange and scary.
Dick and Pead? You couldn’t make it up
Very positive announcement by Facebook:
“The social network is making it impossible to repost or share intimate images of people thought to have been uploaded without their permission once they have been identified as such and removed”.
This implies, they are capable of permanently blocking the reposting of hoaxtead related images…
Others may correct me if I’m wrong, but I believe it’s considered legitimate in most jurisdictions to plant undercover officers in places where paedophiles congregate online, so long as they do not play an active role. That is, the suspect must contact the officer, not vice versa; and the officer may not make any mention of sex—that must come from the suspect.
Entrapment would occur if the officer sought out the suspect, and if the officer solicited the suspect for a sexual encounter.
Oooh…it’s too late tonight and my brain is full, but I will look at this more closely tomorrow. Thanks, Justin!
This might be one for you to answer mate.
It’s not a police action I endorse but you are correct : an officer posing as a teen cannot introduce talk of sex- it must be initiated by the suspect and a strict procedure must follow where the ‘child’ does not agree or encourage the ‘perp’ but allows the flow of conversation to go where it will.
Remember all of this is recorded obviously and is available for the defense so if the officer were found to be initiating or encouraging the defendant to commit a crime the case could easily get thrown out.
It’s a sign of the times & the internet where people seem to throw all caution to the wind and feel embolden to throw off the constraints that normally stop then acting foolishly.
Pead- just another nutter and part of Bellend’s Crackpot Army.
Scott’s nurse has already issued an alert for Mr Gerbert as he escaped a secure unit this morning after hiding his medication under his tongue. She said if he comes back today he will still get his favourite desert tonight.
Mind you the Podesta art collection is very disturbing as you can see in this famous 17th Century work by Rembrandt which was removed from Comet Pizza walls when the scandal broke. So many unanswered questions :
Is that the little girl’s father? where is her Mummy? Buried in the garden?
Why is there a fire in the house on a sunny day?
are there satanists in that jet and where are they going? what is on the in-flight meal menu?
How did Rembrandt know that one day there would be automobiles? Did an Illuminati witch tell him during an orgy?
Why did Rembrandt steal Leo DaVinci’s plans that accurately describe an areoplane?. How did Leo know here would be planes? Another Freemason?
Why did Scott change his name from Scott Gerbil?
Lmao, too funny. I think that Plane may be Epstein’s Lolita Express flying overhead, and those clouds are clearly an acid rain attack or chemtrail related.
Which brings me to the worlds most annoying man, EVER!
Yes. Well…
It would be possible to “debunk” at least 75% of what that twit ranted about, but doing so in itself becomes a game for them. SOME of these conspiratards WANT you to engage them in an endless cycle of accusations and refutations, so they can falsely paint you as a “cover-up agent” or “pedophile defender” to their audience, i.e., “why is this person devoting so much time and energy to refuting these allegations – what are they trying to hide?”. I’m sure you understand.
In the long run, it may be more important to understand & expose the answer to this question: “why are so many of the ‘elite pedophile conspiracy’ whistleblowers, convicted child sex abusers themselves?”. I promise to come back to that sometime this weekend. Watch for it here 🙂
For now, let’s look at our friend “y…tracy’s” very legitimate question about the Elm Guest House register/ guest list/ legal records. Yes, there should have been some legal record of who booked rooms or stayed over as guests in that place during its brief period of operation (about 3 years, only).
I think everyone accepts that there might have been reasons why the proprieters could have been lax about this, not least of which being the very simple problem of closeted gay men visiting an openly gay-friendly guesthouse fearing potential “outing”. And so, no one questions the idea that guests might have “signed in” using just a first name or perhaps a pseudonym.
But I was able to uncover the names of 3 persons who were openly gay at that time, who by their own words had stayed there. They were all quite unremarkable persons, in fact one of them was working in some kind of call-centre at that time. Certainly not “elites”, celebrities, or persons of power & influence.
None of their names appear on the infamous “guestlist”. Why not? If the infamous list represented the actual records kept by the proprietors, then their names ought to appear on it – in one form or another – because I can document that they DID stay there, but apparently that’s not the case.
The names of famous, or infamous, persons are said to have been decoded out of simple first names like “John” or pseudonyms like “Kitty” – no one has claimed for example that Cyril Smith signed in by writing “CYRIL SMITH” on a guest register. Supposedly, the decoded names were provided to a whistleblower by a proprietor before they died (a lie), but if so, and if everyone who ever stayed there did so for the purpose of abusing children as has been alleged, why don’t the decoded names of those 3 persons appear on the list? They would be presumed to be child abusers – surely the whistleblowers would have wanted to publicize their names, even if they didn’t know who they were, so that they could be and would be investigated?
Nope. “The list” wasn’t derived from any genuine records of the management that may ever have existed. It was created by writing out a list of persons the list makers WANTED TO IMPLICATE, and then falsely claiming those persons could be and were “decoded” out of such records.
It is a very little known fact that in the heady summer of 1634 during his “right off my tits” period the young Rembrandt and his pals would gather ergot from nearby wheat fields and throw shapes to orchestral baroque beats until the break of dawn.That was his high watermark and it was all downhill after that wasting away the rest of his life on the golden age of the Dutch masters and other commercial tat.
Parental advisory:The underlying metaphore and deeper symbolic significance of the brown door is best not discussed prior to the 9 pm watershed.
What about that pussy?
Ghost of Sam is correct (I think I posted on this before): entrapment in the sense of an undercover officer urging a defendant to commit a crime (“sell me some drugs” “no, I’m out of that game” “oh, gwan gwan gwan gwan gwan, I really need it” “oh, all right, I’ll see what I can do”) is not legal. But setting a passive trap and seeing if anyone enters it is not. The obvious example is the bait car or lorry. Just park it, see if someone breaks in. Nothing has been done to encourage them. The leading case is R v Christou where the Met set up a fake jewellers’ shop and recorded customers coming in to sell second hand jewellry and in that way received evidence (on concealed camera) that it was stolen in burglaries. The Met did nothing to encourage the burglaries which had already happened. The defence argued it was entrapment but failed at 1st instance and appeal.
Pead went on a chatroom, met a girl who said she was 14, exchanged a few posts, then offered her £300 for oral sex. ‘She’ did nothing to encourage him, though obviously nothing to deter him, ‘she’ just responded to his lead, which ended in him offering to meet her at a tube station. Pead’s defences have varied, initailly that he was doing research for his qualification as a children’s counsellor, and more recently that he was a whistleblower, because with his incisive mind he had realised the “girl” was a fake, and concurrently, that it was a trap by the Met to stop him revealing the truth about his dismissal from work. Which I suppose is where we came in.
Wow! Lol I’m Youtube famous, and a woman now. Hahaha
Subtitles anyone?
Alfred the Adequate. says:
“In the long run, it may be more important to understand & expose the answer to this question: “why are so many of the ‘elite pedophile conspiracy’ whistleblowers, convicted child sex abusers themselves?”.”
Simple, they’re trying to deflect attention away from themselves by projecting their own guilt onto others. The “forward facing” part of this operation seems to be organised so that any ordinary person happening upon the “whistleblower” phenomena will find something dominated by mentally ill people, crooks and actual child abusers themselves. In this way any genuine whistleblower victim or concerned party becomes just a part of the mix. The baby gets thrown out with the bathwater in other words. The other thing I notice is that so many of them are stoners. I’ve heard it said that most of the genuine child abuse and people trafficking in general links to organised crime, modern slavery and the trade in drugs and illegal pornography which is the only really profitable kind these days.
As usual, he has some excuse, which Sabine and others will happily believe as long as they can blame the police and court.
Now you have got my blood pressure up again.
The revolting Paul Joseph Watson who is a “reporter” for the disgusting Alex Jones & operates from a basement in the Battersea.
I simply cannot believe this video as it’s dated 5th April 2017 yet everything (and everyone) has been debunked yet this toad acts as though it’s all still happening.
“Nick” : the fantasist who falsely accused Harvey Proctor and Ted Heath (who loathed each other) and the war hero Lord Brammal who fought in WW2 so scumbags like Watson can talk freely.
John Mann MP : an opportunist who made extremely damaging claims in Parliament about a (non-existent) ‘Westminster pedo ring” (Elm House etc) yet who as a councillor on Lambeth Council was totally ignorant to organized child abuse in the borough and often in council property under his nose. Now gone silent.
Ian McFayden: a self admitted ex-rent boy who says he was a drug abuser who had no problem viciously assaulting anyone who crossed him and has re-invented himself as a “child abuse campaigner’ yet no-one has ever been charged or convicted over his claims (the head teacher at his school was convicted for child abuse but McFayden did not feature.)
His spectacles and accountant style look bely a man who is not to be crossed and issues threats via Twitter to people to “meet up with him and sort it out man to man”.
Tom Watson MP called him a “narcissistic bully.”
McFayden also issued threat to survivor advocate Graham Wilmer OBE.
Peter McKelvie: another self appointed child abuse campaigner who inveigled his way onto the Vatican and Pope Francis’ committee to look into child abuse within the Catholic Church. McKelvie appeared on the Australian TV show 60 Minutes and attacked No 2 at the Vatican Cardinal George Pell calling him a psychopath on zilch proof.
McKelvie was told to resign from that committee or face a massive libel action, sacking and deportation from Italy (and co-incidentally another who claims he was abused as a child but no-one has ever been convicted for this)
# the Oz 60 Minutes has been thoroughly debunked as it ‘sources’ were the infamous ‘Nick’ and a woman who says Ted Heath abused her, and an Australia House in London “chauffeur” who backed her story and claimed he regularly drove VIPs to the Elm Guest House in the official Australian Rolls Royce.
Except it turned out after official records were presented to the media that he had never been a ‘chauffeur’ for Oz House but a driver hired for 3 days only when the regular driver was sick and that the official car then was a Mercedes and Oz House had only purchased their first Rolls Royce in 2014 for the current Oz High Commissioner Alexander Downer (very much his style)
# this is interesting as so many ( all the above) tried to jump aboard the The Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse (IICSA) and have been rejected and actually are the ones who have caused the terrible delays into a very important Inquiry.
Paul Joseph Watson demonstrates that no matter what the truth and evidence is, you can simply re-write recent history for a gormless YouTube audience.
For your enjoyment : this is The Hon Alexander Downer current High Commissioner for Australia, donning fishnets supposedly for a charity event in Oz when he was a politician. What an odd country I have landed in!
Occam's Razor says:
I’m confused Barry sheen is going to be president?
We all know Rembrandt despite his rather dour supposed history was a real swinger and probably a regular on Jeffrey Epstein’s jet. Don’t forget he lived in Amsterdam for some time and we know the Dutch are real ravers and spend all their time in the Red Light district.
And yes, that is a very nice pussy there but what does it mean?
# it’s bizarre that Alex Jones’ hack Paul Joseph Watson has posted a video just now about Jeffery Epstein with the usual rant about Bill Clinton yet completely ignores the fact that the current US president Donald Trump was a regular passenger on Epstein’s plane and who described Epstein recently as a great bloke while refusing to condemn him.
Jones and Watson are Trump fans with an amazing ability to cherry pick what they choose to believe. Or are they engaging in a “look over there, not here” exercise?
“cooling his heels in custody”. I do love your way with words EC.
Yeeha, get off your horse and drink your milk.
Barry is dead but he’d probably do a better job than the current incumbent.
Justin and GOS Great info.
Shame Jones and Watson are nowhere near as well informed, but then they wouldn’t have anything to report on. Watson said in a video on infowars he has been researching this for the last 10-15 years, lol.
What?Son https://youtu.be/lC9X0WH6gBU
Maybe Mr Downer was hoping to make the front page of the Daily Mail between Theresa May and Nicola Sturgeon.
“SOME of these conspiratards WANT you to engage them in an endless cycle of accusations and refutations, so they can falsely paint you as a “cover-up agent” or “pedophile defender” to their audience, i.e., “why is this person devoting so much time and energy to refuting these allegations – what are they trying to hide?”. I’m sure you understand. ”
Yep, it’s similar to the type of arguments holocaust deniers use.
“Hey, I’m just asking questions! Are you saying I can’t ask questions? Maybe you are the real Nazi!” etc
^ I remember watching that 60 Minutes programme, which as you rightly say has been completely debunked (admittedly I was then still in believing mode regarding tales of vast ‘VIP’ abuse networks). I asked an Aussie acquaintance if he had seen the programme, he bluntly responded saying he hadn’t watched 60 Minutes in years as he considered it tabloidy rubbish!
^ Another point about the Elm Guest House is that it was on the wrong side of the river. A real VIP CSA network, if one existed, would surely have used a larger and posher hotel, and one closer to the Palace of Westminister.
In all honesty I think Mr Sheen off the furniture polish ad would be an improvement. He’d really clean up the White House!
😀 Thanks, AP!
…and the sound of hypocrisy, considering the amount of personal, confidential information she’s given out about so many innocent people (including vulnerable children and helpless old age pensioners).
Yeah, Kristie Sue – we’re the ones posting images of children, aren’t we.
This guy has really pissed off both Tightarse Frost and Angela, so he gets my vote…
Aw, diddums…are people starting to become wary of Kristie Sue’s lies?
So let’s get this straight: it’s okay for Hoaxtead mobsters to say things like https://hoaxteadresearch.files.wordpress.com/2017/04/screen-shot-2017-04-06.png
…but not okay for anyone to point out that Kristie Sue and her deranged followers are leading people down the garden path?
Good, as long as we’ve got that straight then.
https://hoaxteadresearch.wordpress.com/2015/07/20/60-minutes-of-shite-2
The bloody cheek of the woman. We have never done anything like that and we never would. Pity the same can’t be said about Kristie Sue.
He thinks Sandy Hook is fake though. He has at least 50 plus videos related to it.
https://www.youtube.com/user/ReviewManify/search?query=sandy+hook
The people that believe in Pizzagate get so angry when the story gets debunked. Surely they should be pleased that the story is false and yet they have an internal desire for the story to be true.
“Ex One Pair of Industrial Strength Balls”
Hmm. The inbreeding is strong in this one.
Yeah, he’s still a troofer twunt but credit where it’s due.
“No one wants Pizzagate to be real”, “we wish it was fake news”, springs to mind.
They don’t want people ruining their perverted little satanic, pineal gland, baby munching child sex fantasies.
Small victories. Just like how I thought Lift the veil was okay when he exposed seaman, then realised he was just as bad to say the least.
Yes, just like those who were waiting outside the courthouse when Mrs Justice Pauffley brought down her judgement, and were utterly enraged that no one had sexually abused the children.
Kristie Sue, I hereby challenge you to show me one single place on this blog where we have published the pictures of any children under the age of 18. We have a very strict policy: no matter who their parents are or what knobs they might be, we do not put up pictures of their children. Ready? Go.
I agree, Peas certainly tries to turn everything back on his accusers (he recently alleged that his MP, who had given him a lot of support, must be a paedophile if he stopped supporting him) But I also think they get off on inventing the paedophile crimes they invent – just like Abe. It’s a kind of porno fan fiction.
“Porno fan fic”—that’s an interesting way to put it. Listening to Abe telling the children what to say on the Jean-Clement video, one has the sense that this is exactly what he’s doing: forcing the children to recite his own fantasies in just the right way.
Of all the people i didn’t expect to fall for the Hampstead hoax, i wouldn’t expect to see Danny Shine come out and talk about it. Having bought into the Baldwin case and using Hampstead as a means to prove it real. Blocked and deleted as a friend.
As a Jewish man, i’d expect he would have seen how most parts of the apparent cult bullshit story seemed to be made from lots of bullshit written about Jews over history, such as Blood Libels and other nonsense.
GBD, where is he talking about Hampstead?
On his facebook page, on an article about Samantha Baldwin.
i see that Kristie Sue is still getting her latest scoops from this fine blog:. She’s finally caught up on the tragic demise of Aaron Dover, thanks to EC’s post:
is it just me or is it bizarre that none of Aaron’s “friends” knew he’d passed away?
Another well made (cough) informative and truthful documentary from Ste Murray, coming soon! Now doubt Hampstead will feature in this.
I see that KSC is still visiting and promoting that paedo-supporting website Voat. And she can’t plead ignorance this time.
GOS -Alex Downer was considered a pratt by most ozzies, born with a silver spoon in his mouth and has never done a days work in his entire life- so of course a natural politician…
And as for 60 minutes- it WAS at one time, considered a frontline media source….
That was back in the 80’s tho, these days, well most (LOL- OK all…) of its `stories’ are indeed just that- lightweight made up tales, they are only one (very small) step above the `I’m having Bigfoots baby’ and `UFO molested my cat’ type rags these days (Poor old George Negus must cringe every time a 60min add appears on tv these days)
Why am I not surprised? She used to “borrow” material from Charlotte Ward’s cesspit of a blog, and now she steals our stuff.
I made a similar comment a while back, and agree completely. Certainly the kids at that age wouldn’t have had the ideas they were relating, and when you can hear Abe in the background `coaching’ them in what to say, its obvious where the original ideas come from….
There’s a strange fantasy world that appears to exist inside Alanson and Ogilvy’s head. There are no comments from Alanson on here and not in a million years did Ogilvy do anything on Holliehoax sites other than make a complete knobhead of himself. But in their heads they’re fully fledged Kinghts Templar of the Holy order of Hoaxteadia!
Breathe, Elizabeth…breathe. That’s it, luv. You alright now? Yes, I’m afraid there isn’t a gigantic satanic baby-munching paedophile ring involving half of Hampstead. Sorry to disappoint you, luv. This must be such a blow to your twisted fantasies. Are you going to be ok?
Thanks, I’ve just read the thread, a few gullible people there!
“A worldwide conspiracy fact.” LOL!
Indeed Ghost of Sam, the delays in the IICSA have been largely caused by infighting and jockeying amongst ‘survivors’ or individuals and/or groups claiming to represent survivors, with various people looking to appoint themselves ‘the best survivor ever’.
People like Elizabeth will never be ok unless they get some much needed medication. They live in a constant state of paranoia.
” I do not think it will have escaped you that I mentioned earlier that a Restraining Order was issued against me contrary to the rule of law on 01 November 2011 for a period of 18 months.
Interesting use of words- commonly used by FOTL believers. Be interesting to see if he is going down that particular path
Ste’s actual facts are satirical! They have to be!
Reading earlier on that blog, that Churchill is responsible for the Great famine in Ireland! Now that’s journalism!
@Steved
That’s more or less what my Aussie acquaintance said, he said 60 Minutes hasn’t been considered a serious investigative programme for 20 years or so.
Good luck with that, Atya, you creepy paedo twat:
I never did understand that comment by Atya Sca last week, I’m still none the wiser…
Oh yeah, sorry – I’m a week behind again. Hint taken, lol 😀
This one’s hot off the press, though…
I know its hard to believe, but at one time 60Minutes was actually a well known investigative program, it won many awards for the quality of its investigations over the years
That was then and now is now, and unfortunately it is nothing more these days than a cheap scandal sheet ripoff- anything for ratings and to hell with actually investigating
Like I said, I bet poor old George Negus and the rest of the earlier crew must cringe when they see what its become…
Ooh, don’t get your flippers in a flap, Evva! Touched a nerve, did I? 😀
“Who is Heather?” LOL! She doesn’t even admit to her real name. 😀
^ it’s interesting. Must say I’m not sure that I’m entirely comfortable even with that limited use of entrapment that is currently allowed under UK law, and certainly wouldn’t be if we went down the US route. Then again, I guess some degree of entrapment has to be permissible to reduce the risk of terrorist attacks and so on.
I commented elsewhere on this blog recently (unfortunately I can’t find the post – I find it very difficult to follow discussions on this blog at times) in a discussion about conspiracy theories re the proven (official) report that showed that a high % of ‘terrorists’ during the Northern Ireland troubles were actually working for state intelligence all along. Of course, the conspiraloons on the net aren’t interested in official research or reports, they prefer their tales of UFO’s, baby-eating Satanists in Hampstead, faked moon landings and so on!
Yes, his writings do have that whiff of FOTL about them, don’t they?
Oh, is she in touch with Obi Wan Kenobi, then? Can she show me how to use a light sabre? I’ve always wanted one of those.
https://hoaxteadresearch.wordpress.com/2017/04/03/maurice-kirk-to-face-prison-again/#comment-64042
I think you meant “In touch with Obi Wan Kenobi she is” 😀
^ Thank you, Spiny Norman.
They surely do EC
I’m wading through some of his many (many many many) submissions to various committees, officials etc
(One thing I did have a bit of a giggle over is like another well known FMOTL guru Robert Menard, his address is `My postal address is XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX. I do not live there – I live in my car’- seems to be a bit of a theme with that breed)
Another recurring theme he manages to bring up in every submission Ive read so far is his constant promoting of his books- In an official inquiry (IICSA Inquiry) it took him only 3 paragraphs before mentioning his supposedly ghostwritten by him autobiography of a `famous person’ then 9 paragraphs later a mention of another of his books(banned), most of his submission was nothing about the matter at hand (abuse at a group of childrens homes), but a litany of his own issues with the police and prison authorities and namedropping of famous people he’s written to
“Fuck the people and fuck their children”
One advantage of the exchanges being online is that it is all recorded, every `word’ uttered is available to both prosecution and defence, so any entrapment is also recorded and would nullify any prosecution- this is imho good
I shudder to think of what the undercover people got up to re IRA- I am not accusing them all- or even a majority of being corrupt, but certainly as they basically ran completely unrecorded it comes down to I said, he said with no supporting evidence, I personally am of the belief that there was the almost certainty of various people being subjected to entrapment at various illicit meetings etc by undercover personnel in the belief that the ends justified the means
Ganja Mama living up to her name under what was supposed to be DS’s “last video”.
EC, this could be nothing.. but I saw this comment under one of DS’s videos.
Now listen to Finnbarr from London talking on this video..could it be? Voice is extremely similar..close your eyes and listen.
I’m fascinated by this alleged elite Hollywood ring of pedos. In the 70s as a wide-eyed youth in LA I met an actor who was the son of 2 legendary 40s movie stars whose parents, unlike many, stayed together until their respective deaths and who had made excellent investments and become very wealthy so this young actor didn’t really have to pursue his career.
Unlike his many friends he had never taken drugs which proliferated in California as they did throughout all the USA but was often used as an example that the movie business corrupted people. Reality was of course that more drugs were available in LA because there was more money there hence it attracted pushers.
Hanging out with him was fascinating as he had carte blanche into every Hollywood institution and studio which meant being able to tour the back lots etc without going the usual tourist route.
I had dabbled with acting and had had a few minor jobs and one night we discussed the ‘casting couch’ situation which he said was very real but it was in almost every business – the notion the rich can use sex as a bargaining chip – but it was maybe more powerful in Hollywood as the rewards were so much greater : incredible wealth and fame.
He said he could reel off the names of major stars who jumped into bed with powerful producers etc, gay or straight and such was the lure of fame budding stars had no qualms whatsoever.
Who was using who?
He did say however nothing was ever forced. It seems to me the two Coreys in that video probably went down that route as a choice (which does not condone the idea the powerful can exert pressure) but it was their choice and they could have said no. They both seem to have become embittered as their careers basically stalled as they aged and because they both heavily indulged in drugs especially cocaine which seems to make people believe they are all powerful. When reality hits and their careers stall, they look for others to blame.
My pals advice if contemplating going that way? Get the contract signed first.
These days it is entirely different and anyone can be sued for sexual harassment and when real acting talent turns up producers fight each other off to sign them up.
Actors are now the real power in LA as a name can guarantee funding and big box office takings.
The two Coreys were talking about a world that no longer existed. It wasn’t nice at the time and it was immoral but no-one was forced to participate. They could always go back to the small town they came from.
There are probably still sharks around that prey on the 1000s of youngsters who flock to Hollywood with stars in their eyes (one reason you actually see more good looking people per capita than anywhere on Earth) but LA also attracts the flakes & nutcases by the truck load.
Brian seems to be a Major Bumbler in every enterprise he undertakes even when trying to meet up with an under-aged teen for sex.
No wonder his family don’t want him around and want to keep their own children as far away as possible from the top nutcase. A perfect recruit for Bellend’s Barmy Army.
OMIGOD. Thank you, JB. I think you’ve cracked it.
Kristie Sue like nearly everyone of these hoaxers thinks it’s all about HER.
I bet she gets down on her knees every night and prays to Jeesus for allowing the light to be shone on her.
The children? Mere pawns in the game.
I couldn’t understand a word he said. Was it interesting?
Yeah! 😀
I’m surprised the infamous debarred barrister Michael Shrimpton hasn’t inserted himself into Hampstead, Despite being busted with child abuse material and for claiming the Germans were about to drop a nuclear bomb on Buckingham Palace (and blow up their cousins?) he seems perfect material for this mob. Perhaps he can represent Brian in court.
More musings from Finnbarr Hagan..
You may be right JB!
https://vikingway.wordpress.com/2012/12/26/too-much-information/
If you’re suggesting that this is Guidance 2222, I’m sorry but I would vehemently dispute it.
http://pigs-in-the-parlor.blogspot.co.uk/2009/01/breakspear-family-bloodline-by-craig.html
http://prorege-forum.com/board_entry.php?id=9902&page=5&order=time&category=all
Is Finn/Finbar a possible stage name or alias?
Long time conspirisheep though.
It’s intriguing if he does have a connection to UK Column.
No Finbar of the daytime rooftop flit.
Sorry, Tracey – refresh my memory. Was that the “solicitor” who was shouting at the coppers through the letterbox?
No Spiny, I found Finnbarr, the Irish guy from Abe and Ella’s videos.
That’s what I’m thinking. I’m tired atm though.
Remember.. Finnbarr was interviewing the children in the garden.
Ah, him! I’ve often wondered who he was. Nice work, Jake.
Yeah, YTracey, I saw that Vikingway blog on my digging, he introduced that blogger to David Icke’s writings. LOL! I don’t see the connection in your other links though..
And apologies – I thought you were referring to the guy doing the interview, rather than the one being interviewed.
^ Finbar definitely has a northern Irish accent, hard to place it to a specific county.
New post is up, recapping the conversation Finnbarr (been spelling his name wrong, apparently) had with Abe and Ella.
We have reason to believe he’s from Belfast.
No problem, SN–things were moving very quickly there.
from http://justice4brianpead.com/book/10-prisons-12-weeks/
“Brian Pead – now legally using the name of William Brian Freeman – was unlawfully imprisoned” etc etc
With the choice of that particular last name???
(I’m off to see if he has popped up on the radar under it)
Pead maintains in relation to every order made against him (injunction, bail, restraining order, sexual offence prevention order, community order, reporting requirements) that it’s wrongly made (because he was wrongly convicted) and void so he doesn’t have to comply with it. He does have some FOTL ideas, which is why he always elects to go to the Crown Court, which is actually really bad tactics as the sentences are much higher than in the mags, particularly if you have a tendency to commit contempt of court. I’ve often wondered what is going on in his head, he seems to have lived a blameless life before he returned from retirement in the mid-noughties; his only notoriety was buying up all the Premiership domain names cheap and trying to sell them back at a premium. He’s also a typical FOTLer in that he keeps losing everything but his conviction that he’s right, and is very happy to tell the world about it.
Mad Mass Mum's Hubby says:
Dear Hoaxtead,
Please accept my apology for my crazy wife’s mendacious posts about imaginary pedos. I had no idea why the house was a mess and the kids were neglected but now I do. Have a heart and don’t name me as a co-defendant due to her unlawful on-line activities or worse, file a lis pendens freezing ALL of my tangible assets…..She broke her promise to stop after the Arthur fiasco upset the neighbors. PLEEEEEEEEEEEESE Don’t SUE me too!
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Iron Maiden live on ARTE concert – the complete Wacken show!
Iron Maiden’s The Book of Souls World Tour has been on the road since late February, playing to over 1.5 million fans with 72 shows in 36 counties and six continents. They will play the final show on Thursday, 4 August in Germany at Wacken Open Air Festival. ARTE Concert is going to feature the entire iconic performance on Livestream. The spectacular gig will get lavish camera attention and can be accessed anywhere in the world – a sensational experience for anyone who cannot get to show.
Iron Maiden manager Rod Smallwood says:
"We decided to finish the tour at Wacken as it is the ideal way to end this magical tour playing to 80,000 core metal fans at this legendary Metal festival. Wacken has become such as international event with many thousands of fans from many other countries around the world joining and celebrating with the German fans so it is perfect for the final show of a memorable tour. Everywhere we’ve played the fans have been amazing and the reaction to the new songs and stage show has been phenomenal.
The band has loved every minute on stage. So when Wacken and ARTE asked us to consider a live stream of our performance there we jumped at the chance to give our fans an end of tour gift. Streaming this final show live globally allows us to thank the many fans we played to so far, and, for those who couldn’t get to see us this time round, a chance to see just how spectacular the live concert is and what they missed! ”
Wolfgang Bergmann (ARTE):
“The festival summer by ARTE concert is heading for an exceptional highlight, showing a live stream of British legends Iron Maiden performing their final show of an incredible tour at the Wacken Open Air. An audience of millions, in Europe and for the first time worldwide, know by now that ARTE is taking the festivals to anywhere you are.”
Holger Hübner / Thomas Jensen (ICS / Wacken):
“We are incredibly happy to be able to give all these Iron Maiden and Wacken Open Air fans, worldwide, this highlight at the close of the spectacular ‘Book of Souls’ Tour. Heavy Metal fans are the best fans in the world, and Iron Maiden fans are unparalleled. It is so brilliant that everybody who could not get a ticket for the W:O:A, will be able to enjoy this ‘Night To Remember’.”
Iron Maiden at Wacken Open Air with The Book Of Souls World Tour 2016. On Thursday, 4 August, from 9.30 pm CET.
Exclusive and worldwide on Livestream at http://concert.arte.tv/de/wacken and www.wacken.com
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Going Gentle Into That Good Night
Practical, applicable information for caregiving for our loved ones with dementias and Alzheimer's Disease
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Insights: How Temperament Factors Into Dementias and Alzheimer’s Disease
In previous posts, we’ve looked at how life experiences and personality, quirks, foibles, and flaws factor into dementias and Alzheimer’s Disease with our loved ones.
In this post, we’re going to discuss how temperament factors into these neurological diseases and how we as caregivers can respond effectively and lovingly to provide balance and still meet the basic needs that our loved ones’ temperaments require.
For the purpose of this discussion, we will look at the big picture of temperaments and the two most dominant categories that each of us falls into: extraversion and introversion.
There are 16 distinct variations of these two temperaments (eight in extraversion and eight in introversion). (You can take free temperament test online to see which variation your temperament is.)
All of us fall into one of those 16 variations (for example, I have always and continue to test out as an INTJ). How we fall into them is what makes each of us unique (for example, I range between 92% and 100% for introversion every time I take the test and I suspect that variation depends on the amount of recharging solitude I have immediately had when I take the tests).
Temperaments are, in my view, a function of genetics. In other words, it’s hardwired in us before birth by DNA (nature).
Unlike other things about humans that are more fluid and can change over time, there is little to no effect from external influences that alters our temperaments.
Extroverts in a family that is more introverted don’t become more introverted, no matter how much pressure, spoken or unspoken, is applied to make them less social and more quiet.
By the same token, introverts born into a family (and into the Western world that places a very high value on extraversion) that is more extroverted don’t become more extroverted.
If anything, extroverts and introverts become even more extroverted or introverted because of the pressure applied because it conflicts with who they are at a very core level.
Whether our loved ones with dementias and Alzheimer’s are introverts or extroverts will be a factor in both behavior and socialization as they go through the journey of dementias and Alzheimer’s Disease as well.
But equally important is whether we as caregivers are introverts or extroverts and how we may need to step outside our natural dominant temperament characteristic to ensure the needs of our loved ones are met.
Extroverts with dementias and Alzheimer’s Disease will continue to crave being social and being with and around people on a regular basis. However, because as neurological changes progress, it is not uncommon to see increased conflicts in social situations (arguing, verbal fighting, anger, etc.) or exaggerated – and sometimes inappropriate – efforts to be the center of attention.
Introverts with dementias and Alzheimer’s Disease will become even more introverted as neurological damage progresses. They will tend to isolate themselves as completely as possible, become completely withdrawn, even from loved ones, and often become completely uncommunicative before they actually lose the ability to speak and communicate.
Neither of these scenarios is good for our loved ones, so it is incumbent upon us as caregivers to try to achieve and maintain as much of a healthy balance for them to meet their needs as is feasible and possible.
In my opinion, this is one of the hardest areas to negotiate effectively and well, and it also requires the most finesse and empathy.
This is especially true if our loved ones and we have different temperaments.
My mom and I were good examples of almost diametrically opposite temperaments. Mama was an ENFP and I am an INTJ. We both had intuition (N) in common, but we were total opposites in every other way, temperamentally.
From day one of our lives together, these differences in our temperaments were a constant source of clashes and contention between us, especially in the early years. Mama would push me continually to be more extroverted and I would push back equally or more tenaciously against it.
Mama would cajole, threaten (and usually follow through because punishment was a better option for me than doing something I could not abide the thought of doing), plead, try to reason, and try to entice me to be more extroverted in a social and a public sense. It never made sense to her that it was agony for me and it literally drained me of all energy and patience.
Ironically, neither my mom and dad (who was also more extroverted than I was, but was an INFJ, so he understood me somewhat better) stopped me at home when I would go off by myself to be by myself, just to get away from everyone else when I was younger and to read, draw, or write when I was older.
But they were both concerned about my lack of desire and enthusiasm to engage in group social activities and to spend a lot of time with other people doing “fun” things. I’m sure there were many bedtime discussions between my parents about me and whether this was normal or was cause for concern.
But eventually, we all sort of adapted (Mama never completely quit trying to push me toward a more extroverted temperament, but when I would finally have a meltdown of yelling and tears in frustration – and sometimes from too little solitude too often – Daddy would intervene and persuade Mama to give me some breathing room and let me regroup, which always worked) and we figured out how to live with and love each other in spite of our differences.
As Mama’s cognitive impairment worsened over the last eight years of her life, she continued to be social and seek social activities and environments. However, as the neurological damage deepened with her, the level and number of conflicts with other people increased.
In the year and a half before Mama was diagnosed with mid-to-late stage vascular dementia and Alzheimer’s Disease, Mama’s relationships with everybody – including me – were much more contentious and much less harmonious.
On a daily basis, Mama would tell me about some dust-up with somebody. Mama had always been a bit on the scrappy side – not in a negative way, but she wasn’t afraid to take people on if they were wrong or she was protecting herself or her loved ones – but she also, because of her intuition, was able to see even the orniest of people objectively and still manage to interact in a positive way, for the most part, with them.
However, as Mama’s paranoia increased, her objectivity decreased and she began to see just about everyone in a more sinister light and as potential enemies. As a result, her social interactions, which she craved, became increasingly tense and hostile.
Just before Mama’s diagnoses and the medications that would balance out the most extreme aspects of the behaviors associated with dementias, Mama exhibited the behavior of an introvert like me.
With a profound hearing loss, Mama depended on hearing aids to connect with the world. Mama would always put her hearing aids on very soon after waking up in the morning so she didn’t miss anything.
In the few months before the inevitable crash that landed her in a geriatric psychiatric hospital, Mama often wouldn’t put her hearing aids in until late in the morning or early in the afternoon.
Mama also started isolating herself, spending the majority of the day in her apartment alone except for the time I spent with her each day.
As I went through her desk and computer when I was trying to make sense of where we were and what I needed to do when she hospitalized, I found that she’d spent a lot of time trying to write, either longhand or on the computer, and as I went through everything, I could see evidence everywhere of steep neurological decline.
It alarmed me to see the rapid progression over a few short months. I can only imagine how much more it must have frightened Mama because she didn’t know what was happening and yet she was aware that everything seemed to be quickly slipping away.
The right combination of medications brought Mama back to her true temperament and it was a relief to me and, I suspect, a relief to her as well.
She was once again involved in a lot of social activities during the day and not only did Mama thoroughly enjoy them, but other people thoroughly enjoyed her (she’d always been the life of the party and a welcome addition to any social gathering).
I made sure to encourage as much social interaction as Mama was up to and I made sure that whatever she needed to be a part of those activities she had. I would often join her in some of them, in spite of my natural aversion to that, because I knew Mama liked having me there with her and I knew that my being there made Mama feel safe.
When Mama came home to live with me, I had to continue to go outside my comfort zone to make sure she had enough social activity and interaction to thrive with her temperament. And, while it was hard at times on me, I never regretted doing that for her.
As the end of Mama’s life was drawing near and she began not knowing who I was on a regular basis and was often unable to recognize people she had known for a long time, I began to cocoon us.
The reasons were because it bothered Mama when she didn’t know people and, because they were strangers, Mama would get fearful (except for me – even when she didn’t know me, she wasn’t afraid of me and she felt safe with me).
So I began keeping the number of people with whom Mama and I interacted small and consistent so that the odds were good that Mama would remember them and so that she would not be scared.
To this day, I struggle with whether I did the right thing by Mama by doing this.
Logically, I know it was the absolute right decision because I didn’t want Mama to feel unsafe or scared.
But emotionally I question whether I should have taken the chance that Mama might have a good day and be glad to see longtime friends.
I still don’t know the answer. That will be just one more of those lingering questions that I’ll probably revisit with no resolution until the day I die.
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Year in Review: The Construction Industry of 2018
January 14, 2019 Articles, Under Construction Comments Off on Year in Review: The Construction Industry of 2018 Goldberg Group Architects
2018 was a very costly year for the construction industry in the United States. Prices of construction materials rose 0.8% in March 2018 and by October 2018 prices had climbed 7.4% due to increases in commonly-used materials. Between 2017 and 2018, the price of diesel fuel rose 39.7%, lumber and plywood increased 13.7%, plastic construction products rose 5.8%, and steel mill products jumped 4.9%.
This surge in building material prices came at a time when construction projects were in demand and many firms were faced with shortages of skilled labor. This lack of a labor force combined with the rise in prices for construction materials made it extremely difficult for contractors across the United States to complete projects without increasing bid prices or absorbing large deficits.
https://www.constructionspecifier.com/agca-analysis-reveals-increase-in-cost-for-construction-products/
https://dailyreporter.com/2018/04/10/price-increases-signal-costly-construction-season-in-2018/
Insights From a Retired Michigan Sheriff on Building a Law Enforcement Center
February 16, 2018 Articles, Criminal Justice Comments Off on Insights From a Retired Michigan Sheriff on Building a Law Enforcement Center Goldberg Group Architects
Choose an Expert Justice Architect
August 7, 2017 Articles, Criminal Justice, From GGA Comments Off on Choose an Expert Justice Architect Goldberg Group Architects
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Bourbon County, KS Breaks Ground on New Law Enforcement Center
July 5, 2016 Articles, Criminal Justice, GGA in the News Comments Off on Bourbon County, KS Breaks Ground on New Law Enforcement Center Goldberg Group Architects
A groundbreaking ceremony was held June 23rd, 2016 for the new Bourbon County Law Enforcement Center. “It’s a special day for the county,” commission chair Barbara Albright said, saying the new center will provide more space as well as a safer environment and improved conditions for the inmates and the staff. Sheriff Bill Martin expressed his appreciation to the county and city officials as well as the citizens for making the new center a reality. The new facility designed by Goldberg Group Architects will consist of a 50-Bed Jail and Sheriff’s Offices.
Source: http://fortscott.biz/news/county-holds-groundbreaking-for-law-enforcement-center
Muskegon Named Facility of the Month
January 12, 2016 Articles, Criminal Justice, GGA in the News Comments Off on Muskegon Named Facility of the Month Goldberg Group Architects
G oldberg Group Architects’ recently completed Muskegon County Adult Detention Center gained some high recognition last month. Correctional News named the 622-bed facility its “Facility of the Month.” Muskegon’s new detention center was GGA’s largest project to date and provided the county with a viable solution to its overcrowding problems with an efficient and economical floor plan. GGA partnered with GMB in Holland, MI and Granger Construction out of Lansing, MI, who was the CM.
Miami County Tunnel Bids Reviewed
December 9, 2015 Articles, Criminal Justice, GGA in the News, Under Construction Comments Off on Miami County Tunnel Bids Reviewed Goldberg Group Architects
Photo credit: Brian McCauley – Miami County Republic
By: Brian McCauley | Miami County Republic
Construction bids are in for the underground tunnel that will connect the new Miami County Detention Center with the existing Miami County Courthouse across Pearl Street.
Officials from Ottawa-based Loyd Builders discussed the numbers with Miami County commissioners during their Nov. 18 study session.
The total cost of the tunnel will be $693,560, with the biggest price tags being $260,510 for excavation, backfill and demolition, along with $160,822 for the tunnel box culvert.
The remaining costs are associated with survey work, waterproofing, concrete masonry coating, tunnel site concrete work, tunnel drain pipes, fiber optics, asphalt patching, seeding and more.
Commissioners also reviewed individual subcontractor bids for tunnel and site utility work totaling $564,539. Skillman will handle the tunnel excavation, demolition and backfill work for $255,510; WCI Inc. will complete the tunnel concrete work for $160,822; Epic will handle the site concrete work for $77,800; Pfefferkorn & Drury will do the waterproofing system for $33,200; Skillman will do the plumbing and water line relocation in tandem with the excavation work for $18,960; Little Joe’s will handle the asphalt patching for $8,547; and Pfefferkorn & Drury will handle the concrete masonry coatings for $10,900.
Loyd officials said the best-case time scenario for the tunnel work is two to two-and-a-half months, and the goal is to get started next March.
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Getting “Locked Up” in Muskegon County ADC
October 22, 2015 Articles, Criminal Justice, GGA in the News Comments Off on Getting “Locked Up” in Muskegon County ADC Goldberg Group Architects
Have you ever wondered how the whole process of being booked into one of Goldberg Group Architects’ jails works? A reporter recently got a glimpse into that when he became “locked up” inside the newly completed Muskegon County Adult Detention Center. Follow the link below to read about Stephen Kloosterman’s short stay in GGA’s newest facility.
MLive reporter ‘booked’ into new Muskegon County Jail ahead of inmates
By: Stephen Kloosterman, Muskegon Chronicle
Citizens Tour New Muskegon Co. Jail
August 31, 2015 Articles, Criminal Justice, GGA in the News Comments Off on Citizens Tour New Muskegon Co. Jail Goldberg Group Architects
Officials allowed citizens to get a first-hand glimpse of GGA’s newly constructed, 600-bed Muskegon County, MI Detention Center this month. The public was allowed to take a tour of the facility and see what the new, state-of-the-art facility was like in-person.
Below is an article that was posted on mlive.com.
By Heather Lynn Peters
MUSKEGON, MI – Muskegon County citizens came out in droves on Aug. 22, a beautiful sunny Saturday, to visit a place no one wants to end up, but so many are curious to see: The newly constructed Muskegon County Jail.
The new facility, which is just under 100,000 square feet, is considered a real feather in the cap of Muskegon County Sheriff Dean Roesler.
Roesler, along with past county officials — including former sheriffs, George Jurkas and Bob Carter – fought for years to see a bigger, better facility be built in Muskegon due to a consistent inmate overcrowding problem.
The past years that county officials have spent planning and configuring the new facility have taken its toll, Roesler said, but the end result was worth all the “sleepless nights.”
“We are certainly happy with the outcome of the new jail,” Roesler said, adding that it was nice to see so many citizens come out for the public open house that ran from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Saturday.
“It’s been a great turnout so far. It’s been steady all morning. It’s good to see the interest and we’ve had a lot of good questions,” he said.
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Muskegon County Detention Center Nearing Completion
July 16, 2015 Articles, Criminal Justice, GGA in the News Comments Off on Muskegon County Detention Center Nearing Completion Goldberg Group Architects
Transition time for Muskegon County Jail with new facility nearly built
By: Stephen Kloosterman
MUSKEGON, MI – How do you move hundreds of prisoners into a new jail?
Answer: Very carefully.
It’s no joke for Muskegon County officials, who are planning the details of a complex transition from the county’s old 370-bed facility to a modern facility with 544 beds — both side-by-side in downtown Muskegon.
Muskegon County Sheriff Dean Roesler said he hopes to start moving jail inmates to the new facility in by mid- to late-August…..
Read the complete article from the Muskegon Chronicle here.
Need For Jail: More Than Lack of Maintenance
April 2, 2015 All, Articles, Criminal Justice, GGA in the News Comments Off on Need For Jail: More Than Lack of Maintenance Goldberg Group Architects
By Tammy Helm
There are several issues driving the push to build a new jail in Bourbon County.
On Wednesday, Larry Goldberg, president of Goldberg Group Architects PC of St. Joseph, Mo., talked about those issues prior to the final public forum to discuss the $6.8 million proposed bond issue.
During public tours of the existing Southeast Kansas Regional Correction Center, built in 1977, sheriff and jail staff have pointed to areas of deterioration — rusting showers, crumbling concrete, and non-functioning door locking mechanisms. Pointing out the jail’s condition has led some in the community to ask why they should support a new jail project if the county hasn’t taken better care of what it has.
“A jail wears at about four to five times a normal building,” Goldberg said. “Doors get opened and closed hundreds of times a day. Equipment is attacked or vandalized. Surfaces get urinated on. I’m not mincing words.”
“One question is why is a jail different than any other building?” Goldberg said. “Of course the answer is because buildings like jails or prisons have a user group, or occupancy group that’s extremely hostile, unlike people in an office building.”
He said the real answer is because most of the walls in a jail are concrete and all the systems are encased in those walls.
“You can’t have them accessible to the occupants or detainees because they will do damage to them,” Goldberg said.
To protect the utility structure from being abused by the jail population, items such as plumbing, electrical and water lines were encased in the concrete. As those systems age, the concrete makes it difficult and expensive to make repairs.
The building structure is also why it is not feasible to upgrade the existing facility. Goldberg said when a person wants to redesign an office building, the drywall and studs can be easily torn out and rebuilt. Tearing out and building new concrete walls in the existing jail would be difficult and expensive, Goldberg said.
He said the idea of renovating the existing jail was explored. When the jail was built in 1977, the idea was that it could be added onto vertically, Goldberg said. But because of newer codes, the result would mean the need for additional staff.
“If somehow Bourbon County’s jail had been beautifully maintained, you wouldn’t have some of the problems of the leaks, the plumbing difficulties, and the electrical difficulties,” Goldberg said. “But a large reason this needs to be addressed is that buildings like these that fall under a certain infrastructure, that fall under specific codes and standards which change and are updated, a jail like this becomes so inadequate and becomes so outworn that no amount of renovation can make it sufficiently modern.”
Source: Fort Scott Tribune
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Review: Jon Shafer’s At the Gates
Posted on January 30, 2019 by Audish Leave a comment
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Taking a swing at the 4X genre, a field dominated by the likes of Civilization, is a daunting prospect for any developer. I imagine that’s why expectations were so great for Jon Shafer’s attempt, he being one of the primary forces behind Civilization V. But great expectations can lead to great disappointment, and after many hours with At the Gates I can see what it is that has disappointed so many about this promising title. I’m not disappointed, mind you… I’m still chipping away at the strategy, seeking out new resources and new clans to exploit them with. Not everyone is going to be as ready as I am to give its faults a pass, but if you are, there’s a very unique and inviting game to be found here.
The fifth century saw the famed Roman Empire fracture mightily, and in that dark age you are to rise up to fill the power vacuum it leaves. Your nomadic clans can serve you in many ways, gathering resources, surveying the land, or conquering your foes. The world is not an easy one to master, though, requiring you to seek new resources as familiar ones dwindle and prepare for long and deadly winters. Once your might is great enough, you can move to remove the competition or install yourself as a new protector of the Empire, and claim dominion over what remains.
At the Gates may bear the surface appearance of a Civilization game, but approaching it as one is sure to lead to frustration. You are not building a world-spanning empire here, in fact you only ever get one settlement. You’re playing as nomadic clans like the Goths after all, and that requires a very different style of play. Clans are individual units, trained in specific trades like woodcutting, mining, blacksmithing, and brewing. You send some clans out to resource nodes to gather, while others remain at your settlement to enhance those gathering efforts or refine resources into other ones. All resources in the game are finite, though, so after a few seasons you’ll need to send your clans further afield to make ends meet, or pack up your tents entirely and move to a new region.
This is the heart of the game, the hunt for resources to turn into other resources to keep your makeshift empire together. You accrue fame every turn automatically which attracts new clans every few turns, and they require food to sustain. From the start you can train reapers and gatherers to collect different plants, hunters to bring back meat, or fishermen if your settlement borders the water. As more clans join and your ranks swell, you can train “settled” professions like bakers and briners to put multipliers on the food you bring in, using other resources like wood and salt. You can turn specific crops like barley or olives into alcohol and oil, special resources used for keeping your clans happy and healthy. And there are similar refinement chains for wood, stone, iron, weapons, parchment, and so on.
The clever part of this is that the tech tree is robust enough to allow you multiple ways to produce just about anything. Stone blocks, for example, are essential to building the game’s rare permanent structures and must be mined and cut from stone deposits. However, you can also go the brickmaking route which allows you to produce stone blocks from wood and coal. Cloth, needed to expand your clan limit, can be collected by trappers from animals, or produced from wool. Then there’s the caravan, a merchant that comes by every dozen or so turns to trade. If you’re producing an abundance of something like tools or booze, it’s easy enough to trade it for items you haven’t even touched the production trees for.
I’ve spent so much time describing the resource side of the game because it’s essentially the core of the experience. Your primary concern is always going to be producing enough goods for your clans, and then more to trade for whatever else you want, all the way up to buying your way to victory. This is partly by design, and partly because the other aspects of the game are surprisingly lacking. I haven’t touched much on opposing clans or diplomacy because they’re pretty much non-existent. There are other factions and hostile raiders dotting the map but they rarely present any sort of threat, even wandering through your territory without so much as touching vulnerable clans or buildings. My settlement was sacked exactly one time, and it wasn’t even the game over I was expecting, I just had to spend a turn repairing it. Diplomacy is meaningless; you have no trading options or border rights, your rivals change their minds towards you on a whim, and if they ever declare war you’d be lucky to even notice.
The clan system that makes up your units is certainly unique, but can be just as frustrating as fascinating. Each clan has two traits, which affect which professions they favor or avoid, their stats when fighting or producing, and how often they feud or brawl with other clans. That last bit is the real kicker, especially when you have a dozen or more clans settled together in important professions. Clans stuck together for too long tend to feud, meaning you either need to punish one (which strips them of their profession and permanently lowers their mood) or start spending alcohol to keep them happy. Clans can also develop desires, like taking on a specific profession or even getting indoors during the winter, which you’ll want to do anyway because moving units around in the winter is a huge pain in the ass. At first I enjoyed trying to match clans to their whims but the further in I got, the more it just seemed to slow down my plans.
So that’s the thing, At the Gates ends up being almost more of a management sim than a true 4X. The presentation is solid, with lush hand-drawn graphics and an incredibly useful nested tooltip system. There’s no in-game music though, and while I know it was a conscious decision I find it a poor one for a genre commanded by games known for their soundtracks such as Civilization IV. But it’s emblematic of what you’re getting here, an incomplete take on a familiar formula. The developer has committed to long-term support for the game and addressing some of these concerns, so it may yet grow into the title that fans were expecting. For now, it’s a tough sell with those shortcomings, but I’d be lying if I said I wasn’t enjoying it. As a Civilization follow-up you’re sure to find this one lacking, but if you’re okay with a more limited historical management sim then At the Gates still offers a unique experience.
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In the early years, the IMA activities included:
Playing at local events including Ceili, Weddings, Feiseanna, Benefit Dances and House Parties.
Held Annual Conventions in various cities throughout the country from the late 1950’s – late 1960’s; including New York, Philadelphia, Boston, Providence, Cleveland and Chicago.
Organized a tour of Ireland by Chicago-born musicians, dancers and singers in 1959. The Association organized two concerts in Chicago to raise funds for the tour; including music, song, dance and comedy.
Members of the Chicago Ceili Band included Jimmy Thornton, John Lavelle, Pat Gillhooly, Eleanor Kane Neary, John McGreevy. Mary Donnelly McDonagh, Eileen Fitzgerald; and Singers Beatrice Garrity and Margie Friel.
Chicago Ceili Band Chicago Ceili Band
Full group of musicians, singers & dancers on the Irish Tour Full group of musicians, singers & dancers on the Irish Tour
Tour Dancers Tour Dancers
https://irishmusiciansassociation.org/index.php/en/history/the-early-years#sigProId8a2cde7e2d
Chicago Gaelic Concert Dancers selected for the Tour included Mary Jane Lucid, Pat Gillhooly, Mary Campbell, Margie Bartishell, Dennis Dennehy, Joan O’Connor, Maureen Daly, John Woulfe and Michele Johnston.
Full group of musicians, singers & dancers on the Irish Tour in 1959 included Johnny Woulfe, Jim Rudden, Beatrice Garrity, Margie Bartishall, Mary Jane Lucke, Pat Gillhooly, Dennis Dennehy, Frank Thornton, Mike Malone, Joanne Harnett, Mary Donnelly McDonaugh, John McGreevy and John Lavelle, Mary Campbell, Michele Johnston, Maureen Daly and Joan O’Connor.
The group was joined by Mike Malone in Ireland, who played piano throughout the tour.
On the tour, the group played 23 concerts throughout Ireland in July, 1959 to large audiences at every concert. The favorable reports in local press throughout Ireland sparked Comhaltas Ceoltóirí Éireann tours to North America.
An example of local reporting on the Irish Tour:
“Doherty’s Hall, Drumshambo, was packed for the stage presentation by the Chicago Gaelic Concert Group on Monday night. In a very nicely arranged and balanced program, each of the artists distinguished him or her self in their own particular sphere of entertainment, while the various exhibitions of Irish traditional figure dancing made a deep impression on the large audience. The vociferous applause and general manner in which the audience received the show was, in itself, an indication and striking proof of the high standard of the presentation.”
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By Roger Crane, the Song Scout
“I knew I couldn’t sing over them, so I decided to sing under them. The more noise they made the more softly I sang. When they discovered they couldn’t hear me . . . they began to look at me. They began to listen. As I sang, I kept thinking, ‘softly, with feeling.” The noise dropped to a hum, the hum gave way to silence. I had learned how to reach and hold my audience – -softly, with feeling.” These are the words of singer-composer Peggy Lee discussing a 1941 performance at a Palm Springs club, the Doll House. As writer F. Scott Fitzgerald described his famous character, Daisy Buchanan, Lee brings others close to her with the softness of her voice. Many singers confuse melisma and shouting with emotion. Peggy Lee knows that whispers work better.
Lee made a surprising 59 albums comprising 631 different songs. Those numbers of course don’t even include air-checks, transcriptions, et al. I favor her 1950 and 60 period and, for this latest Aural Back Rub article, have selected four songs from those decades. Listening to Lee’s recordings, three sparkling ingredients shine through. One is the singer of course, she with the soft sultry, sexy voice, innate swing and magnificent phrasing. Another is the varied and well-chosen song selections and the third is the stellar arrangements. Lee’s subtle voice has a creamy warmth and, like the great Lester Young, she deliberately floats over the beat. She can dig into the emotional marrow of a slow ballad and she is convincing with the blues, with Latin numbers and even pop fluff. Unlike some singers who simply throw a few random standards into a bag mixed with newer songs and originals, Lee has a knack for assembling a show or a recording from many worthy sources often selecting songs that deserve more exposure.
To whet your appetite, I thoroughly recommend the following. Light a candle, pour a favorite libation and enjoy.
1) “THE FOLKS WHO LIVE ON THE HILL” – Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein
This song could have been written for Peggy alone. It can easily sound corny in an average singer’s hands. To be convincing it takes a vocalist with a talent for language, prosody and pacing. Lee is an Oscar-nominated actress and a born storyteller and she caresses Hammerstein’s homespun lyrics. This is from her 1957 The Man I Love CD which has Nelson Riddle charts. Pianist George Shearing once said that this was his favorite Peggy Lee track, adding “I could listen to it at least six times in a row without getting tired of it.” Vocalist-pianist Shirley Horn also identified it as her favorite Lee recording.
2) “THE DAYS OF WINE AND ROSES” – Henry Mancini and Johnny Mercer
This exquisite cut is from Lee’s 1963 Mink Jazz CD and was arranged by jazz icon, gentleman Benny Carter. She is complemented by the dark, woody alto flute of Justin Gordon and the graceful brushes of Stan Levey.
3) “NOBODY’S HEART (BELONGS TO ME) “– Richard Rodgers and Larry Hart
This lovely ballad is from Lee’s 1958 Beauty and the Beat recording with the George Shearing. Quintet but features just piano, bass and drums on this cut. Although promoted as live, it was actually recorded in a studio with overdubbed applause and background ambience added. But that fact takes nothing away from the quality. Shearing’s charts are spare, graceful pieces of architecture and Lee’s voice is at her most vulnerable.
4) “BLACK COFFEE” – Sonny Burke and Paul Francis Webster
Writer James Gavin correctly labels this classic song “a portrait of addiction – to a man, to illusion, to the past.” It is the title song of what is arguably Lee’s best recording. “Black Coffee,” which belongs on any list of the great jazz-pop recordings. The original eight tracks were taped in 1953 with additional songs added three years later. The noirish “Black Coffee” is a perfect song for Lee, both Webster’s text and the blues feeling of Burke’s melody. Just as Billie Holiday partnered with saxophonist Lester Young, similarly, Lee had the muted trumpet of Pete Candoli. Gavin, a painter with words, observed that “Candoli’s wailing horn helps conjure up a seedy apartment in half light.” The subdued, almost imperceptible, but perfect piano is by Jimmy Rowles.
Jazz is one of the last outposts of the vanishing elegance of this world and Miss Peggy Lee added much elegance to this music. Her gift for bringing songs vividly to life with no apparent effort was magical. The great Duke Ellington once said, “If I’m Duke man, Peggy Lee is Queen.” Mike Melvoin, her conductor-pianist in the 1960s, gave her this praise “There was no way you could escape her spell. There was no way you couldn’t believe every word she said.”
In addition to the above four cited albums, I heartily recommend the 1960 Pretty Eyes which has rhythmic charts by Billy May, the 1955 Sea Shells, a harp and harpsichord based recording and Miss Wonderful, an excellent 1958 big band project with Sy Oliver. The earlier 1957 Dream Street, also with arrangements by Oliver, is also worthy.
September 29, 2017 iromAural Back Rub, Jazz, Reviews-CD, Song Scout"Softly with Feeling", Peggy Lee, Roger Crane Song Scout
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Improvements in experimental techniques of conventional K/Ar and Ar/Ar geochronological methods
K. Balogh, A. Simonits
The performance of a noble gas mass spectrometer used for K/Ar-Ar/Ar dating has been improved in three ways. The background has been decreased by surrounding the ion source with a cylinder of St707 NEG strip. A simple method has been found for rotating the sample during irradiation in the nuclear reactor. Finally, a furnace that does not require the use of an additional vacuum system has been constructed for degassing the irradiated samples.
Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry
https://doi.org/10.1002/(SICI)1097-0231(19981130)12:22<1769::AID-RCM360>3.0.CO;2-7
Degassing
Balogh, K., & Simonits, A. (1998). Improvements in experimental techniques of conventional K/Ar and Ar/Ar geochronological methods. Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry, 12(22), 1769-1770. https://doi.org/10.1002/(SICI)1097-0231(19981130)12:22<1769::AID-RCM360>3.0.CO;2-7
Improvements in experimental techniques of conventional K/Ar and Ar/Ar geochronological methods. / Balogh, K.; Simonits, A.
In: Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry, Vol. 12, No. 22, 1998, p. 1769-1770.
Balogh, K & Simonits, A 1998, 'Improvements in experimental techniques of conventional K/Ar and Ar/Ar geochronological methods', Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry, vol. 12, no. 22, pp. 1769-1770. https://doi.org/10.1002/(SICI)1097-0231(19981130)12:22<1769::AID-RCM360>3.0.CO;2-7
Balogh K, Simonits A. Improvements in experimental techniques of conventional K/Ar and Ar/Ar geochronological methods. Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry. 1998;12(22):1769-1770. https://doi.org/10.1002/(SICI)1097-0231(19981130)12:22<1769::AID-RCM360>3.0.CO;2-7
Balogh, K. ; Simonits, A. / Improvements in experimental techniques of conventional K/Ar and Ar/Ar geochronological methods. In: Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry. 1998 ; Vol. 12, No. 22. pp. 1769-1770.
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The Meaning of Salah (Durood) and Salam
October 18, 2019 islamreigns 1 Comment
[By Mufti Muhammad Shafi’ Uthmani (Rahimahullah)]
The word: Salah is used in the Arabic language to convey the sense of: Mercy (rahmah), prayer (du’a) and praise (madh and thana). The Salah attributed to Allah Ta’ala in the cited verse means His sending of mercy, but Salah from the angels denotes their prayer for him, and the sense of Salah (durood) from common believers is a combination of dua’ (prayer) and thana’ (praise). Most commentators have given these very meanings and Imam Al-Bukhari has reported from Abu’l-‘Aliyah that the Salah of Allah Ta’ala means the honor accorded to him and the praise showered on him before the angels. As for the honor bestowed on him by Allah Ta’ala within this mortal world, it translates as the high rank he was blessed with when, on many an occasion, his mention was joined with the mention of Allah Ta’ala in adhan (the initial call for prayers) and iqamah (the call announcing the immediate start of the prayer) and elsewhere, and that Allah Ta’ala made the religion brought by him spread and prevail throughout the world, and that He enjoined upon all people to keep acting in accordance with the Shari’ah brought by him right through the last day of al-Qiyamah and, along with it, He has undertaken to keep his Shari’ah stand perennially protected. Then, as for the honor bestowed upon him in the Hereafter, it can be said that his station was made to be the most exalted of the entire creation and, at a time when no prophet or angel could dare intercede on behalf of anyone, it was right at that time that he was blessed with the celebrated station of intercession called:(Al-ma’qam-ul-Mahmud: Praised Station).
Given the interpretation that Allah’s Salah in favour of the Holy Prophet ﷺ means praise, someone may raise a doubt that, according to the narrations of Hadith, Salah and Salam are also offered to the family and companions of the Holy Prophet ﷺ. If so, how can anyone other than him be made to share in the honor bestowed and praise done by Allah Ta’ala? This doubt has been answered in Ruh-ul-Ma’ani etc. by saying that the degrees of such honor and praise are many. The Holy Prophet ﷺ has it at its highest, while his family and companions and believers in general are included with him only to a certain degree.
As for the word: Salam, it is an infinitive in the sense of as-salamah and means staying in peace. And As-salamu-‘alaik conveniently taken as ‘peace on you’ means: May the state of peace and security from losses, defects and calamities be with you. And since, according to the rule of Arabic grammar, this is not the occasion to use the word: ‘ala: on, upon, but since the word ‘Salam’ implies praise, hence the word: ‘ala is appended with it.
And some other early commentators have taken the word: Salam here to mean the sacred Being of Allah Ta’ala, because Salam is among the beautiful names of Allah Ta’ala. According to this view the sentence will mean that Allah is enough to take care of your security and well-being.
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Stockport’s Giant Leap -
The Frogs raise £32,000 for Stepping Hill’s Tree House ward
t the end of October, 18 of the giant frogs from Totally Stockport’s Giant Leap Frog Art Trail went under the auctioneer’s hammer at the largest Mercedes-Benz dealership in Europe! Over 100 business owners, sponsors, artists, supporters and bidders were joined by Stockport’s Strawberry Radio as Simon Charles Auctioneers hosted the first auction of its kind in Stockport.
Running concurrently online and live in the showroom, the bidding got underway with paddles being raised and telephones buzzing. First under the hammer was Nexphibian, sponsored by Nexperia and painted by Nick Lowndes, circuiting the room before securing a forever home for £1,050. Robinsons’ Golding was secured by an online bidder for £1,100 quickly followed by Amshire IT Solutions’ KermIT whose digital design attracted a bid of £950. Holiday Inn Express’ pyjama-clad Cornelius woke up to a bid of £950 while Prince Regent, sponsored by Orbit Developments raced off with a bid of £1,050. Medieval-designed Ferdinand sprung off to a new lily pad after attracting a bid of £1,050 which seemed to be the order of the day as CDL’s psychedelic Robert also attracted £1,050. Buster, depicting Stockport’s iconic 192 bus and fairytale character Sir Lovealot both hopped off with a £1,000 price tag while Stockport College’s Midas, Mrs Merseyway the happy shopper and BASF’s Chemit pipped them at the post for £1,100! As the remaining frogs appeared for the final time, aristocratic Sir Hopsalot achieved £1,500 and Sir Norman Frogster, designed and painted by the children of
Prospect Vale Primary, is guaranteed his place at the school after a generous bidder donated a whopping £2,300 to ensure Sir Norman was staying where the children can enjoy him for many years to come and This Little Froggy went to Market looks set to stay local after a bid of £1,700. But it was the final trio that attracted the highest bids: Fanatical Freddie, sponsored by Concentrix and painted by Caroline Daly was sold after an Internet bid of £3,000; Marketing Stockport’s Strawberry Fields attracted a bidding frenzy before abid of £4,800 brought a taste of sweet success for its new owner. And finally, Edgeleap, sponsored by C&C Insurance Brokers, caused the biggest sensation of the night as County fans kicked the bidding around before rifling £5,000 into the roof of the net. Deputy Matron at Stepping Hill Hospital’s Tree House children’s ward, Claire Gibson, was ecstatic after the auction and told Marketing Stockport’s Helen White: “Wow Helen, what a fantastic night. I’m thrilled and just keep smiling! We are so very grateful and excited about what this means for the children and young people who use the Treehouse Children’s Unit. “The proceeds far exceeded any of our expectations and we are awestruck at the possibilities that such a large donation opens up to us. “Our Treehouse building celebrated its 20th birthday this year and how wonderful it will be to give it a much needed new lease of life. The ground floor of the building serves all of our outpatient facilities and outside garden area, while the first floor is home to our inpatient ward and assessment area.
“We would love to create a spectacular experience right from the front entrance to our building, where children and young people feel comfortable and even excited about coming into and the frog auction will enable this to happen.” Totally Stockport’s BID manager, Paul Taylor said: “When we first conceived the idea of the frog project, we never imagined just how successful it has been; over the summer thousands came to Stockport to follow the trail and discover all the frogs. “To end the project with such a fantastic auction is truly amazing. A small dedicated team made all this happen and, on behalf of everyone involved, I would like to say a huge thank you to the sponsors, artists and local businesses who have supported us. “LSH Mercedes-Benz Stockport have been fantastic and hosted a great evening and the team from Simon Charles Auctioneers gave their time for free, I really can’t thank them all enough. “But I would also like to say a BIG thank you to the people of Stockport who have loved and respected the frogs; that has given us the confidence and the drive to do it all again, watch this space!” Simon Rothwell from Simon Charles Auctioneers added: “We were thrilled to be a part of the Stockport Giant Leap frog auction and it was amazing to see the turnout and enthusiasm for the project. It’s been a great initiative for Stockport and, as a Stockport based auctioneers, we were pleased to have been involved in this very special event”.
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Tag: Brian Singer
Art, Artist books, book arts
Last week Oola and I did a road trip and spent some time camping with California’s biggest and hungriest mosquitoes. Also shared coffee next to some old guys in bicycle spandex. Happily we arrived in the Bay Area itchy but not with too much psychological damage to visit family and friends.
One highlight of the trip was to visit the Seager Gray Gallery in Mill Valley to catch the tail end of the 13th annual Art of the Book show. This was always a special treat for us when we lived in the Bay Area.
Ascension, Tor Archer
Ascension is a kind of work I mentally associate with the gallery: mythical, magical, meditative, lyrical, both in and out of time, contemporary and ancient all at once. And I was not disappointed.
But, as in any Artist Book related show, there were a wide variety of approaches.
You can click on any image to see an enlargement.
World Books, Brian Dettmer
World Books (detail), Brian Dettmer
From this angle, Brian Dettmer’s World Books reminds Oola of the curiosity and affection of a baby pangolin focusing its gaze on Suzanne Grey at the desk. But when observed closely, the delicacy and intricacy of Brian’s cutting can only be called amazing. Still, this brings up an issue in the Artist Book world: a book is something that one interacts with physically, intellectually, and emotionally page by page to absorb its content. Brian’s work, from what I have observed, lives more in the camp of the artist book as pure sculpture, not to be touched, only to be admired from a distance.
Pulp Discourse, Andrew Hayes
Another artist, Andrew Hayes, lives in the same camp. He is not interested in conveying story or the content of the book so much as the play of iron with paper. The gestural action of the two Pulp Discourse pieces is something one feels viscerally. They certainly are beautiful and noteworthy forms, but not to be touched.
Once, while I was working as an artist in California Prisons, I brought some clay to the AIDS ward. I put lumps out on the table for the guys who gathered around and seemed interested. Naive as I was, I said “show me the inner man” and they got all poetic with their clay because that is what they thought I wanted. One fellow, however, was having none of my foolishness. At the end of the hour he presented me with his “Intestine Man”.
Prescious Capsule, Valérie Buess
Regulations, Valérie Buess
Valérie Buess‘s works in this show reminded me of that incident, of the hardshell-covered vulnerability of the men, and their humor even in that musty place. At least, I want to believe that her work Prescious Capsule is about vulnerability. Here is a case where the tactile wants to tell truth to the hand.
Valérie’s work Regulations is hilarious. It is spun from books documenting changes in the law. In the words of the artist, they “hold/hide their meaning very tightly, shut in the words…twirled, spiky and barbed”.
Inheritance, Jaz Graf
Jaz Graf‘s piece, Inheritance, consists of letterpress on porcelain pages spread out on the wall by means of steel hangers. Each pages says “nous sommes simplement de passage”, or “we are only here for a moment’s time”. This is a reminder of the intimacy of a book in a public place. I love the artist’s statement that a book is “the ghost limb of an author, but more importantly it becomes an extension of the reader’s body and experience.”
Shpilkes, Lisa Kokin
Traditional books by their definition need words to convey content. Artist Books, not so much. Lisa Kokin‘s work in this show uses words that have no semantic content. Just thread and recycled objects and, like she says, “shpilkes” or nervous energy.
Durer’s Deer, Renée Bott
Durer’s Deer (detail), Renée Bott
Renée Bott works to paint out the words from narratives about human cruelty. She paints the beauty of the natural world seeking to discover a future where humans live in harmony with it.
But I Didn’t Sleep Much, Tamar Stone
But I Didn’t Sleep Much (detail), Tamar Stone
Tamar Stone tells stories of women in their own words as they travel alone in troubled times. Her use of traditional text in low contrast or on distracting background makes the words seem camouflaged. The reader has to become intensely involved with unmaking, reading, then remaking the layers of the bed. These secret stories require effort to enjoy.
Meanwhile (opened on table), Macy Chadwick
Meanwhile (detail), Macy Chadwick
In Macy Chadwick‘s Meanwhile words from A Thousand and One Nights swirl through the book like a murmuration of starlings.
John Fitzgerald Kennedy from the Assassinations series, Brian Singer
Martin Luther King, Jr. from the assassination series (detail), Brian Singer
While in the gallery I heard another visitor ask “What’s with all the guns?”. Our society and culture is in the grips of a huge gun struggle and with ever-increasing frequency we convulse under the weight of a new outrage. It is on everyone’s mind. I think it necessary for artists to deal with the subject.
This show presents two artists who talk about this obsession in two different ways. The first is Brian Singer (above) who presents the guns of historical assassinations. He prints images of the guns of specific events on pages of books about the event. He cuts the paper into blocks which he turns on their sides. The images of guns appear as delicate drawings on obscured lines of text (as in the detail image above). I did not see it, but evidently with each image comes an indexing of the name of the person killed, the type of gun, and the name of the shooter. I have a couple of thoughts on this series. I think the artist misses the mark here. The “how” outweighs the “what”. I am not a fan of ambiguity in social/historical art like this. I am disappointed in this series in that it does not address the horror and helplessness we felt when we heard that the President or Martin or Bobby was shot.
Further, having worked (as an artist) in California prisons, I have learned that there is a social ranking among criminals as to who is the baddest outlaw of all. There are people who do terrible things with the goal of fame in mind. I have met them, made art in the same room as them. Other prisoners cluster around them as though they were movie stars from whom some of the fame might rub off. So I take issue with the parts of this series that names the shooter — thus, inadvertently we hope, glorifying them. The best (worst) thing that can happen to these individuals is that they, as persons, become utterly forgotten and unnamed in the world.
Shooting Range, Audrey Wilson
The second artist in the show to speak of shootings is Audrey Wilson. Shooting Range is about the Columbine slaughter. She puts her emphasis on the deaths of young people in school where we should be able to expect that they are as safe as anyone can be on this planet. Shooting Range is as different as it can be from the assassination series. It is neon, hard edged, political, urgent — and personal.
This show is closed now and I couldn’t write about all the wonderful work. You can see the show catalog on line.
But, if you are in the area, take heart!
Chris Gwaltney: And Another Thing…
June 1 – July 1, 2018
Reception for the artist:
Saturday, June 9, 5:30 – 7:30 pm
It looks like a show well worth seeing.
SeagerGray Gallery
Tuesday through Saturday,
11am – 5:00pm, Sunday 12 – 5pm
The drive home was uneventful, but Oola did enjoy meeting a couple from San Bernardino.
June 5, 2018 June 5, 2018 Andrew Hayes, Art, Artist Books, Audrey Wilson, Brian Dettmer, Brian Singer, Jaz Graf, Lisa Kokin, Macy Chadwick, Renée Bott, Seager Gray Gallery, Tamar Stone, Tor Archer, Valérie Buess1 Comment
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February 21, 2016 by Moreland
A Study in Fandoms
I am Audrey Hepburn and Cat is my fandoms
So after a brief hiatus, the fandom posts are back. Here we go with a few more things, as Audrey would say, I go ape over.
I first got into ABBA through my mother, who grew up in the ’70s and was a disco queen.
Yep she and my and my dad grew up in the ’70s, being the ones to blame for my obsession with the music from that decade.
Anyways, one day she was watching a Time Life infomercial or something that had a collection of all of ABBA‘s greatest hits; along with their concerts on a collection of videos (yes I said video, they were on VHS).
I started watching it with her when I heard the song Dancing Queen. I said “Isn’t that by the band S Club 7, a band I was a fan of through the TV show that used to be on abc family. My mom told me that ABBA was the one who created it. I stayed with her to finish watching, and became a huge fan.
What can you say about this Swedish Disco/Pop Rock/Glam Rock group other than they were awesome! I love the songs and their costumes.
When Mamma Mia! came out in 2008, I was the only girl their under the age of 40; but I didn’t care. The story was so-so, but I had fun singing along as I knew every lyric.
My favorite songs are Dancing Queen, Does Your Mother Know, Fernando, Gimmie! Gimmie! Gimmie! (A Man After Midnight), Honey Honey, Lay All Your Love On Me, Mamma Mia, S.O.S., Super Trouper, Voulez Vous, and Waterloo
Ned and Stacey
I happened upon this show accidentally one morning (they had stopped showing Saved By the Bell). I was channel surfing to see what to watch before class, when I saw Thomas Haden Church. As I just adore him, I decided to check the show out and fell for it.
Ned Dorsey (Thomas Haden Church) is a fantastic advertising executive. He’s up for a big promotion; only problem is he is a confirmed bachelor (trust issues & parent issues) and they are looking for a family man. He needs a wife and he needs one quick.
Stacey Colbert (Debra Messing) is a writer living with her parents as she can’t find an apartment she can afford with her meager paycheck. After Stacey and Ned meet on a blind date, Ned proposes. If Stacey can be his wife for three years; she can live in the beautiful apartment, have nice clothes, enjoy the parties Ned is invited too, and date anyone she wants to (discreetly). It seems like too good of a deal and the two are soon living together. But will this odd couple be able to last?
The show was cute and zany as Stacey was crazy and all over the place, while Ned was more controlled and the “straight man” in the comedic duo.
I loved this show, but couldn’t see why Stacey hated Ned. He’s hot, funny, has great fashion sense, takes her to all kinds of cool places, can cook, is a great gardener, etc. I would have loved being married to him.
Ringer was a show that starred Sarah Michelle Geller and aired in 2011-2012. I thought it was fantastic and ended way too early. I’m not sure exactly what happened. Why did they cancel it?
Why did it end?
So the series is in the noir genre and has one over-arcing mystery, with multiple twists and turns. Similar to Veronica Mars but much more adult.
Bridget Kelly is a drug addict and stripper. She witnesses a murder crime boss Bodaway Macawi, but is afraid of his power; running away from the FBI agents who promised to protect her. She instead goes to her long estranged twin, Siobhan in New York.
Siobhan has risen from their humble roots, now being a a high society girl; married to one of the most powerful stockbrokers; Andrew Martin (Ioan Gruffudd). Siobhan promises to protect her and takes her out to their house on the Hamptons. They go for a boat ride when Bridget falls asleep. She wakes up to discover her sister gone! The only thing left are her rings!
Afraid that she might be suspected of doing something and worried about Macawi; she decides to pretend to be her sister. But what she thought was a perfect life; money, handsome husband, gorgeous clothes, great friends, etc.- turns out to be anything but.
Siobhan and Andrew’s marriage is on the rocks, her friends are catty, she’s cheating with her best friend’s husband, the stepdaughter hates her, an evil ex-wife trying to remove the “ex” in her title, and to top it all off; someone is trying to kill Siobhan.
Throw in a hot FBI agent that won’t settle until he finds Bridget and not knowing who to trust and you have one winner of a show! Too bad the network didn’t see that.
The only thing I didn’t like about this show was the reason why Bridget and Siobhan were estranged. It wasn’t a horrible reason, it made sense; but I don’t know I guess I was expecting more. The same way I was expecting MORE SEASONS!!
Why did they end it?!
For more on Sarah Michelle Geller, go to She’s Been Totally Different…Like Stepford: Ted, Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1997)
Saved by the Bell was one of my favorite shows growing up. I used to watch it in the afternoons, and then when they changed the line up; every morning. This continued up into college as I just loved the nostalgia, characters, and the fun plots. As they have it on Netflix; I’ve recently continued my watching and enjoyment.
So the show started out Good Morning Miss Bliss, with Hayley Mills as the main character, and teacher at the junior high school. The show did so-so; so they choose four of the characters to continue; changed the location, and instead focused on the students rather than teachers.
The show centered around Zach Morris, Screech Powers, Jessie Spano, Kelly Kapowski, Lisa Turtle, and A.C. Slater. Usually Zach either created a crazy situation or came up with some silly scheme to get out of a problem. However, they didn’t shy away from the serious issues; sometimes dealing with them in a cheesy way and others very poignantly.
I also watched the College Years, although I didn’t like the two girls they added on when Lisa, Kelly, and Jessie left the show. Otherwise it was good, espechially when they brought Kelly back.
So for characters we have my absolute favorite- Zach Morris played by Mark-Paul Gosselaar.
Zach was hot, and let me just say MPG is still looking pretty fine. He was also loyal, funny, kind, and just fun. He always had some kind of get-rich-quick scheme or plan that usually didn’t work out how he planned. However, one of the things that made him the best was his devotion and adoration of Kelly. Loved her from episode one and continued on.
Jessie Spano was played by Elizabeth Berkley. She was tall, intelligent, a feminist, and always crowing about rights and how stupid men are.
Sometimes she was annoying, but usually fun. At the beginning of the series she had a crush on Zach, but she ended up dating A.C.; and I thought the two worked well. She left the series, but returned for the series finale: when Zach and Kelly got married.
There was Screech Powers played by Dustin Diamond. Screech was a total nerd. He got straight As, built a robot, messed around with all kind of electronics, and was usually the naive one that went along with one of Zach’s schemes. He had a crush on Lisa, but she wasn’t interested in him.
Kelly Kapowski was played by Tiffani-Amber Thiessen. Kelly is the popular, pretty, cheerleader, but also smart all-American girl. All the boys wanted to date her; including Zach and A.C.
She and Zach are constantly being thrown together and then pulled apart, until the very end when the two finally stay together forever, as they get married.
Lisa Turtle was played by Lark Voorhes. Lisa was super rich and super stylish; always dressed the best.
She was always super popular and helping plan parties and dances. She and Zach date briefly, but most of the time she had a new beau every episode.
And last, but not least; the other guy that I thought was a total hunk (although my heart was first for Zach) Mario Lopez who played A.C. Slater. A.C. transferred to the school and was a jock, also being a rival for Zach in Kelly’s affections. However, as MPG and Mario became such great friends; the writers had to change the script and have the two become buds instead. He dated around, Kelly at times, but in the end of the high school series he and Jessie stole each other’s hearts. In the college years, he and Zach are roomies even trying to get into the same fraternity. Slater isn’t just a jock though, he has some great story lines in dealing with being an army brat and moving from place to place; along with trying to express his Latino culture. Like MPG he is still as hot as ever.
And just because it was awesome; here is the funny reunion they has on Jimmy Fallon’s show.
For more on Mario Lopez, go to On the 8th Day ‘Til Christmas: Holiday in Handcuffs (2007)
For the previous post, go to To Kill a Fangirl
And Stay tuned for part 20
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Tagged A.C. Slater, ABBA, Andrew Martin, Bridget Kelly, Dancing Queen, Debra Messing, Disco Queen, Does Your Mother Know, Dustin Diamond, Elizabeth Berkley, Fernando, Film-Noir, Gimmie! Gimmie! Gimmie! (A Man After Midnight), Glam Rock, Glitter Rock, Good Morning Miss Bliss, Hayley Mills, Honey Honey, Infomercial, Ioan Gruffudd, Jessie Spano, Jimmy Fallon, Kelly Kapowski, Lark Voorhes, Lay All Your Love On Me, Lisa Turtle, Mamma Mia, Mario Lopez, Mark-Paul Gosselaar, Ned and Stacey, Ned Dorsey, Ringer, S Club 7, S.O.S., Sarah Michelle Geller, Saved by the Bell, Screech Powers, Siobhan Kelly Martin, Stacey Colbert, Super Trouper, Thomas Haden Church, Tiffani-Amber Thiessen, Time Life, Veronica Mars, Voulez Vous, Waterloo, Zach Morris
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Permaculture feeds and empowers refugees in Uganda
under Agriculture, Community, Eco-Inspiration, Features, Interviews
by Teresa Bergen
Refugees arrive at Palabek refugee camp in Northern Uganda with the clothes on their back and what little they carried. New arrivals, many from South Sudan, receive a tarp, tent poles, a water can, a cooking pot and a ration card for enough food to make starvation a slower process. While aid agencies swarm Sub-Saharan Africa, home to more than 26 percent of the world’s refugee population, few make their desired impact. But African Women Rising (AWR) is having startling success. The organization educates women and girls in Northern Uganda, schooling them in literacy, micro-finance and agriculture. Within Palabek, the nonprofit’s lessons in permaculture may make the difference between people surviving the camp and eventually thriving in a new home or not.
Seeds and tools
Permaculture is small-scale agriculture designed to be sustainable and self-sufficient. AWR developed the permagarden program at Palabek “as an antidote to the widespread seeds and tools offerings of most NGOs, especially in refugee settings,” said founders Linda and Tom Cole. “There’s a seldom-challenged maxim within the humanitarian sector that if you provide a refugee with some packets of seeds and a few tools, she might translate that into a regular supply of food for the family.”
But the Coles have seen this approach fail, primarily because of poor soil fertility and lack of water. Instead, AWR provides a deeper agricultural education for refugees. “It focuses on building understanding around the basic principles of water and soil biology, and then uses a design framework to help the farmer understand the best way to capture rainwater and enrich the soil using locally available — and often waste — materials such as manure, wood ash, tree leaves and charcoal dust.”
Related: Nonprofit teaches communities how to build homes out of straw, clay and soil
When AWR started at Palabek, they trained about 20 people. Now, more than 6,000 South Sudanese refugee families cultivate vegetables here. The permagardeners at Palabek learn to harvest water and capture waste streams to enhance the fertility and productivity of their 30m by 30m plots. They manage existing trees, plant new ones and cultivate living fences and biomass plantings that provide materials for building, pest remedies, dry season nutrition and medicine. “This helps reduce pressures on the environment — such as the collection of fuelwood, gathering of wild foods, burning of charcoal — that will continue to worsen as time goes on, exacerbating tensions between host communities and refugees,” the Coles told Inhabitat. “Strengthening the ecological base of food systems also reduces vulnerability across time by shoring up resilience in the face of climate instability and extreme weather events.”
Permagardening is not a magic solution. The refugees don’t learn it in a day. Instead, refugee farmers participate in a series of trainings throughout the growing season. Local field staff called community mobilizers regularly monitor the gardens and troubleshoot problems as necessary.
Why women?
The Coles founded their nonprofit in 2006 to empower African women rebuilding their lives after war. “AWR’s vision is to build social, economic and political equality for women and girls in Africa,” the Coles said. The small-but-mighty nonprofit’s programs help Northern Ugandan women to improve their lives through increased food production, natural resource management, financial security and education.
Women traditionally care for children and keep households going, and therefore carry heavy post-war burdens. As Ugandan women try to feed families, they contend with financial lack and environmental challenges including deforestation, drought, erosion, water shortages and climate change.
AWR works with the most vulnerable of vulnerable women: widows, formerly abducted women and girls, ex-combatants, girl mothers, orphans, those who are HIV-positive and grandmothers taking care of orphans, all of whom earn less than a dollar a day. Most have had little or no formal education and are stigmatized for their disadvantages.
AWR is adamant about the women themselves being actively involved in decision-making. Before launching programs, AWR partners with community-based groups to find out what the women themselves want and need, then make plans to carry that out. “There was broad consensus that education, savings and agriculture should be the foundation of recovery,” Linda and Tom said. Once programs are up and running, community mobilizers meet weekly with program participants to monitor progress.
Money is power, and so is literacy
In addition to agricultural projects, AWR is the major player in adult literacy in Northern Uganda. AWR runs 34 literacy centers serving more than 2,000 adults in Northern Uganda. With literacy comes power. Nearly 50 students and staff members at the centers, dismayed by a lack of trustworthy candidates, have run for public office. Two-thirds won.
AWR also runs a micro-finance program that teaches financial literacy to women. Participants learn record keeping, basic business skills and strategies for saving money, and they gain access to capital. “AWR groups saved more than $1 million last year,” the founders said. “Groups are on track to save more than $2 million this year, $0.50 to $0.75 at a time.”
Related: The farmers growing food across frigid northern latitudes
Within the refugee camp at Palabek, the rows of vegetables thriving in the permagardens are a welcome contrast to the bleak expanse of red dirt and a rationed diet of maize, beans, oil, sugar and salt. The permagardens also provide a symbol of hope for the future. “Most refugees arriving in Palabek have lost many of the friends and family structures that were relied upon previously for social support,” the Coles told Inhabitat. “Apart from providing food for the family and some residual income, the most profound effect of AWR’s programs is to help rebuild those layers of social capital. Extra food to provide to neighbors. Some small money for school fees or church offerings. Female mentors and role models.”
They hope to have the same success in the intense poverty and displacement of the refugee camp as they’ve had throughout post-war Northern Uganda. “AWR began its work in one of the most aid-dependent areas of the world. We have the long-term goal of shifting this paradigm from complete dependency to one of engagement and personal capacity.”
If you are interested in supporting AWR in its efforts, donations can be made here.
+ African Women Rising
Photography by Brian Hodges Photography, Thomas Cole and Macduff Everton via AWR
African Women Rising
African Women Rising members in their maize and sesame garden. The Field Crop program works together with women to help increase yields by focusing specifically on soil fertility management and water conservation. Photo: Brian Hodges Photography
African Women Rising group member in her field. Increasing fluctuations in weather patterns makes it harder for farmers to reliably grow crops and get decent yields. Due to their focus on building soil organic matter and conserving rainfall in their fields, AWR members are seeing that they consistently produce more crops than neighbors who are not part of the program. Photo: Brian Hodges Photography
Watering cow peas in Gulu District, Northern Uganda. The permagardens help ensure that families are food secure year-round. The gardens also provide much-needed extra income for vulnerable persons who lack land or are not able to cultivate large fields. Photo: Brian Hodges Photography
A refugee's permagarden filled with a variety of nutritious and culturally appropriate crops: okra, sesame, amaranth, cassava, tomato, eggplant, pigeon pea, cow pea, pumpkin and sunflower. Photo: Thomas Cole
A refugee from South Sudan, living in Palabek Refugee Settlement camp in Northern Uganda, picking vegetables from her Permagarden. The gardens provide refugees with much-needed micronutrients from vegetables and leafy greens to augment the food they receive from the World Food Program (WFP). Photo: Brian Hodges Photography
One of African Women Rising’s community mobilizers monitoring a Permagarden in Palabek Refugee Settlement camp. The community mobilizers visit gardens twice a month to check in and give technical agronomic support to members. Photo: Thomas Cole
African Women Rising members planting beans seeds while participating in a Permagarden training. The program provides participants with three 3-day trainings over the course of a year. Members also get one-on-one technical support from community mobilizers twice a month. Photo: Macduff Everton
Harvesting potatoes from a Permagarden in Palabek Refugee Settlement camp in Northern Uganda. Photo: Brian Hodges Photography
African Women Rising member digging a swale and boomerang berm around her custard apple fruit tree to capture and store water. Photo: Brian Hodges Photography
Refugee participants in AWR's programs learn multiple techniques to trap and store valuable water in the soil. Knowing that the resilience of the garden is built by layering techniques, this gardener is employing mulch, crop patterning, on-contour swales and planting beds, deep soil preparation and waste water collection from their dish stand. Photo: Thomas Cole
A powerful embrace for Linda Cole from a woman thanking African Women Rising for the support they are giving to her granddaughter, a participant in the Girls Education program. Photo: Brian Hodges Photography
A refugee with the cow pea greens she has grown, dried and preserved for consumption later in the year in the dry season. Photo: Thomas Cole
African Women Rising member with her oxen. Most women who participate in AWR’s program do not have oxen. As they become financially secure, through participation in the Microfinance and Agricultural programs, many invest in oxen so they can increase the size of their fields. Photo: Brian Hodges Photography
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Kevin Nunn and the mystery of the withheld sperm sample
Posted on March 7, 2016 by INNOCENT in Cases // 4 Comments
Dawn Walker's body was found near the River Lark
Kevin Nunn was convicted of the murder of his ex-girlfriend Dawn Walker near Bury St Edmunds in 2006, on slight and inconclusive evidence. Sperm was found on the victim’s body, which cannot have been Nunn’s due to his vasectomy. Nunn has been fighting to have the sperm samples re-tested for DNA, but Suffolk Police have fought ferociously to hold onto the sperm samples rather than release them for testing – a simple test that would clear up the question of Nunn’s guilt. What are Suffolk Police scared of?
UK Supreme Court decision on application of Nunn 18 June 2014
Andrew Green comments:
The judgement in Nunn has at last appeared – available at http://www.supremecourt.uk/decided-cases/docs/UKSC_2012_0175_Judgment.pdf
The application for disclosure of police investigation records and access to exhibits for retesting has been refused. This outcome has been expected, but it’s not particularly helpful about providing guidance as to how we should go about obtaining disclosure or access for testing of exhibits when we need it.
Nunn doesn’t appear to have been a well managed case, and the lack of clarity and precision in the applications made for disclosure / access has led to a lack of clarity in the resulting judgement. At least the UKSC recognises the value of the contributions of helpful individuals and organisations in exposing miscarriages of justice (paragraphs 36, 41). INNOCENT would argue that the continuing obligation of the police and CPS to disclose ought to be different from that defined by statute and the UKSC. We will try to find out what we have to do in practice to progress our cases in which we need disclosure of material not disclosed before conviction, and access to material for re-testing, and provide guidance on this.
Omagh bombing expert to probe evidence 21 July 2010
Nunn’s sister Brigitte Butcher said they had forensic scientists Professor Allan Jamieson, who was instrumental in challenging the use of a controversial DNA technique in the Omagh Bomb trial, and Dr Sara Short, who has experience of nearly 1,000 cases, waiting to examine the material held.
Ms Butcher said she had met Prof Jamieson at a miscarriage of justice conference organised by United Against Injustice and said he had subsequently been in touch with Ms Hickman to “offer assistance” where he could.
MP backs Kevin’s appeal bid 23 September 2009
Late last year, Nunn’s sister Brigitte Butcher asked Suffolk police for material relating to the conviction which was not shown to the court during his trial in 2006.
Almost a year later, the force is yet to comply with her request – despite being instructed to do so by the Information Commissioner’s Office. Bury St Edmunds MP David Ruffley said he was keen to help the family get the documents they needed because he felt there were “unanswered questions” surrounding the case…
https://www.supremecourt.uk/decided-cases/docs/UKSC_2012_0175_Judgment.pdf
http://news.sky.com/story/1428909/convicted-killer-in-last-ditch-dna-appeal
http://insidetime.org/the-case-of-kevin-nunn-6/
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-suffolk-27903276
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/kevin-nunn-lifer-loses-forensic-tests-fight-eight-years-after-murder-conviction-9544810.html
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4 Comments on Kevin Nunn and the mystery of the withheld sperm sample
Jimmo // October 27, 2019 at 22:04 // Reply
Nunn is guilty very evil man
JMP // July 18, 2018 at 14:42 // Reply
It was known that Dawn Walker had taken up with a previous boyfriend after she told Nunn that their relationship was over. The sperm on her body could well have been from a sexual encounter with that person just prior to Nunn entering her house and murdering her. Whether or not the sperm was Nunn’s proves nothing.
Gary Barrell // December 26, 2016 at 16:45 // Reply
this sperm sample the police have does not belong to kevin nunn because if it did the police would be shouting it from the tree tops as this would back up there case.so this means that ther is very very strong everdence that the donner of the sperm could very likely be the real murderer of dawn walker .so this would prove the police have again messed up by having only one target and sticking with that one target to the bitter end dispite other everdence staring them in the face.
Roger Holmes // December 14, 2016 at 18:02 // Reply
Re. Kevin Nunn sperm/dna issue. A vasectomy has no effect upon the production of seminal fluid.
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University of South Florida facts for kids
Truth and Wisdom
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John B. Ramil
Judy Genshaft
Ralph Wilcox
Tampa, Florida, United States
Urban, 1,913 acres (7.7 km2)
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Rocky the Bull
State University System of Florida
www.usf.edu
The USF Marshall Center.
The University of South Florida is a public university in Tampa, Florida. The university has about 45,713 students. It was founded in 1956. The current president of the university is Judy Genshaft.
The athletics teams of the university are called the Bulls. They have 15 varsity teams and they compete in the American Athletic Conference.
USF's first president, John S. Allen.
Overlooking the USF Tampa campus.
College of Business building.
The Natural and Environmental Sciences building.
USF Tampa main library
Center for Advanced Medical Learning and Simulation in Tampa.
Engineering buildings at USF.
USF Marshall Student Center.
Juniper-Poplar Hall.
USF C.W. Bill Young Hall.
Bulls Athletic wordmark
Lee Roy Selmon Athletic Center.
USF Herd of Thunder Marching Band at the Sun Bowl.
Ed Baird
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John Chiang
Lincoln Diaz-Balart
Leo Gallagher
Pam Iorio
Richard Kerlikowske
Tony LaRussa
Aasif Mandvi
Adam M. Robinson Jr.
Kissy Simmons
Tony Zappone
University of South Florida Facts for Kids. Kiddle Encyclopedia.
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Case Study: Nutrition and Hydration Status during 4,254 km of Running Over 78 Consecutive Days
Sarah Dempster, Rhiannon Britton, Andrew Murray and Ricardo J. S. Costa
The aims of this study were to assess the dietary intake and monitor self-reported recovery quality and clinical symptomology of a male ultra-endurance runner who completed a multiday ultra-endurance running challenge covering 4,254 km from North Scotland to the Moroccan Sahara desert over 78 consecutive days. Food and fluid intakes were recorded and analyzed through dietary analysis software. Body mass (BM) was determined before and after running each day, and before sleep. Clinical symptomology and perceived recovery quality were recorded each day. Whole blood hemoglobin and serum ferritin were determined before and after the challenge. Total daily energy (mean ± SD: 23.2 ± 3.2MJ·day−1) and macronutrient intake (182 ± 31g·day−1 protein, 842 ± 115g·day−1 carbohydrate, 159 ± 55 g·day−1 fat) met consensus nutritional guidelines for endurance performance. Total daily water intake through foods and fluids was 4.8 ± 2.0L·day−1. Water and carbohydrate intake rates during running were 239 ± 143ml·h−1 and 56 ± 19g·h−1, respectively. Immediately after running, carbohydrate and protein intakes were 1.3 ± 1.0g·kg BM−1 and 0.4 ± 0.2g·kg BM−1, respectively. Daily micronutrient intakes ranged from 109 to 662% of UK RNIs. Prerunning BM was generally maintained throughout. Overall exercise-induced BM loss averaged 0.8 ± 1.0%; although BM losses of ≥ 2% occurred in the latter stages, a reflection of the warmer climate. Varying degrees of self-reported perceived recovery quality and clinical symptomology occurred throughout the challenge. This case study highlights oscillations in dietary habits along 78 consecutive days of ultra-endurance running, dependent on changes in ambient conditions and course topography. Nevertheless, nutrition and hydration status were maintained throughout the challenge. Despite dietary iron intake above RNI and iron supplementation, this alone did not prevent deficiency symptoms.
In International Journal of Sport Nutrition and Exercise Metabolism Volume 23 (2013): Issue 5 (Oct 2013)
A Real-Time Case Study in Driver Science: Physiological Strain and Related Variables
Edward S. Potkanowicz
This case study was conducted as an attempt to quantify racecar-driver core body temperature and heart rate (HR) in real time on a minute-by-minute basis and to expand the volume of work in the area of driver science. Three drivers were observed during a 15-lap, 25-min maximal event. Each driver competed in the closed-wheel, closed-cockpit sports-car category. Data on core body temperature and HR were collected continuously using the HQ Inc. ingestible core probe system and HR monitoring. Driver 1 pre- and postrace core temperatures were 37.80°C and 38.79°C, respectively. Driver 2 pre- and postrace core temperatures were 37.41°C and 37.99°C. Driver 1 pre- and postrace HRs were 102 and 161 beats/min. Driver 2 pre- and postrace HRs were 94.3 and 142 beats/min. Driver 1’s physiological strain index (PSI) at the start was 3.51. Driver 2’s PSI at the start was 3.10. Driver 1 finished with a PSI of 7.04 and driver 2 with a PSI of 3.67. Results show that drivers are continuously challenged minute by minute. In addition, before getting into their cars, the drivers already experience physiological and thermal challenges. The data suggest that drivers are getting hot quickly. In longer events, this represents the potential for severe heat injury. Investigating whether the HRs observed are indicative of work or evidence of a thermoregulatory-associated challenge is a direction for future work. The findings support the value of real-time data collection and offer strong evidence for the expansion of research on driver-athletes.
In International Journal of Sports Physiology and Performance Volume 10 (2015): Issue 8 (Jan 2015)
Case Study: Simulated and Real-Life Energy Expenditure During a 3-Week Expedition
Karsten Koehler, Frank Huelsemann, Markus de Marees, Bjoern Braunstein, Hans Braun and Wilhelm Schaenzer
During prolonged periods of high energy expenditure (EE), restricted food intake can lead to a loss of body mass. This case study describes the preexpedition support for an unsupported 3-wk crossing of the Atacama Desert in Chile. The goals were to simulate the energy requirements of walking under varying conditions and to predict energy intake and EE to evaluate whether the expected weight loss was in acceptable limits. The expeditionist (male, 35 yr, 197 cm, basal weight 80 ± 0.5 kg) was a well-trained endurance athlete with experience of multiple expeditions. During the simulation, he walked on a treadmill at speeds of 2–7 km/hr under varying conditions of inclination (0%, 7.5%), backpack weight (0 kg, 30 kg), and altitude (sea level, simulated altitude of 3,500 m). Under all conditions, the lowest EE was observed at 5 km/hr. Based on the simulation data, we predicted an average EE of 4,944 kcal/day for the expedition. Because energy intake was restricted to 2,249 kcal/day, we expected the expeditionist to lose considerable weight and consequently advised him to gain 5 kg of body-fat reserves. During the actual desert crossing, he covered a distance of 26 ± 7 km/day at an average speed of 3.8 ± 0.4 km/hr. Daily EE (4,817 ± 794 kcal/day) exceeded energy intake (1,771 ± 685 kcal/day), and the negative energy balance was in agreement with the actual weight loss of 10.5 kg, which was most notable in the lower trunk.
In International Journal of Sport Nutrition and Exercise Metabolism Volume 21 (2011): Issue 6 (Dec 2011)
Case Study: Unfavorable But Transient Physiological Changes During Contest Preparation in a Drug-Free Male Bodybuilder
Andrew Pardue, Eric T. Trexler and Lisa K. Sprod
Extreme body composition demands of competitive bodybuilding have been associated with unfavorable physiological changes, including alterations in metabolic rate and endocrine profile. The current case study evaluated the effects of contest preparation (8 months), followed by recovery (5 months), on a competitive drug-free male bodybuilder over 13 months (M1-M13). Serum testosterone, triiodothyronine (T3), thyroxine (T4), cortisol, leptin, and ghrelin were measured throughout the study. Body composition (BodPod, dualenergy x-ray absorptiometry [DXA]), anaerobic power (Wingate test), and resting metabolic rate (RMR) were assessed monthly. Sleep was assessed monthly via the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PSQI) and actigraphy. From M1 to M8, testosterone (623–173 ng∙dL-1), T3 (123–40 ng∙dL-1), and T4 (5.8–4.1 mg∙dL-1) decreased, while cortisol (25.2–26.5 mg∙dL-1) and ghrelin (383–822 pg∙mL-1) increased. The participant lost 9.1 kg before competition as typical energy intake dropped from 3,860 to 1,724 kcal∙day-1; BodPod estimates of body fat percentage were 13.4% at M1, 9.6% at M8, and 14.9% at M13; DXA estimates were 13.8%, 5.1%, and 13.8%, respectively. Peak anaerobic power (753.0 to 536.5 Watts) and RMR (107.2% of predicted to 81.2% of predicted) also decreased throughout preparation. Subjective sleep quality decreased from M1 to M8, but objective measures indicated minimal change. By M13, physiological changes were largely, but not entirely, reversed. Contest preparation may yield transient, unfavorable changes in endocrine profile, power output, RMR, and subjective sleep outcomes. Research with larger samples must identify strategies that minimize unfavorable adaptations and facilitate recovery following competition.
In International Journal of Sport Nutrition and Exercise Metabolism Volume 27 (2017): Issue 6 (Jan 2017)
Case Study: Nutrition Planning and Intake for Marathon des Sables—A Series of Five Runners
Alan J. McCubbin, Gregory R. Cox and Elizabeth M. Broad
This case study describes the nutrition plans, intakes and experiences of five ultra-marathon runners who completed the Marathon des Sables in 2011 and 2013; age 37 (28–43) y, height 184 (180–190) cm, body mass 77.5 (71–85.5) kg, marathon personal best 3:08 (2:40–3:32). MdS is a 7-day, six-stage ultra-running stage race held in the Sahara Desert (total distance of timed stages 1–5 was 233.2 km in 2011, 223.4 km in 2013). Competitors are required to carry all equipment and food (except water) for the race duration, a minimum of 8,360 kJ/day and total pack weight of 6.5–15 kg. Total food mass carried was 4.2 (3.8–4.7) kg or 0.7 (0.5–1.1) kg/day. Planned energy (13,550 (10,323–18,142) kJ/day), protein (1.3 (0.8–1.8) g/kg/day), and carbohydrate (6.2 (4.3–9.2) g/kg/day) intakes on the fully self-sufficient days were slightly below guideline recommendations, due to the need to balance nutritional needs with food mass to be carried. Energy density was 1,636 (1,475–1,814) kJ/100g. 98.5% of the planned food was consumed. Fluid consumption was ad libitum with no symptoms or medical treatment required for dehydration or hyponatremia. During-stage carbohydrate intake was 42 (20–64) g/hour. Key issues encountered by runners included difficulty consuming foods due to dry mouth, and unpalatability of sweet foods (energy gels, sports drinks) when heated in the sun. Final classification of the runners ranged from 11th to 175th of 970 finishers in 2013, and 132nd of 805 in 2011. The described pattern of intake and macronutrient quantities were positively appraised by the five runners.
A Case Study of an Iron-Deficient Female Olympic 1500-m Runner
Charles R. Pedlar, Gregory P. Whyte, Richard Burden, Brian Moore, Gill Horgan and Noel Pollock
This case study examines the impact of low serum ferritin (sFe) on physiological assessment measures and performance in a young female 1500-m runner undertaking approximately 95–130 km/wk training. The study spans 4 race seasons and an Olympic Games. During this period, 25 venous blood samples were analyzed for sFe and hemoglobin (Hb); running economy, VO2max, and lactate threshold were measured on 6 occasions separated by 8–10 mo. Training was carefully monitored including 65 monitored treadmill training runs (targeting an intensity associated with the onset of blood lactate accumulation) using blood lactate and heart rate. Performances at competitive track events were recorded. All data were compared longitudinally. Mean sFe was 24.5 ± 7.6 μg/L (range 10–47), appearing to be in gradual decline with the exception of 2 data points (37 and 47 μg/L) after parenteral iron injections before championships, when the lowest values tended to occur, coinciding with peak training volumes. Each season, 1500-m performance improved, from 4:12.8 in year 1 to 4:03.5 in year 4. VO2max (69.8 ± 2.0 mL · kg−1 · min−1) and running economy (%VO2max at a fixed speed of 16 km/h; max 87.8%, min 80.3%) were stable across time and lactate threshold improved (from 14 to 15.5 km/h). Evidence of anemia (Hb <12 g/dL) was absent. These unique data demonstrate that in 1 endurance athlete, performance can continue to improve despite an apparent iron deficiency. Raising training volume may have caused increased iron utilization; however, the effect of this on performance is unknown. Iron injections were effective in raising sFe in the short term but did not appear to affect the long-term pattern.
In International Journal of Sports Physiology and Performance Volume 8 (2013): Issue 6 (Jan 2013)
Physiological and Anthropometric Progression in an International Oarsman: A 15-Year Case Study
Jan Bourgois, Adelheid Steyaert and Jan Boone
In this case study, a world-class rower was followed over a period of 15 y in which he evolved from junior to professional athlete.
An incremental exercise test and a 2000-m ergometer test were performed each year in the peak period of the season starting at the age of 16 y. In addition, the training logs of 1 y each as a junior and a senior rower were recorded and analyzed.
Maximal oxygen uptake (VO2max), maximal power output (Pmax), and power output at 4 mmol/L blood lactate concentration increased until the age of 27 and then stabilized at 30 y at 6.0 ± 0.2 L/min, 536 ± 15 W, and 404 ± 22 W, respectively. At the age of 27–28 y the rower also had a career-best 2000-m ergometer test (5′58″) and on-water performance with a 4th place at the Olympic Games (2008) in Beijing and World Championships (2009). At the age of 23 y, the rower trained a total of 6091 km in 48 wk. Of the total training time, 15.4% consisted of general training practices, 23.4% resistance training, and 61.2% specific rowing training.
The on-water performance in the World Championships and Olympic Games corresponded closely to the evolution in the rower’s physiological profile and 2000-m ergometer performance. The long-term build-up program resulted in an increase in the physiological parameters up to the age of 27 y and resulted in a 4th position at the 2008 Olympic Games at a body mass of only 86 kg.
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Trent Stellingwerff
Laboratory-based studies demonstrate that fueling (carbohydrate; CHO) and fluid strategies can enhance training adaptations and race-day performance in endurance athletes. Thus, the aim of this case study was to characterize several periodized training and nutrition approaches leading to individualized race-day fluid and fueling plans for 3 elite male marathoners. The athletes kept detailed training logs on training volume, pace, and subjective ratings of perceived exertion (RPE) for each training session over 16 wk before race day. Training impulse/load calculations (TRIMP; min × RPE = load [arbitrary units; AU]) and 2 central nutritional techniques were implemented: periodic low-CHO-availability training and individualized CHO- and fluidintake assessments. Athletes averaged ~13 training sessions per week for a total average training volume of 182 km/wk and peak volume of 231 km/wk. Weekly TRIMP peaked at 4,437 AU (Wk 9), with a low of 1,887 AU (Wk 16) and an average of 3,082 ± 646 AU. Of the 606 total training sessions, ~74%, 11%, and 15% were completed at an intensity in Zone 1 (very easy to somewhat hard), Zone 2 (at lactate threshold) and Zone 3 (very hard to maximal), respectively. There were 2.5 ± 2.3 low-CHO-availability training bouts per week. On race day athletes consumed 61 ± 15 g CHO in 604 ± 156 ml/hr (10.1% ± 0.3% CHO solution) in the following format: ~15 g CHO in ~150 ml every ~15 min of racing. Their resultant marathon times were 2:11:23, 2:12:39 (both personal bests), and 2:16:17 (a marathon debut). Taken together, these periodized training and nutrition approaches were successfully applied to elite marathoners in training and competition.
Including a Child with Severe Cerebral Palsy in Physical Education: A Case Study
E. William Vogler, Patricia Koranda and Tom Romance
The purpose was to examine an inclusive physical education kindergarten class containing a child with severe spastic diplegic cerebral palsy. An adapted physical educator served as a human resource. Participants were a kindergartner (6 years of age) with severe disability, 20 nondisabled peers (5-6 years of age), an adapted physical educator, and a regular physical educator. The research method was case study. Data were collected periodically by systematic observation and by interview during an 18-week period in the fall school semester. Twenty percent, or approximately one class per week (n = 19) were analyzed that were movement exploration in nature. Results indicated that inclusion classes were highly effective in time engagement and management, and the qualitative nature of inclusion was one of widespread social acceptance and successful motor participation. It was concluded that the use of a people resource model, with an adapted educator, is a highly effective educational practice.
In Adapted Physical Activity Quarterly Volume 17 (2000): Issue 2 (Jan 2000)
ACL Injury Rehabilitation: A Psychological Case Study of a Professional Rugby Union Player
Fraser Carson and Remco C. J. Polman
The aim of this case study was to investigate the emotional factors and coping strategies used by a professional rugby union player during rehabilitation from anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) injury. A dominant (qualitative) - less dominant (quantitative) mixed methodological approach was established concurrent with the athlete’s rehabilitation. Twice monthly interviews and a self-report diary were completed throughout the rehabilitation process. Six questionnaires were used to assess specific aspects of injury rehabilitation identified from previous literature, including emotional response, coping, social support, and perceived autonomy. Content analysis of each phase of the rehabilitation process established 34 higher-order themes split into two general dimensions: Influential Emotions or Coping Strategies. Findings highlight the benefit of problem-focused coping to improve autonomy and confidence. A sequential movement through a series of emotions (shock, depression, relief, encouragement, and confidence building) was also identified.
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The Weather Company’s NDI Forecast: It’s A Game Changer
September 19, 2016 by Claudia Kienzle
End-to-end IP-driven workflow creates ‘virtualized satellite center’ for increased efficiency and productivity, reduced overhead and complexity, better on-air product, and a greater competitive edge
With its recent adoption of NewTek’s NDI®—Network Device Interface—the digital video team at The Weather Company, an IBM Business, has hit the technology jackpot of doing more with less. The team is raising the bar on the quality of live video and clips they produce for their innovative mobile-led weather shows—The Lift and The Ari Effect—while producing more fresh live video for their Facebook page.
Productivity boosts usually come at the expense of adding new video production equipment, facilities or staff, along with technical complexity. To simplify their workflow, the team added NewTek’s NDI software suite including NewTek Connect Pro, NewTek IsoCorder Pro, NDI Scan Converter, and NDI Telestrator. NDI works with industry standard computers and a Gigabit Ethernet network while eliminating the need for format conversion and other time-consuming steps.
The Weather Company’s senior supervising producer, Jim Robinson, calls NDI a game changer. In the following Q&A, he shares his views about NDI’s impact on their time sensitive digital and mobile-led weather news content and how it has helped the Weather team gain a competitive edge.
Jim Robinson, sets up the NDI webserver. Note the multiple camera sources on the rear monitor.
Claudia Kienzle:
Tell us about the shows you’re producing and what makes them so innovative and unique?
Jim Robinson:
Last October, The Weather Company launched the first mobile-led morning weather show, called The Lift, *enabling mobile phone users to start their day with a fast-paced rundown of the day’s top weather stories. *The Lift packs snackable video clips focused on breaking weather news, amazing nature stories, cool weather phenomena, fun viral videos and more into a show that can be watched in six-to-eight minutes.
Based on the success of that show, we’ve launched our second mobile-led show—The Ari Effect, which runs in the 4-to-9 p.m. time slot. Hosted by meteorologist, Ari Sarsalari, The Ari Effect features five-to-six video clips that tackle breaking weather, the science behind weather phenomena and amazing viral videos.
Both shows are produced in The Weather Company’s mobile studio in Atlanta, GA, and are available in The Weather Channel app. Currently, 75 percent of our video views are through The Weather Channel’s mobile apps, and we’re committed to serving the mobile audience. After the launch of The Lift, we saw an 80% increase in video views during that morning timeslot.
What prompted you to add NDI to your workflow?
We became aware of NDI one week before the 2016 NAB Show and recognized that it would enable us to optimize our existing, scalable Virtual Private Network (VPN) to bring in real-time video from many sources much more easily than before, without sacrificing its original quality or resolution.
We’d been trying to find creative new ways to aggregate and curate video from many different sources and get it into our workflow and processes quickly. Besides leveraging The Weather Company’s vast resources, and weather data providers like NASA and NOAA, we also receive video content from field reporters as well as citizens who have found themselves in the midst of a breaking weather story. They capture live video using their smart phones and contribute it to us via social platforms such as Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook.
What does NDI enable your editorial team to do with all the incoming footage?
Once video is on our NDI-enabled corporate VPN, our entire team—including people here in Atlanta and those working in our New York bureau—can watch all the live video feeds as they come streaming in from storm chasers, field reporters, and other sources.
We’re using NewTek Connect Pro software to create a web server, as well as a web page or URL where authorized users can go to watch as many as 16 different video feeds—as they’re streaming into our corporate VPN—in a multi-viewer fashion on their computer or another display device.
Whether we’re in the studio together or watching remotely from different locations via the web browser, we can evaluate the same raw footage in a fast collaborative way. Using instant messaging, we can discuss our options and make fast editorial decisions about what incoming content to include in our shows. If the video isn’t used within 24 hours, it’s purged from our drives to avoid amassing an unwieldy database that must be gone through at a later time.
TriCaster pulls in multiple switchable feeds from the network using NDI and NewTek Connect Pro.
What video equipment does NDI eliminate from your workflow?
For starters, NDI makes it unnecessary to have all of the video hardware associated with monitoring, ingesting and recording multiple satellite feeds, along with the satellite time and connection fees. We also don’t need converters to convert incoming video into any other formats to make them usable.
NDI essentially gives us a virtualized satellite center that replaces a video control room—including a large multiviewer monitor wall and racks and racks of routing and processing gear—with a web browser accessible from a networked computer. While off-the-shelf 32-bit/64-bit computers are sufficient, we happen to use high-end computers with fast, ample RAID storage.
NDI Scan Converter is another new software product that takes in anything on a computer screen, such as a webpage, and creates a new signal on the NDI network that can now be treated as a production source. We’re also able to manage assets in groups, putting video into different buckets depending on whether they’re public-facing, just for internal use, or other restricted access.
How do you now handle contribution video?
With respect to our field contributors, they’re still doing the same exact thing they’ve been doing for years, sending us their video via social platforms and content delivery networks (CDNs). But we’re now able to access their direct streaming feeds and repurpose that raw IP feed to a format that can be played in a media player in-house for our productions.
We’re able to really maximize and optimize those unadulterated feeds—before they’re downconverted—because our NDI software converts the full-resolution content into an NDI signal that’s immediately available to our network.
We have a computer running NewTek Connect Pro software, which grabs up to four video signals (per license) at once, converts them to the NDI protocol, and creates a localized web server of video content that anyone on our corporate LAN can watch in real-time.
An operator checks multiple video feeds coming in from NewTek Connect Pro to his desktop monitor.
How has NDI streamlined your workflow, including production processes you no longer need to do?
We’re not just doing real-time monitoring. This is real-time production where we’re literally watching incredible streaming media of weather events as they’re happening—such as tornadoes touching down, storm chaser videos, even the aftermath of severe storms that just wiped out towns.
Robinson can even pull up camera feeds on his iPhone.
We can monitor webcams in different locations, such as Miami Beach, and if a waterspout suddenly starts flying up from the water, we’re ready to record that valuable footage before others even know it’s happening. That’s the real game changer here—that our staff people can watch video of events as they are unfolding anywhere and if they see something amazing, quickly begin to record it.
Video sources can roll in from hard-wired cameras, webcams, production switchers—such as our NewTek TriCaster 8000 or two TriCaster Mini’s—as well as our two NewTek TalkShows—among other NDI-enabled video devices. Or the video can be streaming in from real-time data services like the National Weather Service or NASA, as well as user-generated content. Our team can see it all at once, on a single screen, and decide on the spot which ones to record and/or edit for use on our shows. We’re using NewTek IsoCorder Pro, another new software product, to record up to 16 real-time sources simultaneously on a single computer.
Since our digital video operation is now an end-to-end IP-driven workflow, we can even feed live video directly to our mobile or Facebook platforms. And our meteorologists, such as Ari Sarsalari, can use the NDI Telestrator tool—another new software tool—to write on or mark up the live video to illustrate their live reports. It’s mind-blowing what we’re now able to do because of NDI.
NDI Telestrator helps illustrate live reports.
Do you feel that NDI leads to a better end product and greater competitive edge?
Anytime you can cut out a middle layer of hardware and many time-consuming production steps to ingest, convert, manage and share media, you’re going to be more competitive. Instead of jumping through hoops converting media every which way and risking a loss of native quality, we’re plugging live feeds directly into our network where they’re immediately available to everyone. To me, that’s a huge win that makes us extremely competitive.
Where do you envision this technology taking you in the future?
With NewTek’s latest updates, it’s now much easier to connect to Facebook Live right from our NDI network. One thing we did over this past weekend, when it was very hot across most of the country, we had a great idea to essentially take all of our viewers to the beach for the day. On the spur of the moment, we pulled live video feeds from a couple of webcams, run by one of our partner sites, that were trained on beauty shots of Ocean City, NJ, Miami Beach, and Emerald Isle, N.C., brought those into our NDI network and streamed them live via The Weather Channel Facebook page. We have also been putting more in-depth reporting, say of Ari explaining cool weather phenomenon, on our Facebook live page.
NDI is enabling us to take in an influx of fresh, live video feeds, record and edit them to create really engaging video clips and features, and output them to our different media platforms. That takes our on-air product to a whole new level.
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1. Situation. To provide energy management policy, goals, and guidelines for Marine Corps Base (MCB) Camp Lejeune (CamLej), Marine Corps Air Station (MCAS) New River, and their tenants; hereafter referred to collectively as the "Installation." 2.
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(1) Commander's Intent (a) The policy of the Installation is to support and implement the energy conservation goals and policies as directed by higher authority. Substantial improvements can be made in increasing renewable and alternative energy generation while reducing consumption of energy without any significant impact on operations, training of commands, subordinate tenants, and the supporting establishment. Because the Marine Corps "fights as it trains" they must forge a culture of energy and water efficiency which extends to the bases and stations. Energy and water resources are essential to providing the operational support necessary to sustain and enhance combat readiness of the Marine Corps and the Installation. (b) Mandates and Goals 1. Reference (a) mandates a reduction in energy consumption per gross square foot of 20 percent below a Fiscal Year (FY) 2003 baseline value by the end of FY 2015. Reference (b) increases the goal to 30 percent reduction by the end of FY 2015. 2. Reference (b) mandates a reduction in water consumption per gross square foot of 16 percent below a FY 2007 baseline value by the end of FY 2015. Reference (c) extends the goal to 26 percent reduction in water consumption by the end of FY 2020. 3. Reference (d) mandates the increase in renewable electricity consumed to 25 percent by FY 2025. 4. Reference (e) mandates an increase in the amount of alternative energy consumed by installations to 50 percent by FY 2020. 5. Reference (f) mandates a reduction of petroleum consumption by non-tactical vehicles by 30 percent prior to FY 2020.
DEC 07 2011 (2) Concept of Operations (a) Marine Corps leadership must instill an awareness and accountability of energy, fuel, and water usage in all Installation users. Significant change in any organization cannot occur unless the Marines, Sailors, their families, and the civilian workforce are educated on the relevance of energy management to the success of the mission. (b) Marine Corps leadership must measure and improve energy and water performance. Measuring resource usage at the Installation allows them to measure progress against goals and mandates. Moreover, linking measurement to awareness programs via metering, digital dashboards, and other mechanisms reinforces education and training efforts. (c) Energy performance must be a primary consideration in all aspects of planning, decision making and execution of the Installation's mission. Energy planning includes conservation efforts through behavior change and physical improvements to facilities and infrastructure, and the implementation of alternative and renewable energy sources. (d) Marine Corps leadership must demonstrate leadership by quickly and proactively adopting new technologies. Rapid transition of promising and proven technology from research and development to operational qualification is a key indicator of a robust innovation pipeline within the Marine Corps. (e) Marine Corps leadership must ensure energy security and environmental stewardship are maintained to support the sustainment and mission of the Installation. Planning and taking steps toward total energy security enables the Installation to continue to prepare Marines for combat operations without mission interruption. b.
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(b) Measure and report Installation energy and water usage at facilities in accordance with goals and mandates. (c) Plan, program, and execute facility energy audits and resultant projects to increase energy efficiency of facilities and the generation of renewable and alternative energy in accordance with Marine Corps guidance and programs. (d) Develop and implement a building energy monitor program. (e) Formally designate an Installation Facility Energy Manager. (f) Develop and conduct energy awareness programs. (g) Minimize utility costs through demand shedding and peak shaving strategies. (h) Include consideration of energy usage, energy conservation, and' alternative energy sources in all Environmental Assessments and Environmental Impact Statements prepared under the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA). (i) Develop an Energy Security plan which addresses the continuous support of critical facilities and infrastructure during a natural or manmade disaster. (2) All Installation Departments and Tenant Commands shall: (a) Designate a Command Energy Coordinator to coordinate unit and tenant involvement and actions as part of the Installation's overall Energy Program. (b) Designate a building energy monitor as assigned by the unit or command occupying that facility. A list of building energy monitors shall be maintained by the corresponding Command Energy Coordinator. Building energy monitors shall be responsible for monitoring, reporting, and enforcing energy conservation matters at their designated facilities. This includes, but is not limited to, turning off lights during unoccupied periods, ensuring thermostats are set
DEC 07 2011 according to this Order, reporting energy waste, reporting broken or malfunctioning facility systems, and submitting recommendations for efficiency improvements, where applicable. (c) Procure energy-efficient equipment and products. All energy consuming equipment and products shall be energy star rated or Federal Energy Management Program (FEMP) approved. All vending machines shall meet energy star specifications. Purchase of non-efficient products is prohibited unless a written waiver is obtained from the Director, Installations & Environment Department, MCB CamLej. Requests for purchases of non-efficient products will only be considered if no product is available to meet technical needs. (d) Develop a plan to monitor and track fuel consumption and fuel. use by end item for tactical vehicles, equipment, and platforms. 5.
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a. The air conditioning season will begin when weather patterns and temperature forecasts warrant the need for continuous cooling as determined by the Director, Installations & Environment Department, MCB Camp Lejeune (MCB CamLej). Facilities which have no natural ventilation, electronic equipment in operation, or an occupancy level which generates sustained temperatures in excess of 85 degrees Fahrenheit will be considered for early turn-on/prolonged use of air conditioning. Final determination for eligible facilities will be made by the Director of Operations Branch, Public Works Division, MCB CamLej. A list of all facilities authorized for early turn-on/prolonged use of air conditioning will be maintained by the Operations Branch, Public Works Division. b. In accordance with reference (e), space conditioning for comfort cooling shall maintain between 76 and 80 degrees Fahrenheit dry bulb, and less than 64 degrees Fahrenheit wet bulb. During non-working hours, air conditioning may not be provided. Cooling equipment may be operated to maintain less than 70 percent Relative Humidity. Unless there is a specific requirement for ventilation, all ventilation and circulation fans shall be secured during non-working hours." c. Window air conditioning units shall not be installed in areas with existing central air conditioning. d. Portable cooling devices are prohibited in areas with existing central air conditioning. e. Requests for the installation of air conditioning in previously non-air conditioned spaces should be submitted to the Commanding Officer, Marine Corps Base (Director, Operations Branch, Public Works Division, MCB CamLej) for approval/disapproval in accordance with references (f) and (g). f. Public Works Service Desk, 451-3001/3002, shall be contacted whenever difficulties are experienced with any air conditioning system. During working hours, MCAS New River activities should call extension 449-6068.
a. The heating season will begin when weather patterns and temperature forecasts warrant the need for continuous heating as determined by the Director, Installations & Environment Department, MCB CamLej. b. Per reference (e), heating season thermostats shall be set to maintain space temperatures between 65 and 70 degrees Fahrenheit. During non-working hours, the heating temperature shall be set no higher than 55 degrees Fahrenheit.
c. Space heaters are prohibited in areas with existing central heating systems. Electric resistance heating shall not be used unless no other source of heating is available. d. Leaking steam lines and valves should be reported immediately to the Public Works Service Desk at 451-3001/3002. e. Public Works Service Desk, 451-3001/3002, shall be contacted whenever difficulties are experienced with any central heating system. During working hours, MCAS New River activities should call 449-6068. 3.
a. Shower heads shall have a maximum flow rate of 1.5 gallons per minute. Facilities not equipped with these devices shall be reported by the occupant with a standard work request. Faucets shall be equipped with 0.5 gallons per minute aerator and urinals with a maximum flow rate of 0.125 gallons per flush. b.
All hoses will be equipped with self-closing nozzles.
c. Per reference (g), the maximum hot water temperatures for domestic hot water are as follows: (1). All facilities shall be set not to exceed 140 degrees Fahrenheit for hot water storage and shall not exceed 120 degrees Fahrenheit at point of use. (2). For laundries and galleys, hot water temperatures should be maintained to minimize energy consumption to the greatest extent possible.
d. Notify Public Works Service Desk at 451-3001/3002 whenever a leaking pipe or faucet is identified. During work hours, MCAS New River activities should call 449-6068. 4.
a. As established by reference (g), lighting levels for administrative areas shall be 50 foot-candles at work stations, 30 foot-candles in work areas and 10 foot-candles in passageways. Lighting in all other areas shall be in accordance with reference (h). (1) Where possible, task lighting shall be used in lieu of general lighting. (2) All lighting shall be turned off after typical working hours and during periods of non-use. (3) a minimum.
Decorative and advertising lights shall be kept to
(4) Interior security lighting shall be minimized, consistent with security requirements. (5) Exit signs shall be of the Light Emitting Diode (LED) type and rated 10 watts or less or of a type which meets code and consumes no power. (6) Incandescent lighting shall be identified and work request submitted for changing to a more efficient type. Installation of new incandescent lighting is strictly prohibited. (7) Automatic "on-and-off" devices, such as motion sensors, shall be installed at appropriate locations, i.e., lounges, lavatories, kitchens, computer rooms, and other frequent unoccupied areas. b. Exterior lighting shall be of the highest energy efficiency for the intended use. Incandescent and High Intensity Discharge lighting shall be identified for changing to a more efficient type such as induction or Light Emitting Diode lighting.
Installation of new incandescent lighting is prohibited unless a written waiver is provided by the Public Works Officer. Exterior lighting levels are to be in accordance with reference (g). (1) General exterior lighting shall use cutoff type fixtures such that light pollution is minimized.
(2) Exterior lighting is not permitted during daylight hours. This includes ballfield lighting, area lighting, and security lighting. (3) Photocells and/or timing devices will be installed for automatic "on-and-off" control at appropriate locations, including standing lights which are used for security purposes.
(4) Lamps shall be replaced as soon as deterioration is indicated, i.e., flickering or dim, and be kept clean. (5) Public Works Service Desk, 451-3001/3002, will be contacted whenever problems are encountered with a lighting system. During working hours, MCAS New River activities should call 449-6068. 5.
a. Blinds and/or curtains shall be used whenever possible to further reduce radiation heating effects. b. All exterior doors and windows shall remain closed in all air conditioned/heated buildings. c. All computer monitors shall be turned off (powered down) at the end of the work day. computers are to be logged off and shutdown at end of workday if use permits. d. During "Energy Alert" periods, Installation personnel shall follow all energy alert messages and take aggressive conservation measures to reduce energy consumption. Notification of an "Energy Alert" will be provided by a WAN email message with instructions to follow during the alert period. An "Energy Alert" will be in effect when the marginal cost of electricity, as determined by the real-time price, is greater than four times the average rate per kWh.
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f. Facility equipment and appliances, such as large screen televisions, which consume power in "stand-by mode" shall be disconnected from the power source during periods of non-use. g. Each building shall have a designated building energy monitor as assigned by the command or unit occupying that facility. A list of building energy monitors shall be maintained by the corresponding G-4/S-4. Building energy monitors shall be responsible for monitoring, reporting, and enforcing energy conservation matters at the designated facility. This includes, but is not limited to, turning off lights during unoccupied periods, ensuring thermostats are set according to this order, reporting energy waste, reporting broken or malfunctioning facility systems, and submitting recommendations for efficiency improvements, where applicable. 6. Waivers to Conservation Standards. Temperature standards and utilization requirements established by this Order and higher authority are not intended to supersede bona fide energy requirements established by appropriate authority or dictated by prudent safety and hygienic practices. Request for waivers to energy standards by Tenant commands will be submitted to the Director, Installations & Environment Department, MCB CamLej with full justification and commanding officer's signature or that of his designated representative. 7. Reporting Energy and Water Waste. Anyone discovering cases of utility or energy waste through defect or negligence should report the information by telephone to the Public Works Service Desk, 451-3001/3002 during normal working hours. Cases of energy waste which impose immediate harm to personnel or damage to facilities or equipment, such as a ruptured steam or water line or fallen electrical wires, should be reported immediately, day or night, to the Public Works Service Desk at 451-3001/3002. 8. New Construction and Renovation Projects shall meet maximum energy and water efficiency and renewable energy requirements as mandated by references (a) through (j).
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Women's Hoop Drops LEC Opener To UMass Boston, 56-47
UMass-Boston (6-1, 1-0 LEC) 10 8 26 12 56
Keene State (1-6, 0-1 LEC) 15 14 1 17 47
Pts: Joie Grassi - 22
Reb: Raven Kelsey - 10
Ast: Lydia Vital - 8
Pts: 2 Players (#03, #14) - 13
Reb: TEAM - 10
Ast: 3 Players (#02, #03, #10) - 2
KEENE, N.H. - The Keene State College women's basketball team fell victim to a big third quarter by UMass Boston before eventually falling 56-47 in the Little East Conference opener for both teams on Saturday afternoon at Spaulding Gym.
Keene State: 1-6, 0-1 LEC
UMass Boston: 6-1, 1-0 LEC
Sandi Purcell and Lilly Shlimon led Keene State, scoring 13 points each. Purcell added five rebounds, two assists and a steal, while Shlimon also had four rebounds, two steals and an assist. Jordyn Burke had seven points, nine rebounds, two steals, a block and an assist.
Joie Grassi was the only Beacon in double-figures, but she scored an efficient 22 points (4-for-4 from three, 10-for-12 from the free throw line) to go along with four rebounds and two assists. Raven Kelsey had eight points, ten rebounds, four steals, an assist and a block, while Katie Mathieu also scored eight points.
The Beacons came out hot, scoring ten of the game's first 14 points over the first four minutes. Grassi and Kelsey each canned a triple during that span. However, the Beacons did not score again in the quarter, allowing Keene State to score 11 straight points. Purcell's three with 3:35 left in the quarter made it 10-9 and, after a Beacons turnover, two free throws from Abby Thut gave KSC their first lead of the game at 11-10. Shlimon's layup in the final ten seconds put Keene State up 15-10 after one. Neither side could find the basket in the early-going of the second quarter until Purcell made a shot from behind the arc for an 18-10 lead with 6:44 to go. The Beacons snapped KSC's extended 14-0 run with Megan Dixon's layup at the 5:05 mark, but the Owls extended the lead over the remainder of the half. Two free throws from Purcell and a triple from Emily McPadden in the final minute helped give the Owls a 29-18 halftime advantage.
UMass Boston came storming out of the halftime break, scoring the first 11 points of the third quarter, capped by a Grassi three to tie the game at 29. They didn't stop there, though, and took a 34-29 advantage on a deep shot from Fulton. Purcell's free throw got the Owls on the board in the quarter with 3:06 to go, but the Beacons scored the next ten points and led 44-30 after three. Grassi scored seven of those ten, including another three. A jumper from Tahjai Mazyck and a Grassi triple helped UMB extend their lead to 49-32 with 8:23 to go in the game. Keene State did try to get back into the game with a late 9-1 run that cut the deficit to 54-45 with 44 seconds left, but ran out of time.
Inside the Paint
Keene State shot just 27% (15-of-56) in the contest, including 5-for-21 from behind the arc (24%). The Beacons made 32% of their attempts from the field (18-of-56) and 8-of-25 from deep. Both teams were about even at the free throw line, with UMB connecting on 12-of-15 (80%) and the Owls 12-of-16 (75%). Half of the Beacons' triples and 10 of their 12 free throws were made by Grassi.
Keene State narrowly won the rebounding battle, 42-41, and committed 15 turnovers to UMB's 16.
After not winning in Keene until 2012, the Beacons have now won at Spaulding Gym in back-to-back seasons, including last year's 88-78 double overtime victory. The Owls still lead the all-time series 36-11.
Keene State goes back out on the road, making a trip to MCLA on Tuesday, December 5 at 6:00 pm.
UMass Boston will host Framingham State on the same day at 5:30 pm.
Wed, 01/15 | Women's Basketball vs. UMass-Dartmouth W, 56-50 (Final) RC | BX | V
Sat, 01/11 | Women's Basketball at Rhode Island College L, 72-38 (Final) RC | BX | V
Thu, 01/09 | Women's Basketball vs. Eastern Connecticut L, 65-47 (Final) RC | BX | V
Tue, 01/07 | Women's Basketball at Plymouth State W, 50-43 (Final) RC | BX | V
Sat, 01/04 | Women's Basketball vs. Southern Maine L, 43-41 (Final) RC | BX
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My Move Out Story: Warming the Homeless
Terri Cracchiolo
Financial Analyst, Kensington Church
Missions, Move Out
Terri doesn't do this because she has to or she should, it is life-giving to her. "Serving is a huge blessing!" she says. She encourages others to get up and move out to meet needs – "you'll find love for these people you didn't even know you had."
If you’ve spent a lot of time around Kensington lately, you may have heard the question, who are your people? In other words, what need or demographic tugs at your heart-strings? It’s the key to finding out what God has planted in you, and when you move out to meet that need, you will find yourself filled with joy!
Terri, a staff member working in Kensington’s Finance Department, answers that question easily, “My people are the homeless. In fact, when I ask friends to join me at the Soup Kitchen or Warming Center, they tease, “Yes, feed ‘Terri’s People.'”
Terri says that she pursued jobs in the field of Finance to make ends meet, but her heart longed to go into social work. “When I came to Kensington, I found outlets for what was in my heart.” For over ten years, Terri has worked for the local Warming Center in Clinton Township and Mount Clemens, which rotates locations between churches and other facilities. “We had no permanent hub for Clinton Twp campus, but as soon as we were breaking ground for the new building, I said to Sonja Maletta, Campus Director, ‘Now we can host!'” Terri was giddy over this idea and described it as “a dream come true.”
Just one mile south of the new Clinton Twp campus is a large homeless community, and Terri knows many of them by name from her years of volunteering. Within months of the new hub opening, Terri was on the phone scheduling to host the Warming Center for a week. She knew she would need an army of volunteers and donations. “I made 140 donation slips for socks, hats, hygiene products, and meal ingredients, and within two weeks every volunteer position and donation slip was filled! People were actually frustrated that they couldn’t be a part – there wasn’t room. People at CT are crazy – in the best way!”
Clinton Twp campus opened its doors on Super Bowl weekend to around 80 guests, and the game was already playing on the big screens. Terri said that this was special for the guests, that it was like being invited into something exciting. She laughed remembering how Clyde, a tall man in his 30’s, went crazy when the Patriots pulled ahead. “You bet on the game, didn’t you?” she had teased him.
Mark, 62, a homeless man Terri knows from her years of volunteering asked her, “Who’s your favorite band?” When she listed a few, including Led Zeppelin, he was thrilled, “I love Led Zeppelin too!”
Often Terri keeps the conversation light, but she also has countless eye-opening moments, such as when one guest asked, “Why not just say ‘we’re having dinner together’ instead of calling it a ‘soup kitchen?'” Treating the guests with dignity, and sharing the experience that is being human is important. “Sometimes they just need a smile or even to be called by name. And, we make sure sit down to eat with them.”
Terri said to one guest, “Joe, your name tag is upside-down!” And his quip of a response was, “That’s how I remember who I am!”
When others ask pointed questions like, ‘Why don’t they just get a job?’ Terri’s response shows the heart of Jesus: “We don’t need to concern ourselves with where they’ve been or their future, but we need to love them right now in the present.”
Terri is already looking forward to next year when Clinton Twp campus will again host the Warming Center. “I want to have the Big Game weekend again and have Super Bowl-themed food,” she says.
“I am so appreciative of the Kensington team for being onboard with me! We had a family of ten serve 100 people a hot meal – imagine that! And, another volunteer who prayed over every single bed site each night.”
Terri doesn’t do this because she has to or she should, it is life-giving to her. “Serving is a huge blessing!” she says. She encourages others to get up and move out to meet needs – “you’ll find love for these people you didn’t even know you had.”
Birmingham Campus Warming Center
Jan. 26 to Feb. 8
For the 8th year, the Birmingham campus is teaming up with Genesis Church in Royal Oak to staff a warming center that provides food, clothing and a warm place to sleep for men and women who have fallen on hard times. There are many opportunities to serve including providing dinner, packing lunches, on-site greeters and overnight hosts. Learn more and sign-up at kensingtonchurch.org/warmingcenter.
Clinton Township Campus Warming Center
Feb. 2 to Feb. 9
The Clinton Township campus is partnering with the Macomb County Warming Center to provide care for 80+ homeless men and women. There are many ways to serve the needy in our community who would otherwise be sleeping on the streets. Learn more and sign-up at kensingtonchurch.org/ctwarmingcenter.
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Perfect happiness doesn’t exist
Where does your idea of perfect happiness come from? It could be a person, a job, a financial position, or whatever great set of circumstances you can imagine. But have you ever paused to consider
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De Koer presents:
Resideny Programme '18-'19 in retrospect
artist talks and publication launch
De Koer presents: residency programme '18-'19 in retrospect
Open meeting with the residents of De Koer + publication launch
Friday 31 January 2020, 20:00-22:00
Kunsthal Gent, cinema (entrance via backdoor Lange Steenstraat)
Leendert Van Accoleyen
Bart Spitaels
Menzo Kircz & Leontien Allemeersch
Edwin Stolk
Community of Listeners (Helena Lemonnier & Mohsen Mahjoobi)
De Koer welcomes you to Kunsthal Gent, where we look back on the past year together with the residents of De Koer. After a presentation of all projects, we will present the final publication with texts by Eva Pot. On request of the residents, she entered into discussions with them over the past few months and wrote an extensive report.
Organised in Kunsthal Gent by De Koer, in the context of Tot in de Stad!
About De Koer:
De Koer is a creation and meeting place in the middle of the Brugse Poort in Ghent. De Koer is working on a collectively supported redevelopment of 'de Meibloem', a 2000 square metre historical site, as a dynamic playing field for social and artistic projects and initiatives. De Koer organizes a.o. a collective building process, community oven, a context-aware residency programme, idiosyncratic film and music programming, collective actions and a capricious café run by volunteers.
Residency programme: De Koer makes time and space to shape its site from its current state in an inquisitive way. Is it possible to think and experiment with the socio-political meaning of a place like the Koer from the perspective of art? With the residency programme De Koer wants to experiment with the changing status and appearance of art practices. Following an open call, a jury selects 5 projects in which artists develop new work in relation to the historical, social and/or architectural significance of the place. The imagination is stimulated, the field is open, the game can be played.
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Cops Say Dad, Visiting Badly Burned Son, Stole Three Game Consoles From a Hospital
Owen Good
Filed to:father of the year
A five-year-old boy playing with a cigarette lighter set his shirt on fire and went to the hospital with serious burns on Wednesday. Cops allege that his father went to the hospital's family waiting room, and consoled himself with a Wii, PlayStation and Xbox raided from a supply cabinet.
Pittsburgh police say that Jim Skursky was at UPMC Mercy Hospital to see his son, who was burned in an accident at Skursky's grilfriend's home outside of the city. A neighbor said the boy had caught his shirt on fire, burning himself on his chest, back and underarms. The neighbor put out the fire.
A reporter for WPXI-TV said Skursky made off with a "Wii, Xbox, Sony Playstation and some controllers," making this the first console heist ever to span three generations. (Two if you don't count the Wii.) I'm betting he actually grabbed a 360, PS2 and Wii, though it's possible an original Xbox or PS3 could have been involved. Who knows. It's February sweeps, and local TV news has never given a shit for reporting the actual correct names of video games or their consoles, that is well established.
When the Game has No Name, All Are to Blame
Evidently, removing scary scary violent video games from arcades is a trend now. So reports the…
Skursky is facing theft charges and a loss of eligibility for father of the year. His son has gone through surgery, though the boy's grandmother says he is doing well now.
Police: Man charged with theft after visiting son in hospital [WPXI-TV, h/t mr_raccoon]
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Grandfather Shares How Destiny Helped Save His Life
Patricia Hernandez
Filed to:Destiny
Sometimes, Twitch streamer lucent_beam decides to take on what she calls ‘The Tower Challenge,’ a game where she picks a low-level Destiny player to help out. After some research, the plan unfolds with a message.
“The reality is that a lot of people won’t respond to a random message from someone in the Tower, thus it being a ‘challenge,’ lucent_beam told Kotaku. Luckily, in this case, it worked:
The player, who had put in over 600 hours into the game, had three characters—none of which had completed a nightfall or a raid at that point. Mostly, he was playing solo, and had only recently gotten a mic to play with others. You see, this player was not like most Destiny fans. He didn’t go online to learn the ins-and-outs of how Destiny worked, as lucent_beam tells it. He was a retired man, who preferred using auto rifles because they were the most accurate to play with hand tremors. He was the sort of player who solved Destiny’s big Sleeper Simulant riddle by “working on it a couple of hours a day for a few days, just randomly entering the code via process of elimination until it worked.” Not a usual fan, but definitely a dedicated one.
As they played together, the man started sharing his life story with lucent_beam. It’s honestly heartwarming to hear how a game like Destiny had provided him comfort during hard times, and you can hear that in the video below:
“This game actually kinda saved my life,” he said. “My wife actually passed away Christmas 2014...all my family is already passed away. My son passed away nine months ago. This game keeps my mind—I’m retired, so—this game keeps my mind pretty sharp. I feel like I live here. I have lucid dreams about living here. And those are really exciting. It’s so exciting. Most exciting time of my life, being in here.”
“I know there is a strong Sherpa community in Destiny, but those always seemed to be helping people who helped themselves,” lucent_beam told Kotaku. “Somewhere out there, there are people who don’t or can’t sign up for a Sherpa raid or don’t read the subreddit. Same thing with people who stream Sherpa raids: that person needed to know to get there to play. So then I made a hobby of finding people.”
Lucent_beam says she played with the grandfather for about two hours, during which they completed a Nightfall strike. Shortly afterward, she started sharing her adventures with the grandfather on social media. The tale has gone on to catch the attention of other Destiny fans and Bungie itself. Fans were so touched by the tale that they started raising money to send the player to GuardianCon 2017, a Destiny convention:
Better yet, others have come forth with their own uplifting Destiny stories too:
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Breathtaking Works Carved In Stone
The Narragansett Times
By Amanda Roberge
Karin Sprague creates ancient art with just a chisel and mallet
SCITUATE - It seems only natural that Karin Sprague lives in a world of stone.
A long rock wall lines not only her property, but most of the quiet winding road that leads through the wooded landscape of rural Scituate. Her modest Cape Cod-style home - made entirely of stone and hosting a rustic backyard studio perfect for Sprague's work - was made some years ago by a retiree named Julian Talbot, who lived in the home until his death at age 82.
"There are plenty of people in the area who, once they've discovered us, will stop by with friends who are visiting because they want to show them the place," she said.
More than an artist, more than a craftswoman, the professional stone carver lives, works and breathes her passion. And though stone is generally perceived as being cold and unfeeling, the woman behind this gentle trade is quite the opposite.
Gentle and kind, giving and spiritual, Sprague acts as a counselor, a healer and a friend to those who come to her with dreams of honoring their deceased loved ones. Her warmth and softness are in sharp contrast to the cold, smooth slate and stone with which she works.
Asked how long she has been practicing this ancient art, the answer is simple and yet infinitely complex. "Three lifetimes at least," she says with an apologetic sincerity. Frankly, it's easy to believe that one could not possibly master the skill in the way Sprague has in one lifetime alone.
Using only a chisel and a mallet, Sprague creates breathtaking works of beauty that pay fitting tribute to the lives of the people whose remains they keep company for all eternity.
Sprague is one of only a dozen artisans in the United States who practices the ancient art of 18th Century gravestone carving, and her finished pieces are one in a million. She has welcomed into her studio a select handful of other carvers, several of whom have acted as her apprentice at one time and had what it takes to stick around.
Together, they spend the days in the warmth of her woodstove drinking green tea and listening to music as they fulfill project orders. Sprague has over a full year's worth of work waiting to be done, as each piece can take months to create.
At the root of her soul, she is a lover of letters and the beauty that lies in the strokes and movements used to create them.
Through her work, which is respected internationally thanks primarily to word of mouth, Sprague breathes new life into grieving family members - and ultimately into her own being..
Somehow, Sprague's craft has brought her to a place of peace and healing that it would be hard for most mortals to even begin to imagine.
"People come here and they say, 'My God, I've never seen anything like this,'" she said, adding that many of her clients work with her while alive so that they can see the beauty that will mark them for all eternity.
Vermont print artist Sabre Field commissioned her to make a gravestone that would allow friends and loved ones to feel Sabre was still with them. The result is an arc-shaped smooth stone using a beautiful inlaid wild-flower design that Field herself created, which will someday allow visitors to the gravestone to create rubbings to take home.
Sprague contends that the business end of her passion "doesn't come naturally," but she has continually attached herself to successful artists for guidance. She makes her reputation on her work and her goodness, and so far her career is blooming.
Through it all, Sprague remains true to her humble nature and her desire to give her clients individual attention and first-rate artwork.
"You'll never see a sign at the end of my driveway," she said.
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Why is Icelandic considered harder to learn for English speakers than other North Germanic languages?
Multiple sources, including this website, claim that Icelandic is a particularly difficult language to learn for native English speakers.
Of particular note, this source claims Icelandic is substantially more difficult to learn than other closely related North Germanic languages, including Danish, Norwegian and Swedish.
So why is Icelandic considered harder to learn than the other North Germanic languages?
(Note: the original question used the term Scandinavian languages instead of North Germanic languages.)
I already am aware of at least part of the answer, which is Icelandic's relative lack of loan words. I don't think it's the complete answer though, which is why I asked the question.
language-comparison germanic-languages icelandic
GwenGwen
I already am aware of at least part of the answer, which is Icelandic's relative lack of loan words. I don't think it's the complete answer though, which is why I asked the question. – Gwen Apr 10 '16 at 18:43
This link is probably more interesting than the article on wikipedia. – None Apr 11 '16 at 9:11
I first thought of how difficult is to speak icelandic when I read some of the names they gave to volcanoes, like Eyjafjallajökull or Reykjaneshryggur. – gmauch Apr 12 '16 at 2:21
According to Beyond Highbrow – Robert Lindsay,
Icelandic is very hard to learn, much harder than Norwegian, German or Swedish. Part of the problem is pronunciation. The grammar is harder than German grammar, and there are almost no Latin-based words in it. The vocabulary is quite archaic. Modern loans are typically translated into Icelandic equivalents rather than borrowed fully into Icelandic.
There are four cases: nominative, accusative, dative and genitive – as in German – and there are many exceptions to the case rules, or “quirky case,” as it is called. In quirky case, case can be marked on verbs, prepositions and and adjectives. The noun morphology system is highly irregular. Articles can be postfixed and inflected and added to the noun. In fact, Icelandic in general is highly irregular, not just the nouns. Verbs are modified for tense, mood, person and number, as in many other IE languages (this is almost gone from English).
There are up to ten tenses, but most of these are formed with auxiliaries as in English. Icelandic also modifies verbs for voice – active, passive and medial. Furthermore, there are four different kinds of verbs – strong, weak, reduplicating and irregular, with several conjugation categories in each division. Many verbs just have to be memorized. Adjectives decline in an astounding 130 different ways, but many of these forms are the same.
In essence, Icelandic is an archaic and isolated languages with an immensely tricky pronunciation, as well as completely unfamiliar and irregular sentence structure, vocabulary, and grammar.
Personally, though I suspect the fact that while Swedish and other Scandinavian languages influenced the development of modern English because the Vikings, who invaded the British Isles several times, were from Scandinavia, Iceland remained completely isolated from Britannia. Since Iceland had no influence over English, it seems logical that it would be more difficult than other Scandinavian languages.
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The survey text doesn't seem to be available on the site, but it seems they just asked people which language they thought hardest. I don't think that's a good way to compare difficulty because it doesn't control for availability of resources or distance from a learner's L1. Also, I don't think the writeup on the survey is very good. First he says it's a very good survey but then tosses Swedish off the list because it "actually seems to be a pretty easy language to learn", even though it "has an irrational orthographic system", "a huge vowel inventory", and "hundreds of irregular verbs". – zzxjoanw Apr 14 '16 at 21:27
@zzxjoanw Swedish really is one of the easiest languages for an English speaker to learn. That said, I agree with you that the post is not all that great. – Gwen Apr 19 '16 at 19:59
I second the concerns about listing Swedish as difficult. My experience is with Norwegian, but it's really just like a more sensible version of English. – Azor Ahai Apr 25 '16 at 17:33
I think the quote above exaggerates the situation a bit, but is the most correct of the answers posted so far. Having learned Danish, Norwegian, and Icelandic (Old Norse) I can say that Danish and Norwegian are surprisingly similar to English. Sure, you have two genders and the adjectives get some endings due to gender, but that's really about it. Icelandic, like German, has 4 cases and full set of verb conjugations for subjunctive mood which is all but gone from modern English/Danish/Norwegian/etc. The grammar itself is more complex, but really on par with German. – S. Burt May 30 '18 at 16:31
@S.Burt Could you write an answer based on your experience? – Tommi Jan 21 '19 at 18:40
Other people have already commented on why Icelandic is hard for English speakers.
Here are some reasons why it is easy compared to other languages:
Icelandic has a relatively huge pop culture, some original and some in translation. When a language learner can spend hours listening to Icelandic pop, watching Icelandic TV and Movies, reading Icelandic comics, then it is easier than a more analytic (i.e. without conjugations and declensions) language. When specifically comparing against other Scandinavian languages, the quantity of language-learner pop culture material is comparable.
Icelandic uses transparent derivational morophology extensively. By this I mean you very frequently can guess a word's meaning from it's parts. In Swedish, like English, many of these parts have eroded down to where you can't recognize them. Goodbye used to be "God be with you", "varsågod" AFAIK used to be a whole phrase too, I think the Icelandic equivalent is "gerðu svo vel" which is reasonably parsable.
Another factor is if the people prefer to speak to you in English or the language you are trying to learn. In some countries, it is difficult to get people to speak to you in your lousy (Swedish/Norwegian) when they could speak in English instead. Icelandic plays a big part in the cultural identity and on the continuum of preferences, Icelanders are more likely to prefer to speak to language learners in Icelandic. (Russians, I've notice, would rather talk to you in your bad Russian than in mutually good English, a very good situation for the language learner.)
Finally, it's a small language and the learners don't learn unless they are really motivated. This compares to the language learner community for French, which in the US is overrun by people with only a casual connection to it because they took it in high school. Being surrounded by highly motivated learners is a huge help with motivation.
I've got nothing to reference except a few years running an Icelandic study group/meetup.
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The first thing that comes to mind is that in Norwegian and Danish, for example, verbs are only conjugated according to tense, and are the same for every person - this renders the language even simpler in the sense than most other languages - e.g. Jeg sover, du sover, han sover, vi sover, etc..., while in Icelandic that is not the case. Oh yeah by the way Icelandic also has four cases according to which pronouns (and maybe even other types of words) are declined - something that also happens in German and which is commonly referenced as something which makes it hard -, and the other Scandinavian languages don't.
wetwet
Then there's one thing you're forgetting: actual modern Icelandic and fast-spoken Icelandic. I'm no genius in the verbs and tenses and whatnot but I can tell you this: Icelandic gets harder by the minute.
English is influencing Icelandic very much in the modern world (especially for teens and kids with phones) so it becomes harder, every minute, as Icelandic adaptations of English words (though mostly swear / profanity words).
Fast speaking is also a thing. You might study for months learning a few sentences but when your visit to Iceland finally comes you realize no one understands you; because Icelandic words are always merging and being shortened. A sentence or phrase might have five words but you merge two together and one is so short it barely makes a sound so it ends up sounding like three words.
Also, don't be fooled by the names of volcanoes or glaciers; we Icelanders love to mess with foreigners trying to say Eyjafjallajökull. I say this as a human born on Earth on Iceland and have lived in Iceland my whole (miserable) life.
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Your answer explains why Icelandic may be hard to learn, but not why it is harder than other North Germanic languages. – IkWeetHetOokNiet♦ Oct 13 '17 at 12:17
I don't know Icelandic, but I do know it differentiates aspiration rather than voicing (which I imagine would be nigh impossible for a non-linguist to learn, I've completely failed myself in getting my family members to be able to hear aspirated consonants). The reason its so hard is because aspirated consonants appear as positional allophones of voiceless consonants in English. This means that for your average English speaker, their brain is per-programmed to perceive aspirated and voiceless consonants as sounding identical.
Also, it has a case system, which most people can't seem to wrap their heads around. German does too, but its pronunciation isn't really that exotic. Personally, I had more problems with the consonant clusters than anything else when it came to pronouncing German. I personally never found case systems to be that hard, though I have noticed that most people struggle with the accusative case of Esperanto...
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Posts Tagged ‘red queen’
More awesome July releases!
Posted: July 12, 2016 in book birthday, new release, Uncategorized
Tags: alice, christina henry, diana pharaoh francis, fantasy, horror, path, red queen
Before I even get into new releases – and July is an incredible month for them! – I want to give huge shout outs to N.K. Jemisin for her World Fantasy Award Nominee THE FIFTH SEASON and to Genevieve Cogman, whose novel THE INVISIBLE LIBRARY has just come out in the US to great acclaim and was one of Good Morning America’s beach read recommendations this past week!
And now, the new releases. Already this month we’ve had PAPER AND FIRE by Rachel Caine, MIDNIGHT SERENADE by Alli Sinclair and TEMPTING THE DRAGON by Karen Whiddon. Today we have one all-new book – RED QUEEN by Christina Henry, sequel to her hit novel ALICE – and three exciting reissues – the Path novels by Diana Pharaoh Francis, her first-ever trilogy. Check them out! (And later this month, we have SMASH & GRAB by Amy Christine Parker and RED RIGHT HAND by Levi Black, but now I’m getting ahead of myself!)
RED QUEEN by Christina Henry (US: B&N, Amazon; UK: Titan Books)
The author of Alice takes readers back down the rabbit hole to a dark, twisted, and fascinating world based on the works of Lewis Carroll…
The land outside of the Old City was supposed to be green, lush, hopeful. A place where Alice could finally rest, no longer the plaything of the Rabbit, the pawn of Cheshire, or the prey of the Jabberwocky. But the verdant fields are nothing but ash—and hope is nowhere to be found.
Still, Alice and Hatcher are on a mission to find his daughter, a quest they will not forsake even as it takes them deep into the clutches of the mad White Queen and her goblin or into the realm of the twisted and cruel Black King.
The pieces are set and the game has already begun. Each move brings Alice closer to her destiny. But, to win, she will need to harness her newfound abilities and ally herself with someone even more powerful—the mysterious and vengeful Red Queen…
Path series: PATH OF FATE (B&N, Amazon), PATH OF HONOR (B&N, Amazon), PATH OF BLOOD (B&N, Amazon)
I’ve put only the cover copy for PATH OF FATE below to avoid any spoilers, but trust me when I say you’ll want the whole series!
Unlikely heroine Reisil and her goshawk companion face their unexpected destiny in this captivating first novel of an epic fantasy trilogy.
Orphaned by her mother and passed from family to family in the village of Kallas in the land of Kodu Riik, Reisil feels as if she will never truly belong. But her training as a tark, or healer, offers her the promise of acceptance by the townsfolk, and as her talents emerge, it appears she will finally be able to hold her head high.
But fate has another path in store: A goshawk named Saljane swoops into her life, and Reisil discovers that she is able to communicate telepathically with the animal. This is an undeniable sign that Reisil has been chosen by Lady Amiya, the goddess of Kodu Riik, to become an ahalad-kaaslane—a guardian of the land who must live a life of constant travel and forgo the very bonds of family and community the girl healer so desires.
Though the role of ahalad-kaaslane is a noble one, Reisil cannot bear the thought of losing the ties with society she has worked so hard to form. She rejects the Lady’s appointment, ignoring the goshawk no matter how persistently it follows her. But when a kidnapping plot breaks a treaty with the neighboring country of Patverseme, Reisil realizes the sentient bird of prey is the only creature capable of tracking the traitors down and saving Kodu Riik from the evils of war.
Reluctantly, Reisil accepts her destiny as an ahalad-kaaslane, and embarks on a dangerous pursuit of the kidnappers—and a perilous trek of self-discovery—in order to save two kingdoms.
A feminist fantasy of honor and perseverance that features a special soul-to-soul bond with a blessed animal, Path of Fate was nominated for the Mary Roberts Rinehart Award.
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General Discussion / Re: Meat cubes are weird and kind of gross.
I always wished we could get an art style like this ("Door Kickers"), especially for the pawns. It's probably the coolest top down sort of art style out there, well animated too.
Outdated / Re: [A15] Mars (v2.0.1) Martian colony builder - now with air!
Dubwise56,
Just wanted to say that this is a really amazing mod, the air system adds such an interesting and deep layer to gameplay that I am actually astounded that I've never considered nor seen a suggestion for this as a modded or base-game feature. This pretty much makes Planetbase a waste of disk space on my PC now. The only thing that is missing from Rimworld that Planet Base has is a system for water gathering and use.
Very very good contribution man. Good work!
Ideas / Re: Water System In Rimworld
Quote from: skinicism on July 27, 2016, 11:40:36 PM
Due to the natural age gap between stated age and actual
age of each colonist you have to wonder whether they
were from colonies that even trained them to urinate/defecate
(since one has to assume that they've been frozen and become
dependent on implants to do everything for them- many of them
being devices that may allow them to extract moisture from blood
or from the air).
What. . .
Why would your society need to train you to urinate or defecate. . . It is a basic human function. IF somehow, they had an implant or what have you. . . It needs to be an actual implant (mechanically). Not all humans are from such high tech worlds.
Though I find it interesting, the idea of a technology that you could implant in your colonist to remove their need to shit or piss. How would that work?
Ideas / Re: Berserk colonists need non lethal solution
I think the real issue is that the system suggests that our colonists, and humans in general, are a bunch of fragile and unstable individuals. Don't get me wrong, I enjoy the mental/emotional aspects of the game. However, there should be a wider spectrum of bonuses and penalties to colonist happiness and unhappiness. As it stands, humans seem to have been all raised in some feminist liberal society composed of individuals with some form of depression or anxiety disorder.
Ideas / Re: Prepare Carefully integration
Quote from: keylocke on July 27, 2016, 05:16:35 AM
i think i said this before in another similar thread, but the only reason i can think of why prep carefully isn't integrated is coz of the kickstarter backers who paid for custom characters, since adding prep carefully the way EDB made it would essentially be like letting players create their own custom characters for free.
as a compromise, instead of custom stats, i'd be content if tynan just adds the feature to customize how each character would look. (ie : change face shape, change skin color, change hair type, change hair color. but not body type, since it's connected to background traits) passions, traits (but not background traits, since background traits are part of the custom characters bought by some kickstarter backers)
^ i think those changes are doable since iirc, those things aren't included in the custom characters created by kickstarter backers. so these changes should not affect their purchase.
of course, the randomize button should still be there and should ALWAYS be there for people who prefers totally random.
I don't think the improvement of the game should be limited by the kickstarter. Besides, those custom characters can still be spawned in game with the integration of the prepare carefully. They are there natively, they spawn in the world without player intervention. That is reward enough, I think - they are still there, where as a character you make yourself will only spawn in that specific way if you create it during the 'prepare carefully' portion of the game. It won't show up any other time.
As far as I can tell, the traits, passions, equipment, appearance, age, and skills are all random when a backed character is spawned. The only thing that remains the same are the backgrounds and name. Furthermore, I'm pretty sure more than one of the same backed character can spawn in a single game, which is silly.
Finally. . . There is like zero quality control when it comes to backgrounds. In my opinion, there should be a built in editor to add new backgrounds/traits, as well as to remove backgrounds/traits (or at least keep them from being used). So many bad bad bad backgrounds - if such a tool were to be made, pretty please allow us to edit the ones already present as well!
Long story short: Don't punish us for the sake of the kickstarter. . . If this is the case.
Another thing: This sort of stuff would be cool for the workshop. Importing player made traits/backgrounds.
This genre is about tedium. Games are about challenge.
My take on it, is that it adds another layer of complexity, which in turns makes the strategic element of colony building more challenging. I find challenge to be interesting, so long as it makes sense. Water makes sense, while being hounded by dozens, hundreds, or thousands of "raiders" several times a year doesn't.
Water provides an additional basic need. Water provides options for hygiene. Water allows for more complex agriculture. The list goes on. . .
On the matter of timescale, I agree with Mister Keylocke, and I've said this many times in the past. Time Scale is one of the biggest deficiencies of this game, and the one of the greatest hindrances to the simulation of nearly all elements of the game.
Rather than regurgitate things I've been saying since like. . . Forever. . . Take a gander at this thread:
https://ludeon.com/forums/index.php?topic=16559.0
In that thread, I go over timescales, using numbers broken down quite well (if I say so myself). One thing I dont cover, I think, is fast foward speeds. Because fast forward speeds could eliminate the need to skip months by allowing greater control over how fast we can fast foward.
Another thing I go over is tile size, and movement speed. Pawns should move much faster at the base speed, considering that each tile is a measly 3-5 square feet.
Ect. Ect.
Ideas / Re: Anti-sniper siege with off-the-shelf elements
I agree with Kegereneku on this. Better AI would be preferable.
On the other hand. . . Fog of War. Fog of war and Line of Sigh would make combat much more interesting! Think it meshes well with the spirit of this. My ideas on this, from previous posts:
https://ludeon.com/forums/index.php?topic=20219.msg221244#msg221244
If raiders did build, if they continue to bomb and such, I think we need FoW/LoS. They need to be able to see us, we need to be able to see them. The utter confusion when shells start exploding on your base due to a lack of diligence in maintaining awareness of your territory... Would be so beautiful.
Ideas / Re: UI Graphical Armor Slot
I agree one-hundred percent. I actually wrote a suggestion similar to this a long time ago.
A good suggestion that has been beaten to death. I agree one-hundred percent that the next logical step in the evolution of the simulation aspect of the game, would be a system for water as a need.
I think I wrote a suggestion for this the other day. . .
At any rate, I agree, there is no reason why this shouldn't be in the base game, considering the other things that were given to us from mods were integrated into the base game with this version (Much of EdB's Work).
Like others have said, how does this not fit in with the game considering the inclusion of a scenario editor? It is the obvious next step or evolution. It will give more control over the start people want. Why is that bad? With this and the scenario editor, people can start however they wish. It has absolutely no negative effect on anyone, and nothing but a positive effect. Even those who wish a more hardcore or "classic" start can still have such, and even more so.
Ideas / Re: Please remove human pawns eating corpses.
Quote from: gmillar on July 21, 2016, 05:31:35 AM
People don't go berserk when they're forced to turn to cannibalism, there's plenty of historical evidence of that. Actually, people don't really go berserk. It's incredibly rare. The vast majority of humans do not have it in them in any way. It's a 1 in 10 million kind of thing.
I second this. However, when someone does go berserk, the chances of "infecting" other people is certainly a "thing". Eating corpses ritually or as a mean of celebrating conquest has been documented among many cultures. People tend to eat what is available and most satisfying at that moment. In a time of famine, some might turn to eating rats, dogs, or horses that they would have otherwise not done. If someone is starving and the only option is a corpse, while it may not be ideal, is their only option. I imagine someone could get over the fact they are consuming a human corpse when nothing else is available, especially if the group supports one another. Doing so when you are by yourself would be considerably easier, while objections of a majority might make it a very difficult thing to do. If it isn't in your tradition, consuming someone you know would be very hard, while consuming a stranger (especially one that meant you harm) would be easier.
Ideas / Re: I want more "Weird and Spacey" Stuff
I would suggest you take a look at this:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1pIZyKif0bFbBWten4drrm7kfSSfvBoJPgG9-ywfN8j8/pub
It will give you an idea of what he is and is not willing to implement into the lore. It also explains some things current within the lore.
I'm of the same opinion of you, the lore is extremely lacking and the exclusion of certain sci-fi staples is truly depressing and limiting. We must rely on the modding community to perhaps explore the most interesting elements of the sci-fi genre. This may very well be for the best, because if the base game forced a certain type of sci-fi, some might not enjoy it. Tynan is giving us the framework, the skeleton and it's muscles, allowing modders to "skin" it as they wish.
Ideas / Re: Separate sexuality from the trait system.
Quote from: Ramsis on July 21, 2016, 09:05:39 AM
HEY VAGABOND
Can you stop calling things deviant for literally no reason? If you're trying to play the "well it's not normal" card I'd like you to look at history and how plenty of people handle it before saying it's past the norm.
"Sexual deviance, and what is defined as sexually deviant, is culturally and historically specific. This concept refers to behaviors that involve individuals seeking erotic gratification through means that are considered odd, different, or unacceptable to either most or influential persons in one's community."
There is no deviancy at this point. The Romans were notorious for bending each other over from time to time and loving up some butt, historically lesbians have been supported through multiple religions as well as the general understanding that men have always been pervs and love to watch meaning that stigma normally goes out the window. We're here talking about same sex interactions, which in this day and age are pretty commonplace/norm; now you want to argue on the forums about why you're watching a colonist make love to the colony dog, or why he's jackin' it in the corner dressed like a hotdog then we'll talk but you're slinging words at this point and it seems rather dumb to just let you do it without making sure you understand what you're actually saying.
It is deviant, because, biologically speaking, we evolved to reproduce sexually between a male and female. Deviance isn't a bad thing, other primates display deviant sexual behaviors. If for some reason, a person has deviant sexual habits, it isn't a cause for alarm.
Your quote, I don't understand how this champions the lashing you are attempting to deal me (unjustly). How does that not apply to my stance? Is a man fornicating with another man odd? Check, but accepted. Is it different then the majority of our species? Check, but again, accepted. Is it unaccepted? There are at least as many, but probably a great deal more people who are strictly against it than there are people who practice such behaviors. Then there are a great deal many people who find it unacceptable to themselves, but don't care if others do it. Again, there are at least as many of them as there are people who are sexually deviant, if not more. So, tell me, how is that quote not in support of my position?
As for the Romans. . . Or other such examples of sexual deviancy. . . While I imagine we could brainstorm a list of people who we could apply labels such as gay or lesbian to, are you so sure that in these cultures or time periods, these people even considered themselves as such? That they were simply hedonistic and enjoying a romp in a moment of ecstasy is more likely. A priestess of some pagan religion might perform deviant sexual acts with another woman, but do either of these women consider themselves lesbians or bi-sexual? Or are they simply women, doing their duty to their god? Would a primate consider itself bisexual, simply because he decided to have sexual intercourse with a primate of the same sex - or gay/lesbian at that? Or is it simply doing it because it is there, but at the end of the day, it understand it's biological and troop obligation?
In the end, they are all acting in a deviant manner, one that their physiology doesn't promote - though it may support such things, as creative use of non-promoting orifices or appendages may be used creatively for sexual stimulation.
Finally, you have me pegged poorly, given we have cannibalism and a select group of deviant sexual forms, I wouldn't be opposed in the least to beastiality or colonists pleasuring themselves. I'm not against sexual deviancy in the least, I accept other peoples practices, even if I do not engage in them myself. Just as I accept other's opinions or viewpoints, even if I do not agree with them.
My only desire is for the game to be as realistic as possible in it's simulation of humanity, combat, water, electricity, construction, time, ect.
Quote from: PocketNerd on July 20, 2016, 07:01:47 PM
Quote from: Vagabond on July 20, 2016, 05:20:33 PM
First part is true. However, with those cultures that devolved (advanced, and perhaps devolved again), do you think something as simple as the need to procreate was left out? Only two technology levels, from what I can tell, seem capable of maintaining their population in the face of overwhelming numbers of sexually deviant individuals.
"Sexually deviant individuals"?
"Overwhelming numbers"?
Primitive tribes of hunter gatherers wouldn't be able to sustain themselves with large populations of deviant characters as they are, in general, of smaller numbers. The gene pool requires additional contribution to prevent defects.
I'm convinced now, that removing sexuality from traits may very well be the best thing. Instead just making it another, separate statistic. However, I also believe that the numbers reflect whatever is required (based on technology level) for the continuance of humans through procreation. The only issue I see, when it comes to higher tech levels increasing the amount of deviants, is that the technology actually makes up for the lack of standard procreation. What this means is that deviant couples could still be fertilized artificially and deviancy loses it's usefulness as a form of population control.
You're arguing from a false premise, i.e. that a society would fail if a non-trivial fraction did not reproduce every generation. While that would certainly be true if NOBODY reproduced, historically the hard caps on population size and growth haven't come from how many people are having heterosexual sex or how often. It's also worth noting raising children takes a lot of time and effort, and the role of kin selection in our species is significant — e.g. even if you never have children, but help raise your niece and nephew, you're still contributing to the survival of your own genes. (Interestingly, this may be a contributor to why humans survive so long past breeding age when most animals don't — if grandma and grandpa help take care of all their grandchildren, even though they can't have any more children of their own, they're still contributing to the success of their specific bloodlines and also the tribe overall, most of whom are also likely to be relatives.)
Also, would you mind not calling gay, bi, and trans people "deviants"? Thanks.
Sexually deviant is, by definition, a proper way to refer to such individuals, I don't understand your dislike of the term. Sexually, refering to sexual habits, and deviant or deviating from the norm. I refuse to pander to those whom become offended by such trivial things. I'll continue to use the terminology I deem appropriate, it isn't as if I am using explicit language or derogatory terms.
When I said overwhelming numbers, I was referring to the fact that glitterworld and urbworld cultures are capable of artificial insemination, vat growing and/or cloning. Through this, every member of their society could theoretically be sexually deviant with no effect on the gene pool or the continuation of the species.
At the same time, indworlders, midworlders, caveworlders, ect, couldn't cope with having large populations of deviant individuals.
My post was in response to another's, in context, you wouldn't so easily be able to refute my stance as being based upon false premise. What I gathered from the posts before mine, the other posters were suggesting that regardless of the technology level of the culture in it's current state, since it is so far into the future and post human diaspora into space, that sexual deviancy would be normal and not even on anyone's mind. I disagreed with that, and suggested that perhaps urb/glitterworld societies might have continued in that tradition, but those that devolved or evolved only to devolve culturally, would have had their views devolve naturally as well.
"While that would certainly be true if NOBODY reproduced, historically the hard caps on population size and growth haven't come from how many people are having heterosexual sex or how often."
I would like to see your evidence for this claim, because personally, I can't fathom a historical example where population isn't governed by heterosexual sex. Historically, it was the only way to have children. So the amount of people coupling, and how often they were able to (successfully), directly impacts the population. If you are just referring to region stability, surplus, and health, then you might as well conjure yourself a red herring, because that is a given. Regardless of such factors, it would still be the responsibility of males and females to copulate naturally. To recover from periods of rampant famine or disease (in which child mortality is high), males and females would need to copulate and reproduce is greater numbers to return a gain on population. Regional Stability is a vast category that can mean anything from natural disaster to war. Surplus and the curbing of famine or disease would allow the warrior caste to be replenished to maintain a fighting force.
The final part of your post is interesting, and accurate, however I don't see the relevance. Were you suggesting that deviant relatives would serve a useful role as caretakers? If so, then the same can be done by non-deviant relatives. It is common knowledge that among almost, if not all cultures, communal child rearing was practiced in some form. Even by the community as a whole, when communal child rearing began to fade, you still had familial child rearing. Eventually is was, for the most part replaced by the nuclear family. As I said though, non-deviant relatives are just as capable of filling this role as deviant relatives. Would deviant relatives or community members be ideally suited for this? Sure, however deviant folk are just as capable of having highly prized and useful skills and could still better serve utilizing them rather than caring for children.
That is neither here nor there, as we were (i thought) speaking about the ratios of deviants to non-deviants, and further break down the ratios of one form of sexual deviancy to another. This way we can formulate, and agree upon the numbers and make a unified suggestion to Tynan. This way he knows what we want.
Quote from: DariusWolfe on July 19, 2016, 06:00:54 PM
Not a bad first post, Gladeflower.
Mostly I opened the post window to address the claim that we're dealing with people from all eras of humanity, because it's massively false. I mean, I get what you meant to say: we've got primitives, transhumanism and every spectrum in between, but it's all one era; Post-Earth diaspora.
Humanity developed on Earth well past our current era, and developed cryptosleep and semi-reliable interstellar travel. It's conceivable that we managed to stomp out homophobia along the way.
It's also possible that we didn't, or the far-flung seeds of humanity devolved to less enlightened views.
But honestly, that's nether here, not there. We're not talking about futuristic attitudes toward homosexuality, bisexuality, etc. We're talking about how they exist within the playable portion of the game, and how that portrayal impacts purple people playing that game in the here and now.
Imagine if everyone practice some form of deviancy in a culture. You'd have to hope that the homosexual male considered the transgender female who believes she is a man would procreate with each other. This relies on the female-male being interested in males still, not females, and the homosexual man being attracted to a female that has the appearance and "soul" of a man, but still has female parts.
Or as another example: a man who is okay with bestiality, procreating with a woman who believes she has the soul of a cat http://goo.gl/5YHVbR . This too assumes that the woman-cat is interested in human males, and not male cats.
I suppose in less enlightened cultures, social pressure could still force the marriage of homosexuals with a heterosexual, or even a homosexual of another gender. . . In situations like that, we'd still get the contribution. This would actually be an interesting mechanic in the event of children being implemented, forcing procreation/marriage under the threat of expulsion from the community. Mothers and father's could pressure children into productive relationships for the benefit of the communities' population.
Religion could be another form of social pressure, if such religions exist, which would make sense for certain technology levels. Since those doctrines were created for a reason within historical human society.
All interesting mechanics to consider for the game, though.
Quote from: Kashipoi on July 20, 2016, 03:01:26 PM
Pawns are definitely not all white, and given how far in the future rimworld is and the strange way humanity is spreading it's possible that almost no one seen in game actively has any traces of old earth cultural races to begin with.
My thoughts exactly, a good point.
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Journal of Scientific Computing
August 2014 , Volume 60, Issue 2, pp 313–344 | Cite as
Optimal Strong-Stability-Preserving Runge–Kutta Time Discretizations for Discontinuous Galerkin Methods
Ethan J. Kubatko
Benjamin A. Yeager
David I. Ketcheson
First Online: 29 October 2013
Discontinuous Galerkin (DG) spatial discretizations are often used in a method-of-lines approach with explicit strong-stability-preserving (SSP) Runge–Kutta (RK) time steppers for the numerical solution of hyperbolic conservation laws. The time steps that are employed in this type of approach must satisfy Courant–Friedrichs–Lewy stability constraints that are dependent on both the region of absolute stability and the SSP coefficient of the RK method. While existing SSPRK methods have been optimized with respect to the latter, it is in fact the former that gives rise to stricter constraints on the time step in the case of RKDG stability. Therefore, in this work, we present the development of new “DG-optimized” SSPRK methods with stability regions that have been specifically designed to maximize the stable time step size for RKDG methods of a given order in one space dimension. These new methods represent the best available RKDG methods in terms of computational efficiency, with significant improvements over methods using existing SSPRK time steppers that have been optimized with respect to SSP coefficients. Second-, third-, and fourth-order methods with up to eight stages are presented, and their stability properties are verified through application to numerical test cases.
Discontinuous Galerkin Runge–Kutta Strong-stability-preserving
The first and second author acknowledge support by National Science Foundation Grants DMS-0915118 and DMS-1217218.
Appendix: Shu–Osher Form Coefficients of the New Runge–Kutta Methods
See Tables 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20 and 21.
SSPRK(3,2)
\(\alpha _{il}\)
\(\mathcal {C}=1.893921369918281\)
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by: Sunnie J. Groeneveld and Christian Langenegger
Zurich is an innovation hotspot abuzz with many great founders pushing forward novel business ideas and digital technologies. Learn how to found and launch a startup in this amazing city.
Zurich is Switzerland’s largest city and often places in the top three of the Mercer report for most livable cities. This city is also constantly pushing the boundary of innovation: ETH Zurich is the highest ranked technical university in continental Europe with a strong spin-off tradition, Google has its largest engineering office outside of Mountain View, the campus of IBM Research Zurich is home to two Nobel prizes, Disney set up its only European site in this city and a host of bitcoin and blockchain startups are headquartered in what has been dubbed “CryptoValley”, potentially on the brink of reshaping the financial system as we know it.
This blend of livability, finance and innovation makes Zurich ripe for entrepreneurial success. On a broader scope, Zurich is at the heart of an economy, which according to a recent EY Digitization survey leads the league tables when it comes to investment into and positive outlook on digital technologies. Learn more about the advantages and challenges of founding a startup in the heart of Europe.
GPS Direction: Zurich
Advantages Of Starting Up In Zurich:
High-Tech Ecosystem: Switzerland is ranked the most innovative and competitive economy in the world.
Access to Talent: Thanks to the apprenticeship system many young people already have hands-on experience early on. Zurich is also home to two globally renowned universities – the ETH (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology) and UZH (University of Zurich).
Privacy and Data Security: For long Switzerland has been known as a country with strict privacy laws, also for data privacy. This has made Switzerland a hub for companies to locate their servers and store customer data. The Swiss military has also started selling old bunkers, which some companies have purchased to act as server farms.
Availability of Capital: Switzerland is home to 15 Fortune 500 companies and hundreds of head offices for EMEA and other areas. These companies are keen on investing in startups. Different government bodies have also set up funds for new companies. On top of that the Swiss themselves have the highest disposable incomes in the world.
High Quality of Life: Since 2012, Switzerland has been at the top of the UN’s World Happiness Report. According to the Economist’s Where-To-Be-Born Index (formerly Quality-of-Life Index), Switzerland will be heading the index in terms of health, safety and prosperity in the coming years.
Political Stability and Protection of Law: Switzerland is a constitutional democracy and has a long tradition of voting. Switzerland also ranks 4th best country for the protection of intellectual property.
Bureaucratic efficiency: Switzerland is well known for its bureaucratic simplicity and efficiency, offering convenient public services, most of which are already digitalized (E-Government).
Multilingualism: The four national languages of Switzerland are German, French, Italian and Romansh. Furthermore, it has become increasingly common to use English as the business and administrative language.
Cultural diversity: The City of Zurich has a population of about 380,000, one third of which come from more than 160 countries.
Location: The rail network make cities like Milan, Paris, Frankfurt and Munich accessible within four hours. Zurich Airport, the second highest rated European airport, also makes travel between Zurich and other metropolises like London, New York, San Francisco and Dubai easy.
What Startup Founders Have To Consider:
High Costs: In Zurich wages fit the cost of living which means startups face the challenge of higher costs to launch and run a business. Fortunately, there are many startup programs and business angels offering help for promising startups (see our reference list below).
Residence Permit: Though Switzerland is a member of the Schengen area, it is not a member of the EU. Consequently, different immigration regulations and contingents apply. It is easier for EU/EFTA citizens to obtain a permit than for those from non-EU/EFTA countries.
Cultural Diversity: With four national languages companies will need to invest in translation work to really access the Swiss market, especially English to German.
First Stop: Discover Zurich’s Vibrant Startup Community
As many of the world’s leading business centers, Zurich is very supportive of its startup ecosystem. This ambition to nurture startups and innovation is shared by policy makers and businesses alike. This section will take you on a tour of Zurich’s most innovative hotspots.
What’s Up In Switzerland? – News, Calendar, Topics:
StartupTicker: a comprehensive listing of Swiss startup news, events and trainings.
Zurich Startup Events: Facebook group filled with startup activity in Zurich and Switzerland.
Swissstartups.org: An interactive map of the Swiss startup landscape. Find incubators, accelerators, events, and even more.
Regular Events And Meetups:
ImpactHUB Zurich events: features a vast array of various events and platforms organized by the Impact Hub Zurich startup community.
Startup Grind Zurich: A monthly event series featuring successful local founders who share lessons learned on the road to building great companies.
Zurich Entrepreneur Meetup: an entrepreneurial community providing people with opportunities to network, share ideas and help each other succeed in a friendly and casual way.
Lean Startup Zurich Meetup: a dynamic group of people meeting up to discuss the application of the lean methodology to startups.
Yearly Or Major Events, Festivals, Conferences:
HackZurich: Join the biggest Hackathon in Europe. HackZurich and the Digital Festival take place in September and attract leading minds from all around the world.
Finance2.0: Annually held conference regarding the state of FinTech in Switzerland. A great place to gain new insights and connect with important players in the field.
Investor Summit: Leading Swiss startups pitch to 50 national and international investors as well as 50 CEOs on the first day of the World Economic Forum. The event is held at Zurich Airport.
WorldWebForum: This conference gathers some of the world’s most exciting names in digital innovation from Silicon Valley and Switzerland.
Startup Weekend Zurich: Spend 72 hours meeting people with different ideas and skills and together build the foundations of an amazing startup.
TEDxZurich: Switzerland’s longest running and largest TEDx conference is an excellent place to get inspired by new ideas and network with leading minds.
Co-working Spaces In Zurich
Here is your comprehensive guide to the best coworking spaces and open offices in and around Zurich.
Impact Hub Zurich: Access to inspiring workspaces, a vibrant learning community, startup incubation programs, corporate innovation workshops and entrepreneurial leadership trainings.
BüroZüri: This free coworking space sponsored by the Zürcher Kantonalbank is located on Zurich’s Bahnhofstrasse, the most famous and expensive street in Zurich. Work spaces for up to two people or workshop spaces for up to 6 people are for free. Registration is required.
Citizen-space Zurich: These flexible coworking spaces in trendy Zurich West and beyond offer you 24/7 work space and bookable meeting rooms.
Rocket Park: This cool coworking space combined with an incubator in Zurich focuses on e-business startups. They offer attractive prices and services such as tax and legal advice and have a sister space in Berlin.
Technopark: For those looking for something more private and permanent, the Technopark offers lease contracts for office space starting at 20 sqm and tailored to your specific requirements. Reception, cleaning and security/surveillance services are included.
Regus: A worldwide player in office space, Regus offers serviced offices, virtual offices, meeting rooms and videoconferencing on a contract basis.
FabLab: Get access to 3D printers, CNC milling machines and more for high tech manufacturing. FabLab is a club and requires a membership.
Bureau.D: This coworking space in Dietikon, West of Zurich is a great space for those living in Zurich Altstetten, Schlieren, Dietikon or the Limmat Valley.
Popup Office: An easy to use website to find the right space for you. It has most of the listed coworking spaces in its database.
Financing Your Startup In Zurich
In Zurich there are many possibilities to acquire capital to help get your business off the ground. Here is a selection of hubs and platforms in Zurich that can help you gain access to the money you need to succeed.
Accelerators & Incubators:
Kickstart Accelerator: The Kickstart Accelerator is a fast-track gateway for entrepreneurs from around the world to access the Swiss innovation ecosystem. In this 3-month program, the selected founders and their teams live and work in Zurich and are provided with funding, coaching, office space and fast-track access to relevant industry partners.
CTI Startup: a multi-phase, guided process, lasting 6 to 24 months. A dedicated expert will help your venture evolve sufficiently to apply for the CTI Startup Label. After receiving the CTI Label, entrepreneurs may benefit from additional CTI Startup coaching during Phase IV in areas critical to implementation. The coaching support is free of charge, all startups need to invest is time and effort.
STARTUPS.CH Academy: Learn from the mistakes of others and get valuable expert insights as you prepare for the challenges ahead. They have numerous consultants, lawyers, and trustees who can help young entrepreneurs launch new ventures.
ImpactHUB Fellowship: This is a topic-focused entrepreneurial idea award and one-year incubation program designed to attract, select and support early-stage impact-oriented entrepreneurs and help them develop their innovations for a more sustainable world.
Technopark Counseling and Coaching: Technopark Zurich is designed to facilitate knowledge and technology transfer. Furthermore, it aims to support founders in launching new technology companies, offering founders an extensive range of counseling, project and training services.
Swiss Startup Factory: An independent 3-month accelerator program for digital entrepreneurs with industry mentors, office space and access to valuable networks.
Venturelab – Startup Essentials: Startup Essentials by Venturelab is a series of workshops covering the know-how and tools required to accelerate the development of your startup.
Saft 2050: An incubation program for Switzerland-based entrepreneurs in the field of smart cities, energy efficiency, and distributed energy generation that can play a role in Switzerland having a 100% sustainable energy economy by the year 2050.
Venture Kick: From great idea to venture funding. This three-stage funding process can get you there with a chance at CHF 130K in funding.
Angel Investors & Venture Capitalists:
Go Beyond: A team of business angels, providing funding to early-stage startups in the areas of technology, industry, consumer goods, as well as internet & mobile.
Business Angels Switzerland: An 88-member group of Business Angels (investors and entrepreneurs) giving young entrepreneurs the opportunity to present their projects and start-ups to obtain financing, coaching, or both.
RedAlpine: Venture investors keenly interested in disruptive technologies in the fields of ICT and Life Science.
Investiere: Expose your startup to experienced venture capitalists. The best may get selected for funding via their portal.
Lake Star: Lake Star invests in Internet and technology companies, and focuses on business models that can quickly achieve global scale.
Creathor Venture: Very selective venture capitalists that are looking for disruptive ideas. They’ll be there from idea to IPO.
Startangels: A platform for business angel investors with the mission to offer members access to attractive investment opportunities in early-stage Swiss companies.
b-to-v: Venture capitalists primarily focused on scalable MedTech and CleanTech in German-speaking Europe and beyond.
Get Further Advice From Zurich’s Mentors
If you want to start up in Zurich, the website gruenden.ch provides you with a good overview of considerations and requirements as well as first-hand advice for non-Swiss citizens (information in German and English). Startups.ch is also an excellent resource and can get you set up with vital business services like accounting, lawyers and insurance.
You may also want to visit the official City of Zurich website for more information of the one of The Greater Zurich Area, as they have an extensive business network and can help to make the move easier.
Finally, perhaps the best way to get the help you need is to connect with other founders and entrepreneurs in Zurich. All the founders I know in Zurich are open and generally eager to help.
Zurich looks forward to welcoming you and your ideas!
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Sunnie is the Managing Director of DigitalZurich2025, an initiative of the Swiss public and private sector that aims to strengthen the Greater Zurich Area as a leading digital innovation hub of Europe. She is also the founder of Inspire 925, a consulting firm specialized in employee engagement, as well as a member of the World Economic Forum Global Shapers Community. She holds an Economics degree from Yale University and is the author of the book ”Inspired at Work" (Versus, 2014).
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Christian leads an entrepreneurial life seeking to make connections between individuals and companies that can benefit from collaboration. Professionally he is a business strategy consultant with Swiss Approach AG in Zurich Switzerland. He's previously been a co-founder of the language school Marathon Sprachen and the transmedia firm idezo GmbH. He's also an investor and director at MGC Gastro AG.
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silence broken
Finally, Barack and Bill talk, if only on the phone. Obama's people describe the conversation as 'terrific'. Clinton's people go for 'very good'.
a diversion...
...from McSweeney's. Great books in brief:
WINSTON: Don't tell the Party, but sex is way better than totalitarianism.
EVERYONE: Surprise! We're the Party.
WINSTON: Oh, rats.
Hat tip: Never Mind That Now
swift boating McCain
Do you remember how John Kerry's seemingly unimpeachable war record was savaged by the Swift Boaters in 2004? Well now it seems some of the less savoury parts of the Democratic blogosphere are preparing similar attacks on McCain...
send barack your baby
Obama hasn't visited your home town and kissed your baby? Don't despair...
party unity his ass
The Telegraph reports that Bill is still mad as hell and says Obama can 'kiss my ass'.
I just don't see how he keeps this up for long. He may not think Obama will win, but most rational observers would conclude that there is, at the very least, a strong chance he's wrong about that. What if Obama wins without the former president coming out of his sulk? Bill Clinton's reputation in the party, and in the country, would sink to a low it will be hard to recover from. He'll surely come round - and he'll have to do it before the convention.
a place called unity
The first joint appearance of Obama and Clinton since the nomination race was concluded went off pretty well yesterday, garnering the TV and press coverage that the Democrats were looking for. The candidates spoke well of each other, seemed happy and relaxed, gave good body language, even bantered a bit. Couple of observations. One, why on earth did they make the chair on the stage the right height for Obama to perch on but too tall for Clinton to get up on (she went with standing in the end)? There will surely be gnashing of teeth amongst the more conspiratorial Clintonite die-hards about this.
Also, Obama's riff about how Clinton had demonstrated that women 'can do anything in America...and do it better than men' was pretty strong, but then undermined by the addition of 'and do it in heels'. It made it seem as if he hadn't meant it - that he'd put that riff together solely so that he could land on that rather limp and maybe slightly patronising gag.
Finally, I wish Obama had included a passage he included in his speech to Clinton's donors on Thursday (away from the cameras), about how when he spoke to his grandmother during the nomination battle, she'd express her support for him but then express admiration for Clinton too, and wonder if she was getting a fair shake from the media. It's a nice personal way of illustrating Obama's 'more that unites than divides' point. But maybe he doesn't want to draw attention to his grandmother so much, I don't know.
a little bit of typical might not be bad
Chuck Todd muses on Republicans' labelling of Obama as a 'typical politician':
The problem with trying to use this line with Obama is that the historical nature of his candidacy makes it harder for the voter to think the word "typical" when they see him. (And, of course, Clinton had her own problems on this issue.) That said, Obama continues to fuel this line of attack by making conventional decisions like ducking the town hall idea, flipping on campaign finance, trying to straddle the fence on guns, etc. And unlike McCain, Obama doesn’t have years of good will with his brand; he only really has about 18 months. McCain has made a lot of subtle shifts away from his so-called maverick independent streak. But because his brand was cemented over years, he’s been given more of a benefit of the doubt with the public. Obama’s brand reservoir isn’t as deep, and he should be much more sensitive to this collecting narrative that he isn’t what he claims.
I'm not sure I agree with the latter point, at least not with regard to the 'typical pol' claim. The fact that he hasn't been around for ages makes it more difficult to paint him as just another Washington operator - he seems fresh because he's new and relatively young - and of course because he's black. So I think he can go on making these somewhat dodgy shape-shifting moves for quite a while before people start to think of him as anything but a big signifier of CHANGE.
The real danger of his 'shallow brand reservoir' will always be, not that he represents too little change from the norm, but too much change - that's he's an un-American outsider or secret Muslim or whatever.
In that context the 'typical pol' allegation may actually help rather than hinder him, in the end, by normalizing his image a bit for those whose are wary of him.
hillarycare lives
Clinton's policy director - and architect of her healthcare plan - has signed on to the Obama team as head of domestic policy. A sign that Clinton may be the driving force behind health policy in an Obama administration.
how bad does he want it?
In another brilliant column Peggy Noonan wonders if McCain has already won the prize he really cares about:
And there is another problem that is bigger than all of that, and he is going to have to think himself through it. And that is that there is a sense about his campaign that . . . John McCain has already got what he wanted, he got what he needed, which was to be top dog in the Republican Party, the party that had abused him in 2000 and cast him aside. They all bow to him now, and he doesn't need anything else. He doesn't need the presidency. He got what he wanted. So now he can coast. This is, in the deepest way, unserious. JFK had to have the presidency—he wanted that thing. Nixon had to have it too, and Reagan had to have it to institute his new way. Clinton had to have it—it was his destiny, the thing he'd wanted since he was a teenager.
The last person I can think of who gave off the vibe that he didn't have to have it was Bob Dole. Who didn't get it. And who had a similar lack of engagement in terms of policy, and philosophy, and meaning.
Read the whole thing. Her exercise in clairvoyance at the end is the most plausible prediction of how this campaign will play out I've seen.
too macho
It is a sign of the current confusion amongst Republicans about how to deal with Obama that their pre-eminent political strategist of recent years can't seem to settle on a line of attack. Only a few days ago, Karl Rove was portraying Obama as an effete, martini-sipping snob. But in his latest Wall Street Journal column, he rips into Obama for being, of all things, too macho:
Having effectively sewed up the Democratic nomination, he could have agreed to seat the Florida and Michigan delegations (states Hillary Clinton had carried)...But Mr. Obama supported cutting these battleground-state delegations in half. At a time when magnanimity was called for, the candidate decided he'd strut.
Mr. Obama's alpha-male attitude was evident even as he stumbled towards and over the primary finish line. (My emphases).
It's a surprising charge, coming from Rove. Anyone remember Mission Accomplished?
hmm, i would go with B.H.O myself...
From today's NYT story about the Clinton-Obama peace negotiations:
Aides to both senators say hard feelings between the two camps are dissipating by the week — many people from both sides, in fact, were friends before and remain close — but some habits remain. In the primary, aides to Mrs. Clinton referred to their rival as B.H.O. — initials of Barack Hussein Obama, including his middle name, which has been a politically sensitive issue — while Mr. Obama’s team simply referred to him as B.O.
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Hillary Clinton's Senate staff welcomed her back to the office yesterday by staging a table-tennis smackdown between two staffers (implying that's all they'd been doing for the last six months). Here are the photos:
Apparently she advised the loser to concede gracefully.
you want me, you need me
Bill Clinton's bare-minimum statement of support has got people wondering what Obama will have to do heal that particular rift (more than Hillary, it is thought that Bill is taking things personally). But this, from Chuck Todd, suggests that Obama may soon be at the mercy of the great seducer's charms, whether he likes it or not:
Bill's just not there yet. That said, one Bill confidante recently said to us that the former president still loves to heal rifts, that he thrives on it, and that at some point he'll go on his own Obama charm offensive so that suddenly the Democratic nominee finds himself so smitten that he begins begging 42 to start campaigning for him.
what the brits can learn from obama
The Guardian's headline doesn't exactly get the blood pumping but the piece is worth a read, I hope...
Sam Anderson of NY mag discusses Obama's use of rhetoric, and worries that his acceptance speech at the convention in August may not be able to live up to the hype:
Convention speeches are by definition conventional: overproduced, stadium-sized, riddled with ritualized applause, cheese-ball taglines, balloon drops, and coded appeals to key demographics. Under the g-forces of so much demographic and institutional pressure, Obama could easily surrender to the occasion and be a little less impressive.
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TRIVIA TIDBITS
Welcome back to Trivia Tidbits. For those of you out of the loop, this is a little compilation of 10 movie related facts that I will be posting weekly and info that I always find interesting. So without further ado, this weeks are…
1: At one point during the casting of “Platoon“, director Oliver Stone wanted Mickey Rourke to play Sgt. Barnes (the Tom Berenger role) and Nick Nolte as the experienced Sgt. Elias (the Willem Dafoe role). Both were offered the parts, and both turned it down. Rourke was also offered the role of Elias.
2: In “Eyes Wide Shut“, according to writer Frederic Raphael, the final form of Bill’s family name (Harford, as opposed to Scheuer in the original story) was inspired by a debate about Bill’s character. Raphael felt Bill should be Jewish as in the original, but Stanley Kubrick insisted Bill (Tom Cruise) and Alice (Nicole Kidman) be “vanilla” Americans, without any details that would arouse any presumptions. Kubrick said that Bill should be a bit like Harrison Ford – hence the name Harford. Ironically, Ford himself is Jewish on his mother’s side.
3: After reading the script to “Backdraft“, Jennifer Jason Leigh reportedly told director Ron Howard that she wished she was the fire because it has the best part.
4: Matt Damon and Ben Affleck‘s original script for “Good Will Hunting” was originally a thriller. The characters were the same, but instead of becoming involved with a therapist, Will Hunting became an FBI agent. There were also rumours that Kevin Smith and Robert Towne were interested in rewriting the film.
5: Paul Newman was so ashamed of his performance in the “The Silver Chalice” in 1954 that he took out a large advert in Variety, the movie industry magazine, apologising for it.
6: In Mike Nichols’s “The Graduate“, there is one shot where Benjamin (Dustin Hoffman) holds Mrs Robinson’s breast. She ignores him, rubbing at a spot on her clothes. He turns and bangs his head against the wall. The breast-touching was Hoffman’s spur-of-the-moment idea and he was laughing so much he banged his head against the wall, convinced the shot would be cut. It stayed in.
7: For the German TV version of “Die Hard“, the German terrorists Hans and Karl were been renamed, as the distinctly American-sounding Jack and Charlie.
8: When he got the lead role in “Trainspotting“, Ewan McGregor was open to injecting himself with heroin, to better understand Renton’s character. He later decided against it.
9: Director Brian De Palma met Bob Hoskins over a drink in Los Angeles to discuss playing Al Capone in “The Untouchables” if De Palma’s first choice Robert DeNiro were to pass on the role. Since DeNiro didn’t say yes, Hoskins told De Palma he would do it if he were available. When DeNiro finally took the role, De Palma sent Hoskins a thank you note, and the studio paid Hoskins, who had a “pay or play” deal, $200,000. Hoskins called De Palma and asked if there were any more movies the director didn’t want him to be in.
10: In “Devil’s Advocate“, Keanu Reeves played the character Kevin Lomax. The name Lomax may be a reference to being a “Low MACH.” This is a term used to describe those people scoring below 60/100 on the MACH-IV test used by personality and social psychologists to measure “Machiavellianism” which is a measure of a person’s tendency to manipulate and deceive others for personal gain. E.g. “Low MACHs” tend to agree with the following statements (taken from the test): No. 7.) “There is no excuse for lying to someone else.” No. 11.) “Most people who get ahead in the world lead clean, moral lives.” These are precisely some of the personal moral issues faced by the character in the film.
So there you have it. 10 esoteric Tidbits to masticate on. Some you may know. Some you may not. If you have any thoughts, stick your donations in the comment box.
See you next week…
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I’d love to read that original draft of Good Will Hunting!
Mark Walker Says:
That would be quite something wouldn’t it? 😉
theipc Says:
Great stuff, Mucker!
Thank you amigo!
Boat Drinks!
filmhipster Says:
That fact about Good Will Hunting and Will Hunting becoming an FBI agent is insane!
It is, isn’t it? I just don’t think that would have worked, man.
Awesome trivia Mark!! Ahah, that bit from Jennifer Jason Leigh about Backdraft is hilarious! WOW, nice paycheck for nothin’ for Mr. Mr Hoskins, but I don’t think anyone could match De Niro as Capone in that movie!
Yeah, not bad work for Hoskins at all, Ruth. I think he’d have been good but he’s no DeNiro.
fernandorafael Says:
Awesome bits as always! 2, 3, and 8 through 10 were my favorites.
Thanks Fernando! Glad to hear you’re still enjoying them.
ckckred Says:
Great tidbits as always. The Eyes Wide Shut one is really interesting, I feel Kubrick was attempting to give a study on celebrity relationships, hence why he casted Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman.
Thanks man. I totally agree on Kubrick’s take. It’s was a good choice casting Cruise and Kidman. All be it, I think it probably contributed to their marriage ending.
VictorsMovieReviews Says:
Love “The Graduate” tidbit. Also, Ewan made the wise call. I think. It was Corey Feldman in an interview that River Phoenix had never tried drugs until he wanted to for his role in “My Own Private Idaho”.
Cheers Vic. Great info on the Corey Feldman/River Phoenix deal. I’d never heard that before. I miss Phoenix, man. He was a favourite of mine. I’m interested in seeing Dark Blood.
Haha love the Hoskins story!
It’s great isn’t it, Nick.? He wouldn’t have been a bad choice but I’m glad DeNiro took it on. I thought he was great in it.
Morgan R. Lewis Says:
Nice quip from Jennifer Jason Leigh on Backdraft.
The Good Will Hunting tidbit is interesting; I could see how that would have been an entertaining film as well.
The Hoskins story is great. I’m glad you included it, both for its own sake, and because it provides a clear example of what a “pay or play” contract is. Been hearing the term a long time (largely because of Animaniacs), and never knew just what it meant (and for some reason never thought to look it up).
Thanks Morgan. Yeah, the pay or play deal is an interesting one. I’m not sure of many others but its something I’m going to look into.
Tim The Film Guy Says:
Keep an eye on your comments Tim. I found this in my spam folder along with other bloggers as well. Just to let you know.
Thanks for getting me out, its dark in the spam folder 😦
You’re welcome, man. It’s a dark and lonely place. 😉
Eric @ The Warning Sign Says:
Now I kind of want to see The Silver Chalace. Newman’s performance couldn’t have been THAT bad…
I don’t think I’ve ever seen a poor Newman performance. I’m interested in seeing the film myself, just for that reason. Thanks Eric!
Great stuff, Jennifer Jason Leigh bit was so witty.
Haha! Yeah, it’s a good one but I actually quite liked Backdraft 😉
Terry Malloy's Pigeon Coop Says:
Nicely done Mr Walker! Can’t believe that Ewan would actually have gone that far for the role! Surely that would have been the most extreme case of method acting of all time?!
I think it could definitely be considered the ultimate method. I doubt even DeNiro would go that far.
By the way, you were right. This comment ended up in my spam folder.
sanclementejedi Says:
Woo Hoo more Trivia, glad to see this feature making a comeback Mark!
You could do a whole feature on films that self destructive Mickey Rourke passed on.
I would love to get some of that Bob Hoskins play or pay money, what a great deal.
Cheers Adam. It came back last week. I’ve changed the title by omitting “Tuesday’s” though, so I don’t have to commit to a specific day.
Totally agree on the Rourke deals. I’ve got a list already but I’m spacing them out between posts. Man, he could have been in some very good stuff.
sati Says:
Great trivia bits! Funny one about Die Hard, who would have thought Germans are so sensitive 🙂
Yeah, Germans, eh? They don’t like to be seen as the bad guys. 😉
Tyson Carter Says:
Still no Leto……..god damn you Walker!! 😉
Good stuff as always dude 🙂
No Leto yet, but keep your eyes peeled today. 😉
cindybruchman Says:
Very interesting. I like this feature of yours, Mark. Glad Ewan M. decided to bypass the heroin! Loved him in ‘Trainspotting’
Cheers Cindy. This was a little feature that ran every week for a while. I took a break but its recently returned and I hope you enjoy it further. Theres another one due today.
Monkeyboy Says:
No.10 was fascinating stuff. 🙂
Yeah, the casting of Dogs was quite interesting. I done a post a while ago where I mentioned that James Woods was also offered a role. However, his agent never told him and subsequently got sacked. Woods would have done the film and apparently the role was Mr. Orange.
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No New Mac Pro Yet, Which Means What?
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Related: Mac Pro
Deadware?
I wrote previously End of Life for the Apple Mac Pro? Still no word from Apple.
Update Dec 5, 2011: the rumors seem to point to a new Mac Pro, but whether it will come in January or February or March remains to be seen.
We still don’t know whether Apple will release a new Mac Pro (though this article hints at a new video card), which pretty much sums up as follows— a company with so much contempt for its traditional professional base that it cannot be bothered to state whether it will or will not produce an updated Mac Pro, upon which many professionals depend, including me.
Not to pre-announce features or anything specific, but just an intent that would would allow its loyal customers to make some future plans, even if that is only to purchase an existing Mac Pro model for those needing the expansion capabilities. Reprehensible business conduct if you ask me.
So what can we Mac Pro users do? Wait and see.
Would I switch to a PC if there is no new Mac Pro? Certainly not in the next few years, Apple has me on the hook not for its hardware, but for its software (Mac OS X), at least if it’s not bastardized any further than the puerile designs and features we saw introduced with Lion.
Windows: not at this time! Investing in a virus-prone operating system like Windows, investing 40-80 hours of relearning just makes no sense— I’d rather deal with an iMac, which isn’t terrible, and would be serviceable with 32GB memory and Thunderbolt (well, I might need two of them).
In the meantime, existing Mac Pro users can go as powerful as dual 3.46 GHz 6-core processors outfitted as an MPG Pro Workstation also, so I really don’t see that there is a lack of processing power for those who must have it, along with up to 96GB memory.
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Person of Interest: s03 e13 – 4C
Hero and asshole
As I’ve mentioned in passing before, Person of Interest has the ability to turn a one-off episode into an integral part of an ongoing art with a naturalness no other series can master. ‘4C’ is the last part of a six-episode sequence that started with Joss Carter’s final takedown of HR and her subsequent murder, and yet it’s a procedural Number of the Week, whose subject, Owen Matthews, computer programmer and all-round asshole (Samm Levine), has nothing to do with anything that’s been going on before or after him.
John Reese came back last week to save his friend, Harold Finch, but not to return to his job. Instead, Reese is going to lose himself, a one way flight to Istanbul. Except that his flight is suddenly overbooked and he’s bumped, and equally as suddenly a place opens up on a flight with a stopover in Rome. Reese can spot Finch’s meddling a mile away, and he doesn’t want it.
That’s not the whole of it. The pretty stewardess, Holly (Sally Pressman) asks if he’ll change seats to enable a newly-wed couple to sit together, which he happily does. His new seat giives him a view of Matthews, being transported by two ~US Marshalls. His phone receives a text: 4C: Owen’s seat number.
There’s just one problem about all this. No, actually there are three. Someone’s trying to kill Owen (with a mouth like his, you should be surprised?) and has incapacitated one of his Marshall’s. And Reese doesn’t want to know. It’s not his job anymore, not his responsibility, he will not be manipulated llike this by Finch. The third one is, Finch isn’t doing this. he’s as much in the dark as Reese is. This is the Machine, operating by itself.
But on a commercial passenger flight from America to Europe, there are no avenues for walking away. Owen has too many attackers, Columbians, Israelis and National Security. With only the willing and optimistic Holly, who will deliver the crucial little speech about helping each other in an entirely naturalistic manner, to trust, Reese has to take the job.
It’s a tight, stream-lined thriller, with Caviezel at his most magnetic, even in sloppy clothes and a baaaad shave. Shaw is used as a sideline to discover why Owen is a target for her former Agency, making Owen a Relevant rather than Irrelevant Number. This leads to an almost touching scene wwhere, having drugged her former trainer, Hersh, he explains that Owen is about to become a National Embarrassment: there’s a near-fatherly concern for whether Shaw’s ‘new employers’ are treating her well, which draws the line we all of us would have used at this moment: ‘They haven’t tried to kill me yet.’
The final moment comes when the last assassin standing, on board as the coach class steward, takes over the plane and tries to fly it into the ground, requiring Finch to take over the controls and land the plane using a toy flight simulator attached to his computer back in the Library, but there’s a hppy ending to it all, and we sigh with relief.
Owen, who has caused all this feverish activity because he’s not just a programmer but the guy who set up and ran a Darknet Drugs trading facility, to take violence and death out of the trade, is smuggled off by Reese and fitted out with a new identity by Finch. Who happens to be sat with his back to John and Holly when they finish their coffee. What’s needed now is a graceful climbdown by Reese, which Finch facilitates by never once acting as if anything has changed. he explains that the Machine is, of necessity, manipulative in the way Reese hates, because Finch designed it so that the human intervention should always be the last part of the process.
That gives Reese chaance to joke about getting a new suit, so that he can get back to work. With that, the personal turbulence is ended and the show can reset itself for the final phase of the third season.
By mbc1955in The Goggle-Box January 14, 2020 January 7, 2020 691 Words7 Comments
Person of Interest: s03 e12 – Aletheia
Don’t cross this woman
‘Aletheia’ is a Greek word meaning, for our purposes, ‘disclosure’ or ‘truth’. It’s an apt title for an episode that uses Person of Interest‘s capacity to construct a tense, slick and violent thriller whilst incorporating the show’s philosophy witth regard to the existence of the Machine.
As an episode, this is so much a direct sequel to last week’s ‘Lethe’ that it could be joined to it to create a 90 minute feature without any seams showing, a fact recognised internally by the way only a title card is used to identify the show instead of the standard monologue.
We pick up with Control threatening Arthur Claypool and Harold Finch: one of them will give her what she wants and that one will live. Agent Shaw, in the meantime, is disposable and will be shot: mind the bloodspray. This is interrupted by the arrival of the Cavalry in the form of Root (who has freed herself from the Library in a manner she could have done at any time), two-guns firing. But on the way out, she is shot in the arm and captured.
Root goes on to secret immprisonment, interrogation and torture at the hands of Control herself. It’s vivid, it’s horrifying and it includes mutilation: a smll bone, essential to hearing, is cut out from behind Root’s right ear, making her completely deaf on that side.
It’s easy enough to loathe Control, and Camryn Manheim makes her into a total monster without ever once foaming at the mouth or chewing the scenery. Control is frighteningly self-righteous in pursuit of goals that protect the State, and is ruthlessly unconcerned about life. Secrets must be kept, maintained, controlled and anyone who potentially disrupts that world by having knowledge is to be killed, without thought or conscience.
What makes this so frightening is that this is John Reese’s world, that John Reese is every bit as capable of the actions undertaken by Control. It’s not played up blatantly, nothing the series does is ever blatant, it’s all their for the audience to draw the conclusions and, hopefully, think upon them.
Speaking of Mr Reese, he and Fusco are stuck in a Colorado jail, almost by arrangement. Fusco claims the Sheriff can’t recognise an NYPD badge, but when his attempt to turn Reesse back fails, they get out free on a word from the cynical detective. Nothing has changed. Reese has lost his anchor, he has twisted into the nihilistic frame of mind he had when Finch first gave him a job. Nothing is worth it, entropy always wins, Fusco will turn back into the corrupt slimy piece of garbage crooked cop he was. Things fall apart, the centre cannot hold.
The meat, so to speak, of the episode takes place in a bank vault. negotiating his way around Claypool’s brain tumour and his wandering memories and perceptions, Finch establishes that disc drives exist preserving Claypool’s Samaritan, in a safe deposit box in a bank under an account opened in the name of a false persona created at MIT by Finch, so solid that it could open a Bank Account. And these drives contain a correct and working Samaritan.
Unfortunately, Control, via Hersh, want the drives, and so does Vigilance, who are equally unconcerned as to the sanctity of human life. Samaritan is Arthur’s child, as much as if it were biological, so his acceptance of the need to destroy the discs to prevent either side from getting hold of them is almost infanticide.
Everyone gets out, though unfortunately they have to jump into the sewer to do so (at least that means we should never again see the hideous checked suit Harold wears throughout these two episodes). There is another of the show’s gunshot set-ups, which frankly are overused. Someone’s been held-up at gunpoint, is about to be shot, a gun fires but it’s someone offscreen doing a last second rescue that’s so frequent you get conditioned to expect it. These are two of Hersh’s SWAT team members, but they are also Reese and Fusco.
But John’s not back for good, he just came back to save Finch and then it’s back to his nihilistic stream.
I haven’t yet mentioned the continuing flashbacks to Harold’s youth and to his Alzheimer’s affected father. Dad has to go into a home. Harold’s still trying to build the machine that will be his Dad’s memory. In search of more computing power, he breaks into Arpanet, the Government forerunner of the Internet, as a result of which he has to go on the run, accused of treason. But by then his father has forgotten him.
Just two more touches. Harold has set Arthur up in comfort under medical care, at a secret location. More and more of Arthur’s memory is disappearing. He can’t ever remember the colour of Diane, his wife’s eyes. But Root, who is becoming or perhaps already is the Machine, who’s gone her own way for now, has a gift for him: old surveillance film and photos of Arthur and Diane together, beamed into his computer. Saul Rubinek, who plays Arthur, has been magnificent these two episodes, up to and including his utter absorption in the life that has been conjured back for him.
At least the discs have been destroyed. But a Bank Manager has been found dead, stuffed into a closet. She’s the Manager who let Claypool and Finch into the vault, was trapped with them, wounded and forgotten in the panic. No, she’s not. The woman who entered the vault was posing as her. She switched the discs. The ones Claypool destroyed were meaningless. The real ones are delivered to Greer, who is so pleased with her sterling work he shoots her through the heart. Greer has Samaritan. Greer has an AI. And he does not have Harold Finch’s reservations.
The future starts here.
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Person of Interest: s03 e11 – Lethe
Two geniuses
From the opening moments – The Machine showing flashbacks of recent events – we feel as if we are in a different dimension. There’s a disorientation to things, made manifest in John Reese’s rumpled and empty bed and Harold Finch’s pretence to Sameen Shaw that there are no new Numbers, which is only true because he is ignoring the Machine’s efforts to contact him.
Things fall apart, the centre cannot hold, mere anarchy is leashed upon the world. Reese has left, in silence, gone to Colorado where he sits in a bar drinking whisky, ignoring the litle man getting a beatdown from a bigger thug. ‘Lethe’: a Greek word meaning Oblivion, or Forgetting.
And the flashbacks return, brief vignettes from the life of a bright, eager, intelligent boy in 1969 and later, a boy interested in birds, learning about them from his father. Ah yes, his father: a man with some kind of illness that is slowly eating his memory, a father being looked after with love and devotion by an extraordinarily bright boy, who will restrict his own life to take care of his father. We do not need to be told the boy’s name is Harold.
But if the Numbers can’t come one way, they will come in another, via Root, still caged, but now voluntarily, in her Faraday Cage in the Library, yet able to piece together the Number: Arthur Claypool, a man in late middle-age played by Saul Tubinek, about whom there is a very small digital footprint. But a man about whom Finch has a natural advantage: Shaw is too eager to return to action to recognise that Harold knows Arthur.
But Arthur Claypool is in Hospital, with a brain tumour. He is a dying man, joking with Shaw, posing as the Doctor she once was, about being a honeybee rather than a dragonfly: a dragonfly has a life expectancy of four months, a honeybee of four weeks. As long as you don’t mayfly on me jokes Shaw in return.
But the hospital is no laughing matter. Claypool is surrounded by security, Secret Service security. That’s because Arthur works for the NSA, the National Security Agency. He is privy to secrets, but his condition destoys some memories but floods others out, uncontrollably. The name of Samaritan is mentioned for the first time. It will be mentioned in every episode to come.
Claypool is a target. He’s a walking leak, a magnet for agencies who want his secrets and a magnet for agencies that want his secrets locked up real tight, maybe even dead tight. Rudy has them, he says at one point, under the influence of sodium pentathol: has what?
But Claypool is a target for Vigilance, our privacy-terrorists who’ve laid mainly low hilst the drame of HR has been working itself out. To get everyone out, Finch has to do the one thing he’s been trying to avoid all along, appear before Arthur Claypool. His old friend, his fellow genius, his ‘brother’ at MIT. Harold knows Arthur and Arthur knows Harold.
They flee to a safe place, Finch, Shaw, Claypool and Diane Claypool (Camryn Manheim), Arthur’s wife who he doesn’t recognise, sweet, helpless, gentle, distraught that her husband doesn’t recognise her, but we who have been here before recognise her (I’m pretty sure I had her pegged first time round).
Why does everyone want the dying Arthur. It’s that name: Samaritan. Samaritan was a Machine built and designed by Arthur to accept, analyse and interpret all surveillance feeds post-911, to pre-identify terrorist activity. An AI, an artificial Intelligence that could learn, remember and grow. Samaritan doesn’t exist. It was scrapped, a few weeks before Arthur could complete it, in 2005, along with a host of other prjects all with the same intent. Arthur knows why Samaritan was scrapped: because somebody else got there first, somebody built a Machine that did it, that worked.
Arthur’s memory is full of holes. He remembers Harold, but he doesn’t remember Diane. Unfortunately, he remembers why he doesn’t remember Diane.
Let’s cut away though, to Reese, in his Colorado bar. Not just Reese, but Fusco, assigned to watch over Reese but also concerned himself for the Man in a Suit who gave him the impetus to turn himself around. Reese will let Fusco stay provided he doesn’t talk and accompanies him in drinking himself into oblivion, into Lethe.
But Fusco has changed more than we think. He’s on bourbon and soda, hold the bourbon. Reese is in despair. A genuine war hero is celebrated in this bar, with photos and clippings. Fusco spots the resemblance: Reese’s father, a Vietnam vet. Who survived the war and was killed at the oil refinery. Reese is burned out. No matter what they do, bad things happen. Doing good things is pointless, entropy always wins, why bother raging against the dying of the light? Fusco will have none of this. Reese changed his life for the better, is he saying that was pointless. Fusco provokes a fight, out back, in the driving rain. at first, Reese merely dodges but Fusco is a tough little bugger. They’re starting to fight in earnest when the lights and the siren of a cop car interrupt them.
And why does Arthur Claypool not remember Diane? Because she’s not Diane. Diane died two years ago, Arthur can remember the exact date he buried her. ‘Diane’ is another whose real name we will never know. The name we will know her by is Control. Agents bust into the room, outnumber and overpower Shaw. Hersh enters. What is it all about?
It’s about Samaritan. It may have been scrapped but Arthur still has the discs and Control wants them. As a bonus, she has the creator of the Machine. She wants to know where that is. One of them will tell her what she wants to know. That will be the one who lives…
This is a two-parter. And it’s a gateway. We have already stepped through it.
By mbc1955in The Goggle-Box December 31, 2019 December 24, 2019 1,005 Words18 Comments
Person of Interest: s03 e10 – The Devil’s Share
Oh, my. Such a perfectly balanced episode, with a horde of actions, emotions and revelations all drawn together in the pursuit of a just revenge. Did this episode last forty-six minutes or did it draw you into itself for a lifetime?
Detective Joss Carter is dead, killed brutally by Officer Patrick Simmonds, the last HR standing. There is no title sequence, not even the series’ name. Just Johnny Cash singing ‘Hurt’, one of the most powerful recordings ever made. Carter’s ex-husband, her son, sit in a cemetery, with looks of indescribable pain on their faces. From a distance, Finch watches, also in sorrow, alongside Shaw, who disappears when he back is turned. Shaw wants revenge.
So too does John Reese, shot and wounded, seriously, by Simmonds, but single-mindedly determined to exact revenge, on both him and Alonzo Quinn. John is off the reservation. Jim Cavaziel gets something into his eyes that you had better pray you never see in real life because that is the expression of someone who has gone far past what it is to be human.
And so the episode becomes a multi-layered chase, as the team tries to find and stop Reese, which is like trying to find and stop a will o’the wisp. Instead of Carter, there is Fusco, the weak link, the joke cop, but this is Kevin Chapman’s coming of age in this series. He is now what they have, and he rises to the occasion.
They find Shaw. But Reese is always ahead of them. To find him they nneed to find Quinn in protective custody and to find Quinn they need Root.
There are once again flashbacks, four in total, at four different times, each of someone speaking to an interviewer. Finch, in his wheelchair after the Ferry bombing that killed hiis closest friend, discussing grief and survivor’s guilt. Dr Sameen Shaw, a technically brilliant surgeon who lacks the emotional commitment that makes the difference between fixing and healing. John Reese being psych-profiled for his fitness to be Black Ops, but only as a means to get close to and execute a traitor. Let’s just hold off on the fourth for a moment.
Reese, dying on his feet, gets to Quinn. He’s going to kill him, but first Quinn has to give up Simmonds’ escape route Here is where the quartet catch up, Root, Fusco, Shaw and Finch, but it is Harold, who willnot lose another friend, whose gentle voice reminds John that this is not honouring Carter. Carter wanted Quinn her way, the right way, the legal way. Evidence, arrest, trial, conviction. But John”s body is failing and only his will animates him now. He pulls the trigger, but the chamber is empty. Three take him away, fusco stays to secure Quinn. As they drive off to get John urgent medical attention, Root, speaking with the voice of the Machine, says that Mr Reese is not the only one out to kill Simmonds.
And inside, Fusco finds the note written by Quinn of where to find Simmonds.
We cut to that final flashback, Fusco and a therapist, traume counselling, Fusco has just shot and killed someone for the first time, in self-defence. He’s our Lionel, tough, wise-cracking, forever defensive. Until, assured that whatt he says is completely confidential, he changes. The dead guy was a drugs-dealer. He shot and killed an off-duty rookie last year, kid was 24, baby on the way, the dealer got off. It wasn’t a clean shoot. Fusco trailed him for weeks, just to get him alone, let the guy see him before he put two in his chest. They call it The Devil’s Share, an act of redress for the world’s shittier things. Fusco sleeps like a baby.
So you think you know. Fusco intercepts Simmonds. He’s got a gun, Simmonds hasn’t. But Fusco has his eye on higher things. Despite the disparity in their fighting strengths, Fusco tackles Simmonds, yes, even with a broken finger in plaster. It’s simmonds’ to win, to execute Lionel and escape after all. But Fusco is a tougher little bastard than we’ve everr been allowed to see before. He whips Simmonds, breaks his arm.
Because Fusco was once the kind of cop who would execute a criminal. But then he got a partner who respected him, who treated him right, who got his back and, though this is insaid, more importantly trusted him to have her back. she showed him how to be a good cop, and drew Lionel Fusco back towards being a good cop. She saved him from himself. And Fusco won’t let that go over a piece of crap like Simmonds. Fusco brings Simmonds in. Fusco rises.
So all is well that ends. John will live after receiving treatment. Root, having been freed, returns to her cage in the Library voluntarily. Something big is coming and she and Finch need to work together.
And in the hospital room where Simmonds is being guarded, a seated, miling, almost cherubic face looks at him from the shadows. Brilliantly uncredited, Carl Elias addresses the still scornful Simmonds. He is awaiting Civilisation’s punishment. But neither he nor Elias are civilised. Joss Carter didn’t like Elias, but Elias liked her. Elias is here to watch The Devil’s Share be taken. John was not the only one who intended to kill Patrick Simmonds, Number of the Week.
One last word. We’ve seen Fusco rise to the occasion. This is also the point that the Team really forges itself into a Team, around the loss of one of its own.
Was this really only 46 minutes? Only in our lives.
By mbc1955in The Goggle-Box December 24, 2019 December 17, 2019 935 Words4 Comments
Person of Interest: s03 e09 – The Crossing
This was the one where it was really never going to be the same again.
‘The crossing’ is the second half of ‘Endgame’. Joss Carter has Alonzo Quinn and everything she needs to bring him and HR down for good. There’s only one catch: she has to get him to FBI headquarters across town. Across a town where every dirty cop and every crook has John Reese’s photo. And whilst Simmonds wants Carter and Quinn alive, the order is shoot to kill for the Man in a Suit.
Meanwhile, Harold Finch has received a string of numbers with one thing in common. They are all aliases, all aliases for John Reese.
Getting to FBI HQ is a problem. With reese runing interference, they get to the City Morgue, four blocks away, but that’s as far as they can go. Finch has brought Sameen Shaw into play. Lionel Fusco has helped Resse and Carter get as far as they have but he’s been captured, the key to the safe deposit box with all of Carter’s evidence taken, and they’re torturing him for the Bank’s name and location.
Meanwhile, Finch faces a dilemma. Root has a connection to the Machine fundamentally different to his own. She can help. She wants to help. It’s not that she cares all that much for John but she understands just how much Harry does: John is Finch’s creation as much as is the Machine. Nor is he Harold’s first partner. But Harold can’t break his fear of Miss Groves: she has changed the Machine. She has become closer to it than he has.
Fusco’s in deep trouble, fingers broken, but still defiant. This once dirty, once lazy cop has transformed, imperceptibly, into a stalwart. He’s tough, still wise-cracking, and he sends Simmonds on a wild goose chase to the wrong bank. In consequence of which Simmonds sends someone to Fusco’s home, to kill his son, Lee, with Fusco listening in by mobile phone. The shot is fired. Fusco crumples, his son is dead. But the voice on the line is Shaw: it is going to be alright. But if she is there for Lee, she cannot be where Fusco is for him.
The promotion for this episode leaned heavily on the idea that Fusco would die. But not tonight, brother, not tonight. Broken fingers made it easy for Fusco to break his thumb, slip his cuffs, attack and throttle his intended killer. Not Fusco.
Meanwhile, HR are in the Morgue, the power’s down, John and Joss are trapped. It’s the longest time they’ve spent together without an immediate threat, so they talk, compare scars. John explains just how important Joss is to him, how her intervention when he was a homeless drunk, planning on killing himself, changed him into what he is now. There’s a tremendous warmth between them, a growing intimacy.
And then John exits. Harold runs interference for him, he leads the HR cops away, and is arrested – by two honest cops found by Harold. It means arrest. But it’s better than death.
So Carter makes it. Quinn’s threats continue to the end but now they’re hollow. HR is broken, the story goes public, Simmonds is still missing but the lot are in custody. Joss is reinstated as Detective and uses her influence to get ‘John Doe’ out of the 3rd Precinct, in an echo of their first meeting.
What a long, strange trip it’s been, all the pieces, bright, shiny, sharp-edged, brought together in perfect balance to create so tense, so thrilling, so roller-coaster an episode, everything is going to be alright.
And then Simmonds steps out of the shadows and shoots both Reese and Carter. Aghast, Finch watches, a payphone ringing unanswered, conveying another Number but this one too late. Ask not for whom the bell tolls, it tolls for Joss Carter. Simmonds is wounded, Reese is wounded, but Carter is dead.
By mbc1955in The Goggle-Box December 17, 2019 December 10, 2019 651 Words12 Comments
Person of Interest: s03 e08 – Endgame
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‘Endgame’ is an awfully final title for an episode only one-third the way through season 3, and especially for one that is but the first half of a two-parter. But it’s what it is. Last week, former-Detective Joss Carter discovered the head of HR to me the Mayor’s Chief of Staff, Alonzo Quinn (Clarke Peters). She’s not pussy-footing around any longer, she’s going for the throat. And the evidence of that is 38 simultaneous Numbers, all cops, all HR.
Because Carter wants her revenge for Cal Beecher’s death to be visceral, and delayed no longer. And the way to do this is simple: to foment a war between HR and Peter Yogarov’s gang, the Russian Mafia.
It’s so neat and simple. The Russians have a drugs shipment coming in. Carter attacks it, steals it, frames HR. She pulls in a favour from the ever-calm Carl Elias (Enrico Colantoni) to do an infodump – names, addresses, numbers – of the complete HR roster, up to and including Quinn. It’s going to be a bloodbath.
Finch is horrified and petrified. Reese is fearful for his friend’s fate. Only Shaw, gleefully pillaging Reese’s weapons locker to supply Joss with the tools to hijack the lorry, seems to respect Carter’s need to do this herself, though she’d just love to get in on this.
At stake is a catastrophic outcome. Win or lose, things are going to change out of all recognition. Joss brings things into Quinn’s circle, pretending to be overwhelmed by her task and backing off from it. The audience is given more reason to think that’s true that Quinn or Simmons (Patrick John Burke). But she won’t let Reese help her, she won’t let Fusco help her, she’s going down the rabbit-hole on her own.
And we’re pointed in the direction of her probable failure and death, though this is merely routine PoI misdirection that anyone who’s got this far has no business believing. Even when the ‘honest’ Judge to whom she takes her evidence to get an arrest warrant for Quinn betrays her to Quinn and Simmons, and the latter puts a gun in her face.
We’ve been led to this time and place by flashbacks too, Carter’s ex-husband, her son’s father, Paul Carter (Laz Alonso), an Afghanistan Vet with trauma that leads her to cut him off from contact with Tyler who, in the end, takes the road to Redemption, enough so that it’s to Paul that Joss has committed her son’s care these past eight months. Final words, the fateful see you soon.
But PoI has its other routine to perform, the one where the gunshot isn’t the one from the bad guys but the offscreen one from the good guys, John Reese, disrupting HR’s little execution party, snatching Joss and Quinn and setting off to get the latter to the FBI. But Simmons raises a gauntlet, of HR cops and crooks, through which they must ride.
And that’s next week. and I remember what happens next week. There’s still a bumpy ride to come.
By mbc1955in The Goggle-Box December 10, 2019 December 3, 2019 515 Words6 Comments
Person of Interest: s03 e07 – The Perfect Twist
The Biter Bit
If you did this episode as a pure procedural, a complete one-off, it would still be a brilliant example of network thriller television, although the perfect twist that seals it off might have been a little easier to foresee. But build it into the developing arc of former-Detective Joss Carter’s unbending determination to finally bring down HR, garnished with brief scenes at first and last foreboding the future that the imprisoned Root knows is coming and that Harold Finch is obdurately trying to deflect, and you have a thing of beauty and a joy forever and no mistake.
The first touch was Finch delivering breakfast to Miss Groves in her Faraday Cage, protected as always by John Reese’s presence, leaving Root little option but to sting him over the fact that the Machine talks to her, but not to Harold. “But Mommy still loves the both of us,” she summarises.
At the end, when he brings the promised extra books to read, she’s less sweet, challenging him over the coming future, a threat we all of us anticipate in our varying manners.
In between, we have the story of Hayden Price, hypnotherapist, played by Aaron Stott, Mad Men‘s Ken Cosgrove. Hayden is the Number and it doesn’t take long to determine why: he’s a crook. A conman, to be specific, soaking his patients and anyone he comes into contact with, for everything he can get out of them, thanks to questions that elicit private information, like mother’s maiden names, pet’s names, streets where they live, the sort of things that unlock bank accounts and the like.
In short, Haydenn rips off everyone, everyone that is except Natalie Boal (Jennifer Ferrin), the woman he loves, honestly and truly.
Hayden’s created a bit of a problem for himself. He’s been setting up Swedish antiques dealer Sven Vanger for a complicated but massively lucrative scam. The Swede is money-laundering, and cleaning it by buying fake auction items for seriously top dollar put up by his clients, who get clean cash for dirty. Unfortunately for Hayden, the money belongs to HR. Doubly unfortunately for everyone in question, Hayden’s tricked the Swede into paying $4.4M for a baseball signed by the New York Yankees, including Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig that’s actually worth $4.4M, and which the Swede sells to a street kid for $5.
That kinda gets HR’s back up, to the extent that Alonzo Quinn, who’s previously taken the trouble to meet with Officer Carter over her suspicions about his godson’s death, kicks off at Officer Simmons. And when Simmons is kicked, he kicks downward, at Detective Terney and rookie Officer Laskey in particular. Hayden will be persuaded to return the ball – in return for the innocent Natalie.
So Hayden turns up. Terney’s going to take him in, get the ball authenticated and then kill him, and as soon as it’s done, Laskey’s going to kill Natalie anyway.
But the forces of righteousness are on hand to avert such an outcome. Carter and Shah knock out Laskey (with his eager cooperation counting for nothing in terms of the severity of Carter’s punch) whilst Reese and Fusco intervene to rescue hayden, just when he and Terney are reverbrating with shock at the discovery that the real ball is no such thing, not if Babe Ruth’s signature is in fibre-tip pen. Hayden’s been scammed by a superior scammer – Natalie. why steal a million dollar item when you can get your boyfriend to do it for you? Pity: he did love her, but she didn’t love him.
It’s a crushing defeat for HR, and Simmons wants Laskey. He send Terney after himn and Terney finds the rookie. With Carter, handing over photos of everyone Simmons has met today. Terney pulls his gun but so does Carter. it’s a stand-off. Until Laskey tries to pull his. To Carter’s horror, Terney shoots Laskey, killing him instantly. Carter shoots Terney, fatally. He’s got maybe a minute. He can be a stand-up guy at the last, he can point out HR’s head. A bloody hand smears one photo before Terney expires. Carter looks at it in shock. She recognises Alonzo Quinn…
By mbc1955in The Goggle-Box December 3, 2019 November 28, 2019 702 Words6 Comments
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Valuable Versatility?
Jesse Coleman Cadet
Evaluators like the concept of positions in sports. They like to be able to look at facts and figures and then compare them to the statistical norms for a player at the same position. This simplifies player scouting, as it sticks to a tried and true method and if players are misevaluated, excuses can me made (e.g. “they didn’t have the measurables”). But with the way sports are evolving, is sticking positional norms and pigeonholing players into a certain model the most effective method for managing players. The stretch big man has become the most valuable commodity in the NBA. Kevin Durant transforms Golden State into an almost unstoppable force with his combination of outside scoring, ball handling ability and rim protection when he moves to the 4 position. Likewise, on the other side of the country Kristaps Porzingis provides the Knicks with the prototypical stretch centre (seriously it’s as if he was created in an underground laboratory by Dirk Nowitzki and Tyson Chandler) with his blend of perimeter shooting, rim running and shot blocking making him the ideal big man for the current up-tempo, perimeter style NBA. In the NFL general managers are dying for hybrid line-backers and skat running backs, players who can create match-up problems for opposing head coaches. Jabrill Peppers (switched between safety, cornerback and line-backer in college) and Christian McCaffrey (a dynamic ball runner with the hands to line up at receiver on any given play) are two example of the growing trend towards these type of players and GM’s will illustrate their value, as both will be taken very early in the 2017 draft. Versatility is extremely important in the MLB, with most position players developing as shortstops or catchers, as junior coaches place their best players in the positions most likely to impact the outcome of the game. Once they are ready to produce at a major league level, position switches are extremely common with players like Mookie Betts and Bryce Harper moved to outfield positions to get their bats into their team’s line-up. Players like David Alaba (a player who can essentially play any position on the field except striker, and that shortcoming may only be down to lack of opportunity) in European football provide managers with extreme freedom when selecting a line-up, knowing that if injury strikes he can be moved all over the field. It seems overseas sporting codes have caught onto this trend, and with Cronulla’s Jack Bird signing with the Brisbane Broncos for a reported $4 million over 4 years starting in 2018, is the NRL finally starting to value versatility?
Coming through the St George junior system playing as a lock forward Bird’s NRL level talent was never questioned, but some were unsure about his best positional fit at the top level. Since moving to the Shire in 2015 and making his subsequent NRL debut in round 4 that year Bird has shown that it may not matter what his best position is, with his ability to impact a game from any position on the field unquestioned. The NRL’s rookie of the year at five-eighth was thrust into the centres after Cronulla’s recruitment of Chad Townsend, and his form out wide was good enough to see him play State of Origin at just 21 years of age. To start 2017 he played at fullback with Valentine Holmes sidelined, and despite his backline flexibility many astute judges feel his best position moving forward may be as an old fashioned, ball playing 13. Some may say the Broncos will be paying up to a million dollars a season for a player without a position. What if you don’t need a set position? Bird and Milford may start as the halves pairing at Red Hill next season. As Bird has said in the past he has a desire to get his hands on the ball as often as possible and playing the halves is somewhere that can happen. Whilst both players may appear to be more traditional sixes rather than sevens, both are extremely talented players that can single-handedly take over games. If the halves experiment doesn’t work, Wayne Bennett will have numerous options at his disposal, with Kodi Nikorima or a positional switch for Darius Boyd at the top of the list, allowing Bird to fit into basically any other position in the line-up and continue to impact the game, whether that be from centre, fullback or lock. Whilst some may scoff at paying that kind of money for a player who is yet to nail down a set position, I fail to see how signing a player with the talent of Jack Bird and someone with the positional flexibility he provides can be a bad move.
Bird is hardly the only NRL player that provides his coach with extreme positional versatility, with Tyrone Peachey another player in that mould. Peachey has played all throughout the forwards and backs at NRL level, particularly excelling in the centres towards the end of 2016 where his form led to calls for him to be included as the bench utility for the upcoming State of Origin series. Tohu Harris is another player who gets bounced around his side, with the big back-rower even starting a test for New Zealand at five-eighth. Johnathan Thurston’s recent injury has allowed John Asiata to thrill crowds with his ball playing skills, while other big bodied forwards such as John Sutton, Jack De Belin and Kenny Edwards have all filled in as replacement halves in the past. Flexible second-rowers like Chris McQueen and Bodene Thompson are regularly called upon to shift into the backline mid game due to injury and never let the team down. As with the previously mentioned baseball example, the NRL can also see positional changes based upon getting talented players into the team. A back-rower all throughout his junior football but someone who possessed elite athletic ability and an astounding turn of foot for someone his size, Corey Oates was moved to the wing as a way of getting into the starting line-up and has gone onto rep honours at the position. Whilst many tout the young Bronco with a move back to the forwards in the future, his play in the backs may make it hard to move him. Sione Mata’utia was an extremely talented outside back, even becoming the youngest player to ever play for Australia after only his debut season at Newcastle. Sione has since followed players like Luke Lewis and Tony Williams by transitioning from the wing to the back-row, with his combination of size and quickness a dangerous proposition for teams in the middle of the field.
Contrast this to the state of the game only 5 years ago, and whilst there were the previously mentioned switches to the forwards for players like Lewis and Williams, it is hard to remember the game being littered with players with such positional versatility. Is it possible that coaches are preparing this way, somewhat encouraging their players to be able to fill roles right throughout the team and teaching them the skills they will need for these positions? It might not be such a bad move, especially with the introduction of the HIA testing and crack down on concussions. With almost every head knock now forcing a player from the field (for very good reason) coaches are regularly forced to reshuffle their teams on the run. Injuries have always been a part of the sport, but the regularity that players are taken off for head assessments in the current game means that players capable of filling multiple positions can become a vital for coaches. Compound this with the fact that many teams are trending towards benches with 4 forwards, players like Bird and Peachey are becoming increasingly valuable. Whilst having no defined position used to be a dilemma for coaches, is it possible that such players are becoming more valuable than ever?
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Can we predict colorectal cancer risk from our DNA?
Melissa Wong
Researchers in the United States examined the genomes of over 125,000 people to identify genetic variants associated with increased colorectal cancer risk.
Colorectal cancer is one of the deadliest cancers worldwide. Colorectal cancer starts from cells in the large intestine, comprised of the colon and rectum. These cells may stop functioning normally and start to multiply faster than normal, leading to the development of tumours. These tumours may eventually become cancerous and able to spread to other parts of the body.
Colorectal cancer risk increases with age, which is why doctors recommend routine screening for signs of tumours in the rectum and colon for those over 50. However, a family history of colorectal cancer and other genetic factors can also increase the risk of developing colorectal cancer.
Genetic variants and disease
Genetic variants are small differences in a specific DNA sequence among different people. Genetic variants may be in genes, which are segments of DNA that code for a protein to be produced, or in the DNA between genes. These variants can occur anywhere in the genome, which is the entire set of DNA sequences present in each cell.
Many genetic variants do not lead to any obvious effects on our appearance, how our body functions, etc. However, some genetic variants put people at a higher risk of developing diseases such as cancer. Variants can hinder the function of a gene or cause a gene to be expressed too much or not enough. As a result, cells may be prone to changes that occur early in the development of cancer.
Many researchers have searched for genetic variants that increase colorectal cancer risk. To find genetic variants associated with a disease, researchers often use genome-wide association studies (GWAS). GWAS examine many different genetic variants across the genome in people with the disease and people without the disease. Researchers then determine what variants are present in people with the disease much more often than in people who do not have the disease.
A search for genetic risk factors for colorectal cancer
Previous studies identified 55 genetic variants associated with an increased risk of developing colorectal cancer. However, these variants only account for a small fraction of patients with a family history of colorectal cancer, meaning there are many more genetic factors to be uncovered.
In a study recently published in Nature Genetics conducted at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in the United States, researchers performed a GWAS to uncover additional genetic variants that increase colorectal cancer risk. These researchers used genetic data from more than 125,000 individuals, which is nearly double the sample size of previous GWAS studies on the subject. This large sample size helped them extract rare genetic variants that were not identified in previous studies.
Researchers sequenced the genomes of 1,439 people with colorectal cancer and 720 people without colorectal cancer (controls). They pooled this data with genome sequences from 45 other studies from the Genetics and Epidemiology of Colorectal Cancer Consortium, the Colorectal Cancer Transdisciplinary Study, and the Colon Cancer Family Registry. In total, they examined genome sequences from 59,570 people with colorectal cancer and 68,067 controls.
New variants associated with altered risk of colorectal cancer
Researchers identified 40 new variants associated with increased colorectal cancer risk. Many of these new variants are close to previously identified variants on the genome, or function in the same processes as previously identified variants.
The researchers also found that many of these new variants are not in genes that encode proteins but in regulatory elements. Regulatory elements are DNA sequences near genes that affect how much a nearby gene or set of genes gets expressed.
Remarkably, the researchers also identified a rare variant that seems to have a protective effect against colorectal cancer. Participants with this variant in the gene CHD1, which affects how DNA is packaged in the nucleus, had a lower incidence of colorectal cancer.
Important knowledge for disease prevention
Knowing what genetic variants affect a person’s risk of developing a disease is important for disease prevention. If we know what variants put people at a higher risk of developing colorectal cancer, genetic testing earlier in life can inform those at higher risk that they need to start routine screening earlier.
Though this screen identified many more genetic variants that increase colorectal cancer risk, there are still many genetic factors that remain undiscovered. The previously identified 55 genetic variants only accounted for 8.8% of colorectal cancer patients with a family history of the disease. With the addition of the 40 genetic variants identified in this study, still, only 11.2% of these familial cases of colorectal cancer are accounted for.
One limitation of this study is that the individuals used were mostly of European ancestry (91.7% European ancestry, 8.3% East Asian ancestry). Continued research will include participants from more diverse ethnic backgrounds to uncover additional genetic variants that affect colorectal cancer risk that are present in people of non-European ancestry.
Written by Melissa H. Wong, MSc
Reference: Huyghe JR, Bien SA, Harrison TA, et al. Discovery of common and rare genetic risk variants for colorectal cancer. 2018. Nat Genet DOI:10.1038/s41588-018-0286-6
colorectal cancer risk
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HOPE Dementia Support Groups Know the Benefits of Doll Therapy
As you can clearly see, the joy provided by doll therapy for those with memory loss is unmistakable.
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An Unexpected Friendship with Gertie and NBA Star Kenneth Faried
An Unexpected Friendship
Gertie is her name and his name is Kenneth… Kenneth Faried, the star NBA player for the Denver Nuggets. At first glance, they seem to have nothing in common, but they actually have an AMAZING friendship. Gertie first met Kenneth several years ago at a Special Olympics event with the Denver Nuggets NBA basketball team. Being from Colorado, Gertie has always been a big fan of his. A year later, Gertie was in a Down Syndrome fashion show and her escort was Kenneth! They bonded immediately and never looked back.
In 2016 at the beginning of the school year, Gertie told her mother she wanted to invite Kenneth to come and be her Show and Tell friend at her school. Gertie’s mother, Heidi, contacted Kenneth and invited him. Kenneth didn’t bat an eye; he just asked when and where and said he would be there. Both of their lives changed and they have never been the same since.
Memorable Pets & Believable Babies learned of this story because Gertie’s mother bought one of our handmade art Reborn baby dolls for Gertie’s birthday on October 13th. After her birthday had come and gone, Heidi reached out to us to tell us how happy Gertie was with her new baby. I asked Heidi if Gertie had given the baby doll a name and she then explained to me the friendship and love that Gertie has for Kenneth Faried, the NBA star. Heidi said Gertie named her baby “Kenneth”, even though her new reborn baby doll is a girl.
Heidi explained that she ordered the doll through Memorable Pets & Believable Babies because we give 10% of the proceeds to Alzheimer’s research. She told me that Gertie has Down Syndrome and that over 50% of people with Down Syndrome get Alzheimer’s when they are young adults, often in their 30’s. Heidi said it is something she is passionate about and that her grandfather had Alzheimer’s.
Heidi went on to say that Kenneth is such an amazing person. He always makes sure to give Gertie a hug or high five at the games, and he even has let her warm up with him before a game. Heidi said her family is truly blessed to have him in their lives. One cute story that Heidi shared is about how Gertie signed her own gym shoe and gave it to Kenneth. So, after the Nuggets’ last game of the year, Kenneth ran up to Gertie, took off his shoe, signed it, and said now they both have each other’s shoe!
To make things even more interesting, our daughter Jessica went to Morehead State University in Kentucky during the same time Kenneth Faried played basketball for Morehead State in 2011. Kenneth put Morehead State on the map by upsetting the University of Louisville’s team during the first round of the NCAA tournament. Kenneth was drafted by the Denver Nuggets in the first round of the 2011 NBA draft.
Last year Gertie wrote to The Ellen Show with a request to share her story about her best friend Kenneth Faried. Ellen accepted the request, and they are coordinating schedules to be on The Ellen Show in the near future!
Heidi’s last message to me said it has truly been amazing to watch Gertie and Kenneth together and to see how much love they have for each other. She thanked me for the beautiful baby and for helping make it possible to one day find a cure for Alzheimer’s. Heidi ended her message with, “You are making the world a better place!”
Kenneth's nickname is the "Manimal" so Gertie nicknamed herself the "Fanimal"!
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Stuffed Animals for Geriatric Patients
Thank you very much for your donation of 6 pets. We did received them from the Hospital Foundation soon after their arrival.
After all the staff enjoyed to look at them we have started to include them in our distribution program. We gave out our first one today and had excellent results.
On a funny note, our social worker was carrying one of the long-haired dogs donated and a hospital administrator came up to see why an unauthorized animal was being brought to the hospital by staff.
The patient who received it enjoyed it very much as well.
Anthony Arslan, DO, CAQGM
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Communicate through Memorable Pets
This week's blog takes a look at an article from The Alzheimer's Reading Room, entitled 'Communicating with the Deeply Forgetful'.
The article seeks to explain and break down how people living with later stages of Alzheimer's view the world around them, and in particular, how their reality is much different from the reality that we are used to.
In order to foster a means of helpful communication, the focus of the caregiver should shift to the new reality of a deeply forgetful person—that is—what they think and believe to be true. This is sometimes difficult, as it often involves "playing" pretend" or placating them in ways that you are not used to, especially when the person you are caring for is someone you hold to a high degree of respect.
"I feel confident when I say this—you won't be able to convince a person who is deeply forgetful that they are wrong, and you won't be able to convince them that your reality is the true reality." (source)
The goal then, is to discover ways to communicate that benefit both the caregiver and a loved one with Alzheimer's.
Memorable Pets invokes the philosophy of traditional pet therapy; that animals can have a calming and positive effect on people with Alzheimer's, particularly when it comes to helping them become more social and more involved with other people.
These stuffed animals, which are especially crafted to be realistic and cuddly alternatives to real dogs and cats, can provide a very special link of communication between a person with Alzheimer's and their caregiver and/or family. They are capable of not only soothing agitation and other kinds of stress, but also of stirring and rekindling old memories by way of a beloved family pet and companion.
Read more: Communicating with the Deeply Forgetful
At Memorable Pets, we are highly dedicated to raising funds for Alzheimer's awareness and research, which is why a portion of the proceeds from each Memorable Pet goes toward Alzheimer's care. You can learn more about our selection of pets and how you can help at our website: memorablepets.com
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Alzheimer's Therapy: Keeping Imagination Alive
Our blog today looks at the work being done at Pine Run Retirement Community in Doylestown, Pennsylvania, where the residents use painting and clay molding to rekindle their memories.
Kris Sinisi, an art instructor at the community who helps the residents with their projects says that imagination is something that does not falter: "They may lose certain memories, but imagination is key, and it's always there, and it can always be sparked and triggered."
In the same way, Memorable Pets seeks to help patients with dementia and Alzheimer's reinvent memories of their beloved pets, and through the interaction with stuffed animals, act as a social bond they share with their loved ones.
Many patients who receive a Memorable Pet believe it is alive--an actual dog or cat. This sense of imagination and belief is crucial to the outlet for nurturing and caring for something that a Memorable Pet provides.
Read more: Art of Aging: Alzheimer's Therapy
'Baby Doll' brings Joy and Light to the Darkness of Alzheimer's
Our blog entry today is on a narrative by Nancy Wurtzel, public relations professional, creative writer, and owner of the blog Dating Dementia, who relays the story of her mother's gradual decline into the hardships of Alzheimer's disease at the age of 85.
In her later stages after diagnosis, Wurtzel's mother, once highly social and outgoing, began to withdraw from the world and stopped attempting meaningful interactions or conversations. In her earlier stages, she began hoarding containers of old food and became obsessed with winning games like bingo or cards—often sulking like a child when she lost.
As her mother continued to withdraw and her years grew shorter and her world became smaller, Nancy turned to doll therapy, and hesitantly bought a soft-bodied realistic doll for her mother, hoping it would bring some comfort to her.
The effect was amazing. Upon giving her mother the doll, Nancy could tell she was instantly fascinated. Her mother and 'Baby Doll', as they called the doll, became inseparable. Caring for and interacting with Baby Doll gave Nancy's mother a new sense of purpose, companionship, and joy.
When Nancy's mother passed away in Nancy's own home under hospice care, Baby Doll was with her, cradled under her chin.
Read more: Baby doll brings comfort during the Alzheimer's journey
Doll therapy is similar in concept to using stuffed animals for comfort and healing, in the way that Memorable Pets does. Realistic and soft plush animals can give Alzheimer's and dementia patients a new purpose in caring for something, and create a strong bond between patient and pet that can last for the remainder of a loved one's life.
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Hilarity for Charity Grants for Alzheimer's Care
Actor and comedian Seth Rogen, along with his wife, Lauren Miller Rogen, have dedicated a charity known as Hilarity for Charity to helping families receive free Alzheimer's care for their loved ones. Hilarity for Charity has partnered with Home Instead Senior Care—an organization built around providing in-home care to Alzheimer's patients within the U.S. and Canada.
The charity's care grants have already provided 6,000 hours of free care to more than 130 families, and the organization is still accepting applications for grants, which range from 25 hours of short-term care to long-term care.
To apply for a grant from Hilarity for Charity, please visit Help for Alzheimer's Families.
Read more: Comedian’s charity provides grants for Alzheimer’s care
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Memory Alpha pages needing citation, Earth starship classes, Starship classes (mirror)
Unnamed Earth starship classes
(covers information from several alternate timelines)
List of unnamed Earth starship classes.
Delta-shaped hull-class Edit
This type of starship was used by Starfleet during the mid-22nd century. The primary hull was triangular in shape, and had two nacelles mounted port and starboard angled upward from and slightly above the hull.
These vessels were equipped with forward and aft phase cannons. (ENT: "The Expanse", "Twilight")
This class was also present in the mirror universe. (ENT: "In a Mirror, Darkly", "In a Mirror, Darkly, Part II")
This class is named the Ganges-class in extended media. (citation needed • edit)
Ventral view
See: Unnamed ships of this class
Detached primary and secondary hull-class Edit
Ships defending Earth
This type of starship was used by Starfleet during the mid-22nd century. The primary and secondary hull of this class were connected via the nacelles, which were directly attached to the primary hull and via pylons to the secondary hull. (ENT: "Storm Front, Part II")
The Warp Delta on its magazine cover, showing Bonchune's "advanced" 'nurnies' and 'greebling'"
The CGI model of the Delta-shaped hull-class ship was designed by John Eaves and actually started out originally as the "back end" of the Emmette-type warp ship model seen flying above Luna during the opening credits of the Star Trek: Enterprise, and was constructed as such at at Foundation Imaging.
During the second season, Eaves was called upon to modify his original design. The final draft script of "The Expanse" called for "warp two ships". Visual Effects (VFX) Supervisor Robert Bonchune clarified, "The next season when we needed some "older" starships (than NX-01), John Eaves went ahead and truly finalized the complete shape as was seen in the episodes. However, since this was considered a more advanced production version, the "back end" old style rocket exhausts were deleted and replaced with more "advanced" 'nurnies' and 'greebling'." [1] Bonchune described the inspiration of this design as "a kind of Romulan/Federation hybrid." [2]
Bonchune's "Romulan/Federation hybrid" remark actually harkened back (or foreshadowed from an in-universe POV) to a remark Commander Hansen made, when he described an attacking Romulan Bird-of-Prey, designed along very similar lines. In a shot, but deleted scene from TOS: "Balance of Terror", Hansen stated, "You see it, Enterprise?! Starship design. Warn Earth...(STATIC CRACLE)...espionage, stolen our designs...traitors..." (Revised final script draft, July 18, 1966, Scene 46, p. 17; [3])
It was during its modification at Foundation's successor, Eden FX that this type of vessel became referred to by its VFX team as the "Warp Delta." Additional views could until 2013 be found at the Drex Files(X). As "Warp Delta" – indicative of the official franchise also accepting the hitherto unofficial behind-the-scenes designation – the model became in 2016 prominently featured in and on issue 82 of the Britsh partwork publication Star Trek: The Official Starships Collection.
The "Detached primary and secondary hull-class" ships were a reuse of the Steamrunner-class CGI model used for Star Trek: First Contact, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, and Star Trek: Voyager, which were set over two centuries later.
In Christopher L. Bennett's novel Uncertain Logic, the "Delta-shaped hull-class" ship is referred to as the Ganges-class (β).
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The Biomega EV Is A Fun Urban Transport With A Modular Battery System
For electric vehicles, there are a few ways manufacturers approach the design. The most popular option is to make it look as futuristic as possible. Next, is to combine elements of a traditional vehicle with a cutting-edge electric powertrain. Next is to just let the designer’s imagination run free to craft something quirky, fun, and innovative. The Biomega EV falls in the latter category as it presents a playful vibe that hosts a capable emission-free transport.
Biomega is not exactly a name that rings a bell in the automotive industry. This Danish brand has its roots deeply planted with making awesome bicycles for the eco-minded traveler. However, we believe that its first attempt at a four-wheeled transport produced an exceptional machine. Unfortunately, this is still a prototype version. The company plans to release a production model by 2021, which is still a little ways off.
Each wheel is powered by a dedicated motor. All four combine to generate up to 82 horsepower with 118 lb-ft of torque. With a max speed of 80 mph, a full charge of its 20 kWh battery can deliver a range of up to 100 miles. Meanwhile, the body uses lightweight carbon fiber reinforced polymer an aluminum crossbeams for additional safety.
The Biomega EV seats a maximum of four passengers including the driver with ample legroom for comfort. One of the impressive features of this upcoming ride is the modular battery system. According to the manufacturer, owners can quickly access and replace the batteries to extend the mileage in between charges. We can’t wait to see these on the road soon.
Discover more: here
Images courtesy of Biomega
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General information about the project
What is IPUMS MEPS?
What is in the future for IPUMS MEPS?
How do IPUMS MEPS files differ from the MEPS public use files already in distribution?
How does IPUMS MEPS add value to MEPS data?
Where should a new user start?
How do I get access to IPUMS MEPS data?
What are microdata?
What are "weights"?
What does "universe" mean in the variable descriptions?
Why is a variable from the MEPS that I have worked with before not included in IPUMS MEPS?
Can I combine IPUMS MEPS data with other MEPS variables needed for my research?
How is a record uniquely identified?
Data Limitations and Cautions to Users
What are the major limitations of the data?
Are there aspects of IPUMS MEPS data about which to be particularly careful?
Is help available if I encounter problems using IPUMS MEPS?
Getting data
How are the data delivered?
What is the data format?
How do I get data from the MEPS data extraction system?
How long does a data extract take?
How does "sample selection" work on the IPUMS MEPS website?
Can I get the original data?
What is IPUMS MEPS? [top]
The IPUMS Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (IPUMS MEPS) is a harmonized set of data and documentation based on material originally included in the public use files of the U.S. Medical Expenditure Panel Survey and distributed for free over the internet. IPUMS MEPS variables are given consistent codes and have been thoroughly documented to facilitate cross-temporal comparisons.
IPUMS MEPS is not a collection of compiled statistics; it is composed of microdata. Each record represents a person, with all characteristics of that person numerically coded. Because the data refer to individuals and not tables, researchers commonly use a statistical package to analyze the records in the IPUMS MEPS database. A data extraction system enables users to select only the survey years and variables they require.
What is in the future for IPUMS MEPS? [top]
The IPUMS MEPS Project is funded by a grant from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD). We currently offer 1,000 annual person-level variables from the 1996-present full-year consolidated files. Future goals are to facilitate easier use of MEPS data longitudinally and explore additional file types.
We hope to continue the project beyond our present five-year funding period, but we will have to secure further funding as our current grant expires. To be successful, we need to demonstrate the existence of a large body of works based on IPUMS MEPS data or documentation. If you use IPUMS MEPS to create educational materials, satisfy a course requirement, or prepare a report, presentation, publication, or thesis, please tell us about it, by adding to our bibliography site.
How do IPUMS MEPS files differ from the MEPS public use files already in distribution? [top]
Public use files for the MEPS are the basis for IPUMS MEPS data. These original public use files also include variables not yet included in the IPUMS MEPS public database. Researchers can access the original files through the MEPS website. Currently, IPUMS MEPS only includes annual variables offered on the person-level Full-Year Consolidated data files.
The IPUMS MEPS Project recodes the original public use data to increase consistency over time. For the most part, IPUMS MEPS does not use the same variable names included in the original public use data; variables have been renamed to increase consistency over time and within subject categories. Detail from the original public use variables is preserved in IPUMS MEPS integrated variables, but codes and value labels are often different in the IPUMS MEPS version of a variable.
How does IPUMS MEPS add value to MEPS data? [top]
IPUMS MEPS includes many variable features not available for the original MEPS public use files. By using the IPUMS MEPS data extraction system, analysts can select the years and variables they are interested in and work with a single dataset, without having to link or combine multiple files. IPUMS MEPS provides on-line documentation that describes variable meaning and addresses comparability issues, along with providing information about years available, universes, codes and frequencies, question wording, and appropriate weights for each included variable.
The large number of topics covered by the MEPS make it difficult for researchers to determine from the public use files which variables are available across time. Changes in variable names, even when the question wording remains the same, pose a further challenge. IPUMS MEPS provides consistent variable names and displays which variables are available, by year and topic, in a user-friendly display on its website. Once researchers identify the years and variables relevant to their research project, they can create a data extract or analyze online the variables they choose.
Where should a new user start? [top]
The natural starting points are the "Select Data" or "Browse and Select Data" links on the top banner and the left navigation bar. These links open the variables page, the primary tool for exploring the contents of IPUMS MEPS. By default, the variables page displays one variable group at a time for all years in the data series. You can filter the information at any point to include only the years of interest to you ("Select samples"). More detailed information on using the variable menu is available.
When you select samples, the page will display only variables present in those survey years. An "x" indicates the availability of a variable for a given year in the current IPUMS MEPS database.
On the variables page, clicking on a variable name brings up the variable's documentation. The information about the variable is contained in a number of tabs. The default tab is the overview of the codes for the variable. These categories can suggest the types of research possible with a given sample. Via the "codes" tab, users can also view the unweighted frequencies for each response category in each year. The "description" tab includes a brief description of the variable as well as additional information on such topics as data collection, definitions, and related variables will display if a user clicks on a "show more" link. By clicking on hyperlinks within a variable description, you can access similar information for closely related variables. The "comparability" tab discusses comparability issues across years. Other tabs report the years the variable is available, the variable universe (i.e., who was asked the question), and the appropriate weight(s) to use.
If you have a specific substantive interest, such as optometrist visits, you may wish to use the "Search Variables" feature on the variables page. Entering a word (such as "optometrists") and hitting the "search" button will bring up a list of all variables that include that term in the variable name, label, and, if you wish, variable descriptions and categories. Thus, for example, searching on "optometrists" brings up a list of variables that are otherwise spread between the two topical groups of "office-based provider expenditures" and "ambulatory care expenditures".
Throughout the variable documentation system, there are buttons to "Add to cart." Any variables you select in this way are put in your data cart to include in a data extract. Your selections only last for the current web session.
The Data Cart in the upper right of the variables page keeps track of your variable and sample selections. Once you have made some selections, you can click on "View Cart" to review your choices. If you have selected variables and samples, you can enter the data extract system. To make a data extract, you must be registered to use IPUMS MEPS data. You may, however, browse the website and explore the steps involved in making a data extract without actually logging in and producing an extract. Instructions for using the extraction system are below.
Before beginning analysis of IPUMS MEPS data, users are advised to review the material in the "User Guide" section. These documents discuss such issues as variance estimation, sample design, and the use of weights. The user notes also provide counts of the number of person and household records in the IPUMS MEPS database for each year.
How do I get access to IPUMS MEPS data? [top]
To get access to the data for downloading a customized data extract, users must agree to specified conditions of responsible use, which are similar to the conditions for using the MEPS public use files.
For purposes of internal recordkeeping, and to provide the IPUMS MEPS staff with a clear sense of the user constituency (to improve outreach and better serve users), registration also requires users to provide some information about themselves, such as their discipline, academic or non-academic status, and institutional affiliation. Registered users are automatically added to the IPUMS MEPS e-mail list and receive occasional newsletters reporting data releases and new website features. To register for access to the data, go to the IPUMS MEPS registration webpage.
What are microdata? [top]
Microdata are composed of individual records containing information collected on persons and households. The unit of observation is the individual. The responses of each person to the different survey questions are recorded in separate variables.
Microdata stand in contrast to more familiar "summary" or "aggregate" data. Aggregate data are compiled statistics, such as a table of marital status by sex for some locality. There are no such tabular or summary statistics in the IPUMS MEPS data.
Microdata are flexible. One need not depend on published statistics from a survey that compiled the data in a certain way, if at all. Users can generate their own statistics from the data in any manner desired, including performing individual-level multivariate analyses.
See an image of microdata here. All IPUMS microdata are in this general format.
What are "weights"? [top]
MEPS data are collected through a complex stratified sampling scheme that includes oversampling of some population subgroups. This means that persons and households with some characteristics are over-represented in the samples, while others are underrepresented. To obtain representative statistics using IPUMS MEPS data, users must apply weights.
IPUMS MEPS contains several weights. Which weight to use depends on the unit of analysis (household or person) and the sampling approach for the variable(s) in question (e.g., all persons versus a sample adult or sample child drawn from each family).
Each variable description contains a tab specifying the weight that should be used with that variable in each year, if that variable were analyzed in isolation. If multiple variables using different sampling strategies and weights are combined in one table or in a multivariate analysis, then the weight employed should fit the variable with the most restrictive sampling scheme.
For more information about the use of weights with IPUMS MEPS data, consult the User Note on Weights.
What does "universe" mean in the variable descriptions? [top]
The universe is the population at risk of having a response for the variable in question. In most cases, these are the households or persons to whom the survey question was asked, as reflected on the survey questionnaire. For example, employment variables do not include children, since the MEPS does not ask children under the age of 16 about employment.
Cases that are outside of the universe for a variable are labeled "NIU" (Not In Universe) on the codes page. A change in a variable's universe across years is a common data comparability issue.
Why is a variable from the MEPS that I have worked with before not included in IPUMS MEPS? [top]
As of the spring of 2019, IPUMS MEPS includes more than 1,400 integrated variables from Full Year Consolidated files covering the period 1996-2016. During the remaining years of the current IPUMS MEPS grant period, we anticipate delivering all round-level variables from the 1996-present Full Year Consolidated files.
In a few cases, the MEPS survey contained questions about topics not included in the original MEPS public use files. The survey responses may never have been processed, or the responses may be included only as part of a composite recoded variable, or the variable may have been left out of the public use files due to confidentiality concerns. Because the MEPS public use files are the raw material used to create the IPUMS MEPS database, variables missing from the public use files are missing from IPUMS MEPS.
Can I combine IPUMS MEPS data with other MEPS variables needed for my research? [top]
Interested users can combine variables from IPUMS MEPS and MEPS public use files. Variables from the original MEPS public use files (that are not yet in the IPUMS MEPS system) can be linked to an IPUMS MEPS data extract. IPUMS MEPS has created linking keys from the series of original MEPS variables that are used to uniquely identify persons (MEPSPID). MEPSID is an IPUMS MEPS variable that combines the original MEPS values for DUID, PID, and PANEL to create a single unique identifier. Analysts interested in linking IPUMS MEPS and other MEPS variables may use these unique identifiers as linking keys.
How is a record uniquely identified? [top]
Three variables constitute a unique identifier for each person record in MEPS: DUID, PID, and PANEL (dwelling unit identifier, person identifier, and panel number). These variables are all available in IPUMS MEPS, but the IPUMS MEPS variable MEPSID combines them into a single unique identifier variable. These unique identifiers can be used as linking keys to merge variables from the MEPS public use files to IPUMS MEPS data.
What are the major limitations of the data? [top]
The data consist entirely of records for individual persons from the public use files of the MEPS. IPUMS MEPS does not deliver aggregate or published statistics from the survey. Researchers interested in aggregate data will find it on the Agency for Health Care Research and Quality (AHRQ) MEPS website.
The number of persons and households in the survey varies from year to year, but, on average, the survey covers about 30,000 persons in about 12,000 households each year. Exact figures on the number of households and persons included in IPUMS MEPS in each year are available in the user guide note on sample sizes. To achieve adequate sample sizes for some subgroups, researchers may wish to combine data from two or more survey years.
Because the MEPS data are public-use, measures have been taken to assure confidentiality. Names and other identifying information are suppressed. You cannot find specific individuals in the IPUMS MEPS data or use these data for genealogical research. Moreover, because the MEPS uses population samples to generate the data, there is no guarantee that any given individual will be in the dataset. Finally, the registration form requires potential users to commit to using the data responsibly, including utilizing the data for statistical reporting and analysis only and making no effort to identify particular individuals in the data.
Geographic detail in the MEPS public use files and thus in IPUMS MEPS is limited to the identification of census regions. Researchers can access more geographic detail and add it to an IPUMS MEPS data extract by working with the staff of AHRQ Data Center. If your research proposal is approved, you can access restricted data (including geographic identifiers) through on-site analysis at the AHRQ Data Center in Rockville, MD or at a Census Restricted Data Center, via remote access.
Are there aspects of IPUMS MEPS data about which to be particularly careful? [top]
IPUMS MEPS is an integrated dataset based on the MEPS public use files. However, IPUMS MEPS coding schemes follow different conventions than MEPS in many instances. For example, MEPS uses the convention of 1 = Yes and 2 = No, while IPUMS MEPS uses the convention 1 = No and 2 = Yes. To pick another example, values of "-1" in the original MEPS public use data files are converted to non-negative values (usually beginning with a 0 or a 9, to indicate "not in universe" cases) in IPUMS MEPS. Moreover, to achieve comparably coded variables over time, IPUMS MEPS has recoded most variables from the original MEPS coding schemes. Users are strongly urged to review the IPUMS MEPS documentation carefully and to not assume that variable values will be coded the same in IPUMS MEPS as they were in the MEPS files.
The MEPS uses a complex sampling scheme, so all IPUMS MEPS samples are weighted. Put another way, individuals in the data do not all represent an identical number of persons in the population in a given year. It is therefore necessary to use the appropriate weight variables when analyzing these samples. A user guide information on sampling weights discusses the proper use of weights with IPUMS MEPS data. In addition, the "Weights" section at the top of each variable description specifies the suggested IPUMS MEPS weight to use with that variable, by year.
The MEPS does not contain the full universe of persons in the U.S. population. Rather, the survey samples the civilian non-institutionalized population and thus excludes such persons as residents of nursing homes and members of the armed forces living in barracks. A user guide note on sample design contains information about the MEPS sampling scheme and changes in MEPS sampling over time. A user guide note on analysis and variance estimation discusses appropriate practices using IPUMS MEPS data.
It is important to examine the documentation for the variables you are using. The codes and labels for variable categories do not tell the whole story. Two features of the variable documentation merit special attention. First, examine the universe for a variable (the population at risk of answering the question), which can differ subtly or markedly across years. Second, read the comparability discussions for the variables in which you are interested.
Is help available if I encounter problems using IPUMS MEPS? [top]
Users who encounter problems with the IPUMS MEPS extract system, data, or documentation can e-mail ipums@umn.edu to receive assistance. The IPUMS MEPS Project staff also welcomes feedback from users who encounter errors, inconsistencies, or lack of clarity in the data and documentation. Users who contact us with information about a legitimate and substantial error in the data or documentation will be sent a complimentary IPUMS mug.
How are the data delivered? [top]
IPUMS MEPS data are delivered through our data extraction system. Users select the variables and years they are interested in, and the system creates a custom-made extract containing only this information. The system will pool data from multiple survey years into a single data file.
Data are generated on our server. The system sends out an email message to the user when the extract is completed. The user must download the extract and analyze it on a local machine. Instructions for downloading and reading the data are available here. Users must login as an IPUMS MEPS data user (with your e-mail address and password) or to register as an IPUMS MEPS data user to create and access data extracts.
Instructions for using the extraction system are below.
What is the data format? [top]
IPUMS MEPS produces fixed-column ASCII data.
In addition to the ASCII data file, the system creates a statistical package syntax file to accompany each extract. The syntax file is designed to read in the ASCII data while applying appropriate variable and value labels. The statistical packages Stata, SAS, and SPSS are supported. You must download the syntax file with the extract, or you will be unable to read the data. The syntax file requires minor editing to identify the location of the data file on your local computer; directions regarding these minor edits are available here. You may also choose to download your data as a pre-formatted file ready for use in Stata, SAS, or SPSS, or in CSV format.
A codebook file is also created with each extract. This codebook file records the characteristics of your extract and should be downloaded for recordkeeping.
All data files are created in gzip compressed format. You must decompress the file to analyze it. Most data decompression utilities will handle the files. For example, if you are using Windows Vista or 7, right-click the file name and choose the option to "Extract all." Among the available free software for decompressing files are WinGzip (for Windows) and MacGZIP (for Macs).
IPUMS MEPS offers rectangular and hierarchical data files through the extract system.
The IPUMS MEPS data access system delivers rectangular data at the person level by default. Only person records (selected through the "Annual" drop-down menu on the main variable selection page of the extract builder) are included in these extracts.
IPUMS MEPS also delivers data files rectangularized at the round level in which person information is repeated on each individual's round records. With rectangularization to the round level, there are no separate person-level records in the data extract. No information is lost.
The rectangular person format default can, however, be overridden to yield hierarchical data consisting of person records followed by activity records of each person. Users who request hierarchical data will need to select variables for inclusion in their extracts from the round records. This is done from the same variable selection page in the extract builder as the selection of annual (person-level) variables.
How do I get data from the MEPS data extraction system? [top]
The data extraction system is a flexible tool. There is no need to download variables or survey years you do not expect to use for your current analysis.
Browsing and selecting data
You begin by browsing and selecting data, which you can do by clicking "Select Data" from the top menu or "Browse and Select Data" from the left menu. This takes you to the variables page, where you can browse or search variables and limit your view to certain samples. Select variables by checking the boxes next to each variable's name, or select samples by clicking the grey "Select Samples" button at the top of the screen. When you are done, click the green "VIEW CART" button at the top right corner of your screen. This takes you to your Data Cart.
The data cart
Your data cart provides you with the list of variables you just selected (together with certain variables that are automatically included with all extracts). From here you can remove variables from your data cart, return to the variables page to add more variables, or add/change your sample selections. When you are ready to make an extract, click the green "CREATE DATA EXTRACT" button. This takes you to the extract system.
The extract system
On the first extract page, you will see a summary of your data extract, including the number of variables, samples, estimated size, and data format. Note that some variables are preselected for you. The data extract system automatically supplies variables that indicate the sample year (YEAR) and panel (PANEL), are needed for variance estimation (PSU and STRATA), uniquely identify records (MEPSID), and are used for weighting the variables and years selected. On this page, you may also select data quality flags if they are available for any variables in your cart.
On the first page, you may also include a brief summary of your extract; these are useful if you want to modify or resubmit your extract in the future. The system records every extract you make. You can reload and modify an old extract, dropping or adding variables or survey years. To explore past extracts, go to the Download or Revise Extracts page and click on the "Revise" link.
After selecting data quality flags and entering a description of your extract, you will be prompted for your e-mail address (which provides us with a means of contacting you) and your password. To use the extract system, users must register. Users are automatically granted access create data extracts when they create an account and agree to all conditions for use.
How long does a data extract take? [top]
The time needed to make an extract differs, depending on the number and size of samples requested and the load on our server. Creating an extract generally takes only a few minutes. The system sends an email upon completion of the extract, so there is no need to stay active on the IPUMS MEPS site during the creation of the extract.
How does "sample selection" work on the IPUMS MEPS website? [top]
When a user first enters the variable documentation system, data samples from all years are selected by default. Every variable in the system will display on relevant screens.
Users can filter the information displayed by selecting only the sample years of interest to them. Only the variables available in the selected sample years will then appear in the variable lists. The integrated variable descriptions and codes pages will be filtered to display only the linked survey text and codes and frequencies corresponding to the selected samples. Sample selections can be altered at any time in your session. Selections do not persist beyond the current session.
Can I get the original data? [top]
As noted, the raw material for the IPUMS MEPS database comes from the MEPS public use files provided by the Agency for Health Care Research and Quality. These original data are available on the AHRQ MEPS data and documentation page. The AHRQ's MEPS public use files also include variables and supplements not yet covered by IPUMS MEPS.
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Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.: 10 Times FitzSimmons Was Relationship Goals
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From their first introduction in Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., the audience knew Leopold Fitz and Jemma Simmons had a special bond. Before they were even shown on the screen, they were introduced as one entity: FitzSimmons. Throughout the show’s run, Fitz and Simmons grew from best friends to the ultimate romantic partners.
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Fitz and Simmons will traverse the universe a million times over to get to one another. Neither time nor space can keep them apart. As Season 7 approaches, fans are eager to see how the couple reunites after their last parting. Here are 10 times FitzSimmons was relationship goals.
10 Fitz’s Favorite Sandwich
As Fitz prepares to go on a dangerous mission with Grant Ward to the S.H.I.E.L.D. Hub, Simmons offers him his favorite sandwich: prosciutto and buffalo mozzarella with just a touch of homemade pesto aioli. They both know Fitz is heading into dangerous territory and a gift of food is the way Simmons shows her affection.
The smile that lights up his face when he realizes that she knows him so well is precious as all get-out. That’s why when Ward throws his sandwich away it’s an affront to the scientist.
9 Simmons Jumps Out of Zephyr One
When Simmons contracts a Chitauri virus from a helmet leftover after the Battle of New York with the Avengers, she and Fitz work tirelessly to cure her. But they have seen what happens to those humans that are affected by the virus, and they are running out of time.
Knowing that if time runs out before they cure her, she will explode and bring the whole plane down, Simmons decides to sacrifice her life. She knocks Fitz out and makes a tearful goodbye as she jumps out of Zephyr One.
8 Flirting During an Inhuman Autopsy
After they find Inhumans infected with some kind of virus, Fitz and Simmons conduct an autopsy to further investigate its origins. As much as two genius scientists can, they banter back and forth in what counts as flirting for FitzSimmons.
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Fitz gets squeamish, walks away and distracts himself by asking Jemma if she’s seen any good movies lately. She replies with a teasing smile and asks if he’s asking her to see one. Only these two S.H.I.E.L.D. agents could joke about a normal dating life while cutting open an Inhuman’s head.
7 Fitz Gives Simmons the Only Oxygen Mask
Stuck at the bottom of the ocean after Ward sent them careening out of Zephyr One, FitzSimmons believe it is the end for them. Fitz devises a plan to blow open the containment unit so that they can swim to the surface. But there’s only one oxygen tank to make it.
Fitz tells Simmons to take it and bring him to the surface, knowing he might well die in the attempt. Just before they embark on their escape, he confesses his love for her. Jemma is distraught but fights her way to the surface.
6 Fitz’s Hallucination of Simmons
Barely surviving the escape to the ocean surface, Fitz is left with severe brain damage that causes his mind to lose its edge. As he recovers from the injury, Simmons is off on an undercover mission infiltrating HYDRA. To keep his sanity, Fitz hallucinates a version of Jemma that stays by his side and encourages his recovery.
Every time he feels frustrated and hopeless, his imagined Simmons puts a reassuring hand on his shoulder and gives him a warm smile. She is his anchor to finding his way back to himself.
5 Simmons Fights Through the Framework
Aida the Life-Model Decoy traps the agents in the Framework, a virtual alternate reality where they are different people. In this world, S.H.I.E.L.D. is a subversive organization and HYDRA rules, hunting down Inhumans. The head scientist working alongside Aida’s Madame Hydra is none other than Dr. Leopold Fitz.
Simmons wakes up from a mass grave where her virtual self died, and makes her way to D.C. to find Fitz and bring him back to the real world. It’s a grueling battle to save Fitz from his evil self.
4 Fitz Travels Through the Monoliths
After the monoliths take Simmons to an unknown plane of existence, Fitz works day and night to figure out how they took her and where she went. Coulson tells Fitz that Simmons is gone and the other agents are resigned to the loss of their friend.
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But Fitz never gives up, working until he and Daisy realize that the monoliths work on a specific frequency. Once they get the monoliths to work, without a second thought, Fitz jumps through the portal, never knowing what’s on the other side except Simmons.
3 Fitz Freezes Himself to Travel to the Future
Enoch the Chronicom captures the S.H.I.E.L.D. agents and brings them to the future where Earth is destroyed. But Fitz gets left behind and doesn’t know how to bring them back. He devises a plan to put himself in a Cryo-freeze chamber so that he wakes up in the future to rescue his friends and the love of his life.
He’s willing to let any amount of time pass him by so that he can save Simmons and bring her back to their timeline. Nothing stops Fitz and Simmons from finding each other.
2 Simmons Traverses Space to Find Fitz
Once the S.H.I.E.L.D. agents change their timeline, the new version of Fitz dies during the battle with Ruby. But Jemma knows there’s another version of him out in space with Enoch: the Fitz that placed himself in the Cryo-freeze chamber.
Daisy, Piper, and Davis join Simmons in her trek across space to find the chamber and wake that version of Fitz up. She’s so desperate to reunite with him that she’s willing to risk everyone’s lives on the smallest lead to him. But her gamble pays off as they find him.
1 They Work Through Their Issues in the Cerebral Fusion Machine
Captured by the Chronicoms, Fitz and Simmons are forced to live through one another’s memories and hidden feelings as they’re placed in the Cerebral Fusion Machine. FitzSimmons spend a great deal of time battling inner demons and fighting through their complicated feelings.
Every marriage hits a rough patch, but none more than that of Fitz and Simmons. But they work through their core issues and face their deepest fears together to find that their darkest selves are also passionately in love. They escape the machine together, stronger than ever before.
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Is the Pod Racing location real?
In the Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace, when Anakin participates in the Pod race on Tatooine we can see the big location of the race starting point. I know these buildings are fake. So my question is, where was this scene shot? Did they use studios (animated) or a real location to shoot this scene?
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Wide shots were done in Tunisia. However, much of it was done on a miniature set using practical effects, supplemented with CG (Blue Screen) for the final cut.
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Managed to find this location: Sidi Bouhlel, Tozeur, Tunisia according to Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace (1999) Filming Locations
And on the Wikipedia page List of Star Wars filming locations
there are various locations in Tunisia which were used for the Tatooine scenes.
those are just the locations i know, but i think the sets were built, with the crowd and all other manner of alien life was done with CGI. the buildings look a little too "real" to be CGI, given that time (1999), hence they were built.
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What are the shared fundamental components of Baroque and Minimalist music that make them sound similar?
Baroque and minimalist music are two of my favorite genres. In particular, I like the repetitive note sequences with variations. J.-S. Bach's Goldberg Variations and Phillip Glass's Naqoyqatsi are good examples of this.
What similarities do these genres share in a way that might impact how they are performed? Do they have any common foundations in particular aspects of music theory (besides the trivial)? Are they historically related?
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@neilfein it does, in that these genres are still played by musicians, including myself, and the answer will hopefully help me to understand why I enjoy playing and listening to this type of music, play better by understanding what I am playing, and locate more music that I enjoy. – David LeBauer Apr 27 '11 at 13:21
By that logic, I could ask any question about any music genre. I would suggest rewriting to explain how this relates directly to performing or practicing music. – neilfein Apr 27 '11 at 13:31
But this question isn't so much a history question as it is a comparison of genres, but any answer will involve history (like Kyle's excellent answer below does). Posting a thread in meta. – neilfein Apr 27 '11 at 14:03
I proposed another edit to the question, adding other "objective" aspects. I would like the question to stay open if the edit is accepted (or modified, but still objective and sufficiently broad). – delete me♦ Apr 27 '11 at 14:19
This question is much improved. Please don't vote to close without reading the meta thread on this question. – neilfein Apr 27 '11 at 21:45
Couple of ideas...
Baroque music was the period when harmonic progression (instead of just counter point) started to become a fundamental part of composition (See Functional Tonality). Dissonance is resolved to consonance throughout a phase.
Minimalism tends to focus more on a stable harmony, but in both case the Harmony tends to be a very exposed feature of the music.
Timbre:
Although Baroque was regarded as heavily ornamented music at the time, I would say both Baroque and Minamlist music tend to have a more uniform and stable sound.
How might this effect how they are played?
If you feel that these characteristics I gave as examples are important attributes, you can try to emphasize these or other attribute when you play.
With the Harmony, having accurate pitch and tone might help you expose the harmonies better. With timbre, you might try to keep that timbre stable until there is an intentional change of contrast in the music.
Identifying the contrast between these two styles also might help you understand the genres better. With Baroque you want to strongly identify the functional tonality so you can feel the flow of the harmony, and that generally will naturally translate to your playing. With the stable harmonic nature of Minimalism, you might want to emphasize that by having stable steady sections that coincide with those harmonies. In orchestral auditions, awareness of the contrast between styles and periods of music can be heard and is a major factor.
Keep in mind, these are very sweeping generalizations, music is full of exceptions.
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thank you for your answer. I think that it is the harmonic progression that I am interested in, but did not have a name for. – David LeBauer Apr 27 '11 at 15:31
Good answer. This is a subjective question in any situation, but personally I would argue minimalist music shares even more in common with the early Classical period (and its corresponding "back to basics" attitude). – Noldorin Jun 12 '11 at 19:18
You are absolutely right in saying that both have functional harmony/resolve dissonances but it is in fact more useful in drawing comparisons to compare both of these styles with everything in between them. For example, the shift over the Classical and Romantic periods tended to shift, harmonically, towards countering listeners' expectations over a very brief scales of time (there are countless examples, take any symphony by Brahms and listen to the rapidly evolving harmony) whereas Baroque and Minimalist compositional practices adhered to quasi-Schenkerian 'structural dissonances' whereby the music very broadly moves its tonal center containing smaller harmonic intricacies. Take, for example, Steve Reich's Music for 18 Musicians, which moves broadly from stacked 5ths chords build over a D, shifting down to C sharp with much 'darker' harmonies above, then back to D, creating a huge paradigmic harmonic arc over the whole work or Terry Riley's 'In C'. Similarly Bach's 5th Brandenburg concerto which, despite containing normal harmonically functional dissonances, moves from D major through relative minors but then a very extended highly chromatic harpsichord cadenza, then back to the major. This broad scale of harmonic change would not be found in Classical/Romantic/trad 20th century music, which might adhere to other things such as sonata form or cleverly manipulated passages of modulation of differing harmonic rhythm.
Secondly, there is much similarity to be found in the textures that are used - Baroque devices such as a ground bass/passacaglia (see Pachelbel's canon/the passacaglias of the French school such as those of Charpentier) has a repetitivity about it that surely has influenced the devices of repetition, modification and imitation of the minimalists. The Baroque saw some incredibly complex polyphony such as any traditional form of the time (Fugue etc, or even larger forms such as the Masses) as well as constant ornamentation. If you listen to Minimalist music, you will notice a preoccupation with texture such as the interweaving lines of yet more Steve Reich (Drumming, Nagoya Marimbas etc), or the elaborate orchestral effects of John Adams' Two Fanfares for Orchestra or Philip Glass's Violin Concerto.
Having performed both styles of music extensively, I can say that there are certainly similarities in the way you play them, especially compared with Romantic music. The trend of authentic Baroque performance fits with that of minimalism - in neither would you use excessive Rubato/vibrato or other aspects of 'over-expression'. In both there seems to be a trend away from over-interpretation of the composers' writing and a general feeling of letting the music flow completely from start to finish with no interruptions - indeed this is one aspect that strongly characterises the two styles in a similar way. In terms of beat, both Baroque and Minimalism seem to be characterised by a constant unchanging pulse (look at the relentless semiquavers of Vivaldi violin concertos or the constant pulse of Adams' 'Short Ride in a Fast Machine'). Also both seem to draw inspiration from dance patterns and forms, look at how Bach's cello suites reflect now-archaic dance forms such as the minuet, sarabande or gigue, and similarly how minimalist pieces such as 'The Chairman Dances' or 'Music for Pieces of Wood' and how they so clearly contain the aspects of pulse and rhythm found in more recent forms of dance music.
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Three Types of Faith
philosopher Paul Kurtz, in his book The Transcendental Temptation, defines three distinctly different kinds of faith, derived from the amount (or total lack) of evidence drawn upon to support it. Kurtz defines the first kind as “intransigent faith.” By this is meant faith that will not be affected by any sort of contrary evidence, no matter how strong. My own experience with some few persons who persist in believing in certain paranormal claims that have been conclusively proven false enables me to label their faith as Type I. A would-be parapsychologist in Wisconsin was one of those completely taken in by my Project Alpha, an experiment which sent two young student conjurers into a laboratory in St. Louis posing as psychics. They convinced the researchers there that they had “psychic” powers, as evidenced by the researchers’ communications with other scientists and by their lab reports and records. The intent of the Project Alpha experiment was to show that the researchers would have sufficient faith in their abilities to detect trickery and in the assumptions of their trade that they would not exercise either common sense or careful scrutiny in performing their tests. When the hoax was finally revealed, with full explanations from the two participants on exactly how they had performed their tricks, the Wisconsin amateur still insisted that they were genuine. He provides us with a perfect example of Type I faith. Gerry Straub, who spent two and a half years as evangelist/healer Pat Robertson’s television producer and wrote Salvation for Sale, to describe his experiences there, gave his opinion: I am convinced that if Pat Robertson or any other of television’s faith-healers were proven to be pranksters and frauds, the vast majority of their staff and viewers would not drop their belief in the ministers’ healing power or weaken their faith in God. Those people would be exhibiting Type I faith. Type II faith was called by philosopher William James “the will to believe.” As defined by Professor Kurtz it is “willful belief. . . where there is insufficient or no evidence either way to make a rational choice.” It really involves making a decision to believe, even though the reasons for doing so are not compelling. However, there may be reasons for believing that have nothing to do with the logic of the matter; it may be more comforting, more socially advantageous, or simply easier to choose to believe. One who goes along with a political party only because that party has always been the family party exhibits Type II faith. Were I to investigate claimed faith-healings for 60 years and fail to uncover one that meets the bare needs of rational acceptance, Type II believers would still choose to believe— even though they themselves had not been able to produce a single healing— just because I had not disproved the matter. Last, Type III faith is described as “hypotheses based upon evidence.” Here, there is evidence, but not enough evidence or evidence of good enough quality to support total belief. As I step off a curb to cross with a traffic light that has just turned green, I may safely assume that the light will stay green long enough for me to reach the other side. That assumption is based upon my long experience with traffic lights and the knowledge of the general intent of those who designed, manufactured, installed, and maintain the device. I have exhibited Type III faith. Science creates a hypothesis based upon observations, then sets out to examine the validity of that hypothesis. After enough observations have been gathered and the idea has been tested thoroughly with positive results, the hypothesis becomes a theory. The beauty of that theory is that it is subject to revision and/or retraction upon the presentation of contrary evidence. Thus scientists can be said to exhibit Type III faith.
Type I is belief in what is proven false, type II is belief in what has no evidence, and type III is empirical scientifically-proven belief.
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Dead Dead Demon's Dededededestruction
English: Dead Dead Demon's Dededede Destruction
Synonyms: Honobono Fuufu
Japanese: デッドデッドデーモンズデデデデデストラクション
Volumes: Unknown
Chapters: Unknown
Status: Publishing
Published: Apr 28, 2014 to ?
Genres: ComedyComedy, DramaDrama, SchoolSchool, Sci-FiSci-Fi, Slice of LifeSlice of Life, SeinenSeinen
Authors: Asano, Inio (Story & Art)
Serialization: Big Comic Spirits
Score: 8.191 (scored by 35593,559 users)
1 indicates a weighted score. Please note that 'Not yet published' titles are excluded.
Ranked: #5672
2 based on the top manga page. Please note that 'R18+' titles are excluded.
Popularity: #399
Dead Dead Demon's Dededededest...
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22 of ? chapters read
Overall Rating: 10
czxcjx (All reviews)
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WHY DEAD DEAD DEMON HAS ALL THE SIGNS OF BEING BETTER THAN OYASUMI PUNPUN
Everyone who generally reads Asano knows what Asano does best.
The early Asano was mainly short stories about the urban alienate in Japan, with an abundance of self-laceratingly aware or angst filled monologues, and also a tinge of magical realism at parts. Nijigahira Holograph was all of that while pushing the themes into the realm of high allegory. Solanin was the feel good indie comic hit. Oyasumi Punpun was his breakdown testing of a completely new methodology, with vast experimentation over all 147 chapters, plenty of sharp humor and purposeful parodical artifice, and a stretch of characterization beyond just the 'merely pathetic'. It was in there that Asano learned full control of his atmosphere, and stacked less on his woefully poetic monologic style, and placed more faith in his images. Umibe no Onnanoko was the extension of that, tightly written and tightly made, preferring elliptical atmospheric bubbles coagulating together rather than being merely a straightforward narrative about desperate love and lust (or rather it somehow does both equally well, and finds the median to communicate exactly what it needs in every instance).
In one chapter of DeDeDe, a journalist meets up with a public relations officer to interview her about a technological company's development of a new particle beam laser, used to destroy the space aliens that are currently invading Tokyo. The brief conversation they have goes through the whole history of that company, about how they shifted from making robotic/virtual pets, to riding on the agricultural boom by making farming robots, to eventually developing military weapons. In the meantime the conversation also reveals that both the journalist and the PR officer are old classmates and that she's having a bit of trouble with her current boyfriend. The conversation takes about 13 pages, the next 5 or so pages manages to stack even more characterization, a marginally startling narrative reveal, and a joke.
It's great to see a complete flourishing of an artist's style across multiple works, and you can tell he's far from done. Asano just has too much to say, and now he's finally getting away from his standard fare of topics, despite still having the same 'outcast focused' bent, he can finally reach everywhere he wants to reach at once. He's also firmly in his age. DeDeDe is his most contemporaneous work so far, and it seems to be evolving exactly with the times (pretty much the only equivalent out there is probably I Am A Hero). His characters are all the more distinct, coming in all shapes and forms and ideologies, with their own specific viewpoint on the world as they are situated in, and its how these viewpoints satellite off each other that the whole of the manga forms.
I mean its just so many things at once, simultaneously a social/political work, a surreal outre comedy work, character study, sociological study, a heartwarming tale of friendship, a sci-fi work... ornate with as much thick Asano detail as can be possibly mustered. And he pretty much proves the case, that never has there been a more exciting moment in human history, than being able to take current stock of our contemporary times.
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Read it. It is something you should read, probably now or at least soon. And I say this as a person who always hisses with frustration, when she reads Asano, and is ready to disagree with him in this work too. But DeDeDe is currently so relevant, that it’d be stupid not to explore the living nerve. The collision of life and fiction is like nothing else around, so I’ll keep telling you and others to read it.
DeDeDe is about the anxiety that people of today feel or at least sense brewing, especially the young ones, those with the big unknown ahead and the world crumbling all around. DeDeDe is about the eternal question of “How can I have fun with friends, when there is war, and suffering, and death, including the death of my close ones and me, but then what is left to me, if I do not, also what the stupid and weak me can do anyway for this turbulent and complicated reality?”. It contains alienation and aliens, war approaching and love passing, growing up and dying off, faithful friendship and fleeting ideologies, hopes for future and plans for resignation, also a giant-ass flying saucer above Tokyo – the “mothership”, that drops aliens, blocks the sun and embodies this creeping unease.
It’s not easy to sum DeDeDe up. Nor should I attempt to. Asano is at his biggest and most literary here, reminding me of Tolstoy stronger than ever. DeDeDe is a “high” literature novel in scope, sprawling and dialectical, one that clearly aims to reflect the modern life in Japan in its various forms, cataloguing types and summing up experiences. The writing is wonderful, the narrative is complex – the author weaves many stories at once and makes use of the interesting technique of a story into a story (there’s a fictional comic that many characters read and almost every character knows). And the art is superb. Asano has accumulated enough experience and assistants to blend in detailed backgrounds (clearly based on photos), character designs and fictional elements seamlessly, creating shots, that are nothing if not breathtaking. Though it’s useful to remember that fictional world is like that – a focused reflection, not a straight carbon copy.
Too bad Asano is too honest and personal (by the way, that is what I hate Tolstoy for), it’s all him in his work, wherever you look or whoever follow. He eats away his characters mercilessly, and the schoolgirl protagonists (one self-insert for the reader, the other insane) feel like part mouthpieces, part anchors with rare moments of true life of their own. The characters, who are closer to Asano in age and sex, come out considerably more lively. Yeah, schoolgirls, probably, are the logical main characters in an attempt to summarize Japan, and an author does always mold his characters as he wishes, but still it’s not good enough for a big realist novel, which this manga aims to be the closest manga analog to. And Asano heavily discriminates his side characters (even bypassers), making some characters look cartoonish and ugly, giving them some oversimplified caricature features or, specifically, robbing them of “manga eyes”.
For all the deep, torturous topics Asano touches upon in Demon Destruction, for all the tension created, I am sure his answer will be small and personal, one not really solving shit (seen it in his Bakemono Recchan, that was when I found the key to my frustration with his works). This approach is honest, but it’s not enough for a work on ideology, though it happens pretty often even with classics. Also the answer given will be flawed as a result of the situation, of the fantastic analogy, that Asano has personally crafted. Why are aliens like this and not like that? What are they metaphor for? Punpun was easier, growing up and having depression are two things many can empathize with without further questions.
Yet for the potential failure on the ideology front, the personal parts strike close to home. It’s a lot to say this for me, wasn’t easy but I have come around. How could I not, if I also try to have fun with friends, even though I breath the heavy air of today’s world, half already in hell, half going there? And procrastinating death is what all of us do, everyday and no exception. Maybe the personal aspect will betray me as well, the answer of DeDeDe may still turn out to be either too edgy, or too hipster, or too Japanese for my liking, but mostly likely it will be too Asano. But there’s a lot to like and to think about during the ambitious and suspenseful ride. I know I am curious about the answer too, so I am looking forward to it, while I bask in the great atmosphere of DeDeDe, all concentrated Japan, all tension and then also some philosophy and a pinch of good social critique on top.
DeDeDe is the sort of thing you will shove into your professor, who condemns your for reading manga, the sort of thing you go to to repent for all the harem you have read. It is a beautiful and substantial work by a great author, made about things many people, and there’s a good chance you too, are living and pondering right now. Not reading it robs you of an experience, so, come on – read it, better now or at least soon.
bloggbigg (All reviews)
I started from Chapter 1, which 'tricks' you with a faux story off the bat, then switches to the actual story, for seemingly artistic reasons. it's actually pretty cool, and I kid you not, you might be wishing all of it was like that intro- but I'm getting ahead of myself...
This is frequently called a 'Slice of life' manga- but that's not exactly true. It's just abysmally slow. there is a huge plot just hovering over the lives of the characters, but it is pointedly ignored as far as actual development goes. it's just 'always there', unchanging- and sending out a little hint of progress now and then, which will be shot down by the governing structure of the story.
I read 20 chapters of this brilliantly drawn, but ploddingly plotted work before dropping it- and I'll let you know that I wanted it to go somewhere badly, but I'm not patient enough. This is someone's rent payment. A story that will be drawn out from 10 chapters of actual story to 200 with 'filler'- all 'to keep the lights on'. If it delivered more entertainment- I wouldn't care- but the slow and sloppy plotting leaves quite a bit to be desired.
Instead we focus on a bunch of minor characters who... let's assume will fit into the big story somehow, eventually. They go on about everyday life, and this is what makes it 'seem' slice of life, but its really just a vehicle to lengthen the actual plot. How can I know for certain? Because anything that happens in this 'slice of life' ends up meaning nothing in the most anti-climatic way. Now, in fairness the author could be intending that every significant soap opera wrinkle die quietly in apathy (usually overlooked, but occasionally pointedly ignored)- but 'whatever'-
'let's make motions like things are going on while we figure out what to do (and collect a paycheck)'. This is like 'Lost'- but with less effort.
Anyway. If you try to pay attention to the plot, you'll probably hate this. If you actually like the caricature-level stereotype characters... 'More power to you'.
For me, 20 chapters of people talking shit, doing nothing, or accepting absurdity is enough.
Also the title is stupid and means nothing.
Maybe by the end that won't be true- but for now one of the words is a misreading of a character's name, and everything else is garbage.
ParadoxDelta (All reviews)
I'm a huge Inio Asano fan since I read 'Good night PunPun'. If it wasn't for that, I propably wouldn't have managed to read DDDD to the recent chapter 56. This manga barely shows any progress in the first 30 chapters and mostly evolves around the all day life of some schoolgirls with the small addition that there is a giant mothership floating aimlessly over tokyo since 3 years.
The rather interesting premise and funny character constellations are completely eaten away by the pure boredom of a almost nonexistent progress in a story seemingly heading nowhere. The art is superb as expected with some goofy elements here and there and Asano-san tries to raise some questions about violence torwards other inteligent lifeforms but 56 chapters into the story, it hasn't paid off. Also the many popculture references to gaming and image boards seem more like nerd-fanservice rather than being part of the story.
I will propably read on but I can only recommend this to hardcore Asano-fans.
Mairlol (All reviews)
Is Dead Dead Demons Dededededestruction similar to Inio Asano's other works? Not really but its still great.
The story starts off as more of a lighthearted goofy Slice of Life/Comedy with pretty slow plot progression which allows you to invest your time into getting to know and eventually love the main cast of characters.
The depressing or nihilistic tone that many of Inio Asano's fans strangely love is ever so slightly implemented in this manga at times, more so in the later half as the plot starts to get more interesting.
Would i say this is Inio Asanos magnum opus? No, not yet. However i can confidently say this is his second best work so far and encourage you to go into this manga with an open mind and not expect to be psychologically broken from the get go. This manga is not nearly as raw as his other works, so far at least.
Story - 8. The slow plot progression holds the score back a point from me but the recent chapters have been really good. (pacifically chapter 57+)
Art - 10. Inio Asano is at his peak when it comes to his artwork. Some of the backgrounds in DDDD are some of the best in the medium. A lot of the characters are slightly goofy looking but look great, it really suits the atmosphere so i can't really complain.
Characters - 8. The cast are awesome. Though slightly over the top at times, especially Ouran..
*SLIGHT SPOILER* - Her personality makes perfect sense later on. Just in case the over the top antics ruin your sense of realism.
Enjoyment - 9.
Overall - 8.
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2014 Crystal Radio Award Winners Announced
Las Vegas, NV -- The National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) announced today the 10 winners for the 27th Annual Crystal Radio Awards. Since 1987, the NAB Crystal Radio Awards have recognized radio stations for their outstanding year-round commitment to community service. The 2014 NAB Crystal Radio Award recipients listed below were chosen among 50 finalists who were honored at today's NAB Show Radio Luncheon.
KCVM-FM Cedar Falls, IA KYNT-AM Yankton, SD *
KHHT-FM Los Angeles, CA WDHR-FM Pikeville, KY *
KSTP-FM St. Paul, MN WLEN-FM Adrian, MI **
KTAR-FM Phoenix, AZ * WWJ-AM Detriot, MI *
KXKT-FM Omaha, NE WZUS-FM Decatur, IL *
* Denotes first-time recipient
** Denotes fifth Crystal Radio Award
NAB Crystal Radio Award finalists were chosen by a panel of judges representing broadcasting, community service organizations and public relations firms. Finalists were honored and winners announced at today's NAB Show Radio Luncheon, where Yahoo tech columnist David Pogue presented a keynote address and popular national radio personality, television host and best-selling author Steve Harvey was inducted into the NAB Broadcasting Hall of Fame. The luncheon was sponsored by ASCAP.
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Symphony No. 22 in E flat major (The Philosopher / “Der Philosoph”), Hob. I:22
Australian conductor Nicholas Milton has collaborated with the Lithuanian Chamber Orchestra in the past. He has dubbed the LCO a true gem of Lithuanian music culture.
Milton graduated from the Sydney Conservatorium of Music, Michigan State University and Juilliard School where he studied violin, conducting, music theory and Eastern philosophy. A winner of a number of competitions he is also a recipient of different American and Australian awards. Composed in 1764, Haydn’s Symphony No. 22 in E flat major (Der Philosoph / The Philosopher) is described as a music work, which amalgamated stylistic features of late baroque and early classicism.
ORCHESTRA: LITHUANIAN CHAMBER ORCHESTRA
CONDUCTOR: NICHOLAS MILTON
COMPOSER: JOSEPH HAYDN
LITHUANIAN NATIONAL PHILHARMONIC SOCIETY
Address: Aušros vartų st. 5, LT-01304 Vilnius, Lietuva
Contact: tel. +370 5 266 52 10, fax. +370 5 266 52 66
E-mail: info@filharmonija.lt
Tickets: (8 5) 266 52 33, (8 5) 266 5216;
© 2019 Lithuanian National Philharmonic Society
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Triple-S Salud 1st health plan in P.R. with URAC approval
Triple-S Salud is betting on the growth of entrepreneurship in Puerto Rico to expand its coverage. (Credit: © Mauricio Pascual)
This is the first time that a local health plan has achieved URAC accreditation. (Credit: © Mauricio Pascual)
Triple-S Salud announced Wednesday it has obtained URAC accreditation, a designation that demonstrates the highest level of commitment to quality healthcare.
This is the first time that a local health plan has achieved it, the company said.
“As a company dedicated to offering our members the highest quality care, we are very proud to announce that Triple-S has completed all the rigorous requirements and earned the URAC accreditation,” said Madeline Hernández-Urquiza, president of Triple-S Salud.
“This achievement reaffirms our operational excellence, enhances our competitiveness, and more importantly, serves as a guarantee to our members of our commitment to better health outcomes,” she said.
Hernández-Urquiza explained that the strict accreditation process was an opportunity to revisit the company’s policies and procedures to ensure their compliance with national standards of quality, performance and accountability in the healthcare sector.
“As a result, we are now better prepared to serve our members from the very moment they join the plan, thus facilitating access to services and promoting quality of care,” she concluded.
“In earning the Heath Plan Accreditation from URAC, Triple-S Salud proves that it aligns with the key components of the Affordable Care Act as well as healthcare industry trends,” said URAC President Kylanne Green.
“It also shows that Triple-S possesses a willingness to track performance and strive for a continual improvement of services. The company has made a commitment to quality and will stand out in the marketplace,” she added.
URAC is an independent organization that promotes healthcare quality through accreditation, certification and measurement. Their portfolio of accreditation and certification programs spans the healthcare industry, including healthcare management, healthcare operations, health plans, pharmacies, telehealth providers, physician practices, and more.
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107-Year-Old Bronx Woman On The Secret To Her Longevity: ‘I Never Got Married’
Filed Under:Jessica Layton, Local TV, New York, The Bronx
NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) – She’s celebrating more than a century of life.
Louise Signore turns 107 Wednesday. They threw her a party was at the JASA Bartow Senior Center in Coop City.
Louise was born in 1912, a year filled with change and innovation. President William Howard Taft was in office and Woodrow Wilson won the November election. Two more states joined the union: New Mexico and Arizona. The Titanic hit an iceberg and sunk in the Atlantic ocean. In Boston, Fenway Park opened with an exhibition game between the Red Sox and Harvard College, and motorized movie cameras revolutionized Hollywood.
Louise Signoree turned 107 on July 31, 2019. (credit: Jessica Layton/CBS2)
Louise was born in Manhattan that year. She’s lived in the Bronx since she was 14.
More than 100 people packed the party to celebrate Louise. It’s a party fit for Coop City’s favorite celebrity. But at 107 years old, this lovely lady, pretty in pink, will be the first to ask: Why all the fuss?
“I said I’ve had enough parties,” Louise said.
Her matter-of-fact humor brings endless joy to friends, some of whom are decades younger than Louise.
“She’s got no walking cane, no wheelchair. She does all her shopping. She’s awesome,” her friend Deborah Whitaker told CBS2’s Jessica Layton.
“I think that her connection with her neighbors in the community and also her friends here at the senior center help to keep her going,” said Aisha Parillon, JASA’s senior director of senior services.
Born in Harlem in 1912 and always proud of her Italian heritage, Louise moved to the Bronx as a young girl, happily calling the borough home ever since. In her golden years, she’s danced almost daily, and can play bocce with the best of them. She still lives alone, and reveals that’s been a key to less stress.
“I think the secret of 107: I never got married. I think that’s the secret. My sister says ‘I wish I never got married,'” Louise said.
Her longevity is more than luck: It runs in the family. Her sister who unfortunately couldn’t attend the party is 102.
“If they have exercise, I do the exercise. If they have dancing, I dance. I still a do a little dancing. After my lunch, I will play bingo, so I had a full day,” Louise said.
God bless this amazing woman who is 107 years old today! Big party with her friends and family in the Bronx. Lots of keys to living so long — including eating Italian food, dancing, and she emphasized never getting married 😂💕 pic.twitter.com/YJUD9iD5s2
— Jessica Layton (@JLaytonTV) July 31, 2019
“She doesn’t take any medicine! I’m 107 and I just take a high blood pressure pill, that’s all,” Louise said.
Aging with grace hasn’t been without challenges. She’s legally blind, recently overcame pneumonia, and at 103 survived an assault and robbery in her apartment building. Her strength is inspiring, Layton reported.
Layton wanted to know what else Louise could share for those of us hoping to live a long, happy life and look even half as good.
“Italian food. Italian food is very good for you,” Louise said. “I was brought up with very good food. No soda, no cake.”
But just for today, to celebrate still being young at heart, there will be cake.
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In 1998, the Institute of Medicine, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and others came together to look at the core functions of public health in the United States.
The resulting framework, the 10 Essential Public Health Services, describe the public health activities that all communities should undertake.
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Link people to needed personal health services and assure the provision of health care when otherwise unavailable
Assure a competent public health and personal health care workforce
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Kurt Alexander, born on the 8th of September, 1969, is an American radio personality, famously known as Big Boy due to his 500-pound physique in the early 2000s then sudden weight loss of almost 250 pounds, and host for almost 20 years of his radio show “Big Boy’s Neighborhood”.
So how much is Big Boy’s net worth? As of early 2016 it is reported to be $12 million, gained mostly from his radio show, movie and television appearances, the sales of his book, and his own film production company.
Big Boy Net Worth $12 Million
Big Boy was born in Chicago, Illinois but grew up in Los Angeles with his parents Bob and Rachel and two siblings. His love for music started during his high school years in Culver City High School. Though he is not fond of playing any musical instruments, he found his gift in being a DJ. After some time, because of his huge body, he worked as a minder for The Pharcyde, a hip-hop group in the early 90’s and later on became friends with the BekaBoyz, hosts of KPWR Power 106’s radio morning show. Because of his gift for comedy and being always the funny guy, the boys offered him a spot in their radio show and he proved to be a hit with the audience. Big Boy did not just become famous but also infamous when his friends at Power 106 spread his near naked photo across various billboards throughout Los Angeles. However, his net worth was established.
Through the years Big Boy has been a consistent voice on the radio, increasing his fame and net worth. However, in 2003 due to some health problems, Big Boy underwent a procedure called duodenal switch surgery to reduce his weight from 500 pounds by a staggering 250 pounds. His journey to reducing his weight and being healthy was all recorded in his book “An XL Life: Staying Big at Half the Size”.
Even though radio is his primary focus, Big Boy has also appeared in movies and television shows from time to time. Some of the movies are “Malibu’s Most Wanted”, “Longest Yard”, “The Players Club”, and “Charlie’s Angels”. In 2002, he also cut a deal with Fox, to be part of the television show “Fastlane”. He also appeared in various episodes of the show “Entourage” and hosted the show “I Love New York” for VH1.
Big Boy also tried his hand at being an entrepreneur, and started his own production company Ida’s Son Production, in 2010. One of the company’s first project is the movie “Exit Strategy”. His production company alongside his movie and television cameos, all helped to further his career and net worth.
In 2015, after almost 20 years, Big Boy left his radio station KPWR and moved to iHeart’s Real 92.3 KRRL after signing a $10.5 million deal with the new station. Though he encountered some legal issues involving breach of contract, Big Boy still proceeded with the move.
In terms of his personal life, Big Boy is enjoying his time with his wife Veronica and their two children in Los Angeles.
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Full Name Big Boy
Net Worth $12 Million
Date Of Birth 8th of September, 1969
Place Of Birth Chicago, Illinois, USA,
Height 1.88 m, 1.88 m
Profession radio host, tv personality, author, publisher,
Nationality American,
Spouse Veronica Alexander, Veronica Alexander
Parents Bob Kurt, Rachel Kurt,
Siblings Sheila Alexander, Charlene Alexander, Sherrille Alexander, Kenneth Alexander, Nicole Alexander, Keith Alexander, Sheila Alexander, Charlene Alexander, Sherrille Alexander, Kenneth Alexander, Nicole Alexander, Keith Alexander
Facebook http://www.facebook.com/BigBoyhttp://www.facebook.com/BigBoy
Twitter http://www.twitter.com/bigboyhttp://www.twitter.com/bigboy
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Nominations Latin Grammy Award for Best Urban Music Album
Movies Battlefield America, Lil' Pimp, Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo, Big Boy: Mr. Big
TV Shows Fastlane, Fastlane
1 Had duodenal switch stomach surgery and lost over 250 pounds. (2003).
2 Moved to the Los Angeles area (Culver City) at age 2.
3 Hosts a radio show on Los Angeles' Power 105.9 FM station.
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The EZ Show 2012 TV Series
Entourage 2004-2006 TV Series Big Boy
Diamond Life 2005 TV Series
The Longest Yard 2005 Jesse
Lil' Pimp 2005 Video Nag Champa (voice)
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Fastlane 2002-2003 TV Series Aquarius
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New Jack City: A Hip Hop Classic 2005 Video documentary short Himself
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Meg Ryan & Daughter Daisy True, 15, Sit Front Row At Paris Fashion Week
Meg Ryan & her 15-year-old adopted daughter sat front row with the fashion elite at the Schiaparelli show in Paris, France & looked stylish as ever.
Meg Ryan, 57, took her daughter, Daisy True, on one very extravagant mother-daughter date in France this week. The Top Gun actress and her 15-year-old adopted daughter sat in the very front row during a Paris Fashion Week runway show, and the two looked to be having the best time. As the glitzy Schiaparelli show kicked off on June 1, the pair sat amongst the star studded elite including the likes of Céline Dion, 51, and Pixie Lott, 28. Meg’s look was a standout from the day though, and she absolutely stunned in a belted black dress and chic strappy sandals. The actress sported a flawless beauty look and arranged her golden locks to effortlessly frame her face. Meg is one stylish mum!
Meanwhile, her teenage daughter looked absolutely adorable in a loose-fitting white dress and sporty sneakers. Similar to her mom — she wore her hair in loose waves that fell at her shoulders and sported fringed bangs that framed her face. She sat close to her mom for the entirety of the show and the photos from their mother-daughter date were so sweet!
Meg and her daughter have stayed extremely close since she first adopted Daisy from China in 2006 when she was just 14-months-old. “Daisy doesn’t feel hard [to raise],” she told PEOPLE in 2007. “She’s a good hang, and she’s easy. She’s very smart and she’s very generous. I love that she’s funny. I love that. I just can’t imagine what it was like before she came. Life is good, it’s so good with her in it.” Meg added that adoption in China includes a lottery system, and was randomly assigned the girl that would become her daughter. “But that said, I am convinced, completely convinced that there was nothing random about it.”
Meg and her daughter have been all over as of late! Just a few weeks earlier we saw the pair step out in New York City while holding hands as they gallivanted around the city together.
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Northeastern’s Instagram king
by Jason Kornwitz April 29, 2015
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Joe Thomas waited, idling in the middle of the snow-lined street, biding his time, setting up the perfect shot. Someone, he thought—anyone—would soon enter his frame, striding right into his latest photograph of Beacon Hill.
After 10 minutes, his pedestrian appeared, materializing some 100 yards away. He—or she—was a mere speck in the distance, a miniaturized version of the barren trees flanking the brick buildings in this iconic Boston neighborhood.
Thomas captured the scene with his iPhone 5s and then edited the image using three apps—Snapseed, VSCO, and Filterstorm. He uploaded the photo to his Instagram account, wrote up a witty caption—“Rambling around Beacon Hill on a quiet cloudy day is my idea of therapy. Spot the #strideby”—and then proceeded to respond to the flurry of positive feedback, comments ranging from “Beautiful photo” to “Literally my favorite part of Boston.”
It was March 20, 2015, just another day in the life of Northeastern’s Instagram king, AMD’17.
Rambling around Beacon Hill on a quiet cloudy day is my idea of therapy. Spot the #strideby
A photo posted by Ｊｏｅ (@_joe_thomas_) on Mar 20, 2015 at 4:54pm PDT
Thomas’ rise to prominence in the Instagram community took place last month, when he was placed on the photo-sharing site’s suggested user list. His number of Instagram followers grew precipitously—from 3,000 to some 23,000—and his prestige increased dramatically, resulting in his Q&A with The Boston Globe.
It is not uncommon for Thomas now to meet up with other local Instagram users, to talk shop and take photos. “It’s more of a social gathering when we go out to shoot,” he says, “but I’ll also get tips on editing and Instagram trends.”
His tips for the nascent Instagram user fall into two categories—the social and the technical. His technical advice is straightforward, focusing on using scale and symmetry, filters and leading lines. “Try to do something different or create your own style,” he adds. “Tons of people post similar stuff and if you can do something unique, then you’ll stand out.”
To expand your reach, he recommends labeling photos with the hashtags for IGBoston and IGersBoston—two local Instagram communities whose curators select photos to feature on their pages. “Using Boston-based hashtags will help you connect with people who want to see your photos,” he says, “and will help you reach your target audience.”
Thomas joined Instagram in the fall of 2013, a hobby photographer who had been dabbling in the art of picture taking since his junior year of high school, when he took a point-and-shoot camera to China. Over the past 18 months, he has posted 340 photos from five countries—the U.S. as well as France, China, England, and Vietnam—focusing predominantly on landscapes and sweeping cityscapes.
The photo he posted on Jan. 2 looks more like a colorful painting than a photograph, eliciting comments like “magical,” and “This is sick, love the tones.” Thomas used his Nikon D3200 digital single-lens reflex camera to capture the image—a snowy scene in his home state of Utah—and then edited the photo with Filterstorm. His caption brings to mind the preternatural world of Dr. Seuss. “If Whoville was a real place,” it says, “it would probably be here.”
If Whoville was a real place it would probably be here. A photo posted by Ｊｏｅ (@_joe_thomas_) on Jan 2, 2015 at 10:49am PST
Thomas’ off-kilter photo of Boston’s skyline—an image he captured with his iPhone from inside the International Village residence hall last fall—is but one example of his ability to transmogrify the everyday shot into a one-of-a-kind experience. His treatment of this photo was bolstered by his use of Union, the blending and masking app, and his quirky caption: “Just been looking out from my room and been doing some reflectin, if ya catch my drift.”
Just been looking out from my room and been doing some reflectin, if ya catch my drift #Boston
A photo posted by Ｊｏｅ (@_joe_thomas_) on Sep 3, 2014 at 5:20pm PDT
His favorite place to take photos is Boston’s Beacon Hill neighborhood—“when it gets quiet,” he says, “you feel like you’re in a different time period”—yet his photographic goal is the same no matter the location. “I try and make things that connect with people right away,” he explains. “When I’m editing, I try to respect the environment and represent the area in the way that I saw it.”
Thomas’ newfound passion for photography has compelled him to expand his career outlook and explore the field from a professional standpoint. A second-year journalism major, he will participate in the summertime Dialogue of Civilizations program to Spain, where he’ll focus on photojournalism, and then begin co-op with Boston-based wedding photographer Nicole Chan.
Chan, he says, was impressed with his ability to capture candid moments, and will give him the opportunity to discover the ins and outs of the photography business. “I never saw myself becoming a photographer,” Thomas says, “but the opportunities I have been able to get through Instagram have motivated me to go out and explore.”
His desire to explore his interest in a possible photography career mirrors his zeal for photographic exploration, his talent for finding little-known places from which to take memorable photos. He captured the photo he posted on March 4, “Lost in the cracks,” from atop the observation deck of the Custom House Tower, a skyscraper in the Financial District. “Not many people know about it,” he says, “but when you’re passionate about something, you’re willing to take the extra step to perfect the shot.”
Lost in the cracks
A photo posted by Ｊｏｅ (@_joe_thomas_) on Mar 4, 2015 at 5:34pm PST
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Board of Trustees approves fee increases
by Pete Rosenbery
CARBONDALE, Ill. — The Southern Illinois University Board of Trustees, meeting in Edwardsville, today (April 10) approved several fee increases for the Carbondale campus that will further enhance services for students.
Included in the fee adjustments are increases in Student Center, Saluki Express mass transit, student services building, student recreation and intercollegiate athletics fees.
The following per semester fees begin with the fall 2008 semester:
Student Services Building Fee — $60, up $20, prorated over 12 credit hours for the fall, spring and summer academic sessions, respectively.
The increase covers debt service costs for a Student Services Building housing enrollment-related services and a new welcome center. The University's enrollment functions, including undergraduate admissions, records and registrations, financial aid and scholarships, and the Bursar's office, and possibly several other student service functions, will locate there. The new facility would be located in close proximity to the Student Center, site of most of the pre-enrollment programs planned by Admissions and New Student Programs. Renovations are planned for Woody Hall, originally designed as a residence hall. The project is in the early planning and design phase, which should be complete by April 2009.
Intercollegiate Athletic Fee — $275, a $54 increase, prorated over 12 credit hours for the fall, spring and summer academic sessions respectively.
Ten dollars of the increase augments the athletic department's operating budget, with the remaining $44 targeted to improvements and renovations to athletic facilities.
Campus Recreation Fee — $6.60, a 60-cent increase, prorated over 12 credits for the fall, spring and summer academic sessions, respectively.
The campus recreation fee supports programs and 22 facilities outside of the Student Recreation Center, including 18 lighted tennis courts, a roller hockey complex, skateboard park, 10-acre lighted multi-sport complex, 30-acre sport club/multi-activity facility, Lake-on-the-Campus Beach, and boat dock facilities. The proposal supports growth from 30 to 46 sport clubs, representing 1,800 active students.
Student Medical Benefit Fee — (fall and spring semesters) $181, a $10 increase; (summer semester) $108.60, a $6 increase.
The increases provide continuation of on-campus health services and Student Health Center operations.
Student Recreation Fee — $120, a $6 increase, prorated over 12 credits for the fall, spring and summer academic sessions, respectively.
The increase offsets continuing increases in student minimum wage, insurance costs and salaries, and allows continuing high levels of student and community use of the Student Recreation Center.
Student Center Fee — $119, a $4 increase, prorated over 12 credit hours for the fall, spring and summer academic sessions, respectively.
The increase will be used to reduce deferred maintenance on the Student Center, fund debt repayment of the bowling and billiards area renovation and roof replacement, and offset inflationary operating cost increases. Planned building projects for the upcoming fiscal year include replacing kitchen equipment, third-floor ceiling and light replacement, HVAC mechanical renovations, first-floor bathroom renovations, Information Station renovation and relocation, and John W. Corker Lounge renovation.
Mass Transit Fee — $47, a $1 increase, prorated over 12 credit hours for the fall, spring and summer academic sessions, respectively.
The increase offsets the impact of fuel costs and the bus service contract. Use of Saluki Express continues to be strong and meets the needs of many students traveling to and from campus and the Carbondale shopping areas. The bus route extends to John A. Logan College in Carterville.
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UM System Students Likely To Face Tuition, Fee Increases Again Next Year
By Rachel Lippmann • Dec 6, 2012
Updated at 5 p.m. following the presentation to the Board of Curators.
Students at the four campuses of the University of Missouri system are likely to face tuition and fee increases again next year as the school struggles to cope with an ongoing decrease in state funding.
UM Press rehires former editor who was focus of protests
By Dale Singer • Oct 5, 2012
This article first appeared in the St. Louis Beacon, Oct. 5, 2012 - The new editor of the University of Missouri Press will be a familiar name – Clair Willcox, who had been the editor until he was let go by the university system earlier this year.
UM switches gears on Press, will reduce students' role
This article first appeared in the St. Louis Beacon, Aug. 28, 2012 - The University of Missouri Press will still be transferred to the Columbia campus from the four-campus system, but it will no longer be using students as outlined in a model that the school announced earlier this year.
Richard Wallace, the former chancellor at Columbia named to a transition team that will manage the switch, acknowledged after the change was announced Tuesday that the earlier moves announced by system President Tim Wolfe were not handled in a way that served the university well.
Morning headlines: Tuesday, July 24, 2012
By Julie Bierach, The Associated Press & Illinois Public Radio • Jul 24, 2012
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Ill. Gov. calls for stricter gun laws
Days after the Colorado theater shooting, Governor Pat Quinn is calling for stricter gun laws in Illinois. Gun-rights advocates have long argued that public safety would be improved if people were allowed to carry concealed firearms. Illinois is the only state without any form of concealed carry for the general public. And Quinn says he'd oppose any attempt to permit concealed carry.
By Julie Bierach, The Associated Press & KBIA • Jul 17, 2012
Illinois to offer programs for those affected by drought
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Quinn says the state has also launched a website to help.
New version of UM Press will involve students, research
By Dale Singer • Jul 16, 2012
This article first appeared in the St. Louis Beacon, July 16, 2012 - The University of Missouri announced Monday that its Press, whose planned closure has sparked persistent criticism and protest, will be replaced by a new program on the Columbia campus that will combine scholarly publishing with training students to work in the changing world of communications.
Ex-UM president adds criticism to closing of Press
By Dale Singer • Jul 9, 2012
This article first appeared in the St. Louis Beacon, July 9, 2012 - A man who twice was in charge of the University of Missouri system has joined the persistent chorus of those criticizing the university for plans to shut down the university’s press while approving expansions for sports facilities at Mizzou.
Moral support for UM Press not enough to keep it open
By Dale Singer • Jun 19, 2012
This article first appeared in the St. Louis Beacon, June 19, 2012 - Since the University of Missouri announced last month that it plans to shut down operations of the university press, more than 2,800 people have signed an online petition to keep it open and a Facebook page started for the same purpose has attracted more than 1,800 “likes.”
Morning headlines - Tuesday, June 19, 2012
By Rachel Lippmann & The Associated Press • Jun 19, 2012
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Study says region needs more immigrants
A new study to be released this morning says the St. Louis region needs to attract more immigrants if it wants to thrive in the current economy.
The St. Louis Post-Dispatch got an advance look at the study, written by Saint Louis University professor Jack Strauss.
Morning headlines - Thursday, June 14, 2012
By The Associated Press & Tim Lloyd • Jun 14, 2012
Missouri's no-call list set to expand
Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon will be in St. Louis today to sign legislation that allows people to add cellphones to the state’s Do Not Call list.
Nixon created the list when he was attorney general. Cellphone numbers added to the list would be off limits to most solicitations, including text messages.
Attorney General Chris Koster, whose office maintains the list, is expected to join Nixon. Koster says his office gets nearly 200 complaints a week from cellphone users about unwanted telemarketing calls.
Opposition not likely to change decision to close UM Press
By Dale Singer • May 31, 2012
This article first appeared in the St. Louis Beacon, May, 31, 2012 - Shouldn’t a university that pays its football coach $2.7 million a year be able to subsidize its university press with $400,000?
That’s the question asked by opponents of the planned shutdown of the University of Missouri Press. Tim Wolfe, president of the university system, said last week that the press did not fit into the school’s main priorities, so it would close down as part of an analysis of the school’s budget in tough financial times.
University of Missouri Press will shut down
This article first appeared in the St. Louis Beacon, May 24, 2012 - The University of Missouri Press, which has published hundreds of books about the state and region for more than 50 years, will be phased out beginning next year as the university system concentrates on six priorities more closely aligned with its mission.
Commentary: Is this what we are paying Mizzou to do?
By JoAnne LaSala • May 7, 2012
From the Beacon archives
This article first appeared in the St. Louis Beacon, May 7, 2012 - The public policy question raised by the chart below is whether Missouri taxpayers want to be party to a system that takes young people’s money and leaves them in debt with no degree.
Missouri’s young people need college degrees and the state of Missouri needs more graduates, yet 1,900 of the 6,200 young people who enter the University of Missouri-Columbia* each year as debt-free college freshman leave as in-debt college dropouts.
President Timothy Wolfe outlines challenges to UM System
By Libby Franklin • Apr 23, 2012
University of Missouri website
On the job since February, University of Missouri System President Timothy Wolfe leads an institution with four campuses, more than 74,000 students, and over 13,000 employees. He joined Don Marsh on St. Louis on the Air today from the Columbia studios of KBIA. You can hear their entire conversation in the St.
Commentary: This ain't Kansas, Toto
By M.W. Guzy • Apr 19, 2012
This article first appeared in the St. Louis Beacon, April 19, 2012 - “He who learns must suffer, and, even in our sleep, pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God.”
The above passage was quoted by Robert Kennedy when he eulogized his slain brother, Jack. The words speak to the ineffable sorrow of loss and to the reluctant acceptance of passage and its mortal grief. They were originally written by the ancient Greek dramatist Aeschylus, who in retrospect may have been an early fan of University of Missouri football.
Morning headlines: Tuesday, March 6, 2012
By Julie Bierach, Marshall Griffin & The Associated Press • Mar 6, 2012
House budget writers finish reviews of Missouri's proposed spending plan for next year
Members of the budget committee now have until 4 p.m today to offer amendments, which will be debated and voted on Wednesday.
Republican Ryan Silvey of Kansas City chairs the House Budget Committee:
Morning headlines: Monday, February 20, 2012
By Julie Bierach • Feb 20, 2012
University of Missouri Curators to consider raising tuition today
The special meeting comes after the governing board postponed consideration of a tuition increase three weeks ago at its regular meeting in Kansas City. This time, the curators will meet by video teleconference along with new university president Tim Wolfe.
Mental health care on campus: Need up, services down
By William Freivogel & Brant Houston & Pam Dempsey • Feb 5, 2012
This article first appeared in the St. Louis Beacon, Feb. 5, 2012 - More college students are arriving on campus reporting serious mental health problems and more students are threatening suicide than in the past. But some college counseling services, such as those at Southern Illinois University Carbondale, are so understaffed that many students have to wait weeks before getting help.
Morning headlines: February 1, 2012
By Julie Bierach & The Associated Press • Feb 1, 2012
University of Missouri to raise tuition
The University of Missouri system wants to increase tuition next year by 7.5 percent at its Columbia campus and even more at its campuses in St. Louis and Rolla.
A proposal released Tuesday afternoon spells out proposed in-state tuition hikes of 8.2 percent at the University of Missouri-St. Louis and 9 percent at Missouri University of Science and Technology in Rolla. The Kansas City campus would see a 3 percent increase.
Similar increases are being sought for graduate programs and non-resident undergraduates.
Morning headlines: Thursday, January 5, 2012
By Julie Bierach, The Associated Press & WILL • Jan 5, 2012
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$1.3 million ATM Solutions money restolen
The $6.6 million robbery of ATM Solutions in St. Louis in 2010 is believed to be the largest heist ever in St. Louis. It turns out the robbers themselves were victimized, too - at least $1.3 million was re-stolen.
SEC football schedule includes Mizzou, despite uncertainty about transfer
By Rachel Lippmann • Dec 28, 2011
On the football schedule at least, the University of Missouri is officially a member of the Southeastern Conference.
Though Mizzou does not officially join the SEC until July 1, it's included on the conference football schedule released today. Here's what it looks like for Mizzou:
Morning headlines: Friday, December 23, 2011
By Rachel Lippmann & Maria Altman • Dec 23, 2011
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New trouble for Ameren at Taum Sauk power plant
A recent memo to the Missouri Public Service Commission shows major problems for Ameren at its Taum Sauk power station.
Morning headlines: Tuesday, December 6, 2011
By Julie Bierach, WBEZ & The Associated Press • Dec 6, 2011
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Two day sentencing hearing for Blagojevich begins today
Former Ill. Gov. Rod Blagojevich's sentencing hearing is scheduled to start at 10 a.m. Much of today's hearing will be a repeat of what attorneys have already argued in written motions filed with the court.
The one unknown variable is the governor himself. He'll get a chance to address the court.
Former federal prosecutor Dave Weisman says Blagojevich should read a prepared statement and keep it short.
Mo. budget cuts played role in Mizzou switch to SEC
By The Associated Press • Dec 5, 2011
University of Missouri-Columbia Chancellor Brady Deaton says state funding cuts played a role in his decision to move the school from the Big 12 to the Southeastern Conference.
Deaton said Monday that his concern about instability and uncertainty of the Big 12 was enhanced because state funding for higher education has been cut several times in recent years, and still is not at the level originally budgeted in 2001.
Morning headlines: Monday, December 5, 2011
(Missouri State Redistricting Office)
Lawmakers raise constitutional questions about new districts
Mizzou's Pinkel on DWI arrest: "When you're wrong, you're wrong."
By KBIA • Nov 21, 2011
(Provided by Boone County Sheriff's Office)
Reporting by KBIA's Sarah Redohl used in this report.
MU head football coach Gary Pinkel held a press conference with his lawyers this afternoon to apologize for his DWI arrest Wednesday night. Pinkel says he is sorry for letting down his players and fans.
"When you’re wrong, you’re wrong," Pinkel said. "I had to stand up to them and tell them how I felt and how I’d failed them."
Missouri coach Pinkel pleads guilty to DWI
By The Associated Press & St. Louis Public Radio • Nov 18, 2011
Suspended Missouri football coach Gary Pinkel has pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor charge of drunken driving.
Boone County court records show that Pinkel was charged on Friday and pleaded guilty the same day. He was arrested in Columbia on Wednesday night and suspended without pay the next day for the final home game of the season.
Head Mizzou football coach Pinkel arrested for DWI
By KBIA, The Associated Press & St. Louis Public Radio • Nov 17, 2011
This is a developing story. We will update it when we have more information.
Updated at 4:25 p.m.:
Missouri has suspended coach Gary Pinkel for Saturday's game and frozen his salary for a year following his overnight arrest on suspicion of drunk driving.
Athletic director Mike Alden announced the disciplinary measures on Thursday afternoon. They include a total of some $300,000 in penalties, including a donation to a campus alcohol-awareness program, and 50 hours of community service.
Ex-Mizzou RB Washington sentenced to 5 years in sex assault
By The Associated Press • Nov 14, 2011
(Courtesy of the Boone County Sheriff's Office)
Former University of Missouri football running back and co-captain Derrick Washington has been sentenced to five years in prison for the off-campus sexual assault of a former Tiger athletics tutor.
Boone County Circuit Judge Kevin Crane sentenced Washington on Monday afternoon, two months after a Columbia jury found him guilty of forcibly fondling the woman in June 2010.
Morning headlines: Monday, November 7, 2011
By Julie Bierach, The Associated Press & KBIA • Nov 7, 2011
University of Missouri joins SEC
The University of Missouri was officially accepted into the Southeastern Conference Sunday. SEC Presidents and Chancellors unanimously voted Missouri into the conference as its 14th member effective July 1, 2012.
A press conference and celebration were held Sunday evening at the MU student center.
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