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Markets Insider | Aemerge RedPak Opens First-of-Its-Kind Medical Waste Treatment Center, in Hesperia, California
December 6, 2017 /in News /by Aemerge RedPak
You can read the article from Markets Insider by clicking here.
Aemerge RedPak Opens First-of-Its-Kind Medical Waste Treatment Center, in Hesperia, California
Dec 6, 2017 | Markets Insider
HESPERIA, Calif., Dec. 6, 2017 /PRNewswire/ — Aemerge RedPak, a pioneer in technology resulting in cleaner, smarter and more renewable approaches for handling waste and producing energy, yesterday announced the opening of their revolutionary medical waste treatment facility that destroys and sterilizes medical waste, converts it to clean energy and diverts up to 95 percent of treated waste from landfills. The new $55 million facility will create 30 mortgage-paying jobs.
To commemorate this unprecedented step forward, RedPak was joined by California’s Business Incentives Gateway (CBIG), the City of Hesperia and the Governor’s Office of Business and Economic Development (GO-Biz) for a ribbon cutting ceremony and open house at the facility.
“With no previous alternatives, California currently disposes much of its infectious medical waste by hauling it to incinerators across the country, which is not only inefficient, but also has significant negative impacts on the environment and surrounding communities,” said Adam Seger, President of Aemerge RedPak. “We are thrilled to offer RedPak as a safer, cleaner and more responsible solution for treating and disposing of medical waste.”
Since 2001, when California’s last medical waste incinerator was shut down in Oakland, approximately 720 million pounds of medical waste have been hauled long distances to be treated in other states as far as Maryland, Indiana, Kentucky, Alabama, North Dakota, Oregon, and Utah. Certain categories of medical waste, such as, pharmaceuticals, trace chemo, pathological, and anatomical require high heat treatment and incineration out of the State’s borders was the only option, until now.
Aemerge RedPak operates the only fully permitted “high heat” treatment facility in California for all categories of medical waste, including pharmaceutical, pathological, trace chemo, sharps and biohazardous materials. It treats all these forms of waste through a first-of-its-kind advanced patented technology system called the Carbonizer.
The Carbonizer system works by processing organic waste in a negative pressure, no oxygen environment with high heat. The result of waste treatment is three simple, sterile co-products: synthesis gas (syngas) which is captured and converted to clean energy, treated glass and metals which are recycled, and carbon char which is repurposed as alternative fuel. As a result of this process, 95 percent of waste treated is diverted from landfills.
“Aemerge RedPak is going to revolutionize the way medical waste is treated in this country,” said Mayor Paul Russ. “We look forward to having that revolution start here in Hesperia.”
“The opening of the new Aemerge Redpak facility in Hesperia is great news for our region and for California. New and innovative businesses like this one have a home here in the High Desert, and it’s a positive sign for our local economy,” said Congressman Paul Cook.
“As the Chair of two state financing authorities that have been integrally involved in the development of the Aemerge Redpak project, I am pleased to offer my endorsement of the groundbreaking technology that will help dispose of California generated medical waste without diverting such waste to our landfills,” said California State Treasurer John Chiang. “The partnership between Aemerge and the Treasurer’s Office is a prime example of how the public and private sector can work together to achieve beneficial outcomes.”
For more information about RedPak, please visit www.aemergeredpak.com.
About Aemerge RedPak:
Aemerge RedPak is revolutionizing medical waste treatment. Approved by the California
Department of Public Health and the governing Mojave Desert air quality management district, we operate the only fully-permitted “High Heat” treatment facility in California for all categories of medical waste, including pharmaceutical, pathological, trace chemo, sharps, and biohazardous. We provide services for California-based medical waste generators, as well as generators from across the country.
Aemerge RedPak’s medical waste treatment:
sterilizes, carbonizes and renders all waste unrecognizable
diverts 95 percent of treated medical waste away from landfills
recycles metals
generates clean energy
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Forget the Spice Girls, says tattooed monster of rock Joe Pop. Forget The Donnas. Forget Kittie, or Girlschool, or any other girl group ever. The Runaways were the original, and they will always be the best.
Spring 1977. I'm 14, and entering the wilderness of adolescence - a world of mood swings, raging hormones and experimental dress sense. I feel the need for a new soundtrack to my life, something to replace the random Xmas gifts of Abba and Elton John. I'm just beginning to realise that there is a whole world of music out there. It's quite hard to know what to do, as I have no older siblings or cool friends to guide me. I just about get up the courage to enter my local record shop, a hippie hovel reeking of patchouli and Hawkwind. I have no idea what I'm looking for.
I'm cruising the racks looking at album covers. Nearly everything has some swirly Roger Dean cover, and even I, with my limited knowledge, know that's something to avoid. Eventually I come across something that catches my eye. The cover is of a girl with white blonde hair, a sequin shirt, and way too much eye makeup to be respectable. I have to have it. I pay my £1.99, and leave.
, I pore over the gatefold sleeve of this group called The Runaways. The rest of the girls in the band were pictured brandishing their guitars, shag hairdos, and powder blue eye shadow with attitude. They looked like a surly gang of teen dyke shoplifters in their polyester tank tops. They reminded me of the tough girls at school who I both admired and was scared of. One in particular was Donna Kirkpatrick.
At 15, she had already broken off 4 engagements, had 2 inches of brown root showing through blonde hair, no eyebrows, too much mascara, a wraparound Starsky and Hutch cardigan, laddered black tights and battered cream peep toe high heels, a love bite, and an ankle chain. Every day she would come in late to class, reeking of cigarette smoke and boredom, to sit at the back of the class, disliked by everyone who thought her a 'slag'. Then at home time, her 23-year-old boyfriend would pick her up in his car, to whisk her off to drink Bacardi and Coke in pubs. Through my shy, inhibited eyes, she was a goddess. She lived a life totally removed from homework, parents and cleaning out rabbit hutches.
For those of you who do not know, The Runaways were an American girl group who released their first album in 1976. They were all aged about 16. The band was assembled by a manager/ Svengali, and legend has it the member were recruited in the car park of an L.A. glam rock disco's car park. I'd like to imagine this is true, that the girls were found sitting on car bonnets, drinking underage, and popping pills. The fact that The Runaways were a 'manufactured' group doesn't bother me that much. Some great groups - Public Enemy, The Supremes, Sex Pistols, Spice Girls - were put together this way. All that matters to me is the end result. And to me, both then and now, The Runaways are as authentic and valid as I need.
If you haven't heard them, The Runaways records sort of mixed a Suzy Quatroesque Glam thump with a pre-punk, almost Ramones type minimalism. The songs were snotty, bratty, and full of bravado, underlined with the vulnerability of being an adolescent. Key words in the song titles and lyrics were 'night', 'streets', 'wild', 'bomb', 'fire', 'wasted', and 'neon angels on the road to ruin'. At 14, this was a world I wanted in on.
to me about this Runaways album was that it was the first music I ever mimed to a mirror to. I don't know where I got the idea from; no one ever told me what to do. I just instinctively picked up a dead light bulb to use as a mike, and pouted and posed as I felt a 'rock star'would. I did sort of realise that this was something you did alone, behind closed doors: a guilty secret. The fact that I, a boy, was mouthing the voice of a girl didn't seem strange either. In retrospect, I now see this as a milestone passed on my queer journey.
Well, The Runaways made a couple of albums before splitting up on New Year's Eve 1979. I often wonder what being an ex-Runaway is like. I do, however, know what became of them.
Cherie Currie, the singer, went off to become a solo star and actress. I did see one film she did, 'Little Foxes'. In it she basically played herself, a no good, too fast to live pill popping wild girl who was born to lose. The film was pretty crappy. In real life, she did become a junkie, and after many years she kicked the habit, and now works as a drug counsellor. Cherie wrote her biography a few years ago, and I have spent much time trying to track it down, to no avail.
The guitarist, Lita Ford, worked for years as a beautician, before launching herself as a sleek, catsuited, heavy metal goddess. Her records were rubbish. She also married some tattooed Neanderthal from heavy metal grizzles W.A.S.P, and then I don't know what happened to her.
, attempted suicide while the band were on tour in Japan, then left to study law. Her replacement was called something like Vikkkkiii Blue.
I have no idea what happened to Sandy, the drummer.
And of course, Joan Jett went on to be Joan Jett, Queen of RockÕn'Roll. I believe Joan to be (now bear with me on this one), in her purity and minimalism, as true an artist as John Cage or Yoko Ono, and in her tomboy leathers, to be as queer as Dennis Cooper or Kathy Acker. Her dedication to loud guitar music, hand claps and shouty choruses is so great, I think that if you were to saw Joan Jett in half, the words 'I love rock and roll' would run through her like a stick of seaside rock.
When people write about the birth of punk, they always talk about the same old stuff: The Velvets, The Stooges, The Dolls, etc. Well, for my money, The Runaways were just as radical, just as nihilistic, and just as suburbanly trashy. I feel they should be remembered.
So, these days, I don't play Runaways records that much, preferring the soothing tones of some ambient Talvin Singh experimental doodle or other. But now and again, when I'm feeling a bit petulant, I'll play an imaginary guitar to 'Queens of Noise', and pretend that I'm still a bad girl.
And Donna Kirkpatrick, wherever you are, I hope you are not living in some grotty flat, on your fifth kid and third marriage. I hope you are driving fast down a motorway, drinking Bacardi from a bottle, with a lover half your age by your side.
Joe Pop (joepopmag@hotmail.com) edits the fab queer free zine Pop! Send cheap sulphate and nude photos of yourself to BCM 5524, London WC1 3XX, and he might just send you a copy.
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Live: CHUCK BERRY in Bradford, 2004
‘I LOOKED AT MY WATCH…
IT WAS 1957…!
at ‘The Town & Country’
Bradford (29 June 2004)
A guitar string, or that of any stringed instrument
for that matter, vibrates in transverse waves
along its length, creating longitudinal ripples in
the surrounding air that receptive ears pick up
and interpret as sound. The waves created by different
string tensions produce different notes, so the
sound from the plucked string can be modified,
altered and changed as its tightened or loosened.
This pretty-much explains the physics of the
Rock ‘n’ Roll guitar. From Chuck Berry to
Hank Marvin, from Jimi Hendrix to Kurt Cobain.
But within those simple audial mechanics
lie multiverses of creativity...
Chuck Berry is a Rock ‘n’ Roll poet. There are those amongst us who’ve known this since… um, 1957. Tonight he proves it beyond doubt. First, he breaks a string on his cherry-red guitar. An eager road-crew spirits it away for restorative surgery. So Chuck faces down the crowd… and recites a long poem. At first they don’t know what’s going on and there’s some restless uncertainty, he’s doing this rhyming jive about ‘flipping jazz and lullabies’ in a gilded fantasy-palace hung with elaborate rugs and paintings on the wall, an ‘impressionist blur’, a ‘nude on a zebra-skin’, an ocean-scape so real it ‘makes you feel the sea on your face’. And more. On the one occasion he stumbles a line he chides himself ‘oh shit!’, when someone in the audience yells for “Maybelline” he tells them ‘SHUDDUP!’ Until they listen rapt, and he wide-grins back at his bassist ‘you know, I think they’re enjoying this.’ Then the guitar returns, and he ends ‘that’s the way I feel about sin. I’ll finish it next time I’m in Bradford.’ I still don’t know what the poem was, or where it came from. But I’d be intrigued to find out…
I look at my watch… it’s 10:05, and it’s 2004. Elvis, Beatles, the Stones, Sex Pistols – they’ve all done Chuck Berry. No-one else can claim that. No-one. And, it’s no exaggeration to say the 1960’s Brit Beat-Boom wouldn’t have happened without his style-template, or his highly coverable back-catalogue. We all know this. But it needs restating. Now he’s seventy-seven years old. ‘People said that Rock will fade, it’s forty years since that remark was made’ – more like fifty years, but who’s counting as he energetically duck-walks across the stage under a storm of digital cameras and imaging-phones. And he’s still springing changes. He lyric-chops “Rock ‘n’ Roll Music” and “Roll Over Beethoven” Dylan-style to derail potential sing-alongs. You join in with Chuck only when CHUCK invites you to – for example, on the declamatory ‘Hail Hail Rock ‘n’ Roll’, even though it now less ‘delivers us from’ as sucks us back into those ‘days of old’. But he ad-libs changes too, ‘while I’m still kickin, I’m gonna keep pickin’. And a ‘Carry On’-style insert to an epic “Reeling And A Rocking” goes ‘I looked at my watch, it was quarter-to-three, she said wait a minute Chuck I gotta go to the WC’ – toilet humour given added frisson by Chuck’s alleged innovations with a closed-circuit hidden camera in just such a closet-situation.
But while Elvis was hauling Rock towards R&B, Chuck was shrewdly nudging black music towards Top 40 playlists into its enduring focus on guitars, cars and girls, where it’s lodged ever since. Chances are audiences this side of the Atlantic – no videos, no MTV way back then, first saw him doing “Sweet Little Sixteen” as part of the festival-movie ‘Jazz On A Summer Day’ (1960, but filmed in 1958). And tonight, in a garish 3000-capacity Manningham Lane Club, he takes it back, beneath the hits, to where it all came from, by playing generous slabs of Chicago Blues, deep with Chess resonances. ‘When I say Blues I don’t mean ‘blues’ (pronounced with camply effeminate exaggeration), I mean the BLUUURGHS!!!!’, and “Ev’ry Day I Have The Blues” comes with a searingly dirty guitar-sound, then “It Hurts Me Too” playing guitar at shoulder-level, joining the pianist to pick out runs on the shared keyboard, one called “As Long As I’ve Got My Guitar” and then “Honest I Do”, authentic despite improvising ‘no other audience as lively as you’ and ‘when I come to Bradford, it’s the best time I ever had’. I bet he tells that to all the audiences. Sometimes I do, then again I think I don’t.
Sometimes I will, then again I think I won’t. One Dozen Berries. A drummer, a bassist, a keyboard, and a blue-sequin shirt. “Schooldays”, “Oh Carol / Little Queenie”, then ‘are you saying you want ‘Johnny B Goode’? I can’t hear ya, are you saying you want ‘Johnny B Goode’? You got it.’ A big mauve towel mopping up sweat. Rock ‘n’ Roll poetry. I look at my watch… it’s 10:55, but as long as we got a dime the music will never stop…
Featured on the website:
www.song-book.co.uk/extra
(UK – May 2004)
Posted by Andrew Darlington at 17:26
I was at this gig, amazing night and I had the honour of dancing on stage with the great man, unfortunately we didn't take a camera so no record to show my children :(
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Nirvana: The Original Rainbow Chasers
Science Fiction: THE WORLDS OF BOB SHAW
Classic Album: CHUCK BERRY 'GREATEST HITS'
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Arthur C. Clarke Award goes to ‘classic’ novel exploring the limits of pregnancy.
Anne Charnock’s novel Dreams Before the Start of Time, which focuses on changing reproductive science, hailed as ‘rich but unshowy’ by judges.
Rupture and Complicity — The Arthur C Clarke Shortlist, Part 2
“The fascist dystopia creeps in on little cat feet.” Analysis of Dreams Before the Start of Time by Vajra Chandrasekera.
Time to cut the cord with the Stone Age?
In which I speculate about the future of reproduction and how scientific advances could affect women’s rights.
The Spider’s House
Dreams Before the Start of Time: “One for next year’s shortlist, that’s for sure…” says Nina Allan, an award winning science fiction author herself, and shadow juror for the 2017 Arthur C Clarke Award.
“With Dreams Before the Start of Time already on my Best SF of 2017 list, Anne Charnock is now solidified as one of my favorite SF authors.” Megan AM is a shadow juror for the 2017 Arthur C Clarke Award.
“The novel I enjoyed most this year was Dreams Before the Start of Time (2017) by Anne Charnock, a novel-of-ideas which is also beautifully written.” Duncan Lawrie
Dr Glyn Morgan interviews me at the BSFA in November 2017. This report by Andrew Wallace.
Ada Lovelace Conversation #5
Tom Hunter, director of the Arthur C. Clarke Award, interviews me as part of a collaboration between the award and the Ada Lovelace Day, which aims to encourage women working in STEM subjects.
How Writers Write
I invite you into my workspace, reveal my work habits — on author Tony Ballantyne’s blog.
Dreams Before the Start of Time: “a unique ability to combine linguistic and narrative precision, relevant science-fictional ideas and a trademark slow-working emotional impact”
By Adam Roberts:
“Anne Charnock’s Sleeping Embers of an Ordinary Mind (47North) is an expert braiding together of past, present and future that puts a 15th-century Italian female artist centre stage to say penetrating things about womanhood, creativity and history.“
Speculiction
Jesse Hudson writes an in-depth review with this wonderful conclusion: “Sleeping Embers of an Ordinary Mind is certainly one of 2015’s tip-top releases in science fiction.”
Award-winning science fiction and fantasy author Nina Allan reviews Sleeping Embers of an Ordinary Mind: “this quiet, lovely and exquisitely crafted novel is itself a masterclass in composition…As in her debut novel A Calculated Life, the clarity and refined elegance of Charnock’s prose is a significant achievement.”
I’m delighted with this in-depth review by Megan AM, which concludes: “The feminist elements of Sleeping Embers of the Ordinary Mind are elusively contradictory, so much like life!, making this one of those thinking books—the kind with embers smoldering until a second visit.”
“I’m a stay-at-home writer who taps away in a cosy lair, inventing daredevil strategies for writing projects. My new novel, Sleeping Embers of an Ordinary Mind, is a case in point.”
Award-winning author Tricia Sullivan writes about science and SFF with quotes from yours truly, Emma Newman, Karen Lord and Stephanie Saulter.
“Charnock brings a background in environmental science, journalism, and fine art to her subtle and original novels.”
Gollancz Blog
Fantastic questions! Award-winning author Tricia Sullivan quizzes me about Sleeping Embers of an Ordinary Mind as part of Gollancz’s blog series, “She Blinded Me With Science Fiction”. This is the full interview—extracts appear in The Independent article above.
Historical Novel Society
Juliet Waldron quizzes me for the Historical Novel Society to find out if readers of historical fiction will be tempted to pick up Sleeping Embers of an Ordinary Mind, a novel set in past, present and future. I point out that history is a theme in all three storylines.
An edited transcript of New Visions of Manchester—a discussion between Matt Hill and Anne Charnock at Mancunicon, the 67th British National Science Fiction Convention.
Golden Apples of the West
Jonathan Thornton: Sleeping Embers of an Ordinary Mind is a wonderfully understated and meditative book about family, loss and the creative process. It is a deeply feminist work that looks at the inequalities faced by women in the past, present, and how this may change in the future.
Astounding Yarns
Caroline Mersey: “It would be easy to see Sleeping Embers as ‘just’ a feminist novel… But Sleeping Embers is a much more nuanced novel than this. It deals compellingly with the consequences of those absent from our lives: the gaps they create and how people’s actions are shaped by loss and the missing.”
Sleeping Embers of an Ordinary Mind is featured in ‘December 2015’s Best Books’ by Melissa Ragsdale: “This month, a slue of acclaimed international and translated voices have come stateside, ready to spin you imaginative tales of their distant homes. ”
Sleeping Embers of an Ordinary Mind: Real Life Isn’t Like the Neatly Rounded Narratives of Fiction
Why I Don’t Count Words
Five Books with Fictitious Works of Art.
Writer’s DIgest
How long does it take to write a novel?
“That’s the question I asked myself when I started to outline my second novel, Sleeping Embers of an Ordinary Mind.
I hear you say: Surely, you already knew!
But I didn’t.”
Getting My Movie-Obsessed Friend Back Into Books
Emergency! My friend has stopped reading…
A close friend admitted to me this week that she has fallen out with reading. This is a disaster, obviously. How can I tempt my friend to pick up a book, or two?
I know she loves cinema so here’s my strategy:
Award-winning science fiction and fantasy author Nina Allan reviews A Calculated Life: “I found Charnock’s writing about mathematics, and pattern recognition especially to be – well, the only words that come close for me, paradoxically, are moving and beautiful.”
Sibilant Fricative
Adam Roberts, winner of the 2012 BSFA Best Novel Award 2012 for Jack Glass:
“What (Charnock) shares with Philip K. Dick is the ability to write unease.”
Alix E. Harrow reviews A Calculated Life: “a smart, subtle exploration of human emotion and intelligence.”
We Ask 7 Sci-Fi Authors to Write Blade Runner 2.
“More than 30 years later, the beloved sci-fi classic is getting its long-awaited sequel. Some of the best sci-fi writers in the world tell us what they’d do with Deckard and the replicants in a second movie.”
Women Destroy Science Fiction
“As a writer of science fiction I had a slow and, initially, rocky start. I spent the best part of a decade writing my first novel, A Calculated Life. It seemed that every other year I was too busy to look at the manuscript—”
SF Signal’s Kristin Centorcelli fired some great questions at me, and I finally admit in this interview that I always aspired to being Girl Tintin.
SF Signal — My Dystopian Influences
(starting with my early encounter with Animal Farm).
More Fiction Than Science
Spanish author Cristina Jurado interviews me about my influences on her blog More Fiction Than Science.
And an English version appears on Elías Combarro’s blog Sense of Wonder.
“Charnock an astute observer…what results is an inquiry into feminism and society that will make the reader truly pause to compare their own experiences and perceptions.
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OSA Publishing > JOSA > Volume 37 > Issue 1 > Page 10
Spectral and Modulation Characteristics of the Concentrated-Arc
W. S. Huxford and J. R. Platt
W. S. Huxford and J. R. Platt**
1Department of Physics, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois
**Now at the University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois.
W Huxford
J Platt
W. S. Huxford and J. R. Platt, "Spectral and Modulation Characteristics of the Concentrated-Arc*," J. Opt. Soc. Am. 37, 10-15 (1947)
Near infrared radiation
Surface layers
Original Manuscript: October 24, 1946
Measurements of the times of decay of light emitted in various spectral regions by the concentrated-arc indicate that the principal part of the visible and infra-red radiation is a continuum having its origin in a thin solid or liquid surface film on the arc cathode.
Modulation of the Resonance Lines in a Cesium Arc*
J. M. Frank, W. S. Huxford, and W. R. Wilson
The Concentrated-Arc Lamp
W. D. Buckingham and C. R. Deibert
Anode Temperatures and Characteristics of the dc Arc in Noble Gases*†
Bert L. Vallee and Milton R. Baker
J. Opt. Soc. Am. 46(2) 77-82 (1956)
Characteristics of Mercury Vapor–Metallic Iodide Arc Lamps
Gilbert H. Reiling
Vacuum ultraviolet radiometry. 3: The argon mini-arc as a new secondary standard of spectral radiance
J. M. Bridges and W. R. Ott
Computed and measured values of the angle of lag, ϕ, of light wave behind current wave.
Frequency c.p.s.
250 12.5° 13° 10° 23°
500 22° 14° 17.5° 27°
1,000 28° 17° 23.1° 28°
2,000 24° 21° 21° 30°
5,000 13° (31°)* 11° (52°)*
10,000 7° (42°)* 6° (100°)*
* Measurements are subject to larger errors at the higher frequencies.
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Instagram: Baro's Message to Puerto Rico Bana
This is my secret message for Mexico and Puerto Rico BANAs!! #BANAsenMéxico #BANAsenPuertoRico #B1A4ADVENTURE2015
A video posted by #BARO (@baroganatanatda) on Oct 17, 2015 at 8:43pm PDT
B1A4 has become stronger
B1A4 has created an opportunity for themselves to become an even stronger group through SWEET GIRL.
Recently B1A4 concluded their SWEET GIRL album promotions with a concert on the 12th and 13th. B1A4′s Jinyoung and CNU involved themselves in the composition and songwriting for the entire SWEET GIRL album, and member Baro contributed in the rap-making, allowing the entire album to be made perfectly by B1A4′s own touch. B1A4 has continued to insert their own compositions into each of their albums, but this time they attempted to upgrade their music with the use of Real Session (instrumentation).
Through this album, B1A4 portrayed their unique colours to the fullest. With songs like Tried To Walk, What’s Going On,Lonely, and Solo Day, B1A4′s title tracks did not prioritize excitement or intensity. Rather, they contained B1A4′s unique softness and emotionality. Sometimes these emotions were fun, and sometimes they contained a subtle innocence. They were filled with B1A4′s bright and refreshing energy. With the concepts of boy, flower, and butterfly in SWEET GIRL, the members amplified their soft and innocent emotions. This has been possible because the members have continuously contributed in painting their own colours.
B1A4 has also set new challenges and opportunities for growth through events like the Guerilla Concert and their outdoor concert. Prior to their comeback, B1A4 opened a surprise Guerilla Concert on August 6th. With only two hours of promotion time, the members were able to attract many people, causing crowding at Gangnam. On this day, the members shed tears as they stated, “having come back after one year and one month, we were afraid that the group B1A4 might have been forgotten by our fans.” However, fans never forgot B1A4, and they were able to tighten their relationship even further.
(B1A4′s guerilla concert)
(B1A4′s outdoor concert)
During this promotion period, B1A4 continued to work on their communication with fans. The youngest member Gongchan opened his own mini exhibition with photographs he took as a part of his hobby. Gongchan even made a surprise visit to his own exhibition and explained his photographs personally, allowing for a nice time to connect with his fans.
On the 12th~13th, B1A4 even had a concert at the Seoul Yonsei University Open-Air Theatre, where the members and their fans confirmed the reliance they have with each other. By putting on the first idol outdoor concert, they created a festival-like atmosphere, and connected with their fans. They sang as they made eye contact with fans in the theatre, and they enjoyed their moment together.
Through their SWEET GIRL promotions, the B1A4 members felt the great importance of their fans. With TenAsia, Sandeul mentioned, “We were coming back after one year so I feel like we tightened the relationship with our BANAs, and because the entire album was filled with our compositions many people have said that ‘B1A4 is a team that performs their own music’, which I think has been really meaningful.” Additionally he mentioned, “The Guerilla Concert is fixed strongly in my memory. I worried if many people would even come, but the place was filled so I felt incredibly thankful. And with that I believe we gained the strength to conclude our SWEET GIRL promotions successfully.”
Leader Jinyoung also left caring words. As stated by Jinyoung, “It’s been a while since we last had a comeback, but I feel like we’ve received so much love from our fans so that makes me happy. Also, it has been meaningful to be able to present our fans with songs that we made ourselves.” Additionally he stated, “I’ll never forget the memories we built with our fans while on stage, as well as our first-ever Guerilla Concert experience.”
From creating their own music to forming tighter connections with their fans, B1A4 has built unforgettable memories through SWEET GIRL. B1A4 did not find success from the beginning; rather, they are a group who stacked their bricks one at a time, and built themselves a staircase to find that success. SWEET GIRL is another brick that they have firmly stacked for themselves.
Source: TenAsia Trans: roz @ bethe1all4one Please remove all translations with full credits to source and translator.
B1A4 to be in nation’s first 3D 360° VR music drama
B1A4 will be in the nation’s first ever ‘3D 360° VR music drama’! (T/N: VR means virtual reality)
The 5-member group B1A4 who gained lots of love through their sixth mini album ‘SWEET GIRL’ will appear in the music drama titled ‘Gift of December’.
In addition to Jinyoung and Baro whose acting skills have been recognized through dramas and movies, the rest of the members who have challenged and built on their skills through web dramas and musicals will also display their steady acting through this music drama. ‘Gift of December’, which will feature all of the members, will be the nation’s first 3D 360° VR music drama.
In ‘Gift of December’, the B1A4 members who, after a long time of working hard, finally earn a gift-like day off. But they use that day off as a gift towards an exam-writing high school student and their mother. ‘Gift of December’ will be released for the public at the ‘SBS Awards Festival’ (SAF), which will have its opening day on December 25th.
Source: Donga.com Trans: roz @ bethe1all4one Please remove all translations with full credits to source and translator.
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Union Accuses China of Illegal Clean Energy Subsidies
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/10/business/energy-environment/10steel.html?th&emc=th
By KEITH BRADSHER
HONG KONG — A broad trade case filed on Thursday by an American labor union, accusing China of unfairly subsidizing its clean energy industry, pressed a hot-button jobs issue in the United States during a Congressional election season.
But even if the Obama administration agrees to pursue the case, it could prove hard to resolve, as both countries consider their industries crucial to energy security and future economic growth.
The filing, by the 850,000-member United Steelworkers union, accuses China of violating the World Trade Organization’s free-trade rules by subsidizing exports of clean energy equipment like solar panels and wind turbines. Through its policies, fair or otherwise, China has helped turn its makers of that equipment into the global leaders, while manufacturers in the United States and Europe have struggled financially, cut jobs and in some cases moved operations to China.
President Obama has cited clean energy manufacture as a priority on economic and environmental grounds, and in a speech this week, he called for “a homegrown clean energy industry.”
Mr. Obama has shown a willingness to confront China before, imposing steep tariffs a year ago on Chinese tire imports — a decision that China is itself challenging before a W.T.O. panel in Geneva, which is expected to give an initial ruling this month.
Whether or not the administration wants to risk escalating trade tensions with China right now, the timing of the union’s petition has thrust the issue into the Congressional election season. The union filed under a law that requires the Obama administration to make a decision on whether to pursue the case within 45 days, which would be Oct. 24 — a week and a half before the elections.
“Once we file the case, we’re going to take it to the rest of the public,” Leo W. Gerard, president of the union, said before formally submitting the case. “We’re going to mobilize around this.”
If the administration does take up the case, the first step would be to ask China for bilateral consultations, which in a few months might lead to the formation of a W.T.O. dispute resolution panel in Geneva, unless either side backed down first.
A succession of mostly Democratic members of the House and Senate issued statements through the day on Thursday, endorsing the steelworkers’ case. That support, together with public anxiety about unemployment and the rise of China, could make it hard for the administration to refuse the union’s request.
Nefeterius A. McPherson, a spokeswoman for the Office of the United States Trade Representative, said that the office had accepted the union’s petition and would reach a decision on whether to open an investigation of Chinese trade practices within the designated 45 days, even though the administration has the option of extending that deadline.
The filing of the trade case comes as trade and currency frictions with China are mounting. On Friday morning in Beijing (late Thursday night in New York), China announced that it ran another large trade surplus in August of $20.03 billion.
The Chinese mission to the W.T.O. in Geneva declined to comment on the steelworkers’ filing on Thursday, on the grounds that no case had been filed yet at the W.T.O. and that any initial consultations between the United States and China would be bilateral.
Wang Baodong, a spokesman for the Chinese Embassy in Washington, urged cooperation instead of confrontation: “Great potential exists between China and the U.S. in developing clean energy. And both the Chinese and the U.S. governments support their enterprises in collaborating in this promising sector, with the aim of creating a win-win situation commercially and helping combat the climate change effect.”
The issues go beyond jobs and exports, having real implications for efforts to curb global warming. Increasing China’s use of renewable energy for its own electricity needs would help slow the rise in China’s emissions of greenhouse gases. China passed the United States in total emissions in 2006, although emissions per person remain three times as high in the United States as in China.
Chinese energy policy makers have said in the past that developing a strong energy industry is a national priority that contributes to Chinese energy security. They say that China is helping to address global warming by rapidly increasing its output of renewable energy equipment and that the rest of the world should appreciate its heavy investment in clean energy, which has steeply pushed down the price of solar and wind energy in the past three years.
Many trade experts, though, say that China has made itself vulnerable to a W.T.O. case because much of its support for clean energy, often in the form of cheap land grants and low-cost loans from state-run banks, has benefited its export industries, rather than focusing on the domestic adoption of solar power and wind energy.
Trade lawyers in Washington have been saying for months that China’s export subsidies for clean energy were so extensive that sooner or later, they expected someone to file a trade case. But multinational companies and trade associations in the clean energy business, as in many other industries, have been wary of filing such cases, fearing Chinese officials’ reputation for retaliating against joint ventures in their country and potentially denying market access to any company that takes sides against China.
Besides Mr. Obama’s imposition of tariffs on Chinese tires, the Commerce Department has separately granted dozens of requests to impose tariffs on narrow categories of imports from China, like steel wire strands for prestressed concrete, after finding evidence that they have been subsidized or dumped in the American market.
But special tariffs and other import restrictions still cover less than 3 percent of American imports from China. Unions and many Congressional Democrats have contended that the administration should be more assertive in forcing China to honor previous free trade commitments. But the United States government has long depended on companies to gather commercial information for trade cases, and companies have been hesitant to do so.
China could greatly weaken the case against it, or even settle the matter entirely, by shifting more of its subsidies toward encouraging Chinese consumers to use clean energy, said Alan W. Wolff, a former deputy United States trade representative who has been one of Washington’s best-known trade litigators since the 1980s.
Government subsidies primarily for domestic manufacture and consumption are less likely to violate international trade rules.
“It is time for China to vastly increase its share of world consumption of solar and wind equipment,” Mr. Wolff said. “It needs to do so for its own environmental objectives and for peaceful trade relations with the other leading economies.”
In the 1980s, many big American companies like Kodak and industrial groups like the semiconductor industry were willing to give legal backing and financial support for trade cases against Japan, when it was still an ascending industrial power. But these days, when facing China, multinationals have been reluctant to file similar cases.
The difference is that China, unlike Japan in the ’80s, has encouraged the opening of many foreign-owned factories, making multinationals loath to file trade cases that could alienate Chinese officials and make it harder to do business there.
Section 301, the trade law provision being used by the steelworkers’ union, gives legal standing to unions as well as corporations to file trade cases. The law provided the legal basis for threats of unilateral American trade restrictions in many confrontations with Japan and South Korea through the ’80s and early 1990s.
Currently, the steelworkers’ union is one of the few with the legal resources to challenge China. And it has nothing to fear but the further loss of jobs in the United States.
The United Steelworkers union represents employees in a wide range of energy-related jobs, including manufacturers who make the steel for wind turbine towers and nuclear reactors and glassworkers who make solar panels and various kinds of incandescent and halogen light bulbs. The union also represents workers involved in the assembly of wind turbine towers and those who make gears, valves, engines and other components of clean energy equipment. All of those job categories have faced increased competition from China and other countries in recent years.
Stewart & Stewart, a Washington law firm known for filing antidumping cases at the Commerce Department, prepared the legal brief for the union. The union’s trade strategist for the case is Michael R. Wessel, best known as the trade adviser for many years to former House Democratic leader Richard A. Gephardt, who ran for president in 1988 on a platform calling for a more assertive American trade strategy.
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Opinion Column: “Two Nuggets & Three Issues”
[Opinion column written by Larry Burchall] If, as I wrote last week, Bermuda’s recession ends with GDP rising as much as 15% – 16%, and Bermuda gets back to providing 38,000 jobs with every currently unemployed Bermudian re-absorbed into the economy; then Bermuda will have resolved the first of three issues currently bedevilling Bermuda’s present and near future.
Bermuda will, or can, fix its ‘unemployed Bermudian’ problem.
But without any serious – 20% to 25% – reduction in Government’s Personnel Costs, the overall problem remains unchanged. So the second issue is that still, Government’s total Personnel Costs must soon and eventually get down to an overall $450 million level.
That can happen in two ways.
First, reduce the number of Government employees by 1,000/1,200. Second, cut the overall costs for the near 6,000 persons who draw their pay directly or largely from Government.
Since the first action has never been recommended or suggested – by me – as a viable option, the second action is the only option.
With the America’s Cup coming, with the anticipated aggregate construction works at the Airport, Ariel Sands, Club Med, Morgan’s Point, Pink Beach, and possible renovations for, and start-up of, Casino gaming; there will be a demand for workers in those sections. This fresh demand should ramp up the general economy. A ramping up economy can – I hope will – absorb all said-to-be 3,000 unemployed Bermudians.
The ramp-up could go even further and actually require 4,000 workers filling jobs. Should this happen – and I hope that it will – then the private sector economy will be able to draw this additional 1,000 workers from those Government workers who ‘jump ship’ from Government into the private sector.
Jumping ship achieves two objectives. One, Government painlessly downsizes. Two, the private sector – and tax base – adds an additional 1,000 workers and grows larger. However, this still means that Bermuda’s National Workforce [NWF] only ever rises to 38,000. [Bernews: 9 December 2014.]
At 2013’s NWF level of 34,277, the NWF was close to the 34,633 level of 1996. Nor will 4,000 new private sector jobs replace the 5,936 jobs lost since 2008. So filling 38,000 jobs still means only getting back to the ten years ago 2004 level when there were 38,363 in the NWF. It still means that GDP will likely settle around $6.5bn/$6.6bn.
That’s the first nugget.
The second nugget? If as many as 1,000 current Government workers jump ship to the private sector, then the possibility of Government finances ‘breaking even’ in 2017 shifts to probability.
If Government’s spending can match Government revenue in FY 2017/18, then in that Financial Year, Government will not need to borrow. That means that after thirteen consecutive years, Government finances will finally begin to look healthy.
Healthy enough, that is, for the credit rating agencies [Standard & Poor’s, Moody’s, Fitch] not to slide Bermuda’s sovereign credit rating down into their generic ‘B’ territory – as has already happened with Italy. [Moody’s May 2014 Report assigned an A1 rating to Bermuda– that’s only two levels [A2, A3] above Moody’s ‘B’ territory.]
So jumping ship is the second nugget.
At this point, it is vitally important to note that between December 2014 and December 2017, there will be an election. Whenever the election and whatever the outcome, a new political administration will be in place for FY 2018/19. That new political administration will either be OBA with some faces changed, or PLP with some faces changed.
Though faces and parties may change, the arithmetic will not. It will still be balance – or borrow!
Achieving a balanced Budget by or in FY 2017/18 means that any future Government-of-that-day must not overspend, because overspending will force more borrowing in FY 2017/18
In May and November 2019 the newly elected administration must repay a total $180 million. The newly elected administration can only get that $180 million through fresh BORROWING prior to May 2019, or by paying off that $180 million out of surpluses built up in FY’s 2017/18 and 2018/19.
If, in 2018, the newly elected administration borrows in order to have the $180 million repayment in hand for 2019, then Bermuda will face a ‘Barbados Drop’. If the borrow includes funds to cover two more deficits in FY’s 2017/18 and 2018/19, then the ‘Barbados Drop’ will be bigger.
What is the ‘Barbados Drop’? In September 2013, the Barbados Government sought to borrow a large tranche. The global market was quite willing to lend, but demanded a much higher interest rate. Facing this fact and arithmetic of Debt, the Barbados Government temporarily withdrew its loan request and re-assessed. The Barbados Government then decided that it had to lay off up to 3,000 of its Government workers [Bernews: 16 December 2013]. Those layoffs were first notified to those workers just two weeks before Christmas 2013.
If Bermuda returns to the global market before 2019, then, as with Barbados, it will be the global market – not us Bermudians – that will decide what rate of interest Bermuda pays on whatever Bermuda borrows.
In Bernews [August 19th 2014], I described this cut or borrow decision of 2017 or 2018 as the ‘hurdle’ before the ‘wall’. Even with GDP ramping up 15% – 16% by 2017, the ‘wall’ will still appear.
On 20th July 2020, Bermuda is obligated to repay the $500 million borrowed in 2010. On 20th July 2020, Bermuda will not be able to repay that $500 million bundle. That’s the ‘wall’.
The global investor community will acknowledge that Bermuda cannot repay. In July 2020, when that $500 million gets rolled over, the global investor community will demand a new and higher rate of interest.
If Bermuda borrowed in 2017 or 2018 to cover $180 million as well as two or three more deficits, then Bermuda can expect a huge upwards surge in the rate of interest demanded for re-loaning the $500 million.
And after that $500 million ‘wall’ of July 2020, there is the $140 million of December 2022, then the $475 million due March 2023. None of this total $1,115 million [or $1.115 billion] can be repaid. All of this $1.115 billion will have to be rolled over.
However, if the newly elected administration acts sensibly and responsibly in FY 2017/18, then Bermuda stands the best chance of getting the best interest rates for this series of unavoidable rollovers. This means that – in FY 2017/18 and 2018/19 – the newly elected administration must demonstrate that it can balance a budget and not overspend.
If balanced budgets are not happening by FY 2018/19, then Bermuda can anticipate that investor demands for a higher interest rate will push Nanci well past the $200 million level. Nanci will be sniffing at $230 million by March 2023. With $750 million of Bob’s ‘borrow’ to be dealt with in February 2024, Nanci will float past $250 million. This means that Bermuda could see a series of ‘Barbados Drops’ – commencing as early as 2017.
Bermuda’s overall and only solution?
Grow Bermuda’s National Workforce [NWF] way past the possible 38,000 of 2017. Get Bermuda’s NWF through and past the 40,213 of 2008. Get Bermuda’s NWF up to at least 44,000 and get GDP up to and past $8.0bn.
The third issue? Bermuda must grow ResPop!
The absolute financial arithmetic of FY 2017/18 stalks towards us. But between December 2014 and December 2017, Bermudians, Bermuda, and the Bermuda Government have now got a thirty-six month ‘breathing spell’. Remember though, during these thirty-six months, Nanci will and must get three annual payments of $190 million.
- Larry Burchall
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Cleancut says:
Interesting to hear Larry say the words “I hope will” “I hope”
Those words show that Larry is optimistic.
Late says:
Very very sad indeed. But who is paying attention? Bermudians are asleep on the arithmetic because they are now well fed with so many “homeless” programmes and give to the needy> Why would the 3.000 even bother to consider going to work when their needs are met by Financial Assistance and Salvation army etc. ? I am paying attention because I do the Maths with you. The country is asleep and will just put on its marching boots like always. But this time they will march off a cliff. Thanks for keeping us in the loop. You will be able to say “I told you so”.
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Explore this year’s exciting Special Presentations!
Celebrate 35 Years of CAAMFest!
While every birthday is special, turning 35 is a proud moment for CAAMFest. This year, we celebrate 35 years of advancing Asian American media and evolving our platform for Asian and Asian American voices. As a special treat, join us as we revisit three powerful films from the CAAMFests of yesterday.
Pacific Islanders in Communications: Pacific Showcase
Let Maori anthems fill your ears and the legacy of civil rights activists fill your hearts in this year’s Pacific Showcase. From New Zealand to Hawaii and back again, CAAMFest celebrates the resilience, resistance, wisdom and creativity of the Pacific Islander community.
Featuring the new Web series BROWN GIRLS and Interactive performance, BLASIAN NARRATIVES, this year we’re excited to showcase the breadth of Asian Americans in Media.
Japanese American Community & The Legacy of Internment
Marking the 75th anniversary of the forced relocation and incarceration of Japanese Americans during WWII, CAAMFest presents a slate of bold new documentaries that explore this painful moment in America’s history and urges others to defend those under threat of similar injustice.
Spotlight: Emiko Omori
Documentarian Emiko Omori’s award-winning career spans decades, including CAAM’s very first Festival in 1981. From directing and writing to cinematography and producing, Omori uncovers fascinating stories and perspectives on film and television.
Spotlight: Ham Tran
A Vietnamese American leader in the new Vietnamese film industry, filmmaker Ham Tran has honed his storytelling craft through a diverse collection of films, garnering awards, international praise and mainstream success.
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Cardwell can really make money grow on trees!
Home » Cardwell can really make money grow on trees!
By Website Admin
Posted 1st April 2019
In Events, News
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A TOP-SECRET experiment at a Scots garden centre has proven that money does grow on trees.
Horticulturists at Cardwell Garden Centre, near Gourock have been asked to help develop a tree that produces leaves that can be used to make banknotes instead of plastic, or the old-fashioned mix of cotton and linen.
The unusual move comes after Governments across Europe are abandoning the use of plastic polymers to make banknotes – like the new £5 and £10 notes in the UK – after concerns over the environmental damage caused by plastics.
Cardwell has won a multi-million pound contract to work with the Italian Ministero Delle Politiche Agricole, Alimentari e Forestali (Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Forestry) to cross-pollinate different species of trees that will produce broad leaves suitable for printing.
When harvested, the leaves from the hybrid of the Albero Di Denaro and Pesce D’Aprile species of trees – currently being grown by Cardwell on a secure part of the garden centre – will then be used as the material for new environmentally-friendly bank notes to be printed on.
Italian scientist, Olly Di Farsapo explained: “This experiment with the Pesce D’Aprile tree has been going on for months at Cardwell and we’ve successfully made banknotes from the leaves of the tree.
“We chose the garden centre to work with my country’s forestry ministry on this important project as Cardwell staff’s horticultural expertise is well known throughout Europe. And the hillside behind the main garden centre was ideal for the covert planting of trees.
“We are very concerned with the effect plastics have on the environment and throughout Europe there are plans to cease production of the plastic polymer banknotes. That’s why we have to find an alternative.
”We have been looking for a more natural source of material on which to print banknotes and we now believe Cardwell has found the answer. Tree planting on an industrial scale will start as soon as possible.”
Paul Carmichael, retail general manager at Cardwell said: “We’d been told to keep very quiet about these experiments with various trees, but now it seems everything is out in the open after someone twigged what we were up to.
“It sounds strange to disprove the old adage, but at Cardwell money does grow on trees.”
Members of the public can see the Pesce D’Aprile tree and some of the banknotes made from its leaves at a special exhibition in the garden centre up until noon today, April 1.
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Why are Amtrak trains delayed by freight trains?
Many of us have been there before. The train slows, and we hear the Conductor announce: “Ladies and gentlemen, we are being delayed by freight train traffic ahead.”
Freight trains delayed Amtrak passengers 1.2 million minutes last year. That’s 139 trips to the moon and back. Why does this happen, and what can you do about it?
Delays occur for a variety of reasons, but the leading cause outside the Northeast Corridor (DC to Boston) is “freight train interference.” This is when our trains, traveling on freight railroad tracks, are delayed by their slower freight trains. While Federal law says that passenger trains have preference over freight, this is often ignored by the freight railroads, and that’s not right. Imagine driving your car and arriving hours late because trucking companies made you pull over for their 18-wheelers!
This report card is not going on the fridge
We created the Host Railroad Report Card to grade each of the largest freight railroads based on delays caused to Amtrak trains. There’s only one equation you need to know: average or poor grades = late passengers.
Only one host railroad on the 2018 Host Railroad Report Card received an A, and the average grade was a C. This is surprising because our schedules are “open book” and we’re grading on a curve! Shouldn’t we expect straight A’s?
By the way, Amtrak pays these freight railroads millions of dollars a year to use their tracks.
(Check out the full Host Railroad Report Card for Frequently Asked Questions and more details regarding calculations and definitions.)
Amtrak owns only 3% of the 21,400 route-miles traveled by Amtrak trains, primarily on the Northeast Corridor. The rest are mostly owned by freight railroads. Prior to Amtrak’s creation in 1971, railroads provided both freight and passenger services. However, because the railroads were losing money on their passenger trains, Congress created Amtrak to relieve the private railroads of their obligation to operate passenger trains while retaining an efficient way to transport large numbers of people in areas all across the country.
In return for relieving freight railroads of this obligation, two very important conditions were ultimately put into law: Amtrak would have access to the rail lines to operate passenger trains and – now this is where it gets interesting – those passenger trains would have preference over freight.
What happens when freight trains go first?
Right now, essentially nothing. By law, only the Department of Justice can enforce Amtrak’s right to preference over freight, and it has brought only one enforcement action against a freight company in Amtrak’s history – 40 years ago! As a result, freight railroads suffer no significant consequences for prioritizing their freight over our rail passengers.
We’re going to continue doing everything we can to put people before freight, but we need your help.
Contact your Members of Congress and tell them:
Freight railroads are ignoring the law, and
Amtrak needs legislation so they can enforce the law for you and put people before freight.
Amtrak x National Police Week 2019
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India-China Relations: A Reality Check
Lt Gen (Retd) Gautam Banerjee,
Executive Council, VIF
The Elephant’s Dilemma
New Delhi’s purportedly ‘meek submission’ to what is seen as arbitrary, at times blatant, affront to India’s national dignity that is regularly inflicted by Beijing, often comes in for sharp criticism by our strategic community. Common citizens too are dismayed when they find New Delhi bending-backwards to reconcile to Beijing’s highhandedness, sometimes after lodging meek protest and sometimes allowing the arrogation to pass1. Many a times, as in the matter of the muscle flexing by the Chinese People’s Liberation Army’s (PLA) at the Line of Actual Control (LAC), either the incidents are left unreported, or when that is unfeasible, down-playing explanations are advanced to soothe public consternation - a case of the victim holding brief for the tormentor2!
In more disconcerting vein, there comes grave provocations from China that amount to a sort of ‘hostility’ against our nationhood. Besides, the mind boggling nonsense of staking claim over the state of Arunachal Pradesh, occupation of the Shaksgam Valley in Ladakh, pumping up Pakistan with military, nuclear and missile capabilities – a brazen recourse to destabilize India - and negation of New Delhi’s stance on terrorism go to exemplify Beijing’s obsessive antipathy towards India3. In all such cases, New Delhi suffers these inimical policies in stoic resignation. Thus, the criticism that our strategic community heaps upon the government of the day is not unjustified.
Governance in contemporary India is driven by economic considerations, as indeed it should be. However, there are signs emanating from policy-making confabulations which indicate that the other fundamentals of national security may be consigned to the sidelines in favour of the ‘interests’ of the commercial conglomerate. Obviously, when tested under eternal political wisdom, it is a trend dangerous for the future of our nationhood. Even if the undertakings of national defence are suspended as a temporary trade-off in favour of economic-industrial take-off, as China did during the 1980’s and 1990’s, the governing establishment may not be absolved from its primary charter that mandates, not the promotion of business interests per se, but the provision of secure and sovereign environment for the people to flourish.
The purpose here is, firstly, to suggest that notwithstanding the enchanting dream of ending geo-political rivalry through commercial connections, the Sino-Indian relationship may remain contentious in the foreseeable future; and secondly, to argue that articulation of military power-backed diplomacy would be a hopeful option for India to live in peace with an overwhelmingly powerful and pugnacious neighbour4.
Contentions Ever-Interminable
One comes across many theories to explain Beijing’s compulsive hostility towards India. Experts opine that the root causes of China’s aversion is the power-play of regional leadership – of the kind of that usually comes up between the largest and the second largest neighbours. Then of course, there is India’s repudiation of China’s territorial claims and China’s piqué of Indians’ solidarity with the Tibetan people. In economic terms, competition for energy, water and mining rights for strategic minerals, and China’s efforts to secure her sea lines of communication are also identified as the points of contention. No doubt, all these irritants add up to reinforce the already existing mutual suspicion. However, with the kind of sabre-rattling that China is frequently at, there is no doubt that a powerful majority in the Chinese establishment is afflicted with a sense of apprehension vis-à-vis India. But then what might these apprehensions be, and what can India do about it?
The answer may lie in the weight of the contentious issues that cast a shadow of unease upon Sino-Indo relations.
Regional Leadership?
In the question of rivalry for leadership in the region, the verdict is clear. To state the obvious, China encompasses a vast geographical area and unlimited range of resources. Traditionally, she cradles an extraordinary level of socio-political as well as practical intellect, and has developed sublime forms of civic and military wisdom in equal measure. It is her cultural strength that allowed her to preserve her sovereignty through the periodical shrinkages of political authority, never giving up her claims to rule over what she considered her domain and staking her ‘rightful’ status as a superior race of the “Middle Kingdom”.
China’s fortune is again on an up-curve; she is a rising power of mind boggling potential. Her grip over all segments of her society is pervasive and her technological, economic and military clout is galloping sure and fast. While lining up to do business with China so as to keep their domestic economies on track, even powerful nations are compelled to be wary of the inevitability of security challenges emanating from the fire-breathing dragon. Indeed, there is little doubt regarding China’s global ascendancy in the days to come; political thinkers are already articulating the idea of her role as a ‘pro-active superpower’. In bilateral context, her lead over India on every aspect - political authority, structural stability, economy, science and technology and military power - is so overwhelming, and continuously increasing, that even a fleeting thought of closing the gap may be discarded outright.
In contrast, India, though an equally ancient civilisation, has not articulated a proportionate balance between spiritualism, socio-political wisdom and nationalism. All through her history, there have been short periods of powerful centralisation followed by long periods of political disintegration that invited cyclic invasions and foreign rule. Presently, even as her economy improves and she emerges as an accommodative member of the global polity, she is yet unable to articulate her state-power to disperse such anti-national tendencies that emanate from within or without5. Thus, notwithstanding a vibrant democracy in play, armed rebellion has displaced the state in nearly one-fifth of the country. One third of her people remain malnourished while numerous groups of ethnic, linguistic, casteist, religious, business and political manipulators assail each other, and by default, harm national ideals. Meanwhile, inimical neighbours continue to sabotage her national interests, with impunity.
To be realistic, there is no way India can stake claim for regional leadership in the foreseeable future. Even if Beijing views India’s growing strategic relationships with US, Japan, Australia, Vietnam, Indonesia, Central Asian States and Myanmar as ‘ganging up’ to contain her, she may seek remedy not in targeting India, but in controlling her own brusque and over-bearing manner of conducting regional diplomacy. Indeed, China need not slip into a banal belief that India could pose a challenge to her ascendency in any manner6.
But that ‘ghost’ of apprehension may be exorcised by the Chinese themselves; India can do little to clear that perception.
The Tibet Issue
The Tibet issue is a cause of concern that sets Beijing on the warpath. History records that the borders of successive Nanjing-Beijing empires have gone through many cycles of expansions and contractions. Thus in some periods, Beijing’s imperialistic control extended westwards right up to Turkmenistan, while at other times, revolt emanating from outlying provinces caused the empires to shrink into just the Han populated areas of the Hwang Ho and Yang Ze River Basins 7. Perhaps this ingrained memory makes the ruling communist regime extremely sensitive to situations in Tibet, Xinjiang and Outer Mongolia. Chinese leadership’s avowed purpose being to perpetuate the stability of their autarchic rule, the simmering discontent in Tibet and world-wide solidarity with the Tibetan cause must be a cause of serious anxiety for them. Even her attempts to buy Tibetan people’s loyalty through accelerated economic development have failed to silence the skeptics who see it as a step to cascade Han settlements and so alter the demography of Tibet. Besides, economic prosperity stokes the urge for freedom, and therefore, the “Free Tibet” movement will remain a serious worry for the Chinese leadership in the foreseeable future. India, in sheltering a Tibetan Government-in-Exile, would continue to be viewed as an ‘upstart challenger’, a potential ‘destabiliser’, who needs to be ‘kept in place’8.
There is really nothing that India can do about successive Dalai Lamas and their followers taking shelter in her territory. May be China could do something about her ways of dealing with these unfortunate people so that they do not have to escape to India. She could reconcile to India’s compulsions in accommodating Tibetan refugees under the established international convention. May be New Delhi’s support of China’s causes in various forums even in absence of any reciprocal gesture would some day satiate Beijing’s complexes in this regard.
Here again there is little that India can do more than what she already does do to assuage China’s fears.
The Territorial Dispute
India’s repudiation of China’s occupation of the strategically sensitive Aksai Chin and Shaksgam Valley, and outright rejection of the unwarranted claim over Tawang/Arunachal Pradesh further adds to the latter’s consternation. Indeed, it is difficult to visualise India ceding territories to humour China’s expansionist agenda, just as it is naïve to expect China to rid herself of her deeply ingrained instincts of expansionistic philosophy9. India, therefore, will continue to be a target for Beijing to vent her frustrations upon.
The Tibetan Plateau is the major source of sweet water that sustains life in South and East Asia. No doubt, diversion of such waters to enliven her heartlands is an enticing prospect for China. But when considered in the light of international riparian laws and the Middle Kingdom’s compulsive urge to secure great power status, of which display of sense of responsibility is an essential ingredient, the dream may encounter major hurdles. China will have to contend with the fact that diversion of waters from the Bramhaputra, Sutluj and Indus rivers would affect many other neighbours, and that coalescence of a coalition of victims of her highhandedness, even if it is made up of smaller and weaker nations, would be detrimental to her interests10. Thus, even if technological complexities, enormity of investment, decades of construction and environmental consequences may not deter her, and if the global political equation continues to remain favourable to China during those decades, any arbitrary diversion of waters by China may not be beyond contest.
In the overall context therefore, China may not find India as the sole stumbling block on this issue; in India, it would continue to be a cause of discomfiture though.
Strategic Encirclement?
What is described as China’s ‘string of pearls’ strategy - that is, establishment of naval facilities surrounding the Indian Peninsula in alliance with littoral countries - would certainly strengthen her sea lines of communication as well as mining prospects in the India Ocean; it would also enhance her economic and diplomatic clout. Indeed, China is free to seek political arrangements to create this ‘string’ as she wants to, but there is much concern that this ‘string’ would lead to ‘encirclement’ of India. No doubt that ‘string’ would pinch, but only if India fails to invest in sea-power and take advantage of the strategic situation of the peninsular India that is best situated to control the Indian Ocean.
Rationally viewed, factoring facilities for naval replenishment located on foreign shores thousands of nautical miles away from mainland China as unassailable ‘military bases’, from where flotillas of the People’s Liberation Army Navy (PLAN) would supposedly set about to impose adversities upon other users of the Indian Ocean, may cause less anxiety when tested in light of the scales of naval forces and logistics that would be necessary for that purpose. It may take China four to five decades of continuation of favourable internal and international order to realise that purported goal, howsoever delightful that ambition might be to a compulsive hegemonist11. Besides, it would be an entire lot of nations whose interests would be equally threatened by China’s dominance over the Indian Ocean.
This issue, therefore, would be a common concern among many nations, India included, that needs resolute preparations over time to manage.
Competition for Strategic Resources
There may be a case to view the issue of race for resources just as a business competition that is ever present in all deals at all times. Such rivalries may not lead to enmity per se12. Besides, securing global sources for supply of assured energy and strategic minerals for one country does not imply that the other may have to starve; the architecture of economic exploitation of natural resources is so intimately intertwined across the globe. The concern that India would jeopardise China’s energy hunt, or in securing her sources of energy China will cause India to be shunted out, may not, either way, be so overwhelming 13.
The trade race may, therefore, be allowed to gain momentum without acrimony.
Compelling Observations
Sino-Indian relationship is marred by such fundamental in-congruencies which cannot be resolved at India’s instance without compromising her core values. New Delhi has to wait and hope that Beijing will some day get rid of her anxiety over India taking what she believes to be her pie, but lot of water must flow out of Tsang Po before that.
Keeping the ‘Dragon’ at Bay
Beijing’s growing acts of diplomatic hostility, even to the extent that the understandings reached in the past - the peace and tranquility agreement 2005, for example - are sought to be repudiated through deliberate acts of negation, must remain a potential source of trouble for India 14. Therefore, stakes in geo-politics rise, China’s insidious muscle flexing along our entire Northern borders, across the Indian Ocean region and even on international waters, should be expected. We are also aware of the fact that, Pakistan would continue to serve as China’s proxy detractor against India. How does India deal with a bellicose and belligerent China is a strategic challenge. How to keep the ‘dragon’ off her back? How do we, as many strategic thinkers opine, keep China’s predatory instincts in check while concentrating on own economic progress?
Lure of Complacency
First, we may not take China’s rhetoric of “peaceful rise to power” on face value; firstly, because in geo-politics, power never comes peacefully, and secondly, the peace Beijing speaks of is but a peace on her terms.
Second, we may not be fixated to the view that integration of Taiwan is China’s sole focus. Presently, that goal remains farfetched, whereas Tibet is a ‘live’ issue in contention. Settlement of the Tibet issue will bring her a step closer to integration of Taiwan. Therefore, possibility of a situation when Beijing may bolster her politico-economic measures with military power to overwhelm the Tibetan refraction, is real. India will invariably be embroiled in that conflict in some manner or the other.
Third, growing bilateral trade may not be a harbinger of dispute resolution. History bears testimony to the fact that good business does not come in the way of politico-military confrontation.
Fourth, the claim over whole of the Arunachal Pradesh may not be seen just as a bargaining posture. Such rhetorical claims, when repeated over decades, tend to get crystallised into national aspirations. When that happens, even authoritarian regimes are unable to back out against popular pressure.
Lastly, we may not dismiss those experts who have recently expressed the possibility of another Chinese ‘attack’ on India. Of course, as expected, the manner of the offensive may differ. In any case, we have to do better than repeating our gullibility of the pre-1962, post-Kutch 1965 and pre-Kargil kinds if we do not wish to suffer another visitation of misfortune.
Thus in the context of China’s adversarial posture, New Delhi has to convince Beijing to limit her uncontrollable expansionist urge to nothing beyond a ritualistic war-dance.
Options Oft Articulated
Will a tit-for-tat exchange work? Asking Beijing either to move out the PLA from Occupied Kashmir or face the prospect of the Indian Army moving into Aksai Chin, for example? Or by sallying out to damage some huts and paint some boulders across the LAC? Can India indulge in such charade without poking Beijing to up the ante`? The obvious answer is that such a bizarre ‘game’ may make a subtle gesture, nothing more, but worse, it might invite a reaction that India would be hard put to absorb.
Can New Delhi impose such a regime of trade restrictions that it starts hurting China’s economy? By all accounts, such a step may cause some losses to China, but its counter-effect on Indian economic progress may be many times over. After all, the weaker gets trampled first.
Growing economic inter-dependency could be thought of to marginalise the hawks in Beijing, mainly the PLA and the rank communists. This may be a good option provided the economic benefits are equitably balanced, not biased against India. Besides, it needs to be appreciated that notwithstanding encouraging prophecies, economic bindings have seldom prevented one state from undermining the other. Conversely, in her efforts to keep the trade equation in her favour, China may find another cause to be nasty.
Strength of human resources bolsters national security. Can we bank upon that to stand up to Beijing’s arrogance? Well, that could be possible if we could maintain our lead in mathematical genius, English language, scientific temper and strong civil institutions that we had inherited at independence. Sadly, that lead has been lost, more or less; China catches up fast when she wishes to, while India tends to entangle herself in endless arguments and agitations, nepotism and mobocracy, divisive compromises and farcical politics. This option therefore is contingent upon India reinventing her societal strength – it is a far away option.
Possibly, India can leverage common cause with the United States, Japan, Vietnam, Australia, Indonesia, to name just a few, to blunt China’s predatory tendency. Can such a leverage be accomplished without provoking China, something that wisdom tells us to better avoid? Can we prevent such collaborations with the ‘like minded’ parties – no saints themselves - from undermining our interests in some other manner? Arguably, it may be possible to forge such a leverage, though it would be a tight-rope act, liable to misfire.
What about retaliatory measures in Tibet? Can India stoke Tibetan resistance in the same manner that China uses Pakistan to tie knots around her? That indeed would be a strong leverage to exercise. But what if China retaliates by promoting Maoist and North East insurgencies; she had been doing so earlier even without any provocation, after all? Obviously, this extreme option may be reserved as a recourse only in war, with due preparations to handle the consequences.
The preceding discussion leaves military deterrence as the sole practicable, and profitable, recourse to keep China on friendly terms.
Role of Military Power
We know that obduracy of an overwhelmingly powerful neighbour may not be contained by reconciliatory or collaborative diplomacy alone. Beijing’s arrogance will rise in step with her progress and power – this is already evident. Considering its ever-present roots as discussed above, Sino-Indian confrontation of some kind or the other is inevitable. Given China’s philosophy of using military might as a catalyst of political ambitions, it is imperative for India to wield such military power that would motivate Beijing to seek her goals through peaceful means. Indeed, that is what our political leadership have sought to do all these years since 1962. But with the military institution frozen in obsolescence and afflicted with debilitating ‘hollowness’, can India’s military power continue to pay its ‘deterrence-dividend’, or even dissuade our eastern neighbour’s innate urge to grab territories? The answer, as honest analysts aver, is ‘no’.
Further, given that our goal of socio-economic uplift precludes the practicality of competing with China’s military prowess, India may not hope to ever acquire that level of military power that could defeat a full-spectrum, all-front, total war that the PLA’s doctrine espouses, even if that strategy is sought to be camouflaged under the beguiling terminology of “limited war under conditions of informalisation”.
A ‘Smile and Gun’ Option
From the preceding discussion, it emerges that given the compulsions under which it has to carry the burden of statecraft, the courses adopted by New Delhi in keeping the overbearing ‘dragon’ at bay have to be double-nuanced. Indeed, it makes sense to promote political and economic engagement, sometimes reconciling affronts with petulance and showing occasional resolve15. However, since Beijing is no exception in respecting the power of gun, that stoicism needs to be backed up with an efficient military machine that could ‘bite’ painfully even when bound. India could work towards that level of military preparedness which, even if she may not prevail, would make a clash of force prohibitively dear to China. History tell us that it is possible to do so at a cost that is affordable and a pace that is adaptable. Indian strategists may therefore have to come to terms with the aforementioned restraining dispensations, and yet devise strategies that would deny free run to the PLA should Beijing decide to settle her pique with force.
But insight also tells us that the Indian system of administrating its military institution restricts, rather than sponsors such exceptional strategies. Our political culture remains in oblivion of the nuances of cost-efficient management of military organisation and development of strategic articulations, while the burden of defence policy making is consigned to a school of pretending strategists made up of bureaucrats, scientists and auditors - in exclusion of sanctified representation from the military intellectuals! As the show of smug satisfaction among the polity and the media over raising of two army divisions, or positioning some aircraft on the North-East frontier, or successful launches of missiles – all half-measures, titillating but overall lopsided - indicates, innocence of the profound nuances of war-fighting seems to pervade the entire state-apparatus. Consequently, even while maintaining the third largest army in the world, the nation remains bereft of the advantages expected and dividends accrued. That is a sad situation.
Engaging with China
Friendly engagement with China is a necessity that would work only if it is cemented with the backing of military strength. A comprehensive revamp – transformation, so to say – of the Indian defence establishment is therefore overdue. This, however, may be possible only if there is firm resolve in our politico-bureaucratic system to nurture military expertise, foster synergy between India’s numerous defence and quasi-defence establishments and respect the time-lines of force-modernisation.
This condition does not prevail today.
New Delhi’s reconciliation with issue of ‘stapled visa’ to the residents of J&K, blocking the Asian Development Bank loan for Arunachal Pradesh and whimsical response to the threat of deluge along Paree Chu in Himachal Pradesh are some examples. Diplomatic protests, when lodged, are disdainfully dismissed by Beijing, mostly so.
Instances of damaging Indian bunkers, shooing away bonafide graziers and preventing track construction work near the LAC to proceed are known. Besides, of course, there are ever increasing violations of the LAC. India’s attempts to explain away these violations to her citizens as “differing perceptions of the alignment of LAC between the two sides” does not really wash since the Chinese have consistently avoided specifying their ‘perception’ of the LAC and so settle this irritant till the border issue is resolved.
Since 2006, China ‘clarifies’ that the entire Arunachal Pradesh (“Outer Tibet” is the newly invented nomenclature!) is hers. Imagine an international boundary, running not along the watershed of massive Himalayan Ranges, but over and across its reverse foothills! That is a glimpse of ‘Chinese logic’! In the case of Shaksgam Valley, one squatter has gifted its trespass to another! The mischievous deal has gone a step further: Chinese Army is now operating in Pakistan Occupied Kashmir.
China and India have never been neighbours. Tibet has always occupied that place independent of the ever-changing Sino-Tibet political equations, till communist China completely subsumed Tibet nationalism in the 1950’s.
Arguably, the eulogistic chants of India being an “economic power” or even an “emerging super-power” notwithstanding, she is actually just a “business destination” for the developed nations to rake profit from. It is the lure of profit that causes the developed world to lip enchanting adulations over India’s supposed “success story”.
Of course, China too faces numerous problems. But she is in control and is prepared to keep it that way, notwithstanding from some China-watcher’s wishful predictions of a gathering trouble.
All this while, the vast belt of territory starting from Manchuria in the North, and covering what are called Inner Mongolia, Quinghai, Gansu, Xinjiang and Tibet regions in the West, had enjoyed freedom or subjugation – at varying degrees – at one time or the other. It was only during the early Manchu rule that the map of the empire appeared to be somewhat close to what China controls today, or lays claim upon.
Recently, the instinctive mindset was revealed when commenting on India’s ‘Agni V’ missile test, a Chinese mouthpiece accused India of ‘entertaining visions of imposing regional hegemony’, a status that was, by implication, considered to be reserved, by divine consensus, for China alone.
Ironically, the communist regime fully identifies with its much decried imperialist past. Thus, the communists claim the largest areas that were ever controlled, or even trod upon, by Beijing-based empires at any point of time. By this logic India could claim Pakistan, Afghanistan, Myanmar etc, the Britain may claim half the world, and every other country may claim every other’s territory!
As political philosophers have contended, even the most powerful hegemons are consciousness of a virtual ‘red line’ which when crossed, invites self-doom. Beijing will ignore that ‘line’ at her peril.
A static international order is nearly impossible to imagine. Besides, ’encirclement’ of the Cold war era is invalid in today’s world. Granting a foothold for naval replenishment does not necessarily mean that hostile acts against another country will find auto-endorsement.
India opted to purchase fighter aircraft from the French stable, much to consternation in the US. And that did not lead to a duel.
Economic and societal survival of nations that export and import energy and other minerals is so inter-wound that any major disruption in the cycle will devastate societies of both categories. The effect will be global – it will lead to a kind of global chaos.
We may recount three cases of Beijing’s diplomatic duplicity. One, when asked as to why wasn’t her territorial claims raised before the late 1950’s, Zhou en Lai replied that “the time was not ripe”!; two, the volte-face on Beijing’s stance on Sikkim; three, claim over all of Arunachal Pradesh and invention of the term “Outer Tibet”. Indeed, it is hard to reconcile to a great nation indulging in such undignified tricks.
Instances of either versions of reactions are: one, ‘ignoring’ the recent episode of visa denial to an officer hailing from Arunachal Pradesh and going ahead with a truncated delegation on military exchange; and two, petulant ‘reconciliation’ with PLA’s move into Pakistan Occupied Kashmir by simply stating that the matter was ‘being watched’. Conversely, ‘resolve’ was shown in going ahead with explorations in the South China Sea, rejecting Beijing’s ‘warning’.
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Colorado’s Darragh O’Neill prefers punting over tackling
By Tom Kensler
BOULDER — That sheepish grin spoke volumes. Colorado sophomore punter Darragh O’Neill was asked if he considered tackling among his skill set.
O’Neill became one of the few bright spots last weekend in the 69-14 loss at Fresno State by averaging 42.8 yards on 10 punts, including four that landed inside the opponent’s 20-yard line.
He also helped force a fumble in the first quarter when Fresno State’s Isaiah Burse lost the ball on a 14-yard return from the Bulldogs’ 21-yard line. Colorado’s Christian Powell was officially credited with the forced fumble and tackle, and another CU freshman, cornerback Jeffrey Hall, recovered the fumble.
But O’Neill got in Burse’s way and was the first to slow the returner’s progress. The punter even reached for Burse’s arm and almost caused the fumble before Powell arrived.
O’Neill didn’t shy away from the contact. He didn’t hesitate or flinch before sticking his nose in the play.
“In my mind I think (tackling is) a strength of mine,” O’Neill said with a grin. “But I’ve never worked on it.
“And as (Burse) got closer, he looked a lot bigger. So, no, I don’t think that’s a strength of mine at all.
“Getting a turnover on special teams is a pretty big deal,” O’Neill added. “Seeing us get the ball was pretty exciting.”
My take: O’Neill, 6-foot-2 and 185 pounds, was a standout in basketball and soccer at Fairview High School and this is an example why college coaches love athletic punters and place-kickers. On occasion, they may be called upon to make a regular football play.
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Colorado football’s top 5: true freshmen of influence
BOULDER — As Colorado’s Saturday afternoon season opener against Colorado State at Sports Authority Field at Mile High approaches, I’ll offer some top 5 lists, beginning with the top five CU true freshmen that will make an immediate impact.
Keep in mind, the media was kept out of practices, so these lists are developed after speaking to dozens of CU coaches and players during fall camp.
Colorado’s Top 5 true freshmen of influence:
1. Cornerback Kenneth Crawley — The 6-foot-1, 170-pounder from Washington D.C., didn’t come as highly regarded as Buffs teammate Yuri Wright, a national top-100 prospect. But Crawley, who was made some national top-300 lists, is the one who earned a starting job — at left corner. And it appears he will be CU’s top punt returner as well.
2. Safety Marques Mosley — A 6-1, 180-pounder from Upland, Calif., Mosley will return kickoffs for the Buffs and also is the top backup to senior Ray Polk at free safety. Coaches talk frequently about how Polk has mentored Mosley, and how quickly Mosley has caught on.
3. Defensive tackle Josh Tupou — At 6-3 and 325 pounds, the imposing Californian from Long Beach has the girth and natural strength that CU has been missing along the defensive interior. Will be in rotation for the two defensive tackle spots with senior Will Pericak (6-4, 285) and junior Nate Bonsu (6-1, 280). At 325, Tupou isn’t flabby, just big.
4. Wide receiver Gerald Thomas — Wednesday’s announcement that Paul Richardson (ACL surgery) will redshirt this season made it more imperative that Thomas (5-11, 175) make an immediate impact. CU has plenty of possession receivers, but Thomas, like Richardson, can be explosive in the open field. QB Jordan Webb raves about the skill set of Thomas, who played high school ball in the Dallas area but is originally from New Orleans.
5. Fullback Christian Powell — Like Tupou, Powell (6-foot, 235) arrived as a teenager that’s physically ready for major-college football. Powell, listed behind junior Alex Wood on the latest depth chart but sure to get snaps, will be counted upon to help open holes for tailback Tony Jones. But Powell can carry the ball and catch passes. It wouldn’t be a shock if CU shows Powell setting up along QB Jordan Webb in a one-back set on occasion.
Honorable mention: cornerback Yuri Wright, cornerback Jeffrey Hall, defensive end John Stuart, defensive tackle Justin Solis, offensive guard Jeromy Irwin, tight end Vincent Hobbs.
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CU Buffs position breakdown: Secondary gets influx of youth, talent
BOULDER — Considering that Colorado ranked last in pass-efficiency defense among Pac-12 teams in 2011, it came as no surprise that signing defensive backs was a priority during recruiting.
In February, the Buffs landed five high school DBs. Four of the five may help immediately, with John Walker of Washington D.C., having to wait until 2013 because a finger injury early in August camp required surgery and he likely will redshirt this season.
From speaking with coaches (practices are closed to the public, including the media), it appears the two most highly regarded of the signees, Yuri Wright and Kenneth Crawley, are living up to their billing.
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Colorado freshman cornerback John Walker to redshirt
BOULDER — Colorado freshman John Walker, one of five defensive backs signed by the Buffaloes in February, will sit out the 2012 season as a redshirt, CU coach Jon Embree announced Saturday.
Walker, 5-feet-10 and 170 pounds, injured a finger during the first week of August camp and will require surgery.
Walker earned all-metro honors by the Washington Post as a senior for H.D. Woodson High School in Washington D.C. A teammate, cornerback Kenneth Crawley, also signed with Colorado and is vying for playing time, Embree said.
Crawley, Yuri Wright, Marques Mosley and Jeffrey Hall have all been impressive as rookies in the secondary, Embree said.
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Colorado’s Embree: Incoming freshmen to help at several spots
UNIVERSAL CITY, CALIF. — During interviews Tuesday at the Pac-12 football media day at Universal Studios, Colorado coach Jon Embree was asked which incoming freshmen figure to provide the most competition during August camp.
Embree’s response wasn’t a short answer. After all, Colorado lost 13 starters off last year’s team.
Embree began with defensive back, where the team has openings at free safety and a cornerback slot. Embree said CU signed “five very good players” for the secondary in February: cornerbacks Yuri Wright, Kenneth Crawley, John Walker, Jeffrey Hall and safety Marques Mosley.
Wright, from New Jersey powerhouse Don Bosco Prep, was regarded as a national top-100 player. Crawley, from CU’s new Washington D.C. pipeline of H.D. Woodson High School, made national top-250 lists.
“They all will have a chance to compete,” Embree said of the five DB signees.
Ranking next for freshman impact, Embree said, would be tight end, where converted defensive lineman Nick Kasa, a senior, ended spring drills with the first team. CU signed three tight ends in February: Vincent Hobbs (6-feet-3, 240 pounds) of Mesquite (Texas) Horn; Sean Irwin (6-4, 230) of Cypress (Texas) Fairbanks; and Austin Ray (6-6, 235) of Columbia (Mo.) Rock Bridge.
“A couple of young kids there (at tight end) have a chance to be good players for us,” Embree said. “(In the defensive secondary and at tight end) they will be difference-makers early.”
After those two areas, Embree said wide receiver and defensive line would be the next positions where a freshman could make an immediate impact.
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CU running back signees ranked No. 1 in Pac-12
Football recruiting analyst Adam Gorney, the West Coast-based evaluator for Rivals.com, has released his annual position-by-position rankings for the Pac-12’s recently signed classes.
Colorado fared well in many categories, especially at running back where the Buffs’ four-player haul was ranked by Gorney as best in the Pac-12.
Wrote Gorney: “After a 3-10 season in 2011, Colorado needs players that can make things happen all over the field, and the Buffaloes did a quality job of loading up at running back by signing four players. Three-star Davien Payne (5-11, 225, Perris, Calif., Citrus Hill) and Terrence Crowder (5-10, 210, Galen Park HS, Texas) are big, punishing backs, and Donta Abron (5-9, 190, Upland HS, Calif.) could be the sleeper in this class. Clay Norgard (6-1, 240, Highlands Ranch Mountain Vista) is expected to play fullback and he’s a tough, hard-nosed player.”
Colorado’s conference ranking at other positions:
*Tied for fourth at quarterback (Shane Dillon).
*Tied for eighth at wide receiver (Gerald Thomas, Jeffery Thomas, Peyton Williams).
*Fourth at tight end (Vincent Hobbs, Sean Irwin, Austin Ray)
*Twelfth at offensive line (Jeromy Irwin, Gerrad Kough, Alex Kelley)
*Fourth at defensive tackle (Tyler Henington, Kory Rasmussen, Justin Solis, Josh Tupou).
*Seventh at defensive end (Kisima Jagne, Samson Kafovalu, Derek McCartney, Johnny Stuart, De’Jon Wilson).
*Fourth at defensive back (Kenneth Crawley Jeffrey Hall, Marques Mosley, John Walker, Yuri Wright).
*Tied for sixth with players designated as athlete (Christian Powell, expected to play fullback).
*CU did not sign a linebacker to the class.
The positional leaders:
QB: Washington
RB: Colorado
WR: California
TE: Oregon
OL: Stanford
DT: UCLA
DE: Oregon
LB: USC
DB: Washington
ATH: UCLA
My take: Although Colorado signed just two 4-star players (cornerbacks Kenneth Crawley and Yuri Wright), recruiting analysts are impressed with the depth and talent of Jon Embree’s class, especially considering that the head coach and his staff had to sell the program while struggling through a 3-10 season. As for the conference, I like the fact that seven different schools led a position. That speaks well for the overall strength of the league — and its future.
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Buffs football commitment list swells to 26 as of 1:30 p.m.
UPDATE: CU football nabs touted QB Shane Dillon, bruising backs: a position-by-position breakdown.
According to CU, at least nine signatures of football recruits have been received by the school as of 8 a.m.:
CB Yuri Wright, 6-2, 180, Ramsey, N.J.
OL Jeromy Irwin, 6-5, 289, Cypress, Texas
TE Sean Irwin, 6-4, 220, Cypress, Texas
RB Kenneth Crowder, 5-10, 212, Galena Park, Texas
WR Peyton Williams, 6-1, 185, Southlake, Texas
TE Austin Ray, 6-6, 235, Columbia, Mo.
CB Jeffrey Hall, 5-11, 180, LaPlace, La.
TE Vincent Hobbs, 6-3, 230, Mesquite, Texas
WR Jeffrey Thomas, 6-3, 180, Duncanville, Texas
Here’s another batch of CU signees, as of 9:15 a.m.
CB Kenneth Crawley, 6-1, 170, Washington, D.C.
ATH Christian Powell, 5-11, 250, Upland, Calif.
DB John Walker, 6-0, 175, Washington D.C.
DE De’Jon Wilson, 6-3, 240, Washington, D.C.
DT Josh Tupou, 6-4, 302, Buena Park, Calif.
DE John Stuart, 6-4, 230, Westlake Village, Calif.
DT Justin Solis, 6-3, 287, Westlake Village, Calif.
WR Gerald Thomas, 5-10, 170, The Colony, Texas
DE Samson Kafovalu, 6-3, 253, Riverside, Calif.
QB Shane Dillon, 6-5, 185, El Cajon, Calif.
Here’s another group as of 11 a.m.
ATH Marques Mosley, 6-1, 174, Upland, Calif.
RB Donta Abron, 5-9, 187, Upland, Calif.
RB Davien Payne, 5-11, 213, Perris, Calif.
DE Kisima Jagne, 6-5, 235, Chandler, Ariz.
Three more by 1:30 p.m.
DE Derek McCartney, 6-4, 220, Faith Christian HS
DT Tyler Henington, 6-3, 265, Mullen HS
DT Kory Rasmussen, 6-3, 255, Honolulu
CU football signing list grows to 19
Still no surprises.
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CU football signees list up to 19 by 9:15 a.m.
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Colorado recruiting effort adds third cornerback within a week
Jeffrey Hall, a 5-foot-11, 180-pound cornerback at LaPlace (La.) St. Charles Catholic High School, made his commitment to Colorado official on Sunday, according to Rivals.com.
Rated a three-star prospect, Hall intercepted nine passes last fall in helping to lead St. Charles Catholic to the Louisiana Class 3A title in his first year as a cornerback. He told Rivals.com that he picked CU over Indiana and Arizona after receiving a home visit on Thursday from Buffs head coach Jon Embree.
Last week, Colorado landed oral commitments from four-star cornerbacks Kenneth Crawley of H.D. Woodson High School in Washington, D.C., and Yuri Wright, formerly of New Jersey power Don Bosco. Wright was expelled from Don Bosco for offensive posts on Twitter and must find another high school or avenue to complete his graduation requirements.
Hall told Rivals.com that he had second thoughts about Colorado because cornerback might be crowded with the commitments of Crawley and Wright but said he shown that cornerback is a position of need at CU and he may see early playing time.
“Colorado was on me the longest,” Hall told Rivals.com. “They are like family there. That’s what I was looking for in a college.”
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Will CU land its third cornerback prospect within a week?
It certainly sounds promising, if not a lock.
Jeffrey Hall, a 5-foot-11, 180-pounder from La Place (La.) St. Charles Catholic High School, told Rivals.com Tuesday night that he may be ready to offer a commitment on Friday.
Colorado appears to be in the driver’s seat.
“It’s down to Colorado and Indiana. But I will most likely commit to Colorado,” Hall told the CU-based Rivals site BuffStampede.com.
Rated a three-star prospect by Rivals, Hall visited Colorado on Jan. 13 and then made a trip to Indiana last weekend. According to Rivals, his offer list also includes Tulane, Kansas State, Louisiana-Lafayette, Louisiana-Monroe and North Texas.
Hall recorded nine interceptions, 55 tackles, four-and-a-half tackles for a loss and four forced fumbles as a senior — his first year at cornerback. St. Charles Catholic won the Louisiana Class 3A championship.
Earlier this week, Colorado received oral commitments from two four-star corners: Kenneth Crawley of H.D. Woodson High School in Washington D.C., and Yuri Wright, who was recently expelled from New Jersey prep power Don Bosco for posting offensive tweets. Wright must transfer to another high school to complete graduation requirements.
The defensive backfield, and cornerback in particular, is a critical area of need for Colorado.
National signing day is Feb. 1.
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One of the best quotes I’ve ever seen from a recruit
“We actually ate so much I got tired of chewing.”
That comes from Jeffrey Hall, a cornerback from St. Charles Catholic High School in La Place, La., who visited Colorado during the weekend and then spoke to BuffStampede.com, the Colorado-based Rivals.com site.
A 5-foot-11, 176-pounder, Hall is being recruited by CU offensive coordinator and running backs Eric Bieniemy, who was born in New Orleans before his family moved to Los Angeles when he was young.
Hall told BuffStampede.com that his trip to Boulder “was real good. It is beautiful out there.”
Hall also talked at length with CU defensive coordinator Greg Brown, who also coaches the secondary.
“They said a lot of the same things in person that they had been telling me on the phone,” Hall told the recruiting-based website. “Coach Brown said I would have a chance at early playing time and could possibly be a starter my first year. Coach Brown said he is not scared to play a true freshman.”
Hall said he may take an official visit to Indiana before choosing a school.
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4-star Cope-Fitzpatrick to visit Colorado this weekend
By John Henderson
Tight end Jalen Cope-Fitzpatrick, one of the four four-star recruits considering Colorado that I blogged about Monday, will make his official visit Friday, according to Buffscoop.com.
Out of Whitney High in Rocklin, Calif., Cope-Fitzpatrick is ranked as the No. 7 tight end in the nation by Rival.com. He committed to Southern California in June but has been in contact with Colorado, Oregon and UCLA. Second-year coach Jon Embree does not have a commitment from a four-star recruit yet.
Buffscoop.com listed three other players who will join Cope-Fitzpatrick on the visit. One is three-star cornerback Jeffrey Hall of St. Charles Catholic High in La Place, La. Colorado’s competition is Tulane, North Texas and Louisiana-Monroe but his stock is rising since intercepting nine passes his senior year.
Three-star safety Chris Solomon led West Covina (Calif.) High to the CIF title and is also considering Washington State, Oregon State, Washington and Boise State. The other is two-star running back Davien Payne of Citrus Hill High in Perris, Calif., who has already committed to the Buffaloes.
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Why people play social network games…
Yvette Wohn - April 8, 2010 @ 3:14 pm · Filed under Games, Social Networks
(cross-posted on Play As Life)
Why do people play games? A lot of scholars and market researchers have looked at game motivations and have pretty much come up with similar results. People play for several reasons, some of which include to be social, to engage in competition, to immerse in fantasy, etc. etc.
But why do people play games on Facebook? We would expect that a lot of motivations that apply to regular games would also apply to Facebook games. However, maybe Facebook games are different. Compared to MMOs, they are most definitely smaller in scale. Also, with Facebook games you are more likely to play with your existing friends (yes, you could play with your existing friends on MMOs and Xbox Live, but with those games you don’t necessarily need that friendship tie in order to play). The games are also mostly asynchronous, browser-based, and easier to learn/play.
So we set out to see why people were playing Facebook games– and especially, in the context of social network sites– if people were playing for social reasons.
A few colleagues and I did some empirical tests and turns out, yes and no. We focused on non-game-specific motivations (we didn’t look at competition or fantasy elements) and found four distinct motivations. People said they played games on Facebook because they:
-Wanted to achieve common ground (get topic of conversation to talk with other people)
-Wanted to engage in reciprocity (give gifts, get gifts, etc.)
-As a coping strategy (relieving stress, getting enjoyment, etc.)
-To relieve boredom
Because people could answer these from a 5-point scale ranging from strongly disagree to strongly agree, although we found these four factors, we saw that the first two reasons had pretty low means. Which means that more people DON’T play social network games to achieve common ground or engage in reciprocity.
So that is the bad news. People aren’t playing because they expect to get social outcomes. A isn’t playing Farmville with B in order to improve social relationships with B. A just wants to relieve boredom or play for his or her own enjoyment.
BUT that isn’t the end of the story. Just because you don’t expect something doesn’t necessarily mean you don’t get it. Our next step is to see if playing social network games actually generates some positive (or negative) social outcome. And we strongly believe that it does, because gift-giving and reciprocity are very strong elements of the game play. Even if people are only giving gifts because the game forces them to, they may get some unexpected social outcome. We have anecdotal cases that support this– in the coming months we will be trying to get some empirical evidence of whether or not this is true.
I will be presenting our preiminary findings of social network game motivation and uses at CHI next week. Stay tuned for more interesting research on social network games!
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Guest Writer Believes Race Relations Near Tipping Point
EDITOR’S NOTE: Below is a guest post by Paul R. Hollrah, a resident of Oklahoma who writes from the perspective of a veteran conservative politico who served two terms as a member of the Electoral College. Even if you disagree with him, this piece will make you think long and hard.
My eighty-first birthday earlier this week was to have been a happy occasion, featuring a great dinner with friends at Tulsa’s finest German restaurant and many cards and letters from far-flung children and grandchildren. But a late email printout detailing events in Geneva, Switzerland, took a bit of the luster off the day.
Click to view full document (PDF) submitted to UN Committee Against Torture.
The email I received was a copy of a 13-page document titled, United States Compliance with the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman, or Degrading Treatment. It was subtitled, Written Statement on the Police Shooting of Michael Brown and Ensuing Police Violence Against Protesters in Ferguson, Missouri. The document was filed with the 53rd Session of the United Nations Committee Against Torture, meeting in Geneva, Switzerland, from Nov. 3-28, 2014, after being delivered to Geneva by Michael Brown’s parents, Michael Brown Sr. and Lesley McSpadden.
The cover page of the complaint asserts that the complaint was submitted by the Brown family, who hand-delivered it to Geneva, as well as organizations called HandsUpUnited, Organization for Black Struggle, and Missourians Organized for Reform and Empowerment.
In a CNN interview, Brown’s mother insisted that, “We need the world to know what’s going on in Ferguson and we need justice… We need answers and we need action. And we have to bring it to the U.N. so they can expose it to the rest of the world, what’s going on in small town Ferguson.”
But, all emotion aside, what are the facts? We know that, on Aug. 9, 2014, Michael Brown Jr. a 6 ft. 4 in. 292 lb. black teenager, was identified on videotape as the individual who engaged in the robbery of a convenience store in Ferguson, Mo., a suburb of St. Louis. In the video, Brown is seen taking a box of Swisher Sweets cigars (valued at approximately $49) from the checkout counter of the convenience store, a 2nd degree theft under Missouri law.
As he and a friend prepared to exit the store, Brown is challenged by a store employee who attempted to lock the door before the two could leave the premises. However, Brown prevented the clerk from locking the door and as he and his accomplice walked out the door, he grabbed the store clerk by the lapels and shoved him backward into a display rack. And when the store clerk continued to protest, Brown turned and approached him in a threatening manner.
Minutes later, Brown and his friend, Dorian Johnson, a fugitive from justice on a theft charge from Jefferson City, Mo., were seen walking defiantly down the middle of a street near the convenience store they’d just robbed. Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson, on routine patrol, arrived on the scene and instructed Brown and Johnson to “get the [expletive] off the street.”
At that point, one must assume that Brown, having just robbed a convenience store and assaulted a store clerk, feared that he was about to be taken into custody in connection with the robbery he’d committed just minutes before. With that thought in mind, he decided that he would not allow himself to be arrested and taken into custody, with a potential jail term to follow. Instead, when Officer Wilson prepared to exit his police cruiser, Brown attacked him and forced him back into the vehicle. Having been physically assaulted by a young man, much younger and stronger than himself, Officer Wilson was then justified in the use of deadly force. However, as the officer prepared to unholster his sidearm while seated inside his vehicle, Brown reached through the open window and attempted to wrest the weapon from the officer’s hand. A struggle ensured during which two shots were fired, one of them striking Brown in the wrist.
According to Officer Wilson and several eye witnesses, Wilson then exited his vehicle and attempted to take Brown into custody. At which time Brown, who had been walking away from the scene, turned and charged the officer. Certain that he could not survive an attack by a man 6 ft. 4 in. tall and weighing nearly 300 lb., the officer fired four additional shots before Brown dropped to the pavement.
But this is not the story that Brown’s fugitive friend told police and the media. According to his version, Brown was walking toward the officer with his hands in the air, attempting to surrender. An autopsy showed that Brown had been shot six times in the front of his body. What is not clear is the source of the unsubstantiated charge that Brown was shot in the back.
Nor is it the story that Brown’s parents told in their testimony before the U.N. committee in Geneva. According to their account, “Midday on August 9, 2014, Michael Brown, an 18-year-old black male, was walking down a small street in the middle of an apartment complex with a friend when they were approached by a white police officer. According to his friend, the closest witness to the afternoon’s events, the officer approached them in his SUV police vehicle, told them to ‘get the [expletive] off the sidewalk,’ which then escalated into a confrontation. After a struggle, the officer began to shoot the teen. Brown ran away, as he was hit by the officer’s bullets. The officer chased the teen on foot, and according to multiple witnesses, even after Michael Brown raised his hands to surrender and begged the officer not to shoot, the officer continued to fire. No witness reported any orders given to Brown as these shots were fired.”
Nowhere in their testimony is there a hint that Brown and his friend had just committed a strong-arm robbery of a business establishment. Nowhere in their testimony do they speculate about their son’s state of mind… how he may have concluded that he and his friend were about to be arrested as suspects in a felony crime and, in an effort to avoid arrest, attacked and wounded a police officer. Nowhere in their testimony do they mention that their son was first shot in a struggle over the police officer’s handgun. Nowhere in their testimony do they mention that their son’s friend, Dorian Johnson, himself a fugitive from justice, may not be a credible witness. And nowhere in their testimony do they suggest that the officer told the boys to “get the [expletive] off the street.” Instead, they testified that the officer told the boys to “get the [expletive] off the sidewalk.”
The Browns testified that, “The teenager was hit by at least six shots, according to an autopsy performed by a pathologist not affiliated with the government. The autopsy further revealed that the final shots included one that entered his eye, and another at the top of the head, which may have indicated his head was lowered as he collapsed or kneeled to surrender. The intentional, arbitrary killing of Michael Brown, shot to death by Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson, amounts to torture under Article I of the Convention.”
Was the pathologist “not affiliated with the government,” an expert hired by the Brown family, a credible witness? And is it even within the realm of possibility that an experienced police officer would “execute” a teenager, in cold-blood, in broad daylight, as he knelt to surrender? Is it not more reasonable to conclude that Brown was shot in the top of his head at close range as he lowered his head to charge the officer?
But now the nation is threatened with a massive outbreak of violence if the St. Louis County grand jury refuses to indict Officer Wilson. The demonstrations and rioting that have followed the shooting are a blot on the black community. And if the grand jury concludes that Officer Wilson acted in self-defense, which they likely will, we can expect unprecedented violence in the streets where the black community in and around St. Louis will loot neighborhood business establishments and burn many homes to the ground.
Brown’s mother told a CNN reporter in an interview, “We need the world to know what’s going on in Ferguson and we need justice… We need answers and we need action.”
Justice? Answers? Action? These are not what the professional race hustlers want. What they want is revenge, not justice. Nor are they going to like the answers they’re likely to get from the St. Louis County grand jury. And while the “action” they want is the indictment of Officer Wilson, the only “action” they will get is a lot of grief raining down on the heads of black people across the country as they loot and burn many of the businesses where they work, and burn their own neighborhoods to the ground.
And while we can all empathize with the Brown family for the loss of a son, Brown’s parents should be ashamed of themselves for allowing themselves to be so blatantly used and taken advantage of by professional race agitators, the attorney general of the United States included. But then, it’s not every day they’re treated to an all-expense-paid trip to Geneva.
If black people across the country are looking for something on which they can vent their anger and outrage, the killing of Michael Brown is a very poor choice. They would be better advised to take a closer look at Barack Obama’s Chicago, where black-on-black murders spiked to 516 in 2012, the second time homicides have surpassed 500 since 2003.
And they might want to take a closer look at white liberals and Democrats who have raised their expectations to the skies and then did nothing of substance to help them achieve the promised social and economic progress.
At this writing, the St. Louis County grand jury has not handed down either an indictment of Officer Wilson, or a finding of self-defense. And while it is understandable that members of the grand jury, whose names and home addresses are almost certainly known throughout the black community, are afraid to hand down a ruling that would exonerate Officer Wilson, the obvious jury nullification debacle of the O.J. Simpson trial and the violence that occurred in South Los Angeles in the wake of the Rodney King police beating is still far too fresh in the minds of the American people. We are at a tipping point in race relations and we should all be very afraid.
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New Telephone Scam ?
Actually I suppose it isn't new, but it is new to me.
It's essentially a different way of presenting an old trick that I nearly fell for it, and I'm blogging it to prevent you falling for it.
Last week I was phoned by a lassie with a very pleasant Scots accent - somewhere in the Central belt, I think, but not Glasgow or Edinburgh.
She said she was conducting a survey on behalf of Genealogy UK magazine to find out about the family historian audience in the UK.
That's believable, though I hadn't heard of the title, there are probably lots of magazines I don't know.
She said she would ask me several questions and she asked me to indicate the answers by pressing numbers on my telephone so that they could be captured automatically and stored in a database.
The first question was "How long have you been researching your family history ?"
0 for not yet started
1 for less than 1 year
2 for 1 to 3 years
4 for 5 to 10 years
5 for more than 10 years
I was just about to press 5, when it occurred to me that whatever number I pressed, I might be connected to a premium rate line, so I just put down the phone.
The BT 1471 service told me "We do not have the caller's number to return", which I think means that the call originated outside the UK.
I wouldn't have blogged this at all, had it not been a genealogical pretence, however, a friend who has not researched their family history, also had a similar call.
I've since discovered that there is no Genealogy UK magazine.
Have you had such a call ?
Posted by Peter Munro at 11:59 PM
Labels: Family History, Genealogy UK, Scam
Janice Sheller said...
Thanks for heads up! It's pretty scary. You can just receive a call and not know if you're getting charged for it. Scammers really have brilliant minds when it comes to stealing.
Got a call like that, though. But it was an automated message which asked me to call back a number and I did. I only got voice prompts and was asked to key in extensions. And I still did. I didn't know how long I stayed on the line pressing on the number buttons until I had to leave for work. The next thing I know, I got a $360 charge on my bill for the call. I had to dispute every cent of it since it was a scam.
Peter Munro said...
Janice,
In return, thanks for sharing your experience. I got home today and found a voicemail asking me to ring a Birmingham number during working hours but with no other details and no inkling of who they were.
So I think that's suspicious, and I won't ring them back.
Comments ?
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Thushara Priyamal Edirisinghe
Thushara Priyamal Edirisinghe is an engineer from Athurugiriya. According to a Sri Lanka Daily News report Thushara is powering a car by water, using an extremely low amount of electricity.[1][2][3][4][5][6] Prime Minister Ratnasiri Wickramanayaka pledged to provide bank loans and facilities to carry out the conversion of fuel-powered engines to water-powered ones.[2]
Water fuled car
The car, travelled from Christ King College, Pannipitiya, Thushara, to Anuradhapura and back on mere three litres of water.(80 km/l) Thushara claims the energy is produced by the splitting water into separate Hydrogen and Oxygen molecules using a current of barely 0.5 amperes then burning it in the engine.[2] According to the news report Thushara claims the technology existed for 60 years and that the generator could be fixed to any petrol or diesel vehicle with suitable adjustments.[2] Using "water" as opposed to oil that react with lubricating oil would also extend the life of the vehicle.[2]
Ratnasiri Wickramanayaka
Thushara explained the technology behind his creation to the Prime Minister of Sri Lanka Ratnasiri Wickramanayaka[7] at Temple Trees Wednesday, 15 July 2008[8] Prime Minister Ratnasiri Wickramanayaka (who also holds portfolios of Minister of Internal Administration and Deputy Minister of Defense) extended the Government’s fullest support to his efforts to introduce the water-powered car to the Sri Lankan market. The Premier also pledged to provide bank loans and facilities to carry out the conversion of fuel-powered engines to water-powered ones.[2]
Water-fuelled car
Energy crisis
^ TV coverage Water Car from Srilanka!!
^ a b c d e f Dailynews Sri Lanka: Groundbreaking invention from Athurugiriya youth
^ The nation Sri Lankan engineer M.A. Thushara Edirisinghe set to give motorists a shot in the arm with his invention that enables vehicles to run with water instead of fuel
^ Business intelligence Middle east:The water-powered car race heats up still further
^ Dailynews Sri Lanka: In search of creativity
^ Sinhalaya News Agency: Walter Jayawardhana:Sri Lankan inventor says he has made the car that runs on water
^ Ratnasiri Wickramanayaka also holds portfolios of Minister of Internal Administration and Deputy Minister of Defense.[1]
^ picture
Equinox: It Runs on Water 1995 film.
Thushara Priyamal Edirisinghe - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Posts tagged with ‘Sunday Times’
RICHARD GRAY “owns his own teeth”
June 9, 2011 - by filep
Richard Gray of the Sunday Times and 1O & 1O MEN talks to Filep Motwary
Richard Gray is a Taurean – but don’t hold that against him. He studied modern languages at University but hasn’t spoken a word of it since. He loves fashion and carbs and not necessarily in that order.
He was recently followed into the men’s room at Claridges by Morrissey but nothing came of it. Richard owns his own teeth. He is not a virgin. He is however verging on the ridiculous. He writes lots of stuff on fashion for Sunday Times Style, 10 and 10 Men. He’s open to bribery.
Richard desperately tries to hide a hang over behind his shades in Barcelona at the opening of the W hotel.
Photograph by Alastair Jamieson
RICHARD GRAY: Here I am
FILEP MOTWARY: Oh hi there, how are you Richard?
I’m great thank you. And you? This damn London drizzle is doing nothing for my hair however. It looks like a damn (Prada) mohair jumper…
Hahah, I saw your video review on Prada’s summer 2011 collection a few minutes ago. I was impressed how you pointed out its references. Really it reminded you of menswear?
And there it is: look at my forehead – it’s fuking scrotal! Anyway, yes, Mrs Prada says she gets dressed from the ground up – so shoes first – it’s a starting point for her. The shoes, the multi-layered ‘platforms’ took their cue from menswear, no doubt about that. The clothes, of course, came from elsewhere. BUT this perverted conceit, that cotton is a luxury fabric, is odd (in a good way). It’s political. She’s political. The price of cotton is through the roof! Rice, oil, rubber: the world’s commodity prices are skewed. This was perhaps on Mrs Prada’s mind at the time. She has a lot on her mind.
It seems that you are quite fond of Prada, why?
I think she only finds peace in original thought. There aren’t many fashion designers who share the same mind-space: Rei, Junya, Marc, Raf – we all know who they are. I also think there is something ultimately divisive about a house that caters to the bourgeois – a collective marked by conformity – yet bastardises old ideas/ideals. This is sinister. *Shiver goes down author’s spine*
I completely agree with you! On the other hand, I wish to ask you about the new and upcoming designers-if there are any since everything is fading away so rapidly. How difficult is for someone new to become an establishment these days?
Interestingly my assistant Lizzie(Hi Lizzie) went to the St Martins BA fashion design show last week. She said you could feel a move away from classics of the past two seasons and far more adventurous designs one the catwalk now. Good. I suspect however, that young design graduates have more of an eye for business than those of, say, five years ago. They recognize there’s validity in getting your clothes produced and people wearing them. And, more importantly, St Martins and London College of Fashion, the Royal College of Art etc. are now focusing more on the business of fashion. It’s still not easy for a graduate, but they are more business minded on graduation than ever before. Galliano (Yikes! I said his name) argues that talent will always be recognized, despite the difficulties?
You mean sooner or later? But, should a young creator first get a job in a big house (as a major designer once told me) or it would be better to try the solo route for starters?
Yes. He uses himself as the ultimate argument that you can fail and fail again. And finally, finally, if you keep trying, incredible talent will be recognized. Not sure how this theory goes down with those who have ended up bankrupt and broken by fashion… The route to success depends on the opportunities that come the young designer’s way. You take somebody like Christopher Kane who did things the textbook way – managed cleverly by his sister Tammy. He’s proved you can do it. He’s a great message for London fashion. Then there’s somebody like Peter Copping, who, I think is on the brink of the global recognition he deserves. He served at Louis Vuitton with Marc but kept under the radar, yet produced some wonderful designs. Now he’s doing wonderful things at Nina Ricci. Both routes can work. Both routes have their own advantages and disadvantages. One thing: being a success in the fashion design world is damn hard. “You pay in sweat!” (See start of ’80s TV horror, Fame for more inspirational advice)
I wanted to ask you, if I may, about your opinion on John Galliano, since his name came up…?
The man is clearly not well. He needs, and I hope he’s getting, help. His comments were HORRIFIC and INEXCUSABLE.
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SCOTT WALKER – WHEN THE SUN SHONE ON A SUPER STAR Chris Welch 2019-06-20T19:11:03+00:00
When three young Americans popped their heads around the door at the Melody Maker office in Fleet Street one morning in 1965, they were full of charm, humour and enthusiasm. Who were they? ‘We are the Walker Brothers!’
They’d just arrived in London from California and were ready to take the Swinging Sixties pop scene by storm. And they did. Within weeks they became British teenagers’ favourite singing sensations and the object of screaming adulation. Walker Brothers’ records like Make It Easy On Yourself, My Ship Is Coming In and The Sun Ain’t Gonna Shine Anymore roared, or rather melodically cruised up the MM charts.
The ‘Brothers’ were Scott Engel, John Maus and drummer Gary Leeds and they all exuded charisma – especially Scott. It would be my pleasure to follow his career and interview the good looking, witty and ultra cool singer on many occasions during the heyday of the Walkers’ success. Sitting with Scott in his usually darkened London apartment, discussing his tastes in music was to reveal a sensitive, sometimes acerbic aesthete who loved jazz and Jacques Brel more than he did rock’n’roll.
Yet in the early days, he secretly enjoyed the madness of pop stardom. I remember standing backstage with Scott at the show when Jimi Hendrix set fire to his guitar, and him smiling at all the chaos that ensued. But when I next saw him, singing with the Ronnie Scott Band at the Stockton Fiesta Club in August 1967, I believed he had every chance to move onto a higher musical plane and perhaps become a new Frank Sinatra, with a career in movies and show business.
Alas, for his well wishers, it was not to be. The various Melody Maker interviews seen here reveal the tensions he underwent and feelings of self doubt. But Scott went his own way, stuck to his artistic guns, and continued making music, even if the public at large gradually withdrew their attention. He once told me he was a recluse who didn’t have any friends. Actually, a lot of people loved him. (RIP Scott Noel Engel. Born January 9, 1943 – died March 22, 2019).
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Lots of cities in Europe seem to have an “identity” from Paris, Milan, Geneva Switzerland, Amsterdam, Brussels, Denmark etc… Just like these most amazing European cities, Some sites to see on your weekend in Lisbon Portugal has formed its own identity. My gateway city explorers to discover new lands, flavors, and tastes from across the globe. Lisbon is simultaneously a coastal and a river city. A cultural crossroads and commercial hub, this prestigious capital of a relatively small country were for many years overshadowed by dictatorship. Today Lisbon is a symbol of nation’s dynamism and, after two decades of major works, gives an impression for modernity, creativity, and enterprise. The city of Fado and Saudade(a mood of nostalgic longing) invites visitors to stroll and daydream through its streets.
1.)Torre de Belém (Belem Tower)
Landmark medieval defensive tower. The tower was originally built in 1519 in the middle of the Tagus to defend theHieronymite monastery and to serve as a lighthouse. Since the earthquake altered the course of the river, this-five storey Manueline tower now stands next to a beach. The Romanesque-Gothic structure is adorned with Venetian-style loggias and small domes like those in Morocco. Jutting out from the tower, facing the sea is a platform. On the ground floor, visitors will see the openings through which prisoners were thrown into the pits below.
2.)Castelo de Sao Jorge and Alfama
Sao Jorge Castle, the bulwark protecting the city from whatever angle it is observed, was once a fort and theater, as well as a prison and arms deposits.It was nearly destroyed during the 1755 earthquake and only in 1938 was it transformed into a landscaped space, following a major renovation project. The Castle never lost its greatest quality being the privilege lookout point from there, starting in Largo de Santa Cruz, the neighborhood displays other attributes besides its views, with potted flowers on the verandas, fragrant washing hanging on the line, traditional restaurants and the pride of being Portugal’s first village, a claim still unrecognised in history books. This is the attitude of the Castelo quarter, tall and proud, with no fear of the unknown and open to all, as if the dragon were St. George best friend.
3.)Chapel of St. John
The work of architect Mario Botta, this little chapel is reached by walking across the Mogno Bridge.Built from Peccia marble and Valmaggia granite( forming alternating white and black bands), the current truncated cylindrical building stands on the site of a church destroyed by an avalanche in 1986.
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4.)Ride the famous trams
Trams run on 5 lines in the center and west of the city. The old Tram 28 is a fun way to see the parts of town, with stops near Lisbon Cathedral, Sào Jorge Castle, and the Miradouro de Santa Luzia lookout point, among other iconic sights. Between April and September, since I explore this place perfect for the month of April, it gets extremely crowded during the day. For a more peaceful ride, you could take an evening trip, uses the more expensive tourist tram run by Yellow Bus Tours or try the 25, which does the western half of the route.
Trams start around 6 AM and have different end times, the latest at 11 PM. Timetables change regularly and are displayed at stops. Travel cards must be validated on the reader at the start of the journey.
5.)Eat Bacalhau(cod fish)
When dining out, you can enjoy not only time-tested local fare but also the cuisines of Portugal’s former colonies, such as Mozambique and Angola. The city’s nightlife starts late and rarely slows down before dawn. Portugal’s trademark fish is bacalhau(cod), for which there are countless recipes. Popular dishes include Bacalhau com Natas(cod in cream) and Salada de Bacalhau com grào(cod and chickpea salad). Mouraria is the best area in terms of variety of cuisines offered.
During the June festival, sardines are everywhere, though this is the beginning of their season they’re at their best a little later.
6.)Ancient Alfama neighborhood
While the St. George, the city’s leading cathedral, is made up of diverse styles blended by centuries, Alfama is the only neighborhood determined to achieve architectural perfection. From its viewpoints, Lisbon transforms the Tagus into its mirror. Seen from the river, it is only in Alfama that Lisbon reveals what it once was and always will be. The quarter grew up beyond the Moorish Wall, it was the dwelling of Jews fated to uphold their faith, its springs and fountains provided the city with a font of refreshment and it has long been the haven of Fado houses, alleyway commerce, daytime street calls and night-time gossip. Above all else, during the month of June Alfama becomes the “sanctuary” of Santo Antonio, hosting festivities in his honor with red wine, sardines, and toasts made at the window when all of Lisbon gathers to dance, drink, and eat, transforming Alfama into a stage for the best life has to offer.
7.)Padrao dos Descobrimentos
The Monument to Discoveries by the sculptor, Leopoldo de Almeida, was erected in 1960 to commemorate the 500th anniversary of the death of Henry the Navigator. It represents the prow of a ship with the prince pointing the way to a large group of Portuguese heroes, including King Manuel carrying an armillary sphere and Camoes holding verses from the Lusiades. From the top of the 52m monument are a panoramic view over the Tagus, the Belém district, and a closer range, the mosaic at the foot of the monument.
8.)Elevador de Santa Justa
Heritage must see off the beaten path. The lift was built in 1901 by Raul Mesnier de Ponsard, a Portuguese engineer of French origin who was influenced by Gustave Eiffel. Prior to the 1988 fire, it provided direct access to the Chiado quarter. Long closed for repairs, it has now reopened. From the café on the upper platform(32m above street level), there is a good view over the Rossio and Baixa.
The ornate cast-iron Santa Justa Elevator between Rua do Ouro and Largo do Carmo is a considered a must-see, boasting a viewing platform/cafe on top with city vistas. It runs from 7 AM to 10 PM, costs €5 for 2 trips, and often has long lines. The more mundane way to get up the hill between Baixa and Chiado is to use the escalators inside the Baixa-Chiado metro station. Other useful and free elevators from Baixa towards the castle run between Rua dos Fanqueiros and Rua da Madalena, and between Largo Atafona inside the Pingo Doce supermarket car park and Costa do Castelo.
9.)See Mosteiro dos Jeronimos
This magnificent 16c Hieronymite monastery was built in 1502 and is a glorious result of the great discoveries of the period. Vasco de Gama had returned from India with his vessels laden with riches, thus enabling the architects to embark on a very ambitious project. Initially constructed to a Gothic design, it subsequently subscribed to various interpretations of the Manueline style. The buildings added in the 19C detract slightly from the overall effect of this Unesco World Heritage site.
10.) Eat a Pastel de Nata
Lisbon’s traditional cuisine is based around fresh local ingredients-particularly seafood- prepared and cooked in a simple way. Local specialties include salt cod and sardines. Snacks and cakes from simple toasted sandwiches to Lisbon’s signature pastel de nata custard pie can be enjoyed in traditional cafes, accompanied by local-style coffee and tea.
In simple cafes, bars and kiosks, tostadas(toasted sandwiches) and tibornas (bread with toppings) are the staple cuisine. These range from the basictosta mista (ham and cheese toasted sandwich) of traditional bars to the gourmet tibornas prepared in more upscale locales.
The Portuguese love cakes, of which the best known is the pastel de nata or custard pie and which I convinced myself to try. The most famous nata shop, Pastéis de Bélem, has queues down the street. Less well known is Pastelaria Aloma, in Campo de Ourique, whose pastel de nata is regarded by many custard pie aficionados as the best in Lisbon.
Nightlife starts late and often carries on until breakfast. Small clubs and bars are found in Bairro Alto. Larger discos and live music venues cluster around Cais do Sodré railway station, particularly on Rua Nova do Carvalho, also called the ‘Rua Rosa'(pink street). The Martim Moniz/Intendente area has a more casual, alternative scene. Nightclubs aimed at LGBT people are mostly in Principe Real and Sào Bento, west of the center. Many venues are free to enter.
Fado, Portugal’s traditional music (melancholy tunes sung to a backing of guitars, including the Portuguese 12-string guitar, is a key part of Lisbon culture. You can watch a polished professional singer and band, or go to a local bar and hear regulars belting out their favorite numbers.
A specialty of Lisbon is ‘vinho verde’ or green wine referring to the immaturity of the grapes. It’s light and fizzy and comes in red, white and rose versions of which the white is the most popular.
Ginjinha is a popular liqueur made with sour cherry, served in a shot glass with an optional cherry, or a chocolate cup. It’s drunk at the counters of kiosks like the historic A Ginjinha.
Beer is ordered by size of the glass, the most common being an ‘Imperial(200ml). A 500ml glass is a ‘caneca’ and the rare 1-liter vessel is known as a ‘girafe’. Craft beer is tasty but comparatively expensive. You can find Guinness and other imported ales at Irish and British pubs.
Portuguese coffee is bracing especially if you drink it like the locals, in a small, strong shot called a bica. A carioca is a weaker version of bica. For coffee with milk, options in traditional places are a pingado(a bica with a dash of cold milk) or a galào(like a latte)
The Portuguese like lemon tea (just hot water and lemon) and the herbal teas cidreira(lemon grass), luca lima (lemon verbena) and Tilia (lime blossom).
Meat is typically cooked over hot coals. Pork is the dominant meat, popular in sausage form(linguiça or chouriço) or as a cutlet in a sandwich(bifana). Iscas (liver) is a classic Lisbon dish, sautéed with white wine, garlic, and potato.
Portuguese cheese is often made with a mixture of goat’s, sheeps and cow’s cheese. There are soft and hard varieties. It tends to be fairly mild, but stronger varieties include queijo da ilha from the Azores.
You may have no need for motorized transport while in Lisbon unless you’re venturing out to the beach. If you don’t mind hills, Lisbon is ideal for exploring on foot, and since it can get congested, walking is often quicker than going by tram, bus or taxi. Take care on the uneven sidewalks, especially downhill and in the rain(which can be very heavy). In older parts of town, the sidewalks are narrow and almost impossible to navigate with strollers.
More than two decades after its opening , the Amoreiras Shopping Center won, definitely a place as a Lisbon’sight-seeing icon. Place in the center of the Portuguese capital, with a very bold architecture for its time, it early became a meeting point for the upper middle and upper classes, always demanding quality and attentive to the last fashion trends.
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Agreed Report from BOM Meeting October 2019
AGREED REPORT FROM BOM MEETING October, 14th 2019
Election of Nominees to the BOM for the 2019-2023
The Board of Management is organizing election of a Parent and Teacher Nominees.
• Two Parents- one Mother and one Father will be nominated at the Parents’ Association Meeting on Tuesday, October 22nd at 8:30 pm in the school hall.
Attendance at this meeting is important.
• A teacher will be nominated at a meeting of those eligible on Thursday,
November 7th during a Staff Meeting, starting at 3.15 pm.
• The Patron of the school, Bishop Michael Duignan will nominate the
Chairperson and another nominee
• These five, along with the Acting Principal, will then nominate two community
persons to complete the eight person Board, which will take up the Management of the school on December, 1st 2019 for a four year term.
Further details will issue shortly.
Policy Review and Development for 2019/20
• Policy for Supporting Pupils with Special Educational Needs based on the new model of support.
• Annual Review of Child Safeguarding Statement (March 2020)
• Annual Review of Anti Bullying Policy (January 2020)
• Depending on new legislation or the issuing of new DES Circulars some
Policies may need reviewing
Review of Health, Safety and Welfare and Healthy Eating Policies
• The Board of Management ratifies the Health, Safety and Welfare and the Healthy Eating Policies annually. Submissions, in writing, may be sent to Mrs.
Mary Barrett before November 15th.
• Please read the current Healthy Eating Policy on the Creagh school website.
• The Board acknowledges, with thanks, the great work of the Safety Committee
and in particular of teaching staff member, Mrs Mary Barrett.
Pupil Safety and Welfare
The safety of our pupils remains our priority at all times. Please note the following:
1. Child Safeguarding Statement is on display in the school and is reviewed on an annual basis.
• Designated Person for Child Protection: Mr. Noel Lohan, Acting Principal
• Deputy Designated Person for Child Protection: Ms. Aine Bleahene, Acting
Deputy Principal.
• While the basic aspects of Road safety and Internet/Phone safety are covered in the SPHE Programme, the Board would urge parents to be continually vigilant in these regards. Again concerns have been raised about children not using footpaths to and from school and also the inappropriate use of apps such as SNAPCHAT.
2. Parking
The BOM acknowledges the efforts being made by families in relation to parking safely and driving with extra care around the school and church grounds, particularly at peak times. The BOM welcomes the increase in the number of pupils walking to school as this is reducing the volume of traffic.
3. Parents are reminded that the official opening time is 9.20a.m.
Parents, Staff and other members of the public have recently expressed concerns about children arriving in the school grounds before 9:10 am. The Principal and Deputy Principal are present on the school grounds between 9:10 and opening time at 9:20am. However the Board does not take responsibility for the safety of persons before Opening time.
• The BOM is very grateful to those who give freely and willingly of their time after school hours to coach pupils.
• The Board thanked Fr. John Garvey for celebrating the beginning of year Mass with the children in the church on Tuesday, October 1st and acknowledged the contribution of staff members who supervised the work of the 60 or so non- catholic children who remained in the school.
• A new student council will be elected in the coming days. Mrs. Mary Barrett, Assistant Principal, will oversee the election and be the liaison teacher for the Council.
• The treasurer presented a detailed report to the BOM, which included an income and expenditure account for September, 2019, which was adopted by the BOM. The Board expresses its sincere thanks to the treasurer, Rita Moore for her work in overseeing our school accounts and to school secretary Ann Haynes for her great administrative work in this area.
• It was agreed by the BOM that there will be no change from the last three years to the Voluntary Contribution Scheme this year. A letter will issue from the Chairperson and the Treasurer in October. The ongoing parental support through this scheme is very much appreciated.
NEPS Service to the School
• The BOM is happy to inform the whole school community of the recent appointment of Ms. Michelle McMahon as the new NEPS EDUCATIONAL PSYCHOLOGIST and wishes her well in her new position. She has already made an initial visit to the school and is due to visit again on Tuesday, October 22nd to plan her schedule of work for the coming year.
School Inspector
• The inspector, Mr Martin Whyte, continues to be attached to our school.
Minor Works
• Rooms 15 and 16 have been painted and new shelving installed by Mr. Alan Grehan. Further upgrades are planned for later this term.
• The BOM is very grateful to the school’s caretaker, Joseph Murphy for his work in maintaining the school so well during the summer months and looking after the building on a day to day basis.
• The BOM is very grateful to the school’s Parents’ Association for all of their support and wishes them well for the coming school year. A meeting of the Association on October 22 will, among other agenda items, nominate two parents- a mother and a father- to the new Board of Management for the 2019-2023 term of office
Priests of the Parish
• The BOM welcomes Fr John Garvey back to the Parish and the BOM after his sabbatical year.
• The BOM is very grateful to Fr Bernie and Fr Kieran for their pastoral support to our school in the past school year. Sincere thank also to Fr Kieran for his Chaplancy of the school and his contribution to the outgoing Board. We wish him well in his new parish of Abbey/Duniry
• To teaching staff member Ms Majella O’Rourke on the birth of her son.
• To past pupils on the Padraig Pearses team on winning the Roscommon Senior
football County Final.
• To all of our past pupils on their Leaving Certificate Results. The Board wishes
them well for the future.
Vote of Sympathy
The BOM expresses its sympathy to all families in our school community who have been bereaved recently.
Calendar for 2019/20
• The Board of Management agrees the school calendar each year in accordance with DES Circulars. A copy of the calendar for 2019/20 may be viewed in your child’s journal and on the school website www.creaghns.com
• Confirmation: May 30th 2020 at 11a.m. in St Michael’s Church, Ballinasloe
• First Holy Communion: May 11th 2020 at 11a.m. in St Michael’s Church, Ballinasloe
• Mid-term Break: The school closes on Friday, October 25th at 3:00pm and reopens on Monday, November 4th, at 9:20 am.
Staff Training in the New Primary Language Curriculum
• Following the Inservice day on Monday, October 7th., the Programme is
now in place in all classes
• There may be an additional half day school closures to facilitate ongoing staff training later this school year. You will be advised of this dates once it has been confirmed.
• The Education Welfare Officer liaises with the Principal on an ongoing basis throughout the year in relation to school attendance. Please ensure that your child attends school daily unless there is a legitimate reason for his/her absence.
Recorded by Noel Lohan, Secretary to the Board of Management. 21/10/2019
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The Deloitte Foundation Announces Recipients of the 2014 Doctoral Fellowships in Accounting
$250,000 in grants awarded to 10 Ph.D. candidates
WILTON, Conn., Feb. 11, 2014—The Deloitte Foundation has awarded $25,000 grants to ten top accounting Ph.D. candidates from the Deloitte Foundation’s annual Doctoral Fellowship program. Given to high performing accounting doctoral students who plan to pursue academic careers upon graduation, the award will support the 2014 recipients’ final year of coursework and the subsequent year to complete their doctoral dissertation.
This year’s recipients and the institutions they attend are:
• Jeremiah W. Bentley, Cornell University
• Nicole L. Cade, University of Washington
• Cassandra Estep, University of Illinois-Urbana Champaign
• Michele Frank, University of Pittsburgh
• Allison K. Nicoletti, The Ohio State University
• Kari J. Olsen, University of Southern California
• Daniel A. Saavedra Lux, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• Steven Savoy, University of Iowa
• Yu Ting (Forester) Wong, Columbia University
• Christopher G. Yust, University of Texas at Austin
“Since 1956, the Deloitte Foundation has proudly awarded fellowships to more than 1,000 accounting Ph.D. candidates,” said Carol Lindstrom, president, Deloitte Foundation. “Since the fellows aim for careers in academia, the program plays a crucial role in contributing towards a pipeline of highly-skilled, qualified accounting faculty on campuses to educate our profession’s next generation of talent and leaders. I congratulate all of the 2014 Fellowship recipients.”
Each year, approximately 100 universities are invited to apply for the Fellowship. Student applicants are nominated by the accounting faculty of their school. A selection committee composed of four eminent accounting educators chose this year’s recipients.
About the Deloitte Foundation The Deloitte Foundation, founded in 1928, is a not-for-profit organization which supports education in the U.S. through a variety of initiatives that help develop the talent of the future and their influencers and promote excellence in teaching, research and curriculum innovation. The Foundation sponsors an array of national programs relevant to a variety of professional services, benefitting middle/high school students, undergraduates, graduate students and faculty. For more information, please visit the Deloitte Foundation web page at www.deloitte.com/us/df.
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Topic: Policy, Regulatory & Legal
Recently, New York took a major step toward rethinking utility economics when it issued the “Order Adopting a Ratemaking and Utility Revenue Model Policy Framework” (also known as Track 2 Order). This action aims to better align New York’s electricity system with Reforming the Energy Vision (REV), the state’s initiative to transform the electric grid into a cleaner, more efficient, and affordable system.
But buried in this 180-plus page document is another important development for New York’s clean energy future: Nearly 10 pages are dedicated to re-examining the state’s controversial standby tariff.
Frequently cited as a major obstacle to distributed power generation (e.g. combined heat and power (CHP) systems, rooftop solar panels, energy efficiency, and storage), the standby tariff is a special electricity rate charged to large commercial and industrial customers who produce some of their own electricity but remain connected to the grid. While utilities say they need standby tariffs to recover the costs of maintaining a reliable electric grid, many potential and existing large electricity customers producing their own power see standby tariffs as perversely designed to undermine the business case for distributed generation.
Unless the standby tariff is fixed in a manner that clears the way for investment in customer-owned and sited distributed generation, it will be hard to make REV’s revolutionary vision for a decentralized, competitive electricity market a reality.
The argument for standby tariffs
In their argument for standby tariffs, utilities say they must recover not only their ordinary costs of distributing electricity, but also their incremental costs of maintaining the reserve electricity needed in case customer generators break down and need to draw more electricity from the grid. Additionally, utilities argue the standby tariff protects non-power-generating customers by ensuring reserve-electricity costs are not shifted from the power-generating customers to non-power generating customers. The utilities claim that absent a standby tariff, there would be an unfair subsidy for large customers who choose to generate their own electricity.
But the standby tariff must be viewed in the context of how conventional, regulated utilities have made money for more than 100 years. Unlike just about every industry in our economy, utilities and their investors are guaranteed above-market rates of return on capital investments, such as new power plants, transmission lines, and distribution facilities. Since distributed generation lessens the need for investment in these types of facilities, utilities have scant incentive to encourage its adoption. Hence, the widespread skepticism on the part of large electricity customers producing their own power.
Con Ed’s standby tariff critics
The potential and existing large energy consumers who own and operate distributed generation, notably New York City’s real estate developers and their trade association, the Real Estate Board of New York, have been among the most vocal and persistent critics of Con Ed’s standby tariff.
In fact, the Durst Organization, a prominent New York City real estate developer, announced in January that its Hallets Point residential project slated for development in Astoria, Queens would generate all of its own electricity, and not connect to the grid. This announcement was widely viewed as a reflection of the Durst Organization’s prior disputes with Con Ed over the standby tariff.
At a panel discussion on standby tariffs convened by the Public Service Commission (PSC), New York’s utility regulator, in late January, the concerns voiced by representatives of large energy consumers fell into four broad categories:
The standby tariff amounts to an excessive and arbitrary tax on distributed generation;
The exemptions that have been inserted on the tariff over the years (e.g. for small scale CHP plants) have stunted growth of distributed generation, as the main goal of project developers has become to keep generators small enough to qualify for exemptions rather than to install bigger generators that could provide cost savings and other benefits to facility owners;
The exemptions tend to be time-limited, leading to regulatory uncertainty on whether they will be renewed or extended, which further discourages investment; and
The tariff is so complex and difficult to apply that even high-priced energy consultants can only predict its financial impact with great difficulty and many qualifications, creating still another disincentive to investment in distributed generation.
Customer proposals for “fixing” Con Ed’s standby tariff
Short of a Durst Organization-style grid defection, the large energy consumers who own and operate distributed generation (or would be inclined to do so) offer three types of proposals for “fixing” Con Ed’s standby tariff. Some insist that the standby tariff should simply be abolished. Nearly all stress the need for more transparency to make the underlying rationales for divvying up reserve capacity costs among different categories of customers clearer, and to make it easier for power-generating customers to understand the complex tariff formulas that must be applied. Many seek quick and dirty fixes such as modifying particular cost allocation formulas, credits or exemptions.
The recent issue of Track 2 Order serves as an important starting point for reforming the standby tariff, and shows that state officials are beginning to work toward comprehensive, long-lasting solutions. But much more work must be done to hash out the complexities of the standby tariff and its barriers to clean, distributed energy. In Part two of this post, I will expand on the large energy consumers’ proposals to fix the standby tariff, show how a course can be charted toward long-term, equitable, and broadly-acceptable solutions that can foster significantly more investment in distributed generation, and propose modifications that will lead to cleaner distributed generation.
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'3«M
G.I. Wife
If the Army wanted you to have a wife
we would have issued you one."
F^ge three
It's moving into a little apartment which is in sad need of repair
and trying to make it a home. It's
knowing that the landlord doesn't
care about the broken window, or
springs busting out of the couch because he can always rent the place
to another equally desperate couple
should you threaten to move out. It's
the subsequent depression of knowing
you're stuck in that particular apartment for six months because you signed
the lease out of desperation. It's
wanting to fix the place up but not
having the money, time, know how or
, tools and knowing you'll probably be
stuck there until you finally ETS.
It's sitting in your trailer,
feeling desperately homesick regardless of whether this is the first time
you have been away or the fiftieth.
It's feeling foolish for feeling homesick. It's feeling lonely, isolated,
insecure, useless, worthless and
stranded. It's not knowing any other
women in Fayetteville for weeks or
possibly months after moving in. It's
feeling like there isn't another interested or interesting person within
miles.
It's walking down muddy little
streets with no sidewalks and no
streetlights and being honked at,
whistled at, shouted at, ocgled at,
and in general being treated like a
piece of meat. It's having half a dozen dogs snap and bark at you everywhere you go.
It's feeling there is nowhere to
go, nothing to do, no one who cares,
no one who shares your interests, no
jobs, no decent public transportation,
no honest reasonable merchants.
weren't you on the pill if you didn't
want to get pregnant?"
It's not getting your allotment
check and having your husband's CO say
"If we wanted you to have a wife we
would have issued you one." It's
trying to feed your family on six dollars a month because of a mistake
someone made in finance . It's having
to pawn everything to make it through
the month..
It'a being ripped off of your on-
post housing and forced to live off
base, like it or not, when your husband gets sent overseas.
Women, you've not only heard it,
you've LIVED it. You can't fight a-
lone, so lets get together. Every
Tuesday and Thursday between 1-4 there
will be other women with the same situation at the GI Center. We can help
It's sitting home alone waiting
for your husband to get home from work
hearing footsteps outside your window.
It's either scrubbing your floors all
day long or else sitting and watching
the serials and thinking that you
should be cleaning. It's having your
husband come home and yell at ycu because he can't yell at his First Sgt.
It's going to Womack and getting
the same old run around. It's taking
your baby out to Emergency with 104
degrees temperature and waiting 2
hours for a doctor. It's getting
pregnant, waiting for your appointment at OB-GYN for birth control pills
and then being rudely asked "Why
ArmyWive
Sa/ Emd
vur no
illy Dean Smith
Frame-Up Trial Begins Sept. 6
Billy Dean Smith is a Black GI
from Watts who was outspoken about
the criminal war in Vietnam and
racism in the military. He has been
falsely accused of "fragging" —
killing with a fragmentation grenade—
two officers at Bien Hoa, Vietnam.
The evidence shows that Billy Smith
is innocent, but the steamroller of
military justice is set to roll over
Billy Smith. He has been in military
prison, denied bail since March 1971.
The Kangaroo trial will begin on
September 6, 1972. We can help to
fight back by writing to Congressmen
demanding that they investigate the
case fully. This type pressure will
help defeat the cloak of silence the
Army has put on the case. Support
letters and or money for legal defense
may also be sent to Luke McKisack,
6430 Sunset Blvd.,Hollywood, Ca. 90028.
Angela Davis has urged GI's to support
Billy Smith. He is a political prisoner being framed for a crime he did not
commit. To the Military, his real
crime is being a Black man who fought
against racism and a racist war.
For more information about Billy
Smith and the coming trial drop by
the GI Center, 110 N. MaiiJ St. in
Spring Lake.
HUMAN COMPASSION $<**&.
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WRITE TO BILLY:
Pvt. Billy D. Smith
Port Ord, California
MR. YES—SIR
Hey! Brothers, listen to what I have to say.
You say you want equal opportunity in each
and every way.
Well, how're you going to get this if you're
not willing to fight
And stand up for what you believe in
because you know it's right.
The man will tell you you're wrong, and
in trouble you will be
He thinks you're a fool 'cause he thinks
you have no brains.
He drafts you in the Army, where men
are strong and brave.
But if you happen to be Black, you wind up
being a slave.
He sends you cross the waters to fight
the Viet Cong,
But if you think on who caused the trouble,
you'll find that he's the one.
He'll put you in the stockade,
because you'll learn the truth,
,'Now you're not willing to do his dirt,
and for you he has no use.
BROTHER BILLY DEAN SMITH
Title Bragg briefs
Place of publication Spring Lake, North Carolina
Publisher GI's United Against the War in Viet Nam; GI's United Against the War in Vietnam; GI's United Against the War in Indochina; GI's United Against the War in Indo-China; GI Union
Publication date 1969-1975
State North Carolina
Military base/Ship Fort Bragg
Owner Hege Library, Guildford College; Wisconsin Historical Society; GI Press Project/Swarthmore College Peace Collection Discard; GI Press Project/Private Collection
Digital identifier giNewsletter706a000
Full text '3«M The G.I. Wife M If the Army wanted you to have a wife we would have issued you one." F^ge three It's moving into a little apartment which is in sad need of repair and trying to make it a home. It's knowing that the landlord doesn't care about the broken window, or springs busting out of the couch because he can always rent the place to another equally desperate couple should you threaten to move out. It's the subsequent depression of knowing you're stuck in that particular apartment for six months because you signed the lease out of desperation. It's wanting to fix the place up but not having the money, time, know how or , tools and knowing you'll probably be stuck there until you finally ETS. It's sitting in your trailer, feeling desperately homesick regardless of whether this is the first time you have been away or the fiftieth. It's feeling foolish for feeling homesick. It's feeling lonely, isolated, insecure, useless, worthless and stranded. It's not knowing any other women in Fayetteville for weeks or possibly months after moving in. It's feeling like there isn't another interested or interesting person within miles. It's walking down muddy little streets with no sidewalks and no streetlights and being honked at, whistled at, shouted at, ocgled at, and in general being treated like a piece of meat. It's having half a dozen dogs snap and bark at you everywhere you go. It's feeling there is nowhere to go, nothing to do, no one who cares, no one who shares your interests, no jobs, no decent public transportation, no honest reasonable merchants. weren't you on the pill if you didn't want to get pregnant?" It's not getting your allotment check and having your husband's CO say "If we wanted you to have a wife we would have issued you one." It's trying to feed your family on six dollars a month because of a mistake someone made in finance . It's having to pawn everything to make it through the month.. It'a being ripped off of your on- post housing and forced to live off base, like it or not, when your husband gets sent overseas. Women, you've not only heard it, you've LIVED it. You can't fight a- lone, so lets get together. Every Tuesday and Thursday between 1-4 there will be other women with the same situation at the GI Center. We can help each other. It's sitting home alone waiting for your husband to get home from work hearing footsteps outside your window. It's either scrubbing your floors all day long or else sitting and watching the serials and thinking that you should be cleaning. It's having your husband come home and yell at ycu because he can't yell at his First Sgt. It's going to Womack and getting the same old run around. It's taking your baby out to Emergency with 104 degrees temperature and waiting 2 hours for a doctor. It's getting pregnant, waiting for your appointment at OB-GYN for birth control pills and then being rudely asked "Why ArmyWive Sa/ Emd vur no i illy Dean Smith Frame-Up Trial Begins Sept. 6 Billy Dean Smith is a Black GI from Watts who was outspoken about the criminal war in Vietnam and racism in the military. He has been falsely accused of "fragging" — killing with a fragmentation grenade— two officers at Bien Hoa, Vietnam. The evidence shows that Billy Smith is innocent, but the steamroller of military justice is set to roll over Billy Smith. He has been in military prison, denied bail since March 1971. The Kangaroo trial will begin on September 6, 1972. We can help to fight back by writing to Congressmen demanding that they investigate the case fully. This type pressure will help defeat the cloak of silence the Army has put on the case. Support letters and or money for legal defense may also be sent to Luke McKisack, 6430 Sunset Blvd.,Hollywood, Ca. 90028. Angela Davis has urged GI's to support Billy Smith. He is a political prisoner being framed for a crime he did not commit. To the Military, his real crime is being a Black man who fought against racism and a racist war. For more information about Billy Smith and the coming trial drop by the GI Center, 110 N. MaiiJ St. in Spring Lake. HUMAN COMPASSION $<**&. carnet » WRITE TO BILLY: Pvt. Billy D. Smith Bldg. 4953 Port Ord, California 93941 MR. YES—SIR Hey! Brothers, listen to what I have to say. You say you want equal opportunity in each and every way. Well, how're you going to get this if you're not willing to fight And stand up for what you believe in because you know it's right. The man will tell you you're wrong, and in trouble you will be He thinks you're a fool 'cause he thinks you have no brains. He drafts you in the Army, where men are strong and brave. But if you happen to be Black, you wind up being a slave. He sends you cross the waters to fight the Viet Cong, But if you think on who caused the trouble, you'll find that he's the one. He'll put you in the stockade, because you'll learn the truth, ,'Now you're not willing to do his dirt, and for you he has no use. BROTHER BILLY DEAN SMITH
Digital identifier giNewsletter706272
No. 1 (4 July 69)
Vol. 2 no. 1 (August 1969)
Vol. 2 no. 2 (September 1969)
- p. 4-5
Vol. 2 no. 3 (November 1969)
Vol. 2 no. 4 (December 1969)
Vol. 2 no. 5 (Christmas 1969)
Vol. 2 no. 6 (February 1970)
Vol. 3 no. 1 (March 1970)
Vol. 3 no. 1 (April 1970)
Vol. 3 no. 3 (May 1970)
Special May 16th issue
Vol. 3 no. 3 (June 1970)
Vol. 3 no. 5 (July 1970)
Vol. 3 no. 8 (October 1970)
Vol. 3 no. 10 (December 1970)
Vol. 3 no. 11 (January 1971)
Vol. 3 no. 12 (February 1971)
Undated (April 1971?) issue
Vol. 4 no. 3 (Special spring offensive issue)
Vol 4 no. 7 (November 1971)
Vol. 4 no 8 (December 71)
Vol. 5 no. 3 (September, 1972)
Vol. 5 no. 4 (November, 1972)
Vol. 6 no. 1 (Feb, 1973)
Vol. 6 no. 2 (1973)
special edition (spring 74)
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Alaska Monsters Within the Last Frontier lies a region known as the Alaska Triangle, spanning 200,000 unforgiving square miles where more people go missing per capita than anywhere else on earth. What is Mountain Monsters? “Mountain Monsters” was premiered on 22 June 2013 as a part of the network Destination America. Release Date serial Mountain Monsters Season 5 promo. "Mountain Monsters" officially wrapped up on Saturday, but Destination America still has not renewed the show for a sixth season. Wizardcraft! explore the magical world of fun filled adventure and monsters and dragons! level up and become the best of the best! cast up to 50 spells, character customization, online gameplay and much more!. With Jacob Lowe, Trapper John Tice, Huckleberry Joe Lott, Willy McQuillian. One thing to count on for the return on Mountain Men on History channel is that cast member Jake Herak still has quite a pack of dogs and they are fearless, even when cornering a 2019 Monsters. New Shows Revealed For Disney's Streaming Service full [email protected] MOUNTAIN MONSTERS is produced for Destination America by American Chainsaws with Colt Straub, Duke Straub, Royal Malloy, Russell Geyser and Jay Bluemke as executive producers. Destination America is an American pay television channel that is owned by Discovery Inc. [email protected] Maybe AIMS will snag its first one while cameras are filming "Mountain Monsters"!. Issuu is a digital publishing platform that makes it simple to publish magazines, catalogs, newspapers, books, and more online. John Tice (Also known as Trapper) is the leader of the AIMS team and is one of the founders of AIMS, along with Jeff and Willy. Under the threat of extinction, humans were forced to seal the crazed and terrifying monsters under the mountain in the hopes to keep humanity safe from them. Yes, I am Preston from the History Channel TV show, MOUNTAIN MEN. Godzilla: King of the Monsters, also known by the working title of "Fathom", is a 2019 American science fiction monster film produced by Legendary Pictures. Their names are John Tice, Jacob Lowe, Joe Lott, Willy McQuillan, Jeff Headlee, and William Neff. Trapper - Mountain Monsters, West Virginia. It first aired on November 12, 1994. Episode guide, trailer, review, preview, cast list and where to stream it on demand, on. WILLY MCQUILLIAN AIMS Co-Founder and Expert Trap Builder. Simon Bestwick is the author of Tide Of Souls, The Faceless and Black Mountain. This one could even take over your mind which it did to two of the cast members. ” The six-part series examines a series of murders. Sunday, July 20 8:30-9:30 PM CT DeepEllumOnAir Call in: 214-747-DEEP (3337) Chat live with us by registering for an account at Justin. Deadline is exclusively reporting that Gary Sinise is the the latest name to join the cast of true story drama Good Joe Bell. Destination America's Mountain Monsters was a huge hit when it premiered in 2013. Will be returning April of this year ! His Veins Run Cold When He Realizes Who's Been Haunting The Homestead All Along - Duration: 19:49. The actor directs and stars (along with Gugu Mbatha-Raw and Alec Baldwin) in a big, ambitious adaptation of Jonathan Lethem’s prizewinning novel. After 9 months of silence, the Rogue Team emerges from the shadows after team member Buck tries to take matters into his own hands. Mountain Monsters Season 2 Episode 11 (s02e11) Cave Creature of Greenbrier County The AIMS team travel to Greenbrier County, West Virginia, to investigate. Homesteading Off The Grid Recommended for you. Here you will see the greatest Earth monsters, which have a different appearance, color, and other unusual features. Alaska Monsters season 3 release date is unknown yet. Mountain Monsters Season 6 Episodes: 7-16. After receiving a cryptic message last season, Trapper and the rest of the team will have to watch their backs on every investigation and hunt they conduct. Mountain Monsters Cast John Tice Salary and Net Worth. I can’t promise there will be a Season 6, but if they’re lucky and I hope all their families feel better and they can show us the Secrets of the Dark Forest and The Rouge Team abs soon get. See the pictures, main movie and television roles and read full biography and filmography. I can’t promise there will be a Season 6, but if they’re lucky and I hope all their families feel better and they can show us the Secrets of the Dark Forest and The Rouge Team abs soon get. It wrapped up the latest saga in AIMS' ongoing search for Bigfoot - but this time with their fearless leader, Trapper, coaching from the sideline. Mountain Monsters (TV Series 2013– ) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more. Homesteading Off The Grid 3,818,007 views. 2019year 118min 6. The AIMS team is back. -----After co-creating the iconic movie monsters Godzilla, Rodan and Mothra for Toho Studios, special effects director Eiji Tsuburaya launched his own company, Tsuburaya Productions. Mountain Monsters TV Show "Unofficial" Fan Page, just for FUN! (legalities and all - NO affiliation w/ Destination. New Season of MOUNTAIN MONSTERS Premieres on Destination America, 4/8. Monsters and Mysteries in America was an American documentary television series that premiered March 24, 2013 to April 1, 2015 on Destination America. It debuted on June 22, 2013, and traces the quests of the Appalachian Investigators of Mysterious Sightings (AIMS) crew, who are on a mission to uncover new evidence. Many of the minor roles in this series were played by people who were at the time well known performers in New Zealand. Trapper - Mountain Monsters, West Virginia. Mountain Monsters (TV Series 2013– ) - IMDb. After hearing some noises in the bush they stumble upon what appears to be a giant footprint in the dirt. Get the details from this press release: MOUNTAIN MONSTERS. They are stronger than their greater demon cousins and are often assigned by Sumona, Duradel/Lapalok, Kuradal and Morvran as Slayer tasks. The show is completely unwatchable garbage. It may have a present day setting and automatic rifles, but the desert bonding amid the group really seals this as a memorable watch. Mountain Monsters Cast John Tice Net Worth 2018. The Dark Forest has a grip around Jeff and they realize that this is the home to not only the Woman of the Woods and a Bigfoot, but another mysterious creature: the Black Wolf. About Mountain Monsters. Chupacabra, Wampus Beast, Wolfman, Mothman, and Grassman - with a distinctive landscape of woods, lakes, and valleys, the Appalachian Mountains are a hotbed for mysterious creature sightings. Godzilla: King of the Monsters Blu-ray (2019): Starring Vera Farmiga, Millie Bobby Brown and Kyle Chandler. Year: 2007. com now and in hard copy September 2nd on The Fader Label. On June 22, 2013, Destination America bought us Mountain Monsters, a series that follows a group of intrepid West Virginian hunters on their mission to track down the mythical beasts and creatures. Exploring Japan’s lost and forgotten places. Willy, trap builder, Mountain Monsters show. ,Minnesota Bigfoot Research Team,MN. Watch Full Episodes, Get Behind the Scenes, Meet the Cast, and much more. Jacob Lowe, Actor: Mountain Monsters. Mountain Monsters Season 6 cast: Jacob Lowe, Trapper John Tice, Huckleberry Joe Lott. Cook, Kim Parker, Kevin Zegers, Noah Thompson, Hayden Christensen, Zane O'Dell, Katherine Isobel, Kat. Appalachian Investigators of Mysterious Sightings from the TV show Mountain Monsters. Take a peek inside the Mountain Monsters hunts with the A. Radio,Elusive1,Henry May Join Elusive1 & Henry May as they welcome John “Trapper” Tice to the show, Trapper is the AIMS Co-Founder, Team Leader, Expert Trapper Trapper is a lifelong hu. All is asked is to keep them related to mountain monsters , the Aims team show. Alaska Monsters season 3 release date is unknown yet. Cornet is currently part of National Institute for Discovery Science, which was created by Robert Bigelow of Bigelow Aerospace Advanced Space Studies. One thing to count on for the return on Mountain Men on History channel is that cast member Jake Herak still has quite a pack of dogs and they are fearless, even when cornering a 2019 Monsters. Mountain Monsters cast John Tice Salary and Net Worth. Episode Recap Mountain Monsters on TV. About Mountain Monsters. fill out the registration form and Start Watching Monsters And Mysteries In Alaska 2010 720p Webrip Movie right away!. Mountain Monsters Season 2 Episode 11 (s02e11) Cave Creature of Greenbrier County The AIMS team travel to Greenbrier County, West Virginia, to investigate. Mountain Monsters: Michael Berger, Colt Straub, Duke Straub, Jay Bluemike, Royal Malloy, Russell Geyser Mountain Monsters - Cast, Crew and Credits - TV. These mountain men hunt down monsters for the Destination America's reality tv show, Mountain Monsters. The cast is a group of good-ol' boys following their dream of catching folkloric creatures for various reasons (a vital aspect of storytelling), all for the general public. Now a band of hard core hunters and trappers are out to identify. Is The Mandalorian Telling Us Anything About The Rise of Skywalker?. Cast members from On the Fringe’s production of “She Kills Monsters” are shown. The giant's innate spellcasting ability is Charisma. Mountain Monsters is all about the members of Appalachian Investigators of Mysterious Sightings (AIMS) and their ventures to provide evidence that Bigfoot and all other mythical creatures are. Willy, trap builder, Mountain Monsters show. They then strap on their weapons and head into the woods in search of Alaska's Bigfoot: the Bushman. Mountain Monsters is one of the shows i will sit there all day to watch. Harryhausen’s work is front and center in “Mysterious Island,” the 1961 thriller just released on Blu-ray. TV Guide, UK's No 1 TV guide showing your TV listings in an easy to read grid format, Visit us to check TV News, Freeview TV listings, Sky TV, Virgin TV, History, Discovery, TLC, BBC, and more. David Duchovny Has Joined the Cast of Blumhouse’s Remake of ‘The Craft’ Movies Hulu Turning Clive Barker’s ‘Books of Blood’ into a Feature Film from “The Orville” Duo. I was not familiar with the incident and stumbled upon it by accident. The creatures of the Mist are the inhabitants of an alternate reality. Mountain Lodge Outdoors. The show first aired in September of 2014 and was picked up for season 2, which premiered on Destination America on September 19, 2015. We have searched for the wolf man, grassman, mothman. Message boards: Cafe SETI: TV Show 'Mountain Monsters' - Real Or Fake? ©2019 University of California [email protected] and Astropulse are funded by grants from the National Science Foundation, NASA, and donations from [email protected] volunteers. ‘Mountain Monsters’ is a reality TV series that previously aired on Destination America but currently airs on Travel Channel. A Trapper is a long time hunter and tracker and team leader of AIMS (Appalachian Investigators of Mysterious Sightings). With a cast of lovable characters that were very funny and not the least bit scary. 3 Anytime Lift Tickets valid at Hunter, Jack Frost, Big Boulder, Roundtop, Liberty & Whitetail. I hope he gets better, and the whole team out and after the Bigfoot in the area. Mountain Monsters Chupacabra, Wampus Beast, Wolfman, Mothman and Grassman - with a distinctive landscape of woods, lakes and valleys, the Appalachian Mountains are a hotbed for mysterious creature sightings. After hearing some noises in the bush they stumble upon what appears to be a giant footprint in the dirt. Bigfoot of Ashe County: The AIMS team head to Ashe County, NC in search of The Cherokee Devil. Production will begin later this year. Phantoms and Monsters does not control, and is not responsible for Content made available through the Phantoms and Monsters Site. 2015-04-02 20:44:34 DB TORNADO :: sickbeard. The show first aired in September of 2014 and was picked up for season 2, which premiered on Destination America on September 19, 2015. Facebook; Prev Article. See the pictures, main movie and television roles and read full biography and filmography. Mountain Monsters Season 6 Episodes: 7-16. Pre-build kit is also available. Last year saw the tragic death of fan favorite Preston Roberts, which sent shockwaves through. No Limits Hunting. Episode Recap Mountain Monsters on TV. Download Mountain Monsters S02E14 Grassmans Revenge 480p HDTV x264-mSD torrent or any other torrent from the Video TV shows. Mountain Monsters: Season Four; Move to Travel Channel Kicks Off with Two-Hour Premiere July 15, 2019 Mountain Monsters: Season Five Coming to Destination America This Saturday. Krumm Goes Hollywood is the second part of the third episode of Aaahh!!! Real Monsters from season 1. Community content is available under CC-BY-SA unless otherwise noted. Find out when Mountain Monsters is on TV, including Series 1-Episode 4: Wampus Beast of Pleasants County. The Tao Tei, also known as the Taotie, are mythical. You can various bits of trivia about these Friends stars, such as where the actor was born and what their year of birth is. He doesn't like to display his personal life and stays away from the limelight. The Dark Forest has a grip around Jeff and they realize that this is the home to not only the Woman of the Woods and a Bigfoot, but another mysterious creature: the Black Wolf. Mountain Monsters has got to be the most unrealistic, stupid shows on television. Created with Sketch. A team of hard-core hunters and trappers are out to figure out the biggest mystery of all. Monsters, Inc. Monsters, Inc. 01:02:00 Americas Most Haunted no Mountain Monsters,AMerica's Most Haunted Radio,Eric Olsen,Theresa Argie,Destination AMerica America's Most Haunted Radio, hosted by Eric Olsen and Haunted Housewife Theresa Argie, is delighted to talk with Trapper John Tice of MOUNTAIN MONSTERS tonight. After hearing some noises in the bush they stumble upon what appears to be a giant footprint in the dirt. Chupacabra, Wampus Beast, Wolfman, Mothman, and Grassman - with a distinctive landscape of woods, lakes, and valleys, the Appalachian Mountains are a hotbed for mysterious creature sightings. Welcome to the Mountain Monsters Wiki Edit. Find out when Mountain Monsters is on TV, including Series 1-Episode 7: Yahoo of Nicholas County. Mountain Monsters I’m not sure how authentic it ever was, but at this point “reality” TV is so far from being real that I’ve stopped finding the misuse of the word “reality” funny. Mountain Monsters Wiki is a FANDOM TV. One thing to count on for the return on Mountain Men on History channel is that cast member Jake Herak still has quite a pack of dogs and they are fearless, even when cornering a 2019 Monsters. As he wept in silence, the rest listened attentively. Mountain Monsters: Michael Berger, Colt Straub, Duke Straub, Jay Bluemike, Royal Malloy, Russell Geyser Mountain Monsters - Cast, Crew and Credits - TV. mountain monsters cast members bios. 1 day ago · Meet The Cast of Mountain Monsters. Mountain Monsters » Character Guide » Wild Bill. If you like entertainment TV, you gotta love Mountain Monsters! This show is a real hoot. Mountain Monsters Plot Details/Press Release: Nowhere does the mystery of Bigfoot's existence run deeper than in the backcountry of Appalachia where, over the last 10 years alone, the Appalachian Investigators of Mysterious Sightings (AIMS) have uncovered more than a dozen different clans of bigfoot that call the mountain region home. Photo courtesy of Jason Elias / Destination America. Known as Joe, he is one of the leading and most liked of the cast of “Mountain Monsters”, appearing in virtually all the episodes since it premiered in 2013. A presentation of Warner Bros. Mountain Men Cast Salary, Net Worth 2019. Five Shows to Watch if You Like Bering Sea Gold. First appeared in the 2014 film, Godzilla, and reappeared in the 2019 film, Godzilla: King of the Monsters, and the 2020 film, Godzilla vs. After hearing some noises in the bush they stumble upon what appears to be a giant footprint in the dirt. Mountain Monsters is a show with professional hillbilly hunters that search for mysterious creatures that people have claimed to have seen in West Virginia. Jacob Lowe is an actor, known for Mountain Monsters (2013) and A Murder in the Park (2014). Series Cast. Picture: Willy McQuillian in 'Mountain Monsters. Following more clues, they finally discover a bullet in the hog’s mouth, and inside is the other half of the coordinates. It's the third entry in the MonsterVerse, following the 2017 MonsterVerse film, Kong: Skull Island, and the sequel to the 2014 MonsterVerse film, Godzilla. Mountain Monsters (TV Series 2013– ) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more. Mountain Monsters Season 5 Release Date A documentary according to the genre, airing on the Destination America channel, Mountain Monsters features the investigations of the team called as the Appalachian Investigators of Mysterious Sightings, or shortly as AIMS. 6 posts published by super7store during March 2013. Now, the AIMS crew, led by founders "Trapper" John Tice, Jeff Headlee and Willy McQuillian, use both traditional techniques and modern technology to track, trap and capture these monsters. Find out when and where you can watch Mountain Monsters episodes with TVGuide's full tv listings - you'll never miss another moment from your favorite show!. In this story Joseph Gatt was also recently confirmed to have joined the cast in an unspecified role, with fan speculation. stands for Appalachian Investigators of Mysterious Sightings. Shop our best selection of T Fal FZ700251 Actifry Oil Less Air Fryer With Large 2 2 Lbs Food Capacity And Recipe Book Black in a multitude of styles. It wrapped up the latest saga in AIMS' ongoing search for Bigfoot - but this time with their fearless leader, Trapper, coaching from the sideline. Message boards: Cafe SETI: TV Show 'Mountain Monsters' - Real Or Fake? ©2019 University of California [email protected] and Astropulse are funded by grants from the National Science Foundation, NASA, and donations from [email protected] volunteers. Krumm Goes Hollywood is the second part of the third episode of Aaahh!!! Real Monsters from season 1. The show first aired in September of 2014 and was picked up for season 2, which premiered on Destination America on September 19, 2015. Stream Monsters Inside Me FREE with Your TV Subscription!. The actor directs and stars (along with Gugu Mbatha-Raw and Alec Baldwin) in a big, ambitious adaptation of Jonathan Lethem’s prizewinning novel. “Graham will play. Our Swedish instant streaming catalogue is updated daily. Facebook; Prev Article. First appeared in the 2014 film, Godzilla, and reappeared in the 2019 film, Godzilla: King of the Monsters, and the 2020 film, Godzilla vs. I hope he gets better, and the whole team out and after the Bigfoot in the area. I don’t really care what people think of the team, the “creatures”, they attempt to catch or the research behind them that proves or disproves their existence. com This featurette explores everything on the Mountain Monsters cast net worth and salary as well as as a few exclusive facts. John Tice, best known as Trapper features in the America reality show Mountain Monsters. It debuted on June 22, 2013, and traces the quests of the Appalachian Investigators of Mysterious Sightings (AIMS) crew, who are on a mission to uncover new evidence. Mountain Monsters Cast John Tice Net Worth 2018. View the profiles of professionals named John on LinkedIn. Free shipping on orders over $25.
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The Bank for International Settlements summarized several criticisms of bitcoin in Chapter V of their 2018 annual report. The criticisms include the lack of stability in bitcoin's price, the high energy consumption, high and variable transactions costs, the poor security and fraud at cryptocurrency exchanges, vulnerability to debasement (from forking), and the influence of miners.[198][199][200]
Here’s why. Ethereum is based on blockchain technology where all transactions are meant to be irreversible and unchangeable. By executing a hard fork and rewriting the rules by which the blockchain executes, Ethereum set a dangerous precedent that goes against the very essence of blockchain. If the blockchain is changed every time a large enough amount of money is involved, or enough people get negatively impacted, the blockchain will lose its main value proposition – secure, anonymous, tamper proof & unchangeable.
The validity of each cryptocurrency's coins is provided by a blockchain. A blockchain is a continuously growing list of records, called blocks, which are linked and secured using cryptography.[23][26] Each block typically contains a hash pointer as a link to a previous block,[26] a timestamp and transaction data.[27] By design, blockchains are inherently resistant to modification of the data. It is "an open, distributed ledger that can record transactions between two parties efficiently and in a verifiable and permanent way".[28] For use as a distributed ledger, a blockchain is typically managed by a peer-to-peer network collectively adhering to a protocol for validating new blocks. Once recorded, the data in any given block cannot be altered retroactively without the alteration of all subsequent blocks, which requires collusion of the network majority.
Wallets and similar software technically handle all bitcoins as equivalent, establishing the basic level of fungibility. Researchers have pointed out that the history of each bitcoin is registered and publicly available in the blockchain ledger, and that some users may refuse to accept bitcoins coming from controversial transactions, which would harm bitcoin's fungibility.[128] For example, in 2012, Mt. Gox froze accounts of users who deposited bitcoins that were known to have just been stolen.[129]
Cryptocurrencies are systems that allow for the secure payments of online transactions that are denominated in terms of a virtual "token," representing ledger entries internal to the system itself. "Crypto" refers to the fact that various encryption algorithms and cryptographic techniques, such as elliptical curve encryption, public-private key pairs, and hashing functions, are employed.
In cryptocurrency networks, mining is a validation of transactions. For this effort, successful miners obtain new cryptocurrency as a reward. The reward decreases transaction fees by creating a complementary incentive to contribute to the processing power of the network. The rate of generating hashes, which validate any transaction, has been increased by the use of specialized machines such as FPGAs and ASICs running complex hashing algorithms like SHA-256 and Scrypt.[30] This arms race for cheaper-yet-efficient machines has been on since the day the first cryptocurrency, bitcoin, was introduced in 2009.[30] With more people venturing into the world of virtual currency, generating hashes for this validation has become far more complex over the years, with miners having to invest large sums of money on employing multiple high performance ASICs. Thus the value of the currency obtained for finding a hash often does not justify the amount of money spent on setting up the machines, the cooling facilities to overcome the enormous amount of heat they produce, and the electricity required to run them.[30][31]
^ Chan, Edwin. "China Plans to Ban Cryptocurrency Mining in Renewed Clampdown". www.bloomberg.com. Retrieved 10 April 2019. While China was once home to about 70 percent of Bitcoin mining and 90 percent of trades, authorities have waged a nearly two-year campaign to shrink the crypto industry amid concerns over speculative bubbles, fraud and wasteful energy consumption.
Within a cryptocurrency network, only miners can confirm transactions by solving a cryptographic puzzle. They take transactions, mark them as legitimate and spread them across the network. Afterwards, every node of the network adds it to its database. Once the transaction is confirmed it becomes unforgeable and irreversible and a miner receives a reward, plus the transaction fees.
Until relatively recently, building blockchain applications has required a complex background in coding, cryptography, mathematics as well as significant resources. But times have changed. Previously unimagined applications, from electronic voting & digitally recorded property assets to regulatory compliance & trading are now actively being developed and deployed faster than ever before. By providing developers with the tools to build decentralized applications, Ethereum is making all of this possible.
The unit of account of the bitcoin system is a bitcoin. Ticker symbols used to represent bitcoin are BTC[b] and XBT.[c][76]:2 Its Unicode character is ₿.[1] Small amounts of bitcoin used as alternative units are millibitcoin (mBTC), and satoshi (sat). Named in homage to bitcoin's creator, a satoshi is the smallest amount within bitcoin representing 0.00000001 bitcoins, one hundred millionth of a bitcoin.[2] A millibitcoin equals 0.001 bitcoins; one thousandth of a bitcoin or 100,000 satoshis.[77]
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Ellen’s Letter to Obama: A Wakeup Call for the International Community, Liberians
President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf has written her United States’ counterpart, Barack H. Obama, requesting America’s swift intervention in Liberia’s Ebola crisis.She appealed to him to send US medical doctors and equipment to help stop the spread of the deadly epidemic in the country.In her letter, she told President Obama and the American people that the Ebola virus is spreading at an exponential rate “and we have a limited time window to arrest it.”The Liberian leader also bluntly told President Obama that the virus outbreak has overwhelmed the containment and treatment measures her government has attempted thus far.”Our already limited resources have been stretched to breaking point and up to now a private charity, Medicines Sans Frontiers (MSF), has responded robustly in all the affected countries. But MSF, too, has reached its limits,” she said.Liberia will lose the battle against the Ebola virus without more direct help from the US Government, she warned.She also told President Obama that well over 40% of total Ebola cases have occurred in the last 18 days.“Our message has gotten out and our citizens are self-reporting or bringing in their relatives. But our treatment centers are overwhelmed. MSF is now running a 160 bed-unit, the largest ever Ebola treatment unit in the history of the disease and even that is inadequate,” she stated.President Sirleaf openly told President Obama that the Ebola virus has created a national health emergency that posed serious challenges to the country’s unemployed youthful population, some of whom were child soldiers, and threatens civil order.“What is even heartbreaking is that we are unable to reopen our basic secondary health facilities because terrified health workers, who have watched their colleagues die from the disease, are afraid to return to work,” she said.About 153 health workers have been infected and 79 have died.President Sirleaf’s admittance that the Ebola virus outbreak has overwhelmed her government is a wakeup call to the international community to promptly and affirmatively respond to save Liberia.It is well over six months since the outbreak, but nothing really concrete has come from the international community.By sitting and watching innocent lives taken away daily by a virus that can be contained and defeated is equal to the commission of genocide.The international community has a responsibility to Liberia in lines with international protocols, to which this sovereign nation is signatory and which it has always respected and enforced.It is time for President Obama and the American government and people to demonstrate their true traditional friendship and partnership and demonstrate to Liberians and the world that Americans are truly our ally.The British Government has proven its worth in Sierra Leone where it is heavily involved in helping the Sierra Leone Government contain the Ebola virus from spreading. Sierra Leone, according to the World Health Organization’s later data, has the lowest Ebola-related deaths in the Mano River Union basin.We are also told that the Russian Government has dispatched doctors and scientists to Guinea and they have made successful gains in containing the virus from spreading. Guinea’s total Ebola deaths toll, WHO says, is about 600.But the toll in Liberia is fast approaching 1,400 and could even go higher. One may wonder where are our international partners we usually boast of.And what is the United States, our traditional ally, friend and partner—doing to help its oldest African friend? We pray that we are not being reminded of the 1990 civil war when US President George Bush refused to intervene to stop the civil war.The US Government’s refusal to send US troops to help stop the senseless civil in Liberia and save it from self-destruction led to the death of over 250,000 and the near total destruction of the country. It took Britain and other partners of Liberia to criticize the US before “Uncle Sam” sent US troops on the ground and demanded Charles Taylor’s departure, to which he immediately acceded.The US always supported ECOWAS troops during the war, however, but it wasn’t sufficient of them.The Liberian civil war immediately ended few months after US troops arrived in the country. We salute the US for the little it has done, but a lot more is needed.The second wakeup call President Sirleaf’s letter goes directly to the Liberian people. The President has already made it very clear that her government lacks capacity financial, human resources and logistics to contain the deadly Ebola virus. What we need to do the most as a people is a ‘break in transmission.’Let us avoid coming in physical contacts with infected person (s) or sick people whose sicknesses have not been diagnosed by medical doctors.We are too good a people to be destroying our own lives. We must stop pointing fingers, accusing and blaming one another for this virus and begin to report all suspected sick persons in our communities and save lives.Share this:Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) read more
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TWENTY-FIVE YEARS NOT OUT FOR FINN HARPS PHYSIO MICKEY MCGLYNN
Mickey McGlynn is back for his 25th season at Finn Harps.Finn Harps physio Mickey McGlynn is back for an incredible 25th season at Finn Park but he’ll have to watch tomorrow night’s league opener from the stands as he serves a one-match ban. McGlynn got in trouble with the match officials during Harps FAI Cup defeat to St Pat’s when Gareth Harkin was ridiculously sent-off late on.Harps manager Ollie Horgan was sent off for his protests and he’ll have to watch the first three matches of the season from the stands. McGlynn’s story is one of longevity and dedication to Finn Harps, and the affable medical man has overseen some changes at Finn Park since 1990.Despite the struggles the club has suffered during that time and the highs and lows that come with senior football, McGlynn’s love for the game and for the club has never diminished.This is reflected in the fact that he’s gearing up for his 25th season in the League of Ireland and that he’s looking forward to it.Football in the League of Ireland has become more professional since 1990 and that has inevitably placed greater demands on players, staff and medical personnel. McGlynn told Donegal Daily, “The professionalism and scientific approach to games and training has stepped up massively since then, no doubt.“Back then you trained twice-a-week and you played your match, there was no conditioning programmes, no off-season programmes, no real focus on nutrition, no video analysis.“Now you’re training three, four times a week, you’re also trying to factor in recovery programmes that are essential for modern day players .“So it’s undoubtedly more difficult and demanding, but we all enjoy it and we love doing it, nobody is at the club for financial reimbursement, we all do it out of the love of the game.McGlynn believes the standard of the league has increased due to the more professional approach adopted by clubs. McGlynn feels that is evidenced by the mass exodus of players from the league to the UK, but he still feels the league doesn’t get the respect it deserves.“With the more professional approach adopted that has resulted in a huge increase in the standard of teams and players.“You only have to look at some of the players that have left the league, Seamus Coleman, Keith Fahy, James McClean and Kevin Doyle are just a few that all went over and done extremely well at the highest level.“They benefited from playing here before making the move, no question about it. “Look at Ryan Manning, he played in the First Division last season for Galway Utd and he signed for OPR in January.“I don’t think the league gets the credit it deserves, especially the First Division, there’s some quality players in it and some really good sides and it’s an incredibly tough league.“It’s an old cliché but they really aren’t any easy games in the division and it’s a very competitive league.When pressed on predictions for the season McGlynn was conservative but feels the squad have a good mix of experience of quality and feels they have the artillery in their ranks to kick on.“I think the aim is to improve on last season and try and get into the play-offs, that’s easier said than done though.“There was good foundations built last season, and we were a very well-organised and solid outfit, we were difficult to beat and I’m sure we’ll be hard to beat this season too.“We’ve got a good squad, there’s plenty of experience and quality in it, and they’re a tight knit group.“Our Achilles heel last season was probably in the final third, if we can be a wee bit more clinical we could do well.“There’s a good buzz around the squad, and Ruairi Keating returning has given the place a lift, he’s an exciting player and he done well here last year.“Hopefully Wilfried Tagbo can get his registration sorted because he looks like he could be a very good player for us.McGlynn says the management and coaching staff have left no stone unturned in their preparations for the new season and is hopeful the season can be a good one for the club.“From Ollie and James on the management side of things to Michael Black on the conditioning and fitness of the players no stone is left unturned.“Ollie is one of the hardest working managers in the league, no doubt about it he eats, sleeps and breathes football and he has a great knowledge of the league.“Ollie and James know the league inside and out and they know what way to approach every game and how teams will set-up against you.“There attention to detail is forensic and we’ll never be unprepared for any match.“Michael Black does top-class work as well and we’re well prepared and looking forward to the season.McGlynn as stated in above will not be allowed to take his place in the dug-out tomorrow night against Shelbourne and is disappointed by the ban.“Look it’s done and dusted now, I’m disappointed about it, I’ve never been banned before but one suspension every 25 years isn’t a bad record so I can’t moan too much about it.“Hopefully we get a good result and that will set us up nicely for Cabinteely next week at Finn Park.There has been eyebrows raised about the appointment of the match officials for tomorrow’s match.The controversial referee involved in that FAI Cup semi-final will be the fourth official tomorrow night and considering the bad blood following the fall-out of that cup semi-final, it’s certainly a surprising choice.McGlynn will be back where he belongs on Monday for the EA League Cup clash with Galway and he’s looking forward to many more years with Finn Harps.TWENTY-FIVE YEARS NOT OUT FOR FINN HARPS PHYSIO MICKEY MCGLYNN was last modified: March 6th, 2015 by Mark ForkerShare this:Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)Click to share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window)Click to share on Reddit (Opens in new window)Click to share on Pocket (Opens in new window)Click to share on Telegram (Opens in new window)Click to share on WhatsApp (Opens in new window)Click to share on Skype (Opens in new window)Click to print (Opens in new window)Tags:newsSport read more
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MAIN PAGE > Journal "Psychologist" > Contents of Issue № 02/2014
Psychotechnique
Artemeva O.A. - Soviet Psychotechnics: Social Biography of the Research and Practice Movement pp. 1-23
Abstract: The history of domestic psychology of the 1920-1930th represents rare naukovedchesky material. At this time under the influence of unique social conditions growth and elimination of a number of scientific and practical currents – psychoanalysis, pedology, psychoequipment was observed. The appeal to history of development of each of these currents allows to open essential regularities of social determination of science. In the represented work on the basis of the analysis historical and scientific, including archival, materials the social biography of the Soviet psychoequipment is reconstructed. Tragic destinies of her leaders I.N. Shpilreyn and S.G. Gellerstein are represented. Stages of the social biography of a psychotechnical current as subject of scientific activity are allocated. The characteristic of social conditions of its formation and elimination in the Soviet Russia is given. As result of social determination of development of a current change of methodological installations of the Soviet psychotechnicians is traced. At reconstruction of "the social biography" of the Soviet psychoequipment the main publications and private papers of her scientific leaders, results of historical and psychological researches and official documents regulating activity of the Soviet psychotechnicians in 1920-1930 were analyzed. The carried-out work allowed to draw a conclusion on dependence of development of a scientific and practical current on such social conditions, as economic, ideological and political. The special attention is paid to ambivalent nature of influence of the Soviet scientific policy: on the one hand, repressions concerning experts scientists led to suppression of a research initiative and weakening of scientific and technical capacity of the country, with another – the Soviet scientific policy promoted merger of scientific community on the basis of the general methodological principles.
Peretolchina D. - The Role of Family Background in the Development of Teenager's Deviant Behavior pp. 24-51
Abstract: Object of research: research of features of family factors, features of deviant behavior of the teenagers who are in various contexts of a social situation of development (various on relationship and family functions, in the conditions of training at open schools of specialized type.It is possible to carry to family factors: unity, flexibility, satisfaction with marriage, interaction with the teenager, deviant behavior of teenagers to which can be carried: aggression, uneasiness, interaction with parents, and also low unity and flexibility of family system the teenager's eyes.Research methods:1. A questionnaire for interaction of parents with I. Markovskaya's children (option for teenagers and their parents).2. Diagnostics of unity and flexibility of family system D. Olson. (option for teenagers and their parents).3. Questionnaire of diagnostics of tendency to A. Bass and M. Perry's aggression.4. Scale of personal uneasiness A.M. Prikhozhan.5. Questionnaire of satisfaction with marriage V. V. Stolin.Comparison of two cultures always represents scientific interest. Features family, child – parental relations and psychological features of modern teenagers in the Russian and Uzbek culture, are very various.In the work we will try to understand as far as these distinctions influence a deviation in behavior at teenagers and whether influence in general. Conclusions: proceeding from the received results, it is possible to say that are made by us early hypotheses were confirmed, namely:General hypothesis: There is a communication between family relationship and features of education, and also unity and flexibility of family system, and such violations of behavior of teenagers and their features as: aggression, uneasiness, low socially - psychological adaptation, inadequate perception of the family relations and communications.Private hypotheses:1. Among the teenagers who are trained in specialized institutions in comparison with teenagers from mass schools with conditionally normal behavior, all types of aggressive behavior (physical aggression, anger, hostility), high uneasiness (school uneasiness, interpersonal uneasiness, self-estimated uneasiness, magic uneasiness) meet more often, for the first are characteristic more psychogenic situation of relationship in a family (both the teenager's eyes, and eyes of parents), special perception of conditions of family system (unity, flexibility).2. Psychological features of deviant teenagers from open schools (specialized) and the teenagers who are trained at mass schools in the city of Moscow and the city of Tashkent differ.3. Features of a family situation in families of teenagers from usual comprehensive schools of Moscow and Tashkent are various and are characterized by various profiles of educational competences of parents and various psychological features of teenagers.4. There is a communication between manifestations of deviant behavior at teenagers from specialized schools with a number of parental dysfunctions: an emotional distance, rejection, inconsistency, lack of cooperation, a dissatisfaction with marriage between spouses.
Limits of intellect
Subbotskiy E. - Learning From Harry Potter pp. 52-93
Abstract: In article the role of magic thinking in mental development of the child is analyzed. Questions are considered: Whether children believe in magic or only play it? Whether interest in magic is so strong, as well as interest in the new physical phenomena? Whether it is possible to use magic thinking for acquisition by children of useful cognitive skills, or it is suitable only for entertainment? Researches showed that children of preschool and early school age really believe in reality of the magic. Preschool children and younger school students show much stronger interest in research of magic events, than in research of the new physical phenomena. Experiments confirmed the assumption that display of movies with impossible events and beings stimulates some informative functions of children (such as visual comparison and creative thinking) in much bigger degree, than display of the movie with equally interesting, but possible events and beings. At last, it was shown that inclusion of trade brands in a context of the impossible promotes the subsequent recognition of brands in much bigger degree, than inclusion of similar brands a context of equally interesting possible events. Prospects of use of magic thinking in school practice are discussed. Novelty: (1) The role of children's magic thinking in acquisition by children of knowledge and useful cognitive skills is for the first time considered; (2) The analysis of a problem about a ratio of children's magic thinking and training in scientific subjects is new; (3) The idea about creation of "alternative textbooks" – textbooks on physics, biology, psychology and other disciplines in which known laws of the nature wouldn't be observed is put forward, and were broken. Conclusions: (1) Involvement of children in magic thinking stimulates some informative functions of children (such as visual comparison and creative thinking) in much bigger degree, than display of the movie with equally interesting, but possible events and beings (effect "advantages impossible over possible"; (2) The effect reason "advantages impossible over possible" that the thinking about the possible involves only a narrow circle of mental functions (perception and short-term memory). On the contrary, the thinking about the impossible involves all palette of such functions (perception, memory, thinking, imagination and emotions) that provides stronger activation at the child of some useful skills; (3) Magic thinking of the child - not "false understanding of reality" and not a hindrance to scientific thinking, and the new, yet not mastered by psychology material for optimization of mental development and training.
Psychology and pedagogics
Kirakosyan A. - Improving Psychological Readiness of Primary School Students for Reading Correction pp. 94-134
Abstract: High-quality research of ways of increase of psychological readiness for correction of informative actions through use of the reception of the including activity developed in the activity theory is presented. Research is executed on reading material. Work includes implementation of correction of negative attitude the slabochitayushchikh of pupils of the 4th class to reading by means of carrying out within academic year of a circle on record of audiobooks. In article stages of change of the relation of pupils to reading and, respectively, stages of the organization of the course of a circle are in detail described. Research is executed with use of qualitative methods of collecting and the analysis of data – natural experiment, supervision, interview, the content analysis, interpretation, and also statistical methods of data processing. By results of research it is shown that increase of psychological readiness for occupations is connected with changes of sense of reading for pupils. Research is interesting as disclosure of reception of the including activity on correction material, and also has practical value as a way of increase of psychological readiness for occupation by reading.
The conscious and the unconscious
Korolev S.A. - Night Dreams as the Emanation of the 'Social Subconscious'. Article 2 . The Army pp. 135-195
Abstract: This article is the continuation of the study of night dreams as a kind of emanation of so-called "social subconscious". Having considered general approaches to the matter in his previous article (Night Dreams as the Emanation of the 'Social Subconscious'. Article 1. Problem Definition), the author goes on to analyze dreams related to a certain topic, particularly, the military segment of so called 'disciplinary dreams' about the army, military service and war. The researcher relies primarily on Freud’s conclusion about the existence of a special class of typical dreams and on the ideas of Carl Jung that dreams do not only contains traces of accomplishment of desires but rather reflect the fear or anxiety of an individual. The subject under review is the social network posts and comments that describe dreams of particular Internet users. The author demonstrates that a great part of military dreams reproduce intensely gloomy and anxious scenes as the reflection of dominating emotions of dreamers. To a certain degree, negative scenes appearing in military dreams are discounted by the phantasmagoric nature of dreams. Dream constructs generated by the subconscious mind are fantastically mixed with what might happen in the reality and cause anxiety and fear and phantoms that are obviously beyound the reality. Finally, in his research Korolev states that there is a certain similarity between surrealistic inclusions into the layer of 'social subconscious' and artefacts of actual art. Such comparison is possible from the point of view of phantasmagoric and irrational features of these phenomena as well as their purpose to repeat what is unrepeatable. To some extent, this can be referred to the researcher's analysis of mass sources including posts and comments on the Internet.
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937. Francis Edward9 Fillebrown (Edward8, Asa7, John6, John5, John4, Thomas3, Humpfrey2 Phillibrowne, Robert1 ffilebrowne)(9140) was born in Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts September 12, 1854.(9141)
Francis married Carrie W. Carter June 23, 1891.(9142) Carrie was born November 29, 1858.(9143) Carrie(9144) was the daughter of William H. Carter and Caroline S. Rayner. Carrie, William H. Carter's child, resided with William in Chicago, Cook County, Illinois.(9145) When Carrie was age 33 and Francis Edward Fillebrown was age 37 they became the parents of Carter Fillebrown May 18, 1892.(9146) When Carrie was age 39 and Francis Edward Fillebrown was age 43 they became the parents of Mary Louise Fillebrown February 3, 1898.(9147)
Francis resided in Brookline, Norfolk County, Massachusetts.(9148) "He lived for 30 years at 78 Harvard Street."
Francis was employed at organization unknown as Wood Engraver in Brookline, Norfolk County, Massachusetts circa 1880's.(9149) "He is a skilled wood engraver. In Scribner's Magazine for the eighties may be found manifold specimens of his handicraft, the frontispiece of the December number of 1888, 'Mount Whiteface (Adirondacks) by Moonlight,' from a painting by Bruce Crane, being a good example of his work. In those days of the well-paid art of wood-engraving Scribner's paid a couple of hundred for what by modern processes costs less than a tenth of that sum."
This is a bit of history. F. E. Fillebrown engraving of The Dance of the Pleiades (1885) by Elihu Vedder, American Symbolist Painter, 1836-1923.
When Francis was age 37 and Carrie W. Carter was age 33 they became the parents of Carter Fillebrown May 18, 1892.(9150) When Francis was age 43 and Carrie W. Carter was age 39 they became the parents of Mary Louise Fillebrown February 3, 1898.(9151) Francis resided in Brookline, Norfolk County, Massachusetts circa 1910.(9152) The address was 42 Vernon Street.
Francis Edward Fillebrown and Carrie W. Carter had the following children:
+ 1319 i. Carter10 Fillebrown was born May 18, 1892.
1320 ii. Mary Louise Fillebrown(9153) was born February 3, 1898.(9154) Mary Louise Fillebrown was named after Mary Louise Fillebrown September 1, 1950.(9155) Mary's will was probated date unknown.(9156) Donald Edward Fillebrown inherited some furniture from her and still owned it in 2002.
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The Nazarenes of Mount Carmel
An Esoteric Spiritual Order
The Nazarenes of Mount Carmel is an esoteric spiritual Order which fully embraces the deeper levels of the ancient Nazorean 'Way' of Jesus the Christ. We are a modern resurrection of the ancient Nazorean Christians.
There were anciently two branches of Essenes - the Ossaeans and the Nazorean. The southern Ossaeans were known as the B'nai-Zadok, or "Children of Zadok." The northern Nazorean were known as the B'nai-Amen, or "Children of God."
The B'nai-Amen lived in and around Nazorean Temples such as the one on Mount Carmel and the smaller one in the Essene Quarter of western Jerusalem (now known as the "Church of the Apostles, or Cenacle).
The Nazorean had no intentions on the main Jerusalem Temple or in restoring its animal sacrifice cult. The Nazorean abhorred all animal sacrifice and rejected, as forgeries and fictions, all Jewish scriptures that encourage such barbaric practices. The Nazorean also had a different calendar than the Qumran B'nai-Zadok, a different set of scriptures, a different "Teachers of Righteousness," and a different and more positive attitude toward marriage and women.
It was into the ancient and mystical B'nai-Amen Temple of the Nazorean that Jesus was born; as it is written: "He shall be called a Nazorean!" (Matthew 2:23). This B'nai-Amen Temple was the advanced level of the Nazorean Covenant which brought forth the "Chosen Ones," and is that advanced level of truth which Jesus has again restored and is again seeking to make available to all righteous Nazorean who wish to espouse its fullness.
The Nazarenes of Mount Carmel consists of men and women of high moral character, dedicated to studying and teaching the ancient mysteries of the higher aspirations of the soul and applying the Nazorean teachings of Jesus, the Nazorean. We are also dedicated to preserving the original texts as best we can. We do not condone tampering with the manuscripts of antiquity.
The Nazarenes of Mount Carmel in North America stands alone, separate and autonomous, or rather, autocephalous. The Order has no origination from nor association with any other Order claiming the Essene and/or Nazorean name in the United States, Canada or Europe.
Essene - An ancient term of the sect of Judaism which birthed, raised and then followed the Master - Yeshua (Essene Jesus). Noted for their vegetarianism, communal living and healing art practices.
Nazorean - Denotes those under a special vow of holiness wherein one's whole life is consecrated upward toward purity and perfection. Nazorean were also noted for their abstinence from social drinking. Essene villages near Mount Carmel were filled with Nazorean, hence the village name of Nazareth.
Mount Carmel - A spiritual stronghold of the northern Essene movement. A place spoken of in reverence by ancient Egyptian Priests, a place where Pythagoras (the father of mathematics and philosophy) studied, the place of the Oracle and Altar of Elijah the Prophet, a place where Yeshua (Jesus) is said to have been taught and a place whence a remnant of Hebrew speaking followers of Yeshua inspired the formation of the Catholic Carmelite Order.
Yahshua - Phonetic spelling of Yeshua.
Ha Mashiakh - The Messiah, The Anointed or The Christ, the title of Yeshua in his role as anointed Savior.
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CD-ii Month: The CD-i Zelda games are good games, according to critics
by Alex Perepechko on March 2, 2014
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The Zelda CD-i games get a bad reputation on the internet. Fans and critics alike deride the games for their seemingly poor gameplay, ugly and washed-out graphics, and for poor voice acting. Even Nintendo themselves have tried to forget that the games exist. But the critics of the game are wrong — the games are not terrible by any stretch of the imagination. And I’m not just saying this — many contemporary critics praised the games. Though the games may have issues, they are by no means the horrible mess that many people claim the games to be. Still think I’m nuts? Hit the jump to read more about what critics thought of the games!
At the time of the releases of The Faces of Evil and The Wand of Gamelon, the contemporary opinions of the games by critics was fairly positive. SNES Force Magazine called the two-minute animated introduction to the games “breathtaking,” and that “the sound and speech are also brilliant.” The magazine went on to praise the high-resolution backdrops, calling the game’s graphics “superb.” Joystick magazine, a part of the French video game press, echoed these statements for a development preview of the game, and in particular described The Faces of Evil as a veritable arcade-quality game with “perfect animation.” This same magazine would go on to give The Faces of Evil a 79% rating, citing the music, sound effects, and play time as strong points for the game. The Wand of Gamelon was met with similar praise. CDi Magazine (there was a magazine for everything in the 90s!) gave the game a 75% score, and stated that the game was reasonably good. The puzzles and animated sequences of the game were given praise in particular. The music of both games has been noted for blending instruments like the electric guitar, marimbas, and other unusual instruments to create a unique sound.
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See, I told you I wasn’t making this up!
Ok, but so what if contemporary game critics gave the games positive reviews? Opinions of games change over time, and in retrospect, the game may indeed be terrible, right? Well, there have been modern critics who have given the game considerable praise. Video game writers Danny Cowan of 1up and John Szczepaniak both believe that The Faces of Evil and The Wand of Gamelon are among the best games released for the CD-i. In Issue 27 of Retro Gaming Magazine, Szczepankiak in particular suggested that many gaming publications that gave both games low scores without even having played the game themselves. Furthermore, he also argues that the CD-i games were unfairly compared to past games in the series, and believes that in their own right, the games are well done. The graphics have been another point of praise by modern critics, and many of them view the game’s art style to be very Monet-esque. Though critics generally agree that both games had poor controls, the games themselves were hardly a disaster and unplayable.
So there you have it, the CD-i games aren’t the worst possible games to ever be released. A lot of the people that criticize the games haven’t played the games, and are basing their perception on what other people have written about it. Contemporary and modern critics agree that the overall, The Wand of Gamelon and The Faces of Evil were good games, with many elements of both games being well done. Do the games have flaws? Sure, but the game’s aren’t as bad as the internet paints them to be.
And yes, I know I did not include Zelda’s Adventure in the discussion above. That’s because the game genuinely was absolutely awful. Even Szczepankiak , a starch defender of the other two games, called the game out for being absolutely terrible. But still, the other two CD-i games aren’t too bad. If you can afford to grab a CD-i and one of the games, be sure to check them out for yourselves.
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Montana Hatchet has taken the leap and rejoined us for good, how about you?
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It has been really busy here recently. Too bad you missed it, now when you do come back it will probably be slow again.
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I used to hate RPGs, but then I broke down
23rd October 2005, 23:53 #1
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I was getting extremly bored with the collection of games I had right now...Everything I have I still play, but I wanted something new in my collection; I had nothing that I hadn't already played through that could entertain me for more than an hour anymore...
So yesterday, I desided to trade some of my games in for something else at this one local store (2 for 1 deal; Traded in two games I hadn't even touched since I got them for X-mas 3 years ago - SSX and Resident Evil: Code Veronica), and I got $10 store credit...I had been eyeing Final Fantasy X for a while now, even though I'm hardly a friend to RPGs at all (Primarily like racing, fighting, and action games), and the only RPG I've ever played was Pokémon on my Gameboy, but that was like, 4-6 years ago...Yeah, I know FFX is an old-ass game, but so are GT3 and GTA:VC in my collection, and I still have fun with them whenever I pick them up...Besides, I heard FFX was a good game, so maybe this would be a good time to arse my opinions and just find some entertainment...I picked up a used copy and wondered; What the hell do I have to lose?
Well, time is the only thing I have to lose...If it wasn't for all the limited hours in a day (Especially on a school night), I'd probably plop my lazy-ass down and play until the day is wasted away...What's that mean? I'm fucking addicted...I don't know why I've hated RPGs for these years, but since I've given them a second chance, they're actually pretty fun...And FFX is indeed a good game; Only had the time to put 3-4 hours worth of gameplay in, but I'm liking it so far... I've reminded myself one of the things I hate in RPGs is that many of the battles can just happen at total random, but you can't have an RPG without random battles, now can you?
Ugh...I never thought it would come to this, but it has, thanks to Square Enix...Dammit...
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I haven't actually touched a game in months now... Primarily since Katrina slammed this place, I'd been working lots of overtime and was pretty much occupied with that until a couple weeks ago. My GameCube is still in the box from when I packed it up back in May, because it was supposed to be coming with me to the Pacific Northwest, but it and I are still here. We'll both get a change of scenery soon enough though, I hope.
I'm thinking about picking up a copy of Quake IV for my computer, though. Not exactly an RPG, but it'll be the first time I've had a game installed on any of my computers in about four years. I used to love Q2 and Q3:A back in the day, so I think this would be worth my time.
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whiteflip
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I hate RPG's too. Everytime I touch one, months of my life disapear. KOTOR was the last. Fable is looking to be the next. Just watching my friends play it makes me itch.
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Nothing to say...
FFX is indeed quality, I kick myself that I never really got to finish it, I played and played for weeks on end when it first came out, then I got ill, put it down for a week or two, then it was three, then a month, then two months and before you know it I'd totally lost it.
I tried picking it up again a year or so later, but I'd forgotten all the plot up to then and most of how to play and couldn't be arsed to learn over again, much less start again from scratch.
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Right now I'm playing through the entire FF line, starting with I and II remade for the GBA.
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Check out final fantasy 9 too. its a deep old school rpg that you cant help but be interested in. but unlike part 10 most final fantasy games take forever before they really let you know whats going on. (they make you get to love the characters first.) so be patient. if your truely a fan of rpg you should have no problem really liking paper mario and the thousand year door for the cube or mario and luigi superstar saga for the gba. (these games are based on reaction time instead of randomized values and you can see enemies instead of being drawn into random battles.) if you can look past the frequently corney akwardness set to bad music of final fantasy x-2 you should have no problem appretiating that as a good game. chrono trigger and chrono cross for psx are recomendable. trigger if you like oldschool 2d gameplay and chross if you like thick battle systems and lots of flash. even though i never really got too into it when i rented it, fable is hard not to mention. (ill probably end up buying fable now that its out for the box in 20$ lost chapters form.) fable's not turn based though its hack and slash but not rapid fire one button like lotr. (boo lotr 2,3 are over rated.) even though i enjoy and have a butt load of rpg's they're still the hardest kind of game for me to sit down and play becuase i never feel like im ready to pay attention and enjoy them and i always feel like im doing something wrong and missing something.
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18th November 2005, 19:01 #7
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Re: I used to hate RPGs, but then I broke down
didn't you know?
Square ALWAYS "PWNZ ALL" at least in rpg's
[EDIT] i've heard FFXI (the online one) is the most addicting yet [/EDIT]
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Dungeon Seige 2 a hook up between Micronoodle and gas powered games Is a new R.P.G that as much as I Hate to admit, it is a GOOD One.....
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17th December 2005, 12:39 #9
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I think there are much better RPG's than Final Fantasy.
FFX really sucks compared to some of the older ones, but even I don't think they're that great. I'm not a huge FF fan.
But, my favourite RPG ever made is Skies Of Arcadia for Dreamcast and Gamecube. You play as Vyse, who's this young air pirate. It has an incredible story, and it's one of the most addictive games i've ever played.
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13th February 2006, 03:11 #10
ecardica
I hated RPG's until a few years ago. I guess I had an extremely short attention span, but then I played Chrono Trigger. That game changed my life forever, for the worse I guess, didn't get outside for a while after that...Then came the Final Fantasy line, Sectret of Mana and so on and so on
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Cleveland, OH Mayor Proposes Law to Limit Gun Purchases to 1 Per 90 Days and Other Restrictions
The mayor of Cleveland, OH, Frank Jackson, has introduced a package of local gun control laws that he says will help to curb violent crime in the city.
According to Straight From City Hall, the proposed restrictions include,
– A Gun Offender Registry. Anyone convicted of a gun offense will be required to register with the police within 48 hours of sentence or release. The registration will include identifying information, including name, addresses of residence, work, and school, drivers’ license or ID card, and description of offense. [Registrant must follow up with police once per year.] The offender must stay on the registry for four years after the initial registration.
– Prohibiting Transferring a Firearm to a Known Felon. No person shall negligently sell or transfer a firearm to a known felon.
– Prohibiting the Improper Discharge of a Firearm at City Parks, Playgrounds or Recreation Centers. No person shall discharge a firearm upon the grounds of any park, playground, or recreation center owned by the City.
– Improperly Providing Access to Firearms to a Minor. No person shall leave a weapon so as to allow access to the weapon by a minor.
– Reporting Lost or Stolen Firearms. A firearm owner who discovers or should have discovered that a firearm in his possession is missing must report the loss or theft to law enforcement within 48 hours.
– Reporting the Transfer of Firearms. Except for transfers involving a licensed gun dealer, no person shall sell or transfer a firearm without reporting the sale or transfer to the police.
– Limiting Firearm Purchases to One per Person every 90 days. No person shall purchase or otherwise acquire more than one firearm within a 90-day period. No person shall sell or otherwise transfer a firearm to any person who has purchased or acquired another firearm within the preceding 90-day period.
The most disturbing of these is certainly the gun offender registry (what exactly constitutes a gun offense?), the minor access law (we have numerous stories in our self defense database that show minors properly trained on how to use a gun have successfully defended themselves and their families), and the 1 gun purchase per 90 day law.
These measures, if passed, will be fought by gun rights activists in Ohio. According to WKYC,
Buckeye Firearms Association Chair Jim Irvine says many of Jackson’s ideas won’t stand up in court. The organization’s Foundation side that handles education and litigation is prepared to sue the city like it did in 2010, if necessary.
Irvine says the group is focused on reducing innocent deaths, but he does not believe Jackson’s plan attack the heart of the issue.
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Best Super Bowl 2019 commercials ranked Xbox Avengers Game of Thrones and
Feb 7 • Every Avengers: Endgame character flash at the start of that Super Bowl trailer Disclosure: The Super Bowl aired on CBS, the broadcast arm of CNET’s parent company. This post first published on Jan. 25 and was updated as new ads debuted. See All Yes, that was Tom Hanks’ measured, familiar voice getting all Ken Burns-ified in a Washington Post ad for that highlighted the role of journalism, and honored those who’d risked or given their life for it, such as slain Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi. The ad sparked some controversy — from Donald Trump Jr., for one, and Post journalists who say the paper could’ve found a better use for its money. But even though “Democracy Dies in Darkness” is still an eye-roller of alliteration, this is a well-done ad. 5. 2 Chainz won’t keep his receiptsDo rappers really have to photograph receipts for the bling they buy? Adam Scott tries to get 2 Chainz to save paper receipts for his seafood towers and sports car made of ice, but the rapper has Expensify for that. You can also watch the whole video, which features a gold toilet. They made a song for this. Super Bowl 2019 Now that the Super Bowl ads are out in the wild, it’s time to do what human beings do best: rank things in an orderly fashion. On Sunday night, the New England Patriots defeated the Los Angeles Rams 13-3 in Super Bowl LIII. You could watch highlights of the game, or you could join us in ranking the ads. Which is weird, pointless and perfectly representative of what it means to be a human being in the year 2019. But it’s also fun. And look — there were some good ones. Actually, one really, really good one that might have been the highlight of the whole Super Bowl.There was a pretty good crop of commercials this year. Here, in order of what we thought ruled, are some of the best Super Bowl ads, starting with that one with kids playing the Xbox. 1. Microsoft: ‘We all win’ Regular gaming controllers don’t always work for children with disabilities. That’s where Microsoft’s Xbox Adaptive Controller comes in. “I never thought it was unfair,” one young gamer says in the company’s ad. “I just thought, ‘Hey, this is the way it is and it’s not going to change.'” Ads aren’t supposed to make people cry. Comments 7. Alexa wants a Pringle Two guys are stacking different varieties of Pringles to make unusual flavor combinations, but their Alexa smart device wants in on the fun. Sometimes, it can be sad to be a robot. We selected this, purely for the Funky Town bit. Inspired. When you play the @GameOfThrones, you either drink a @BudLight or end up like @TheBudKnight. #ForTheThrone #SBLIII pic.twitter.com/aCbIpLnZgQ— HBO (@HBO) February 4, 2019 Tags 19. Sprint taps double threat Bo Jackson Super-athlete Bo Jackson meets a mermaid and a horse with wings in Sprint’s Super Bowl 2019 ad titled “Best of Both Worlds.” Paul Marcarelli, the Sprint spokesman formerly known as the Verizon spokesman, also appears in the 30-second spot, as do a few cute robots. This is at the bottom because I hate ads that make the celebrity read the bit that says, “why don’t you just tell them the company’s message” and that’s supposed to be the joke. Share your voice 16. Budweiser feels the wind Few companies have as many memorable Super Bowl ads as Budweiser. This year, the company is hyping its use of wind power, thanks to Bob Dylan’s Blowing in the Wind and a Dalmatian whose ears fly in the breeze as the famous Clydesdales trot past a field dotted with wind turbines. This ad has a dog in it. A good dog. 13. The Avengers get ready for the end gameMarvel gave us a quick glimpse of the devastating aftermath of Avengers: Infinity War — and the determination of the surviving superheroes to set things right. “Some people move on,” the voiceover intones, “but not us.” The teaser trailer ad leaves off with a reminder that Avengers: Endgame is coming in April. Rally the troops. 6. Amazon drafts astronauts, Harrison Ford Alexa, the voice of Amazon’s Echo, can do many things, but as seen in this ad, perhaps she shouldn’t allow Harrison Ford’s dog to order its own food, or connect podcasts to Forest Whitaker’s electric toothbrush. If an ad has Harrison Ford, you know it’s a big deal. 15. Tony Romo takes it easy in Skechers The former Dallas Cowboys QB demonstrates a number of lazy-man items that make his life easy. He’s selling slip-on Skechers shoes, but the funnier ones involve a golf hole so big a small car could fit in it, and an elaborate way of exercising his dog. 18. Sad Michelob robot In another Michelob ad, a buff robot shows how it can blow all the puny humans away in running, boxing and golf, then is sad when it realizes even all the workouts in the world won’t allow it to enjoy a beer. This is why Skynet is inevitable. 2. The Batmobile swings by Walmart Classic movie cars like the Back to the Future DeLorean, the Ecto-1 from Ghostbusters and Scooby Doo’s Mystery Machine rush to Walmart to pick up groceries in the company’s commercial. Reads the tagline: “Order groceries online. Pickup for free. No matter what you drive.” Best Super Bowl TV deals: Buying a new TV for the big game? These are your best choices. CES 2019: Take a look at all the cool new gadgets for 2019. 17. Mercedes-Benz aims high In Mercedes-Benz’s ad for the A-Class, a random guy gets godlike powers that force the world, and its people and animals, to do his bidding. It’s a great commercial, but we have serious concerns about what happens to Free Willy and Ludacris. Feb 28 • Last chance to get 3 months of Mint Mobile service for $20 3. The Mountain destroys the Bud Knight I cannot believe the marketing execs over at Budweiser allowed the CANON BUD KNIGHT to be destroyed by The Mountain from Game of Thrones. This is sacrilege. This will not stand. The NFL Experience opens in Times Square 11. Pepsi gets defensive Pepsi plays off the fact that people wanting a cola tend to ask for their rival, Coke, and are often asked by the servers if a Pepsi is OK. Overhearing this exchange, Steve Carell defends the drink, and gets a little help from Lil Jon and Cardi B. Really, Pepsi is missing out if they don’t find a way to sell that sequined can. Fun to watch absolutely everyone selling out hard. 9. Hyundai’s hellish elevatorHyundai’s commercial has actor Jason Bateman as the manager of a elevator to all kinds of horrible situations, including jury duty, car shopping and sitting in the middle seat of a plane next to a sick passenger. The latter highlights Hyundai’s Shopper Assurance program. One of those ads that’s just… actually funny? reading • Best Super Bowl 2019 commercials ranked: Xbox, Avengers, Game of Thrones and more Super Bowl 2019 Aug 14 • Raising the entry-level bar 20. The Dude returns for Stella Artois It seems like The Dude (Jeff Bridges) from The Big Lebowski, with his love for bowling and White Russians, would roll his eyes at rich Carrie Bradshaw (Sarah Jessica Parker) from Sex and the City. But in commercials, anything can happen. In an ad for Stella Artois beer, Parker decides to order a Stella instead of her traditional cosmo, and Bridges’ Dude rejects his beloved White Russian for a beer as well. This ad is bad. It’s a bad idea. And I’m upset Jeff Bridges did this. 39 Photos 8. Bublé vs Bubly Singer Michael Bublé is apparently irritated that the flavored water Bubly almost, but not quite, has copied his name. In this clip, he’s caught in a convenience store marking up the cans. Sorry, I just can’t resist Bublé and his overwhelming charisma. • 31 4. Washington Post thanks journalists May 7 • 2020 Toyota Supra first drive review: More reset than reboot 10. Backstreet Boys meet Chance the RapperIn two short teasers for a Doritos ad, 1990s boy-banders The Backstreet Boys seem to be auditioning Chance the Rapper for a role in their band, but he’s just not getting that patented Backstreet choreography down. Game of Thrones Amazon Microsoft Apple 14. Audi reconnects man with his grandpa Audi’s E-Tron commercial seems to reunite a man with his grandfather in an automobile-centered vision of heaven, before a swift Heimlich maneuver apparently saves the man’s life, sending him back to his office life. TV and Movies Sports 12. Buffy fights bad skin Olay created a mini horror movie, with Buffy the Vampire Slayer’s Sarah Michelle Gellar and a creepy masked stalker. He doesn’t know what he’s up against, taking on the legendary Slayer. Neat idea.
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Pre-Order: Freddie Mercury, Never Boring. LP. CD. Out 11/10. Please message us for details. – “You can do anything with my work, but never make me boring.” – Freddie Mercury
The “Never Boring” release brings together for the first time a specially-curated selection of Freddie Mercury’s music and written and spoken words. Pressed on 180-gram heavyweight vinyl, the set reminds us that Freddie was an exceptional singer, songwriter, performer and human being whose special kind of magic is captured in this exceptional collection of his solo work.
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Gregg Miner: W. J. Dyer & Bro. Symphony Harp Mandolins and the Symphony Harp Plectral Ensemble
32 pages, softcover book or magazine format
In Stock The title says it all. After decades of research which began with Robert Carl Hartman, and updated multiple times by Gregg Miner, this is the definitive monograph on the entire Dyer harp mandolin family's history, models, styles and more!
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Gregg Miner: Norwegian Wood companion book
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In Stock The ultimate in liner notes! This beautiful full-color, fully-illustrated, 90-page perfect bound book was created to share not only the stories behind the music of Norwegian Wood, but the instruments that it made it – along with the fascinating builder (Knutsen) who built them. An additional bonus are the dozens of rare historical photos and advertisements depicting similar instruments in their 1895-1930 heyday. Main shots (first and last) of instruments are all in scale to keep everything in perspective. As an accompaniment to the CD or a stand-alone book, it’s another over-the-top Gregg Miner production! More >>> See all format options
More info Floating Strings: The Remarkable Story of the Harp Guitar in America
by Gregg Miner, edited by Carolyn Grant
60 pages, softcover
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Beautiful full-color 60-page exhibit catalog tells the story of America's harp guitar, beginning with a brief introduction of European instruments, and ending with the explosion of modern instruments. A stand-alone publication to accompany the 2017-2018 public exhibit at NAMM's Museum of Making Music in Carlsbad, California.
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More info The Lute in Europe 2: Lutes, Guitars, Mandolins, and Citterns
by Andreas Schlegel & Joachim Lüdtke
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The long-awaited new edition of The Lute in Europe is here! Greatly expanded, the new hardcover features 447 pages and 150 full color photos - an inch and a half thick! Along with historical lutes, there is coverage on early medieval instruments, guitars, mandolins and citterns (and even a harp guitar or two...).
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In Stock Not only one of the most beautiful, but one of the most personal guitar collection books you'll ever find. The full-color, 368-page feast measures a whopping 12.3 x 10.4 x 1.3 inches. Famed mystery novelist Jonathan Kellerman writes, paints, and plays guitar - and he's got a few. He only collects what can be played and only those instruments that sound great. Harp guitar fans will find several Knutsens (mostly steels and harp-steels) plus harp mandolins and a harp uke. Great instruments, great writing! Signed by the Author!
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Selected Highlights of the Labs21 2007 Annual Conference
Investigating Fume Hood Performance as a Function of Laboratory Air Supply
Thomas C. Smith, Exposure Control Technologies, Inc. and Nick Paschke, DuctSox, Inc.
Laboratory fume hoods are installed to protect laboratory personnel from exposure to hazardous airborne materials. A fume hood protects personnel by containing, capturing, and exhausting the materials generated within the hood enclosure. However, it is well documented that containment can be affected by numerous variables including the aerodynamic design of the hood, the average face velocity, and cross draft velocities produced near the hood opening. Numerous tests by Knutson, Hitchings, Smith, and others have indicated that improper supply of air to the laboratory can produce cross drafts that negatively affect hood performance. However, there is little information that directs laboratory designers toward proper selection of air supply diffusers, proper location of the diffusers with respect to the hood, and determination of the proper discharge characteristics.
A study was conducted in the test laboratory at Exposure Control Technologies to evaluate the affects of six different air supply diffusers on performance of a 6-foot high-performance fume hood operating at an average face velocity of approximately 60 feet per minute with the vertical sash open to a height of approximately 28 inches. The diffusers included a 2' x 4' radial flow fabric diffuser, a 2' x 4' laminar flow fabric diffuser, a 2' x 4' flat perforated metal diffuser; a 2' x 4' perforated radial flow diffuser, and a commercial type, 2' x 2', four-way, high-velocity, high-aspirating, diffuser. The study was undertaken to evaluate the affects of each diffuser on hood performance. With the exception of the 2' x 2' diffuser, the laboratory configurations and supply volumes were chosen by the authors to follow “good” or “recommended” laboratory design practices in terms of location with respect to the hood and supply discharge volume.
The diffusers were located in the 10-foot high ceiling approximately six feet to the right side of the hood (Laboratory Configuration 1) and approximately five feet directly in front of the hood (Laboratory Configuration 2). The supply volume for each diffuser was held constant at approximately 650 cubic feet per minute during the tests. Two sequences of tests were conducted for each diffuser at each of the two laboratory configurations. The first sequences of tests (“Normal Challenge”) were conducted with the supply discharge temperature equivalent to the room air temperature (approximately 72 degrees Fahrenheit). The second sequences of tests (“Thermal Challenge”) were conducted to produce a thermal stratification by cycling the supply discharge temperature to cold (less than room air temperature) and then to warm (above room air temperature).
Three series of five-minute performance tests were conducted for each of the six diffusers under the two laboratory configurations and two temperature challenges. Tracer gas tests were conducted to evaluate containment according to methods described in the ASHRAE 110 “Method of Testing Performance of Laboratory Fume Hoods.” The mannequin was placed at the center of the hood opening at a breathing zone height of approximately 22 inches above the work surface. Output from the calibrated leak detector was recorded at a rate of one sample per second using the ECT HoodPRO test system. The system was used to simultaneously record supply static pressure, exhaust static pressure, room differential pressure, supply discharge temperature, room temperature, horizontal cross draft velocity, vertical cross draft velocity, perpendicular cross draft velocity, and face velocity. The simultaneous collection of data produced more than 216,000 data points.
Figure 1: Test Lab (Configuration 1) with Experimental Apparatus and HoodPRO Data Collection System
As expected, the results indicate that good hood design, selection of appropriate diffusers and proper laboratory design are imperative to proper fume hood performance. The results also indicate that there may be numerous variables affecting performance that are beyond our current understanding and beyond those studied during this project. The DuctSox Fabric diffusers and the 2' x 4' metal diffusers resulted in acceptable containment, using a criterion of 0.05 parts per million concentration for an average 5-minute tracer gas test. However, the 2' x 2' diffusers produced cross drafts that caused the hood to fail to meet the containment criterion particularly when located in front of the hood opening. The data suggests that locating the diffusers to the side of the hood had the least impact on hood performance and confirms the well know assertion that cross drafts in excess of 50 percent of the average face velocity can have deleterious affects on hood performance. Finally, the data indicates that discharge temperatures may not have a significant impact on hood performance when diffusers are properly selected and located with respect to the hood.
Table 1: Tabulated Summary of Test Results
The study indicates that hood performance can be affected by diffuser selection, location of the diffuser in the laboratory, and supply volume. However, the study falls short of establishing performance envelopes for the diffusers in terms of the proximity to the hood, affect on different hood types, and allowable flow volumes. These topics should be the subject of further study to ensure provision of safe, dependable, and efficient laboratories.
View this entire presentation in PDF format (1.1 MB, 24 pp)
Thomas C. Smith is the President of Exposure Control Technologies, Inc. Mr. Smith is a leader in laboratory safety and energy management. He specializes in helping laboratories provide safe, dependable, and energy efficient operation of laboratory hoods and ventilation systems. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree in mechanical engineering from North Carolina State University and a Master of Science degree in environmental engineering from the University of North Carolina.
Mr. Smith is active in developing national and international standards for laboratory ventilation and serves as Chairman of ASHRAE TC9.10 Laboratory Systems and Vice Chairman of ANSI/ASHRAE 110 Fume Hood Testing. He is also a member of ANSI/AIHA Z9 Standards for Ventilation and Health.
Since 1985, Mr. Smith has participated in hundreds of laboratory ventilation projects and evaluated thousands of laboratory hood systems. His work has improved the safety of laboratory environments and saved millions of dollars in energy costs. He currently provides technical consultation to numerous Fortune 100 companies, top research universities, and government agencies on the forefront of environmental safety and energy conservation.
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Klopp might drop Liverpool star for Red Star game after public declaration
November 05, 2018 11:40·
Liverpool are wary about the hostile reception Shaqiri could receive
"Being relegated with Stoke was a very bad experience for the club and for me and I hope they can come back quickly", Shaqiri told the Mirror .
He's proven this season that he can change games when given the chance, and a fixture against the weakest team in the group would give Klopp the chance to rest and rotate before the next round of Premier League fixtures.
Liverpool comprehensively defeated Red Star in the reverse fixture at Anfield and will be keen to maintain their push for qualification to the Champions League knockout rounds.
His first Liverpool FC goal came in a 4-1 win over Cardiff City in the Premier League last weekend just days after his man of the match performance in a 4-0 win over Red Star in Europe.
"I think I am settled now and showing my best form". "It takes time for me to understand what the coach wants and also for my team-mates to understand me".
"He's impressed me more than I thought he would with that, but I think it's been good for him to work under Jurgen Klopp".
Petrol prices down by 19 paise in Delhi, diesel drops 11 paise
In Mumbai , petrol is sold for Rs 84.49 per litre and diesel at Rs 77.06. "That is the reason we took some burden on us", he said. The lower wholesale price of petrol has been brought about by an 11 per cent fall in the price of oil during October.
And so when the Powercube scored, performed his eagle celebration and wore boots with the Kosova flag embroidered into them, this all got a little much for Serbs. This was what I wanted. I have my dreams to win things with Liverpool.
He was disciplined for making a political statement when Switzerland faced Serbia in the World Cup in Russian Federation earlier this year, after he celebrated a goal by making an eagle gesture in tribute to his Albanian heritage. Shaqiri was born in the former Yugoslav city of Gjilan, which is now part of Kosovo, whose declaration of independence in 2008 has not been recognised by Serbia.
"When I go back to Munich, the fans show me that I am loved".
"I had this already at the World Cup so I know I can handle this no problem". "It is not about politics it is about football".
Liverpool now top Group C at the halfway stage with six points from three matches, ahead of Napoli on five points, and PSG on four points, whereas Red Star are rock-bottom and winless.
Adventurer completes 157-day, 1,791-mile swim around Britain
But Edgley, then at the Isle of Skye, knew the record would only stand if he completed his journey to Margate. He was accompanied by Cornish sailor Matthew Knight, supporting from his catamaran Hecate.
Death toll from Italian storms rises to 29
Italian state radio says a rain-swollen river in the countryside near Palermo, Sicily, has flooded a home, killing 9 people. Officials have opened an investigation to determine whether houses built near the river had complied with safety norms.
Comedian Pete Davidson criticized for mocking injured veteran on SNL
During a bit on Republicans running for Congress, Davidson joked that Dan Crenshaw looks like he belongs in a porno. President Trump was sharply criticized in 2015 for dismissively saying former Sen.
Predators Sign Pekka Rinne To Two-Year Extension
On Saturday, however, he and the rest of the B's were silenced in their 1-0 loss to the Nashville Predators at Bridgestone Arena. The Bruins will head back home to TD Garden on Monday, when they clash with ex-Bruin Tyler Seguin and the Dallas Stars.
School staff who wore border wall costume on paid leave
The photos were later removed, though not before some had captured screenshots . "We are better than this", he said in the video. The photos are now circulating across Facebook and Twitter with parents and Treasure Valley residents.
Contentious Farrell tackle helps England grind out win over Boks
Jones may also welcome back injured lock Courtney Lawes, and midfielder Manu Tuilagi. We lost a few games but we played tough today and we won.
Cabinet to quiz Theresa May over reports that Brexit deal is imminent
It is said that the Prime Minister hopes the agreement will placate remain-backing Tories and win over some Labour MPs. Justice Minister Charlie Flanagan said he wouldn't add to what he described as "speculation".
Truck slams into cars waiting at toll station in China; 15 killed
Drivers flouting traffic laws were blamed for nearly 90% of accidents that caused deaths or injuries that year. As well as those killed, authorities said 44 people were hurt including 10 who suffered serious injuries.
Drake Accuses a Vancouver Casino of Racial Profiling #Drake
Following Drake's post, Parq Vancouver's website was flooded with negative comments, with one user saying, "It's 2018 not 1945". In an Instagram post, he called the Madison Club "the most offensive place I have ever stayed at in my life".
Green Bay Packers at New England Patriots: 5 matchups to watch
The running back finished with 12 carries for 31 yards and two touchdowns, while adding six catches on seven targets for 72 yards. Forget about quick strikes, these two QBs are especially lethal at taking chunks at a time, bludgeoning defenses bit-by-bit.
North Koreans issue nuclear threat ahead of high-level talks with US
Progress on ending Pyongyang's nuclear weapons programs has slowed in the months since the Singapore summit in June between U.S. But it remains unclear if the small-scale military drills will complicate talks.
Red Dead Redemption 2 guide - everything you need to win the West
Will Red Dead Online Be Free? Red Dead Redemption II arrived last week and it is fair to say it has proved very, very popular. The beta for the online component of RDR2 is slated to launch in mid-November.
Motorola One launches in the U.S. on November 11th for $399
There's still a small chin here sporting the renewed motorola branding - that's right, folks, this is a Motorola One , not a Moto. Android One phones are guaranteed three years of monthly security patches, providing some peace of mind to security-minded users.
Palau plans sunscreen ban to save coral
The ban will prevent sunscreens containing a range of damaging chemicals from being manufactured, imported or sold in Palau. The problem led the government to create the new law, which follows a similar law passed in Hawaii in July .
No miracle, just mistakes: Saints beat Vikings 30-20
Case Keenum threw a pass to Diggs along the right sideline that he he leaped to catch at the New Orleans 34. Williams for a 45-yard touchdown return. -WR Adam Thielen continued his historic start in Sunday's game.
Cricket Australia chairman David Peever resigns
The identity of Peever's successor is one of several questions for a board mulling some 42 recommendations from The Ethics Centre. Peever's departure paves the way for cuts to CA-imposed ball-tampering bans issued to Smith and Warner.
Fortnite Fortnitemares Event Ends With Cube Explosion
But even the Fortnite community - which is normally ripe with insane fan theories and speculation - doesn't really know. The past live events have looked pretty great, so I chose to jump in and experience this one for myself.
Andrew Lincoln and Jon Bernthal Reunite In ‘The Walking Dead’ Behind-the-Scenes Image
The following story contains spoilers from Sunday's Walking Dead - proceed at your own peril! As he does so, Rick whispers his last words on the series, "I got them".
Macron hails New Caledonia vote to 'remain French'
From Paris, French President Emmanuel Macron was to speak about the territory's future and its choice in a televised address. New Caledonia, an archipelago east of Australia, has a nickel mining industry as well as sun-kissed lagoons.
Saudi Crown Prince 'may survive Khashoggi crisis' due to crackdown
The Saudi government has not offered an official explanation for Prince Khaled's arrest nor the conditions of his release. The crown prince's allies have said last year's crackdown was a fight against corruption and Prince Alwaleed agreed.
Bahrain opposition leader sentenced to life in Qatar spying case
The UK continues to encourage the Government of Bahrain to deliver on its global and domestic human rights commitments. Members of dissolved opposition parties, including al-Wefaq and the secular al-Waad group, are banned from running.
Hero's welcome for Australian nun kicked out of Philippines
She boarded a flight in Manila on Saturday night, marking the end of her 27 years as a Catholic missionary in the country. According to Sr Fox, she would not be able to return to the country until Rodrigo Duterte is no longer president.
Dana White doubts Khabib-Mayweather fight will happen
Egypt Kills 19 Militants Suspected in Christian Attack
No Russian money went through me, says Aaron Banks
Taylor resigns from Cricket Australia board as turmoil continues
MMA: Mayweather to fight in Japan on New Year's Eve
Rihanna to Trump: Please Do Stop My Music at Campaign Rally
Mark Hughes angered by Southampton's sorry start at Manchester City
Zimbabwe president says study points to oil in country
Pittsburgh Steelers can place transition tag on RB Le'Veon Bell
Watch Here: Ryan Reynolds Goes After Hugh Jackman in Mock Political Ad
Khachanov enters Paris Masters final
‘SNL’ Skewers Fox News’ Coverage of Migrant Caravan Heading to U.S.
Kenya’s Keitany wins NYC Marathon for 4th time in 5 years
Late Marcus Rashford goal gives Manchester United win at Bournemouth
SA make light work of Australia in first ODI
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The Angry Birds Movie by Sarah Stephens
Big Trouble on Bird Island
Someone damaged the statue of Mighty Eagle, Bird Island’s most beloved hero! Finch, a local reporter, is hot on the trail of the bird who did it. But when the facts don’t quite add up, can Finch still crack the case and break her first big story? Readers can follow Finch’s lead—collecting clues and exposing the culprit—in this 8x8 storybook with full-color illustrations.
The Angry Birds Movie, based on the international video game phenomenon, arrives in theaters spring 2016. With a star-studded cast that includes Jason Sudekis, Josh Gad, Maya Rudolph, and Peter Dinklage, this film will finally answer the question: why are the birds so angry?
About Sarah Stephens
Sarah Hines Stephens has authored more than 60 books for children, and written about all kinds of characters, from Jedi to princesses. Though she has some stellar red boots, she is still holding out for an invisible plane and thinks a Lasso of Truth could come in handy parenting her two wonder kids. When she is not writing, gardening, or saving the world by teaching about recycling, Sarah enjoys spending time with her heroic husband and super friends.
Published April 12, 2016 by HarperFestival. 24 pages
Genres: Humor & Entertainment, Nature & Wildlife, Children's Books.
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Jason Robert Brown
There has been such a sense of loss pervading 2016, so many icons of our culture gone, so much debased and distorted in our sense of ourselves as a nation, so much that is uncertain and uncontained in the world. I am choosing, in these last days of this exhausting and often unkind year, to focus on the fact that I have been able to make music with so many extraordinary people. Finding a shared space with other musicians is the thing that makes me feel like there is a way forward – a conversation, a collaboration. Thank you toRead More »
HAPPY MEMORIAL DAY, MR. FRANK
In honor of the 18th anniversary of Parade‘s opening night on Broadway (at Lincoln Center’s Vivian Beaumont Theater), here is a rarity: a private demo of the opening number, “The Old Red Hills of Home,” recorded in New York City a month after our first reading of the show (at the Plays & Players Theatre in Philadelphia) in 1996. You’ll hear some interesting things here – my improvisations for the opening montage and the transition between 1863 and 1913; a verse for the Old Soldier that was subsequently cut; our original drummer, Tom “Partucci” Partington; and, on backup vocals, theRead More »
FOUR YEARS LATER
The solution seems further away than ever right now, I know. But we must remember them. We must fight for them. I believe – I truly believe – that we will get there, that we will get to a place and a time and a solution where what happened to these beautiful women and children can never happen again. We have to. Click here to view or download the piano/vocal score of “Twenty-Six Names.”
RESIDENCY SET LIST 12/11: NORM LEWIS & KATIE THOMPSON
It’s a dream to play my music with these superlative musicians every month, but I have other dreams as well. I had a dream that Norm Lewis would do an Elvis Presley impression. I had a dream that Katie Thompson would sing my disco song into oblivion. I had a dream that I would get to spend two years making music and sharing so much joy and love with a wonderful audience at a fantastic theater. All those dreams came true, and there’s so much more to come in 2017. See you on January 9 for the next one. WhenRead More »
SETLIST: LIBRARY OF CONGRESS 12/9/16 W SHOSHANA BEAN
I arrived at the Library of Congress building at 11 am for a video interview (which will become part of the permanent collection), and Mark Eden Horowitz, the chief archivist in charge of the Musical Theatre collections, had laid out some treasures from the archives. Here was a sketch from West Side Story in Bernstein’s own hand, with some bizarre unused lyrics about a bullfight; here was Hammerstein’s drafts of “My Favorite Things,” showing the evolution of the song over several days of scribbles on a legal pad; here was a manuscript of Beethoven’s – Beethoven! – with crossouts, coffeeRead More »
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The indignity of being Muslim in India
Dec 14th, 2017 | Category: Articles
By Sahil Wajid
My first name was chosen by my mother because it was, as she put it, a “secular” name. Being a mildly religious woman, that really meant the name came as close as it could to a Hindu one, without sounding like a complete cop-out to some of her more orthodox Muslim relatives.
At any rate, it was better than the more spiritual name that my father, an atheist working at a bank, had in mind: Khusro, which, she said, would have been a pronunciation nightmare (besides being, as I later realised, egregiously Muslim-sounding).
While the turmoil of 1992 was still a few years away when I was born, my mother, unlike my father, seemed to have foreseen the times to come. However, as I was soon to find out, while first names can be chosen, there are no such secularising remedies for family names.
Delhi pejoratives
At my Delhi school one day, a seven-year-old in my class found out that my middle initial “A” stood for “Abdul.” He declared it was something to be ashamed about—rather viciously for his young age and in the unrelenting manner that children do when they pounce on an embarrassing secret. I realised at that early age that my Muslim surname was unlikely to ever be an asset and was best kept to oneself when it could be helped.
Subsequently, I introduced myself only by my first name. Once, when pressed, I lied about the “A” standing for “Agarwal,” before eventually dropping the inconvenient middle-name altogether. Of course, there were more such instances along the way to high school, from being bestowed with nicknames pertaining to the I introduced myself only by my first name. stereotypical Muslim occupations, such as Darzi (tailor) and Naai (barber), to the now all-too-common Pakistani.
I also became familiar, much to the horror of my scandalised parents, with the more unsavory pejoratives for Muslim men, thanks to some of the older boys in my Delhi locality.
In college, stereotypes dressed as harmless “jokes” were routinely flung in one’s face. With my Muslim name, they came in the form of gags centered on terrorism—about hijacking small vehicles, a supposed proclivity for explosions, and so on. My surname provided a sustained spark for creativity of this kind, and not wanting to be perceived as unsporting and risk isolation, I played along.
More dismayingly, India-Pakistan cricket matches soon became a tricky wicket, and my having been an ardent supporter of the Indian cricket team during my childhood suddenly counted for little. Watching the match on the television in the common room with everyone else came with the risk of humiliation at the hands of some of the boys who, if the Indian team won, delighted in mocking me as though I were a Pakistani supporter. But absence from the common room, if noticed, would be even more perilous since it would, regardless of which team won, lead to questions being raised about one’s true loyalty (as a Muslim).
Work was worship, literally
After college, I joined a public sector company as an engineer (after an interview which touched more on my Muslim identity than I would have cared for), and was posted to Kanpur. Until now, having lived a sheltered life, first in Delhi and then on a secluded college campus, all the communalism I had experienced (if it could, at all, be called that) had been mild and came my way in the form of obnoxious jokes and insinuations of dodgy patriotism. Kanpur changed all that.
It made me aware for the first time just how big a disadvantage a Muslim name carried with it in India— particularly in the Hindi belt. As I went about looking for apartments and met prospective landlords, a pattern emerged. I would make my usual first-name introduction (the import of which the owner would not grasp immediately), the terms would be verbally settled, but then, sometime later, I would get a call from them enquiring about my last name. Soon, there would be another call, inevitably making a polite excuse for why they could not rent out their place to me. Only a few were honest enough to tell me to my face that the name was the real problem, that the prospect of a Muslim resident was anathema to others living in the building and the neighbours (perhaps even the entire locality). One of them went so far as to let me know that, as a Brahmin, he was loath to having a tenant who consumed onion, let alone a meat-guzzling Muslim. It was by far the most humiliating experience of my life. After a month spent living at a colleague’s house, I eventually had to settle for a small hostel room.
Life at work was not devoid of regular reminders about my identity either. To begin with, casual communalism was commonplace. From jibes about how the law allowed me the luxury of keeping five wives to those about how easily I could get rid of them (“just one word repeated thrice!”), even the otherwise well-meaning colleagues failed to remotely consider the possibility that such jokes could be offensive. Another self-styled comic at the workplace would insist on loudly addressing me as bhai-jaan and would regularly ask me in the office canteen for all to hear if I had brought goat biriyani to lunch. My exasperated response on one occasion that I’d given up eating mammalian meat years ago did worse than falling on deaf ears. A militantly vegetarian, overtly religious senior colleague latched onto this defence, citing it as proof that not all Muslims were barbaric after all. “As some people make out to be the case,” he hastened to add. I immediately wished I had not said it.
The prospect of being a Muslim Uncle Tom ingratiating himself to bigots seemed far more uncomfortable than enduring vacuous biryani-taunts.
But a mere lack of sensitivity at the state-run firm was hardly my biggest concern. Some senior officers routinely espoused discriminatory views, and thought it fit to bring religion to the workplace. It was as if the whole notion of keeping the church separate from the state were an alien one. It was as if the whole notion of keeping the church separate from the state were an alien one. On one occasion, I myself was tasked by my manager with organising one such “auspicious ceremony” before we started excavation for the foundation of a structure. Apart from managing the logistics (from priest to the coconuts), I then had to actually sit through the whole ceremony and pose for photographs since my absence would, in my manager’s words, have sent the “wrong message.” People with Muslim names being so few and far between at my company and in the public sector in general, I felt like I was an ambassador of sorts—one who could ill-afford sending out “wrong messages” lest it allow others to tar the community as intractable and their prejudiced notions to become more entrenched.
The corporate headquarters weren’t much better. I once overheard an employee remark without inhibition that, technically, Muslims were invaders and could not be considered Indian. Technically.
Needless to say, I was glad to leave when the chance came.
I have, over the years, endured considerable discomfort and faced discrimination on account of my Muslim name—despite being wholly irreligious, despite having had a sheltered upbringing in a big city and access to education and employment, and despite having had many Hindu friends over the years who stood up for me.
Extrapolating from these personal experiences beyond my narrow prism of privilege, I can only imagine the horrors that the less fortunate Muslim men and women in the Hindi heartland would have had to endure. Especially, those who try to exercise their so-called freedom of religion and, unlike me, choose to assert their religious identity.
Sure, they are free to practice their religion and there are no legal obstacles (at least not yet), but for minorities in general and the beleaguered Muslims in particular, what this freedom essentially translates into is little more than the freedom to suffer marginalisation and humiliation.
And most of them do not even have “secular” first names to hide behind.
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“There were people dying everywhere getting massacred in every town and village, there were people being picked up and thrown into dark jails in unknown parts, there were dungeons in the city where hundreds of young men were kept in heavy chains and from where many never emerged alive, there were thousands who had disappeared leaving behind women with photographs and perennial waiting ,there were multitudes of dead bodies on the roads, in hospital beds, in fresh martyrs’ graveyards and scattered casually on the snow of mindless borders.” An Excerpt from the book “The Collaborator” describing Indian atrocities in the Indian occupied Kashmir, written by Mirza Waheed, a Kashmiri writer.
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Identity 4: Tips and Tricks
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The various forms of identity offered under the InternetWide Architecture can sometimes be used in clever ways, for example to construct identities with limited access or temporary validity. A number of possible tricks follow.
Earlier parts of this series covered lessons learnt to this series and presented various forms of identity usable under our bring your own identity policy. We now turn to a number of tricks that can be nicely positioned in this framework.
Collections of Roles
It may seem awkward that we decided to reveal a user's base identity as part of a role. The shared key material explains it technically, but still it may seem awkward to conceal john@example.com as john+singer@example.com.
Where this is considered problematic, it may help to create a group or pseudonym next to the primary identity, for instance artist@example.com and define roles such as artist+singer@example.com as totally independent of john@example.com.
When artist@example.com is a group that contains john@example.com, then he will be able to access communication to the group without separate login; if artist@example.com is created as a pseudonym, it will require separate login.
Regardless of the use of role, group or pseudonym, there will be separate access control for each new identity (although the role inherits white and black lists from its base identity, and expands on them).
Temporary Identities
A portion of the framework can be setup to permit only temporary identities. These identities can be useful to deal with remote services that need a one-shot treatment or those that insist on sampling an email address. Of course, for longer-used services, a role is better because it reserves an identity for a longer term.
A temporary identity can take various forms; a few could be
timed+1430049266@orvelte.nep
code+3bae0bcfacd8fc07f08f19f6b7efc29f@orvelte.nep
tmp+xxyyaa@orvelte.nep
The interpretation would be dependent on the part before the plus sign. For example,
timed+1430049266 may indicate an identity that times out at the given timestamp, which is a few days after publication of this blog article;
code+3bae0bcfacd8fc07f08f19f6b7efc29f might incur a check on the messages passed, for instance to see if an email quotes a particular Message-Id or related header.
tmp+xxyyaa@orvelte.nep could be a simple account setup under a temporary name xxyyaa and that will only pass traffic for as long as a client is listening. When the client logs off, the identity is retracted from service.
Generic Names
Many sites choose to setup local names such as info@ and sales@, so they can be reached by guessing customers. Given some attention to spam filtering and perhaps to staff removing false positives, this may make sense.
Such generic names can be setup as a group name and address any number of members, or they can be setup with a foreign identity to which theh traffic is relayed, in a bidirectional manner. The result of this is that traffic sent to these generic names are also replied from those generic names.
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Movie Review: ‘American Animals’ is an Arresting Heist Thriller
By: Lucas Mirabella | May 31, 2018, 11:45 a.m.
Filed in: Film > Movie Reviews
Photo Credits: The Orchard
Four college-aged friends from Lexington, Kentucky set out to pull off one of the most daring art heists in American history in “American Animals,” an utterly riveting crime thriller-documentary hybrid, starring Barry Keoghan (“The Killing of a Sacred Deer”), Evan Peters (“American Horror Story”), Blake Jenner and Jared Abrahamson.
Written and directed by Bart Layton, who previously toyed with the documentary format in his last film “The Imposter” about the infamous French serial imposter Frédéric Bourdin, this mesmerizing crime film both portrays the bold heist with nail-biting suspense while also offering cogent insight from the real-life participants. Featuring a nerve-racking score by Anne Nikitin that keeps audiences on edge, a rock-heavy soundtrack that effectively captures the exhilarating nature of their endeavor, and aptly moody imagery by Ole Bratt Birkeland (“The Crown”), this criminally good heist film is simply excellent on all fronts. Add to the mix a collection of compelling performances from the capable cast and you have the makings of an instant crime classic.
In 2003, while attending Transylvania University in Lexington, Kentucky, aspiring artist Spencer Reinhard (Barry Keoghan) becomes aware of a valuable art collection in his college’s library, featuring priceless Audobon prints and a plethora of rare books. After informing his friend Warren Lipka (Evan Peters), a bad influence with delusions of grandeur, about the art collection, these two suburbanites, raised on the false belief that their lives would be special, begin to view these valuable books as a means to achieve the extraordinary lives of their imaginations, and set out to steal them.
After some reconnaissance work and talking through logistics, Spencer and Warren realize they’ll need help, and decide to bring in their friends Eric Borsuk, a clearheaded accounting major, and Charles “Chas” Allen II, a fitness fanatic in need of money. But as the group prepares for their audacious heist, watching old caper films for inspiration and putting the final touches on their plot, some hiccups in their “perfect” plan bring unexpected results.
Putting his nonfiction background to great use, with “American Animals,” Layton has crafted a breathtaking heist film and a deeply insightful documentary all in one, exploring all aspects of the incident, from the morality involved to the murky specifics and clashing perspectives, with enviable thoroughness. In some cases staging scenes with the actors and the people they’re portraying in the very same frame, the film is full of intriguing stylistic choices that are as innovative as they are effective. Also impressive is the editing by Nick Fenton and Julian Hart, which seamlessly cuts between the two formats, with the one informing the other all the while.
Seldom do you have the opportunity to compare the actors with their real-life counterparts in the same movie, but such is the case with “American Animals,” and it’s pretty damn spot-on. Portraying the soft-spoken, artistically minded Spencer Reinhard, Irish actor Barry Keoghan is pitch perfect, underscoring his character’s sensitive and impressionable qualities that prompted his participation in the heist. It’s a polar opposite turn from his frightening work as the psychopathic teenager in “The Killing of a Sacred Deer” and a testament to the young actor’s range. As the group’s influential ringleader Warren Lipka, Evan Peters is equal turns charming and sinister, easily relating the character’s persuasive powers that turned this ill-fated conspiracy into a reality, as well as the moral deficiency that enabled him to go through with it. Playing Eric Borsuk, the alleged brains behind the operation, Jared Abrahamson is a believable bundle of nerves as the group’s scheme quickly implodes. Finally, as fitness fanatic Chas, Blake Jenner, who was all easygoing charm in the lead role of “Everybody Wants Some,” credibly channels his character’s rage as the legal implications of his crime become a harrowing reality.
“American Animals” blends the documentary and crime thriller genres to spellbinding perfection.
By Lucas Mirabella
Rated R for language throughout, some drug use and brief crude/sexual material.
https://www.americananimals.film
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Salomaa Prize
Prize in Automata Theory, Formal Languages and Related Topics
Call for Nomination
2019: Artur Jeż
2018: Jean-Éric Pin
Prize Committee
Arto Salomaa
European Association for Theoretical Computer Science:
http://eatcs.org/
Developments in Language Theory:
http://math.utu.fi/dlt/
The second international Salomaa Prize was given to Dr. Artur Jeż from Wrocław. The prize ceremonies took place in Warsaw, in the annual DLT (Developments in Language Theory) conference.
Artur Jeż received the Salomaa prize 2019 for his impressive series of single author papers at STACS 2012, ICALP 2012, STACS 2013, ICALP 2014, and ICALP 2017. In these papers he developed the recompression technique that changed the perspective on word equations drastically, led to various unexpected results and had significant impact in a wide spectrum of areas from unification to group theory.
The Prize winner was selected by Salomaa Prize committee consisting of Mikhail Volkov (chair), Juhani Karhumäki and Dominique Perrin. The award consists of a diploma and 2000 euros prize money. The award was funded by the University of Turku, Finland, the home university of Arto Salomaa.
The Salomaa Prize winner Artur Jeż (left) with award committee members Mikhail Volkov and Juhani Karhumäki.
Dr. Artur Jeż.
The award diploma.
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MSCS Geo Bee Competition
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MSCS Geo Bee Club!
Join our Geo Prep Team! Do you love to learn about new places? Do you have a great memory? Join us and practice your skills before the big competition!
Practice Dates: Wednesdays, Dec. 11th & 18th, Jan. 8th & 15th Time: 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM
Geography Bee Competition: Jan. 22nd, 12:00 PM (Project Room)
Location: Mat-Su Central School, Wasilla Campus, 600 E. Railroad Ave. #6
Questions? Contact Mr. Basargin at 352-7468 or email alexei.basargin@matsuk12.us.
Qualifications: For students in grades 4- 8. Students must not have reached their 15th birthday on or before September 1, 2019.
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More info on Wallace A. Jenkins
Halopedia
Wallace A. Jenkins: Misc
From Halopedia, the Halo Wiki
Wallace A. Jenkins
MA5B Assault Rifle
Prototype BR55
Helmet Recorder
Notable Facts
Was infected by the Flood and wasn't completely taken over.
One of the first Humans to fight the Covenant (noted that he fought them at Harvest.)
UNSC Marine Corps
UNSC Colonial Militia
Were you looking for L. Jenkins from the Halo Graphic Novel, or were you looking for Jenkins (Captain) from the Second Battle of Harvest?
"There are too many, Sarge!"
—Jenkins when his squad first encounter the Flood
Private First Class Wallace A. Jenkins was an infantryman in the UNSC Marine Corps. PFC Jenkins was stationed aboard the UNSC Pillar of Autumn during the Battle of Installation 04 in September 2552.
1 Early Life and Career
1.1 Battle of Harvest
2 The Battle of Reach
3 The Battle of Installation 04
3.1 The Flood
3.2 Survival and Death
Early Life and Career
Wallace Jenkins was born on the Outer Colony world of Harvest, to a farming family. In 2524, he joined the Colonial Militia of Harvest in an effort to make use of himself. His ambition was to join the UNSC Marine Corps as an officer. Though Staff Sergeant Johnson frequently criticized him, he proved to be an extremely quick thinker and a competent Marine. One notable event occurred when he and a fellow recruit, Forsell, were participating in a training exercise with all of the other recruits in the Colonial Militia. The two were able to quickly assess the situation and go around the mock attack staged by Johnson and Byrne. By doing so, they were almost able to win the exercise -- a recruit named Osmo beat them to it. The two proved that they were competent Marines who could think out-of-the-box; they earned the trust of Staff Sergeant Johnson, and developed a close relationship throughout the First Battle of Harvest.
Battle of Harvest
"Staff Sergeant...he's all I've got left."
—Jenkins, after the glassing of Harvest
Jenkins was a natural sharpshooter and was assigned one of the prototype Battle Rifles during the battle. Jenkins' entire family was killed when Gladsheim was attacked by the Covenant. He was deeply depressed after losing his family, and used his anger to fuel his hatred of the Covenant. The only person close to him to survive was his fellow sharpshooter and friend Forsell. Forsell had saved his life when he was blinded by rage, stopping him from trying to kill Tartarus. After escaping from Harvest, Staff Sergeant Johnson offered Jenkins, Forsell, and the remaining militiamen the chance to become real Marines in his unit.[1] It remains unknown what Jenkins did when he became a Marine, but by 2552, he was stationed on Reach Station Gamma.
The Battle of Reach
During the war, he presumably fought at the Siege of Paris IV. He was on board Reach Station Gamma during the Battle of Reach, still fighting alongside Sergeant Johnson. The other marines with him included Privates Bisenti and O'Brien. Their Friend-Or-Foe tags were detected by the Master Chief and SPARTAN-058. The group was fighting a pack of Jackal Rangers, and defeated them with the help of the Spartans. The Chief also helped them destroy the database of the Circumference and escape the station aboard a Pelican.[2] They then proceeded to board the Pillar of Autumn, and traveled to Installation 04.
The Battle of Installation 04
Upon arrival at the Halo, the Pillar of Autumn was attacked by the Covenant. Jenkins escaped the ship in the same lifeboat as Sergeant Johnson and his squad. After meeting up with the Master Chief and fighting off Covenant patrols, they took Pelican Echo 419 to Alpha Base.
The Flood infected Jenkins.
Later, Jenkins, along with the rest of Fire Team Charlie (excluding Chips Dubbo), was taken on Pelican Victor 933 to what they believed was a Covenant weapons cache. This weapons cache turned out to be one of Installation 04's Flood Containment Facilities. There, he, Captain Keyes, Sergeant Johnson, and Privates Bisenti, Mendoza, Kappus, and Riley encountered the Flood for the first time on Halo. During the resulting fight, Jenkins panicked, and an Infection Form latched onto him and took over his body.[3] The Master Chief would later watch the horrifying attack using the Recorder Chip from Jenkins' dropped Helmet Recorder.[4] The video ended suddenly, right as the Infection Form hit Jenkins, and infected him.
Jenkins and his entire squad, save for Johnson and Bisenti, were turned into Combat Forms. However, Jenkins' Infection Form was weakened from centuries of containment, and could not fully control him. The infection process occurred normally, but unlike most victims of the Flood, Jenkins remained alive and terrified while the Flood mutated and took control of his body. [5] He was able to control himself to a small degree whenever the Infection Form was in pain, but when it had total command, he could only watch "his" actions.
Survival and Death
The infected Jenkins followed a group of Flood to the surface, where they attacked a group of ODSTs led by First Lieutenant Melissa McKay. Without complete control over his body, Jenkins, who was desperate to end his own life, attempted to get killed while assaulting the Lieutenant. The attempt failed, and he was captured by the ODSTs. Major Antonio Silva tried to interrogate him.
While being interrogated, the Infection Form inside of Jenkins' body attempted to attack its interrogators by extending a tentacle through Jenkins' hand, snapping the bones and veins. As Jenkins described it, it was a "living hell". However, the parasite was knocked unconscious by the pain, giving Jenkins the chance to reveal the imminent threat of the Flood beneath the base.[6]. Lieutenant McKay correctly interpreted this and ordered a squad to exterminate them.
Jenkins was later taken to the Truth and Reconciliation while the Marines assaulted the ship. Jenkins knew that Silva planned to take the ship home to Earth. He also knew that there were more Flood present on the ship, and that they would inevitably escape and overwhelm the human population should Silva succeed in bringing the ship home. He thus overwhelmed the Infection Form inside him and tried to destroy the ship by destroying a fiber-optic pathway that linked the Control Room to the engines. He failed, but Lieutenant McKay, seeing the truth as well, destroyed the vessel for him by using a frag grenade. The explosion severed the pathway, cutting off control to the engines and causing the ship to crash into the surface of Halo, where it exploded. The destruction of the Truth and Reconciliation mercifully ended his suffering. [7] Before he died, he managed to mouth the words "Thank you" to the Lieutenant.
In nearly 30 years of service in the war (time in cryo unknown), Jenkins only made it up to the rank of PFC (assuming he was never demoted).
He was one of the first people to use the Prototype Battle Rifle, which entered service in 2524.
Jenkins is voiced by voice actor Chris Wicklund.
Jenkins is the only being known to be have been infected by an Infection Form that was weakened by the long hibernation the Flood form had undergone. He is consequently the only being known to have survived infection by the Flood, retained his consciousness, and been able to exert limited control over his infected body.
Jenkins was 18 in the year 2524, which meant that he was older than the Master Chief.
Though he was appointed a Sharpshooter in his platoon by Johnson in the events of Contact Harvest, he wielded an MA5B in Halo: Combat Evolved's Flood Containment Facility. This is most likely because the only weapons that survived the Battle of Reach were "standard Marine weapons". The Battle Rifle was still not the main weapon used by Marines, so it would have been stored in special lockers, which were all destroyed during the Fall of Reach.
He may have some connection with L. Jenkins.
An interesting fact is that throughout the game, he wears a Boonie hat, but in both the Halo Graphic Novel and the cutscene where his squad is attacked by the Flood, he is wearing the standard-issue helmet that other Marines wear.
For having such a small appearance in Halo: Combat Evolved, Jenkins has become a very popular character. This is most likely due to his appearances in Halo: The Flood and Halo: Contact Harvest.
Even though Jenkins wears the same helmet as Riley, in the cutscene of 343 Guilty Spark, he has a standard Marine helmet.
It is strange how he was the only Marine in Fire Team Charlie wearing armor and a helmet; the others were wearing bandannas, Boonie caps, Sergeant caps, or no headgear, and not even Johnson had armor.
Jenkins dislikes flip music, which is, much to his dismay, the favorite genre of his commanding officer.
There was a song named after Jenkins called "Lament for Pvt. Jenkins" .
↑ Halo: Contact Harvest Epilogue
↑ Halo: The Fall of Reach, Pages 326-327
↑ Halo: The Flood, Page 175
↑ Halo: The Flood, pages 275, 276
Known Colonial Militia Trainees
1st Platoon
Andersen • Dass • Fasoldt • Forsell • Jenkins • Osmo • Wick
2nd Platoon
Burdick • Critchley • Habel • Jepsen • Stisen • Vallen
Categories: UNSC | UNSC Marine Corps Personnel
This article uses material from the "Wallace A. Jenkins" article on the Halo wiki at Wikia and is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike License.
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Using the reactive dye method to covalently attach antibacterial compounds to cotton
The Journal of Cotton Science 11:154–158 (2007) http://journal.cotton.org, The Cotton Foundation 2007 TEXTILE TECHNOLOGY
Using the Reactive Dye Method to Covalently Attach
Antibacterial Compounds to Cotton
More recently, an awareness of general sanitation, contact disease transmission, and personal protection Fabric quality and durability are a concern
have led to the development of antibacterial fibers with fibers that contain natural antibacterial
to protect wearers against the spread of bacteria and properties or are treated to provide antibacterial
diseases rather than to protect the quality and durability properties. The textile industry has developed
of the textile material. Most of these approaches entail antibacterial fabric to address the public’s desire
the attachment of a biocidal or bacteriostatic agent for improved sanitation and personal protection
to the fabric surface. The mechanisms used to attach against disease transmission. The approach has
these agents to the fabric include the layer deposition been to attach biocidal or some bacteriostatic
of silver nanoparticles onto fabric structures (Dubas groups to the fabric surface. In this study, well
et al., 2006), graft polymerization of N-halamide described antibacterial drugs were attached to
monomers onto cellulosic substrates (Lui and Sun, cotton fabric with the goal that if this could be
2006), placement of quaternary ammonium salts onto accomplished easily, treated fabric could act
cot on fabrics using a covalently bound adduct (Son et as barriers against specific diseases or wound
al., 2006), covalent attachment of a chloromelamine infections. Trimethoprim and sulfamethoxazole
derivative (Sun et al., 2005), and the attachment of were modified to act as reactive dyes and were
chitosan to cotton fabric via cross-linking agents (El- covalently bonded to the surface of cotton in
talawy et al., 2005; Ye et al., 2006).
order to impart antibacterial properties. Some
The approach in this study was to modify two of the treated fabric was subjected to multiple
well described antibacterial drugs, previously or washings to determine durability. The treated
currently in use for treating diseases, for direct fabrics were then assayed for antibacterial prop-
attachment to cotton fabric. Assuming this can be erties. The preliminary results suggest that the
performed easily and cost effectively, the poten- antibacterial compound trimethoprim is tightly
tial exists to attach specific antibacterial drugs in bound to the cotton fabric and imparts to the
situations where treated fabric could act as a barrier fabric antibacterial properties, which are durable
against specific diseases or wound infections (Parikh through multiple washes. The results show that
et al., 2005). Such a situation would be advantageous, both trimethoprim and sulfamethoxazole impart
because the history and action of most antibacterial antibacterial properties to cotton fabric. These
drugs have been well researched and established, results indicate that other compounds may be
making its regulatory acceptance less of a burden. used to attach specific antibacterial compounds
Also, many more antibacterial compounds or drugs to fabric to create specific usage, designer, or tai-
have come on the scene in the last 50 years. Some lored fabrics to meet specialized needs.
of these antibacterial drugs have become so cheap and readily available that they are routinely added to Antibacterial finishing of textiles first appeared in animal feed as supplements to promote rapid weight 1941 in response to a need to protect the apparel of gain of the animal. Since these drugs are antibacterial, military personnel from hot and humid environmental by covalently attaching them to fabric the chance conditions in the South Pacific, which were ideal for of imparting desired antibacterial properties to the the growth of organisms on natural fiber substrates. fabric is expected to be high, which would provide the possibility of creating designer or tailored anti- microbial fabric or yarn for specific medical, as well general usage. The approach in this research also has D.T.W. Chun and G.R. Gamble, USDA-ARS Cotton Quality the potential for obtaining bacteriostatic fabric that Research Station, P.O. Box 792, Clemson, SC 29633 *Corresponding author: David.Chun@ars.usda.gov does not degrade upon washing, as occurs in some ChuN AND GAMbLE: uSiNG REACTivE DYES To ATTACh ANTibACTERiALS of the other described methods of attachment. in maintained at 5 °C during the drop-wise addition of addition, treating for bacteriostatic properties by a reactive dye mechanism will potentially prevent an Synthesis of 4- (2,4-dichloro-6-amino-s-triazino) alteration in the hand and moisture migration proper- -N-(5-methyl-3-isoxazolyl)benzenesulfonamide was ties of the treated fabric, which is one drawback of a accomplished by suspending 7.59 g (0.03 mole) sul- polymer graft mechanism of attachment.
famethoxazole (4-amino-N-(5-methyl-3-isoxazolyl) This study looked at the feasibility of utilizing benzenesulfonamide (Sigma Chemical Co.; St. Louis, two common antibacterial drugs and chemically Mo) in 20 ml deionized water in an ice bath at 5 converting them in order to obtain a reactive dye- °C. To this suspension, 5.52 g (0.03 mole) cyanuric type molecule, which could be applied to cotton chloride was added. The suspension was maintained fabric with the goal of imparting the antibacterial at 5 °C during the drop-wise addition of 30 ml 1 N properties of the antibiotic compounds to the fabric. Naoh (0.03 mole).
The two compounds used were trimethoprim and Bonding the reactive antibiotic to cotton fabric.
sulfamethoxazole, which both possess bacteriostatic An exhaust dyeing method was used to bind the reac- properties effective against a wide range of bacteria. tive antibiotic to the cotton fabric. The dye bath was The drugs are often used together as part of a syner- prepared by adding 0.5 ml of Triton-X-100 (octylphe- gistic combination for the treatment and prevention nol ethoxylates; Dow Chemical Co.; Midland, Mi), 75 of urinary tract infections, diarrhea, respiratory infec- g of sodium sulfate, and 6.5 g of the reactive antibiotic, tions, and prevention and treatment of infections by or 3.25 g of each of the two reactive antibiotics to Pneumocystis (beers and berkow, 1999). The drugs 1.2 L of deionized water. Three, 20-g squares of the interfere with folic acid synthesis in bacteria and cotton fabric were submerged in the dyebath heated eventually with bacterial DNA synthesis. These two to 60 °C. After 30 min of incubation, 12 g Naoh that compounds were reacted with cyanuric chloride, and had been dissolved in 100 ml of deionized water was the resultant product was then cross-linked to cotton added. The temperature was then raised to 80 °C, and fabric using an exhaust methodology. Treated fabrics the fabrics heated for another 30 min. The fabric was were then assayed for antibacterial properties.
then rinsed in deionized water and heated for 10 min at 80 °C in deionized water, then rinsed and kept in a MATERIALS AND METHODS
convection oven at 105 °C until dried.
Assay for antibacterial properties. The assay
Test fabric. The fabric from a commercial
used for measuring antibacterial properties was producer was supplied by Cotton inc. (Cary, NC). based on the ‘AATCC Test Method 100-1999, An- The fabric was a white, 100% cotton, tight-weave tibacterial Finishes on Textile Materials: Assessment denim-like fabric, weighing approximately 271.3 of” (Anonymous, 1999a), which has been described g/m², which had been commercially scoured and previously (Chun et al., 2006). Prior use of the assay bleached. The fabric was cut into large squares, ap- found that the population densities after incubation proximately 12.8 cm x 12.8 cm, before being treated. often remained the same or increased even in the After treatment, the large squares were ironed to controls, so the population densities of the zero remove wrinkles, cut into 18.1 cm2 squares, 4.25 time of incubation for the controls and treatments cm on a side, and sterilized in an autoclave using a were not determined. Test and control swatches dry cycle prior to the antibacterial assay.
were inoculated with challenge bacteria and after a Synthesis of a reactive trimethoprim and sul-
period of incubation, the bacteria were eluted from famethoxazole to covalently bond with the cotton
the swatches with known volumes of extraction so- fabric. Synthesis of 2,4-bis (2,4-dichloro-6-amino-
lution. Then the numbers of viable bacteria present s-triazino)-5-(3,4,5-trimethoxybenzyl)pyrimidine in the extraction solutions were determined and the was accomplished by suspending 5.80 g (0.02 mole) trimethoprim (2,4-diamino-5-3,4,5-trimethoxybenzyl Two bacterial species, Gram-positive Staphylo- pyrimidine) (Sigma Chemical Co.; St. Louis, Mo) coccus aureus (ATCC No. 6538), and Gram-negative in 20 ml deionized water in an ice bath at 5 °C. To Klebsiella (ATCC No. 4352) were used throughout this suspension, 7.36 g (0.04 mole) cyanuric chloride the experiment. Stock cultures were maintained on (2,4,6-trichloro-1,3,5-triazine) (Aldrich Chemical slants of Difco brain heart infusion Agar (Difco Co.; St. Louis, Mo) was added. The suspension was Laboratories; Detroit, Mi). The stock cultures were JouRNAL oF CoTToN SCiENCE, volume 11, issue 3, 2007 transferred once every 3 to 4 wk by incubating a and plates were incubated at 37 ± 2°C for at least 24 freshly inoculated slant at 37 ± 2 °C for 2 d before Experimental design and statistical analysis.
For each assay, the challenge bacteria were Four main fabric treatments were (A) a control fabric incubated in either a trypticase soy broth (TSb; that was not chemically altered; (b) fabric that had becton Dickinson and Co.; Cockeysville, MD) or on trimethoprim covalently bonded to it; (C) fabric that trypticase soy agar slants (TSA; becton Dickinson had sulfamethoxazole covalently bonded to it; and (D) and Co.) at 37 ± 2 °C for 1 to 3 d before being used fabric that had both trimethoprim and sulfamethox- to inoculate broth (TSb) cultures for testing. The azole covalently bonded to it. before assaying the 4 inoculated broth cultures were incubated in a shake treatments, a trial run using just the control and fabric incubator (37 ± 2 °C and 300 rpm) for 24 h. At the treated with trimethoprim was conducted to see if the end of incubation, the broth cultures were placed in antibiotic would covalently bond to the fabric, and if the attachment of the antibiotic would persist through To get a standardized density of bacteria for multiple washings. The fabric was washed by Cotton inoculation, the chilled cultures were diluted with inc. (Cary, NC), based on the AATCC Test Method TSB to a pre-determined turbidity that provided 124-1996 (Anonymous, 1999b) laundering procedure, approximately 2 x 109 CFU/ml or 2 x 108 CFU/ml. which used a normal/cot on sturdy cycle, 1.81 kg (4 lb) The turbidity was measured at 500 nm on a beckman load, warm water temperature, and AATCC detergent Du-7 Spectrophotometer (beckman instruments, without optical brightener. The treated and control inc.; irvine CA). Chilled TSb from the same batch samples were washed 3 and 10 times, respectively. For as the cultures were grown in was used to zero the the trial run, only results with Klebsiella pneumoniae instrument. Then the diluted broth cultures were serially diluted with chilled diluent without Tween- in the antibacterial assays, the bacterial in- 80 or gelatin (Chun and Perkins, 1996) for a final oculum was dispersed over 3 swatches per replicate approximate bacterial density of 1 to 2 x 105 CFU/ sample as droplets. Replicate tests were done and the ml. based on prior experience, 0.5 ml of the initial observations were combined and used for statistical broth culture was added early in the dilution series to analysis. A log10(CFu +1), where CFu = microbial compensate for the observed loss from the expected population as colony forming units, transformation population starting density to the actual starting was used for the analysis dealing with the microbial density used in the assays. The bacterial suspensions data. Data were analyzed with SAS (release 8.00; were kept in an ice bath. A magnetic stir bar and stir- SAS institute inc., Cary, NC) for Duncan mean ring plate was used to keep the bacteria suspended comparisons when the anlysis of variance analysis yielded significant F-values to indicate a high degree For each replicate sample, 1.0 ± 0.1 ml of inocu- of difference of the variable. Microsoft office Excel lum was dispersed as droplets over the 3 swatches us- 2003 (Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA) was ing a Rainin EDP-Plus Electronic Pipette (RAiNiN used to randomize treatment assignments, to enter instrument Co., inc.; Woburn, MA). The swatches and store data, to sort data and prepare for SAS anal- were inoculated in pre-sterilized 237 ml (half pint) ysis, to transform data, to summarize and tabulate canning jars. The band and lid of the canning jar were results, to obtain simple treatment statistics (means, screwed on the jar to prevent evaporation. After all standard deviations, regressions, t-test comparison, the samples were inoculated, the jars were incubated etc.), and to perform other spreadsheet functions.
at 37 ± 2 °C for 24 h before being assayed for bacte-rial population density.
The bacterial population density was determined by extracting the bacteria from the fabric by adding initial testing determined whether reactive 100 mL of diluent to each jar and shaking the jars antibiotics would covalently bond to the cotton on a tabletop shaker for 1 min. Then aliquots were fabric and impart antibiotic properties to the fabric. removed and plated directly into Petri dishes or A pilot test was done with trimethoprim using both further diluted before being plated. The pour plate the Staphylococcus aureus and Klebsiella pneumo- method was used to determine the bacterial density niae as challenge bacteria. With S. aureus, bacterial (Chun and Perkins, 1996). No antibiotics were used, populations of the control swatches averaged 6.291 ChuN AND GAMbLE: uSiNG REACTivE DYES To ATTACh ANTibACTERiALS [log10(CFu + 1)], and the swatches treated with S. aureus significantly after 24-hr incubation. Sul- trimethoprim averaged 5.101 [log10(CFu + 1)]. famethoxazole was less effective than trimethoprim With K. pneumoniae, the control swatches averaged alone or when both trimethoprim and sulfamethox- 7.743 [log10(CFu + 1)], and the swatches treated azole were attached to the fabric. but the fabric with trimethoprim averaged 4.333 [log10(CFu + treated with trimethopriman and trimethoprim and 1)]. The difference between the means of the control sulfamethoxazole were not significantly different. and the trimethoprim-treated swatches were highly Although fabric treated with sulfamethoxazole was significant using t-test analysis for S. aureus and K. bacteriostatic compared with the untreated control pneumoniae, P = 0.011 and P < 0.001, respectively. for K. pneumoniae, sulfamethoxazole was not sig- This indicated that the trimethoprim was bound to nificantly different than trimethoprim alone. The the cotton fabric, and the antibacterial activity of the total amount of trimethoprim and sulfamethoxazole in the 1:1 mixture treatment, however, was half the The large swatches of treated and untreated cot- amount used to evaluate the compounds individually. ton fabric were washed 3 and 10 times at Cotton inc. There is a possibility that the two compounds may to determine if the antibiotic binding to the fabric have had a synergistic effect to account for the low would be durable through normal washing. After bacterial density compared with trimethoprim alone washing, these large swatches were cut into smaller or the amount of the trimethoprim applied alone was swatches, sterilized, and then assayed for antibacte- in excess to what is needed to effectively lower the rial properties. Both S. aureus and K. pneumoniae bacterial density to this level. of course, this also were used, but only the results for K. pneumoniae suggests that the reactive trimethoprim may have will be reported. Populations of S. aureus between been preferentially attached to the cotton fabric and the unwashed control and the trimethoprim treated that even at half the dose could account for the lower swatches were 5.758 and 4.202 [log10(CFu + 1)], bacterial density when combined sulfamethoxazole. respectively, and were significantly different. The re- To resolve this, further research must be carried out sults from the washed portions of the assay, even after comparing different concentrations of the antibiot- being repeated, were unexplainable and anomalous. ics, both alone and together, in influencing bacterial The observations from two tests using K. pneumoniae densities, and the potential influence of competition were combined for analysis. The bacterial density for between dyes for the same hydroxyl groups on cot- the untreated fabric was 7.2, 6.8, and 6.7 log10 (CFu ton fabric. Since trimethoprim and sulfamethoxazole + 1) for the unwashed, washed 3 times, and washed were both easily prepared to act as reactive dyes and 10 times, respectively. These averages were not sig- that many, if not most, of other commonly known nificantly different from one another, which indicated antibiotic compounds have the same or similar that washing alone did not affect the bacterial density. reactive sites, many other antibiotics may be used The bacterial density of the treated fabric was 3.4, 3.3, in a similar manner, and future research should be and 3.6 log10 (CFu + 1) for the unwashed, washed 3 times, and washed 10 times, respectively. both un- Table 1. Bacterial density after 24-hr incubation on cotton
washed and washed treated fabrics had significantly fabric treated with trimethoprim, sulfamethoxazole, or
lower bacterial density than the untreated fabric, and both compounds
the averages were not significantly different among Density [log10(CFU + 1)]z
the three treated fabrics. These results indicate Treatment
Klebsiella
that the antibacterial property imparted by binding pneumoniae
trimethoprim to cotton was durable and retained at Treated with
in a second experiment, fabric was treated with trimethoprim
trimethoprim, sulfamethoxazole, and a 1:1 mixture Treated with
of trimethoprim and sulfamethoxazole each at half sulfamethoxazole
the strength. The observations from three separate Treated with
antibacterial assays were combined for analysis trimethoprim and
sulfamethoxazole
(Table 1). The results indicate that both trimethop- z Means within a column followed by the same letter are
rim and sulfamethoxazole individually or together not significantly different according to Duncan’s multiple
depressed the bacterial density of K. pneumonia and range test (P = 0.05)
JouRNAL oF CoTToN SCiENCE, volume 11, issue 3, 2007 expanded to include testing a wide spectrum of Chun, D.T.W., Foulk, J.A., and McAllister iii, D.D. 2006. antibiotic compounds. This creates an opportunity Modification, use of, and description of AATCC test to design or tailor antimicrobial fabric or yarn us method 100-1999 to test for antibacterial properties of denim made from flax fabric. p. 2050. In Proc. beltwide ing this reactive dye method to attach antibacterial compounds to cotton. For example, one area where Cotton Conf., San Antonio, TX. 3 – 6 Jan. 2006. Natl. Cotton Counc. Am., Memphis, TN. Available online this approach may prove to be of value would be to at http://www.cotton.org/beltwide/proceedings/2006/ attach scarce antibacterial drugs to dressings to act as barriers to specific drug resistant bacteria to help prevent or reduce infection and its spread.
Chun, D.T.W., and h.h. Perkins, Jr. 1996. Effects of conven- in summary, trimethoprim and sulfamethoxazole tional cotton storage on dust generation potential, bacte-rial survival and endotoxin content of lint and dust. Ann. could be prepared as reactive dyes that can covalently bind to cotton fabric. The treated cotton fabric dis- Dubas, S.T., P. Kumlangdudsana, and P. Potiyaraj. 2006. played antibacterial properties that persisted through Layer-by-layer deposition of antimicrobial silver 10 launderings. Antibiotic concentration should be nanoparticles on textile fibers. Colloids and Surfaces A: investigated to determine efficacious rates. The ease Physicochem. Eng. Aspects 289:105-109.
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A practical approach to clincal urine drug testing.
THE STATUS OF URINE DRUG TESTING:
A near ‘holy grail’ status in the eyes of the community has partially eclipsed the useful place of urine drug testing when performed appropriately in the therapeutic milieu. Like DNA testing, the perception of urine toxicology has sometimes moved ahead of its technology.
There is a widely held belief that toxicology results can convict or exonerate, create or dissolve a family union as well as cause a worker to be employed or to be sacked. Doctors who are familiar with toxicology testing may help avert crisis points by using a balanced approach tempered by the usual medical safeguards. It is a conundrum that tests may be ordered by court officials, police, employers and even schools, yet such people are not generally qualified to interpret results and can therefore be prone to serious errors.
The first urine tests to prove clinically useful were probably in Vincent Dole’s classic study on methadone treatment in 1964 [ref 1]. Along with numerous other seemingly obsessive measures, Dole performed daily, witnessed urine tests on his in-patient subjects, proving beyond any criticism that the treatment resulted in favourable drug use outcomes. Paradoxically, at the time opiates could not be detected but instead they tested for quinine, an almost ubiquitous contaminant of street heroin in New York at the time (because its bitterness balanced the sugar used for ‘cutting’ the illicit heroin).
WHEN SHOULD YOU ORDER A URINE DRUG TEST?
Whenever questions are raised about drug or alcohol use affecting a patient’s life, work or family a ‘spot urine’ test can be very useful. It can be done in the same way as a urine culture, and by the same lab under normal Medicare billing. The usual rules of informed consent should apply and patients should be reminded of the possible consequences, positive and negative in their own circumstances. If one is considering treatment or referral for a drug or alcohol issue a urine test is essential as a base-line. Like other blood tests or X rays, one sometimes orders them just because of some clinical doubt, again with consent. “I think that a urine drug screen might look good for the records … what do you think about that?” This question and any response can be a useful clinical exercise in itself. “What do you think a toxicology test would show right now?” “Well, actually Doc I was going to tell you …”.
Urine testing can be crucial in cases where child custody is involved. Likewise with driving, work safety or sports competition, a urine test or series of tests in the course of normal clinical practice can sometimes influence matters very significantly in the patient’s interests.
Patients who are taking quantities of opioid analgesics for chronic pain should have urine screening performed occasionally [ref 2]. This is a safeguard for both patient and doctor and is described as a part of ‘universal precautions’.
WHAT DRUGS CAN BE TESTED FOR? ARE THE TESTS VALID?
Attempts to make urine testing forensically rigorous include: (1) ID checking and witnessing the sample being produced; (2) ‘chain of custody’ procedures for transporting the sample to the laboratory; (3) parallel second sample for checking (either to the patient or a third party); (4) tests for adulteration. These procedures are only needed for ‘life and death’ or ‘safety critical’ situations. Doctors are familiar with such procedures in the case of blood transfusion cross-matching, for example, where mistakes could be life threatening. So for child custody cases, drug court convictions or employment dismissals such rigour is also required. However, as an aid to clinical medicine it is perfectly satisfactory to perform a ‘spot’ urine test at the surgery or clinic. A degree of supervision and a degree of ‘randomness’ can make the results more ‘dependable’ but neither is necessary on every occasion. Tests for adulteration are now routinely performed including creatinine levels to detect dilution. Low measured levels of a drug may become undetectable on a more dilute specimen. Some vitamins or other chemicals such as soap have been tried to inhibit certain assays.
Laboratory procedures vary widely and one should be familiar with what is offered locally. Most labs have a standard battery of immunoassays for common drugs of abuse such as opiates, cocaine, benzodiazepines and stimulants. Where necessary a confirmation may be performed, generally by ‘GCMS’ (gas chromatography mass spectrometry). In our service we have stopped testing for cannabis except in specific cases of cannabis dependency.
REDUCING FALSE POSITIVES TO AVOID ADVERSE CONSEQUENCES … WITHOUT INCREASING FALSE NEGATIVES.
The common qualitative immunoassay for opiates is highly sensitive but not very specific. Hence we usually expect a confirmation for positives using more specific assays for codeine and morphine at least. Morphine can and is metabolised from codeine and yet it may also come from common analgesic combinations and even poppy seeds. Recent use of quantitative measures can help distinguish over-the-counter codeine from heroin/morphine. However, there are traps for the unwary since codeine ‘recovery’ from the usual glucuronide metabolite is highly variable. In addition, people may have taken codeine as well as morphine or heroin (di-acetyl morphine), complicating matters still further. Specific stimulants can usually be detected using modern testing, including amphetamine, metamphetamine (also known as methamphetamine) and MDMA (ecstasy).
By far the most useful result is a negative one. This indicates that the patient was highly unlikely to have used any drugs of abuse in the previous 4 to 6 days. This almost excludes drug dependence but does not exclude casual or binge drug use.
WHO ELSE ORDERS SUCH TESTS? POLICE, SCHOOLS, EMPLOYERS AND SPORTS BODIES. INTERPRETING THE RESULTS.
Some may find it surprising that people with no medical training are able to order pathology tests. The matter was raised again recently when an American college introduced mandatory urine testing for all students [ref 3]. While the request may be simple, the interpretation is rarely a simple matter, as shown by media exposés of anomalies, mistakes and sometimes even fraud. Furthermore, it remains to be proven whether there are more benefits or harms resulting in such groups. Should the medical profession become involved? Nobody is better qualified yet many of us may still feel uneasy about such interpretations. Yet interpretation is just a matter of fundamental pharmacology and chemical toxicology so that we should not need to second-guess the outcomes. Where there is any doubt, guilt should not be assumed. Yet in some situations the onus is put onto citizens to ‘prove’ that they are drug-free (as if a single test could prove that). As with the hangman of old, it should never be a doctor’s role to ‘convict’ a patient: if we cannot speak in their defence we should be silent in my view.
As with other pathology ‘group tests’ each lab will do a certain number of agreed tests with or without confirmation. There will be ‘cut-off’ levels quoted for each drug tested with a positive or negative result given. These may change over time and it is important to keep up to date with testing procedures to avoid errors, especially when comparing results from different labs.
SPECIAL CASES - POPPY SEEDS, ANTI-TUSSIVES, OTC ANALGESICS.
A common scenario is a positive test for opiates and amphetamine-type stimulants in a person who claims to have taken no such drugs at all. On closer questioning over-the-counter cold and ‘flu medicines or even poppy seeds can and do cause positive tests. While selective confirmatory testing can sometimes distinguish these, doubts may remain about the origin of, say, morphine. Such doubts must never be allowed to disadvantage a worker, driver, parent or (especially) a school child.
The science of driver testing for alcohol has taken 20 years to get to its present state so it is not surprising that there are still anomalies and ignorance regarding testing for other drugs. In contrast to the close direct relation between alcohol levels and clinical intoxication, cannabis and diazepam, for example, are detectable many days after exposure and levels may bear little relation to ‘sobriety’. Hence a positive test for these drugs is of little relevance to driving or work performance and may just be a needless invasion of the person’s privacy.
Other special cases might be pethidine, buprenorphine and growth hormone. These are difficult to detect using normal techniques although they are of limited relevance in the normal clinical setting. Research for pharmaceutical compliance/adherence often depends upon urine testing although saliva and hair can also be used, the latter with its own ‘time capsule’ drug history.
SUMMARY OF URING DRUG TESTING.
We must not lose sight of the fact that this is just another pathology test, subject to all the same familiar faults, flaws and limitations. Thus if used selectively with appropriate interpretation, such testing can have a valuable place but should never be seen as a panacea.
Written by Andrew Byrne, Redfern GP specialising in dependency medicine.
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This article on urine testing in clinical practice was commissioned by Australian Prescriber (NPS) but rejected by their editorial team for unspecified reasons. The present article has some minor changes since the original submission.
Written by Andrew Byrne, General Practitioner and Dependency Specialist.
A colleague in England has suggested that we should broach the area of hair testing as well so I am grateful to Dr Colin Brewer for the following observations:
It may be useful to consider the testing of other body fluids (eg. saliva) and also hair.
For people on amphetamine maintenance, it is possible to tell by analysis of the isomers on hair testing whether the patient is also using street amphetamine.
‘Doctor addicts’ are sometimes very cunning about using alternative or ‘custom’ opiates that don't show up in conventional screening, including pethidine, buprenorphine and fentanyl.
Hair testing has two big advantages. It can reveal occasional use, eg at weekends between regular testing or when patients have to be away for a while such as overseas workers, military folk or airline staff. Also, and uniquely, if there is doubt about a sample, the test can usually be retrospectively repeated on a second sample unless the subject has had a recent and very short haircut. Conversely, for a patient who normally has visible hair suddenly to become a skinhead when hair testing is mentioned is deeply suspicious, especially if they shave their armpits and private regions as well (although the eyelashes usually remain in such cases).
Due to the time frame involved, a mooted hair test can be helpful in the scenario of: 'well, actually doctor, I was going to tell you...'. Furthermore, the increased likelihood of detection can also act as a deterrent to illicit or irregular use when hair testing is being used at some frequency.
For alcohol, hair can now be used to detect occasional use by measuring ethyl glucuronide and similar compounds. This, too, has a strong deterrent effect against occasional use - as with other drugs - thus making such testing therapeutic as well as diagnostic.
In practical terms only one Australian centre can do this test commercially at present (in Adelaide) and it costs about $600 per test, regardless of the length of hair (1-3cm = 1-3 months approx). There is no Medicare rebate for this test so it is usually only useful for proving abstinence where important family court, road traffic or employment matters may hinge on such evidence.
[latter on hair testing written by regular BMJ columnist and London psychiatric consultant Dr Colin Brewer]
New York Grand Rounds: ADHD and dependency; acupunture in addiction syndromes; ketamine in severe depression.
Wednesday, 2 May 2012 10.30am Grand Rounds.
I was privileged to hear three registrars at Bellevue Hospital in Manhattan discuss literature reviews on three interesting topics.
Dr Erin Zerbo spoke on ‘ADHD and Co-Morbid Substance Abuse’
Dr Crystal Tholany dealt with ‘Acupuncture in dependency practice’
Dr Joseph Kwon addressed ‘Ketamine for Treatment of Depression’
1. ADHD & Co: Dr Zerbo.
We learned that ADHD was extremely prevalent, affecting 6-9% of children with ½ to 2/3 of cases persisting into adulthood, making ~4.4% of US adult population (~8 million victims).
Since 10-30% of adults have substance use disorder (SUD) there is a very large overlap of these groups. This was shown starkly in The National Comorbidity Survey Replication (n=3000) where prevalence of ADHD in those with a SUD was 11% while in those without SUD it was only 4%. The same survey showed that SUD was present in 15% of those respondents with ADHD but only 5.5% of those not having the ADHD. Four other studies (each 100-300 subjects) showed a high prevalence (10-24%) of DSM diagnosed ADHD in those with alcohol, cocaine and opioid dependency.
This information puts ADHD clearly in the scope of dependency health workers although on the other hand almost 90% of ADHD subjects have no substance use disorder (SUD) at all. It was emphasised by Dr Zerbo that as well as having a more severe and more prolonged course, ADHD subjects with addiction are also less likely to fit in with existing treatments despite such treatments being known to be just as effective in this population group.
I was interested to learn that those with ADHD are likely to use the same spectrum of drugs as others with drug use disorders and no ADHD. However, the drug use is often from a younger age and is more severe with more co-morbid psychiatric and behavioural disturbances.
The criteria for diagnosis of ADHD included six symptoms of inattention, hyperactivity or impulsivity for more than 6 months, dating from before 7 years of age, in two or more settings involving clear impairment and in the absence of other psychiatric reasons for the symptoms. In adults one would expect: low frustration tolerance, chronic conflicts with peers and authorities, stubbornness and impulsivity (which are major obstacles for treatment).
To make the diagnosis in adults one would ideally (but not necessarily) have the substance use disorder stabilised for at least one month before making the diagnosis. Differential diagnoses include thyroid disease, sleep disorders, bipolar disorder, generalised anxiety, chronic drug or withdrawal related syndromes.
Treatment using stimulants, antidepressants, noradrenergic agents, etc can be very effective for ADHD symptoms but rarely does anything for the SUD directly. Hence opiate maintenance or other pharmacotherapy for SUD should be used just as insulin might be used if the patient were diabetic. Dr Zerbo has made the point that appropriate and early treatment of the ADHD will ensure lower drop-out rates from treatment, including opiate maintenance where this is necessary.
A case history given raises issues of polypharmacy as a complex in-patient from the Bellevue Hospital ward was discharged after stabilisation with the following medications: methadone 120mg daily, dextroamphetamine 60mg daily (slow release), gabapentin 300mg tds, hydroxyzine 25mg nocte (sedating antihistamine) and valproic acid 500mg bd. I was told by staff that such cases are not uncommon but reminded that Bellevue tends to attract some of the more difficult cases, being a tertiary referral centre.
A colleague from California tells me that it can be a regulatory nightmare getting permission to prescribe opiate maintenance along with stimulants even though there is obviously a group of patients who need both drugs. He said that only in the Veterans Administration setting was it possible to give comprehensive care in his experience.
Conclusions given by Dr Zerbo:
1. Patients with ADHD are at higher risk for SUD, and have a more severe and prolonged course if they develop SUD.
2. ADHD symptoms can be a significant barrier to effective SUD treatment.
3. Pharmacological treatments for ADHD are effective in patients with SUD; they have not been found to be addictive or to worsen the SUD (even while active).
4. ADHD is often under-prioritized, which can lead to greater morbidity for these patients and a longer time to remission.
My own conclusion is that we must be under-treating some of our dependency patients unless we have a proportion (at least 5% probably) taking prescribed stimulants. If we are not comfortable with that then we are not comfortable with evidence based medicine. I am not proud to say that we only have had three or four such cases in our practice in Sydney over the past decade. The regulatory hurdles are immense.
For more information on this subject: http://dependencyseminars.blogspot.com.au/2008/07/adult-adhd-substance-use-disorders-dr.php4
2. Dr Crystal Tholany spoke next about acupuncture in the treatment of dependency and withdrawal syndromes.
We were given a description of acupuncture and some proposed mechanisms for its apparent effectiveness in various medical settings. We were given the historical context for following thousands of years’ of use in China, its introduction into American medicine and especially in the treatment addiction and withdrawals and the several studies that have been published. There were connections through Japan, Hong Kong and the Bronx. All eyes were on whether it was better than placebo. Many modern settings use electronic as well or instead of mechanical stimulation to the fine needles inserted into the body.
It was found that acupuncture could lessen withdrawal symptoms dramatically. However, this was not evidence based and the effect wore off quickly once the acupuncture was ceased.
Trials show no change in symptoms after treatment stops but some changes remained in PET scans and pathology with several proposed mechanisms.
We were also told about ‘HANS Acupoint’ nerve stimulation which has some followers using sticky patches rather than needles at specific anatomical points found on charts. Studies showed much lower doses of methadone or buprenorphine were required to abolish withdrawal symptoms (published in Chinese Journals of addiction and pain): 1mg versus 13mg bup and 50mg methadone vs. 200mg ‘total of doses requested’ over a 14 day period.
There are also some unconvincing but interesting animal studies. In some intriguing para-placebo studies groups were randomised to receive either “sham” acupuncture of the real thing. This was the closest one might get to a RCT, showing that in addiction cases no differences were shown for symptoms yet some changes were noted on MRI scan findings. In fibromyalgia cases, however, there were some significant improvements in those receiving the true acupuncture under the blindfold.
So, like AA, therapeutic communities, ten-day detoxification and numerous other respected interventions, acupuncture remains a folk treatment and non-evidence based to date. After centuries of use it should not be dismissed but likewise it should not be recommended in place of known effective treatments regarding serious outcome measures including morbidity and mortality. Because this treatment has only been used quite recently in addiction it warrants further investigation, according to Dr Tholany. Naturally it must never be advised in preference to proven treatments like opiate maintenance but in those refusing such treatments and consenting to non-evidence based approaches it may a valid alternative.
3. Dr Joseph Kwon spoke about ketamine for treatment of depression.
Dr Kwon was the third of three senior registrars at Bellevue to deliver a brief paper at their Grand Rounds to which I was invited. Dr Kwon had performed a literature search and presented some history, pharmacology and made the case for this option to be investigated further and possibly used now under close supervision for treatment resistant cases of suicidal depression.
The reason this subject was broached was the recent focus on suicide prevention and the delayed onset of most current forms of treatment for depression. There was also a group of treatment resistant individuals who failed to respond to either antidepressants or ECT. These included both endogenous depression and those with histories of bipolar disorder.
Ketamine was discovered as a shorter acting form of phencyclidine in 1962, having dissociative anaesthetic properties as well as uses in local anaesthetics and analgesia. It was found to have sympathomimetic effects, causing a trance like state at high doses and had a low incidence of respiratory depression. The half life was 2 hours.
The drug’s effect is largely on inhibiting the glutamate system and a Wikipedia page indicates that it shares this property with nitrous oxide, alcohol, methadone, propoxyphene, tramadol, PCP, ibogaine and numerous other substances.
There are groups interested in this subject at Mt Sinai Hospital in New York as well as Bethesda Maryland and in the Netherlands (there was also a paper from New Zealand I noted). Numerous publications of small trials were cited to justify further work and even to use this treatment off-label in certain severe cases at the present time. There has been at least one RCT in an add-on trial with other observational studies being reported, largely very positive in their outcomes with low rates of side effects.
We were told by Dr Kwon that research had shown depression to be associated with increased glutamate in the occipital cortex and reduced levels in the anterior cingulate gyrus. Animal experiments with stressed mice showed better coping with shock when pre-treated with ketamine as also seen with other antidepressants (at least that was the inference).
We were informed that ketamine is fifth on a relatively long WHO list of ‘essential drugs’ for medical purposes.
A small number of invivo human trials were cited: infusions in emergency room situation were very effective apparently as promptly reversing many signs and symptoms of depression on validated scales. In cases of suicidality this type of intervention could clearly be life saving if used appropriately.
Small doses of ketamine (1mg/kg) were shown to improve postoperative depression (and also pain in depressed patients). Another three trials were mentioned involving single or repeated infusions, one with placebo control. No patient developed psychotic symptoms (schizophrenic patients were excluded).
Like morphine and other prescription drugs, it is also used as a mind altering drug recreationally. Taken at rave parties, for example, it seems to cause more dissociative symptoms than the much more popular MDMA. I was informed that it has become one of the most popular recreational drugs in Hong Kong in recent years.
I understand that some Australian centres use ketamine for acute analgesia in patients who are taking buprenorphine (presumably due to resistance to morphine from the antagonist properties of the maintenance drug). According to a colleague in London it could also be useful in those taking naltrexone. I note that ketamine is available in Australia as a parenteral anaesthetic/analgesic under the trade name Ketalar, available in vials for injection of 200mg per 2ml liquid. Product information states that doses must be titrated individually but that 150mg injected intravenously can cause ten minutes of surgical anaesthesia.
It is the writer’s view that ketamine could do with a ‘White Knight’ like Reckitt Benckiser which developed buprenorphine as a treatment for opioid dependence. As an old drug, ketamine is of little interest to drug companies in its present state. However, with some manipulation and focussed research a new patented version could be part of the way to both profits and improved treatment options. With the benefits promised by Dr Kwon’s presentation I would buy stocks in any company working in this direction.
As well as Dr Marc Galanter, head of department, and addiction psychiatrist Dr Phoebus Dhrymes, veteran dependency advocate Charles Winick was in the small audience at Bellevue for this morning session. As it happened, Winick gave a talk I attended at Columbia University the following week outlining some parallel issues with fundamental research on rehabilitation which, like acupuncture and AA, is not easily amenable to controlled trials although some have been attempted with positive outcomes. Yet another coincidence was that we were both due for appointments at the Drug Policy Alliance later that day - let’s share a cab! “Only in New York!” There were more stories on request of security in New York hospitals and other institutions these days … food in New York … ‘coffee’ in New York … and more.
A month in New York: http://andrewbyrneinnewyork.blogspot.com/
New York in 1922 from grandfather: http://bpresent.com/harry/code/09n_new-york.php
Lord Howe Island story: http://www.redfernclinic.com/c/2007/10/lord-howe-island-naturalists_4153.php4
Our butterfly collection: http://schraderbutterflies.blogspot.com/
Shylock and anti-Semitism: http://cantorialcrossoverculture.blogspot.com/2011/04/shylock-shakespeare-and-jews-anti.html
RPAH Grand Rounds were indeed GRAND!
Grand Rounds at Prince Alfred circa 1975. An institution within an institution.
Recently I chanced to meet two senior medical colleagues who had participated in the Grand Rounds at Royal Prince Alfred Hospital for the years that I was a student and resident there in the late 70s. These were Friday afternoon sessions in which two cases were presented plus one or two follow-up cases from the senior registrars involved. The two regular attenders were Dr John Hallinan, chief radiologist and Dr John Emder, a senior local GP and probably one of the last GPs ever to be allowed in the doors of the hospital in the great age of the specialist.
Medical Grand Rounds was a long standing venerable tradition at the hospital according to my father who had been a resident there around 1950. The Scot Skirving lecture theatre was a windowless Victorian conclave between A2 medical ward and the small veranda ward used for peritoneal dialysis. There was an element of anticipation each Friday afternoon as hurried last minute pathology results or research papers were incorporated into the presentations, some of which were so notable (or notorious) that some of the audience already met the patient(s) involved in our own ‘rounds’.
Some of the more exotic diagnoses included myasthenia gravis, osteogenesis imperfecta (the only time in my experience that an actual patient was wheeled into the hall), lacunar stroke, dissecting aneurysm, carotid sinus syndrome, hairy cell leukaemia, cerebral lymphoma, mononeuritis multiplex, small bowel leiomyosarcoma, splanchnic claudication, ‘HHH syndrome’ (later called AIDS), methicillin resistant staphylococcus infection, cardiac tamponade, mixed connective tissue disease, idiopathic thrombocytopaenic purpura, systemic lupus erythematosus and narcolepsy/cataplexy.
Dramatis personae: The main characters of this high academic drama included the following: Prof Ruthven Bickerton Blackburn (lord high physician and usual chair person), Prof Tony Basten (immunology), Prof Martin Tattersall (oncology: “I do not treat the relatives”), Prof Anne Woolcock (respiratory medicine … and in real life, wife to Prof Blackburn), John Greenaway (possibly the last physician in Macquarie Street), David Tiller (who could derive a social profile from a biochemical one), John Hassall (rheumatology).
Less often, and sometimes on special occasions, there would be guest appearances from Prof Jim McLeod (neurology and dean of faculty), Harry Kronenberg (haematology), John Allsop (neuro), John Turtle (endocrine), Richard Benn (bacto), Geoff Duggin (renal), Warwick Selby (gastro), John York (rheumatology), Dick Richards (cardio), Lou Bernstein (cardio staff), Rodney Shearman (gynae), John Sands (of the games fame), Frank Harding Burns (notionally drug and alcohol and an advocate for God and moderation), Geoff McDonald (another of the few Catholics), and perhaps a dozen others.
The senior registrars at the time were amongst the most gifted young doctors in the country, including Michael Field, Michael Halmagi, Roger Tuck, Ian Caterson, Bill Bye, Stephen Lee, Sheryl Van Nunen, Geraldine Room, Paul Russell, Ben Friedman and many others.
Classic statements:
“Myaesthenia gravis is called gravis because it IS ‘gravis’”.
“Sjogren’s syndrome does not require the existence of a rash”. Response from up-start registrar: “When I worked with Dr Sjogren in Stockholm he used to say otherwise”.
‘The only five medical causes of abdominal patient are myocardial infarction, diabetes, familial Mediterranean fever, porphyria and tabes dorsalis.’
After a long and tedious discussion about a patient with auto-immune cold agglutinins, cryoprecipitins and acute renal failure Dr Jonathan Leicester, who was not associated with the case, commented in his slow, measured way: “I wonder if the patient just had a chill on the kidney?” (huge laughter from the audience).
Dr John Greenaway (leaning over the wooden railing, frowning sternly): “Mr Chairman, I would take to task the treating team over all these investigations!”
Mr Bruce Leckie (thoracic surgeon invited concerning a chest lump, possibly parathyroid): “Look, Mr Chairman I have been sitting here for 30 minutes listening to all these differential diagnoses, fancy test results, nuclear scans and other learned speculation. In that time, I could have made a small incision in the patient’s side, exposed the lesion and in all probability, cured it. I’m afraid I have to go back to work!”
I have always enjoyed being a fly on the wall but after three years of passive attendance I was finally asked to present a case when working for the neurology team in C1 ward under HMOs McLeod and Allsop. It may have been posterior inferior cerebellar artery (PICA) syndrome and I did not do the case justice.
I had the misfortune to speak French better than John Allsop which put me on the back foot as he looked after the private patients from Noumea who would be brought from the airport by ambulance once weekly for triage. They would have all manner of interesting diseases, mostly strokes, but also myopathies, epilepsy, neuritis, tumours and other differential exotica. John’s speciality was demonstrating gait disturbances, sure to trigger the funny-bone of each new cohort of students as he looked like Quasimodo lurching large.
In attending RPAH Medical Grand Rounds I was immensely privileged to be witness to this magnificent piece of medical history the likes of which have probably not been seen before or since in this country. Who in their right mind would expect a high-powered group of people to muster at 5pm on a Friday these days unless it was for a keg of beer and a music box? In fact the latter occurred slight later on a Friday at the Gross Farm Hotel nearby in Missenden Road.
Written by Andrew Byrne MB BS FAChAM (RACP)
Dependency Physician
75 Redfern St
Redfern 2016
[with thanks to John Byrne, Richard Benn, Martin Tattersall, John Hallinan, John Hassall and John Emder.]
This item was 'politely declined' by MJA as being too Sydney-centric for their Christmas edition. Such is life!
Rare non-fatal cardiac risk should not discourage the use of adequate supervised methadone doses which save lives.
Increased incidence of QT interval prolongation in a population receiving lower doses of methadone maintenance therapy. Roy A, McCarthy C, Kiernan G, McGorrian C, Keenan E, Mahon N, Sweeney B. Addiction 2012 107;6:1132-9
These Irish researchers examine QT intervals in relation to methadone dose, cocaine, opiates and benzodiazepine use in 180 stable maintenance patients (total clinic population 376). They find that 9-11% have ‘drug induced’ QT prolongation despite finding no relation to daily methadone dose (which was a healthy mean of 80mg, SD 27mg) and no control group. Nor was there any relation between QT interval and the presence of cocaine in toxicology tests.
The article’s title makes an implication about the relevance of high versus low dose methadone in relation to QT prolongation. Yet the very first report of nine dependency cases had six taking less than 130mg daily and four taking less than 100mg (ref 1 - but see below why this cannot be gleaned from the paper directly).
QT prolongation has been reported in a high proportion of potential methadone recipients, but who were not actually taking methadone at the time. In hospice patients being considered for methadone treatment Reddy found QT prolongation in 28%. Lipski and her colleagues in 1973 reported 19% of street heroin users had QT prolongation before starting methadone treatment.
It is clear that a population of patients taking a variety of medications and with certain underlying illnesses such as HIV and hepatitis C are at risk of having QT prolongation, quite apart from any methadone treatment. Alcohol is also believed to be a risk factor [ref 4]. With a lack of any reported cases of this arrhythmia in 37 years, one might reasonably infer that this issue was not a major clinical problem in methadone prescribed patients.
Yet in the past decade there have been just over 100 reported cases of torsade in methadone patients. So, as our patients have survived their addiction, viral infections (and especially treatment for those infections), a small proportion have reached an age at which they have become susceptible to a rare clinical entity which most large centres have now seen at least once. Torsade de pointes was so rare amongst methadone recipients in 2002 that it was thought to be a new entity [see ref 13 for an earlier report]. Yet torsade de pointes was delineated and re-branded in the 1960s by a French group (no relation to methadone which was not used in that country at the time) [ref 11]. In 1985 another French group also provided a systematic approach to torsade treatment such that for eight years they had a mortality of zero [ref 12].
One may ask why we do not see more torsade de pointes since QT prolongation has a high prevalence in out treatment population. In a RCT Wedam [ref 8] found ~10% of new methadone recipients in Baltimore had QTc > 500mg (but no torsade cases), yet contrary-wise nearly all of the reports of torsade are in longer-term patients [ref 5 and pers comm].
So QT prolongation, even at the level of greater than 500ms in this population of methadone recipients does not appear to confer a measurable risk of torsade de pointes tachycardia (and numerous torsade cases had normal ECG away from the arrhythmia episode).
While torsade is symptomatically a distressing and unpleasant condition, it is rarely if ever fatal and is “controllable 100% of the time” with modern treatment, according to US cardiologist Phibbs [ref 6].
Suggestions from some quarters that there may be large numbers of unrecognised deaths due to torsade are not credible for two reasons: (1) deaths of patients on methadone programs are reportedly very rare and (2) such deaths are usually rigorously investigated by coroners and positive findings are the rule with only very occasional ‘unknown causes’ which might include a fatal arrhythmia [Anchesen; Perrin-Terrin, refs 9 and 10].
It is regrettable that in his seminal article on the subject Krantz did not delineate pain from addiction subjects [1]. This appears to have caused a decade of confusion about the supposed effect of extremely high doses of methadone (see Annals Editorial comments relating to “very-high-dose methadone”). When the cases were separated for the reader in a follow-up paper [7], it became clear that torsade may occur in those taking average doses as well as with the supra-therapeutic doses cited by Krantz’s group (up to 1000mg daily in the pain cases). Yet only two of nine addiction cases were taking such doses when developing torsade de pointes. Six of the nine were prescribed between 65mg and 125mg (mean 96mg), which are dose levels found commonly in methadone maintenance treatment reports. There were no deaths among these nine MMT patients. Indeed there are no documented torsade deaths in MMT as far as I can find in the entire literature (one suspected death in France has been reported).
Krantz’s finding of nine cases of torsade in a small catchment over a relatively short period remains to be explained as it has never been duplicated anywhere else in the world to my best knowledge. Most reports have been of one or two cases. One wonders if there were other factors at play such as a viral induced cluster, the high altitude in Denver or some other factor unique to Krantz’s area.
It is often instructive to go back to the original sources and while most cite Lipski et al., few seem to have actually read the paper which is elegantly written. Even some major authors on the subject apparently believed that Lipski and colleagues were examining the effect of methadone on the QT interval. They were in fact examining why so many heroin users in New York died of apparent overdose but with relatively low levels of morphine at post-mortem examination, proposing arrhythmia in some such cases (from heroin or other street drugs). As they had no way of testing QT effects from heroin, ECG changes were examined in new entrants to treatment at their methadone program (which closed down recently, to the shame of the otherwise venerable Mt Sinai Medical Center in northern Manhattan).
In short, these early researchers performed 12-lead cardiographs on 75 patients new to methadone treatment. About half had not yet started treatment and had used heroin in the previous 24 hours. The rest were already taking methadone and a range of other drugs as shown by urine testing. The first group had prolonged QT intervals in 19% of subjects while the new patients who had started treatment had a rate of 34%. The latter were reportedly using combinations of heroin, cocaine, methadone and other drugs. So their theory was not confirmed yet their findings indicated a possibility that methadone extended the QT interval despite this being asymptomatic in all cases. Further, there were no reports of arrhythmias in MMT patients for the next 29 years.
This leaves us asking why one would spend time and money highlighting, emphasising and investigating the torsade issue while ignoring the vastly more important issue of standards of treatment. Drop-outs, deaths, overdose, viral infection, unemployment, etc, are all well documented consequences of deficient doses, inadequate supervision and a lack of psychosocial supports which are still sadly common. Each of these factors was clearly delineated in Dole’s first report in 1965 - and which modern prescribers ignore to their patients’ eternal cost.
Notes by Andrew Byrne .. Clinic web page: http://methadone-research.blogspot.com/
1. Krantz MJ, Lewkowiez L, Hays H, Woodroffe MA, D. Robertson AD, Mehler PS. Torsade de Pointes Associated with Very-High-Dose Methadone. Ann Intern Med. 2002 137:501-504
2. Reddy S, Fisch M, Bruera E. Oral methadone for cancer pain: no indication of Q-T interval prolongation or torsades de pointes. Journal of Pain and Symptom Management 2004 28;4:301-303
3. Lipski J, Stimmel B, Donoso E. The effect of heroin and multiple drug abuse on the electrocardiogram. American Heart J 1973 86:663-8
4. Hyslop B. Prolongation of the QT interval on methadone: how important is methadone dose? New Zealand Medical Student Journal 2007 6 Aug
5. Justo D, Gal-Oz A, Paran Y, Goldin Y, Zeltser D. Methadone-associated Torsades de Pointes (polymorphic ventricular tachycardia) in opioid-dependent patients. Addiction. 2006 101:1333-1338
6. Phibbs B. Advanced ECG: boards and beyond. 2006 Elsevier
7. Krantz MJ, Kutinsky IB, Robertson AD, Mehler PS. Dose-related effects of methadone on QT prolongation in a series of patients with torsade de pointes. Pharmacotherapy. 2003;23:802-805
8. Wedam EF, Bigelow GE, Johnson RE, Nuzzo PA, Haigney MCP. QT-Interval Effects of Methadone, Levomethadyl, and Buprenorphine in a Randomized Trial. Arch Intern Med 2007 167;22:2469-2473
9. Anchersen K, Clausen T, Gossop M, Hansteen V, Waal H. Prevalence and clinical relevance of QTc interval prolongation during methadone and buprenorphine treatment: a mortality assessment study. Addiction 2009 104;6:993-999
10. Perrin-Terrin A, Pathak A, Lapeyre-Mestre M. QT interval prolongation: prevalence, risk factors and pharmacovigilance data among methadone-treated patients in France. Fundam Clin Pharmacol. 2010 Sep 6
11. Dessertenne PF. La tachycardie ventriculaire a deux foyers opposes variables. Arch Mal Coeur 1966 59:263-72
12. Salle P, Rey JL, Bernasconi P, et al. Torsades de pointe. Apropos of 60 cases. Ann Cardiol Angeiol (Paris). Jun 1985;34(6):381-8
13. Bittar P, Piguet V, Kondo-Oestreicher J et al. Methadone induced long QTc and "torsade de pointe". Swiss Medical Forum 2002 S4;P244:36S
Roy A, McCarthy C, Kiernan G, McGorrian C, Keenan E, Mahon N, Sweeney B. Increased incidence of QT interval prolongation in a population receiving lower doses of methadone maintenance therapy. Addiction. 2012 107;6:1132-9
Pilot RCT points to reduced retention, increase abstinence from illicits and alcohol with more supervision.
A pilot randomised controlled trial of brief versus twice weekly versus standard supervised consumption in patients on opiate maintenance treatment. Holland R, Matheson C, Anthony G, Roberts K, Priyardarshi S, Macrae A, Whitelaw E, Appavoo S, Bond C. D&A Rev 2012 6:483-91
My old professor held that it was nice to learn of controlled research supporting one’s long-held clinical beliefs. This pilot study by a Scottish group fit’s the bill in my book.
There were 60 stable methadone maintenance patients randomised to daily supervised doses (existing treatment), twice weekly supervised doses and daily unsupervised (dispensed) dosing in community pharmacies with surveys and urine tests over a three month study period. The unsupervised patients were still required to collect their medication bottles at the pharmacy daily (this seems to be a uniquely British practice).
The authors state: “This small study was not statistically powered to estimate the effectiveness of different forms of supervision. Nevertheless, our findings are of interest as results suggest that increasing levels of supervision decreased retention (a negative finding), while reducing illicit heroin and alcohol use (a positive finding). This was not statistically significant (with the exception of the alcohol result) and should be treated with caution.” [alcohol problems were reduced from 47 to 33%, a significant reduction, only in the supervised group - other groups showed the same or worse figures].
In their introduction the authors state: “..there is no evidence base for deciding the optimal period of supervision”. In fact there is some controlled research for observed dosing (ref 1) but in opiate treatment the common practice has been of early supervision and the use of take-away doses later in treatment (as also followed by this service in Scotland). This regimen is used in a large proportion of research reports, virtually all with successful outcomes compared with controls - and with few adverse reports. This is the research basis for all opioid maintenance treatments used around the world today. It also parallels what we do with unstable mental patients or diabetics who are commencing treatment. They are usually given supervised treatment for days, weeks or sometimes months rather than bottles of pills, syringes or other therapies to take home for self administration. This is just sound therapeutics utilising available resources.
Controlled research over days, weeks and a few short months has also been done on dose supervision for patients with malaria, HIV, tuberculosis, HCV and renal tract infections with demonstrated benefits, sometimes dramatic ones. The uncharted territory is in long-term treatment since most formal research is of limited duration. Hence the crucial importance of this type of study in longer-term patients. With the authors’ positive and negative findings above, they appear to be supporting the need for initial supervision with early introduction of take-away doses in appropriate cases.
A substantial black market price for any drug and/or a shortage of the treatment availability (such as HIV meds in the third world or America) can yield a strong incentive to sell or divert medication. New patients and those in difficulties may benefit from on-going observation of their dosing (called ‘DOT’ in some work: Directly Observed Therapy) regardless of what they are being treated for.
In the UK uniquely, addicted patients who are new to treatment are often given doses to consume at home despite no controlled research base for this. Indeed, in some countries this would be considered unethical and dangerous, like the criticism of ‘giving alcohol to alcoholics’ (also debateable - see below Toronto experience ref 3).
New York Mayor Giuliani and Senator John McCain have joined a small number of high profile people with serious attempts to restrict the US methadone program, (which is largely *supervised*). Methadone treatment was called “disgusting and immoral” and “an Orwellian drug swap.” It would be even easier to criticise the UK program which is largely unsupervised. While there are calls for methadone maintenance to be curtailed (Ref 2) there are still UK experts trying to defend the use of unsupervised methadone treatments despite its unproven nature. Such moves to restrict opiate programs have naturally caused disquiet amongst this most vulnerable and stigmatised group.
Supervision using adequate methadone doses and graduated take-home provisions for suitable patients - an approach which is evidence-based and time honoured. And in the UK, even those on official government funded treatment, many receive treatment which is sub-optimal and ineffective (Ref 4). As well as ensuring compliance and protecting the patient/family, dose supervision also protects this treatment from needless controversy. In an exhaustive email exchange with one of the most respected addiction writers in England recently the only concession on this matter I received was: “Andrew, on one thing at least we agree - that supervision may be needed to allay public and political concern. Another is of course that done well it eliminates diversion. And these two facts are of course related.”
I say no more.
Citation: Holland R, Matheson C, Anthony G, Roberts K, Priyardarshi S, Macrae A, Whitelaw E, Appavoo S, Bond C. A pilot randomised controlled trial of brief versus twice weekly versus standard supervised consumption in patients on opiate maintenance treatment. D&A Rev 2012 6:483-91
Ref 1. Rhoades HM, Creson D, Elk R, Schmitz J, Grabowski J. Retention, HIV Risk, and Illicit Drug Use uring Treatment: Methadone Dose and Visit Frequency. 1998 Am J Public Health 88:34-39
Ref 2. Methadone to be dumped in Scotland as treatment for heroin addiction. http://www.news-medical.net/news/2008/05/27/38661.aspx
Ref 3. Podymow T, Turnbull J, Coyle D, Yetisir E, Wells G. Shelter-based managed alcohol administration to chronically homeless people addicted to alcohol. CMAJ 2006 174;1:45-49
Ref 4. The prescribing of methadone and other opioids to addicts: national survey of GPs in England and Wales. Strang J, Sheridan J, Hunt C, Kerr B, Gerada C, Pringle M. Brit J General Practice (2005) 55 (June 2005); 515: 444-451
Disclosure: Dr Byrne owns a clinic which, like addiction clinics in most countries supervises methadone, buprenorphine, diazepam, antabuse and other medications for a fee.
Postcard from New York. Tuesday, 8 May 2012.
I have been in New York City for three weeks and will try to summarize some of my activities relating to dependency issues (opera blog below for those interested). I will give more detailed accounts of some of these meetings in the future but wanted readers to know what issues were being looked at currently in the dependency field at the four or more centers of learning here in New York.
It has been a terrible time for public funding of research in our field and some of the most well endowed and well known organisations have been threatened with closure over a lack of continuing funding from NIDA under current austerity measures as well as increasingly strict guidelines and requirements for such funding. I noted a lack of enthusiasm across the board in the development and research areas but continued optimism in those involved in the clinical side of dependency medicine and what Americans often refer to as ‘recovery’, a word seldom used by Australian patients and clinicians in my experience. It may be partly due to the lack of public funds that drug company sponsorship is also eagerly sought, despite it ensuring that research is almost always slanted towards the use of big-profit drugs and avoidance of ‘bread and butter’ medications (see many references for this and work of Marcia Angell, previous NEJM editor).
My trip began with a 3 hour seminar/dinner at Columbia University in which Dr Deborah Hasin told us that the essential change to DSM-V is that the new classification will lose the distinction between abuse and dependency so that there will only be one diagnosis based on 11 criteria. Substance Use Disorder (SUD) will be ‘moderate’ if 2 or 3 are present and severe SUD if there are 4 or more. Patients with just one of the criteria will have no DSM diagnosis and will not be considered to have SUD. The old criterion of involvement in frequent legal issues has been removed while 'cravings' has been added this time. The time frame for such reports needs to be within 12 months apart in general. The concept of 'dependence' now only refers to the physiological states of tolerance and withdrawal. I cannot help thinking that the new definition will have no benefits and may cause confusion in the 'dependency' field for years to come. It is slated for introduction in May 2013.
Grand rounds at Bellevue Hospital were chaired by Dr Marc Galanter: three addiction medicine registrars discussed literature reviews on three topics: ADHD in SUD (and vice versa); Acupuncture in dependency treatments; Ketamine in the treatment of severe depression. These were each comprehensive and equally fascinating - more anon.
Fort Hamilton, Brooklyn, is where the Guantanamo Bay trials were televised for New York journalists, family members and others. I was asked to give Grand Rounds on methadone maintenance treatments in Australia there and was paired with one of their experienced doctors, Lucas Dreamer who spoke about buprenorphine. It was intriguing that most American doctors who routinely prescribe buprenorphine in their practices (on in this case the Veterans Administration) have never prescribed methadone for addiction cases (and vice versa for many doctors in methadone clinics). There was a lively discussion about maintenance, detox, psychosocial service, induction and transfer from one agonist to the other.
I also gave a talk at Beth Israel Medical Center only a stone’s throw from the institution where methadone was first used in addiction treatment. The department ‘Leaders’ seemed pleased to hear about treatment down-under. There were discussions about hepatitis C, diazepam ‘maintenance’, needle provision and injecting centres.
I had a brief discussion with a colleague from NDRI who is investigating drug courts in America. These vary in the way they operate in different states with methadone and buprenorphine available as a treatment option in only a minority of cases (30-40%). Reasons for a lack of maintenance treatments included court bans, financial factors, lack of prescriber and sometimes that the person was already detoxified by the time of reaching the court.
The Drug Policy Alliance gave me their usual 'open arms' welcome at their new offices in 33rd Street. Boss Ethan Nadelmann and his capable staff are working on a series of initiatives from ‘medical marijuana’ (cannabis to Australians), chronic pain medications, buprenorphine and much, much more.
Today would have been the 99th birthday of Dr Vincent P. Dole who died in 2006. Dr Dole, who was a great friend, colleague and mentor to me and lots of others, changed the lives of many people during his long career. In fact he pioneered blood ion measurement (sodium/potassium, etc) and cholesterol aggregation research years before they became commonplace, prior to his ground-breaking work on drug addiction treatments at Rockefeller University in 1964.
I was interviewed by a senior anthropologist who is doing an in-depth study on the history and implementation of buprenorphine treatment. Her group is only too aware of the commercial factors involved in each aspect, some very positive and in the interests of dependency patients while other moves by the manufacturer or distributor may have in fact denied substantial numbers of dependent patients receiving any opioid maintenance treatment at all, both in America and elsewhere. It is by no means unique for drug companies to endeavour to 'evergreen' their profitable products using numerous well known means. However, in this case it may be unique that a drug developed over 30 years ago remains in the high-profit bracket.
Dr Tom Haines brought me up to date with the situation in Portugal as well as the history of how their government brought in decriminalisation of all personal drug use 12 years ago … stemming amazingly from the persistent use of derogatory humour by a popular radio personality and whose views were then supported by the Law Faculty at Lisbon University and both political parties numerous early public forums on the subject. While it has not eliminated drug use, the Portuguese ‘experiment’ has been a success in every other way according to reports which have been published in reputable places. In a way, the implementation of interdiction of drugs from the 1950s was in fact a world-wide, uncontrolled experiment, only to compare with the American experiment with alcohol in the 1920s. We never learn from history!
My last evening in the city is back to where I started with a panel discussion including Dr Jerome Carroll, Herman Joseph, Charles Winick and George De Leon on the past, present and future of dependency interventions starting from the 1950s. This is the final meeting for Dr Carroll who has run these meetings for over ten years.
I hope these brief notes are of interest to readers.
Andrew Byrne .. (back to Australia next weekend).
Opera blog: http://andrewsopera.blogspot.com/
DSM - V drops 'dependency' forever!
Drugs and Society meeting at Columbia University. 7.30pm Tuesday 17th April 2012.
I have just had the privilege of attending a presentation of the newly proposed DSM-V criteria for substance use disorders (SUD) which is due for implementation in May 2013. The talk was to have been given by Charles 'Chuck' O'Brien who was apparently entwined in 'grants' and was replaced by Deborah Hasin who is also on the committee devising the new DSM standards.
Dr Hasin is an epidemiologist who has done work with adolescent drug use, HIV, alcohol, household surveys, natural history, etc. She was at home at Columbia University where the meeting was held at their Faculty House in Amsterdam Avenue near 110th Street in Manhattan (West Harlem). Deborah is one of about fifteen members of the DSM-V committee looking as substance use disorders, chaired by Dr O'Brien from U Penn. There is also international representation from Australia (John Saunders), Holland (Wim van der Brink) and elsewhere. We were told some details of the process being followed with consensus and unanimity being attempted rather than confrontation and disagreement. In fact, we were told that there was agreement on most of the issues, often after extensive reviews of the research and discussion.
The DSM-IV was implemented in 1994, replacing the DSM-III and “IIIR”. There was also a 'text review' to DSM IV in 2000. Dr Hasin told us that this very meeting was one of many in the review process and she assured us that our views would be reported back to her committee members.
Dr Hasin gave us a splendid talk about the process being undertaken by the DSM review committee and the brief they were given to redefine the diagnostic categories for drug use disorders.
The committee had discussed changing 'abuse' to 'misuse' but opted to remove any 'loaded' terminology, remaining completely scientific with 'substance use disorder' (SUD). Likewise, 'pathological' gambling was rejected since any diagnosis in the manual was obviously 'pathological' so it became a redundancy and will be called something like ‘gambling disorder’.
The essential change, now virtually concluded, is that the new classification will lose the distinction between abuse and dependency so that there will only be one diagnosis based on 11 criteria. The diagnosis will be moderate SUD if 2 or 3 are present and severe SUD if there are 4 or more. The old criterion of involvement in frequent legal issues has been removed while 'cravings' has been added this time. The time frame for such reports needs to be within 12 months apart from cravings which can last for many years after drug use has ceased, causing an immediate anomaly.
The concept of 'dependence' now only refers to the physiological states of tolerance and withdrawal, something which I predict will cause confusion in the 'dependency' literature for years to come. I worry that the entire process may end up like accreditation, forming an unproductive bureaucracy, language and series of steps to nowhere.
Shopping, sex, eating and internet/gaming disorders have been put into the too hard basket while gambling itself has been taken on board with the same criteria but with minor differences as above.
The criteria for inclusion for 'Substance use disorder' ('SUD') are (simplified):
1. Repeated use with negative consequences
2. Repeated use in hazardous situations
3. Repeated use despite interpersonal issues
4. Tolerance
5. Withdrawals
6. Repeated use for longer or in larger quantities than intended
7. Unsuccessful desire and/or attempts to cut down drug use
8. Long periods taken to obtain drugs or recover from the effects
9. Repeated use causes neglect of other important activities
10. Repeated use despite known continuing adverse consequences on health
11. Cravings
1 criterion = no DSM diagnosis
2-3 criteria positive = Moderate diagnosis of SUD
4 or more criteria positive = Severe diagnosis SUD
Under the existing DSM-IV the first three (plus repeated legal problems) were used to define substance "abuse" (one or more) while 'dependency' required three or more of the remaining criteria (excluding cravings which were not included until DSM-V).
In the ‘case’ to justify the changes Dr Hasin quoted numerous published papers which examined the ‘discrimination’ of individual criteria against an overall diagnostic measure. Various rather complex graphs were shown, each with a flattened ‘S’ curve purportedly showing the effect of up to 15 chosen criteria upon the "latent trait" for problem severity measured in some non-linear manner. Each tracing was coded with its criterion below and each formed a flattened 'S' curve starting from a flat take-off on the X axis, ending similarly on a possible maximum parallel above. I noted that Dr Hasin herself was co-author of some of these papers. She has done extensive public health research in Israel where we were told that American surveys had been translated into Russian and Hebrew (but apparently not Arabic).
We were told that the close approximation of these curves showed the degree of contribution concordance each had with the overall occurrence of problematic drug use in the various (population) samples (none were clinic or patient samples). While the overall impression was that each of the criteria had a similar contribution, the value of the process in population studies was questioned by some delegates so we were then shown some curves of clinic / dependency populations (oops, should not use the term ‘dependency’ any more!).
Dr Hasin's point seemed to be that the inclusion of 'legal issues' added little to the statistical 'mix' for diagnosis. Yet several people in the room pointed out that it was legal issues alone which originally brought some of their most needy patients into treatment. Furthermore, with 10 or more criteria, removing any one would likewise have had little effect on the diagnosis. In practice, the great majority of our patients by the time they get to treatment have not 2 or 3 of these criteria but most of them.
I was a little surprised that there was no patient representative on the committee. Perhaps I should not have been surprised that a majority of delegates contribution to a psychiatry manual were not MD’s or psychiatrists. This is not to question the superb qualifications and need for non-medical input … in fact one member even had two PhD degrees in her credentials (I had thought it was a ‘typo’!).
The new DSM-V definitions remind me of accreditation in a way. The supposed improvements will be of very limited value to my view. The definitions have hazy time-lines with most being 'in the past 12 months have you had …'. As an exception, ‘cravings’, a new criterion, can last for decades after any drugs have been consumed! There is a somewhat closer parallel with smoking, drinking and other medical diagnoses ... but to what end I am not sure. There is absolutely nothing about the quantities of drug used, we were told due to the illicit nature of most of the drugs (now no longer the case with so much prescription drug abuse). However this does not stop every clinician in the field taking such a history, albeit with the inherent difficulties. Hence under the new system $10 per day smoked heroin use on two days per week could be the same under DSM-V as $500 per day if the consequences and reported symptoms were the same. 'Remission' is another problem issue they have decided to avoid altogether. "A lack of symptoms" one delegate said of remission. But for how long? And what of ‘recovery’? Don't ask!
Gambling is ‘in’ the new DSM classification, partly, we were told, because about 20% of substance users have gambling problems and a substantial proportion of gamblers have alcohol/drug troubles too.
But shopperholics and sex addicts and internet habitues don't use enough substances to be included apparently, at least in the SUD section ‘and related disorders’ department. We were told that eating problems and sexual problems had lobby groups of their own and thus were left well alone by this committee. Internet/gaming victims likewise.
Denise Kandel had some most interesting stuff to tell about her mouse experiments ... I am getting the references ... also about adolescent drug use definitions.
Gross and Edwards’ definition of alcoholism in 1960s and is still the basis for all of these modern definitions.
Dr Hasin was thanked for her input and she promised to get feedback working in both directions. True to her word an email mooting a survey appeared only a week after the meeting calling for volunteers to become involved in the process.
Concord Seminar on benzodiazepine dependence.
X-Concord Seminar on benzodiazepine dependence: 29 Feb 2012 plus tribute to honour Dr Alex Wodak whose retirement coincided with this seminar.
A panel discussion was given at Royal Prince Alfred Hospital chaired by Dr Richard Hallinan, Staff Specialist in Addiction Medicine. Present were numerous experienced clinicians, some by invitation, others out of habit. Pharmacist Denis Leahy, Nick Lintzeris, director of Langton Centre and a doctor from Redfern. There were over 70 people in the packed audience.
Dr Hallinan gave a short presentation on the ion channel GABA receptor and the difference in its interaction with barbiturates and benzodiazepines and why the latter are so much safer in overdose. We were shown the basic molecular structure involving the fusion of a benzene ring (“benzo”) with a heterocyclic, two-nitrogen (“di-azo”) molecule and various attachments to form the individual characteristics of the different forms of benzodiazepines.
We were then told of the variations in absorption rates, half-lives, metabolic pathways, active and inactive metabolites, blood levels, fat and water solubility and volumes of distribution (initial and steady state) of the common benzodiazepines. These included chlordiazepoxide, diazepam, oxazepam, temazepam, nitrazepam, flunitrazepam, alprazolam, medazolam, clobazam and clonazepam. We learned a little of the history of these drugs which largely replaced the barbiturates in the 1960s. Their effects on convulsive thresholds, anxiety, sedation, muscle relaxation, amnesia, panic disorders and PTSD were canvassed, including mention of a recent comprehensive review by Malcolm Lader, the widely published English benzodiazepine ‘guru’ in the Addiction journal.
Dr Jenny James who is a GP at a western Sydney Aboriginal Medical Service was then asked to present a case. This was an enormously complex case which Dr James and her GP colleagues had looked after for several years, amongst their busy and varied general practice. She pointed out that there are no dedicated staff for counselling, family therapy, case management or other ancillary services which are either carried out by the doctors as a drop-in service or not done at all. There were issues of dual chronic viral infection, doctor shopping, mental illness and intercurrent drug use while on methadone treatment. There followed a question and answer session with response from panel members, including a pharmacist and two drug specialists. It was clear from the history that the difference between general practice and specialist practice is that history and progress can be gleaned over months by the former while the latter cannot afford to get it wrong and thus needs to be more comprehensive and multi-disciplinary … where this is possible considering the ‘urgency’ of our patient group and the lack of resources in the face of large numbers seeking treatment.
The main question of the evening was whether the treating doctors should be prescribing benzodiazepines for patients like this one and if so, with what degree of supervision, quantities and restrictions (alcohol was the big contraindication). It was contended that alprazolam (Xanax) was not an appropriate drug for any definable psychiatric condition and some present felt that like Rohypnol and Normison (capsules) before it, it should be banned from the Australian market. Personally I have not prescribed Xanax (alprazolam) for over a decade and I would be delighted if it were off the market or at least limited to 0.5mg tablets.
The concept of ‘staged supply’ in community pharmacy was mentioned by Dennis Leahy from Stanmore Station Pharmacy. The last federal budget included a small subsidy from the PBS for employing this strategy for those with impulsive and compulsive drug consumption … which means most of our patients, at some of the time.
Dr Jill Roberts said that about 90% of prison inmates on OTP have current benzodiazepine histories on admission, requiring careful diagnosis and management. The Justice Health service has a routine detoxification regimen, using a withdrawal scale. A common starting dose is 20mg diazepam twice daily, especially in those with a history of seizures. This high figure of 90% would seem to be consistent with the extraordinary finding from Malcolm Lader that ‘in the UK about half of all BZD prescriptions were given to patients who are currently in an opioid treatment program’.
Experience has shown that some patients fare well taking substantial quantities of benzodiazepines while others seem to lurch between episodes of varying intoxication which often involve aberrant behaviour, legal diversions and occasionally injuries or even worse.
It was interesting to note from the delegates at this meeting just how much the field has changed. In the past there were significant numbers of doctors who claimed that prescribing sedatives to opiate maintenance patients was never appropriate. At this meeting, however, nobody expressed this sentiment. In fact virtually everyone had been involved with certain dependent patients being prescribed a limited supply of (usually) diazepam for certain periods of time, under supervision, despite the logistic difficulties. In also seemed agreed that there was a certain minority group in whom complete withdrawal was not realistic, just as occurs with opiates, alcohol, tobacco, etc.
So can one use methadone maintenance as a paradigm? Is there a diagnosis of dependence? Have there been reasonable efforts to withdraw? Are there episodes of serious sequelae from the benzodiazepine use? Is there dual or poly drug abuse? Psychiatric diagnosis? Has the patient been compliant with their opiate treatment? Is alcohol a factor? Some of our colleagues are currently asking these very questions regarding stimulants, however for sedatives the response is simpler as diazepam, for instance, is not an S8 (restricted) drug in most states.
What would be the minimum criteria for prescribing diazepam to a dependent patient? Having a good history, physical examination, urine test, experienced dispensary would all be essential in my view. An absence of current alcohol use would also be another safeguard. Given all of these factors, we still need a working diagnosis, goals and review process. Does the patient have anxiety or depression? Some may contend that the diagnosis does not matter too much, just like the reason for which a person allegedly uses heroin. ‘If they are dependent, they are dependent’. And the treatment, or at least the principles, should be the same.
So in our own service we use diazepam 5mg - 25mg according to history, initially daily or second daily from the dispensary along with the methadone (or buprenorphine in the few such cases who are taking the ‘weaker’ maintenance drug). Some patients state that they prefer to take some of their dose in the evening and we try to accommodate this where possible. If they state they are sedated on 5 to 10mg Valium we question the diagnosis of dependence and ask to examine the patient 3 hours after such a dose. Others seem to be able to take much higher doses and show no signs of intoxication (on gross testing).
Our goals and follow-up review are the same as for any other behavioural treatment: housing, social, financial, drug-use and general medical parameters are reviewed before further ‘dispensed’ doses are permitted up to a week’s supply at a time (one day supervised) which seems to suit a large proportion of long-term dependent patients. Even without active prompting, doses have generally reduced and a small number have withdrawn, some long-term. A proportion can be expected to relapse to sedative use, just as happens with every other chemical addiction. Better luck next time!
The use of diazepam and other tranquillisers for ‘maintenance’ therapy may be off-label in some cases yet in many there will be a diagnosis of panic disorder, anxiety or insomnia (where benzodiazepines have been shown to be effective) or PTSD, convulsions or depression where such drugs do not have an established evidence base.
Dr Nick Lintzeris gave a heart-felt sentiment of sadness but gratitude regarding the retirement that very day of Dr Alex Wodak to whom so much is due for making the D&A field what it is today in Australia. His influence on policy and practice here and overseas has been unsurpassed, even by Griffith Edwards in the UK … and we all remain in his debt.
Commentary by Andrew Byrne ..
Ref: Lader M. Benzodiazepines revisited - will we ever learn? Addiction 2011 106:2086-2109
Liebrenz M, Boesch L, Stohler R, Caflisch C. Agonist substitution-a treatment alternative for high-dose benzodiazepine-dependent patients? Addiction 2010 105;11:1870–1874
Byrne A. Benzodiazepines: the end of a dream. Aust Fam Physician 1994 Aug; 23(8):1584-1585
Tranquillizer use rife amongst OTP subjects world-wide, most legally prescribed.
Prolonged use of benzodiazepines is associated with childhood trauma in opioid-maintained patients. Vogel M, Dürsteler-MacFarland KM, Walter M, Strasser J, Fehr S, Prieto L, Wiesbeck GA. Drug & Alcohol Dependence 2011 119:93-98
While these authors have emphasised an association between childhood trauma and benzodiazepine (BZD) use, their study tells us much more about opioid dependent patients in treatment in Switzerland and beyond. Their bibliography is also exemplary and it clearly demonstrates that the current approach, zero tolerance in the main, is simply not working. As the authors state: “if abstinence from BZD is conveyed as primary treatment aim, as has generally been the norm in the past, this finding illustrates the limits of current therapeutic management and therapeutic options”.
We are told that ‘point’ and ‘lifetime’ BZD use reportedly occurs in 18-55% and 35-94% of OTP patients from numerous reports including from Australia. The current surveys were taken in two large opioid maintenance programs in Basel, Switzerland. These provided a variety of medications, including prescribed heroin, both oral and injected, methadone, morphine, buprenorphine and codeine.
Of 315 patients approached, 193 (61%) responded to a survey including childhood trauma (a validated instrument ‘CTQ’ was used), drug use and other clinical and demographic characteristics. Reports of drug use were confirmed with urinalysis showing a high degree of concordance. Psychiatric diagnoses were obtained from the detailed medical files which were updated regularly.
The rate of reported benzodiazepine use in the current sample was 61%, 47% being ‘prolonged’ (>2 months duration) while lifetime use was 85%. Thus almost half of the cohort had prolonged use at some time in the previous five years.
There was at least one childhood trauma sub-score of moderate to severe level in 67% of the subjects who completed the survey. As well as BZD use, the degree of trauma was significantly related to methadone dose (or equivalent for other opioids).
After multivariate analysis the authors found that there was an association between prolonged benzodiazepine use and (1) excessive childhood trauma, (2) hepatitis C, (3) psychiatric family history and (4) methadone dose in milligrams. The odds ratios were 1.5, 4.0, 2.3 and 1.01
Rather than using the loaded (British) term ‘misuse’, these authors wisely stick to ‘use’. They also categorise sedative use into (1) ‘hedonistic’ or ‘recreational’ use, (2) self-medication to counteract or amplify the effects of primary drugs of abuse (eg. to ‘come down’ from stimulants), (3) prescription use for anxiety, insomnia, PTSD, panic disorders, etc, and (4) ‘off-label’ prescription as benzodiazepine ‘maintenance’. The great majority of patients obtained their BZD from legal prescription (84% of those with ‘prolonged use’).
The authors point out that none of these associations can prove causality. This will always be difficult to determine when so many overlapping issues occur in OTP patients such as childhood abuse, PTSD and self medication. However, the authors seem persuaded that ‘zero tolerance’ is no longer tenable as a policy, just as it did not work for opioids (or alcohol in a different era). They support the measured prescription of benzodiazepines in research trials as advanced by Liebrenz in Addiction.
In our own practice we provide diazepam under close supervision and in limited quantities to those who are unwilling or unable to cease the use of benzodiazepines, and who agree to alcohol abstinence, in the context of OTP.
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Hope for Change in Food Distribution Law Not Dead
To Senator Paul Doyle's credit, he was as good as his word when he promised members of Middletown's faith-based community that he would push for a change in a statute that prevents charitable distribution of food, not prepared in licensed kitchens, to those in need.
While Democratic leaders were too embroiled in a struggle to implement a budget, Doyle took the idea for a change in law to the governor's office.
Today, in a letter from the State of Connecticut Office of Policy and Management, representing the governor's office, Robert Genuario listed specific items in the implementer bill which the governor objects to.
At the end of the list, the letter concludes:
Finally, we have been informed that there is a need for a statutory revision to allow charitable organizations to provide to needy people, meals which have not been prepared in licensed kitchens. For example, many churches provide pot-luck dinners of the homeless which consist of dishes prepared by members of the congregation in their homes. This charitable practice technically violates section 19a-36 of the Connecticut General Statutes. Although not necessary, strictly speaking, to implement the budget, the Governor would support including in the implementer bill a revision to section 19a-36(a)(4) of the Connecticut General Statutes to allow this practice to legally continue.
"The key, and the blessing is that this indicates the governor will support the change," said Common Council Vinnie Loffredo Wednesday night. "The governor is on board to get something done."
Loffredo urged all those in support of the bill to contact State Senate and House Leaders, and all members of the Middletown legislative delegation to make sure language to change the statute is included in the implementer bill which will likely be submitted Friday.
Many members of the faith-based community addressed letters to Common Council members and the mayor urging them to forward the correspondence to the entire Common Council so that it may be part of their discussions at Monday's meeting.
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CHC Receives Grant to Improve Electronic Health Record
From the Community Health Center
CHC has received one of five grants awarded nationwide for Electronic Health Record Quality Improvement grants from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). The $400,000 grant will build on the pioneering work that CHC has done with Electronic Health Records. The focus of this grant is to build a national model for hypertension control with a focus on minority groups.
(CHC operates the Community Health Center at 635 Main St. in Middletown.)
Included in the work will be a patient’s ability to monitor his or her blood pressure from home, using a new Internet link to his or her health records.
“Broad use of health information technology has the potential to improve health-care quality, prevent medical errors, and increase the efficiency of care provision,” said David Blumenthal, national coordinator for health information technology for HHS. “This program supports the Department’s overall efforts to assist physicians and hospitals in adopting and becoming meaningful users of health information technology.”
The department released a total of $27.8 million to 27 agencies. CHC was one of only five agencies to receive funding in its category of quality improvement based on existing use of electronic health records.
The grant was announced today by Congresswomen Rosa Delauro “The award is an important recognition of CHC’s leadership in the field of electronic health records,” said Mark Masselli, CHC’s president and CEO. “ We are very appreciative of Rosa’s support as she understands the intersection of quality care , chronic disease and electronic health records - with these funds we will be able to engage our patients directly in the use of these records to improve their health and to correct a long-time health disparity in our health-care system – the large proportion of minority group members with high blood pressure.”
Founded in 1972 as a small, free clinic in Middletown, CHC is now one of the largest health centers of its kind in the nation, serving more than 70,000 underserved patients in 12 sites and 180 locations across Connecticut. The agency offers core services of medical care, dentistry and behavioral health care to patients with little or no health insurance.
High blood pressure is a leading cause of illness and death among the population at large, but particularly among members of minority groups. Controlling high blood pressure will reduce the incidents of strokes, heart attacks, and heart and kidney failures. Because of historic disparities in our health-care delivery system,, CHC with this grant will focus on minority groups, particularly African-American patients.
For CHC, the electronic health record in this case will improve provider behavior and practice, and patient engagement through self-
management. For the patient’s part, he or she will be able to do home monitoring of blood pressure readings, and download other blood pressure readings for integration into his or her electronic health record.
In its annual survey of patients, CHC has found a growing trend of Internet access of one kind or another by its patients. That number now stands at 70 percent. (CHC saw 56,000 patients in 2008.) Most of CHC patients desire to use the Internet to contact their providers, request prescription refills, or receive lab results. More than 55 percent said they would use a web link to get that information.
The expanded use of electronic health records by CHC will help improve the outcome of patients with high blood pressure. CHC was one of the early pioneers to embrace electronic health records and now is introducing a new patient link.
Labels: Community Health Center, electronic health record, karen swartz, State legislature
Around Middletown in 80 Days: Day 37
deKoven House and the Rockfall Foundation
Today "little Phileas" went to the deKoven House. This community building is on the National Register of Historic Places. The deKoven House as built by West Indies trader Captain Benjamin Williams between 1791 and 1797, when Middletown was Connecticut's leading shipping port.
The home was later given to Colonel Clarenence Wadsworth (the same Colonel Wadsworth who built the fine mansion on the Long Hill Estate and purchased the land that is now Wadsworth Falls State Park) by his in-laws. Colonel Wadsworth bequeathed the house to the Rockfall Foundation in 1941.
The deKoven house is now the home of the Rockfall Foundation, and many other ecologic and conservation focused organizations, including the connecticut River Coastal Conservation District, the Connecticut office of the Connecticut River Watershed Council, and The Girl Scouts of America. Ginny Rollefson took Phileas on a tour of the historic building and its many tenants. Phileas certainly learned a lot about the conservation efforts in and around Middletown, as well as some other excellent locations to visit.
The 23rd Annual Rockfall Symposium is coming up as well:
Green Light for Our Economy
Jobs, Energy & Education for a Sustainable Future
Friday October 9, 2009 8:30 a.m. – 12:15 p.m.
Middlesex Community College
Visit www.rockfallfoundation.org for more information.
Jane Brawerman, Executive Director, explains to Phileas the dangers of invasive plants in our own backyard.
Ginny Rollefson, Executive Director, introduces Phileas to the Great White Oak which once stood at the corner of Wadsworth St. and Forest St. in Middletown.
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Woodrow Wilson High School Class of 1980
Attention all Woodrow Wilson Wildcat Alumni the Class of 1980 will be holding its 30th class reunion on July 17, 2010 and is seeking out names and addresses of its classmates, anyone having information on 1980 graduates are asked to please visit our Facebook page or e-mail us at the following links.
The reunion committee would like to thank you in advance for any information that you can share.
Go Wildcats ! !
http://www.facebook.com/friends/?filter=oc#/pages/Woodrow-Wilson-High-School-Class-of-1980/121223881221
wildcatsclassof1980@gmail.com
Labels: karen swartz, State legislature
Progress Made in Sewer Department Crisis
Under pointed questioning by members of the Common Council, Water and Sewer Department director Guy Russo explained the history of a financial "perfect storm" which drained nearly all revenue from the Sewer department, and the steps already taken to bring the department back into financial health.
The special workshop meeting of the Common Council was called at the end of the regular September Common Council meeting to allow time for Russo to analyze the problem, and answer questions submitted by Council members. At that time, the Sewer Department was broke, and did not have the funds to meet expenses.
Russo blamed deliquent accounts and conservation as the main culprits in the Sewer Department shortfall.
"If bills had been paid as they regularly are," Russo explained. "We wouldn't be where we are today.
In the past month, with an agressive second billing, and lien notice program, the department has collected 38% of it's goal of $500,000 in revenue from these billings, and that's with two days left in the month, with a plentitude of late-payers who wait for month's end to settle up.
The meeting got off to a rocky start as Mayor Sebastian Giuliano designated the workshop as a sole function of the Common Council, and handed chairmanship for the meeting to deputy mayor and Council member Joe Bibisi.
Bibisi attempted to hold Council members to a preliminary recitation of submitted questions, which Russo would be asked to answer.
Instead, Russo made a lengthy opening statement, and then the Council members asked submitted questions and follow-ups.
Along with the nearly $200,000 collected against delinquent accounts, Russo explained that his department had applied for a $200,000 refund from the State Department of Environmental Protection and was preparing thousands of dollars in cuts in the deparment in areas from open jobs, to scheduled maintenance.
Council members peppered Russo, and city Finance Director Carl Erlacher with questions about bugeting process, audits and collections. They also quizzed Russo, and city attorney Tim Lynch about how the WPCA (Water Pollution Control Authority) operated, and where authority and responsibility for financial decisions rested. Both Russo and Erlacher admitted that procedures were not perfect at the WPCA or the Sewer department, but when revenue was good, the department remained out of financial trouble. When the economy forced individuals into financial binds, paying the sewer bill was often the last thing residents would consider.
"They pay their mortgage so they don't get thrown out of their house," Russo said. "They pay their car payment so they can drive to work. They pay their credit card bill so their rate won't increase. Our 18% interest fee was once considered punitive, and that's no longer true. And if you don't pay your sewer bill, it doesn't get reported on your credit report."
However Russo indicated that a collections agency is being interviewed to go after delinquents, and that property liens will be issued. He also suggested that turning off water to delinquent accounts is being considered, as is the publication of the names of delinquents.
Russo explained that the economy and conservation have also taken tolls on other water and sewer departments, and other utilities. Middletown has seen a 12% reduction in use of water and sewer.
The WPCA meets Thursday afternoon, and Russo intends to present his cost-savings and revenue-increasing measures to the authority for a vote.
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Editorial: Clearing up a name while cleaning up at the Keating Wheel factory; AKA: Remington Rand!
I was delighted to read that the long over due cleanup of this property’s brownfields has a confirmed funding source and a chance at a new lease on life. With it should come a recognition of the buildings historical significance and a return to it’s given name, the Keating Wheel Company, which was originally built as a bicycling manufacturing plant in 1896. The design/layout of the factory was considered to be state of the art, and was noted for it’s considerable innovations. It is understandable how the name Remington Rand came into use, as it is a well-known name, and rolls easily off the tongue. I suspect there was no conscious intent on anyone’s part to permanently name the property Remington Rand, it just got used often enough and the name stuck. This building has not been listed on the Design Review and Preservation (DR&P) Board’s list of historic properties, which includes only a dozen, or so buildings of this type still standing in the city. A request that is an easy ask away.
Returning to the historical name of the building, the Keating Wheel Company will show consistency, as so many other historical buildings in the city have retained their original name in our city’s common usage. More importantly it will bring a hint of recognition to one of the remaining U.S. turn-of-the-century bicycling manufacturing buildings still standing—out of an estimated 1400 that existed between 1880-1900—and also honor the city’s rich industrial and manufacturing history.
A special thanks goes out to Professor Robert McCullough at the University of Vermont’s Historic Preservation Program, who has done considerable research on turn on the century bicycle factories, including the Keating Wheel Company's bicycle manufacturing factory here in Middletown.
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Remington Rand Brownfield Cleanup to get EPA Funds
Governor Rell announced today that the City will receive $200,000 to help the city remediate environmental contamination at the Remington Rand site on Johnson Street. The funding is part of stimulus package dollars disbursed through the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). The state applied for $2.3M on May 1st, including $300,000 for Remington Rand, and was awarded a total of $600,000 in August. The State Department of Economic and Community Development selected the Remington Rand site, as well as a site in Montville and a site in Willimantic, for funding.
Almost all of the environmental contamination at Remington Rand is the legal responsibility of the Unisys Corporation, which bought Remington Rand. A remedial action plan submitted by Unisys to the State Department of Environmental Protection (DEP), with a total cost of $6M, was approved this summer, according to City Planner Bill Warner.
In their remediation plan, Unisys claimed and the DEP agreed, that a portion of the contamination occurred subsequent to 1974, when Remington Rand ceased to exist. Unisys estimates that this portion of the remediation will cost about $300,000. Rell, in a press release, said, "This latest funding will be used to actually do the environmental remediation that is needed at the former Remington Rand site." Warner said the City is also applying directly to the EPA for the additional funding.
Rell praised the conversion of a brownfield into land that can be used, "We are taking property that is not 'working' at its full potential and converting it into a community resource that reduces sprawl, preserves natural resources and creates economic opportunity for all."
The city hopes to sell the Remington Rand property to a private owner who would use it for a business. The city had a preliminary deal to sell the property for $1M in 2008, and the Common Council budgeted and spent the anticipated revenue in the 2008-09 fiscal year. Mayor Giuliano said that the deal fell through when the buyer became concerned about whether Unisys would follow through on its portion of the environmental remediation (Remington Rand Deal DOA?). Movement towards cleanup should make the city-owned property much more valuable.
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Another Busy Week in the Arts, Part 1 (9/30-10/02)
The 33rd Annual Navaratri Festival at Wesleyan begins its 5-day run with a Colloquium on Wednesday September 30. The program blends music and dance from different traditions of Indian culture plus movies, a dance party and a worship service.
Wednesday's event features Matthew Allen (Wesleyan Ph.D 1986), Associate Professor of Music and Coordinator of Asian Studies at Wheaton College. He'll give a talk at at 4:15 p.m. in the CFA Hall (the old Cinema) putting the Festival and its different components into perspective. Allen received both his M.A. and Ph.D from Wesleyan and went on to co-author a book with his musical mentor T. Viswanathan titled "Music in South India: The Karnatak Concert Tradition and Beyond" (Oxford University Press.) This event is free and open to the public.
Other events include "Vocal Music of South India" on Thursday (October 1) at 8 p.m. in the World Music Hall featuring Wesleyan faculty members B. Balasubrahmaniyan (vocals), David Nelson (mridangnam) and guest artist K.V.S. Vinay (violin).
On Friday, there will be an "Indian Dance Party" at 6 p.m.. in the World Music Hall. According to the press release, "You will be treated to a Bollywood style group dance by several youngsters, Kolattam (dance with sticks from South India), Dandiya (dance from the North Indian state of Gujarat using sticks performed during Navaratri) and Bhangra (Spring dance from the North Indian state of Punjab)."
Following the dance, head over to Crowell Concert Hall for a duo concert featuring the fine young sarod player Alam Khan (pictured above) and the world-famous tabla player Samir Chatterjee. Khan, son of the late Swara Samrat Ali Akbar Khan, has established his credentials as a master player in the past few years while Chatterjee has worked with a diverse group of artists including Ravi Coltrane, Branford Marsalis, the Dance Theater of Harlem, Boston Philharmonic and the Ethos Percussion Group as well as Ravi Shankar and Ali Akbar Khan. For ticket information about the events above, go to www.wesleyan.edu/cfa or call 685-3355.
Other events this week- Thursday Oct 1:
The Buttonwood Tree presents its monthly Open Mic at 7 p.m. Hosted by Bob Gotta, it's an opportunity for local artists to be "heard" in a non-judgmental atmosphere.
"Common Ground: Middletown International Film Festival" continues with a screening of "Offside", the 2006 film from Iran, at 7 p.m. at Middlesex Community College, 100 Training Hill Road. The story, inspired by director Jafar Panahi's daughter's attempt to attend a World Cup Soccer match in Iran (female attendance at sporting events is forbidden under current Iranian rule), tells of young girl flaunts the rules but not because she is such a big soccer fan. The screening is free and open to the public and is the result of a collaboration between the Middletown Commission on the Arts, MxCC, the Green Street Arts Center and Wesleyan University with the aid of Russell Library.
The Elia Kazan Centennial Celebration film series continues at Weseyan with an 8 p.m. showing of the 1951 classic, "A Streetcar Named Desire." Adapted from Tennessee William's 1947 Pulitzer Prize-winning play, the film stars Marlon Brando, Vivien Leigh (who won the Academy Award for her performace), Karl Malden and Kim Hunter. Joan Miller, Head Archivist, Elia Kazan Collection at Wesleyan, will introduce the film. The event, which takes place at the Goldsmith Family Cinema on Washington Terrace, is free and open to the public. For more information, call 685-2220.
The Middle City Stage Company, a new troupe headed by Kelly DiMauro, debuts with "TheWoolgatherer." The play, written by William Mastrosimone and first premiered in 1979, stars Anita Vlad and Michael Eck and is the story of 2 very different people who come together and manage to overcome their issues. Performances take place at 8 p.m. Thursday through Saturday and 2 p.m. on Sunday and take place on the Main Stage of Oddfellows Playhouse. For more information, call 681-2141 or email tickets@middlecitystage.org.
Friday October 2:
MAC 650, the cooperative gallery located at 650 Main Street, celebrates the opening of "The Addams Family Gathering: A Collection of Macabre Artistry and Eclectic Oddities" at from 7 - 10 p.m. Finger foods, spirits and dirge melodies will be provided and you'll get the opportunity to meet the artists involved in the exhibition - they include Joseph Dinunzio, Joseph Galluccio, John McCormack, Shannon Gagne, Shelley & Katie Oswiecki, Jason May, Carrie Swider and Joey Marsocci. For more information, go to http://mac650.blogspot.com.
The Free-at-Last Players, a theater troupe organized by Connecticut Heritage Productions "dedicated to dispelling the myths and misconceptions that surround mental illness", is celebrating its 20th anniversary. The group starts its new season with a performance at 8 p.m. in The Buttonwood Tree. For more information, call 347-4957.
At 10 p.m., The Buttonwood presents Tommy Monaghan and Sean Frenette for a late evening of improvisational music. Monaghan (percussion) and Frenette (guitar), both graduates of the New England Conservatory of Music, have studies and worked with numerous musicians (including Joe Maneri, Billy Hart, Bob Moses, Zakir Hussein, Frank Carlberg, and Hankus Netsky) and bring an intensity to their duet explorations. Call the number above for more information.
The Frank Varela Project provides the music at 8:30 p.m. in Boney's Music Lounge - call 346-6000 for more information.
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200 Main Street, Metro Square
Amigos de Oddfellows! Join us in enjoying authentic Mexican cuisine at Puerto Vallarta and help support the Playhouse. For every order of Fajitas tonight, Puerto Vallarta will donate $5 to Oddfellows Playhouse Scholarship Fund. Not only are you supporting OP, you are supporting a local business.
A family owned restaurant since 1991, Puerto Vallarta recreates a true Mexican experience with a festively painted interior, a live mariachi band, and award winning Mexican food made from only the freshest ingredients. In addition to experiencing a mini escape to Mexico, by attending this event diners will be entered into a raffle for a chance to win prizes such as gift certificates to local restaurants, art and theater tickets, and even a weekend getaway! Prizes will be drawn on November 13 during the intermission of opening night of Around the World in 80 Days. The more events you go to, the more raffle tickets you’ll have and the greater your chances of winning. Anyone can participate, and you don’t have to be present at the drawing to win.
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Middletown Press Going Gatefold
While the Middletown Press is currently without a full-time reporter covering Middletown, word is out that long time plans to return the daily to a gate-fold layout are nearing completion. The daily is currently a tabloid format. The gate fold press is scheduled to hit the street on October 5, but current honor boxes are not designed to display the new paper elegantly in that format.
Labels: gatefold, karen swartz, middletown press, State legislature
Army Base Wetlands Permit Process Proceeds
Residents of Boardman Lane were alarmed last week to see engineers examining the wetlands on the 88-acre parcel which they thought had been rejected by the US Army Corps of Engineers for a Military Training Facility to be built in Middletown. However, the activity turned out to be part of the normal process for the Corps to gain a wetlands permit for the site that the Army ultimately selected, Cucia Park.
Debbie Terrell, who rents and farms the property originally selected by the Army, told me that on Thursday, "there were 8 people, women and men, taking pictures." At least one resident was concerned enough to contact the City Planner, Bill Warner. Responding to a comment from another neighbor on The Eye, Bill Warner wrote, "The Boardman Lane site was not evaluated in the environmental assesment. I dont see how the Army could jump to that site." Warner was referring to the environmental assessment released April 13th, which did not evaluate the Boardman Lane site, but instead evaluated a site on Ken Dooley Drive which does not include the Boardman Lane land. That environmental assessment selected Cucia Park as the military's preferred site. The City agreed to sell the Park to the Army for $2M, this sale is dependent upon the Army obtaining all necessary permits for construction.
The construction at Cucia Park will require filling of some wetlands, and the Corps of Engineers team, led by project manager Diane McCartin, needs to have a permit from the Corps of Engineers Regulators and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to do this. Part of the environmental review, according to an article by Sloan Brewster in the Middletown Press, requires a determination that the preferred site is the "least damaging practicable alternative." Thus, the review often includes an evaluation of other possible sites for the facility.
McCartin confirmed this in a phone interview with The Eye, saying that the EPA was doing "due diligence to determine if Cucia Park is the least environmentally damaging site. Visiting previously considered sites is something they decided to do before they would issue a permit." In addition to Boardman Lane, the regulators wanted to tour a site off of Ken Dooley Drive (this property abuts the rear of the Boardman Lane property), Cucia Park, a property owned by Walter Manthay at Middle and Bell Street, and a property owned by Krane Development on Atkins Street. In an email to Warner, McCartin indicated that regulators asked them to delineate the wetlands on the Boardman Lane site "because the regulators believe there are more wetlands there than originally delineated and they want this information for their records."
Larry Rosenberg, corps chief of public affairs for the New England District, told The Press that 99 percent of wetlands permit applications are approved with conditions. These conditions might include a mitigation plan, wherein the Corps would enhance or protect other wetlands within the same watershed.
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Does State Health Statute Make Communion Illegal?
"On a regular basis, every Sunday, we have communion," said Reverend Joel Neubauer, pastor of Christ Evangelical Lutheran Church on Washington Street, at a meeting of the faith-based community concerned with state laws regulating charitable food distribution. "People bring wine from home. They bake bread at home and bring it to church for communion. We drink out of the same cup. Now I'm hearing that it's an illegal act?"
Attorney Dan Livingston, part of the law firm defending Food Not Bombs against a citation for distributing food without a license, confirmed the worse.
"Technically, it's illegal," Livingston said. "But whether the health department would cite you is another question."
"We're basically not being able to practice our faith because or what they're saying," Reverend R. Maureen Hawksley of St. Paul Lutheran Church said.
"You could make that argument," Livingston agreed.
The group included concerned members of the Middletown clergy, members of the health care community, and other concerned residents. They gathered because they are alarmed by a recent strict adherence by the city Health Department to a state statute prohibiting any food not prepared in a licensed kitchen from being served to the public.
The meeting was held Monday night at the St. Vincent dePaul Soup Kitchen on Main Street where director Ron Krom served as host, and provided a historical context for the meeting. He explained that indeed, state statute prohibits any food not prepared in a licensed kitchen, from being served to the public on a regular basis.
This statute was cited by city health department officials when they arrested Food Not Bombs members for sharing food with the public in a regular Sunday meal on the corner of Main and Liberty Streets.
Krom noted the similarity between what Food Not Bombs was doing and what his organization did every Sunday at dinner when they served food prepared and donated by community members. And when he testified to the fact at a state hearing, he found himself the subject of a Health Department citation.
"If I don't comply," he explained. "They have threatened to take away my license."
Krom explained that the citation did not come when the city first learned of the distribution of food from unlicensed kitchens at his soup kitchen, but only after he made public testimony at the State Department of Health in defense of Food Not Bombs.
"We serve sandwiches that are made by some of the schools, by some of the Catholic classes, Boy and Girl Scouts," Krom said. "And now we're being told we cannot receive these sandwiches."
As many pointed out, the irony of the current law is that it provides an exception for charitable organizations who cook food in unlicensed kitchens, and sell it to raise funds. So a bake sale is legal, but a church after-service social, at which baked goods are shared, is technically illegal.
"What if we sold the food at Sunday meals for a penny," suggested Middletown YMCA director Bob Spencer, who is also on the board of directors at St. Vincent dePaul.
"The law is rarely this blatantly stupid," Livingston explained noting that the state legislature, which is currently in special session, has been urged to address the flaw in the law (CT State Statute 19A-36). "Technically this is not a budget issue," he said. "But they could hook this change onto an implementer bill, which is a budget bill."
State Senator Paul Doyle, who represents Middletown, was the only state or city elected official at the meeting.
"I guarantee I will try to get it in," Doyle promised. "But I can't promise that it will make it in or that it will pass. I will certainly push and I will speak to the rest of the delegation. The cause is so broad that it affects everyone. The truth of the matter is that sometimes the legislature merely reacts, and there are unintended consequences."
Many at the meeting expressed disbelief that the Middletown Health Department was so determined to uphold the statute, in an across-the-board consistent manner, and they were alternately angry and saddened by this enforcement.
"If they're going to try to be consistent about it," said Reverend John Hall of First Church. "Then they're going to have to shut down all the church coffee hours, the Shepard Home, the Christmas dinners served by the churches."
The Reverend Cocomo Rock explained that at low point in his life, he sought out sustenance from a charitable organization.
"Had it not been for a local church I wouldn't have been able to eat," he said passionately. "Unless I ate in a jail, or a hospital, or I ate something I stole. Or from a garbage can."
"There are no licensed dumpsters," Livingston said. "We don't want people to eat from unlicensed kitchens, but they can eat from dumpsters. Everyone of us who is lucky enough to have a home eats out of an unlicensed kitchen every day."
"I think it's ironic that the policy over the past several years has been to cut back on the state and city sponsored projects, and rely on churches and people of faith to take up these programs, and now we've come to this," said Juan Figueroa, of the Universal Health Project.
Much of the meeting was given over to a discussion of strategies to change the law, and simultaneously prevent any organization which helps to feed the hungry from being prevented from doing so.
"We must remember that winter is coming and that the economy is getting further depressed, and that means more hunger, so we can't stop," said Bishop William McKissick of the New Jerusalem Church. "I'd love to lead the charge and serve people food and say 'Come and arrest me," but it's the hungry kid that worries me. There will be hunger. This is not about that, it's about a law that's stupid."
"It's absurd," said real estate developer and former director of St. Vincent dePaul Soup Kitchen Peter Harding. "We're going to hesitate to feed people? That's bull."
The group agreed to address the problem by immediately contacting state legislators to push through the change during this special session. In addition, Community Health Center CEO, Mark Masselli urged the group to approach the mayor, the majority leader and the Common Council of Middletown to make adjustment to the ordinance and the enforcement. Republican Council member David Bauer has drafted a Council resolution, but it is still being considered by the city's Health Commission
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Labels: food not bombs, john hall, karen swartz, Ron Krom, st vincent de paul soup kitchen, State legislature
No Blah Bras For Cancer Fundraiser
There are probably a lot of bad puns that could be made about a fundraiser for breast cancer which features creative designs for bras, but I will refrain.
The Polish Falcon lodge in town is holding such a fundraiser, and the details are below.
If you are Polish Falcon, you may submit your design by October 18. Non-Falcons have to wait until October 25.
Labels: bras, bustin out for cancer, karen swartz, polish falcons, State legislature
Tschudin Chocolates
Corner of Main Street and Court Street
From Phileas's Journal:
As a person quite partial to sweets, I was more than delighted to catch sight of Tschudin Chocolates, a quiant chocolatier on Main Street. As soon as I popped in, I was greeted with the brilliant smile of owner Robert Tschudin Lucheme and his enthusiastic staff. Lucheme immediately began to show off his shop, bringing me on a behind-the-counter "Willy Wonka" tour to witness the art of creating chocolates. Lucheme explained that his delightful treats are made with only the finest chocolates imported from France and white chocolate imported from Belgium, and that each piece of his eclectic collection of chocolates is handmade! And how eclectic his collection is! Lucheme crafts not only simple milk and dark chocolates, but also unique creations such as Ras el Hanut (an exotic mix of Moroccan spices) chocolates, crepe-filled chocolates, and gingerbread dark chocolates (just to name a few).
But there was more! In addition to chocolates, the shop also offers a featured baked good daily (not necessarily made with chocolate) and chocolate sculptures that can be made to order (I was flabberghasted to view a lifesize chocolate skateboad displayed in their window!). Lucheme also whispered that his team was currently developing a line of asian confections, which I will most certainly be travelling back to Middletown to experience. With such a large and unique collection of confections, I am confident in saying that this shop will please any admirer of sweets!
Labels: around middletown in 80 days, karen swartz, Oddfellows Playhouse, State legislature
Special Food Day Farmers Market at Wesleyan
From Sarah Jeffrey
The Wesleyan Farmers Market is normally on the first and third Wednesdays each month, but this week we will be having a special Tuesday market in honor of local food day. The markets are held at the Usdan center which is at 45 Wyllys Avenue.
As always: beautiful fresh produce, goat cheese, baked goods, pesto, eggs, honey, handmade jams, spices, yarn, coffee, cookies, soaps, bread, and more! Come see our wonderful vendors, among others, White Gate Farm, Merianos Bakery, Wave Hill Breads, Beltane Farm, Killam and Bassette, Linda's Sweet Memories Bakery, and Four Mile River Farm will be in attendance. Bon Appetit will be preparing a festive lunch made from all local ingredients.
Bon Appetit with be serving food made with local ingredients from our vendors, so you can use your meal points for a tasty fresh lunch!
Check out the market's blog(http://wesfarmersmarket.stugroup.wesleyan.edu/) for more information.
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Labels: covered farmers market, karen swartz, State legislature, wesleyan
Eye on the Air, September 25
Eye on the Air, as broadcast September 25 on WESU, 88.1 FM from Wesleyan University.
Host Karen Swartz talks with longtime U.S. Postal Service Mitch Dingle about his years delivering mail to Middletown residents. Announcer: Mary Longley. Produced by Mary Longley.
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Labels: eye on the air, karen swartz, mary longley, mitch dingle, State legislature
From 1969: Wesleyan Hills advertisement
The following advertisement appeared in the Hartford Courant exactly 40 years ago today, on September 27, 1969.
Labels: karen swartz, State legislature, this date in history, wesleyan hills
A Spooky Showing at MAC650
Labels: addams family, karen swartz, mac650, State legislature
Indian Hill Cemetary
Originally known as "Mattabeseck" to the Wangunk Indians who inhabited the area, Indian Hill was sold to English settlers during the 1700s and was eventually converted into a cemetary in 1850. The cemetary became the burial ground for numerous politicians and upperclass citizens of Middletown during the 19th century, providing a resting spot for the likes of former state governors, Connecticut state representatives, U.S. representatives from Connecticut, former mayors and more. For a complete listing of famous individuals buried in the cemetery, visit http://www.findagrave.com/php/famous.php?FScemeteryid=103419&page=cem
More than just a historical site, the cemetary is a quiet, scenic spot, enjoyed by walkers, joggers, and those looking for a peaceful spot to picnic.
Jason, J.S., John H. & a short work by Augusta Read Thomas
The document on the left is the first page of Johann Sebastian Bach's "Suite No. 1 in G major, BWV 1007" composed for the cello in the second decade of the 18th Century. It is but 1 of 6 that Bach composed, a work that defines classical players. There are many recordings of the pieces, from Pablo Casals' first 78 rpm disks from 1925 to Mstislav Rostopovich to Yo-Yo Ma (he's done 2 brilliant sessions, separated by 15 years) to transcriptions for many other instruments including violin, double bass, piano, mandolin, guitar, saxophone, tuba (!) and trumpet.
Today, Saturday September 26, cellist Jason Duckles, Middletown resident, teacher and member of the Amelia Piano Trio, played a solo concert in the Hubbard Room of the Russell Library. His program included Bach's "Suite No. 2 in D-minor, BMV 2008", John Harbison's "Suite for Solo Cello" (1993), "Bells Ring Summer" by New Haven Symphony Orchestra Composer-in-residence Augusta Read Thomas, and Bach's "Suite No. 3 in C-Major, BWV 1009."
Now you know what music you missed. What isn't visible from the listing is Mr. Duckles' informative introductions, the view from the windows behind him of the leaves falling in the Library Courtyard (pictured left), the fingers of his left hand articulating the notes as they moved easily and swiftly around the neck of the cello, the overtones when he plucked a string, and the decay of the deep, sonorous, low notes on the slower movements. You should know that Duckles played the Bach "Suites "from memory and that this was one of the first times he had played Ms. Thomas' short but demanding composition in public. The Harbison "suite", influenced by Bach but much starker and a bit frenetic, contains a "Fuga-Burletta" that is tricky to play, a thorny and virtuousic short section of a work that looks both back and forward.
After a short break, Mr. Duckles returned to tell us about Augusta Read Thomas (picture) and perform "Bells Ringing Summer." A challenging piece for both listener and performer, with drawn-out tones, quick plucked notes, the short work has great urgency and its shivering, keening, melody prayer-like.
In comparison, "Suite No. 3" is often light-hearted, sprightly, with pretty melodies (such as the stately "Sarabande" section) while the "minuets" section display bold melodies but are never brash, always tuneful. The wondrous "Prelude" section that opens the work is built upon beautiful, thick, rich chords with low notes that reverberate deeply with one's body.
What the audience could see and hear was Jason Duckles' passion for music and his boundless desire to inform, educate and entertain. One often encounters musicians who are aloof, unwilling to engage with the audience because they are shy or in a state that does not allow for interaction. Jason and his wife, violist Anthea Kreston, are a big part of the Middletown "arts" community. They embrace their roles as educators and love to share their knowledge and talents. They never talk or "play" down to an audience.
Jason Duckles is a world-class musician, with a tone and articulation of melody that speaks of many hours of perfecting his craft. He is, also, a world-class person, with a smile and demeanor that makes one realize that, while music is a passion and his life's work, being alive, involved, and "in the moment", is equally important
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Labels: Amelia Piano Trio, cello, karen swartz, State legislature, The Russell Library
Environmental Grant Proposals being solicited by Rockfall Foundation - Info Workshop 10/20
The Rockfall Foundation invites grant proposals from nonprofit organizations, towns, libraries and schools to support environmental education, conservation and planning projects in Middlesex County. The deadline for receipt of completed applications is November 12, 2009 and awards will be announced in mid-February, 2010.
"Rockfall grants often serve as catalysts for imaginative ways to preserve our natural environment while enhancing the quality of life for all county residents," according to Rockfall Grants Chairman, Anthony P. Marino. "Grant selections also often reflect Rockfall's focus on grassroots programs, particularly those that encourage residents to spend more time outside and better understand the county's natural resources and unique character."
Of special interest are: projects for youth that integrate activities with local, standards-based curricula; projects that encourage community growth that is in harmony with the environment; and internship projects with measurable outcomes for college students. Priority will be given to projects that serve as models throughout Middlesex County, explains Marino.
All those who are interested in submitting a proposal are invited to an informal grants informational workshop on Tuesday, October 20th from 5 - 6 p.m. at the deKoven House Community Center.
Detailed guidelines and eligibility requirements as well as a grant application can be obtained from the foundation's website, www.rockfallfoundation.org, or by calling the Foundation's office at 860-347-0340. To register for the workshop, or for additional information about Rockfall grants, contact Virginia R. Rollefson, Executive Director, vrr@rockfallfoundation.org, or phone (860) 347-0340.
The Rockfall Foundation supports environmental education, conservation programs and planning initiatives in Middlesex County. Celebrating its 75th anniversary in 2010, it is one of Connecticut's oldest environmental organizations. Rockfall's mission is to be a catalyst-- bringing people together and supporting organizations to conserve and enhance the county's natural environment.
VIRGINIA R. ROLLEFSON, Executive Director (860) 347-0340
Claire Rusowicz
The Rockfall Foundation
"Greening & Growing Middlesex County for 75 years"
shown at left - Previous Grant Recipient - GreenKids Project
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Explore the Widest Main Street in America
Come take a stroll down Main Street, Middletown and celebrate the widest main street in America! The recent "Renaissance" in Middletown has created a thriving cultural environment in our downtown, giving our town both charm and appeal. Among locations to explore are numerous shops (from toy stores to jewelers to Ecuadorian gift shops), or dine at our extensive array of restaurants (from Thai cuisine to Italian cuisine to Mexican cuisine and more), or relax at a cafe, or visit an art gallery. The possibilities are endless! Discover the wealth of culture and excitement that Middletown has to offer and as always, keep your eyes peeled for Phileas Fogg.
A more complete listing of Middletown Business' can be found at:
http://www.middletowndowntown.com/default.asp
Labels: around middletown in 80 days, Downtown Business District (DBD), karen swartz, main street, Oddfellows Playhouse, State legislature
Now You See It, Now You Don't
(Photos: Beth Emery)
Alarmed by the piles of bulky waste accumulating in neighborhoods close to downtown, Mayor Sebastian Giuliano has ordered that waste be collected by the Public Works department and that the department request $30,000 in emergency funding to reinstate bulky waste pickup in those neighborhoods.
In an austerity measure, on July 1, the Common Council did away with the free pick-up of bulky waste in the downtown "sanitation district" where residents were entitled to three pick-ups annually. Almost immediately, bulky waste such as furniture, mattresses, appliances and house fixtures began to line the curbs of downtown neighborhoods.
Complaints flooded the public works department, and several residents addressed the complaints to the Common Council at September's meeting. At that time the Council requested a report on the situation at the October Council meeting from Public Works Director William Russo.
"I think some of it can be attributed to habit," Mayor Sebastian Giuliano said Friday. "People were used to getting their bulky waste hauled away. And some are still not aware that a new system is in place."
The new arrangement calls for a fee of $75 for bulky waste removal.
After an inspection of downtown neighborhoods, and consultation with city Health Director Dr. Joseph Havlicek, Giuliano decided to act and requested that the public works department remove what had already accumulated on the streets.
"Our phone has been ringing off the hook," Russo said. "I truly believe that reinstating bulky waste pickup will help get some unsafe areas cleaned up."
"We had to get it picked up," Giuliano insisted. "Or by Christmas we'd be knee-deep in trash."
Most of the streets are now free of trash.
"I have the legal department checking on our new code enforcement ordinance to allow us to do what New Britain has begun to do in a program they call 'clean and lien.' The city will clean up a blighted area, and then go after the property owner for compensation. In the past we've been able to cite a landlord, but that didn't necessarily make the pile of trash disappear," Giuliano said.
Giuliano explained that the pay-for-service approach is necessary because of increasing fees the city has to pay for disposal of bulky waste. But he admits that the sudden impact of the ordinance change could be seen along every street downtown.
"Following our recent tour we have to be willing to see the actual situation and adjust accordingly," Giuliano said.
Giuliano emphasized that most residents and landlords are abiding by the law, or mistakenly leaving bulky waste on the curb.
"But I have a gut instinct that there are some property owners who do not like the new fee, and are attempting to force the issue," he said.
Giuliano is urging concerned residents to attend the October 5 Common Council meeting where the issue of bulky waste will be discussed.
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Labels: bulky waste, Fee, karen swartz, State legislature
Exciting Green Street Arts Center Events
Check out what's happening at Green Street this weekend!
Saturday Passport Series - South Indian Music & Dance
1pm - 3pm, Tomorrow 9/26
Middletown's vibrant Carnatic music and Bharata Natyam dance performers join together for an afternoon of performance, demonstration and audience participation. Musicians will demonstrate their instruments and discuss basic South Indian musical principles.
Sunday Salon - Manju Hingorani & Bob Lane: Science and Film
2pm - 4pm, Sunday 9/27
Listen to presenters discuss their recently developed a course at Wesleyan in which science students collaborate with film students in the making of science documentaries, including writing, filming, and editing. Several of the student films will also be screened.
$3 for members, $5 for non-members.
Both events are part of Green Street's several ongoing series of performances, lectures, presentations, and workshops. Visit www.greenstreetartscenter.org or call 860-685-7871 for more information.
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Dancing to the Oldies to Light the Town Christmas Tree
DANCING TO THE OLDIES TO LIGHT THE SOUTH GREEN TREES
Join us on Friday October 2, 2009 at the Falcon Pavilion from 7 pm to 10 pm to dance the night away and light more trees on the green! Enjoy a lite pasta and salad supper,dessert, raffles, dance contest and cash bar all to benefit the our historic South Green. Cost~ $20.00 per person.
Contact Claudia 860-930-3447 or Pat 860-346-4028 or email claudia.defrance@snet.net to reserve a seat or a table.
Labels: christmas trees, dancing to the oldies, karen swartz, State legislature
Woodrow Wilson Students Inducted Into Junior National Honor Society
The induction ceremony for the Junior National Honor Society was held last night, Thursday, September 24 at Woodrow Wilson Middle School in Middletown. The following 30 students are the 2009 8th Grade Inductees. All students had to maintain a 92 grade average throughout 7th grade to be eligible.
Marissa Aldieri
Samantha Angle
Mallory Botti
Lauren Bridges
Samuel Clark
Mikaela Coady
Giuliana David
Hanna Fields
ANdrew Gilliland
William Gritzuk
Arabia Henley
Sara Isaacson
Victoria Kaspar
Olive Kuhn
Alissa Lancia
Danielle Lau
Liza Marino
Micholas Maturo
Rajeen Mayo
Haley McDonald
Maximillian Molski
Haley Rugh
Philip Santoro
Lucas Saunders
Christina Shea
Jaimie Dimmons
Sarah Stefurak
Nicole Tooker
Stephanie Vopelak
Jeffery Woodcock
Labels: karen swartz, national junior honor society, State legislature, woodrow wilson middle school
Weekend Events: Additions & "Healthy" Video
Vinnie's Jump & Jive, Main Street, presents "Barefoot Boogie" Saturday evening at 8 p.m. I can't say it any better than they do: "Come as you are, kick off your shoes and dance the night away to an eclectic blend of music - old, new, world music, dance music, pop and much more. You get t pick what we dance t by signing up for a DJ spot and bringing your favorites on an iPod, mp3 or a CD mix. No rights, no wrongs, moving your own way, as you like, just for the fun of it." Want to know more? Go to www.vinniesjumpandjive.com or call 347-6971, extension 3777.
This missive from Professor Neely Bruce: On Sunday September 27, at 4:00, local artists and enthusiasts will celebrate the memory of Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941), the first non-European to win the Nobel Prize in Literature. Tagore, a remarkable polyartist and educator, is equally prominent in his native India as a poet, playwright, essayist, composer and political thinker. A farsighted and radical educator, the school he founded in India at Santiniketan still flourishes, and his educational ideas were crucial in the establishment of Dartington College in England and many other schools in the West. Knighted by the British Crown in 1915, he later renounced his knighthood to protest British imperialism. At the age of sixty he took up painting, producing a number of striking images in an original and multifaceted style. Hailed early in the twentieth century as “the finest poet India has produced” and considered a saint in his native Bengal, his reputation in the West is in eclipse.
To remedy this situation, several Tagore enthusiasts in Middletown have organized " A Tribute to Tagore" at South Congregational Church. Soprano Phyllis Bruce, with her husband Neely at the piano, will perform the song cycle "Gitanjali" by John Alden Carpenter—settings of texts taken from the 1912 book of poetry that earned Tagore the Nobel Prize. Edwina Ranganathan, who taught at Santiniketan for three years, will read the poems in English. Stan Scott and Saiyara Fahmi will sing several of Tagore’s own musical compositions in the original Bengali. Six prints of Tagore’s paintings will be on display, and Jennifer Barber will dance. Ushakumari Williams, who was born into an Indian family in Tanzania, will speak on the political, social and spiritual conceptions of Tagore. This unique event will have something for everyone—poetry, music, dance and ideas, all suitable for all ages.
"A Tribute to Rabindranath Tagore" is free and open to the public. An offering will be taken to benefit the new organ stop at South Church. For more information contact Neely Bruce at 347-3003 or by email: nbruce@wesleyan.edu.
Next week, I'll be posting an article about the Wesleyan "creative music" connection and, specifically, 3 graduates who have studied and performed with Professor Anthony Braxton and all of whom are connected with Firehouse 12, the fine recording studio, performance space and bar (hey, got to pay the rent) located at 45 Crown Street in New Haven. The venue's fall 2009 Concert series started last Friday and continues (every Friday save for Thanksgiving weekend) through December 18. Find out more about the series and venue by going to www.firehouse12.com.
In the meantime, tonight (9/25) the Firehouse presents the Matt Wilson Quartet at 8:30 and 10 p.m. (separate admissions.) Wilson, a drummer/composer who has worked with many great musicians, has a great sense of the jazz tradition and a wicked sense of humor. To that end, here's a video of "Martha The Juicer" - it should be self-explanatory.
Labels: Firehouse 12, karen swartz, neely bruce, State legislature, Vinnie's Jump and Jive
Zilkha Art Gallery
(12 P.M. to 8 P.M.)
Yesterday, whilst sipping a most sumptious cup of fine tea at Javapalooza, I was engaged in conversation by a student of the local university, Wesleyan. An art student, he had nothing but glorious words for the University's Center For the Arts, and in particular, the Ezra and Cecile Zilka Gallery, a host of fine exhibits that generally rotate on a monthly basis. Intrigued by his praise for the Zilkha Gallery, I gathered my travelling companion Passepartout and headed to campus.
The Gallery was offering a most unique exhibit entitled "Paul Villinksi: Emergency Response Studio". Inspired by trip taken by artist Paul Villinski to post-Katrina New Orleans, the exhibit explores the idea of creating living and working areas for artists displaced by natural disasters and for artists seeking to work in post-disaster settings. Curator Nina Felshin showed Passepatout and me an installment of Villinski's Response Studio as well as the process by which the studio was constructed. We were also informed on the concept of movable housing, "green" technology, and "green" building materials, subjects about which I knew very little until today. Indeed it was a most enlightening visit, and a visit which I highly suggest to all.
Ezra and Cecile Zilkha Gallery
Paul Villinski: Emergency Response Studio
Nina Felshin, curator
Saturday, September 12 through Sunday, November 8, 2009
Hours: Tuesday-Sunday, noon-4pm. Friday, noon-8pm.
http://www.wesleyan.edu/cfa/events.html#exhibitions
Eye on the Air, Sept 25
Eye on the Air, live 1-2 PM, WESU 881.FM, or the live webcast.
Host Karen Swartz talks with longtime Middletown USPS mail carrier Mitch Dingle with tales of walking everyday through the neighborhoods in town.
Produced by Mary Longley.
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Labels: eye on the air, karen swartz, mitch dingle, State legislature
Senate Unlikely to Take Up Changes In Food Distribution Bill
Despite a letter from the State's Attorney General, and several letters from local pastors worried about serving Christmas dinners to the needy, the Senate is unlikely to have time in the current short session, to take up legislative change in the bill which currently is interpreted to prohibit charitable distribution of food prepared in unlicensed kitchens.
In the present, abbreviated session, the legislature is wrestling with regulations which need to be created or modified as a result of the late passage of the state budget.
"We got it (the Attorney General's letter) very late in the process, and I think there's some agreement with the Attorney General and the concerns he raises," said Derek Slap, Senate Democratic spokesman. "We're absolutely sympathetic to the points the Attorney General and others have raised."
But Slap indicated that the complaint, and the legislation in question, would have to be fully vetted before action could be taken. Slapp suggested that there may be an approach featuring a broader interpretation of the statute which would not require a change in legislation.
Without the change, local pastors in Middletown are concerned that Christmas meals, which consist of turkey and the fixings prepared in the homes of parishoners, would have to be cancelled.
Labels: christmas meals, food not bombs, Health Department, karen swartz, licensed kitchens, State legislature, state senate
Middletown Food Sharing Controversy Featured In Blog Chronicling the High Cost of Legal System
News of the controversy spawned by Food Not Bombs, which has now spread to potential problems for other charitable organizations which share food, is featured in Overlawyered, a blog which purports to expose unneccessary and wasteful legal action.
This law, and its implications, are not new to Overlawyered, as they covered the "Connecticut pie menace" in 1999.
Labels: food not bombs, karen swartz, overlawyered, State legislature
Local Actors Take Note: A Wes Student Film Looking for Non-Student Actors
It's often the case that Wesleyan Film Studies students filming their senior thesis films cast them with actors much like themselves - college age student actors.
Wesleying reports a film directed by senior Milla Bell-Hart and produced by Josh Gordon, looking for a young actress (age 7-12), and an older male and female lead (male: 30's-50's, female 25-50's). Plus a number of supporting roles.
Audition times:
MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 28th in Wesleyan University’s CFA Theater Studios, Room 114. Come prepared for a dry reading.
Audition notice here.
Dates/Times:
Monday, Sept. 28 from 4:30 PM – 7:00 PM
Saturday, Oct. 3 from 9:15 AM – 12:00 PM
Place: CFA Theater Studios: East Room (114)
Please contact Josh Gordon at jlgordon@wes by September 27th for further details including audition times.
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Labels: karen swartz, senior film thesis, State legislature, wesleyan, woody guthrie
Pastors Asked to Support Change in Food Sharing Law
Elizabeth Conklin, one of the attorneys representing Food Not Bombs, has asked Middletown church leaders to urge state legislative leaders to alter a law which prevents churches and other organizations from sharing food with those in need.
Food Not Bombs has been cited by Middletown and state health departments for sharing food that has not been prepared in a licensed kitchens. In addition St. Vincent dePaul Soup Kitchen was cited Tuesday for serving a Sunday meal in which food, not prepared in local kitchens, was shared with the public.
Attorney General Richard Blumenthal wrote a letter yesterday to State Senate and House leaders urgint them to change the law to allow an exception for charitable organizations which distribute food.
In his letter, First Church pastor John Hall cites what he sees as a threat to community meals at his church if the law is not changed.
I am writing to thank you for your attention to the threat facing charitable organizations regarding our food sharing practices. A number of clergy from Middletown, including me, met with Attorney General Blumenthal on September 18 to discuss the serious alarm and disruption caused in our organizations by the action of the Middletown Health Department against Food Not Bombs. My church is also the location where Food Not Bombs is currently preparing the food it shares on Sunday afternoon, since we have a licensed kitchen.
The problem for churches and the St. Vincent DePaul Soup Kitchen arises from the Middletown Health Department’s apparent need to appear consistent in its enforcement action regarding food not prepared in licensed kitchens. They have threatened to cite St. Vincent DePaul if it accepts food prepared in people’s homes. If this enforcement action takes place and is extended consistently, it will shut down a huge percentage of the charitable food donations in our city. As a result, food insecurity and hunger will increase — a special tragedy during these difficult economic times. I understand that the Middletown Health Department is communicating with health departments in other communities to encourage enforcement of the same policy.
I am very grateful to Attorney General Blumenthal for recognizing that the state law on this matter (PA 95-44) was most likely intended to exempt charitable organizations, not just charitable fundraisers. Likewise, I am very grateful to you for taking up the cause in this special session in order to resolve this matter once and for all. It makes no sense to exempt the sale of food but not the giving of food.
Our church hosts a free community Christmas Day dinner that feeds 300 people. This meal requires many turkeys, hams, pies, cookies, brownies, cakes, etc. to be prepared in people’s homes because there is not enough oven space or standing room in the church kitchen for this to be accomplished. Also, every Sunday evening a different church prepares and serves the supper at St. Vincent’s. Some or many components of these meals are prepared in homes — casseroles, pasta sauce, salads, brownies, cupcakes, etc. People are willing to make these donations in part because they can do the work at home where it is more convenient. Even the goodies that we share after worship every Sunday morning are largely made in people’s homes. It is just not realistic for this to be done in any other way.
Church leaders are urged to communicate with legislative leaders immediately so that action can take place in the short legislative session currently underway.
Senate President Don Williams
phone 240-8600 fax 240-8406
Email Williams@senatedems.ct.gov
Speaker of the House Chris Donovan
Christopher.Donovan@cga.ct.gov
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Javapalooza
After days of following Phileas as he runs about town, you must be in need of a brief respite. Before Phileas takes off for his next location, stop into Javapalooza for some java rejuvenation. In addition to offering locally roasted organic coffees, fine teas, and an array of freshly baked goods as any coffeehouse might, the European style café also has available micro brews and fine wines to pair with savory sandwiches and soups that are made fresh daily. This versatile juntion is the perfect place to catch up with friends, to read a book, to use the free Wi-Fi, or to enjoy live, local music every evening!
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"I am flabbergasted"
Those were the words of a very happy Commissioner Catherine Johnson as the Planning and Zoning Commission finished agreeing on a set of principles to guide the new Plan of Conservation and Development.
The Commission met in a workshop format, facing each other around a table set up on the floor of the Council Chambers. Commissioner Johnson led off the meeting with a 30 minute presentation on Smart Growth, laying out its goals and principles. She said these include creating a range of housing opportunities, fostering neighborhoods which have a strong sense of place, providing a variety of transportation choices, and building compactly to efficiently use land.
Smart Growth planning would relax the zoning of specific regions of the city to allow mixed use, but would tighten restrictions on the design of new developments. This would invert the current land use philosophy, which has tight restrictions on zoning (for example, only residential developments are allowed in an R60 zone), but has few restrictions on the design of a new development. Johnson illustrated her talk with examples which contrasted neighborhood based design and planning with the sprawl that a pure zoning approach has led to.
Johnson echoed many of the points made in a presentation by the town planner of Hamden, Leslie Creane, at a May meeting of the P&Z (New Approach to Zoning Regulations Presented at City Hall). The Commissioners were enthusiastic about Creane's presentation, and responded
very positively to Johnson's as well. Commissioner Deborah Kleckowski commented that she had heard many residents complain about the lack of retail and cultural attractions in Middletown. Commissioners seemed to agree that in the long term, neighborhoods with a mix of different kinds of housing (apartments, duplexes, and detached homes), offices, and retail, would increase the quality of life for residents.
The Commissioners worked on a set of principles from lists provided by City Planner Bill Warner. After a general discussion that revealed only minor differences of opinion on what kind of city Middletown should be, the Commissioners efficiently reached unanimous agreement on preliminary language for the guiding
principles for the POCD. [Note, what follows may not be the final versions of the principles, my notes were less than complete, and the commissioners felt that some of these "principles" might be better as examples or goals, rather than over-arching principles. I include them all to give a sense of the Commissioner's approach to the POCD. The final language will be refined by Warner with input from the Commissioners.]
Encourage environmentally responsible and sustainable development
Introduce new road standards in rural areas to reduce impacts of impervious pavement
Preserve and connect open space, farmland and critical environmental areas.
Improve design quality of development with design standards.
Encourage compact building design.
Promote development compatible with the unique character of neighborhoods to create a strong sense of place
Create walkable neighborhoods.
Provide a mix of uses in neighborhoods to ensure a city's vitality: commercial, civic, residential, recreation.
Encourage transit to provide a variety of transportation choices, including public transit, cars, bicycles, rail, and pedestrian.
Invest in sidewalks, road connections, bike paths, and street trees to encourage walking and biking.
Invest in infrastructure to increase rail, to provide linkages to neighboring communities.
Locate jobs near housing, transit, and services.
Concentrate Development
Reinforce downtown as our economic and cultural center.
Concentrate development along major transportation corridors already served by water and sewer.
Offer incentives to rehab brownfields, preserve historic structures and rehab housing and schools.
Encourage compact development.
Mix land uses.
Create a lively mixed-use downtown, connect to the riverfront.
Limit the sprawl of low-density housing.
Create a range of housing opportunities and choice.
Increase the commercial tax base, lowering tax burden on residential property owners.
Attract office, light industry, retail, and entertainment.
Create partnerships between Education and Industry.
Expand on the existing medical infrastructure.
After reaching consensus on these draft guiding principles, the Commissioners enthusiastically agreed to hold another workshop on the POCD at their next meeting, on October 14.
Public Comment About Schools Redistricting.
Under the regular item at the end of the meeting ("Public comment on topics which are not or have not been the subject of a public hearing"), I spoke as a member of the public. I commented that the Board of Education will be making a decision about possibly significant redistricting this year. I urged the Commissioners to work with the Board of Education on this issue, which is impacted by (and has impacts on) neighborhoods, transportation, and development.
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NATIONAL SKIN CANCER AWARENESS CHARITY, SKCIN LAUNCH ‘MASCED PRO’ - A national Melanoma and Skin Cancer Early Detection training programme for Medical and Healthcare Practitioners.
The MASCED PRO on-line training programme has been developed by national melanoma and skin cancer awareness charity, Skcin, to provide medical and healthcare practitioners with an accessible, cost effective tool with which to develop their knowledge of the early signs and symptoms of melanoma and non-melanoma skin cancers - giving them the confidence to refer or signpost patients to appropriate colleagues and/or services following the identification of suspicious lesions.
Despite the vast majority of all skin cancers being preventable, statistics continue to soar and ignorance regarding how to spot the early signs and symptoms on a personal level, or within professional capacities remains widespread. The objective of the MASCED PRO programme is to fill the mammoth void that exists in this arena by facilitating the provision of effective training tools with quality printed and on-line resources, enabling practitioners to integrate this knowledge into their everyday practice and extend vital information on prevention and early detection across their patient communities.
The MASCED PRO training programme has been reviewed and is supported by the British Association of Dermatologists, the British Association Skin Cancer Specialist Nurses and the British Dermatological Nursing Group.
“The British Association of Dermatologists supports this valuable programme. Many professionals who come into contact with skin through the course of their work will have received little or no training in how to spot signs of the UK’s most common cancer. Given that the vast majority of deaths from skin cancer could be avoided if the cancer was detected earlier, work such as this by Skcin, to help drive earlier referrals of potential cancers to specialists, can only be seen as a hugely positive step”.
The training programme has been developed by the charity following the success of it’s sister scheme that launched in January 2018 training hair, health and beauty industry professionals. With over 10,000 professionals registered across the UK and over 1,000 from over 30 different countries globally, the MASCED programme has seen huge success. The significant interest from medical & healthcare practitioners and associated organisations highlighted the evident need for such a programme to develop into an arena that is void of practical, accessible and measurable solutions.
“Allied Health professionals have a major role to play in prevention” - a statement issued by Public Health England who have recently published the first ever UK-wide public health strategy that sets out their plans to maximise the contribution that Allied Health Professionals make to prevention and how they can deliver public health benefits.
Marie Tudor CEO of charity, Skcin adds: “ By supporting all healthcare professionals to embed prevention and early detection within their practice is critical to reducing the soaring rates of skin cancer in the UK. The MASCED PRO training programme strongly supports the call by Public Health England to look beyond the obvious NHS workforce to see how other professionals can help prevent illness and promote wellbeing”.
Allied Health Professionals make an enormous contribution to tackling public health challenges. Made up of 14 professions, including occupational therapists, paramedics, podiatrists and physiotherapists, AHPs are the third largest workforce in the NHS. Spending time with millions of people across the country every day, these professionals are well placed to offer skin health advice and support to a wide range of different communities.
The MASCED PRO training programme however, extends further than the 14 professions defined as AHP’s and is open to all medical and healthcare practitioners. The training also fills a huge void that exists in the education of General Practitioners who are surprisingly afforded little to no training on the subject.
The training programme piloted throughout March and April earlier this year in the Midlands, where 45 of the 100 healthcare practitioners who took part were GPs who provided some hugely positive, 5 star feedback:
“The course refreshed and consolidated my knowledge and helped me to identify where further training is needed. Where any doubt existed I now have all the tools needed to be confident in justifying any requests for referral. Thank you!”
“Really useful learning package. good variety pictures and tests knowledge adequately. I feel a lot more confident looking at skin lesions and when to refer”.
“Useful course. It has definitely increased my confidence in identifying suspicious lesions”.
The training programme is officially launching today, Wednesday 15th May at the Primary Care and Public Health Exhibition at NEC Birmingham - the UK’s leading event for GPs, federations, CCGs, primary care and community pharmacists, nurses, midwives, AHPs and healthcare managers working in primary care, community care, public and prison health.
Marie Tudor said: “This is the perfect platform to us to officially launch the programme and with a speakers slot lined up we anticipate great interest. We have worked hard over the last year to develop this training that has been reviewed and supported by many professionals in dermatology, giving us the confidence to forge forward and launch the training programme nationally”.
With the provision of the training and tools provided by the MASCED PRO Training Programme, on completion learners will be able to:
• Identify and interpret common signs and symptoms in the assessment of the most common forms of potential non-melanoma and melanoma skin cancers.
• Demonstrate appropriate clinical decision-making in taking action to refer or sign-post patients to appropriate colleagues and / or services.
• Utilise effective communication techniques in the education of their patients in relation to the identification, management and prevention of sun damage and skin cancer.
• Critically reflect on their own clinical practice to identify and develop their understanding of sun damage and skin cancers.
Gain access to the tools and resources with which to extend the provision of vital information on the prevention and early detection of melanoma and non-melanoma skin cancer into and across their patient community.
IMPACT ON CURRENT PRACTICE
Lack of knowledge and awareness on a national scale means that cancerous lesions are not detected by patients or healthcare practitioners, delaying treatment which can result in poor prognosis. There are Potential impacts of the MASCED PRO training on current healthcare practice in the UK these are:
• Increased confidence, enhanced practical skills and Improved knowledge of skin lesions across medical & healthcare industries.
• Early identification and treatment of malignant lesions- increasing long term survival rates.
• Increased awareness - that not all lesions follow the ABCDE rule and that the ABCDEF (subungual) and CUBED rules are good additional diagnostic tools.
• Increased knowledge of the warning signs of amelanotic lesions which lack pigmentation.
• Increased awareness and education across patient communities in relation to the identification, management and prevention of sun damage and skin cancer.
• Reduced treatment costs for the National Health Service.
Every professional who registers with the programme will receive a welcome pack which includes their MASCED PRO Guide - a 40 page essential learning tool that provides key information about the risks associated with UV, how to prevent skin cancer, how to identify the most common types of melanoma & non-melanoma skin cancers, how and when to refer/signpost patients, and how to extend vital information into and across their patient community. The MASCED PRO guide and mole ruler are designed to be kept in clinic as easy reference tools to aid practitioners in their everyday practice.
Once professionals have studied their guide they can then gain certification by completing the on-line e-course which has been developed to reinforce key messaging throughout the guide whilst providing a virtual experience in the identification of suspicious lesions and the subsequent referral/signposting process.
Medical and healthcare practitioners and AHP’s can get on board with the programme, by registering at: pro.masced.uk
All funds received from the MASCED PRO Training Programme are ploughed straight back into the charity, enabling them enhance and develop their comprehensive range of educational intervention programmes and resources, to aid the prevention and early detection of melanoma and skin cancer on a national scale.
For further information please contact: Marie Tudor:
marie.tudor@skcin.org | 0777 5771986
www.skcin.org
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Titanic Spa trains staff to spot melanoma by partnering with skin cancer charity Skcin
Titanic Spa, the UK’s first eco-spa, located in Huddersfield in West Yorkshire, announces a new partnership with skin cancer charity, Skcin. Skcin will become the spa’s exclusive charity partner for 2019. Titanic Spa will be supporting Skcin’s mission to raise awareness of skin cancer by promoting the importance of prevention and early detection.
According to Cancer Research UK, 1 in 36 UK males and 1 in 47 UK females will be diagnosed with melanoma (the deadliest form of skin cancer) during their lifetime. In addition, over 210,000 cases of non-melanoma skin cancers are diagnosed annually in the UK making it the most common cancer by far.
As part of its support, Titanic Spa has enrolled its therapist team in MASCED (Melanoma and Skin Cancer Early Detection), Skcin’s National Accreditation programme for hair, health and beauty industry professionals. This will enable Titanic Spa’s staff to spot the early signs and symptoms of skin cancer on its spa guests as well as on its own staff and family members, giving them the confidence to communicate concerns and advise clients to take appropriate action.
The MASCED Accreditation Programme has also been developed to raise awareness of the importance of Sun Safety to aid the prevention of around 86% of melanoma and the majority of all skin cancer cases. Titanic Spa will be utilising Skcin’s supportive awareness resources to extend vital information on the prevention and early detection of skin cancer across their client community, helping them to take charge of their own skin health and surveillance incorporating key ‘sun safe’ recommendations to its guests during the summer months promoting Skcin’s ‘Five S’s of Sun Safety’:
1. SLIP on a t-shirt
2. SLOP on SPF 30+ broad spectrum UVA sunscreen
3. SLAP on a broad brimmed hat
4. SLIDE on quality sunglasses
5. SHADE from the sun whenever possible
Announcing the charity partnership, Titanic Spa’s Director, Amy Burton says “Our therapist team are skincare professionals so extending their training to skin surveillance and how to identify suspicious lesions seemed like a logical next step. They are perfectly placed to detect the early signs of skin cancer and in a unique position to become powerful advocates in the fight against cancer. If this means they can potentially save client, staff or family lives, then that would be an incredible achievement and reward for us all.”
Campaign manager for MASCED Claire Dale says “We are delighted to be working with Titanic Spa and are hugely grateful of the support, energy and enthusiasm of the entire team. Their dedication to this initiative clearly demonstrates their commitment to providing an unrivalled service to their guests”.
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Hannah Farman Completes Step 3 towards becoming a Sun Safe Nursery - Teaching Resources & Activities
Congratulations to Hannah Farman for reading George the Sun Safe Superstar to all their children and introducing everyone to the ‘Slip, Slap, Slop song’.Hannah Farman have also pledged to continue to regularly use the resources provided to reinforce the sun safe message to their children.
“This resource is something the children love and when putting on suncream we discuss all about the safety and why its so important.”
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“We pledge to ensure our children are kept sunsafe. We will ensure all out children are kept sunsafe and provided with the right tools and knowledge to be safe from the sun furthermore we will ensure we continue to spread the message to parents. ”
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SKCIN AND TENOVUS CANCER CARE LAUNCH PARTNERSHIP TO PREVENT SKIN CANCER THROUGH EDUCATION.
SKCIN AND TENOVUS CANCER CARE LAUNCH PARTNERSHIP TO PREVENT SKIN CANCER THROUGH EDUCATION
Skcin are proud to announce a partnership with Tenovus Cancer Care, working with primary schools across Wales, to assist them in their duty of care to provide a sun safe environment and educate children on the importance of sun safety to prevent skin cancer.
The partnership launched yesterday at Penyrenglyn Primary School where Skcin and Tenovus Cancer Care joined forces to deliver a whole school assembly which was attended by Chris Bryant MP for the Rhondda who had surgery to remove a stage three melanoma earlier this year. Chris had all the children thoroughly engaged - standing in front of the whole school, he talked about his scar, how he’d often burnt as a child and therefore how important it is to protect our skin, the children LOVED him!
Chris said: “It was great to meet with the wonderful Marie of SKCIN to discuss the hard work carried out by the charity to raise awareness of skin Cancer in the UK, specifically in UK Primary Schools. I was over the moon to present Penyrenglyn Primary School with their Sun Safe School Certificate alongside Tenovus Cancer Care highlighting the importance of protecting pupils from the sun. Thank you for all your hard work! I will be writing to all Primary schools in the Rhondda regarding this extremely important campaign”.
Continuing their commitment to deliver assemblies and educational sessions to primary school children in Wales, Tenovus Cancer Care are now working in partnership with Skcin to promote our national Sun Safe Schools accreditation programme which provides all UK primary schools with comprehensive free resources with step-by step guidance and support to ensure they fulfil their duty of care by:
Implementing a suitable sun safety policy that covers all government guidelines.
Communicating with parents to gain support and raise awareness within the wider school community.
Educating children on the importance of sun safety to influence behaviour for a ‘sun safe’ skin cancer free future.
Maura Matthews, Tenovus Cancer Care’s Prevention Lead, commented: “This is an excellent opportunity for us to build on the work we have been doing with schools by partnering with Skcin to deliver their Sun Safe Schools programme.
“We both have the same aims, to educate as many children as possible on the importance of sun safety, and this will allow us to reach more children than ever before.
“The accreditation scheme gives each school a realistic target to achieve and then recognition for the work they are doing, and we are looking forward to working with schools right across Wales.”
Marie Tudor, CEO of Skcin added: “The launch event was a huge success and I like to extend special thanks to all the staff and pupils at Penyrenglyn Primary School, to Tenovus Cancer Care and their amazing choir and to Chris Bryant, all of whom played vital roles in making the event a huge success”.
“Our partnership with Tenovus Cancer Care makes complete sense, why re-invent the wheel or spend hard earned fundraisers money on duplicating efforts when they can simply be combined so effectively! This relationship highlights how charities should be working together - something Skcin have always felt very strongly about”.
“With our back office management and reporting capabilities, we are able to report on all aspects of this unique initiative and use this information to measure success which is absolutely crucial”.
“Overall it was very emotional day for Skcin, who have dedicated so much hard work, over so many years and feel so passionately about the education of our future generations to prevent skin cancer. Maybe this is finally our chance to make our voice heard”.
Why all UK primary schools should get on-board with the Sun Safe Schools programme
Whilst some sun is good for us, over-exposure to UV is a serious health risk and the primary cause of the UK’s most common and fastest rising cancer. UV is a known carcinogen, damage is cumulative, irreparable and burning as a child can dramatically increase a persons risk of developing the disease in later life. With children spending almost half their childhood at school, where they are outdoors every day, during peak UV hours (11am - 3pm), it’s imperative that schools ensure children are protected from UV damage and are educated on the importance of enjoying the sun safely.
UV exposure without doubt has to be regarded as a serious health and safety issue for schools. The NICE guidelines for skin cancer prevention make it clear that children should never be allowed to burn and should be made aware of how important it is to protect their skin. In addition government guidelines recommend schools develop a policy on how to protect children when they are outside for more than a brief period in strong sunlight.
Whilst it’s clear that schools have a duty of care, for many primary schools across the UK, this can pose a daunting prospect; What does the policy look like, what should it contain, how do I educate my pupils, where do I get the materials I need and how do I find the time to source and implement it all?
Skcin recognise not only the importance of Sun Safety education in schools, but the pressures faced by those tasked to implement an effective policy and teachings. To help solve this issue and fill the mammoth void that exists in this arena, Skcin designed and developed the Sun Safe Schools accreditation programme to provide a single reference point and comprehensive FREE resource that can be accessed by any primary school nationally.
To gain their Sun Safe Accreditation, schools must complete a 4 step process, providing feedback on-line following completion of each step. All the resources a school needs have been provided to help them achieve each step effectively and efficiently, with maximum impact and confidence and with minimum strain on valuable time and resources.
STEP ONE: CREATE YOUR SUN SAFETY POLICY
Our on-line policy maker makes it easy for schools to tailor and download their own Sun Safety policy. This process ensures schools have considered and covered all essential guidelines and recommendations and can be confident that they are implementing a suitable policy to protect their pupils and present to parents.
STEP TWO: COMMUNICATING WITH PARENTS
In accordance with a school’s tailored policy, a personalised letter is automatically generated to download and send home to parents along with their policy and Sun Safety information booklets provided free upon registration. This ensures schools are requesting the required level of support from parents, advising them correctly about Sun Safety and doing great work to increase vital knowledge about prevention and early detection within the wider school community.
STEP THREE: CONDUCT A WHOLE SCHOOL ASSEMBLY
In addition the the range of resources including assembly plan, presentation slides, music and song - all available to schools via the programme, Tenovus will be continuing their support to primary schools across Wales by helping schools deliver their assembly, engage children and reinforce the importance of Sun Safety.
STEP FOUR: CONDUCT INDIVIDUAL CLASS LESSONS
Extensive curriculum linked educational resources for key stage one and two pupils have been provided and (and are to be delivered by Tenovus Cancer Care in Wales) to help schools engage children, increase knowledge and influence behaviour.
Upon completion, schools are awarded their Sun Safe Schools Certificate of Accreditation
The Accreditation is valid for one year, with a renewal process in place for schools to review their policy, reinforce support with the existing school community, advise newcomers and increase knowledge of sun safety through education.
ALL SCHOOLS THAT REGISTER TO TAKE PART RECEIVE:
• A comprehensive welcome pack and accreditation guide designed as a back-up resource to our on-line facility, including hard copies of all printable resources.
• School assembly and lesson plan support (provided by Tenovus Cancer Care in Wales).
• A hard copy of the book ‘George the Sun Safe Superstar’ for the school library
• Sun Safe Superstar stickers for all children
• Sun Safety information booklets for all parents and to raise awareness across the school community
• Unlimited access to all on-line resources
Marie Tudor, CEO of national skin cancer charity Skcin said, “ UV awareness and skin cancer have always been regarded as a public health issue and not an educational one. The fact is that they are inextricably linked. Skcin believe the only way to combat soaring statistics is for the two departments to work together in order to create the impact required and this is why schools are uniquely placed to provide a solution.
“Skcin also believe it is the combined duty of both schools and parents to ensure children are protected from over-exposure to UV during school hours and that educational messaging is best delivered at a young age in order create the necessary behavioural change. Therefore schools not only have a duty of care to implement policy, but are uniquely placed to educate children and communicate with parents to reinforce key messaging that will positively impact the lives of our future generation and those to come”.
“Skcin launched the Sun Safe Schools Accreditation over 5 years ago now and we are reaching thousands of primary schools across the UK, teaching over half a million children and raising awareness amongst their families via the scheme. We help schools by providing a single point of trusted information and associated resources that will help them, with their limited time, budgets and high works loads, to deliver the right policy, the right advice and the right resources to engage children with this vital messaging”.
“Whilst we can offer all of the above, what we struggle to provide on a national scale, is face-to-face support in delivering assemblies and lesson plans. We know teachers love nothing more than a booked-in, ‘all sorted’ massive ‘tick in the box’ assembly and that’s why we are really excited to be working with Tenovus Cancer Care in Wales who are already doing great work in this arena. By combining our efforts we can offer primary schools across Wales the very best service, with the greatest impact”.
Primary schools should register to take part at: www.sunsafeschools.co.uk
Together we can make a difference and save lives.
IT’S TIME TO TAKE SKIN CANCER SERIOUSLY
Skcin launch hard-hitting campaign for Skin Cancer Awareness Month
Throughout Skin Cancer Awareness Month (May) national skin cancer awareness charity, Skcin will be sharing daily facts, advice and the battle scars of brave melanoma and skin cancer patients in a bid to get the ‘skinderella’ of all cancers taken more seriously by the public, by schools, by employers, by industry and by government - by highlighting the importance of prevention and early detection to save lives.
According to Cancer Research UK, 1 in 36 UK males and 1 in 47 UK females will be diagnosed with melanoma (the deadliest form of skin cancer) during their lifetime. In addition over 210,000 cases of non-melanoma skin cancers are diagnosed annually in the UK making it the most common cancer by far. As rates of the disease continue to soar, Skcin are urging pre-schools, primary schools, employers, the beauty industry, healthcare practitioners and government to ‘GET WITH THE PROGRAMME’ as they can all play vital roles in combating the disease.
Creative Director of Skcin, Kathryn Clifford says “After losing my mum to this devastating disease in 2005, I have dedicated the last 13 years of my life to prevention and early detection. Why? With 86% of skin cancers preventable and it being the only cancer we can physically see developing, shouldn’t we all know how to protect ourselves and how to spot the early signs and symptoms? It’s not rocket science, it’s common sense and not enough is being done by government to invest in the future of our nations health.
The brave patients who know all too well the devastation this disease can cause, have shared their images and stories with us to support us in our vital messaging and we couldn’t be more grateful. People tend to think that skin cancer is ‘only skin cancer’ surely it can be cut-out and that’s that. But the reality of living with melanoma is hell.
Like smoking, skin cancer is a lifestyle cancer and we are in charge of not just our own destiny, but more importantly the destiny of our future generations. That’s why we wanted to create a hard-hitting campaign that visually mimics the governments intervention regarding the dangers of smoking in the hope that we can create the required impact to influence behaviours and encourage action”.
The campaign is backed up by a comprehensive range of resources that Skcin have developed over their 13 years of dedicated work on the prevention and early detection of this dreaded disease. Pioneers of educational intervention in this field, Skcin have designed and operate a wide range of nationally accessible and measurable educational programmes that target key ‘at risk’ and ‘influential’ sectors. Working with pre-schools, primary schools, employers of outdoor workers, the hair, health and beauty industry as well as medical and healthcare practitioners, Skcin provide ‘the blue sky thinking’ recently called for in parliament when it comes to prevention and are doing vital work on a national scale to combat the soaring rates of both melanoma and non-melanoma skin cancer in the UK.
The campaign is supported by Chris Bryant Member of Parliament for the Rhondda who had surgery to remove a stage three melanoma earlier this year, he said: “Skin cancer is on the rise and it can kill. The good news is that in most cases if it is caught early it can be treated very successfully. But prevention is even better than treatment, so the government should start a major national campaign to get people to cover up in the sun and use factor 50 sun cream. And as for any strange looking skin growths, if in doubt, check it out.”
The hard-hitting campaign messaging will also be used in various settings to generate impact and influence behaviours within notoriously hard-to-engage categories. Outdoor workers are one such category and having worked in this arena for the last 6 years with a dedicated programme for employers, Skcin know all too well that the likes of builders and construction workers or employees within any predominantly male environment are less likely to take the dangers of UV exposure seriously and take the necessary steps to protect their skin, let alone check their skin for change and visit their GP if they spot something suspicious.
As such Skcin have partnered engineering enterprise Laing O’Rourke this May to promote this hard-hitting messaging in a bid to influence their outdoor workers into taking action. “At Laing O’Rourke, we take health and wellbeing seriously. We are always looking for ways to raise awareness and educate our people against key health risks to ensure the wellbeing of our workers,” said Silvana Martin, Health and Wellbeing Leader at Laing O’Rourke. “Communicating the importance of sun protection is key strategy that we are paying particular close attention, to help tackle the rising incidences of occupational skin cancer. Skcin’s campaign is hard hitting to engage people to think again while outdoor during the Summer. The key messages we want to get across are; apply sun cream and cover up. We also want to promote the universal five S’s of sun safety advice which is covered comprehensively in all Skcin’s educational resources and material on their website.’’
Skcin are also working with Homewood School and Sixth form Centre, Tenterden and Liverpool John Moores University to deliver educational intervention and behavioural research in which the campaign messaging will be used to engage teenagers in a bid to create impact and evoke cultural shift in attitudes towards the importance of sun safety.
Marie Tudor, CEO of Skcin added “We pride ourselves on our creative abilities to generate engagement, but it’s not always easy! The problem is, we are trying to tell people that the one thing we all love, enjoy, can’t avoid and to some degree is actually good for us, can kill us!
It’s no simple task - different people of different ages, working within different professions require very different approaches, so there’s ‘no one-size-fits-all’ campaign, programme or supportive resource - that’s why we operate a suite of bespoke accreditation programmes and the reason why we have developed such a comprehensive bank of supportive resources.
This campaign is very much about generating an impact that will hopefully make people think twice about the severity of skin cancer and the consequences our decisions regarding sun safety can have. It’s also a nod to government with whom are equally difficult to engage with on the matter, despite our best efforts and the offer of robust, quality and measurable solutions to help them improve the nations health and mitigate future costs for the NHS”.
Now is the time to take action - pre-schools, primary schools and employers of outdoor workers all have a duty of care to ensure they implement a robust sun safety policy and educate their employees and our future generations on the prevention and early detection of skin cancer. Schools and workplaces can ‘get with the programme’ by accessing the comprehensive free accreditation programmes and resources available at:
sunsafenurseries.co.uk
sunsafeschools.co.uk
sunsafeworkplaces.co.uk
Hair, Health and Beauty Industry professionals as well as medical and healthcare practitioners can get trained to spot the early signs of skin cancer and advise their clients / patients to take appropriate action by taking part in the MASCED (Melanoma and Skin Cancer Early Detection) training programmes available at: masced.uk
Together, we can make a difference and save lives.
For further information contact Marie Tudor on: 07775 771986 | marie.tudor@skcin.org
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The first part of this resource page is a short multi-use resource list Nick provides in his workshops. There will soon be an extensive resource on songbooks from many cultures and other great resources.
A SHORT NICK PAGE RESOURCE LIST
The Nick Page SING WITH US Songbook, 2008, Hal Leonard. (Many songs for community singing) Available at www.westmusic.com
Page, Nick. Sing and Shine On! An Innovative Guide to Leading Multicultural Song. 1995, 800-810-2040 www.worldmusicpress.com (Also available at www.westmusic.com)
Page, Nick, Music As Way Of Knowing, Stenhouse ISBN 1-57110-052-0 (800-988-9812) (80 pages) Part of a series of books on how to use the arts to teach academic subjects.
Nyberg, Anders, ed. FREEDOM IS COMING, Songs of Protest and Praise from South Africa for Mixed Choir. Chapel Hill, NC: Walton Music Corporation. (Great book and tape of SATB songs and chants.)
Seeger, Pete, 1993. Where Have All the Flowers Gone, A Singer’s Stories, Songs, Seeds, Robberies. Bethlehem, PA: Sing Out Corporation. www.singout.org
Blood-Patterson, Peter, ed. 1988. Rise Up Singing. Bethlehem, PA: A Sing Out Publication, PO Box 5253, 18015. (The best collection of folk song lyrics around. Tapes or CDs available.) www.singout.org
Orozco, José-Luis, ed. Ill. by Elisa Kleven, De Colores and Other Latin-American Folk Songs for Children, New York, NY: Dutton Children’s Books, 1994. (also Diez Deditos, Ten Little Fingers)
Tiemstra, Suzanne, Latin America Choral Music Resource www.latinamericanchoralmusic.org - excellent
Barnwell, Ysaye, 1989. Singing in the African American Tradition, Choral and Congregational Vocal Music. Woodstock, NY: Homespun Tapes, Ltd. (www.homespuntapes.com) (Six tapes or CDs where Dr. Barnwell teaches the harmonies one part at a time—Her way of keeping the songs within the aural tradition. With great background information. Highly recommended!) www.homespuntapes.com
Burton, Bryan. 1993. Moving Within the Circle: Contemporary Native American Music and Dance. Danbury, CT. World Music Press. (Book and tape/CD. Very teacher-friendly. Highly recommended!) www.worldmusicpress.com
Sweet Honey In The Rock, All For Freedom. 1989. (Recording) Redway, CA: Music For Little People. (Great African and African-American songs for children.)
Gold, Ben-Zion. The Harvard Hillel Sabbath Songbook, Boston, MA: David R. Godine, Publisher, Inc. 1992. (300
Mass. Ave. 02115) (Wonderful collection of sacred and secular Jewish songs with piano accompaniment.)
Songs of Zion. 1981. Nashville: Abingdon Press. (Manufactured by the Parthenon Press) [ISBN 0687391202] (Fantastic collection of African American Hymns, Spirituals, and Gospel Songs—with historical backgrounds for each style.) 1981
Afghan Children’s Songbook Project, Songbook w/CD available. www.afghansongbook.org
Parker, Alice. 1976. Creative Hymn Singing. Chapel Hill, NC: Hinshaw Music, Inc. P.O. Box 470, 27514.
Weisenberg, Joey, 2011, Building Singing Communities, A Proctical Guide to Unlocking the Power of Music in Jewish Prayer, www.mechonhadar.org, www.joeyweisenberg.co,, www.buildingsingingcommunities.com. (Joey concentrates this guide on leading the Chassidic Nign, a style he is helping to make popular again.)
Celebrate the Spring, Spring and May Day Celebrations for Schools and Communities, Revels Inc. Publications, 617-972-8300 publications@revels.org www.revels.org
www.smithsonianglobalsound.org http://www.folkways.si.edu/index.html Their “education & outreach” section (particularly the Center for Folklife section) has free lessons for teachers.
McMillan/McGraw, They sell Mary Goetz’s DVD GLOBAL VOICES series. (excellent) www.globalvoicesinsong.com
Scott. John Anthony & Scott, John Wardlaw, Ballad of America, A History of the United States Through Folk Song, Revised 3rd Edition, Published by FOLKSONG IN THE CLASSROOM, 97 Sturbridge Rd, Holland, MA 01521-0123 413 245 4413 jscott98@cox.net (Great American songs telling a great history – wonderful stories accompany each song. Highly Recommended)
Weber, Sol, ed., Rounds Galore! Captivating Rounds, Old and New. 1994. Distributed by Sing Out! Corp. or from Sol “Roundman” Weber, 25-14 37th St., Astoria, NY 11103-4228 (The best collection of rounds. Recommended.) Available at www.westmusic.com
Ellington, Duke, Sacred Concerts, Miami Beach, FL: Hansen House (n.d.) (ISBN 0 8494 0170 4) (Contains “Freedom, Sweet Fat & That”)
Get America Singing . . . Again!, (Vol. 1 & 2) ed by Will Schmid, Hal Leonard 1996
The African American Heritage Hymnal, published by GIA (see address below) 2001. (Excellent hymnal)
VELA VELA, DVD & book (Striving for Authentic Performance in Black South African Choral Music) Mollie Stone at The Chicago Children’s Choir, 78 E. Washington Street in Chicago, IL 60602 www.molliestone.org Goetz, Mary & Jay Fern, GLOBAL VOICES, DVDS for learning music from many traditions in the oral tradition. Correlated with McMillan/McGraw-Hill’s Spotlight on Music. www.globalvoicesinsong.com STOMP OUT LOUD Video (DVD) choreographed percussion performances. from HBO Video
THE MAGIC FLUTE by Mozart, directed by Ingmar Bergman (sung in Swedish with English subtitles.) Available from HOME VISION 800-826-3456 (ISBN 0-7800-1748-X)
Gilmor, Timothy M., Paul Madaule, and Billie Thompson, eds. 1989. About The Tomatis Method. Toronto: The Listening Centre Press. (One the many uses of the Tomatis Method for healing and for education.) www.tomatis.com
IMPORTANT CATALOG & OTHER RESOURCES
Homespun Tapes www.homespuntapes.com Box 694, Woodstock, NY 12498 (How-to CDs and videos on learning folk and jazz instruments. Also contains tapes on yodeling, singing in harmony as well as Ysaye Maria Barnwell’s exceptional sets, Singing in the African American Tradition Vol. 1 & 2)
GIA Publications, Inc. 800-GIA-1358 (They have some great songbook/tape sets of songs for ages one through five by Feierabend.) www.giamusic.com Music For Little People Box 1460, Redway, CA 95560 (800-246-4445) (Wonderful children’s recordings by Tom Chapin, Sweet Honey in the Rock, Sally Rogers, Ladysmith Black Mambazo and many others.)
Tara Publications 29 Derby Ave.. Cedarhurst, NY 11516 800-827-2400 http://www.jewishmusic.com (Tara publishes hundreds of song books and recordings representing the great diversity of music within the Jewish tradition. Their catalog is a must!)
Transcontinental Music Publications 633 Third Ave. New York, NY 10017 212-650-4101 (TMP@uahc.org) www.transcontinentalmusic.com (Octavos and collections from Jewish traditions and composers)World Music Press 800-810-2040 fax: 203-748-3432 www.worldmusicpress.com (Excellent song books, CDs, and octavos of music from many cultures. The books are well researched and written with the classroom teacher and music specialist in mind. Highly recommended.)
West Music Catalog www.westmusic.com 1208 5th St. , Coralville, IA 52241 (800-397-9378) (Distributor of many multicultural music resources.)
World Around Songs www.worldaroundsongs.com Rt. 5 Box 398 Burnsville, NC 28714 (704)675-5343 (Small folk song collections, available since the Fifties, with music of many cultures appropriate for sing-a-longs with people of all ages. They have some great collections of rounds and canons.)
http://www.negrospirituals.com/
Music Catalogs and Magazines
A Cappella Books
814 N. Franklin St.
Audio-Forum
Guilford, CT 06437
(Great diversity of music tapes, cd’s, and videos.)
(Excellent source for Native American recordings, especially Navaho.)
Dances and Songs of Universal Peace
Sufi Islamia/Prophecy Publications
65 Norwich St.
(Their collection of song books and recordings on the theme of Universal Peace, can be exceedingly happy at times, but can also be useful for classroom teachers especially for teachers looking for songs from many cultures—and for teachers who aren’t intimidated by the spiritual content of the songs.)
Dove Music
(Distributor of world music recordings, videos, song books, and instruments. They have a good collection of songs in Spanish from many traditions.)
Films for the Humanities and Sciences
(Exciting videos and films on music from classical to their “Listening to the Silence, African Cross Rhythms.”)
Folk-Legacy Records, Inc.
Sharon, CT 06069
(They offer a variety of traditional music recordings.)
Folkways, The Whole Catalog
Smithsonian/Folkways Mail Order
414 Hungerford Dr. Suite 444
(Great old and new folk, ethnic, jazz etc. recordings)
4201 N-2 S. Noland Rd.
(Resource for travelers and anyone else wanting to learn about different cultures.)
Gospel Today
(Magazine)
Hal Leonard Publishing Corporation
7777 W. Bluemond Rd.
(Octavos and songbooks)
Homespun Tapes
Woodstock, NY 12498
(How-to tapes and videos on learning folk and jazz instruments. Also contains tapes on yodeling, singing in harmony as well as Ysaye Maria Barnwell’s exceptional set, Singing in the African American Tradition.)
International Alliance for Women in Music
Ladyslipper Catalog
P.O. Box 3124-R
Durham, NC 27715.
(Recording and song book distributor for women’s music.)
Lentines’ Music Inc.
(They publish a “Music Technology Guide” which is quite extensive and teacher friendly.)
Mel Bay Publications, Inc.
4 Industrial Dr.
Pacific, MO 63069-0066
(Songbooks and instructional material.)
Melodious Accord, Inc.
Park West Station
(Alice Parker’s wonderful organization. They sponsor choral and hymn-sing events as well as publish a newsletter with insightful commentaries by Alice Parker and other.)
Memphis Musicraft Publications
4096 Blue Cedar
Lakeland, TN 38002
(Publishes multicultural Orff-Schulwerk material including One World, Many Voices, Folk Songs of Planet Earth.)
Minnesota Alliance For Arts In Education
Landmark Center, B100
75 W. 5th Street
(They publish a resource guide.)
Music Alive Magazine
10 Midland Ave.
(Music Magazine for Grades 5-12.)
Music For Little People
Redway, CA 95560 (800-246-4445)
(Wonderful children’s recordings by Tom Chapin, Sweet Honey in the Rock, Sally Rogers, Ladysmith Black Mambazo and many others.)
North American Native Authors Catalog
The Greenfield Review Press
2 Middle Grove Rd. P.O. Box 308
Greenfield Center, NY 12833
(Exciting catalog of historical materials, stories, tapes, poetry, and literature by Native American authors. $1.00)
The Omega Institute
260 Lake Drive
Rhinebeck, NY 12572-3212
(Omega is conference center that offers workshops by singers from Western Wind, Sweet Honey in the Rock, Ladysmith Black Mambazo, The Bobs, Take Six, the Drepung Loseling Monks, and Bobby McFerrin. Highly recommended.)
Ongaku No Tomo Sha Corporation
Kagurazaka 6-30
Shinjukuku, Tokyo 162
011 81 3 3235-2111 (fax: 2110)
(They publish a catalog of Japanese choral music. Also look for Kawai and Zen-on publishers, both in Tokyo.)
Perry Innovations, Inc.
Silver Springs, FL 34489
(Robert Perinchief writes drug education music for children. He also publishes Honor Your Partner Songs, a fine collection of partner songs, two or more songs that can be sung at the same time.)
Pocket Songs
50 Executive Blvd.
800-NOW SING
(Karaoke tapes and cd’s and “Music Minus One” recordings.)
Primarily A Cappella
P.O. Box D
San Anselmo, CA 94979
e-mail: harmony@netcom.com
(Catalog of all kinds of a cappella recordings and books of arrangements.)
RADIANCE MUSIC
1430 Willamette, Suite B
(Exciting octavos and songbooks by Jim Scott, who worked with The Paul Winter Consort for many years. Some of their Earth Mass, Missa Gaia, is published by Radiance Music.)
Revels, Inc.
One Kendall Square, Building 600
(They publish wonderful folk songs in book and octavo form. Also many recordings of their Christmas, Spring and Summer Revel’s music.)
Shawnee Press, Inc.
49 Waring Drive
Deleware Water Gap, PA 18327
(They publish the Wide World Music Series.)
SING OUT! The Folksong Magazine
Bethlehem, PA 18015-5253 (215-865-5366)
(Quarterly folk music magazine. They also publish excellent folksong books and Rise Up Singing, a song book with tapes, containing over 1,200 very singable songs. Highly recommended.)
The Soar Corporation
(Distributor of Native American recordings from traditional to Country Western, New Age, Rock, and Rap.)
Songs For Peace
(Periodical by and for activist song writers—most of whom are involved with the People’s Music Network.)
Tara Publications
29 Derby Ave.
http://www.jewishmusic.com
(Tara publishes hundreds of song books and recordings representing the great diversity of music within the Jewish tradition. Their catalog is a must!)
Paul Winter’s World of Living Music
(Many recordings and a teachers guide book accompaniment to their recording Earth: Voices of a Planet that celebrates both the diversity of human cultures and the natural world around us.)
The Western Wind Vocal Ensemble, Inc.
info@westernwind.org (e-mail)
http://www.westernwind.org (web)
(Well known a cappella perfoming group. They publish excellent choral collections and have many fine recordings. They give wonderful workshops on a great diversity of ensemble singing styles.)
White Cliffs Media
Lower Village
Gilsum, NH 03448.
www.musicsource.com/
custom/whitecliffs
(They sell authentic West African and World recordings, books, and instructional material.)
World Around Songs
Rt. 5 Box 398
Burnsville, NC 28714 (704)675-5343
(Small folk song collections, available since the Fifties, with music of many cultures appropriate for sing-a-longs with people of all ages. They have some great collections of rounds and canons.)
World Music Institute
49 West 27th St. Suite 810
(Catalog of recordings on cd and videos of music from all parts of the earth. Their complete catalog costs a little extra.)
World Music Press
Judith Cook Tucker, publisher
Danbury, CT 06813-2565
(Judith Cook Tucker publishes excellent song books, tapes, and octavos of music from many cultures. The books are well researched and written with the classroom teacher and music specialist in mind. Highly recommended.)
World Music at West, Multicultural Music and Arts Catalog
Coralville, IA 52241 (800-397-9378)
(Distributor of many multicultural music resources.)
Yesterday Service, Inc., Classical Sheet Music
1972 Mass. Ave.
(Esther Breslau and company are experts at finding the printed music you need and getting it to you quickly with wonderful discounts. Their long-term summer deals are especially attractive for those of us making large orders for the coming year. This is not an advertisement, I simply find their work to be excellent, as do many many others.)
Zephyr Press
3316 N. Chapel Ave.
P.O. Box 66006-P
Tucson, AZ 85728-66006
(Publisher of education guide books dealing with all aspects of multi-sensory learning.)
Education and Arts Organizations
American Council for the Arts
One East 53rd St.
American Choral Directors Association (ACDA)
Lawton, OK 73506-0301
(Indispensable resource—magazine, books, regional and national meetings, etc.)
American Orff-Schulwerk Association
Cleveland, OH 44139-8089
(Music education for the mind, body and community.)
Choirboy Notes
Noteworthy Communications
34518 Warren Rd. #315
(Support organization with newsletter.)
2834 West Kingsely Rd.
(Youth Church Choir publisher—journal and music.)
1811 Chestnut St., Suite 401
f: 563-2431
e-mail: chorusam@libertynet.org
(Support organization for professional choral groups and conductors.)
Church Music Publishers Association
(They provide guidelines on copyright and other information.)
Dalcroze Society of America
3871 45th Ave. NE
(Dalcroze/Eurhythmics combines mind, body and emotion in music/movement education)
3601 Lyon Street
(Newsletter published by the amazing Exploratorium center in San Francisco—a few good issues on sound and music.)
Gospel Music Workshop of America (GMWA)
(The GMWA has annual national conventions the second week in August. It is the largest national gospel music gathering.)
Kodály Center of America
15 Denton Rd.
Wellesley, MA 02181-6404
(Books, music, and info on The Kodaly music education approach.)
Music Educators Journal
1902 Association Dr.
http://www.menc.org
(Very useful magazine and resource organization for music teachers. Their recent series of world music articles by Patricia Shehan Campbell should be in every choral directoers library.)
National Association of Pastoral Musicians
225 Sheridan St.
(Support for church musicians)
2800 University Bvld. N.
JU Station
(Support organization for voice teachers.)
People’s Music Network
Sarah Underhill (Current Executive Head)
RR 1 Box 193
Kerhonksen, NY 12446
(PMN is largely a folksong society with an emphasis on social justice concerns. There are several folk choruses associated with PMN including the New York Streetsingers, founded by Pete Seeger and led by Bernardo Palombo and Gene Glickman. They have two national gatherings every year.)
THE CONTEMPORARY A CAPPELLA SOCIETY OF AMERICA (CASA)
1850 Union Street #1441
San Francisco, CA 94123.
email: casa@casa.org
http://www.singers.com
(They sponsor the annual harmony Sweepstakes Festival, offer the Primarily A Cappella catalog and offer on-line opportunities. They also sponsor the Urban Harmony Movement.)
Presbyterian Association of Musicians
100 Witherspoon St. Room 3407A
(Support services for church musicians)
Society for the Preservation and Encouragement of Barbershop Quartet Singing in America Incorporated (SPEBSQSA)
Kenosha, WI, 53141
(What kind of world would it be without Barbershop Quartet and Sweet Adelaide music? SPEBSQSA publishes a catalog, Harmony Marketplace.)
Sweet Adelines International
(Women’s a cappella music organization. They publish a catalog called Harmony Bazaar.)
Unitarian Universalist Musicians Network
29 Commonwealth Ave.
(UUMN is a support organization for church musicians. Like other denominational organizations, they have regional and national meetings. They also publish music. If you want sacred music with gender sensitive text that doesn’t compromise beauty for political correctness, check them out.)
Zamir Choral Foundation
Planetarium Station
(Every summer, the Zamir Choral Foundation holds a conference on Jewish choral music in the Catskills of New York.)
Van Nuys, CA 91410-0003
(Choral Music)
Alliance Music Publications
3330 Hillcroft, Suite H
(They offer choral music from Central America.)
Arista Music Company
(Classical choral music)
Arsis Press
170 N.E. 33rd Street
Tel: 954-563-1844, Fax: 954-563-9006
Email: evercoe@compuserve.com.
(Choral music by women for everyone.)
Art Masters Studios Inc.
1599 SE 8th Street
(Sacred choral and church music)
Barnwell’s Notes Publishing
http://home.sprynet.com/sprynet/ymbarnwell
ymbarnwell@compuserve.com
YMB@IGC.ORG
www.sweethoney.com
(Ysaye Maria Barnwell writes and arranges truly superb choral music, some of which has been performed by the group she sings with, Sweet Honey in the Rock.)
Beckenhorst Press, Inc.
(Sacred choral music)
Brentwood Music, Inc.
One Maryland Farms, Suite 200
(Gospel)
Boosey & Hawkes, Inc.
35 East 21st St.
sales fax: 212-358-5303
(Doreen Rao started a multicultural children’s choral series. Boosey & Hawkes also publishes some of my choral pieces including Niska Banja from the former Republic of Yugoslavia.)
Broude Brothers
141 White Oaks Rd.
(Choral music including some by Salomone Rossi)
Burleigh Inspirational Music
(Glenn Edward Burleigh composes demanding and exhilarating gospel music.)
Roger Dean Publishing Company
(Choral music including the Heritage Choral Series)
Dekay’s House of Music
39 Thrift St.
(Gospel music distributor, both recordings, octavos, and song books. They also have how-to books on gospel style piano playing.)
220 NW 29th St.
(Many excelent octavo compositions and arrangements of music from everywhere.)
Ear To The Ground Publisher
(Small publishers with exciting choral arrangements of activist songs from many cultures with arrangements by Gene Glickman of the New York Streetsingers and others.)
62 Cooper Sq.
(Choral music and all kinds of other music)
Mark Foster Music Company
Champaign, IL 61824-4012
e-mail: markfostermus@champ.il.aads.net
Gospel Notes
6143 Oxon Hill Rd.
Oxon Hill, MD 20745
301-839-AMEN
William Grant Still Music,
4 South San Francisco St, Suite #422,
Flagstaff AZ 86001-5737
(For the music of William Grant Still)
Harmonia Music Publishers
NL-1230 AE Loosdrect,
e-mail: harmonia@compuserve.com
(Choral music by Bartók, Kodály and other Hungarian composers.)
HaZamir Music Publications
35 Garland Rd.
http://www.zamir.org
(Jewish choral music by Josh Jacobson, David Burger and others. Highly recommended.)
Hope Publishing Company
380 South Main Place
e-mail: jlshope@aol.com
Neil A. Kjos Music Company
4380 Jutland Drive
(Choral works by Argentine composer Oscar Escalada and others.)
Lawson-Gould Music Publishers, Inc.
250 W. 57th St. Suite 932
(Lawson-Gould has a long tradition of publishing music from diverse cultures. Get their catalog Music from around the world.)
Hal Leonard Corporation
7777 W. Bluemound Rd.
(Choral music, including some Robert Ray gospel music.)
Lexicon Music Inc.
(Gospel choral collections.)
The Lorenz Corporation
(Choral music incorporating Heritage Music Press, the Roger Dean Publishing Company, and the Triune Corporation.)
Morton Music
info@mortonmusic.co.au
(Australian choral publishers)
Musica Russica
27 Willow Lane
www.musicarussica.com
(Exciting choral octavos and recordings of all kinds of Russian music with full phonetic guidance.)
Music Romanica (Gabriel Dumitrescu)
Edmonds, WA 98020-1285
e-mail gabriel@u.washington.edu
(Eastern European music)
National Music Publishers
16605 Townhouse
Nyoni Publishing Co.
Groveton, TX 75845
(Multicultural choral music with complete dance instructions when needed. They also publish music for Chaia Marimba Music Co.)
Pavane Publishing
Dist. by Intrada Music Group
Plymouth Music Co., Inc.
170 N.E. 33rd St.
Presser Place
Bryn Mawr, PA 19010
(Music Publishers including extensive choral music. Their Israel Music Institute features contemporary music from Israel. They are the parent company for Coronet Press, E. Henry David Music Publishers, Thorpe Music Publishing Company, the Ongaku No Tomo Sha Corp., Lindsay Music, and many other publishers from around the world.)
William James Ross
10426 Fox Hollow
(Ross composes deeply spiritual music within the Unitarian Universalist tradition. His extensive catalog is available from The Riverrun Music Press in San Antonio, TX)
Santa Barbara Music Publishing
260 Loma Media
E mail: sbpm@sprynet.com
G. Schirmer, Inc.
Dist. by Hal Leonard Publishing Corporation
(Choral music, including the Gregg Smith series.)
SDG Press
Ft. Lauderdale FL 33334
(Part of the Walton Choral Publishing group. They publish Jackson Berkey’s music including his settings of Native American texts.)
Selah Press, LTD
92 Grantwood Drive
(Publishes the gospel music of Horace Boyer)
Bonia Shur
3101 Clifton Ave.
(Bonia Shur publishes his own Jewish choral compositions and arrangements. Recommended)
The Sparrow Corp.
Brentwood, TN 37024-5010
(Publisher of gospel choral music with tapes. Highly recommended.)
Thomas House Publications
Distributed by Intrada Music Group
(They offer some fine Spanish choral music.)
Transcontinental Music Publications
(Choral music from many Jewish traditions, both sacred and secular.)
Treble Clef Music Press
Mary Lycan, Editor
415 Wesley Drive
(Choral music for sopranos and altos, medieval to 20th century with an emphasis on women composers.)
Twin Elm Publishing
1626 Twenty-Seventh Avenue Court
(They publish many wonderful octavos representing the great diversity of Central American choral music.)
1234 Oak Knoll Drive
Walton Music Corporation
(Their new collaboration with The Library of Congress has resulted in the reprinting of many classic 19th century American choral pieces)
Frank E. Warren Music Service
(Publishes Songs of Ecuador by Robert Greenlee)
Yelton Rhodes Music
(As their wonderful catalog proclaims, they “publish lyrical music (choral) with a message that promotes inclusiveness and tolerance of the broad spectrum of human nature.”)
Multicultural Publishers and Resources
Black Sacred Music, A Journal of Theomusicology
Curriculum of African and Afro-American . Studies
CB#3395, 401 Alumni Building
Univ. of North Carolina
(Back issues include info on R. Nathaniel Dett, William Grant Still, and the worshipping church in Africa.)
Diadem, Inc.
3310 West End Ave.
(Black gospel songbooks and tapes.)
The Society for Ethnomusicology, Inc.
Univ. of Michigan, 48109.
(Academic journal for the study of music and culture. The books and essays are meticulously researched, but not always easy for the non-ethnomusicologist to relate to. The society hosts regional meetings with very interesting presentations on the music of many cultures.)
Harvest Christian Bookstore
10328 S. Western Ave.
(Gospel music)
House of Musical Traditions
Takoma Park, MD 20912
301/270-9090 Tel
800-540-3794 Orders
301/270-3010 Fax
hmtrad@hmtrad.com
(Multicultural instruments,
recordings and books.)
Latin America Music Center
Dr. Carmen Tellez
http://www.music.indiana.edu/som/lamc/
Latin American Music Review
University of Texas Press Journals
(Scholarly articles on the diverse musical traditions of Latin Americans. Revista de Música Latino Americana.)
Light and Song Incorporated
Cambridge, MA 02140.
(Annabel Graetz offers a great variety of Balkan and international winter holiday music.)
Multicultural Media
31 Herbert Rd.
(They sell videos of music and dance from all around the world.)
MUSA (Music of the United States of America):
Mark Clague, Executive Director
Burton Memorial Tower #606
info@umich.edu
(Associated with the American Musicological Society, they will soon publish transcriptions of traditional Hawaiin songs, spirituals, and more.)
Saint Louis African Chorus
e-mail: 717023554@Compuserve.com
(Choral/Drama performing group. As part of their goal to teach African cultures, they publish a newsletter. $1) (director: Fred Onovwerosuoke)
Savgos Music, Jonan Music, Arisav Music, Inc.
(Gospel recordings with accompanying sheet music.)
Tyscot, Distributed by
Alexandria House
468 McNally Dr.
Brooklyn, NY 11209-0006, 718-748-3569 (Periodical by and for activist song writers—most of whom are involved with the People’s Music Network.)
World Around Songs, Rt. 5 Box 398, Burnsville, NC 28714 (704)675-5343 (Small folk song collections, available since the Fifties, with music of many cultures appropriate for sing-a-longs with people of all ages. They have some great collections of rounds and canons.)
Blecher, Sharon and Kathy Jaffee, Weaving In The Arts, Widening The Learning Circle, Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann, 1998.
Blecher, Sharon and Kathy Jaffee, Whole Music, A Whole Language Approach To Teaching Music, Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann, 1998.
Brewer, Chris, and Don C. Campbell. 1991. Rhythms of Learning, Creative Tools for Developing Lifelong Skills. Tucson, AZ: Zephyr Press, P.O. Box 13448, 85732-3448. (This book discusses entrainment and other rhythm principles to be used in the future of education. Recommended.)
Campbell, Don G. 1992. One Hundred Ways to Improve Teaching Using Your Voice and Music, Pathways to Accelerate Learning. Tucson, AZ: Zephyr Press. (Don Campbell compiles theories by Lazanov, Tomatis, Jean Houston, Grace Nash and others to creative an activity book for teachers. You’ll use a lot of these activities your students. Some, you may never want to use.)
Cary, Emily P. 1987. “Music as a Prenatal and Early Childhood Impetus to Enhancing Intelligence and Cognitive Skills.” Roeper-Review 9, no.3, Feb. (This article is part of the growing proof in the importance of music for all learning.)
Choksy, Lois. 1981. The Kodaly Context, Creating an Environment for Musical Learning. NJ: Prentice-Hall, Inc. (Excellent introduction to the Kodaly style of music education.)
Copland Davidson, Marilyn, ed. The Music of Paul Winter, Earth: Voices of a Planet, a Teacher’s Guide. 1994. Miami, FL: CPP/Belwin, Inc. (A curriculum using the Paul Winter recording, Voices of a Planet that intergrates multicultural and environmental issues.)
Elliott, David J., Music Matters: A New Philosophy of Music Education. (An important argument for music in our schools. He argues that we need to make music first and that while learning music helps all the other ways of learning, the most important reason for making music is the music itself.)
Gardner, Howard. 1983. Frames of Mind. NY: Basic Books. (Gardner is the leading champion of the concept of multiple intelligences which can be applied to multi-cultural education.)
“Growing Up Complete: The Imperative for Music Education.” 1991. The Report of The National Commission of Music Education (MENC), 1902 Association Drive, Reston, VA 22091. (Excellent collection of essays, many related to how children in cultures around the world learn about music. the essays then ask the obvious question, “If it works for others, will it work for us?”
Guide To The Selection of Musical Instruments With Respect to Physical Ability and Disability, 1982. (Available from Music West #42671.)
Langstaff, John and Elizabeth Lloyd Mayer, Music Makes a Difference, 1995. 683 Santa Barbara Rd., Berkeley, CA 94707: The Langstaff Video Project. (Series of videos and booklets on the how and why of music teaching for the elementary classroom teacher.)
Blacking, John, 1973. How Musical Is Man? Seattle: University of Washington Press. (Out of print, but for educators interested in the issue of how music is taught in diverse cultures, this book is well worth the search.)
Foundation For Human Potential
Nachmanovitch, Stephen, Free Play, Improvisation in Life and Art, NY: G.P. Putnam’s Sons.
Nash, Grace C., Creative Approaches to Child Development with Music, Language and Movement, Incorporating the Philosophies and Techniques of Orff, Kodaly, and Kaban, Van Nuys, CA: Alfred Publishing Co., 1974. (A remarkable music education resource.)
Nash, Grace C., and Barbara Potter, Do It My Way, The Child’s Way of Learning. Van Nuys, CA: Alfred 1977. (A tried and true classroom resource integrating music into the classroom.)
Nash, Grace C. and Janice Rapley. Music in the Making: Optimal Learning in Speech, Song, Instrument Instruction and Movement for Grades K-4. Van Nuys, CA: Alfred Publishing Co., 1990 (Grace Nash revolutionized music education during the fifties and sixties. Her books on counting and reading rhythm games are excellent for the classroom teacher.)
Orff, Carl, trans. by Margaret Murray. 1978. The Schulwerk, Vol. 3 of Documentation: His Life and Work. NY: Schott Music Corp. (The Orff-Schulwerk approach is a leading system for teaching music, both instruments and singing, in North America and Europe.)
Palmer, Mary and Wendy L. Sims, ed., Music In Prekindergarten, Published by Music Educators National Conference MENC, 1993. (Excellent collection of articles on various teacher-friendly music activities.)
Page, Nick. Sing and Shine On! The Teachers Guide to Multicultural Song Leading. 1995, 88 Post Road West, PO Box 5007, Westport, CT 06881-5007: Greenwood Publishing Group. 800-793-2154. (My how-to book also includes a section on why singing is essential for education. I look at the power of singing from many perspectives.)
Page, Nick, 1995. Music As A Way of Knowing Stenhouse Publishing, P.O. Box 360, York, ME 03909, 207-363-9198, 800-988-9812, fax: 207-363-9730. (This book is part of a series dedicated to the integration of the arts into the classroom–how to teach science, history etc. using music.)
Rao, Doreen, We Will Sing! Choral Music Experience for Classroom Choirs. NY: Boosey & Hawkes, 1993. (Excellent step by step curriculum guide for elementary school choral directors.)
Regelski, Thomas A., Teaching General Music, Action Learning for Middle and Secondary Schools, NY: Schirmer Books.
Robbins, Clive and Carol, Music for the Hearing Impaired, ($24.95) 1980. (Includes singing, playing, music reading, movement and more. Available from West Music #42672)
Rhythmic Entrainment Institute, P.O. Box 1678 Sedona, AZ 86339
Schafer, R. Murray. 1976. Creative Music Education: A Handbook for the Modern Music Teacher. NY: Schirmer Books. (Schafer is a Canadian composer who has many creative ideas on the use of music and composition in the classroom. Children learn to compose using the sounds around them.)
Tacka, Philip, and Michael Houlahan, 1993, Sound Thinking: Musical Skill Development Through the Kodaly Concept, 2 vols. New York, NY: Boosey & Hawkes.
Wallace, Rosella R. 1992. Rappin’ and Rhymin’, Raps, Songs, Cheers, and SmartRope Jingles for Active Learning. Tucson, AZ: Zephyr Press. (Fun teacher activity book using Rap and other spokenstyles to teach classroom subjects.)
New Paradigm & Healing Music
Berendt, Joachim-Ernst, and Tim Nevill, trans. 1988. The Third Ear, On Listening to the Ear. Dorset, England: Element Books Ltd. (These two books by European jazz artist Berendt have many innovative ideas about music, sound, and consciousness.)
Bereznak Kenny, Carolyn. 1989. The Field of Play: A Guide for the Theory and Practice of Music Therapy. Atascadero, CA: Ridgeway Publishing Company, Box 686, 93423. (One of the better books on Music Therapy, not to be confused with music healing. Music Therapy is one of the many creative therapies in the field of psychology.)
Campbell, Don G. 1983. Introduction to the Musical Brain. Saint Louis, MI 63132: MMB Music, Inc., 10370 Page Industrial Blvd. (Don Campbell is one of the leaders in the field of music healing and music in education.)
Campbell, Don G. ed. 1992. Music and Miracles, A Companion to Music: Physician for Times to Come. Wheaton, IL: Quest Books.
Campbell, Don G. 1991. Music Physician For Times To Come. Wheaton, IL: Quest Books.
Campbell, Don G., The Mozart Effect, Tapping the Power of Music to Heal the Body, Strengthen the Mind, and Unlock the Creative Spirit, New York, NY: Avon Books, 1997. (With many useful testemonies on music’s many powers.)
Campbell, Don G. 1989. The Roar of Silence, Healing Powers of Breath, Tone and Music. Wheaton, IL: The Theosophical Publishing House. (Exercises and meditations intended to improve listening and your awareness of sound and resonance.)
Diamond, M.D., John. The Life Energy in Music. Valley Cottage, NY: Archaeus Press, P.O. Drawer 37, 10989. (Dr. Diamonds theories on life energies are very controversial. He claims that some music gives us energy and some takes it away.)
Dissanayake, Ellen. 1988. What is Art For? Seattle: University of Washington Press.
Dissanayake, Ellen. 1992. Homo Aestheticus, Where Art Comes From and Why. NY: The Free Press. (Written with a scientists respect for accuracy combining the studies of anthropology, evolutionary psychiatry, and aesthetics in a fascinating way. Recommended.)
Dissanayake, Ellen, “Music As A Human Behavior: An Hypothesis Of Evolutionary Origin And Function.” (Los Angeles, CA: Paper presented at annual meeting of the Human Behavior and Evolutionary Society, Aug. 16, 1990.) (Fascinating look at mother/child dialogue as origin of music and speech.)
Flatischler, Reinhard. 1992. The Forgotten Power of Rhythm. Mendicino, CA: LifeRhythm. (A New Age way of thinking about rhythm. It makes a powerful connection between rhythm and life.)
Gardner, Kay. 1990. Sounding the Inner Landscape. Stonington, ME: Caduceus Publications. (One of the better books on music healing.)
Gilmor, Timothy M., Paul Madaule, and Billie Thompson, eds. 1989. About The Tomatis Method. Toronto: The Listening Centre Press. (On the many uses of the Tomatis Method for healing and for education. See Tomatis, The Conscious Ear.)
Godwin, Joscelyn, ed. 1987. Music, Mysticism and Magic, A Sourcebook . NY: Arkana Paperbacks. (Godwin has studied two thousand years of written records on the powers of music and edited them into this and other books. As with all mystical subjects, some truth can be found in it if you are patient.)
Kaner, Etta, Sound Science, Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, 1991. (40 experiements and activities for young people.)
Karel, Richard. Sept. 6, 1991. “The Halls of Congress Are Alive With The Sound Of Music.” Psychiatric News. (This is an account of Dr. Oliver Sachs’ testimony to Congress on the importance of music in therapy.)
Lazear, David, 1994. Seven Pathways of Learning, Teaching Students and Parents about Multiple Intelligences, Tucson, AZ: Zephyr Press. (This and the other Lazear books published by Zephyr make excellent use of Gardner’s approach to the seven intelligences. These books are highly recommended.)
McClellan Ph.D., Randall, The Healing Forces of Music, History, Theory, and Practice, Rockport, MA: Element, 1991. (The most comprehensive cross-cultural book on sound/music healing.)
Nelson, Annabelle, The Learning Wheel, Ideas and Activities for Multicultural and Holistic Lesson Planning, 1994, Tucson, AZ: Zephyr Press. (An exciting all-encompassing book.)
Parsons, Alexandra, Sound, (Part of the Make it Work series by Wendy Baker & Andrew Haslam), Ocala, FL: Action Publishing, 1992. (Fun collection of children’s activities exploring sound. Great photographs.)
Rhythm Entrainment Institute
reiinst@sedona.net
Sahtouris, Elisabet. 1989. Gaia, The Human Journey From Chaos to Cosmos. New York: Pocket Books.
(Fascinating story of evolution using the hypothesis that the Earth is a living planet, not a planet with life on it.)
Scott, Molly. 1983. “The Power of Song.” The Songsmith Journal. Winter Solstice.
(Molly Scott, a singer and educator, is helping to redefine the role of music in education.)
Swimme, Brian. 1984. The Universe is a Green Dragon, a Cosmic Creation Story. Santa Fe: Bear & Company.
(Easy to read interpretation of modern physics and how it effects our way of thinking.)
Tomatis, Alfred A. 1991. The Conscious Ear, My Life of Transformation Through Listening. Barrytown, NY: Station Hill Press.
(The Tomatis method is controversial, but worth investigating. He believes that music charges the brain.)
(Publisher of education guide books dealing with all aspects
Academic Organizations
54 East Gregory Dr.
(Scholarly journal on the great diversity of North American music.)
Early Music America
11421 1/2 Bellflower Rd.
(Support services for early music musicians.)
601 N. Morton Street
Bloomington IN
iupress@indiana.edu
(Academic books on many world cultures including some on music.)
The Journal of Musicology
University of California Press, Journals Dept.
2120 Berkeley Way
(Scholarly journal.)
The Mambazo Academy of South African Music and Culture
1619 Broadway #540
(Joseph Shabalala, leader of Ladysmith Black Mambazo, founded this organization dedicated to the preservation of a quickly disappearing musical culture.)
Nineteenth Century Music
World & Classroom Instruments
Ted Brown Music Company
1121 Broadway Plaza
(Percussion instruments for the classroom.)
Heartbeat Drums
Santa Fe, NM 87504-0692
Honey Rock
RD 4, Box 87
Everett, PA 15537
(Multi-cultural percussion-related materials for performer and music educator, including how to purchase drums from around the world.)
Lark in the Morning
Mendocino, CA 95460
707/964-3762 and 707/964-5569 Tel
larkinam@larkinam.com
(100 page catalog of thousands of world instruments. Also summer workshops on world music. Some recordings. Catalog $3.)
Mud Pie Productions
Leverett, MA 01054-0127
mudpiemusic.com
(Fun catalog of percussion and other instruments for children.)
Music Is Elementary
(Catalog for classroom and other instruments.)
Native Sound
123 Groveland Ave.
Riverside, IL 60546-1910
(Excellent supplier for the wind, string, brass, and percussion instruments of our worlds many cultures.)
Remo, Inc.
12804 Raymer St.
(Accessible and good sounding drums of all sizes and colors for the classroom.)
West Cliff Percussion
1803 Mission St. Box 148-R
800-900-DRUM
(West African drums for sale)
Songbooks & Books By Region
Adzinyah, Abraham Kobena, Dumisani Maraire and Judith Cook Tucker, Let Your Voice Be Heard! Songs from Ghana and Zimbabwe, , Danbury, CT, World Music Press. (Tape and book instructional set.)
Amoaku, W.K., 1971. Orff-Schulwerk In The African Tradition, African Songs and Rhythms for Children, A Selection from Ghana, NY: Schott Music Corp.
Barnwell, Ysaye, and George Brandon. 1989. Singing in the African American Tradition, Choral and Congregational Vocal Music. Woodstock, NY: Homespun Tapes, Ltd. (Six tapes where Ysaye Barnwell teaches the harmonies one part at a time—Her way of keeping the songs within the aural tradition. With great background information. Highly recommended!)
Bender, Wolfgang, 1991. Sweet Mother, Modern African Music, Chicago: The University of Chicago Press. (On Afro-Pop and other new music from Africa.)
Berliner, Paul. 1978. The Soul of the Mbira, Music and Traditions of the Shona People of Zimbabwe. Berkeley: University of California Press. (A fascinating look at the thumb piano and the amazing cultural framework behind it. Along with Chernoff’s book, African Rhythm and African Sensibility, the book changes the way you think about music.)
Chernoff, John Miller. 1979. African Rhythm and African Sensibility. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press. (This book will make you rethink about the purpose of music. Highly recommended.)
Edey, Edna Smith, ed. 1978, The Griot Sings: Songs From the Black World, NY: Medgar Evers College Press. (Collection of songs—African and African American/North, South and Islands. Out of Print.)
Hamilton, Margaret, ed., 1993, Sing Freedom! Songs of South African Life, London: Novello. (Exciting collection of songs written out SATB. With forward by Desmond Tutu. Highly Recommended.)
Klein, Rosine and Stacia Robbins, 1986, African Folksongs, Children’s Songs of Ghana, Teachers Guide. 310 North Avenue, New Rochelle, NY 10801: Spoken Arts, Inc. (Recordings for classroom use with accompanying booklets)
Loh, I-to, ed., African Songs of Worship, Geneva, World Council of Churches. (Wonderful sacred chants and hymns from throughout Africa.)
Makeba, Miriam. 1971. The World of African Song. Chicago: Quadrangle Books. (Out of print. Hopefully, it will be published again. Copies can be obtained through inter-library exchanges.)
McLaughlin, Roberta, Folk Songs of Africa, 1993, Van Nuys, CA: Alfred Publishing Co., Inc. (with tape)
Mundy, Philip, Fifty Kenyan Folksongs, Nairobi: Kenya Conservatoire of Music, 1984. (Traditional songs with translations.)
Mutsoli, Manaseh G. and Nathan Corbitt, Four African Hymns, Garland, Texas: Choristers Guild, 1994. CGA-686
NKetia, J.H. Kwabena, 1974. The Music of Africa. New York: Norton. (An invaluable African perspective on African music.)
Nyberg, Anders, ed. FREEDOM IS COMING, Songs of Protest and Praise from South Africa for Mixed Choir. Chapel Hill, NC: Walton Music Corporation. (Book and tape of SATB songs and chants. Great for grades six and up. With words in Zulu and English. Highly recommended!)
Olson, Howard ed., Lead Us Lord: A Collection of African Hymns, Minneapolis: Augsburg, 1977.
Olson Howard ed., Set Free: A Collection of African Hymns, Minneapolis: Augsburg Fortress, 1993.
Serwadda, W. Moses, Songs and Stories From Uganda, , Danbury, CT, World Music Press. (Tape and book instructional set with beautiful illustrations.)
Wahome, John Kamenyi, Songs of Kenya, Nairobi, Kenya: Jemisik Cultural Books Ltd., 1987. (Traditional songs in the Kikuyu language with translations.)
India, Asia, Polynesia
Anderson, William M. 1975. Teaching Asian Music in Elementary and Secondary Schools, MI: The LeLand Press. (A good introduction with descriptions and illustrations of musical instruments.)
Capwell, Charles, 1986. The Music of the Bauls of Bengal, Kent, OH: Kent State Univ. Press. (The Bauls of Bengal are a religious sect who sing as their major form of communication. They dance a lot too.)
DeWoskin, Kenneth J. 1982. A Song For One or Two, Music and the Concept of Art in Early China. Ann Arbor: Center for Chinese Studies, The University of Michigan. (Academic study of the fascinating connection between music and culture in ancient China.)
Fukuda, Hanako, Favorite Songs of Japanese Children. Van Nuys, CA: Alfred, 1964.
Nguyen, Ph.D., Phong, and Patricia Shehan Campbell, Ph.D., From Rice Paddies and Temple Yards, Traditional Music of Vietnam, Danbury, CT, World Music Press. (Tape and book instructional set.)
Sam, Sam-Ang and Patricia Shehan Campbell, Ph.D., Silent Temples, Songful Ghearts, Traditional Music of Cambodia, , Danbury, CT, World Music Press. (Tape and book instructional set.)
Shankar, Ravi. 1979. Learning Indian Music. Onoma Topoeia, Inc. 170 N E. 33rd St. Ft. Lauderdale, Fla. 33334. (A how-to book and tape guide to learning the Rag and Tal melody and rhythm traditions of India. Advanced material.)
Thrasher, Ph.D., La-Li-Luo Dance Songs of the Chuxiong Yi, Yunnan Province, China, , Danbury, CT, World Music Press. (Tape and book instructional set.)
Behan, Dominic. 1973. Ireland Sings. NY: Music Sales Corporation. (Political and other songs from Ireland including Behan’s The Patriot Game.)
Brass, Mary Cay, Village Harmony, Traditional Songs of the Balkans, R.D. #1, Box 668, Plainfield, VT 05667: Northern Harmony Publishing, 1995. (Great collection of 27 traditional Balkan songs with pronunciation guide.)
Carter, Sydney, Songs of Sydney Carter, 4 volumes, Norfolk, England: Galliard Limited, 1971. (Distributed by Galaxy Music, 2121 Broadway, New York, NY 10023) (Sydney Carter, a Welsh songwriter, wrote “The Lord of the Dance,” “Julian of Norwich,” “Bell of Creation,” and many other wonderful sacred songs.)
Graetz, Annabel. Laduvane Songbook self-published: P.O. Box 27, Cambridge, MA 02140. (Booklet of octavos with the amazing harmonies and rhythms of the Balkan Peninsula)
Pohjola, Erkki, Tapiola Sound. Ft. Lauderdale, FL: Walton Music, 1993. (Pohjola is the founder of Finland’s astounding Tapiola Choir, combining children’s and adult voices singing music from all over.)
Schafer, Andrea, My Harvest Home, A Celebration of Polish Songs, Games, Dances and Customs, , Danbury, CT, World Music Press. (Tape and book instructional set.)
Vaughan Williams, Ralph, et. al. eds. 1925 (1985). The Oxford Book of Carols. Oxford: Oxford University Press. (Traditional and contemporary English carols—including carols for other parts of the year beside Christmas.)
Adler, Samuel, ed., Yamim Norain (Days of Awe) Vol. I, Rosh Hashannah & Vol. II, Yom Kippur, New York, NY: Transcontinental Music Publications, 1990. (Transliterated choral settings w/organ. Complete recordings available.)
Eisenstein, Judith Kaplan. 1972. Heritage of Music. NY: Union of American Hebrew Congregations. (Looks at the diversity of folk, classical and sacred music from the many Jewish traditions. With many songs as examples.)
Gold, Ben-Zion. The Harvard Hillel Sabbath Songbook, Boston, MA: David R.Godine, Publisher, Inc. 1992. (300 Mass. Ave. 02115) (Wonderful collection of sacred and secular songs with piano accompaniment.)
Hirschhorn, Linda. 1989. Gather Round, New Hebrew Canons, Rounds and Musical Settings, Cedarhurst, NY: Tara Publications. (Exciting collection, especially for those looking for new and/or feminist songs within the Jewish tradition.)
Hirschhorn, Linda. 1996. The Music of Linda Hirschhorn, More Hebrew Canons, Rounds and Musical Settings, Cedarhurst, NY: Tara Publications. (Her recordings with Vocolot are available from Oyster: Box 3929, Berkeley, CA 94703 or from Tara Publications.)
Jacobson, Joshua. “A Guide to Choral Repertoire in Hebrew.” The Choral Journal (Oct. 1979) published by ACDA, American Choral Directors Association.
Jacobson, Joshua. “Choral Music For Chanukah” The Choral Journal (Sept. 1990) published by ACDA
Jacobson, Joshua. “East Meets West” The Choral Journal (May 1993) published by ACDA. (Israeli choral music)
Jagoda, Flory, The Flory Jagoda Songbook, Memories of Sarajevo, Cedarhurst, NY: Tara Publications, 1993. (Exciting Ladino songs, including “Ocho Kandelikas.”)
Middle Eastern Music
Monsour, Dr. Sally, Songs Of The Middle East, With Dances, Orff & Percussion Arrangements, & Cultural Information, Miami, FL: Warner Bros. Publications Inc., 1995. (Accessible songs in English, Hebrew, and Arabic)
Alscott, Owen, ed., Flor Y Canto, Portland, OR: Oregon Catholic Press Publications, 1989. (5536 NE Hassalo 97213 Available from Dove Music in Milwaukee.) (All Spanish Catholic Hymnal)
Cáceres, Abe, Somos Uno- We Are One, For cross-cultural worship in Spanish-English congregations.
Cantemos! Let’s Sing, Milwaukee, WI: Lutheran Human Relations Association of America, n.d. (2703 N. Sherman Blvd. 53210 (Hand written hymns in Spanish and English. Available from Dove Music in Milwaukee)
Ebinger, Virginia and N. Nylander, Spanish Songs, Games, and Stories of Childhood, Santa Fe, NM: Sunstone Press. 1993.
Flor Y Canto. 1989. Portland, OR: Oregon Catholic Press.(Spanish American Hymns. Available from Dove Music.)
Fogelquist, Mark, and Patricia Harpole. 1989. Los Mariachis! An Introduction to the Mariachi Tradition of Mexico, Danbury, CT. World Music Press. (Book and tape.)
Harpole, Ph.D., Patricia and Mark Fogelquist, Los Mariachis! An Introduction to Mexican Mariachi Music, , Danbury, CT, World Music Press. (Tape and book instructional set.)
Marachin, Jaci ed., Brazilian Songs of Worship, Geneva: World Council of Churches, 1989.
Nylander Ebinger, Virginia, Niñez, Spanish Songs, Games, and Stories of Childhood, Santa Fe, NM: Sunstone Press, 1993. (Handbook packed with great songs, written out.)
Orozco, Jose-Luis, 1985, Cancionero, Children’s Folklore in Spanish, Berkeley, CA: Arcoiris Records. (Excellent collections of Latin American songs with recordings. Available from Dove Music in Milwaukee. Highly recommended.)
Orozco, Jose-Luis, ed. Ill. by Elisa Kleven, De Colores and Other Latin-American Folk Songs for Children, New York, NY: Dutton Children’s Books, 1994. (Beautifully illustrated collection.)
Spicer, Suzanne, Tiemstra, The Choral Music of Latin America: A Guide to Compositions and Research. NY: Greenwood Press. 1992 (An excellent resource. Out of print.)
Vigil, Jose Maria and Angel Torrellas, eds., Misas Centro Americana, (Managua: CAV-CEBES, 1988). With cassette (Contains the music of three Central American masses: Misa Popular Nicaragnense, Misa Campesina Nicaragnense, and Misa Popular Salvadoreña.)
Villarreal Brennan, Elizabeth, A Singing Wind,Songs and Melodies From Ecuador, , Danbury, CT, World Music Press. (Tape and book instructional set.)
Bronner, Simon J., American Children’s Folklore: A Book of Rhymes, Games, Jokes, Stories, Beliefs and Camp Legends, Little Rock, AR: August House, 1988.
Browne, C.A., The Story of Our National Ballads, NY: Thomas Y. Crowell Company.
Carawan, Guy, and Candie Carawan, 1989. Ain’t You Got a Right to the Tree of Life? The People of John’s Island, South Carolina-Their Faces, Their Words, and Their Songs. Athens: The University of Georgia Press. (Fascinating look at a fascinating culture.)
Carawan, Guy, and Candie Carawan, 1990. Sing for Freedom, The Story of the Civil Rights Movement Through Its Songs. Bethlehem, PA: Sing Out Corporation.
(With excellent historical information.)
Cohn, Amy L. From Sea to Shining Sea, A Treasury of American Folklore and Folk Songs., NY: Scholastic Inc.
Cooke, Nym, Awake To Joy! Christmas Carols for Part-Singing, 290 Wine Rd. New Braintree, MA 01531-1604, 508-867-9144. (An amazing collection of mostly early American Christmas music. Send $15, which includes postage, to Nym Cooke at above address for the book.)
Crawford Seeger, Ruth. 1948. American Folk Songs for Children, In Home, School and Nursery School. NY: Doubleday. (A now classic collection of songs with an excellent introduction on the folk song tradition.)
Fowke, Edith, and Joe Glazer, eds. 1960. Songs of Work and Freedom. Garden City, NY: Dolphin Books, Doubleday and Company, Inc. (Now classic collection of songs.)
Get America Singing Again, 45 sing-along songs edited by Will Schmid and MENC (Music Educators Natonal Conference) with a forward by Pete Seeger.) Published by Hal Leonard Corporation.
Glickman, Gene, Arr., Ear To The Ground: Songs of Struggle and Celebration from Four Continents, Brooklyn, NY: Ernest & Gruber, 167 Maple St. 11225, 1994. (Thirteen SATB arrangements of folk songs from several cultures.)
Gordon, Larry, ed., Endless Light, Spiritual Songs From a New Generation of Composers, R.D. #1, P.O. Box 668, Plainfield, VT 05667: Northern Harmony Publishing, 1997. (Wonderful Sacred Harp-style hymns composed by high school students. w/recording)
Gordon, Larry, Anthony G Barrand, Carole Moody Crompton, Northern Harmony, Plain Tunes, Fuging Tunes and Anthems from the Early and Contemporary New England Singing Traditions, R.D. #1, P.O. Box 668, Plainfield, VT 05667: Northern Harmony Publishing, 1995. (Wonderful collection with incredible background information. They also publish a small collection of rounds.)
Lyons, Dr. John Henry, Stories of Our American Patriotic Songs, NY: Vanguard Press.
Moyers, Bill, Don Marino, ed., Elena Mannes, Prod. and Dir., Amazing Grace (Video), Public Affairs Television Inc. for WNET New York and WTTW in Chicago. (Video about the hymn “Amazing Grace.” It explains the power of the song by looking at its history as well as the diverse cultural traditions that have embraced the song. Recommended)
Ritchie, Jean, 1971. Celebrations of Life, Her Songs…Her Poems. Port Washington, NY: Geordie Music Publishing. (Appalachian folk singer Jean Ritchie’s collection of wonderful songs including “Now is the Cool of the Day” and “The Peace Round.”)
Seeger, Pete, 1985. Abiyoyo, NY: MacMillan. (This is an illustrated children’s story adapted by Pete Seeger. Children can sing-a-long with the song “Abiyoyo” as the book is read to them. Delightful!)
Seeger, Pete, Ed. by Jo Metcalf Schwartz, 1972. The Incomplete Folksinger, Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press. (Folk singer Pete Seeger’s great thoughts on great folk traditions.)
Seeger, Pete, 1993. Where Have All the Flowers Gone, A Singer’s Stories, Songs, Seeds, Robberies. Bethlehem, PA: Sing Out Corporation. (Pete Seeger has written an autobiography using his own songs and others as a way of telling his life story. Highly recommended.)
A Shaker Hymnal, A Facsimile Edition of the Hymnal of the Canterbury Shakers, Woodstock, NY: The Overlook Press, 1990. (Lewis Hollow Rd. 12498) (Some wonderful old gems.)
Silverman, Jerry, Mel Bay’s Immigrant Songbook, Pacific, MO: Mel Bay Publications, Inc. 1992. (Exciting collection of powerful songs.)
White, B. F., and E. J. King, eds. (1859) 1991. The Sacred Harp. Broadman Press, Nashville, Tennessee, 37203. (Exciting early American shape note hymns. The tradition of singing these songs is still alive.)
Ashley, Bryan. 1984. I’m Going To Sing: Black American Spirituals, vols. 1 & 2. New York: Atheneum. (Ashley’s wood block illustrations are superb.)
Burns, Michael G., Improvisation Aid II, P.O. Box Box 16978, Houston, TX 77222-6978 (For anyone interested in creating Gospel accompaniments.)
Carawan, Guy, and Candie Carawan, 1989. Ain’t You Got a Right to the Tree of Life? The People of John’s Island, South Carolina-Their Faces, Their Words, and Their Songs. Athens: The University of Georgia Press.
(Fascinating look at a fascinating culture.)
Carawan, Guy, and Candie Carawan, 1990. Sing for Freedom, The Story of the Civil Rights Movement Through Its Songs. Bethlehem, PA: Sing Out Corporation. (With excellent historical information.)
Collins, Lisa, Gospel Music, 1997 Round-Up, P>O> Box 7274, Culver City, CA 90233-7274, 310-677-6011 (Information on the business of Gospel music. Great resource.)
COMPOSITIONS: ONE by Bernice Johnson Reagon, Washington, DC: Songtalk Publishing Company. (Exciting collection of songs from the group Sweet Honey in the Rock. Available from Ladyslipper Catalog.)
Jenkins, Ella. 1968. The Ella Jenkins Songbook. NY: Oak Publications. (Great collections of children’s songs from around the world adapted by the greatest children’s song leader of them all. Highly recommended. Ella Jenkins has many recordings.)
Johnson, James Weldon, and J. Rosamond Johnson. 1977. The Books of American Negro Spirituals, NY: Da Capo Press, Inc. (Superb collection by the author and composer of Lift Every Voice and Sing.)
Jones, Bessie, and Bess Lomax Hawes. 1987. Step It Down (Games, Plays, Songs and Stories from the Afro-American Heritage. Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press.
(Great collection for anyone interested in historical accuracy in singing African American children’s songs. Also, the songs are great.)
Kochman, Thomas. 1977. Rappin’ and Stylin’ Out. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. (See also David Toop’s The Rap Attack)
Latin American Songs, 1992, Milwaukee, WI: Hal Leonard Publishing Corporation. (Songs in Spanish and English with piano.)
Lead Me, Guide Me, GIA Publications, Inc., 7404 South Mason Avenue, Chicago, IL 60638 Ph: 800/442-1358, 708/496-3800 Fax: 708/496-3828. (Hymnal and service book of African American Catholics. Recording available.)
Learning How To Play Gospel Music, Vols. I and II, 924 N. Dunlap, Memphis, TN 38107: New Musical Concepts. (Videos)
Ray, Robert, Gospel Mass, 1981, Jenson Publications, Inc. (Six exciting and accessible movements of the Mass. There is a growing movement surrounding this great work. Choruses that have never sung gospel before are learning it. The piano, bass and drum parts are so well written. In addition, these beginning gospel groups are joining with more experienced gospel groups to create exciting local choral festivals.)
Reagon, Bernice Johnson, Compositions: One, P.O. Box 21310, Washington, D.C. 20009: Songtalk Publishing Compony, 1986.
(Transcriptions of powerful Sweet Honey In The Rock pieces including “Seven Principles,” a song for Kwanza.)
Reagon, Bernice Johnson, ed. 1992. We’ll Understand It Better By and By, Pioneering African American Gospel Composers. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press. (Along with her Wade in the Water series, this is an excellent guide to traditional gospel music.)
Songs of Zion. 1981. Nashville: Abingdon Press. (Manufactured by the Parthenon Press) (Available from Dove Music, see Resource Guide. Fantastic collection of African American Hymns, Spirituals, and Gospel Songs—with historical backgrounds for each style.)
Stanley, Lawrence A., Ed. Rap, The Words to Rap’s Greatest Hits. 1992. New York, NY: Penguin Books. (Rap lyrics express the same diversity of thought as all pop songs. This book has it all.)
Sweet Honey In The Rock, All For Freedom. 1989. (Recording) Redway, CA: Music For Little People. (Great African and African-American songs for children including Silvie, Cumbayah, Little Red Caboose, Ise Oluwah and others.)
Toop, David. 1984. The Rap Attack, African Jive to New York Hip Hop. Boston, MA: South End Press. (If you know nothing about Rap, read this book. You will definitely respect Rap as an ancient musical tradition. Recommended.)
Wagner, Chris, Slave Songs, Jubilee Hymns, and Spirituals, P.O. Box 14923, Columbus, OH 43214-0923 (khrysso@infinet.com) (http://www.infinet.com/~khrysso/) (This and other collections contain copies of early songs, hyms etc. from a variety of old collections.)
White, Evelyn Davidson, ed., Choral Music by African American Composers, A Selected, Annotated Bibliography, London, England: The Scarecrow Press. 1996. (By title, composer, and in convenient chart format.)
Ballard, Dr. Louis W. 1973. American Indian Music for the Classroom, Teacher’s Guide, Phoenix, Arizona (4143 N. 16th St. 85016): Canyon Records.
Ballard, Dr. Louis W. 1976. The American Indian Sings, Book 1. Santa Fe, NM: New Southwest Music Publications. (Both of these collections are good.)
Burnett, Millie, ed., Dance Down the Rain, Sing Up the Corn, American Indian Chants and Games for Children, 1975, Allison Park, PA Musik Innovations (P.O. Box 1, zip: 15101)
Burton, Bryan. 1993. Moving Within the Circle: Contemporary Native American Music and Dance. Danbury, CT. World Music Press. (Book and tape. Very teacher-friendly. Highly recommended!)
Curtis, Natalie. 1968. The Indian’s Book, Songs and Legends of the American Indians. NY: Dover Publications, Inc. (Turn of the century collection of diverse Native American songs. The translations sound very Victorian.)
Goseyun Wilson, Chesley, and Ruth Longcor Harnisch Wilson, Bryan Burton, When The Earth Was Like New, Western Apache Songs and Stories, 1994. (w/ tape or cd) Danbury, CT: World Music Press. (A book that shows great respect to the powerful living legacy of Apache culture.)
Axelrod, Alan, Songs of the Wild West, NY: Simon & Schuster.
Blood-Patterson, Peter, ed. 1988. Rise Up Singing. Bethlehem, PA: A Sing Out Publication, PO Box 5253, 18015. (The best collection of folk song lyrics around. Tapes available.)
Dittberner, Larry, Songs For Earthlings, 293 Superior St., St. Paul, MN 55102 (Contains “Yea, O God, You Are Our Mother,” and many other accessible rounds and songs.)
Fulton, Eleanor and Pat Smith, Let’s Slice the Ice, St. Louis: Magnamusic-Baton, 1978. (Song games for children)
Fuoco-Lawson,Gloria, Street Games. London: Schott, 1992.
Langstaff, John, A Revels Garland of Songs, In Celebration of Spring, Summer, and Autumn, Cambridge, MA: Revels, Inc. 1996. (English and North American processionals, carols, rounds, pub songs, ritual songs, children’s songs, and street cries with piano accompaniment. Wonderful!)
Langstaff, Nancy, and John Langstaff, eds. 1985. The Christmas Revels Songbook, In Celebration of the Winter Solstice. Boston: David R. Godine, Publisher, Inc. 306 Dartmouth St. 02116. (Includes Wassail songs and other non-Christmas seasonal songs.)
Langstaff, Nancy, and John Langstaff, eds 1978, 1986. Sally Go Round The Moon, And Other Revels Songs and Singing Games for Young Children. Cambridge, MA: Revels Publications. (Creative collections of fun songs. Revels also sells recordings of English ritual music from many seasons as well as a collection of sea chanteys.)
Perinchief , Robert, Honor Your Partner Songs, Perry Innovations, Inc., P.O. Box 395, Silver Springs, FL 34489, 1-800-527-2966 (A fine collection of partner songs, two or more songs that can be sung at the same time.)
Staines, Bill. 1980. If I Were a Word, Then I’d Be a Song., Sharon, CT: Folk- Legacy Records, Inc. 06069. (Contemporary folk songs like All God’s Critters Got a Place in the Choir, and River. Edited by Will Schmidt, past president of MENC)
Weber, Sol, ed., Rounds Galore! Captivating Rounds, Old and New. 1994. Distributed by Sing Out! Corp. or from Sol “Roundman” Weber, 25-14 37th St., Astoria, NY 11103-4228 (The best collection of rounds. Recommended. An “Informal Set” collection of rounds as well as a cd/tape of rounds are available.)
Jazz and Popular
Barbershop Arranging Manual, published by SPEBSQSA, 1980. (Everything you’d need to know about arranging barbershop and then some.)
Callahan, Anna, The Collegiate Arranging Manual, Seattle, WA 98107: Angharad Publications, 136 NW Fortieth St., 1995.
(Did you know that “Transanging” meant to “convert a song originally played with instrumentation into an a cappella song?”)
The Doo-Wop Songbook. NY: Arc Music Corp. and Hal Leonard Publishing Corporation, 1989. (Fun collection, piano chords, and vocal only—few harmony parts.)
The King’s Singers Ensemble Singing Collection, Milwaukee, WI: Hal Leonard, 1995. (One of several King’s Singers collections, this one with world, classical, folk, and pop material.)
Marre, Jeremy, and Hannah Charlton. 1985. Beats of the Heart, Popular Music of the World. New York: Pantheon Books.
(Books and videos. Excellent look at many styles of music ranging from Pentecostal Preachers in Appalachia to the excellent Beats of Resistance, on the Pop music of South Africa. Recommended.)
Python Productions, Inc., The Fairly Incomplete and Rather Badly Illustrated Monty Python Song Book, 1994, New York, NY: HarperCollins Publishers. (95% of these songs cannot be sung with children, but the silliness of “The Galaxy Song” and a few others is irresistible.)
Raugh, Anne and Deke Sharon, Arr., Contemporary A cappella Songbook, Vol I, P.O. Box 8178, Tyler, TX 75711-8178: Voices Music Publishing, 1995. (Great SATB rock and R&B arrangements)
Stoloff, Bob, Scat! Vocal Improvisation Techniques, Brooklyn, NY: Gerard and Sarzin Publishing Co. (146 Bergen St. Brooklyn, NY 11217) (w/cd)
Stoloff, Bob, Vocal Improvisation in the Be-Bop Idiom ($18 w/postage) and Vocal Drum Grooves ($13 w/postage) Write to Bob Stoloff, 34 Broffi Circle, Framingham, MA 01701 (If you are into a cappella jazz singing, these exercise books by Berklee College’s vocal jazz professor are a must.)
Szabo, Burt, ed., Heritage of Harmony Songbook, Kenosha, WI: Society for the Preservation and Encouragement of Barber Shop Quartet Singing in America, 1988. (The classic old Barbershop arrangements.)
Ashley, Bryan. 1984. I’m Going To Sing: Black American Spirituals, vols. 1 & 2. New York: Atheneum (Ashley’s wood block illustrations are superb.)
Dalcroze Society of America, 3871 45th Ave. NE, Seattle, WA 98105, 206-527-7034 (Dalcroze/Eurhythmics combines mind, body and emotion in music/movement education)
Jones, Bessie, and Bess Lomax Hawes. 1987. Step It Down (Games, Plays, Songs and Stories from the Afro-American Heritage. Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press (Great collection for anyone interested in historical accuracy in singing African American children’s songs. Also, the songs are great.)
Kodály Center of America, 15 Denton Rd., Wellesley, MA 02181-6404, 617-235-8784 (Books, music, and info on The Kodaly music education approach.)
Music Educators Journal, 1902 Association Dr., Reston, VA 22091, http://www.menc.org (Very useful magazine and resource organization for music teachers. Their recent series of world music articles by Patricia Shehan Campbell should be in every choral directoers library.)
Music For Little People, Box 1460, Redway, CA 95560 (800-246-4445) (Wonderful children’s recordings by Tom Chapin, Sweet Honey in the Rock, Sally Rogers, Ladysmith Black Mambazo and many others.)
Nash, Grace C. and Janice Rapley. Music in the Making: Optimal Learning in Speech, Song, Instrument Instruction and Movement for Grades K-4. Van Nuys, CA: Alfred Publishing Co., 1990. (Grace Nash revolutionized music education during the fifties and sixties. Her books on counting and reading rhythm games are excellent for the classroom teacher.)
Nelson, Esther L., Singing and Dancing Games For The Young, New York, NY: Sterling Publishing, 1977. (Great collection with movement instructions)
SING OUT! The Folksong Magazine, P.O. Box 5253, Bethlehem, PA 18015-5253 (215-865-5366) (Quarterly folk music magazine. They also publish excellent folksong books and Rise Up Singing, a song book with tapes, containing over 1,200 very singable songs. Highly recommended.)
World Music Press, P.O. Box 2565, Danbury, CT 06813-2565, 203-748-1131, fax: 203-748-3432
World Music at West, Multicultural Music and Arts Catalog, 1208 5th St. , Coralville, IA 52241 (800-397-9378) (Distributor of many multicultural music resources.)
Anderson, William M. and Patricia Shehan Campbell, eds. 1989. Multicultural Perspectives in Music Education, Reston, VA: The Music Educators National Conference (MENC). (A good introduction.)
Bakke, Corean ed., Aleluya: Let the WholeWorld Sing,, Chicago: Cornerstone Press Chicago, 1994
Banks, James, 1989. Multicultural Education: Issues and Perceptions, Boston: Allyn and Bacon. (Along with the Sleeter and Grant book, Making Choices for Multi-Cultural Education, this is an excellent book for understanding the issues of multiculturalism in education. Recommended.)
“Becoming Human Through Music, The Wesleyan Symposium on the Perspectives of Social Anthropology in the Teaching and Learning of Music”, 1985. At Wesleyan University in Middletown, CT, 8/6-8/84, Reston, VA: Music Educators National Conference (MENC).
(These articles offer an excellent argument for multiculturalism in music education. The link between music and cultural identity is made very well. Recommended.)
Bell, John ed., Many and Great: Songs of the World Church, Vol. I, Chicago: GIA Pub., Inc., North American Ed., 1990. (From the Iona Community. 25 sacred songs from 16 countries. Recording available.)
Bell, John ed., Sent by the Lord: Songs of the World Church, Vol. II, Chicago: GIA Pub, Inc., North American Ed., 1992
Bragaw, Don and W. Scott Thomson, eds. 1992. Multicultural Education, A Global Approach, NY: The American Forum for Global Education, 45 John Street, Suite 908, NY, 10038.
Cech, Maureen, Globalchild, Multicultural Resources for Young Children, Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley Publishing, 1991. (Available from Zephyr.) (Exciting activities including music, movement, art, food and more.)
A CIRCLE IS CAST. . Cambridge, MA: Libana, Inc.
(Songbook and tape by Boston based women’s chorus, LIBANA. Contains great chants from many traditions. Also: Fire Within. Both available from Ladyslipper Catalog.)
Clyde, Arthur C. ed., The New Century Hymnal, Cleveland: The Pilgrim Press, 1995, United Church of Christ.
East, Helen, The Singing Sack: Twenty-eight Song-Stories from Around the World. London: A & C Black, 1989. (Available from World Music at West)
Feld, Steven. 1982. Sound and Sentiment: Birds, Weeping, Poetics, and Song in Kaluli Expression, N. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. (Like many ethnomusicological books, this book makes you redefine music.)
Emily, R. ed., Psalter Hymnal, Grand Rapids: CRC Publications, 1987, Christian Reformed Church.
George, Luvenia A., Teaching the Music of Six Different Cultures, Danbury, CT: World Music Press. 1987. (Africa, African-American, Native American, Jewish, Hawaiian, and Puerto Rican music.)
Hart, Mickey, and Fredric Lieberman. 1991. Planet Drum, A Celebration of Percussion and Rhythm. San Francisco: Harper Collins.
(Like Hart’s other book, Drumming at the Edge of Magic,this is a look at drumming from a planetary perspective. Planet Drum examines the geographical and historical side of drumming.)
Hood, Mantle. The Ethnomusicologist, Kent, OH: The Kent State University Press, 1982. (Mantle Hood has been an innovator in the field of ethnomusicology, the study of music and culture. w/recordings.)
Ito-Lo, ed. Hymns of the Four Winds, Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1983. East Asian hymns in English.
Jeffers, Ron, ed.Translations and Annotations of Choral Repertoire, vol. I. “Sacred Latin Texts.” Corvallis, OR: Earthsongs, 1988.
Kealoha, Anna. 1989. Songs of the Earth, African, Buddhist, Christian, Hindu/Indian, Islamic/Sufi, Jewish/Hebrew, Native American, Neoteric & Others. Berkeley, CA: Celestial Arts. (Out of print. Great diversity of songs and chants.)
Keeling, Richard, ed. 1989. Women in North American Indian Music: Six Essays. Bloomington, IN: The Society for Ethnomusicology. (Some refreshing perspectives.)
Lomax, Alan, Folk Song Style and Culture, New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Publishers, (1968) 1994.
(A theoretical treatise arguing that there is a correlation between the music/dance that a culture creates and the behavioral traits of that culture—the basics of cantometrics.)
“Lost Tribes, Lost Knowledge, When Native Cultures Disappear, So Does a Trove of Scientific and Medical Wisdom.” Time: 9/23/91: 46–56. (Time magazine’s look at a sad Global phenomenon.)
Makeever, Ray, Open the Door: Songs for Liturgy and Liberation, (58 Biblically based songs with a vision for a more multicultural and inclusive church. Hymns, solos, children’s songs and more.)
Marks, Kate, Circle of Song, Songs, Chants, and Dances for Ritual and Celebration, P.O Box 428, Amherst, MA 01004, Full Circle Press, 1993. (Accessible spiritual chants from many traditions.)
Marre, Jeremy, and Hannah Charlton. 1985. Beats of the Heart, Popular Music of the World. New York: Pantheon Books. (Books and videos. Excellent look at many styles of music ranging from Pentecostal Preachers in Appalachia to the excellent Beats of Resistance, on the Pop music of South Africa. Recommended.)
May, Elizabeth, ed. 1980. Musics of Many Cultures: An Introduction . Berkeley: University of California Press. (A good intro.)
McDade, Carolyn, This Tough Spun Web, Songs of Global Struggle and Solidarity, Songs of Carolyn McDade, Womancenter at Plainville, 76 Everett Skinner Rd. Plainville, MA 02762. (Freedom songs from around the world and by Carolyn McDade.)
McKim, LindaJo ed., The Presbyterian (U.S.A.) Hymnal, Louisville: Westminster/John Knox Press, 1990.
Menuhin, Yehudi, and Curtis W. Davis. 1979. The Music of Man. New York: Simon & Schuster, Inc.(Exciting book and video series. Menuhin, the classical violinist, discusses music from many cultures. Recommended.)
Merriam, Alan P. 1964. The Anthropology of Music, Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press.(Merriam sets out an outline for examining the music of all cultures.)
Middleton, Julie Forrest, ed., Songs For Earthlings: A Green Spirituality Songbook, Philadelphia, PA: Emerald Earth Publishing, 1998. (Almost 400 pages of Pagan and Earth-centered songs and chants with resource info and index.)
Montfort, Matthew, Ancient Traditions – Future Possibilities, Rhythmic Training Through the Traditions of Africa, Bali and India. 1985, Mill Valley, CA: Panoramic Press. (For music teachers ready for the fun challenge of using world rhythms to teach classroom music.)
Multicultural Resources for Arts Education, June 1989, Minnesota Alliance for Arts in Education, 5701 Normandale Rd. Suite 244, Minneapolis, MN 55424, 612-920-9002.
Myers, Helen, ed. Ethnomusicology, An Introduction. 1992. NY: W.W. Norton & Company. (The companion book is Ethnomusicology, Historical and Regional Studies. These two books contain current articles on the field of ethnomusicology, including some in-depth resource material—see Part III of my resource guide.)
The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians. Ed. by Stanley Sadie. 1988. London: Macmillan Publishers Ltd. (An extraordinary multi-volume resource on all music from almost all cultures.)
Page, Nick, 1995. Music As A Way of Knowing Stenhouse Publishing, P.O. Box 360, York, ME 03909, 207-363-9198, 800-988-9812, fax: 207-363-9730 (This book is part of a series dedicated to the integration of the arts into the classroom–how to teach science, history etc. using music.)
Parker, Alice. 1991. Melodious Accord, Good Singing in Church. Chicago: Liturgy Training Publications, 1800 N. Hermitage Ave. 60622 (These two books by composer Alice Parker need to be read by every church musician or anyone interested in how to breath new life into old music.)
Peacock, David and Geoff Weaver, Eds., World Praise: Combined Music Edition, HarperCollins/Marshall Pickering, 1995. Baptist World Alliance. ISBN 0551 02956 back
Ramsier, Paul, ed. 1976. Games Children Sing Around The World, Twelve Singing Games from Twelve Countries. Miami, FL: Belwin, Inc. (15800 N.W. 48th Avenue, 33014). (Available from World Music West.) (Book and tape with good explanations.)
Rounds For Children, 1986. NY: Amsco Publications. (Good collection of rounds for grades K-6)
Routley, Erik ed. Cantate Domino: An Ecumenical Hymn Book,, Published on behalf of the World Council of Churches by Oxford University Press, 1980.
Shehan Campbell, Patricia, Lessons From the World, New York, NY: Schirmer Books, 1991. (ISBN 0-020872361-9)
(Multicultural resources on teaching music)
Shehan Campbell, Patricia, ed. Music In Cultural Context, Eight Views on World Music Education, Reston, VA: Music Educators National Conference (MENC) 1996.
(Excellent series on music from diverse cultures.)
Shehan Campbell, Patricia, Ellen McCullough-Brabson, Judith Cook Tucker, 1994. Roots & Branches, A Legacy of Multicultural Music for Children, Danbury, CT: World Music Press. (A must book and tape or cd for any classroom teacher who wants to teach songs of many cultures. Highly recommended!)
Silverman, Jerry, Mel Bay’s Immigrant Songbook, Pacific, MO: Mel Bay Publications, Inc. 1992.(Exciting collection of powerful songs.)
Singing the Living Tradition, Boston: Beacon Press, 1993. Unitarian Universalist hymnal.
Sleeter, Christine E., and Carl A. Grant. 1988. Making Choices for Multi-Cultural Education: Five Approaches to Race, Class, and Gender. Columbus: Merrill Publishing Co.
(Along with James Banks Multicultural Education, this is an excellent book on contemporary issues in multicultural education. Highly recommended.)
Slough, Rebecca ed., Hymnal: A Worship Book, Elgin, Illinois: Brethren Press, 1992. Church of the Brethren, General Conference Mennonite Church, Mennonite Church in North America.
Teason, Debbie with Gage Averill and Pandamonium Steel Band, Pandemonium Rules, Steel Band Ensembles For Orff Instruments, Danbury, CT, World Music Press.
(Caribbean Book and Tape instructional set.)
Wenner, E., and Elizabeth Freilicher. 1987. Here’s To The Women, 100 Songs For and About Women. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press.
(A collection with a lot of historical background. Available from Ladyslipper Catalog.)
World Music, The Rough Guide, Salsa to Soukous, Cajun to Calypso, 1994, New York, NY: Penguin Books.
(Reviews of thousands of recordings from everywhere on the planet. Not scholarly, sometimes trendy, but always interesting.)
e-mail and websites
Here are some Internet resources:
Multicultural choral music:
http://www.columbia/~dwl130/orgs.html
Worldwide Internet Music Resources:
http://www.music.indiana.edu/music_resources/
Choralist: listproc@colorado.edu/help (The word help will signal that you are requesting access info for whatever source you are seeking.)
ChoralNet and International Federation of Choral (Contains Choralist, ChoralTalk, and ChoralAcademe.)
Music: http:/www.sdsmt.edu/choralnet/
J.W. Pepper and Son, Inc. (A On-line music catalog. Call 800-345-6296 for information)
Music Education List: Subscriptions to: listserv@vm1.spcs.umn.edu
ArtsEdge (Arts advocacy organization) Home Page via World Wide Web, URL address: http:\\k12.cnidr.org.
Sacred Harp List (Sacred Harp is early American shape note hymn singing, a tradition still alive today.) Subscriptions to: majordomo@tahiti.umhc.umn.edu
Vocalist (For solo and choral singers): Majordomo@phoenix.ouli.fi
Through Usenet:
Bluegrass Music: BGRASS-L@UKCC.BITNET
Irish Music: IRTRAD-L@IRLEARN.BITNET
(You can search for additional cultural information by entering soc.culture. and then the name of a culture. For example, soc.culture.arabic or soc.culture.bangladesh
Note: This Resource Guide does not list music software, MIDI, or CD ROM information. The future of all music activities will be broadly affected by these technologies including the realm of multicultural music.
Periodicals and Organizations
Note: The following listing is taken from the Norton/Grove music handbook, Ethnomusicology, An Introduction, ed. Helen Myers. NY: W.W. Norton & Co. 1992.
Arts and Humanities Citation Index (AHCI) (Philadelphia: Institute for Scientific Information, 1976-); BRS, DIALOG (Arts and Humanities Search), 1980- [international index which fully indexes 1300 arts and humanities journals and relevant articles from 5000 social and natural science journals]; available on CD-ROM
African Music Journal, African Music Society (Grahamstown, South Africa: Rhodes University, 1954-); irregular; AHCI, Cc, MusInd, RILM
African Musicology (Nairobi: University of Nairobi, Institute of African Studies, 1983-) quarterly; AHCI, Cc, MusInd
Annual Review of Jazz Studies (New Brunswick, NJ: Institute of Jazz Studies, Rutgers University, 1973-); annual; ACHI, MusInd, RILM
Asian Folklore Studies (Nagoya: Nanzan University, Nanzan Anthropological Institute, 1942-); half-yearly; ACHI, Cc, HumInd, MLA
Asian Music, Society for Asian Music (Ithaca, NY: Society for Asian Music, 1968-); half-yearly; ACHI, Cc, MLA, MusInd, RILM
Black Music Research Journal, Center for Black Music Research (Chicago: Columbia College, 1980-); semiannual; ACHI, MusInd, RILM
Black Music Research Newsletter, Center for Black Music Research (Chicago: Columbia Colldge, 1977-); semiannual; ACHI, MusInd, RILM
Black Perspective in Music (Cambria Heights, NY: Foundation for Research in the Afro-American Creative Arts, 1973-; annual; Cc, MusInd, RILM
Bluegrass Unlimited (Broad Run, VA: Bluegrass Unlimited, 1966); monthly; MusInd
Blues Unlimited (London: Blues Unlimited Publications, 1963-); 4/year; MLA
Bulgarska musika (Sofi: Komiteta a Kultura, 1949-); 10/year; MusInd
Canadian Folk Music Bulletin/Bulletin de musique folklorique canadienne, Canadian Folk Music Society (Calgary: Canadian Folk Music Society, 1982-); quarterly; MLA
Canadian Folk Music Journal, Canadian Folk Music Society (Calgary: Canadian Folk Music Society, 1973-); annual; MLA, MusInd
Chinese Music, Chinese Music Society of North America (Woodridge, IL: Chinese Music Society of North America, 1978-); quarterly; MusInd, RILM
Country Dance and Song, Country Dance and Song Society of America (Northampton, MA: Country Dance and Song Society, 1968-) annual; MusInd
Cultural Anthropology, American Anthropological Association (Washington, DC: American Anthropological Association, 1986-); quarterly
Culture and Tradition (St. John’s, Nfld: Memorial University of Newfoundland, 1976-); annual; MLA
Culture musicali, Società Italianna di Etnomusicologica (Rome: Bulzoni Editore, 1982-); semiannual
Current Musicology (New York: Columbia University, 1965-); semiannual; AHCI, Cc, HumInd, MusInd, RILM
English Dance and Song, English Folk Dance and Song Society(London: English Folk Dance and Song Society, 1936-); 4/year; MLA, MusInd, RILM
Finnish Music Quarterly (Helsinki: Performing Music Promotion Centre, Foundation for the Promotion of Finnish Music, 1985-); quarterly; MusInd
Folk Music Journal, English Folk Dance and Song Society (London: English Folk Dance and Song Society, 1965-); annual; ACHI, Cc, MLA, MusInd
Hogaku, Traditional Japanese Music Society (New York: City University of New York, 1983-); semiquarterly; MusInd, RILM
Humanities Index (New York: H. W. Wilson Co., 1974-); WILSONLINE, 1984- [citations to articles and book reviews in about 300 journals; international coverage]; available on CD-ROM
Indian Music Journal (Melkote: Tyaga Bharati Music Education Mission, 1964-); annual
Inter-American Music Review (Los Angeles: Robert Stevenson, 1978-); semiannual; AHCI, MusInd, RILM
International Journal of Music Education, International Society of Music Education (Reading, 1967-); semiannual; MusInd, RILM
Irish Folk Music Studies, Folk Music Society of Ireland (Dublin: Folk Music Society of Ireland, 1973-); annual; RILM
Israel Studies in Musicology (Ramat Aviv: Tel Aviv University, 1978-); annual; RILM
Journal of Country Music (Nashville: Country Music Foundation, 1970-); quarterly; ACHI,Cc, MLA, RILM
The Journal of Musicological Research (London: Gordon and Breach Science Publishers, 1974-); 4/year; AHCI, Cc, RILM
Journal of Musicology (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1982-); quarterly; AHCI, Cc, MusInd, RILM
Journal of Popular Culture, Popular Culture Association (Bowling Green, OH: Bowling Green University Popular Press, 1967-); quarterly, AH&L, AHCI, Cc, HistAbst, HumInd, MLA, MusInd, SSCI
Journal of Research in Music Education, Society for Research in Music Education (Reston, VA: Music Educators National Conference, 1953-); quarterly; AHCI, Cc, EducInd, MusInd, RILM, SSCI
Journal of the Indian Musicological Society (Baroda, India: Indian Musicological Society, 1970-); semiannual; AHCI, Cc, MusInd, RILM
Living Blues: a Journal of the Black American Blues Tradition (University, MS: University of Mississippi, 1970-); 6/year; MLA, MusInd, RILM
Musica Judaica, American Society for Jewish Music (New York: American Society for Jewish Music, 1976-); annual: MusInd, RILM
New York Folklore, New York Folklore Society (Newfield, NY: New York Folklore Society, 1975-); quarterly; AH&L, AHCI, Cc, HistAbst, MusInd
North Carolina Folklore Journal, North Carolina Folklore Society (Boone, NC: North Carolina Folklore Society, 1948-); 2/year; HistAbst, MLA, MusInd
Pacific Review of Ethnomusicology (Los Angeles: Ethnomusicology Archive, 1984-); annual
Polish Music (Warsaw: Authors’ Agency, 1966-); quarterly; MusInd, RILM
Popular Music (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1982-); quarterly; MusInd
Popular Music and Society (Bowling Green, OH: Popular Press, 1971-); quarterly; AHCI, Cc, MusInd, RILM
Review of Popular Music, International Association for the Study of Popular Music (Berlin: IASPM, 1982-); 2/year
South African Journal of Musicology/Suid-Afrikaanse tydskrif vir musiekwetenskap, Musicological Society of South Africa/Musiekwetenskapvereining van Suid-Afrika (Pretoria: Musicological Society of South Africa, 1981-); annual/semiannual
UCLA Journal of Dance Ethnology, Dance Ethnology Association (Los Angeles: Dance Ethnology Association, 1977-); annual
The World of Music/Le monde de la musique/Die Welt der Musik, International Institute for Comparative Music Studies and Documentation (Wilhelmshaven: Heinrichshofen, 1957-); quarterly; AHCI, Cc, MusInd, RILM
Yearbook for Traditional Music, International Council for Traditional Music (New York: International Council for Traditional Music, 1949-); annual; MLA, MusInd, RILM
Yuval, Jewish Music Research Centre (Jerusalem: Jewish Music Research Centre, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 1966-); irregular; RILM
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While releasing a little while ago for PC and Playstation 4, this week we’ve been taking a look under the hood and deep into the depths of the survival horror from Frictional Games, Soma
Frictional Games have a well respected pedigree when it comes to the survival horror genre, and we’re glad to say that Soma really does live up to what you’re probably expecting from it. From way back with in their Penumbra games Frictional have come along way, we’re happy to see them building on previous successes with Amnesia: The Dark Descent, to bring us something in the same vein, but with another great original story.
Soma sees you awaking in your present day apartment, and on the way to a doctor’s appointment where you’ll undergo a small non-invasive procedure, before being transported far into the future, and into an underground science station with Pathos-II. you’ll make your way through the station and different areas of the base to follow a great narrative, and complete various missions along the way (which we’ll try not to give away here)
The oppressive atmosphere is, as you would expect, done very well, though we do thing Frictional have eased off a little on the terror which while great for us, may not be for everybody. We’d still rate is as scarier than alien Isolation, but probably a little below the likes of Outlast, and we think it strikes a great balance between the brown trousers moments, and a compelling story to pull you in and keep you going.
The Run DownGraphics: 9/10: Visuals in Soma are great and only a few tiny glitches on computer screens fromtime to time stop it getting a full ten. Could be improved, possibly, but not by much and the graphics are just one part of the experience which delivers a great oppressive environment
Story: 9/10: there are plenty of story elements within Soma, over and above a lot of film releases these days. There are some twists in the tail and some of those are spottable a little too early (we’d say) but other than that it’s a corker
Sound: 9/10: Great sound design throughout here to help bring that oppressive athmosphere as well as ge the hairs on the back of your neck stood up. Other than soundtrack and effects, there’s a great voice cast who’ve done a great job adding to the whole experience
Replayability: 4/10: Gameplay in Soma is slow, and you’ll need to take your time and work through certain areas to avoid the frankly creepy monsters which could end your journey prematurely. There are story bits you might miss on the first go, and the new Safe mode is a great addition for those looking for a story without the scares (or without so many scares), but we’re not sure it’s going to be enough to draw people back through the entire story.
Satisfaction: 9/10: Overall Soma is definitely one to pick up if you’re a sci-Punk or survival horror lover. The under £25 price tag on the xbox store makes this a great deal even if you only play to follow the story on safe mode, but we’d advise you dive deep into the horror experience,
and get the full Frictional Games effect.
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Big data is helping EA level up
Electronic Arts CTO Rajat Taneja on big data's growing role in the video game world.
by Ron Miller | @ron_miller | +Ron Miller | December 12, 2012
Electronic Arts (EA) isn’t the first company that comes to mind when you think of big data. Yet the gaming company is collecting increasing amounts of data about its online players, and as this data accumulates and gains steam, it falls under the big data category.
If a game maker like EA is considered a big data company, it could have implications for other companies we might not think of as typical big data generators. With that in mind, I got in touch with Rajat Taneja, chief technology officer at EA and a keynote speaker at the upcoming Strata Conference in California. Since Taneja came on board with EA in 2011, he’s helped steer the company’s technological initiatives, including understanding the impact this growing data store will have on the firm — both from a processing standpoint and how to use it to provide games and services customers want most. He says no matter what your company does, if you have constantly connected online services, you are very likely going to be dealing with lots of data.
Our interview follows. Read more…
Now available: Big Data Now 2012 Edition
O'Reilly's annual data anthology explores the maturation of big data and data science.
by Mac Slocum | @macslocum | +Mac Slocum | October 23, 2012
In the first edition of our free Big Data Now anthology, the O’Reilly team tracked the birth and early development of data tools and data science. Now, with the second edition, we’re seeing what happens when big data grows up: how it’s being applied, where it’s playing a role, and the consequences — good and bad alike — of data’s ascendance.
We’ve organized the 2012 edition of Big Data Now into five areas:
Getting Up to Speed With Big Data — Essential information on the structures and definitions of big data.
Big Data Tools, Techniques, and Strategies — Expert guidance for turning big data theories into big data products.
The Application of Big Data — Examples of big data in action, including a look at the downside of data.
What to Watch for in Big Data — Thoughts on how big data will evolve and the role it will play across industries and domains.
Big Data and Health Care — A special section exploring the possibilities that arise when data and health care come together.
You can download free editions of Big Data Now 2012 in PDF, Mobi and EPUB formats here. The 2011 edition is also available.
Strata Rx is a wrap
Watch live keynotes from this week's Strata Rx Conference in San Francisco.
The intersection of big data and health care was explored at the O’Reilly Strata Rx Conference. The event has concluded, but you can still access an archive of videos, photos, and speaker slides. Read more…
Statwing simplifies data analysis
Quickly perform and interpret the results of routine Small Data analysis
by Ben Lorica | @bigdata | +Ben Lorica | October 5, 2012
With so much focus on Big Data, the needs of many analysts who work with Small Data tend to get ignored. The default tool for many of these users remains spreadsheets1 and/or statistical packages which come with a lot of features and options. However many analysts need a very small subset of what these tools have to offer.
Enter Statwing, a software-as-a-service provider for routine statistical analysis. While the tool is still in the early stages, it can already do many basic “data analysis” tasks.
Consider the following example of a pivot table constructed in Excel: this required 8 mouse-clicks, if you do everything perfectly, and about 5 decisions (what variables to include, what metric to use, …)
The same task in Statwing required 4 mouse-clicks and 0 decisions! Plus it comes with visuals:
The lack of clutter and the addition of a simple “headline” (“Female tends to have much higher values for satisfaction than Male“), makes the result much easier to interpret. The advanced tab contains detailed statistical analysis (in this case the p-value, counts, values). Many users get confused by the output/results produced by traditional statistical software. Let’s face it, many analysts have had little training in statistics. I welcome a tool that produces readily interpretable results.
The company hopes to replicate the above example across a wide variety of routine data analysis tasks. Their initial focus is on tools for (consumer) survey analysis, a potentially huge market given that online companies have made surveys so much easier to conduct. Users of Statwing pay a small monthly subscription, making it cheaper than most2 statistical packages. For a small monthly fee, their intuitive UI lets analysts get their tasks done quickly. More importantly Statwing may nurture aspiring data scientists in your organization.
(1) As this recent Strata presentation points out: Spreadsheets are the glue that keeps many organizations together.
(2) Open source tools like OpenOffice, R and Octave are free. So is the use of Google spreadsheets.
A startup takes on “the paper problem” with crowdsourcing and machine learning
With a new mobile app and API, Captricity wants to build a better bridge between analog and digital.
by Alex Howard | @digiphile | +Alex Howard | October 5, 2012
Unlocking data from paper forms is the problem that optical character recognition (OCR) software is supposed to solve. Two issues persist, however. First, the hardware and software involved are expensive, creating challenges for cash-strapped nonprofits and government. Second, all of the information on a given document is scanned into a system, including sensitive details like Social Security numbers and other personally identifiable information. This is a particularly difficult issue with respect to health care or bringing open government to courts: privacy by obscurity will no longer apply.
The process of converting paper forms into structured data still hasn’t been significantly disrupted by rapid growth of the Internet, distributed computing and mobile devices. Fields that range from research science to medicine to law to education to consumer finance to government all need better, cheaper bridges from the analog to the digital sphere.
Enter Captricity. The startup, which was co-founded by Jeff J. Lin and Kuang Chen, has its roots in the fieldwork on rural health Chen did as part of his PhD program.
“I was looking at the information systems that were available to these low-resource organizations,” Chen said in a recent phone interview. “I saw that they’re very much bound in paper. There’s actually a lot of efforts to modernize the infrastructure and put in mobile phones. Now that there’s mobile connectivity, you can run a health clinic on solar panels and long distance Wi-Fi. At the end of the day, however, business processes are still on paper because they had to be essentially fail-proof. Technology fails all the time. From that perspective, paper is going to stick around for a very long time. If we’re really going to tackle the challenge of the availability of data, we shouldn’t necessarily be trying to change the technology infrastructure first — bringing mobile phones and iPads to where there’s paper — but really to start with solving the paper problem.”
When Chen saw that data entry was a chokepoint for digitizing health indicators, he started working on developing a better, cheaper way to ingest data on forms. Read more…
A search for balance between the “wow” and “aha” in visualizations
Bitsy Bentley on the work behind a good visualization and why she hopes users will take data interactions for granted.
by Ron Miller | @ron_miller | +Ron Miller | October 3, 2012
Because of the size, complexity and density of big data, it’s not always easy to find the important insights hiding in all that information. That’s where data visualization comes into play. A great visualization creates meaning where none existed.
Bitsy Bentley (@bitsybot) is the director of data visualization at GfK Custom Research, where she works with information designers to craft meaningful data experiences for a variety of business audiences. In the following interview, she discusses the space between a “wow” response and an “aha” moment, how her team addresses privacy concerns, and why practice is vital for both visualization creators and viewers.
Bentley will explore related visualization topics during her presentation at Strata Conference + Hadoop World in New York City later this month.
Why are data visualizations an effective way to understand the underlying data?
Bitsy Bentley: There is so much beauty and richness in big datasets, and now that we have enough processing power to harness that richness, it’s little wonder that interest in data visualization is exploding. To quote John Tukey: “The greatest value of a picture is when it forces us to notice what we never expected to see.” My clients find that, whether they’re more concerned with numbers or more concerned with stories, an appropriate visual is integral to their understanding of the data.
Visualization unlocks the serendipity of data analysis. It provides a language that is less intimidating than an overwhelming array of digits. Something as simple as a set of histograms breaking down the distribution of a data store makes it easy to find irregularities and outliers in the data. Read more…
Apple’s maps
Apple's maps problem isn't about software or design. It's about data.
by Mike Loukides | @mikeloukides | +Mike Loukides | October 1, 2012
I promise not to make any snarky remarks about Apple’s maps disaster, and the mistakes of letting a corporate vendetta get in the way of good business decisions. Oops, I lied. But it’s good to see that Tim Cook agrees, at least about quality of the maps. It’s humbling for a company like Apple to issue an apology.
The real issue isn’t the apology, but what happens next. Google seems to be in no hurry to submit a maps app. It’s unclear how much patience Apple’s customers have; on my Android phone, I probably use Google Maps more than anything else. Not having public transit information when I’m in New York would be a deal breaker for me. I suspect Apple’s fans are more loyal, but even that has limits. How long can the fanboys wait?
One article put Apple’s mapping efforts 400 years behind Google. That’s a lot of catch up. And Google certainly isn’t standing still: their addition of underwater photography to “street view” is spectacular, and may serve us well when sea levels rise. But that’s not the point, either. Apple doesn’t have to “catch up” to Google, though I’m sure they’d like to. They just have to get a product that’s good enough. I don’t think that’s a three-to-six-month proposition. But it could be done in a year or two. Read more…
Data Jujitsu: The art of turning data into product
Smart data scientists can make big problems small.
by DJ Patil | @dpatil | +DJ Patil | July 17, 2012
Having worked in academia, government and industry, I’ve had a unique opportunity to build products in each sector. Much of this product development has been around building data products. Just as methods for general product development have steadily improved, so have the ideas for developing data products. Thanks to large investments in the general area of data science, many major innovations (e.g., Hadoop, Voldemort, Cassandra, HBase, Pig, Hive, etc.) have made data products easier to build. Nonetheless, data products are unique in that they are often extremely difficult, and seemingly intractable for small teams with limited funds. Yet, they get solved every day.
How? Are the people who solve them superhuman data scientists who can come up with better ideas in five minutes than most people can in a lifetime? Are they magicians of applied math who can cobble together millions of lines of code for high-performance machine learning in a few hours? No. Many of them are incredibly smart, but meeting big problems head-on usually isn’t the winning approach. There’s a method to solving data problems that avoids the big, heavyweight solution, and instead, concentrates building something quickly and iterating. Smart data scientists don’t just solve big, hard problems; they also have an instinct for making big problems small.
We call this Data Jujitsu: the art of using multiple data elements in clever ways to solve iterative problems that, when combined, solve a data problem that might otherwise be intractable. It’s related to Wikipedia’s definition of the ancient martial art of jujitsu: “the art or technique of manipulating the opponent’s force against himself rather than confronting it with one’s own force.”
How do we apply this idea to data? What is a data problem’s “weight,” and how do we use that weight against itself? These are the questions that we’ll work through in the subsequent sections.
From smartphones and continuous data comes the social MRI
Dr. Nadav Aharony used phone sensors to explore personal behaviors and community trends.
by Mac Slocum | @macslocum | +Mac Slocum | July 13, 2012
It’s clear at this point that the smartphone revolution has very little to do with the phone function in these devices. Rather, it’s the unique mix of sensors, always-on connectivity and mass consumer adoption that’s shaping business and culture.
Dr. Nadav Aharony (@nadavaha) tapped into this mix when he was working on a “social MRI” study in MIT’s Media Lab. Aharony, who recently joined us as part of our ongoing foo interview series, described his vision of the social MRI:
“If you think about it, the three things you take with you when you go out of your home are your keys, your wallet and your phone, so our phones are always with us. In aggregate, we can use the phones in many people’s pockets as a virtual imaging chamber. So, one aspect of the social MRI is this virtual imaging chamber that is collecting tens or hundreds of signals at the same time from members of the community.” [Discussed at 1:16]
Aharony’s work focused on 150 participants (about 75 families) that were given phones for 15 months. During that time, more than one million hours of “continuous sensing data” was gathered with the participants’ consent. The data was acquired and scrubbed under MIT’s ethics guidelines, and for extra measure, Aharony included his own data in the dataset.
Collecting the data was just the beginning. Parsing that information and creating experiments based on emerging signals is where the applications of a social MRI became significant.
Stories over spreadsheets
Kris Hammond on replacing rows and columns with sentences and paragraphs.
by Mac Slocum | @macslocum | +Mac Slocum | June 14, 2012
Imagine a future where clear language supplants spreadsheets. In a recent interview, Narrative Science CTO Kris Hammond explained how we might get there.
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posted at Tuesday, March 1st, 2016 at 8:00 AM | Adult, Mini Reviews, Reviews, Young Adult
Take the Fall by Emily Hainsworth
Published by Balzer + Bray on February 16, 2016
Genres: Contemporary, Mystery
WHO KILLED GRETCHEN MEYER?
Fear grips the residents of Hidden Falls the night Sonia Feldman and her best friend, Gretchen Meyer, are attacked in the woods. Sonia was lucky to escape with her life, but Gretchen’s body is discovered at the bottom of a waterfall. Beautiful, popular, and seemingly untouchable, Gretchen can’t be gone. Even as Sonia struggles with guilt and confusion over having survived, the whole town is looking to her for information…could she have seen something that will lead the police to the killer?
At the top of the list of suspects is Gretchen’s ex-boyfriend—and Sonia’s longtime enemy—Marcus Perez. So when Marcus comes to Sonia for help clearing his name, she agrees, hoping to find evidence the police need to prove he’s the killer. But as Gretchen’s many secrets emerge and the suspects add up, Sonia feels less sure of Marcus’s involvement, and more afraid for herself. Could Marcus, the artist, the screwup, the boy she might be falling for have attacked her? Killed her best friend? And if it wasn’t him in the woods that night…who could it have been?
Take the Fall kept me thoroughly entertained from beginning to end, though it never ventured into the feelsy arena. I debated between a 3 and a 3.5, but the ending decided me on the lower rating. Thriller readers may enjoy this one more, but for the dabbler in the genre, this wouldn’t be my first choice.
Hainsworth does a nice job establishing pace and tension, keeping me curious who the murderer was and what would happen next. It’s a fun read. Sonia’s voice, while not quite VOICE is solid. Her possible romance with Marcus had my attention, and it verged on shippy at points. The other characters tend to be a bit one note; characterization is not the strong point of the book.
The plot certainly is twisty and intense, which I liked. It’s basically Mean Girls, if Gretchen was left behind after Regina George was murdered, which honestly is going to make this confusing since the Regina character is named Gretchen. But whatever.
Unfortunately, I can’t talk about the rest without spoilers so peace out if you don’t want to spoiled. View Spoiler »I have major issues with the trend of SURPRISE!TWIST the MC did the murder when the book is in first person. Like, sure, people lie to themselves, but, unless there’s some sort of amnesia or psychological issues, I generally just do not buy that the character never thought about it to themselves. The fact that she’d just accidentally murdered Gretchen would have been foremost in Sonia’s head basically all of the time imo, but she doesn’t think of it at all of course. This is really nifty for pulling a twist, but it also feels to me like an authorial cheat. So yeah, I do like how the plot played out for the most part, but ugh I hate this trope.
I mean, literally, Sonia spends most of the book trying to figure out who killed her friend. She’s not sure if she can trust Marcus because he might be the killer; we’re told this. And yet. SHE KNOWS WHAT HAPPENED THE WHOLE DAMN TIME. This technique can work, though I won’t say what book because that would spoil it, but it’s very hard to pull off the MC lying to themselves to a degree where they would actually convince themselves that had not done the thing they’d done. Hainsworth didn’t convince me. « Hide Spoiler
Also, excuse me, how did they book just end right where it did? I want to know more; this resolution was not satisfying. Basically, this book was fun, but I’d recommend some other mystery/thrillers before I would this one.
I received this book for free from Author in exchange for an honest review. This does not affect my opinion of the book or the content of my review.
Right of First Refusal by Dahlia Adler
Series: Radleigh University #2
Published by Author on March 15, 2016
Source: Author
On the lacrosse field, Cait Johannssen gets what she wants. Off the field is another story. Because what she wants is the school's hot new basketball student-coach, Lawrence Mason, who also happens to be the guy who broke her heart in sports camp two years earlier.
But it's Cait's new roommate who's got him.
Cait and Mase agree it's best to keep their past a secret, but she doesn't expect him to completely ignore their history...or how much it'll hurt when he does. So when a friend on the basketball team asks her to pose as his girlfriend for a night, Cait can't turn down the opportunity for distraction. (Okay, and a little spite.) But what starts as an evening of fun turns into a fake relationship with more lies than the usually drama-free Cait can handle, and it's only keeping her from the one truth that's nagged at her for years: Why did Mase cut her out of his life to begin with?
And is it really too late to get him back?
Dahlia asked me to proofread Right of First Refusal for her, like I’m a professional or something, which is massively flattering, and also I super love her face. You can take my assessment or leave it, as a result, but I review, in some measure, everything I read in full, so I’m going to do it here too.
Right of First Refusal isn’t my favorite of Dahlia’s books—that would be Just Visiting, which seriously I can never push enough—but it’s still excellent. There are some things you can always count on getting from a Dahlia Adler book: a ship (though the kinds of ships vary with the characters, which I guess duh), different characters and voices in each book, and a strong focus on familial relationships and friendships.
Dahlia’s NA walks that line between standard NA tropes and being what I want the genre to be. There’s high drama here, with a love triangle of majorly inconvenient proportions. The pasts aren’t tragic, but it’s not straight up fluff either. The sex is hot, although there’s less in Cait’s book than in Lizzie’s (Last Will and Testament), since Lizzie and Cait are very different people and Cait’s love interest has a girlfriend for much of the book.
Right of First Refusal fits Cait as a character, who she and Mase are. As such, it’s not the banteriest book she’s written. That said, though banter is really what gets my ship a-sailing, I am pro the Cait/Mase ship, even though it’s not a trope I usually go for so much (aka the exes who have grown up and still have FEELINGS). It’s done really well; it wasn’t an all-caps SHIP for me, but I really enjoyed their story and rooted for them to work things out. Also, interracial couples for the win.
I even enjoyed the sports, though I realized how little I know about lacrosse. The story shines especially on Lizzie’s arc with her family. My one reservation there is that I zero percent gained any appreciation for Abigail, which I would have liked to. Otherwise, I really like the resolution Dahlia puts on that. I also like that Cait doesn’t react with Grace but she’s also not a total little shit about her dad getting remarried; it seems more realistic than most fictional interpretations. Her reaction is complex, and, as is the case in a lot of Adler books, I think that’s what’s really driving Cait emotionally, more even than the overshining drama with Mase.
Most of all, I super CANNOT wait for Out on Good Behavior, aka the f/f book starring Frankie. There’s a preview at the end, and, omg, I can already tell there’s going to be more banter and sex and here for IT. Right of First Refusal will probably be my third favorite in the series, but, hey, everyone’s got their particular tropes, right? If rekindling past flames is what you’re into, you definitely need this one. If you enjoy Dahlia Adler books, you’re not going to be disappointed.
By Dahlia Adler
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Review: Through to You
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Tag Line : More of the night HE came home.
John Carpenter followed up the success of Halloween with this most excellent sequel. Flashing back to the end of part 1, we see Dr Loomis shoot Myers and him fall out of the upstairs window of Laurie's house. But after rushing down stairs, Myer's body has disappeared, and so the scene is set for another round of murder and mayhem..
Laurie is taken to the local hospital whilst Doctor Loomis resumes his search with the local police to try and find Myer's before he can kill again (with Jamie Lee Curtis and Donald Pleasance reprising their original roles). But Michael isn't too willing to give up his prey so easily and follows Laurie to the hospital, randomly bumping off a few townsfolk to satisfy his bloodlust en route.
On arrival he proceeds to do away with the defenceless staff that are standing in the way of his final victim, using some quite innovative but gruesome methods. Including drowning nurses in scalding water, stringing up the guard with a lamp cord, sticking syringes into peoples eye's and bleeding patients to death by unplugging their hypodermic drips.
Whilst all this is going on, Dr Loomis discovers the REAL reason why Michael has returned to his home town of Haddonfield and gone on the rampage, so rushes to the hospital to save the day and stop Myers once and for all (putting a whole new shine on the phrase "going out with a bang")!
Though not one of John Carpenter's favourites, I found this highly enjoyable. Perhaps a touch darker and a bit gorier than the first, but equally chilling and overall a bloody good film!
Overall Marks 8/10
Alternate tag line, "A Night of Terrifying Butchery"..
The part of Myers for this film was played by stuntman Dick Warlock, although he got the part quite by accident. Whilst visiting John Carpenters office about another film, he put on a Michael Myers mask (that he had in his office) and wandered down the hall to give the office girls a scare. John Carpenter liked it so much he offered him the part.
Jamie Lee Curtis was actually wearing a wig in this film, so that her hair looked the same as it did in part 1.
John Carpenter didn't want to direct this time round, so gave the job to Rick Rosenthall after being impressed with his short film "The Toyer".
Dick Warlock, who is considerably shorter than his predecessor Nick Castle, apparently had to have supports put into his boots to make him look taller. He also featured in the film breifly, as one of the police officers. In the scene where Ben Tramer, who is wearing a mask like Micheal Myers, is run down by a police car, the officer that falls out of the car just before it explodes is Dick Warlock.
Dana Carvey (who went onto play Wayne, from Wayne's World) had a small role in this film as one of the news journalists, if you look behind the TV reporter who's stood outside the Strode house you can see him in the background. Kind of ironic that he would go on to star opposite a TV comedian named Mike Meyers.
Pamela Shoop, who plays the nurse Myers drowns in the Hydrotherapy Spa, got an ear infection after filming her death scene as the water wasn't apparently very clean.
The young lad carrying the radio, who bumps into Myers, was played by Dick Warlock's son Lance.
The original UK theatrical release and pre-cert video by Thorn EMI was uncut, but the version re-issued in 1990 by Castle Pictures was cut by the BBFC by 17s, which shortened Nurse Kate's death in the hydro-spa. The 2002 DVD by Sanctuary Entertainment was passed uncut.
Several scenes were re-shot by John Carpenter as he felt Rick Rosenthall's version wasn't gory enough.
A version previously shown on US TV, which is rarely screened these days, was of a different cut of the film. In this, the flashback to the end of the previous film doesn't occur until after the intro credits and there are some different lines of dialogue between Dr Loomis and the neighbour when he rushes out of Laurie's house. Other scenes, such as where Myers steals the knife, are shown at different points in the film and Dr Mixter and a couple of the nurses bodies aren't actually found, Lance just says "they're missing" so its not clear what Myers has done to them. Several other scenes use different takes, are paced different, run longer or have slightly different lines of dialogue. The ending contains an additional scare scene, after Laurie is loaded into the ambulance we see someone moving behind her, which turns out to Lance. After Laurie has got over the shock cries "We made it" before the end credits role.
Buy the US DVD.
All Time Classics.
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Urge the EU to stand with people, not Trump and Big Polluters 🦕🦖
Fact checking the Trump 🦀 administration’s 🐉🦕🦖 climate change falsehoods
Agelbert NOTE: Max Boot, a former Climate Change Denier, and a rather evil neocon warmonger too, has learned to add and subtract in biosphere math. 👍 I applaud his critical thinking skills and his honesty in admitting that he was wrong. I also applaud the fact that he makes it crystal clear WHY so many "conservatives" (i.e. bought and paid for reactionaries who have ZERO interest in conserving anything but their fat wallets) continue to insist (i.e. pretend) that Catastrophic Climate Change "ain't happening", WHILE ferociously defending welfare queen subsidies for the Hydrocarbon Hellspawn and the use of fossil fuels for energy. All you need to do is follow the ethically BANKRUPT money. Yeah, they will all eventually come around to ADMITTING REALITY, even though I am certain that, right now, all those "conservatives" (they are evil, but they are not stupid) know full well how Greenhouse Gasses (i.e. Carbon Dioxide, Methane and excess water vapor) are devastating our biosphere. They just want to keep the bribes contributions gravy train from the polluters coming in as long as possible. It ain't poisonal; it's jes' bidness.
The question is, will enough of them come around soon enough to stop this insane profit over planet before it is too late?
I don't know. What I do know is that we are running out of time.
I was wrong on climate change. Why can’t other conservatives admit it, too?
By Max Boot Columnist
I admit it. I used to be a climate-change skeptic. I was one of those conservatives who thought that the science was inconclusive, that fears of global warming were as overblown as fears of a new ice age in the 1970s, that climate change was natural and cyclical, and that there was no need to incur any economic costs to deal with this speculative threat. I no longer think any of that, because the scientific consensus is so clear and convincing.
The Fourth National Climate Assessment, released Friday by the U.S. government, puts it starkly: “Observations collected around the world provide significant, clear, and compelling evidence that global average temperature is much higher, and is rising more rapidly, than anything modern civilization has experienced, with widespread and growing impacts.” The report notes that “annual average temperatures have increased by 1.8°F across the contiguous United States since the beginning of the 20th century” and that “annual median sea level along the U.S. coast . . . has increased by about 9 inches since the early 20th century as oceans have warmed and land ice has melted.”
The report attributes these changes to man-made greenhouse gases and warns: “High temperature extremes, heavy precipitation events, high tide flooding events along the U.S. coastline, ocean acidification and warming, and forest fires in the western United States and Alaska are all projected to continue to increase, while land and sea ice cover, snowpack, and surface soil moisture are expected to continue to decline in the coming decades.”
The U.S. government warnings echo the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. In October, it released a report that represented the work of 91 scientists from 60 countries. It describes, in the words of the New York Times, “a world of worsening food shortages and wildfires, and a mass die-off of coral reefs as soon as 2040.”
The wildfires are already here. The Camp Fire blaze this month is the most destructive in California history, charring 153,000 acres, destroying nearly 19,000 structures, and killing at least 85 people. The second-most destructive fire in California history was the one last year in Napa and Sonoma counties. The Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies notes that climate change has contributed to these conflagrations by shortening the rainy season, drying out vegetation and whipping up Santa Ana winds. Massive hurricanes are increasing along with wildfires — and they too are influenced by climate change.
It’s time to sound the planetary alarm. This is likely to be the fourth-hottest year on record. The record-holder is 2016, followed by 2015 and 2017. A climate change website notes that “the five warmest years in the global record have all come in the 2010s” and “the 10 warmest years on record have all come since 1998.”
Opinion | Climate change is political — when you deny it's happening (video at Washington Post Web site)
More powerful hurricanes are one of many signs of climate change, and those who deny it are complicit in the destruction, meteorologist Eric Holthaus says. (Gillian Brockell, Kate Woodsome, Adriana Usero/The Washington Post)
Imagine if these figures reflected a rise in terrorism — or illegal immigration. Republicans would be freaking out. Yet they are oddly blasé about this climate code red. President Trump, whose minions buried the climate-change report on the day after Thanksgiving, told Axios: “Is there climate change? Yeah. Will it go back like this, I mean will it change back? Probably.” And, amid a recent cold snap, he tweeted: “Brutal and Extended Cold Blast could shatter ALL RECORDS - Whatever happened to Global Warming?”
By this point, no one should be surprised that the president can’t tell the difference between short-term weather fluctuations and long-term climate trends. At least he didn’t repeat his crazy suggestion that climate change is a Chinese hoax. Yet his denialism is echoed by other Republicans who should know better. Sen. Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) told CNN on Sunday: “Our climate always changes and we see those ebb and flows through time. . . . We need to always consider the impact to American industry and jobs.”
Agelbert FACT CHECK:: Sen. Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) is a LIAR (and an Orwellian too!) when he claims to be "considering the impact to American industry and jobs". That's a Denier mendacious talking point his Hydrocarbon Hellspawn OWNERS have been pushing for decades. Look at IOWA in the following chart. Clean energy jobs are FAR more important than the Dirty energy fossil fuel jobs for the economy of Iowa. But, this Republican Senator Ernst ONLY cares about fossil fuel jobs, NOT the economy of Iowa.
Don't tell me he hasn't seen that chart! He could care less about jobs for Iowans! All he cares about is pleasing the fossil fuel fascists that OWN him! Sen. Joni Ernst 😈 (R-Iowa) is actually HURTING the jobs picture in Iowa by refusing to increase clean energy jobs.
We do need to consider the impact on U.S. jobs — but that’s an argument for action rather than, as Ernst suggests, inaction. The National Climate Assessment warns that global warming could cause a 10 percent decline in gross domestic product and that the “potential for losses in some sectors could reach hundreds of billions of dollars per year by the end of this century.” Iowa and other farm states will be particularly hard hit as crops wilt and livestock die.
Compared with the crushing costs of climate change, the action needed to curb greenhouse-gas emissions is modest and manageable — if we act now. Jerry Taylor, president of the libertarian Niskanen Center, estimates that a carbon tax would increase average electricity rates from 17 cents to 18 cents per kilowatt-hour. The average household, he writes, would see spending on energy rise “only about $35 per month.” That’s not nothing — but it’s better than allowing climate change to continue unabated.
I’ve owned up to the danger. Why haven’t other conservatives? They are captives, first and foremost, of the fossil fuel industry 🐉🦕🦖 , which outspent green groups 10 to 1 in lobbying on climate change from 2000 to 2016. But they are also captives of their own rigid ideology. It is a tragedy for the entire planet that the United States’ governing party is impervious to science and reason.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/global-opinions/i-was-wrong-on-climate-change-why-cant-other-conservatives-admit-it-too/
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Agelbert NOTE: Since this Hard Truth filled Speech by Chomsky, Trump 🦀 and his Hydrocarbon 🐉🦕🦖 Hellspawn Wrecking Crew's heinous biosphere degrading, Profit Over Planet RAMPAGE has INTENSIFIED! 😱
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Published on Apr 12, 2017 56,861 views
Noam Chomsky Climate Change Speech 2017
https://youtu.be/DdAOgNTxxt0
A plan to topple fossil fuels with people power
May Boeve - 350.org
I won’t sugar coat this, the last couple of weeks have been tough for our movement.
Each day seems to bring a new attack, from slashing regulations on coal plants to stalling climate agreements. But I'm writing you now because even as the fossil fuel industry is digging in its heels, I remain positive that we can do this. Our resistance is growing in strength, and we urgently need your support to keep that momentum going.
In the coming months, we're working to scale up our movement. I've recorded this short video to share how we're planning to do it but we need your help. Will you watch and make a gift right now to help us take on the fossil fuel industry in 2019?
https://youtu.be/T9bS9QZn--M
With just ten years to avoid the worst impacts of climate change, this is our moment to bolster the youth movements that are rising up around the globe, to support the Indigenous movements that are taking down pipelines, and to mobilize even more people like you to delay and defeat fossil fuel projects.
Please, make a gift of $10 right now to start 2019 strong.
There is so much work to be done, but I couldn’t be prouder to be in this fight together with you.
Thank you, and happy holidays,
https://act.350.org/donate/may-video-2018/
What it Means to be Responsible - Reflections on Our Responsibility for the Future by Theresa Morris, State University of New York at New Paltz
🔊Don't commit climate suicide, UN Chief warns
Small island nations 'not prepared to die,' Tesla workers pushing to unionize, & more
Thu 13 Dec 2018 06.48 EST
By Jonathan Watts
Prof Richard Betts, who leads the climate research arm of Britain’s meteorological monitoring organisation, made the comments amid growing evidence that rising temperatures have passed the comfort zone and are now bringing increased threats to humanity.
“Global heating is technically more correct because we are talking about changes in the energy balance of the planet,” the scientist said at the UN climate summit in Katowice, Poland. “We should be talking about risk rather than uncertainty.”
Full article: 🧐
Global warming should be called global heating, says key scientist
New Study Could Make It Harder for Trump’s 🦀 EPA 🦕 to Ignore the Dangers of Greenhouse Gases
By Yessenia Funes
December 13, 2018 2:12pm Filed to: TAKE THAT TRUMP
“It’s not always obvious that those health impacts are related to climate change,” Duffy said. “It’s not always obvious that an extreme weather event is made more likely by climate change. It’s not always obvious that an economic cost is exacerbated by climate change, but if you look at the scientific data, it’s clear that all those things are happening
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The team cited more than 250 studies, but the paper could’ve easily included more, Duffy told Earther. While the endangerment finding groups information into seven sections (air quality; food production and agriculture; forestry; water resources; sea level rise and coastal areas; ecosystems and wildlife; and energy, infrastructure, and settlements), this study went further and also looked at ocean acidification, national security, violence and social instability, and economic wellbeing.
https://earther.gizmodo.com/new-study-could-make-it-harder-for-trump-s-epa-to-ignor-1831077278
Until We Confront Capitalism, We Will Not Solve the Climate Crisis
BY Anton Woronczuk, Truthout
International climate negotiations have failed to curb runaway greenhouse gas emissions. Consumer-focused solutions to climate change won't be enough to address the systemic nature of the crisis. So what do we do to halt global warming? Simon Pirani, author of Burning Up: A Global History of Fossil Fuel Consumption, discusses the prospects for transitioning to a post-fossil fuel world.
https://truthout.org/articles/until-we-confront-capitalism-we-will-not-solve-the-climate-crisis/
Birke's new trick
Bill McKibben - 350.org
Delayed gratification is not easy for me — I want to win the climate fight right now, instead of watching sadly as forests burn and houses flood.
But watching my wife, Sue, teach our dog Birke this new trick (you have to watch the video) reminded me that patience is a virtue. Not too much — the climate crisis is a timed test — but enough not to walk away in frustration at political inaction or the slowness of social change.
https://youtu.be/I5Na3lAZxQ4
Because despite the year’s manifold frustrations, there are some good signs. In fact, it feels to me like we’re finally having a moment on climate change: the terrible California fires, coinciding with massive reports from the UN and the federal government on our climate peril, seem to have reached more people.
It’s true that Donald Trump is a dangerous climate denier — but that actually seems to be convincing most Americans that the climate crisis is very real and very risky.
So now’s the time to press forward hard and fast. We need your active participation in the climate movement — that’s by far the most important thing, as the young people flooding Capitol Hill for a Green New Deal are showing daily.
One way you can participate is by helping to fund this important work. We need some resources as we scale up our collective efforts to address the magnitude of the problem.
350.org remains (gulp) the biggest group on planet Earth whose only mission is fighting climate change . We’re not actually all that big (there are about 160 staffers), and we pinch pennies hard. So if you have some spare ones, send them our way.
And give your dog a biscuit for me!
With thanks,
350.org is building a global climate movement. You can connect with us on Facebook, follow us on Twitter, and text 350 to 83224 to get important mobile action alerts. Become a sustaining donor to keep this movement strong and growing. Looking for other ways to get involved? Check out our map to see if there's a local 350 group or event near you.
After COP24, Trudeau 🐒 Government 🦕 Promises More Goodies For Big Oil
https://youtu.be/59kw_3aWh5Y
TheRealNews
Tina Oh of the Canadian Youth Delegation says COP24 failed to respect the rights of her own and subsequent generations
Visit https://therealnews.com for more stories and help support our work by donating at https://therealnews.com/donate.
Category News & Politics
The Green New Deal is popping. New polling released on Friday by the Yale Program on Climate Change Communication shows that 81 percent of respondents across the political spectrum support the progressive plan to combat climate change by rapidly weaning the U.S. off fossil fuels.
New Poll Shows Basically Everyone Likes Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's Green New Deal
Here's another great article:
CleanTechnica
December 20th, 2018 by Carolyn Fortuna
US Congress Support Of Green New Deal Growing With Sunrise movement Momentum
https://youtu.be/gb2FF9Bnr9M
Noam Chomsky - Political Betrayal, Mobilizing Action
https://youtu.be/S4KU5YQeWtQ
UPFSI
http://ScientistsWarning.TV - We interviewed Noam Chomsky shortly before COP-24, the UN climate negotiations which took place in Katowice, Poland the first two weeks of December. The COP itself ended as expected, with little progress and yet another kick of the can down the road. Noam's allusion to Nero in this video is quite apt.
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Finland Population: 5,537,364
Finland was a province and then a grand duchy under Sweden from the 12th to the 19th centuries, and an autonomous grand duchy of Russia after 1809. It gained complete independence in 1917. During World War II, Finland successfully defended its independence through cooperation with Germany and resisted subsequent invasions by the Soviet Union - albeit with some loss of territory. In the subsequent half century, Finland transformed from a farm/forest economy to a diversified modern industrial economy; per capita income is among the highest in Western Europe. A member of the EU since 1995, Finland was the only Nordic state to join the euro single currency at its initiation in January 1999. In the 21st century, the key features of Finland's modern welfare state are high quality education, promotion of equality, and a national social welfare system - currently challenged by an aging population and the fluctuations of an export-driven economy.
Long boundary with Russia; Helsinki is northernmost national capital on European continent; population concentrated on small southwestern coastal plain
Location: Northern Europe, bordering the Baltic Sea, Gulf of Bothnia, and Gulf of Finland, between Sweden and Russia
Geographic coordinates: 64 00 N, 26 00 E
Size comparison: slightly more than two times the size of Georgia; slightly smaller than Montana
Land Boundaries: total: 2,563 km border countries (3): Norway 709 km, Sweden 545 km, Russia 1309 km
Maritime claims: territorial sea: 12 nm (in the Gulf of Finland - 3 nm)
continental shelf: 200 m depth or to the depth of exploitation exclusive fishing zone: 12 nm; extends to continental shelf boundary with Sweden, Estonia, and Russia
Climate: cold temperate; potentially subarctic but comparatively mild because of moderating influence of the North Atlantic Current, Baltic Sea, and more than 60,000 lakes
Terrain: mostly low, flat to rolling plains interspersed with lakes and low hills
Natural resources: timber, iron ore, copper, lead, zinc, chromite, nickel, gold, silver, limestone
permanent crops: 0% (2011 est.) permanent pasture: 0.1% (2011 est.) forest: 72.9% (2011 est.)
Irrigated land: 690 sq km (2012)
Natural hazards: severe winters in the north
Current Environment Issues: limited air pollution in urban centers; some water pollution from industrial wastes, agricultural chemicals; habitat loss threatens wildlife populations
International Environment Agreements: party to: Air Pollution, Air Pollution-Nitrogen Oxides, Air Pollution-Persistent Organic Pollutants, Air Pollution-Sulfur 85, Air Pollution-Sulfur 94, Air Pollution-Volatile Organic Compounds, Antarctic-Environmental Protocol, Antarctic-Marine Living Resources, Antarctic Treaty, Biodiversity, Climate Change, Climate Change-Kyoto Protocol, Desertification, Endangered Species, Environmental Modification, Hazardous Wastes, Law of the Sea, Marine Dumping, Marine Life Conservation, Ozone Layer Protection, Ship Pollution, Tropical Timber 83, Tropical Timber 94, Wetlands, Whaling
Nationality: noun: Finn(s)
adjective: Finnish
Ethnic groups: Finn, Swede, Russian, Estonian, Romani, Sami
Languages: Finnish (official) 87.6%, Swedish (official) 5.2%, Russian 1.4%, other 5.8% (2018 est.)
Religions: Lutheran 69.8%, Greek Orthodox 1.1%, other 1.7%, unspecified 27.4% (2018 est.)
Population: 5,537,364 (July 2018 est.)
Age structure: 0-14 years: 16.44% (male 465,298 /female 445,186)
15-24 years: 11.21% (male 317,500 /female 303,326)
65 years and over: 21.51% (male 519,775 /female 671,353) (2018 est.)
elderly dependency ratio: 32 (2015 est.)
Death rate: 10.1 deaths/1,000 population (2018 est.)
Major urban areas - population: 1.279 million HELSINKI (capital) (2018)
Country name: conventional long form: Republic of Finland
conventional short form: Finland
local long form: Suomen tasavalta/Republiken Finland
local short form: Suomi/Finland
etymology: name may derive from the ancient Fenni peoples who are first described as living in northeastern Europe in the first centuries A.D.
Government type: parliamentary republic
Capital: name: Helsinki
time difference: UTC+2 (7 hours ahead of Washington, DC, during Standard Time)
daylight saving time: +1hr, begins last Sunday in March; ends last Sunday in October
etymology: the name may derive from the Swedish "helsing," an archaic name for "neck" ("hals"), and which may refer to a narrowing of the Vantaa River that flows into the Gulf of Finland at Helsinki; "fors" refers to "rapids," so "helsing fors" meaning becomes "the narrows' rapids"
Administrative divisions: 19 regions (maakunnat, singular - maakunta (Finnish); landskapen, singular - landskapet (Swedish)); Aland (Swedish), Ahvenanmaa (Finnish); Etela-Karjala (Finnish), Sodra Karelen (Swedish) [South Karelia]; Etela-Pohjanmaa (Finnish), Sodra Osterbotten (Swedish) [South Ostrobothnia]; Etela-Savo (Finnish), Sodra Savolax (Swedish) [South Savo]; Kanta-Hame (Finnish), Egentliga Tavastland (Swedish); Kainuu (Finnish), Kajanaland (Swedish); Keski-Pohjanmaa (Finnish), Mellersta Osterbotten (Swedish) [Central Ostrobothnia]; Keski-Suomi (Finnish), Mellersta Finland (Swedish) [Central Finland]; Kymenlaakso (Finnish), Kymmenedalen (Swedish); Lappi (Finnish), Lappland (Swedish); Paijat-Hame (Finnish), Paijanne-Tavastland (Swedish); Pirkanmaa (Finnish), Birkaland (Swedish) [Tampere]; Pohjanmaa (Finnish), Osterbotten (Swedish) [Ostrobothnia]; Pohjois-Karjala (Finnish), Norra Karelen (Swedish) [North Karelia]; Pohjois-Pohjanmaa (Finnish), Norra Osterbotten (Swedish) [North Ostrobothnia]; Pohjois-Savo (Finnish), Norra Savolax (Swedish) [North Savo]; Satakunta (Finnish and Swedish); Uusimaa (Finnish), Nyland (Swedish) [Newland]; Varsinais-Suomi (Finnish), Egentliga Finland (Swedish) [Southwest Finland]
Independence: 6 December 1917 (from Russia)
National holiday: Independence Day, 6 December (1917)
Constitution: history: previous 1906, 1919; latest drafted 17 June 1997, approved by Parliament 11 June 1999, entered into force 1 March 2000 amendments: proposed by Parliament; passage normally requires simple majority vote in two readings in the first parliamentary session and at least two-thirds majority vote in a single reading by the newly elected Parliament; proposals declared "urgent" by five-sixths of Parliament members can be passed by at least two-thirds majority vote in the first parliamentary session only; amended several times, last in 2012 (2016)
Legal system: civil law system based on the Swedish model
Executive branch: chief of state: President Sauli NIINISTO (since 1 March 2012)
head of government: Prime Minister Antti RINNE (since 6 June 2019); note - date when he was approved by parliament
cabinet: Council of State or Valtioneuvosto appointed by the president, responsible to Parliament elections/appointments: president directly elected by absolute majority popular vote in 2 rounds if needed for a 6-year term (eligible for a second term); election last held on 28 January 2018 (next to be held in January 2024); prime minister appointed by Parliament
election results: Sauli NIINISTO reelected president; percent of vote Sauli NIINISTO (independent) 62.7%, Pekka HAAVISTO (Vihr) 12.4%, Laura HUHTASAARI (PS) 6.9%, Paavo VAYRYNEN (independent) 6.2%, Matti VANHANEN (Kesk) 4.1%, other 7.7%
Legislative branch: description: unicameral Parliament or Eduskunta (200 seats; 199 members directly elected in single- and multi-seat constituencies by proportional representation vote and 1 member in the province of Aland directly elected by simple majority vote; members serve 4-year terms)
elections: last held on 14 April 2019 (next to be held on April 2023)
election results: percent of vote by party/coalition - Kesk 21.1%, PS 17.6%, Kok 18.2%, SDP 16.5%, Vihr 8.5%, Vas 7.1%, SFP 4.9%, KD 3.5%, other 2.6%; seats by party/coalition - Kesk 49, PS 38, Kok 37, SDP 34, Vihr 15, Vas 12, SFP 9, KD 5, Aland Coalition 1; composition men 107, women 93, percent of women 46.5%
Judicial branch: highest courts: Supreme Court or Korkein Oikeus (consists of the court president and 18 judges); Supreme Administrative Court (consists of 21 judges, including the court president and organized into 3 chambers); note - Finland has a dual judicial system - courts with civil and criminal jurisdiction and administrative courts with jurisdiction for litigation between individuals and administrative organs of the state and communities judge selection and term of office: Supreme Court and Supreme Administrative Court judges appointed by the president of the republic; judges serve until mandatory retirement at age 68
subordinate courts: 6 Courts of Appeal; 8 regional administrative courts; 27 district courts; special courts for issues relating to markets, labor, insurance, impeachment, land, tenancy, and water rights
Political parties and leaders: Aland Coalition (a coalition of several political parties on the Aland Islands) Center Party or Kesk [Juha SIPILA] Christian Democrats or KD [Sari ESSAYAH] Finns Party or PS [Jussi HALLA-AHO] Green League or Vihr [Pekka HAAVISTO] Left Alliance or Vas [Li ANDERSSON]] National Coalition Party or Kok [Petteri ORPO] Social Democratic Party or SDP [Antti RINNE] Swedish People's Party or SFP [Anna-Maja HENRIKSSON]
International organization participation: ADB (nonregional member), AfDB (nonregional member), Arctic Council, Australia Group, BIS, CBSS, CD, CE, CERN, EAPC, EBRD, ECB, EIB, EITI (implementing country), EMU, ESA, EU, FAO, FATF, G-9, IADB, IAEA, IBRD, ICAO, ICC (national committees), ICCt, ICRM, IDA, IEA, IFAD, IFC, IFRCS, IHO, ILO, IMF, IMO, IMSO, Interpol, IOC, IOM, IPU, ISO, ITSO, ITU, ITUC (NGOs), MIGA, MINUSMA, NC, NEA, NIB, NSG, OAS (observer), OECD, OPCW, OSCE, Pacific Alliance (observer), Paris Club, PCA, PFP, Schengen Convention, UN, UNCTAD, UNESCO, UNHCR, UNIDO, UNIFIL, UNMIL, UNMOGIP, UNRWA, UNTSO, UPU, WCO, WFTU (NGOs), WHO, WIPO, WMO, WTO, ZC
National symbol(s): lion;
national colors: blue, white
National anthem: name: "Maamme" (Our Land)
lyrics/music: Johan Ludvig RUNEBERG/Fredrik PACIUS
note: in use since 1848; although never officially adopted by law, the anthem has been popular since it was first sung by a student group in 1848; Estonia's anthem uses the same melody as that of Finland
Diplomatic representation in the US: chief of mission: Ambassador Kirsti KAUPPI (since 17 September 2015)
consulate(s) general: Los Angeles, New York
Diplomatic representation from the US: chief of mission: Ambassador Robert "Bob" Frank PENCE (since 24 May 2018) (2018)
embassy: Itainen Puistotie 14B, 00140 Helsinki
mailing address: APO AE 09723
telephone: [358] (9) 6162-50
FAX: [358] (9) 6162-5135
Finland has a highly industrialized, largely free-market economy with per capita GDP almost as high as that of Austria and the Netherlands and slightly above that of Germany and Belgium. Trade is important, with exports accounting for over one-third of GDP in recent years. The government is open to, and actively takes steps to attract, foreign direct investment. Finland is historically competitive in manufacturing, particularly in the wood, metals, engineering, telecommunications, and electronics industries. Finland excels in export of technology as well as promotion of startups in the information and communications technology, gaming, cleantech, and biotechnology sectors. Except for timber and several minerals, Finland depends on imports of raw materials, energy, and some components for manufactured goods. Because of the cold climate, agricultural development is limited to maintaining self-sufficiency in basic products. Forestry, an important export industry, provides a secondary occupation for the rural population. Finland had been one of the best performing economies within the EU before 2009 and its banks and financial markets avoided the worst of global financial crisis. However, the world slowdown hit exports and domestic demand hard in that year, causing Finland’s economy to contract from 2012 to 2014. The recession affected general government finances and the debt ratio. The economy returned to growth in 2016, posting a 1.9% GDP increase before growing an estimated 3.3% in 2017, supported by a strong increase in investment, private consumption, and net exports. Finnish economists expect GDP to grow a rate of 2-3% in the next few years. Finland's main challenges will be reducing high labor costs and boosting demand for its exports. In June 2016, the government enacted a Competitiveness Pact aimed at reducing labor costs, increasing hours worked, and introducing more flexibility into the wage bargaining system. As a result, wage growth was nearly flat in 2017. The Government was also seeking to reform the health care system and social services. In the long term, Finland must address a rapidly aging population and decreasing productivity in traditional industries that threaten competitiveness, fiscal sustainability, and economic growth.
GDP (purchasing power parity): $244.9 billion (2017 est.) $238.2 billion (2016 est.) $232.4 billion (2015 est.)
GDP (official exchange rate): $252.8 billion (2017 est.)
Gross national saving: 23.3% of GDP (2017 est.) 21.7% of GDP (2016 est.) 20% of GDP (2015 est.) GDP - composition, by end use: household consumption: 54.4% (2017 est.) government consumption: 22.9% (2017 est.) investment in fixed capital: 22.1% (2017 est.) investment in inventories: 0.4% (2017 est.) exports of goods and services: 38.5% (2017 est.) imports of goods and services: -38.2% (2017 est.) GDP - composition, by sector of origin: agriculture: 2.7% (2017 est.) industry: 28.2% (2017 est.) services: 69.1% (2017 est.)
Agriculture - products: barley, wheat, sugar beets, potatoes; dairy cattle; fish
Industries: metals and metal products, electronics, machinery and scientific instruments, shipbuilding, pulp and paper, foodstuffs, chemicals, textiles, clothing
note: Central Government Budget data; these numbers represent a significant reduction from previous official reporting
note: data cover general government debt and include debt instruments issued (or owned) by government entities other than the treasury; the data include treasury debt held by foreign entities; the data include debt issued by subnational entities, as well as intragovernmental debt; intragovernmental debt consists of treasury borrowings from surpluses in the social funds, such as for retirement, medical care, and unemployment; debt instruments for the social funds are not sold at public auctions
Current account balance: $1.806 billion (2017 est.) -$819 million (2016 est.)
Exports: $67.73 billion (2017 est.) $51.9 billion (2016 est.)
Exports - commodities: electrical and optical equipment, machinery, transport equipment, paper and pulp, chemicals, basic metals; timber
Exports - partners: Germany 14.2%, Sweden 10.1%, US 7%, Netherlands 6.8%, China 5.7%, Russia 5.7%, UK 4.5% (2017)
Imports: $65.26 billion (2017 est.) $58.18 billion (2016 est.)
Imports - commodities: foodstuffs, petroleum and petroleum products, chemicals, transport equipment, iron and steel, machinery, computers, electronic industry products, textile yarn and fabrics, grains
Imports - partners: Germany 17.7%, Sweden 15.8%, Russia 13.1%, Netherlands 8.7% (2017)
Reserves of foreign exchange and gold: $10.51 billion (31 December 2017 est.) $11.2 billion (31 December 2016 est.)
Stock of direct foreign investment - at home: $135.2 billion (31 December 2017 est.) $84.8 billion (31 December 2016 est.)
Stock of direct foreign investment - abroad: $185.6 billion (31 December 2017 est.) $116.7 billion (2016 est.)
Market value of publicly traded shares: $231 billion (31 December 2016 est.) $207.5 billion (31 December 2015 est.) $208.7 billion (31 December 2014 est.)
Exchange rates: euros (EUR) per US dollar - 0.885 (2017 est.) 0.903 (2016 est.) 0.9214 (2015 est.) 0.885 (2014 est.) 0.7634 (2013 est.)
Electricity - installed generating capacity: 16.27 million kW (2016 est.)
Electricity - from nuclear fuels: 17% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)
Refined petroleum products - production: 310,600 bbl/day (2017 est.)
Refined petroleum products - consumption: 217,100 bbl/day (2017 est.)
Natural gas - consumption: 2.35 billion cu m (2017 est.)
Natural gas - exports: 4 million cu m (2017 est.)
Natural gas - imports: 2.322 billion cu m (2017 est.)
Natural gas - proved reserves: n/acu m (1 January 2016 est.)
Cellular Phones in use: total subscriptions: 7,307,800
Telephone system: general assessment: modern system with excellent service; one of the most progressive in Europe; one of the highest broadband and mobile penetrations rates in the region; forefront in testing 5G networks; for 2025 and 2030 FttP (fiber to the home) and DOCSIS3.1 (new generation of cable services for high speed connections) technologies (2018)
domestic: digital fiber-optic, fixed-line 7 per 100 subscription; 132 per 100 mobile-cellular; network, and an extensive mobile-cellular network provide domestic needs (2018)
international: country code - 358; submarine cables provide links to Estonia and Sweden; satellite earth stations - access to Intelsat transmission service via a Swedish satellite earth station, 1 Inmarsat (Atlantic and Indian Ocean regions); note - Finland shares the Inmarsat earth station with the other Nordic countries (Denmark, Iceland, Norway, and Sweden)
Broadcast media: a mix of 3 publicly operated TV stations and numerous privately owned TV stations; several free and special-interest pay-TV channels; cable and satellite multi-channel subscription services are available; all TV signals are broadcast digitally; Internet television, such as Netflix and others, is available; public broadcasting maintains a network of 13 national and 25 regional radio stations; a large number of private radio broadcasters and access to Internet radio
Internet country code: .finote - Aland Islands assigned .ax
Pipelines: 1288 km gas transmission pipes, 1976 km distribution pipes (2016)
(2016) broad gauge: 5,926 km 1.524-m gauge (3,270 km electrified) (2016)
Roadways: total 454,000 km
(2012) highways: 78,000 km (50,000 paved, including 700 km of expressways; 28,000 unpaved) (2012) private and forest roads: 350,000 km (2012) urban: 26,000 km (2012)
Waterways: 8,000 km (includes Saimaa Canal system of 3,577 km; southern part leased from Russia; water transport used frequently in the summer and widely replaced with sledges on the ice in winter; there are 187,888 lakes in Finland that cover 31,500 km); Finland also maintains 8,200 km of coastal fairways (2013)
by type: bulk carrier 7, container ship 1, general cargo 88, oil tanker 4, other 159 (2018)
Ports and terminals: major seaport(s): Helsinki, Kotka, Naantali, Porvoo, Raahe, Rauma
Military branches: Finnish Defense Forces (FDF): Army (Puolustusvoimat), Navy (Merivoimat, includes Coastal Defense Forces), Air Force (Ilmavoimat) (2016)
Military service age and obligation: all Finnish men are called-up for military service the year they turn 18; at 18, women may volunteer for military service; service obligation 6-12 months; individuals enter the reserve upon completing their initial obligation; military obligation to age 60 (2016)
Disputes - International: various groups in Finland advocate restoration of Karelia and other areas ceded to the former Soviet Union, but the Finnish Government asserts no territorial demands
Refugees and internally displaced persons: refugees (country of origin): 8,523 (Iraq) (2018)
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GLOBAL UPDATE
BY US GRAINS COUNCIL (USGC)
DDGS Buyers Seminar Big Success. Response to workshops on the import and use of U.S. distiller’s dried grains with solubles in China exceeded expectations as approximately 250 people attended the seminars, requiring the third session to be moved to a larger room to accommodate the crowd. David Strawn of Wyffels Hybrids, Inc. and USGC Value-Added Advisory Team leader discussed U.S. DDGS supply and demand, as well as the logistics of shipping the grain product. USGC consultant Dr. Jerry Shurson, University of Minnesota, presented inclusion rates of DDGS in poultry, swine, dairy and aquaculture rations. Strawn, Shurson and USGC staff in China also conducted on-site consultations at several feed mills and livestock operations to help them enhance their ability to use DDGS. The workshops coincided with the first purchase of U.S. DDGS by private Chinese importers. “The Guangdong feed industry is particularly interested in U.S. origin DDGS now that a shipment has finally arrived,” noted Dr. Todd Meyer, USGC senior director in China. “The message we heard during meetings with feed ingredient traders in Guangdong is a positive one for U.S. DDGS export potential.” He sees more opportunities for U.S. DDGS due to high prices, uncertain supplies and variable quality of many competing feed ingredients. “The challenge is to convince end users to evaluate the feed value of U.S. DDGS based on its nutrient content,” he noted. “This first sale along with Council efforts to disseminate marketing and technical information in seminars such as these will generate further interest.” More than 220 people representing feed mills, end users and importers attended the workshops held May 25, 28 and 31 in Fujian, Guangxi and Guangdong provinces. The Council estimates Chinese buyers could import 20,000 tons of DDGS annually by 2010.
Egyptian Dairy Cows Sample U.S. CGF. Egypt’s first purchase of U.S. corn gluten feed is expected to arrive later this month. The Council has been working for several months with Egyptian dairy producers, providing information on the use of corn gluten feed (CGF). As a result of these efforts, Egypt made its first purchase of CGF with 14,000 metric tons expected to arrive by mid-June. After the product arrives, the Council plans to expand promotional efforts to include field days at farms where the product will be consumed. The Council estimates these expanded promotional efforts will result in 40,000 tons of U.S. CGF exported to Egypt by September 30.
Swine Producers Seek to Modernize. Swine farm managers from five Chinese provinces are in the United States exploring options to help update their operations. Accompanied by Jason Yan, USGC technical program director in China, the group met with the Nebraska Corn Board and attended a swine seminar at the University of Nebraska at Lincoln earlier this week. The seminar covered a range of topics from feeder designs to production management. Yan reported the group was impressed by the technology update they received at the university and shocked by some of what they learned. “They were surprised to find out 30 percent of Nebraska’s corn is used to produce ethanol,” said Yan. “The group was interested in studying the use U.S. distiller’s dried grains with solubles in China and when they learned how much corn is going into ethanol, they became more interested.” The group has also been visiting swine operations, feed mills and processing plants to see some of the modern practices introduced by Council consultants in China. The team will conclude their visit in Missouri and Iowa next week where they will meet with Council members Land O’Lakes Inc., Elanco Animal Health and Pattison Bros. Mississippi River Terminal, Inc. In addition, they will attend the World Pork Expo in Des Moines, Iowa. The Council estimates the Chinese swine sector could consume an additional 80,000 metric tons of feed grains a year as modern production methods are adopted.
Cuba to Sign Corn Contracts. Cuban trade officials expect to sign contracts for a variety of U.S. food and agricultural products worth approximately $150 million by the end of the Alimport Conference today, June 1. Purchase contracts include 150,000 metric tons (5.9 million bushels) of U.S. corn and 30,000 tons of U.S. soybeans and soybean meal. While attending the conference, USGC Chairman Vic Miller met privately with Pedro Alvarez Borrego, chairman and CEO of Alimport, Cuba’s official trade entity. “The Cubans are really starved for information about the U.S. corn crop, prices and how Cuba will be affected,” noted Miller. “The role of the U.S. Grains Council will be to supply them with information to help them remain current.” Despite the U.S. government requiring payment before U.S. exports may be shipped to Cuba, the United States continues to be their preferred corn supplier. Miller and Erick Erickson, USGC special assistant for planning, evaluation and projects, were among 265 representatives from 114 U.S. companies and associations as well as five U.S. Congressmen attending the conference Monday through Wednesday, May 28-30. Cuba imported 357,079 tons (14 million bushels) of U.S. corn in 2006, according to USDA estimates.
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Later school start times benefit students and the economy
The health benefits of delayed school start times for students are well-documented. But what is the economic impact of starting school later? READ MORE>>
“Make Time 2 Sleep” with online bedtime calculator
Aug 14 2017...
You can almost hear the groans of tired schoolchildren as summer changes to fall and a new school year begins. Early school start times mean no more sleeping in, and this can be a tough transition for many children and their families. READ MORE>>
Later school start times for students
Middle and high school students have to balance academics, sports, social lives, and additional extracurricular activities. Keeping up with these responsibilities leaves minimal time for relaxing, let alone getting a good night’s sleep. READ MORE>>
Later high school start times help teens
Dec 14 2016...
Starting school later may have a positive impact on important aspects of high school life. That’s the evidence from a new review of published research. The review found that teens slept about 19 minutes longer on school nights when school started up to 60 minutes later. That adds up to more than 1.5 hours of sleep during the school week. When school started more than 60 minutes later, teens slept about 53 minutes more on school nights. That’s more than 4 hours of sleep per week. READ MORE>>
CDC school start times
The alarm goes off at 6 a.m. Then it goes off four more times, because an extra 10 minutes of sleep trumps sitting down for breakfast. A granola bar on the bus is the gourmet breakfast of choice. The morning bus arrives at its stop by 6:38 a.m. and rolls into the school’s roundabout by 7 a.m. on the dot. Thirty more minutes blur by before another alarm goes off — the one that tells students it’s time to break out of zombie mode and start learning. READ MORE>>
Five sleep tips for parents of tired teens
The summertime sleep habits of most teens today would be enough to make Ben Franklin blow a proverbial fuse. A 3 a.m. to Noon sleep schedule isn’t likely to meet his standard of “early to bed, early to rise.” But it can be the norm for night-owl teens when they are free from a school schedule.
As teens go back to school for the fall, Ben will get his revenge each morning when the alarm clock sounds. These early morning wake-up calls will leave most teens short on sleep during the school week. Here are five tips from the AASM to help parents promote healthy sleep in teens. READ MORE>>
Most U.S. teens are still losing sleep
Jun 16 2014...
New data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention confirms what most high school teachers already know: U.S. teens aren’t getting enough sleep.
The American Academy of Sleep Medicine recommends that teens get a little more than nine hours of nightly sleep for optimal health and daytime alertness. But CDC data show that only 31.7 percent of high school students report sleeping at least eight hours on a typical school night. Clearly, American teens are failing to make the grade when it comes to their sleep. READ MORE>>
Early School Start Times Endanger Teen Drivers, Study Finds
Teens as a group are notoriously bad drivers, with the highest annual accident and traffic violation rate of any age group in the United States. Parents have good reason to fear for the worst every time their child gets behind the wheel: auto accidents are the leading cause of death for America’s teens. READ MORE>>
Students see improvements with later school start times
Jul 06 2010...
A slight change to high school start times may make a big impact on wakefulness and academic performance. A study published in the July issue of Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine is the latest to show why starting school near dawn may not be in the students' best interest. READ MORE>>
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Visit to South Korea
Police escort
We actually play with a view inside the football stadium
2003-09-28Police escort
The championship itself is in the Munhak Worldcup Convention Center, which is inside the Munhak Worldcup Stadium. That is about half an hour by bus from the hotel. Both yesterday and today we went in two buses, escorted by police. It is just a little bit more safe this way, and such an attention to detail does not fail to impress everybody. A VIP treatment.
Friendship games
We left around ten, and the rest of the morning and the afternoon were filled with friendly games against each other and Korean players. In the afternoon it was more structured with a friendship match where every player of the IWABC had a Korean opponent. We, the officials were left out of that system, maybe they thought we did not like to play? But many more people really also wanted to play against western players, so for instance in my case, I played 6 games in total in the afternoon.
Guest officials Martin Stiassny and Simon Goss facing some strong Korean kids.
Strong kids
These kids are really strong, it is really interesting -- or should I say unbelievable... In the morning there was this small girl, she looked not older than 8, who crushed the Italian 3 dan. In the morning I played the boy with the glasses that Martin is playing in the picture and I had no chance.
I did better in the afternoon. First I played this young boy. He was too polite and did not invade my huge territory. Although I had made a mistake in one opening and had to give him a substantial corner for some influence, the difference was still to much. The scary thing was that he explained to me what I should have played: a very complex sequence that I had never seen before. These kids study so hard.
Grandma looking at the game of her grandson. That's not me in the picture, it is the Turkish player.
Then a woman came and said: "ah you are really strong, can I play you?" She was the kid's grandma. She wanted to play with a three stone handicap. I won the first, so she wanted a revenge. She won the second game, so a third game was needed to settle the matter. Then two more games with other Korean players. I think we could have gone on forever, if the opening ceremony didn't have to start at 18:00 sharp. I had a satisfactory score of 4-2 in the afternoon.
End of opening ceremony: Diana is trying very hard to suppress a giggle.
Left to right: a member of congress, the mayor of Incheon, Diana Koszegi (only female participant), the organiser, unknown, the mayor of congresses, unknown and Seo Neung-wook (9 dan professional)
It was an impressive ceremony with several hundreds of guests. All important guests were announced in person. Our role as guest officials was to sit on one of the front tables, to be important and to bring out an occasional toast. For the rest there were many speaches, some of them we had already heard before. They were printed beforehand too, so let's just skip them. Dinner afterwards. Good, but not very different from the lunches.
We left around 20:00 back to the hotel. That will be the usual routine for the coming days. Outside there was a show going on, it seemed sold out.
Chinese Fairground with theater at night.
Another police escort
In the hotel, on the 7th floor where I am staying, there were several policemen standing and sitting around, basically doing nothing. I did not have a clue what they were doing there. The next day I heard that three players of the Nepal football team had disappeared and that it was feared that they would try to stay in Korea as ilegal immigrants. So maybe there is another reason too for our police escorts?
...next, round 1 and 2
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Axel Rudi Pell - Into The Storm (Limited Deluxe CD+CD+shirt Bundle)
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Into the Storm is the sixteenth studio album by German metal guitarist Axel Rudi Pell, and released in 2014 on Steamhammer/SPV records. The band began a tour on 4 February 2014 and it went until 21 February to support the album, featuring special guest Rebellious Spirit. The second leg of the tour will kick off on 20 September 2014 and finish on 5 October 2014 in Pell's hometown of Bochum in Germany. This is the first Axel Rudi Pell album to feature new drummer Bobby Rondinelli who is also playing with the band on the tour.
01. The Inquisitorial Procedure
02. Tower Of Lies
03. Long Way To Go
04. Burning Chains
05. When Truth Hurts
06. Changing Times
07. Touching Heaven
08. High Above
09. Hey Hey My My
10. Into The Storm
11. White Cats (Opus #6 Scivolare)(bonus track)
12. Way To Mandalay (bonus track)
01. Nasty Reputation - Live 2014
02. Strong As A Rock - Live 2014
03. Medley: Too Late/Call Her Princess/Eternal Prisoner/Too Late - Live 2014
04. Long Way To Go (Video)
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Army rejects ceasefire offer
From the Sun Star-Cagayan de Oro (Jul 15): Army rejects ceasefire offer
CAGAYAN DE ORO. Army soldiers check on the surroundings of the village from the top of a bullet-riddled tanod outpost in Barangay Alagatan, Gingoog City on Tuesday, July 14, 2015. New People’s Army rebels attacked the village last Saturday killing an Army soldier and wounding two civilians. (Froilan Gallardo)
MILITARY operations against New People’s Army (NPA) guerrillas holding an Army private captive will continue despite the rebels’ offer of a seven-day ceasefire.
The rebels wanted the cease-fire as a pre-condition for the release of Pfc. Adonis Jess Lupiba, whom they took prisoner Saturday during a raid in Barangay Alagatan, Gingoog City.
Captain Jo Patrick Martinez, spokesman of the Army’s 4th Infantry Division (4ID), said the Army is leaving it up to the government to decide whether to accept the NPA offer.
“That is now a political decision,” Martinez said. “Meanwhile, pursuit operations against the rebels will continue.”
Martinez said the 4ID has briefed the Army leadership on the incident at Alagatan, including the condition of Lupiba who, according to earlier reports, was already wounded when he was captured.
Martinez made the statement a day after the NPA’s North Central Mindanao Regional Operations Command spokesman Ka Allan Juanito said it is amenable to a ceasefire to facilitate the safe release of Lupiba.
“We are awaiting the formation of a local crisis committee and the third party facilitator for the arrangement of a safe and orderly release,” Juanito said in a statement.
But Juanito added the NPA is ready to hold Lupiba “as long as it takes” or until circumstances permit his release.
Juanito said the NPA is treating Lupiba as a prisoner of war (POW) and will treat him in accordance with the law of warfare under the Comprehensive Agreement on the Respect for Human Rights and International Humanitarian Law (CARHRIHL).
Juanito said the NPA is sorry for the wounding of two civilians who were caught in the crossfire.
http://www.sunstar.com.ph/cagayan-de-oro/local-news/2015/07/15/army-rejects-ceasefire-offer-418988
PNoy installs former top military spy as new army chief
From the Philippine Star (Jul 15): PNoy installs former top military spy as new army chief
President Benigno Aquino III and newly appointed AFP Chief Lt. Gen. Hernando Iriberri, who is turning over today the Philippine Army commanding general post to Maj. Gen. Eduardo Año. Malacañang Photo Bureau/Gil Nartea
President Benigno Aquino III on Wednesday formally installed 10th Infantry Division chief Maj. Gen. Eduardo Año as the new commanding general of the Philippine Army.
Aquino led the change of command ceremony at Fort Bonifacio in Taguig City where Año assumed the post left by Lt. Gen. Hernando Iriberri, who was appointed last week as the new chief of staff of the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP).
Before assuming leadership of the 10th Infantry Division chief in July 2014, Año was the commander of the Intelligence Service of the Armed Forces of the Philippines.
He also served as assistant deputy chief of staff for intelligence and commander of the Army's 201st Infantry Brigade.
A graduate of the Philippine Military Academy class '83, Año was credited for the capture of several leaders of the New People's Army.
Año was implicated in the abduction of activist Jonas Burgos who went missing in 2007.
The Department of Justice, however, dismissed the arbitrary detention charges against Año and five other officers in 2013 due to lack of probable cause.
Burgos was said to be kidnapped by armed men in 2007 and was dragged to a Toyota Revo van whose license plates were traced to another vehicle earlier impounded by the military in Bulacan.
http://www.philstar.com/headlines/2015/07/15/1477244/pnoy-installs-former-top-military-spy-new-army-chief
Civil society group says local politics behind Pantar ambush
From MindaNews (Jul 14): Civil society group says local politics behind Pantar ambush
A long-standing political rift was behind the ambush of Army troopers in Pantar town, Lanao del Norte on Monday, an official of a civil society organization here said.
One soldier was killed while seven others were wounded in an ambush along the national highway in Pantar at around 7:40 a.m. Monday. (see related story).
Juanito Enriquez, managing director of the Civil Society Organization Forum for Peace who rushed to the ambush scene said the conflict was triggered by the rivalry between former Pantar mayor Mohammad Exchan Limbona and Mangondaya Tago, the vice mayor who succeeded him in May 2014.
Enriquez is also among CSOs involved in Bantay Bayanihan and is currently the chair of the press corps in Iligan City.
The rift worsened after the Department of Interior and Local Government (DILG) dismissed Limbona in May last year after his conviction for the killing of former vice mayor Hadji Rashid Onos.
Soldiers were deployed to secure the area following Limbona’s dismissal.
Limbona, who earlier sought traditional settlement for Onos’ killing, denied any involvement in the ambush, a source who requested anonymity told MindaNews.
The dismissed mayor was at the scene of ambush carrying a firearm and talking with other civilians, the same source said.
Goldstar Daily News reported on May 6, 2014 that the DILG ordered the installation of Tago as mayor replacing Limbona who was “dismissed from the service over the killing of another politician.”
The Goldstar report said Limbona was also meted the punishment of cancellation of eligibility, forfeiture of retirement benefits and perpetual disqualification for reemployment in the government by the Office of the Ombudsman, a decision upheld by the Supreme Court.
The report added that Limbona was convicted in connection with the July 3, 2007 killing of Onos by a group that, authorities said, included Limbona, then a barangay chair.
http://www.mindanews.com/top-stories/2015/07/14/civil-society-group-says-local-politics-behind-pantar-ambush/
1 soldier killed, 6 wounded in Lanao ambush
From the Manila Times (Jul 14): 1 soldier killed, 6 wounded in Lanao ambush
Authorities are investigating the possibility that a jihadist group is behind the ambush on military personnel in Pantar town, Lanao del Norte wherein one soldier was killed and six others were wounded.
On Monday, over a dozen gunmen ambushed a squad of the 42nd Company of the 4th Mechanized Battalion on board a six-by-six truck during a routine patrol along the Pantar town portion of the highway linking the provinces of Lanao del Sur and Lanao del Norte.
One soldier was killed and six others were wounded, two of them are in critical condition. The soldiers reportedly fired back and wounded two of the attackers.
Col. Gilbert Gapay, commander of Iligan City-based 2nd Mechanized Infantry
Brigade, told the Manila Times they started coordinating with Marawi city-based 103rd Infantry Brigade to help in a probe on the alleged involvement of the Khilafah Islamiyah Movement (KIM), based on the initial items recovered from the scene.
The Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF)-government ceasefire committee also sent investigators along with the Malaysia-led International Monitoring Team because the recent atrocities may affect the Mindanao peace process.
Recovered were two vehicles without license plates, a white Ford Ranger and black Toyoto Revo and several types of ammunition shells of Russian-made weapons such as AK or Mikhail Kalashnikov rifles and M203 grenade launcher.
Although officials are mum on the KIM’s involvement, military and police agents had reportedly arrested one of the suspected attackers who was able to post bail.
Col. Manolo Samarita, deputy commander of the 103rd brigade, confirmed to the Manila Times that the recovered vehicle matched the one used by KIM members in the foiled June 17 attack in Marawi City.
Investigators are also looking at other possible motives of the attack such as kidnapping, rido or local feud and a retaliation act on the recent arrest of alleged members of the MILF in Marawi city last Friday.
http://www.manilatimes.net/1-soldier-killed-6-wounded-in-lanao-ambush/200367/
Duterte on new AFP chief Iriberri: 'He has the brains and competence to do it'
From CNN Philippines (Jul 13): Duterte on new AFP chief Iriberri: 'He has the brains and competence to do it'
Davao City Mayor Rodrigo Duterte believes new AFP chief Lt. Gen. Hernando Iriberri will be "a good chief of staff for the entire country."
Davao City Mayor Rodrigo Duterte described the new Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) chief of staff Lt. Gen. Hernando Iriberri as "a warrior."
Iriberri was assigned in Davao Region years back as a brigade commander and had worked with Duterte on the peace and security of the region.
Related: Lt. Gen. Iriberri is new AFP chief
Asked on Iriberri’s appointment, Duterte said the new AFP leader is deserving of the position.
“He’s very good… he’s also a warrior. He has got the brains and the competence to do it,” said Duterte.
“He will be a good chief of staff for the entire country, not only for the Armed Forces of the Philippines.”
According to many officials, Iriberri is also media savvy, well-experienced in civil military operations, and has a good grasp on the latest developments in military technology.
He is also known as a highly-professional and politically-neutral military officer and being chosen as the new AFP chief is an assurance that the military will exercise impartiality in next year's national polls.
Iriberri, who has been at the helm of the Army since February 2014, took over the top military post after Gen. Gregorio Catapang retired from the military service.
Iriberri is the 46th chief of staff of the military.
Aquino presided over the change of command ceremony at Camp Aguinaldo on Friday morning (July 10).
http://cnnphilippines.com/news/2015/07/13/duterte-afp-chief-iriberri.html
Bidders wanted for supply, delivery of rifle bullets
From the Business World (Jul3): Bidders wanted for supply, delivery of rifle bullets
THE ARMED FORCES of the Philippines (AFP) is looking for interested companies to bid for a P41.9-million contract to make, supply, and deliver more than one million rounds of rifle ammunition to be used by the Philippine Army.
In a bid invitation published on Monday, the AFP General Headquarters Bids and Awards Committee (GHQ-BAC) has invited prospective bidders to manufacture, supply, and deliver 1,059,209 rounds of 7.62-millimeter (mm) ball rounds for a contract price of P41,902,308.
Petty Officer 1 Myla M. Tiu of the GHQ BAC said that the ammunition is used by a wide range of rifle weapons used by the Philippine Army, including their standard-issued M60 rifle series, as well as the M240.
Interested bidders may purchase a complete set of bidding documents from the GHQ BAC starting yesterday (Monday) for a non-refundable fee of P25,000.
A pre-bid conference is schedule on July 20, 2015, 9:00 a.m, at the AFP BAC Conference Room in Camp Aguinaldo in Quezon City.
Opening of bids is set on Aug. 7 in the same venue.
The Philippine military, through the Government Arsenal (GA), manufactures bullets for rifles and pistols on its 370-hectare industrial estate in Limay, Bataan.
DND Public Affairs Chief Arsenio R. Andolong confirmed that the GA does manufacture 7.62 mm ammunition but cited that it could be different from the type the Army needs.
http://www.bworldonline.com/content.php?section=Nation&title=bidders-wanted-for-supply-delivery-of-rifle-bullets&id=111558
US checks possible terror funding via aid groups in Philippines
From the Philippine Star (Jul 13): US checks possible terror funding via aid groups in Philippines
In this June 2008 photo, Petty Officer 2nd Class Anthony Chavez, a native of San Bernardino, Calif., works with a soldier from the Armed forces of the Philippines to move relief supplies to a school in Balasan on Panay Island. US Navy/Spike Call/Released
The United States will soon implement a program designed to screen employees and beneficiaries of federally funded aid organizations and activities in the Philippines.
Along with Guetamala, Kenya, Lebanon and Ukraine, the country is part of the pilot program of the Partner Vetting System of the US Agency for International Development (USAID) to start on July 27.
The program is a "higher level safeguard" to screen potential grant recipients, sub-recipients, contractors and other individuals involved in non-profit activities, according to a document in the Federal Register.
The Department of State and USAID said the Philippines and the four other countries in the pilot program were chosen because they represent a "range of risks and are located where both agencies have comparable programs. "
Under the vetting system, analysts will collect information provided by grant applicants and search for possible matches in key US government terror databases.
When a match is found, USAID staff will further analyze all existing data and make recommendations on the eligibility of the individual or group to receive funding.
"Vetting conducted under the Partner Vetting System complements the stringent due diligence procedures undertaken by USAID and its implementing partners," officials stated in the document.
The program, however, was approved by the US Congress despite no evidence that USAID funds are being diverted to terrorist organizations.
Concerned organizations have expressed opposition to the new vetting process, which may cause aid organizations to be perceived as intelligence arms of Washington.
Officials denied the accusations, saying the PVS is "not a US intelligence collection program" as it collects the "least amount of information possible" from grant applicants.
The US government also said that the program is needed to protect US taxpayer resources in high risk environments.
http://www.philstar.com/headlines/2015/07/13/1476521/us-checks-possible-terror-funding-aid-groups-philippines
Captive soldier in safe condition
From the Philippine Star (Jul 14): Captive soldier in safe condition
An official of the New People’s Army (NPA) claimed yesterday that the soldier they seized in Gingoog City in Misamis Oriental last Saturday is in safe condition.
NPA spokesman Allan Juanito said Pfc. Adonis Lupiba, 26, was treated for a bullet wound in the leg and is now in stable condition.
A trooper was killed and another was wounded when a band of NPA guerrillas shot the soldiers, who were playing basketball in Barangay Alagatan, Gingoog City, last Saturday.
Two civilians were wounded in the attack.
Juanito claimed Lupiba is a prisoner of war.
He assured Lupiba’s family that he would be released as soon as he gets better and vowed to issue updates about his health.
Juanito claimed they took two high-powered firearms and other military equipment from the soldiers.
http://www.philstar.com/nation/2015/07/14/1476567/captive-soldier-safe-condition
13 captives still in Abu hands
From the Philippine Star (Jul 15): 13 captives still in Abu hands
Abu Sayyaf bandits are still holding at least 13 captives in the jungles of Sulu, a military official said yesterday.
Col. Alan Arrojado, chief of the Joint Task Group Sulu (JTGS), confirmed the number following the release of teacher Russel Bagonoc last Sunday.
Arrojado said among these captives were foreign nationals, a municipal mayor of Zamboanga Sibugay, and local residents.
The foreigners were Elwold Horns of Holland, Thien Nyuk Fun of Malaysia, Bernard Then Ted Fen of Cambodia, Noui Hong Sung of Korea and Toshio Ito of Japan.
Horns, who has been in captivity since 2012, was seized along with his fellow birdwatcher Lorenzo Vinceguerra of Switzerland.
Vinceguerra managed to escape last December after he reportedly fought off his captors.
Aside from the foreigners, the other captives are Mayor Gemma Adana of Naga town in Zamboanga Sibugay, Philippine Coast Guard (PCG) personnel Gringo Villaruz and Rod Pagaling, and village chairman Roberto Bulagao.
Bulagao and the PCG men were seized on an island off Dapitan City on May 4.
http://www.philstar.com/nation/2015/07/15/1476955/13-captives-still-abu-hands
Iloilo town hall receives bomb threat, IED found in bathroom
From GMA News (Jul 15): Iloilo town hall receives bomb threat, IED found in bathroom
Local police found an improvised explosive device in a bathroom of the the Pavia town municipal hall in Iloilo on Monday, after town employees received a bomb threat through a text message.
"[Sabi sa text] sasabog ang bomba sa gilid ng CR sa labas ng gym ng Pavia sa di malamang oras ngayong araw. Huwag balewalain, baka madale ang lahat sa flag-raising. I-check ninyo para makita ninyo," municipal employee Eddie Bañas told GMA Iloilo.
[Video report: Bomba, nakita sa isang banyo sa munisipyo]
Pavia police rushed to the town hall and, along with the Iloilo Provincial Public Safety Company, town they evacuated the employees from the hall.
The IED was found soon after, connected to a mobile phone that had no battery.
"Eto, pag-complete, ay talagang sasabog kasi maano nito kung makaya ng battery niya, pero titingnan natin kung either threat lang ito o take natin seriously," said Superintendent Roderick Condag, commander of the Iloilo Provincial Public Safety Company.
Police officers also searched for municipal hall from top to bottom in case another bomb had been planted. They declared the area safe two hours later.
The motive for the attempted bombing was still unclear to police investigators as of posting time. Nevertheless, security was tightened at the town hall.
http://www.gmanetwork.com/news/story/522258/news/regions/iloilo-town-hall-receives-bomb-threat-ied-found-in-bathroom
Maj. Gen. Año named new Philippine Army chief —sources
From GMA News (Jul 15): Maj. Gen. Año named new Philippine Army chief —sources
Major General Eduardo Año has been appointed the new head of the Philippine Army, sources told GMA News Online.
President Benigno Aquino III will preside at the change of command ceremony at the Philippine Army headquarters in Fort Bonifacio in Taguig Wednesday morning.
Año will fill in the post of Army chief after Lt. Gen. Hernando Iriberri took over the post of chief of staff of the Armed Forces of the Philippines last week.
Año was the former head of the Intelligence Service of the Armed Forces of the Philippines (ISAFP).
He is also one of the respondents in the case about the alleged abduction of activist Jonas Burgos.
http://www.gmanetwork.com/news/story/522346/news/nation/maj-gen-ano-named-new-philippine-army-chief-sources
Photo: Free ride
From the Manila Standard Today (Jul 15): Photo: Free ride
Defense and Air Force officials offer journalists a ride in one of the controversial used UH-ID helicopters purchased by the defense department in Camp Aguinaldo in Quezon City. Lino Santos
http://manilastandardtoday.com/2015/07/15/free-ride-2/
China asks PH: Drop arbitration effort
From the Manila Standard Today (Jul 15): China asks PH: Drop arbitration effort
CHINA on Tuesday urged the Philippines to drop its arbitration case over the South China Sea dispute to bring back good relations between the both countries.
“China urges the Philippines to come back to the right track of resolving disputes through negotiation and consultation,” Chinese Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Hua Chunying said in a statement.
Hua Chunying
The Philippines has asked the United Nations tribunal in The Hague to declare China’s claims to virtually all the South China Sea invalid, saying Beijing’s actions have trampled on other nations’ rights.
However, China maintained that it “will never accept the unilateral attempts to turn to a third party to solve the disputes.”
China contends the tribunal doesn’t have jurisdiction, and has refused to participate in its proceedings.
China offered again to open bilateral negotiations to settle the maritime dispute, which the Philippines rejected.
“We have asked China to participate and we continue to extend the invitation for them to explain their side,” Department of Foreign Affairs spokesman Charles Jose said.
Jose said the Philippines has “exhausted all reasonable effort” to resolve the issue through bilateral consultations as China has demanded, but the talks failed because of the conditions set by China.
The Philippines said that any negotiation on the issue would be deemed acceptable only if other members of the Association of Southeast Nations are involved.
The Permanent Court of Arbitration wrapped up its hearing on the jurisdiction and admissibility of the Philippines’s case against China last Monday, and is expected to decide on the jurisdiction issue within the year.
In a bulletin from The Hague, deputy presidential spokeswoman Abigail Valte said the Philippines had concluded its presentation of arguments on why the court should hear the arbitration case.
Valte said the Arbitral Tribunal scheduled two rounds of hearings on jurisdiction and admissibility of the case filed by the Philippines.
The first round of oral arguments were held from July 7 to 8. A second round concluded Monday, with Solicitor General Florin Hilbay delivering the closing statement.
Valte said the Philippines has until July 23 to give its written submission to the Tribunal to amplify its answers to questions posed by individual members of the court.
http://manilastandardtoday.com/2015/07/15/china-asks-ph-drop-arbitration-effort/
Arbitral Tribunal gives China a chance: Vows to make decision on jurisdiction ASAP
From Ang Malaya (Jul 14): Arbitral Tribunal gives China a chance: Vows to make decision on jurisdiction ASAP
The Arbitral Tribunal is giving China an opportunity to comment until August 17 in writing on Philippines’ arguments during the Hearing on Jurisdiction and Admissibility. Though China chose not to participate in the arbitration, the tribunal wants to “assure each party a full opportunity to be heard and to present its case” as prescribed under Article 5 of Annex VII of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLoS).
The five-man tribunal says in a statement, dated July 13, that it now enters its deliberations and is conscious of its duty under the Rules of Procedure to conduct proceedings “to avoid unnecessary delay and expense and to provide a fair and efficient process.”
“The Arbitral Tribunal will endeavour to issue its decision on such issues of Jurisdiction and Admissibility that it determines appropriate as soon as possible and expects to do so before the end of the year,” the tribunal said.
“In the event that the Arbitral Tribunal determines that it has jurisdiction over some or all of the Philippines’ claims, it will then proceed to a hearing on the merits,” it said.
Philippines has presented its position on the the issues of jurisdiction and admissibility from July 7 to 13. The tribunal gave Philippines until July 23 to submit further written responses to the questions posed by the Arbitral Tribunal during the hearing.
http://www.angmalaya.net/nation/2015/07/14/12159-arbitral-tribunal-gives-china-a-chance-vows-to-make-decision-on-jurisdiction-asap
Rumors of NPA attack triggers panic in Isabela
From the Visayan Daily Star (Jul 14): Rumors of NPA attack triggers panic in Isabela
Parents pull children out of school
Rumors of an impending New People's Army attack on Isabela town in Negros Occidental, with Mayor Enrique Montilla as the target, yesterday morning triggered panic in the town and prompted some parents to pull their children out of classes in four public schools.
The police and Army in the town who were on full alert allayed fears saying the threat of an NPA attack was just a rumor.
Some classes at Isabela East, Isabela West and District 2 elementary schools, and the Isabela National High School were cancelled, Senior Inspector Ramil Sarona, Isabela police chief, said.
The parents were pulling their children out of their classes, and the teachers said they could not stop them from doing so, Sarona added.
The rumors of the threat of an NPA attack came from the East and West elementary schools but no one could say who actually started them, he said.
We have been telling Isabela residents not to believe unconfirmed reports, and not to panic, the police are on top of the situation, Sarona said.
The threat of an NPA attack came after 10,000 people crying for justice Saturday turned out for the funeral of slain Board Member Renato Malabor Sr. in Isabela, where he was mayor for nine years.
Malabor, 55, and his bodyguard Leody Jomilla, 52, were gunned down by a lone gunman on June 28.
Negros Occidental Gov. Alfredo Marañon Jr. has alleged that the killing was politically motivated.
The Army and police have beefed up security in the town since the twin assassinations.
Montilla said the claim that the NPA was set to stage an attack on his town was just a rumor.
“Imaginations have run wild,” he said.
Montilla said there was no threat of an NPA attack but the police were on red alert just the same and were out on the road.
Life goes on in Isabela, Montilla said.
On rumors that he is the target of the NPA, Montilla said there are a million and one possibilities. He asked who would stand to gain the most by that?
On insinuations that the killing of Malabor was politically motivated because the board member planned to run for mayor against him in 2016, Montilla said he has lost three elections and he does not remember anybody getting hurt because of this.
Montilla pointed out that for the past year he has been very sick and almost died, and was even on a ventilator.
Sarona said he was not aware of the rumor that the NPA's target would be Montilla.
The rumor he heard is that the residents of Isabela were alarmed because the Philippine flags in the town were hanging upside down with the red on top, that was a sign that the NPA would attack, Sarona said.
The claim that the flags in the town were hanging with the red side up was not true, Sarona said.
Col. Francisco Delfin, commander of the Army's 303 rd Infantry Brigade, said the army had one company in Isabela.
The Army has not monitored any NPA plans to attack Isabela, he added.
http://www.visayandailystar.com/2015/July/14/topstory1.htm
NPAs harass Army team in Juban, Sorsogon
From the Bicol Today (Jul 13): NPAs harass Army team in Juban, Sorsogon
Red fighters on formation watch a cultural presentation during CPP 46th founding anniversary. BICOLTODAY.COM PHOTO
About 10 armed members of the New People’s Army (NPA) harassed an Army team led by 2Lt. Mike Anro Fragio and Lt. Niko Pendijito on Saturday night in Barangay Catanusan, Juban, Sorsogon.
According to police sources, the NPA positioned themselves at the northwest portion, about 250-300 away from the Army position, and opened fire.
The firefight lasted for about seven minutes before the rebels withdrew toward the northwest direction of Barangay Maalo, Juban.
The police said the armed men belonged to NPA’s Larangan 2 (FC 80) KOMPROB Sorsogon.
There is no reported casualty on both sides, said police report.
As a counter measure, PNP personnel of Juban MPS and adjacent Municipal Police Stations have established chokepoints/blocking force in strategic areas in their respective territorial jurisdictions which can be used as withdrawal routes of the rebels.
http://bicoltoday.com/2015/07/13/npas-harass-army-team-in-juban-sorsogon/
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DND, PAF show airworthiness of newly-acquired choppers
From ABS-CBN (Jul 14): DND, PAF show airworthiness of newly-acquired choppers
In a massive effort to prove the airworthiness of the newly-acquired and highly criticized refurbished helicopters, the Department of National Defense (DND) and the Philippine Air Force (PAF) flew the seven UH-1D choppers into Camp Aguinaldo and presented them before the media.
There to show support for the endeavor were Defense Secretary Voltaire Gazmin, Defense Undersecretary and Special Bids and Awards Committee chairman Fernando Manalo, and other defense officials.
Congressmen Rodolfo Biazon and Ashley Acedillo also came to observe the event.
The procurement of the Hueys was brought to question when supplier Rhodora Alvarez alleged at a Senate hearing that certain defense officials fixed the bidding process to make sure that the contract for the purchase of 21 UH-1 choppers would land in the hands of Rice Aircraft Service, Inc. (RASI).
Alvarez said the "fixing" involved requiring helicopters to have undergone the structural life extension program (SLEP), something only RASI could have provided.
Critics questioned why after three failed biddings, the negotiated procurement still went to RASI, when in fact RASI was one of the failed bidders.
The entire contract between the defense department and RASI was for the acquisition of 21 units of refurbished UH-1 helicopters for more than P1.26 billion.
But on March 25, 2015, the defense department partially terminated its contract with RASI because the latter failed to meet its deadline of delivery.
Only 6 UH-1D choppers were turned over to the PAF worth more than P30 million. The remaining 15 helicopters will no longer be bought.
Apart from the procurement, the airworthiness of the UH-1Ds was also put to question.
At the same Senate hearing, Senator JV Ejercito showed a report from the PAF where defects on the newly-turned over Hueys were detailed: one chopper would not start while another chopper required a change of engine. Two choppers would not start.
But Gazmin said Tuesday's demonstration was an attempt to allay fears about the choppers.
The seven UH-1D choppers flew in and landed in front of the grandstand.
DND officials gave a detailed presentation of the entire acquisition process, and PAF officials gave a rundown of the capabilities of the UH-1D and how, after SLEP, it was "at par or even much better" than the UH-1H that the PAF currently has.
Afterwards, members of the media were invited for a quick flight from the grounds of Camp Aguinaldo to Rizal province and back. For purposes of comparison, reporters were allowed to fly in the older UH-1H as well.
Gazmin and Manalo both maintained that the claims of corruption against the DND are all lies, but the department has also launched an internal investigation on the issue.
Manalo, for his part, has filed libel charges against Alvarez.
Biazon and Acedillo, meanwhile, announced that the House of Representatives will hold its own hearing and review on the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) Modernization Program.
One of the topics up for discussion, Biazon said, is the chopper controversy.
http://www.abs-cbnnews.com/nation/07/14/15/dnd-paf-show-airworthiness-newly-acquired-choppers
1 Army soldier killed, 5 hurt in ambush
From ABS-CBN (Jul 14): 1 Army soldier killed, 5 hurt in ambush
A soldier died and five of his comrades were wounded in an ambush in Lanao del Norte on Monday morning.
The Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) said members of the 42nd Company of the 4th Mechanized Infantry Battalion were on their way to Barangay Punod in Pantar town when armed men sprayed bullets on their vehicle at the boundary of Kalalangan and West Pantar villages.
Some of the men who fired shots at the soldiers were hiding on the roadside, while the others were on board a white pick-up truck which was trailing the soldiers' vehicle.
The soldiers' vehicle managed to move several meters after the armed attack, giving them the chance to escape.
The lone fatality was identified as Private First Class (PFC) Joey Matallano.
The five injured are Sergeant Benigno Silvano Jr., Sergeant Rudolph Apriba, Corporal Omar Salazar, PFC Bryan Ronn Begornia, and PFC Ronald Macatay.
The white pick-up truck used by the suspects was abandoned. It only had a commemorative plate bearing the name ''Prosecutor''.
A certain Abdul Jalil Sarip, who turned out to be a village chief in Madalum, Lanao del Sur, was also arrested.
Sarip allegedly drove a Toyota Revo which some of the suspects supposedly boarded.
The military has launched an investigation to determine the motive behind the ambush.
Lt. Col. Anthon G. Abrina, Battalion Commander of the 4th Mechanized Infantry Battalion, said the assailants could be from a group who wanted to spoil the peace talks.
''It could be spoilers, it could be threat groups, lawless elements,'' he said.
http://www.abs-cbnnews.com/nation/regions/07/14/15/1-army-soldier-killed-5-hurt-ambush
MILF commanders undergo training in dev’t planning
From the Philippine News Agency (Jul 14): MILF commanders undergo training in dev’t planning
Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) camp commanders huddled for three days with representatives of government line agencies in this city to undergo formal training on how to kick off and implement development in six previously acknowledged MILF camps located in the Maguindanao and Lanao provinces.
The Area Development Planning (ADP) Workshop was held at the Em Manor Hotel in this city from July 9-11 with MILF commanders, and government military and agriculture officials to begin the transition plans for the MILF camps into peaceful and productive communities. After the three-day workshop, both GPH and the MILF participants will collaborate on formulating the priority development plans in the six sites.
Under the Annex on Normalization, the GPH and the MILF mutually agreed to constitute joint task forces that “will assess the needs, plan appropriate programs, and undertake the necessary measures to transform these areas into peaceful and productive communities."
These areas are in the vicinity of former MILF Camp Abubakar as-Siddique, Camp Badre, and Camp Omar ibn al-Khattab in Maguindanao; Camp Rajamuda in North Cotabato and Maguindanao; Camp Bilal in Lanao del Norte and Lanao del Sur; and Camp Busrah Somiorang in Lanao del Sur.
The six camps were identified and acknowledged in 1999 during the term of former President Joseph Ejercito Estrada in order to facilitate the observance of the 1997 ceasefire agreement. However, an all-out war was waged against the MILF in 2000. The MILF withdrew from some of these camps, notably Camps Abubakar and Omar.
Mohamad Saleh, MILF Task Force Camps Transformation Coordinator, expressed his deep gratitude to the national government for its “commitment to achieve genuine peace and development in Mindanao.”
The work of the Joint Task Forces in each of the six sites is one of the confidence-building measures provided in the Annex on Normalization, an integral part of the Comprehensive Agreement on the Bangsamoro which the Government and MILF Panels signed in March 2014.
“The peace dividends must already be felt by the people in our communities as soon as possible,” Saleh said.
Former Agriculture Secretary and GPH Peace Panel member Senen Bacani briefed participants on the rudiments of area development planning. He also urged the participants to identify quick-response projects that will address immediate needs of the communities such as electricity, water supply system, minor infrastructure and quick gestation livelihood projects.
“These efforts should continue because we are all Filipinos and we should provide assistance to those who need help,” Bacani said.
The three-day workshop was facilitated by Roberto “Roy” Tordecilla, World Bank Senior Expert and Engr. Nasser Sinarimbo.
Former rebel gets PHP117,000 cash assistance
From the Philippine News Agency (Jul 14): Former rebel gets PHP117,000 cash assistance
IMPASUG-ONG, Bukidnon – A former rebel of the New People’s Army (NPA) received PHP117,000 cash and livelihood assistance from the military and the local government here, a military officer said Tuesday.
Capt. Norman Tagros, spokesperson of the army’s 8th Infantry Battalion, said that Jonathan B. Nacar, a.k.a “Totong,” received a check of PHP52,200 from the 8IB.
Tagros said that the amount was a remuneration of the AK-47 assault rifle that Nacar turned over when he surrendered to the army’s 8IB in Impasug-Ong, Bukidnon.
Nacar, 24, a Higa-onon tribe of Bukidnon, and a former member of the Guerrilla Front 4B of the North Central Mindanao Regional Committee, surrendered to the military in September 2014.
Lt. Col. Lennon Babilonia, commander of the army 8IB, personally handed the check to Nacar during the formal turnover at the town hall of Impasug-ong last Monday.
Aside from the said amount from the military, the Office of the Presidential Adviser on Peace Process (OPAPP) also extended PHP50,000 cash for livelihood assistance on top of the PHP15,000 cash assistance from the Department of Interior and Local Government (DILG) in Bukidnon.
During the turnover ceremony, Babilonia also announced the promotion of two soldiers for gallantry in action during an encounter with the armed communist NPA rebels in Bukidnon, which resulted in the recovery of three AK-47, improvised explosive device, blasting caps, several rounds of live ammunitions and subversive documents.
Tagros said that army Sgt. Nestor S. Sabaldana was promoted to the rank of Staff Sergeant while army Private First Class Aberto A. Bugtay, to Corporal.
Make life difficult for all threat groups, newly-appointed AFP chief tells men
From the Philippine News Agency (Jul 14): Make life difficult for all threat groups, newly-appointed AFP chief tells men
In line with government efforts to defeat insurgency and lawlessness in the countryside, newly-appointed Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) chief-of-staff Lt. Gen. Hernando DCA Iriberri has ordered all unit commanders to make live difficult for all threat groups.
"Win the peace, secure the peace and make their areas of responsibility inhospitable to all the threat groups with utmost respect to human rights. That was my order to our commanders," he added.
Iriberri also stressed that this order covers the New People's Army, Abu Sayyaf Group and the Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighters.
During the change-of-command ceremonies Friday, the newly-appointed AFP chief stressed that winning the peace is one of his priorities.
Iriberri said that the gains made must be preserved and even expanded, adding that in the last seven years, 58 conflict-affected provinces have been declared either as insurgency-free or peaceful and ready for further development.
"From Siquijor in December 2008 to Negros Occidental just last June 2015, peace has been won with the cooperation, collaboration and combined strength of the AFP and our civilian partners and stakeholders," he stated.
Iriberri hopes that before the end of 2015 and even beyond 2016, more provinces will join this number.
Appointment of new PNP chief was based on qualifications -- Palace
From the Philippine News Agency (Jul 14): Appointment of new PNP chief was based on qualifications -- Palace
Malacanang on Tuesday defended the appointment of Police Director Ricardo Marquez as the new chief of the Philippine National Police (PNP), saying the selection was based on the qualifications.
”The President’s choice was based on who has the best qualification to carry out the responsibility of the PNP chief,” said Presidential Communications Operations Office (PCOO) Secretary Herminio "Sonny" Coloma Jr. in a press briefing in Malacanang.
Coloma made the reaction to the statement of the Coalition of Filipino Consumers who said former PNP chief Alan Purisima pushed for the appointment Marquez.
On Tuesday, Interior and Local Government Secretary Manuel “Mar” Roxas II announced the appointment of Marquez to lead the 155,000-strong police force.
Marquez will replace Deputy Director General Leonardo Espina who served as acting PNP chief for Purisima.
Purisima was suspended and eventually dismissed by the Ombudsman over his alleged involvement in the anomalous Php100-million contract with a private gun courier service.
Marquez was a member of the Philippine Military Academy (PMA) Class of 1982 and a PNP directorate for operations chief prior to his appointment by President Benigno Aquino III.
Marquez bested other contenders that include Deputy Director General Danilo Constantino, chief of the directorial staff; Deputy Director General Marcelo Garbo, deputy PNP chief for operations; Chief Superintendent Raul Petrasanta; Police Director Benjamin Magalong, Crime Investigation and Detection Group chief; and Police Director Juanito Vaño, directorate for logistics head.
Last 4 Bell 412EP to be delivered August
From the Philippine News Agency (Jul 14): Last 4 Bell 412EP to be delivered August
The last four Bell 412EP combat utility helicopters will be delivered by August.
This was confirmed by Defense undersecretary for finance, modernization and materiel Fernando Manalo in an interview with the PNA Tuesday.
He said that the four will join the other four now undergoing testing and evaluation by the Philippine Air Force (PAF).
The first batch of four arrived last May and June.
The Department of National Defense (DND) on March 2014, signed a Php4.8 billion contract with Canadian government for the delivery of eight Bell 412EP helicopters.
The helicopters will be acquired government-to-government through Candian Commercial Corporation.
"Three of these eight helicopters will be configured as (as) VIP helicopters for the coming APEC meet in September," Manalo earlier said.
These new helicopters are intended to replace the five aging Bell 412 helicopters of the Office of President which were acquired during the time of President Fidel V. Ramos.
The Bell 412EP is capable of carrying 14 passengers and is capable of flying at a maximum speed of 140 knots (around 259 kilometers), cruise speed of 122 knots (226 kilometers per hour) and a range of 402 nautical miles (745 kilometers).
It is powered with an enhanced Pratt and Whitney PT6T-3D Twin Pac.
UH-ID flight aimed at disproving claims that aircraft is defective
From the Philippine News Agency (Jul 14): UH-ID flight aimed at disproving claims that aircraft is defective
The decision to fly selected media personnel aboard the UH-ID "Huey" combat utility helicopters was aimed at disproving allegations that the aircraft are not airworthy and mission capable.
This was stressed by Defense Secretary Voltaire Gazmin Tuesday morning.
Seven UH-IDs, two UH-IHs along with their pilots and crew were deployed to Camp Aguinaldo, Quezon City to disapprove allegations that the aircraft is defective.
Selected members of the media were flown aboard a UH-ID and UH-IH which took off from Camp Aguinaldo at 11:07 a.m. and made a short flight to San Mateo, Rizal.
The aircraft and its passengers arrived at the military base at 11:46 a.m. safe and sound.
"(The flight demonstration and briefing) aims to correct allegations coming out in the media (that the UH-IDs) are defective and not flyable. We thought it prudent to bring the helicopters here and let the media know about their capabilities and difference from the UH-IHs," Gazmin said in Filipino.
He added that UH-IDs are very safe and capable as he was able to fly it many times without encountering any untoward incident.
The Defense chief also denied claims that he and other officials were asking for 15 percent commission for the UH-ID project.
"Those are all lies," he stressed.
The acquisition for the 21 UH-IDs, which is worth Php1.26 billion, have been wracked in controversy after claims of bidding irregularities and the aircraft being defective.
It was partially terminated last March 25 after suppliers Rice Aircraft Services Inc. and Eagle Copters Ltd. failed to deliver the rest of the aircraft.
"In compliance with Section 88, Rule XXII of the IRR of RA 9184 (Philippine Procurement Law), the contract agreement between the DND/AFP (Armed Forces of the Philippines) and the Joint Venture of Rice Aircraft Services, Inc. and Eagle Copters Ltd. for the supply and delivery of 21 UH-I helicopters for the PAF with corresponding contract price of Php1,263,000,000 shall be partially terminated for exceeding the 10 percent maximum liquidated damages," the DND order signed by Gazmin said.
There are 20 UH-IH and seven UH-1Ds at the Air Force inventory as of this time.
"Both aircraft have the top speed of 124 KIAS (knot indicated airspeed) but when you are flying UH-IH model, you can feel the aircraft starting to shake or shiver when you are approaching speeds up to 82 to 90 knots. But in the UH-ID, you can feel no vibration and even if you are cruising at speed of 110 KIAS," said Major Aristides Galang, 210th Tactical Squadron operations officer and the test pilot involved in the acceptance test of UH-IDs.
"It (UH-ID) also climbs very fast compared to the UH-IH," the PAF official pointed out.
Galang, who has 1,900 flying hours to his credit, also stressed that during acceptance tests of the aircraft, either the UH-ID performs up to standard, as specified in the PAF checklist, or it will not be accepted for service until.
During the so-called "maintenance test flights" (which are done during the pre-acceptance phase), all forms of maneuvers, are conducted to ensure that the aircraft has no major discrepancy which could cause it to fail or crash while in PAF service.
This includes air and ground handling and various emergency procedures, the pilot said.
On claims that major discrepancies were encountered during initial tests of the aircraft, Galang said this is only natural as all aircraft are prone to wear-and-tear while flying.
Galang said the same holds true for all aircraft in every Air Force in the world and dealing with such discrepancies is the job of maintenance crews and officers.
PAF spokesman Col. Enrico Canaya earlier said the "D" designation in the UH-1 means that it was manufactured by Dornier, a German aircraft manufacturer that started construction of the UH-1 during 1967 to 1981.
Around 350 units were build by the German aircraft manufacturer.
Canaya said that all seven UH-IDs are deployed to Central Luzon and Manila PAF units.
"The PAF, however, opted to deploy these newly turned over units to Central Luzon and Manila areas for endurance flights, training and other missions to make it accessible to technical representatives and take advantage of warranty claims," he added.
The PAF spokesman also clarified that the UH-1Ds and UH-IHs, still in Philippine service, are similar models but made by different manufacturers.
"Their airframes are old but once they are refurbished and maintenance manuals they are reliable to perform missions. The PAF has a wealth of experience operating and maintaining UH-1 helicopters since the 1970s," he added.
Canaya also dismissed reports that UH-1D spare parts are no longer available in the market.
"Their parts are not obsolete and available in the market just like the parts for the existing fleets of UH-1Hs the PAF is currently maintaining. The UH-1H helicopters are still widely use in other countries," he added.
Canaya also said that the PAF does not accept aircraft with technical issues.
"The PAF only receives and operates units that passed the Technical Inspection And Acceptance Committee," he pointed out.
The PAF spokesman stated that the newly arrived UH-IDs are more superior to the UH-1Hs as it features composite main rotor blades which have a better performance and safety feature that the latter aircraft.
BRP Sierra Madre undergoes 'minor repairs'
From the Philippine News Agency (Jul 14): BRP Sierra Madre undergoes 'minor repairs'
The Philippine Navy (PN) on Tuesday admitted that "minor repairs" are now being conducted to the rust-streaked and dilapidated BRP Sierra Madre (LT-57), Philippine ship that ran aground on Ayungin Shoal since 1999.
"By conducting minor repairs in the vessel, the Philippine Navy merely ensures that the men the renowned media firm described as '...troops staying there struggling to survive extreme mental and physical desolation,' would not be neglected," PN spokesperson Col. Edgard Arevalo said.
However, he did not specify the repairs made to the ship.
BRP Sierra Madre is the Navy transport serving as the Philippine outpost off the Spratly Islands.
It is located atop Ayungin Shoal(known internationally as Second Thomas Shoal). It is a commissioned vessel with personnel on board. It behooves the Philippine Navy to ensure the ship's habitability and safety.
"The decrepit condition of the ship is no secret. Such sorry state has gained notoriety when it was reported by an international print media," he said.
Arevalo added that PN flag-officer-in-command Vice Admiral Jesus C. Millan prioritizes the welfare of personnel assigned in the front lines.
"Be it ships in distant Kalayaan Island Group or the Marines in the jungles of Sulu, Basilan, and Central Mindanao-- are attended to does not violate any law or convention. It conforms to internationally accepted principles of human rights," he added.
"Just as the Philippine Navy is morally and duty bound to resupply its personnel with food, water, medicines, and other basic necessities, it is incumbent upon the navy leadership to ensure that the minimum survivable condition of the ship is accorded to its personnel on board," Arevalo further said.
Western Command chief Vice Admiral Alexander Lopez vehemently denied earlier reports claiming that the Philippines was using cement to reinforce the foundations of the rusted transport.
"We are not doing any construction or anything. We are merely improving the accommodations of our people deployed there," Lopez said in Filipino.
"We are just maintaining (the ship) to give better accommodations to our troops," he added.
The Western Command chief also stressed that the Philippines' arbitration case would weaken should the country engage in construction activities in the disputed area.
The "BRP Sierra Madre" ran aground in 1999 and was eventually used by the Philippines as an outpost to assert sovereignty in the area.
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Balius, T.E.; Mukherjee, S.; Rizzo, R. C. Implementation and Evaluation of a Docking-Rescoring Method Using Molecular Footprint Comparisons. J. Comput. Chem., 2011, 32, 2273-2289. [http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/jcc.21814 WEB] PMID: 21541962
Balius, T. E.; Allen, W. J.; Mukherjee, S.; '''Rizzo, R. C.''' Grid-based Molecular Footprint Comparison Method for Docking and De Novo Design: Application to HIVgp41, ''J. Comput. Chem.'', '''2013''', ''34'', 1226-1240 [http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/jcc.23245 WEB] PMID: 23436713
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The Rizzo Research Group employ computational techniques to drug discovery projects. We are interested in both application and method development. We use two primary tools: docking and molecular dynamics (MD). Types of studies we perform include MD used to probe the origins of activity (free energy calculations), virtual screening for lead identification, and testset development to evaluate our methods. The current major focuses of the laboratory are outlined as follows.
3.1.2 Chemical Sampling Method
HIV, which causes AIDS, is one of the most dangerous infectious diseases today. The WHO estimated 1.8 million HIV-related deaths and around 2.6 million new infections worldwide in 2009. As the world is entering the fourth decade in its battle against AIDS, a series of clinical drugs has been designed to target different steps of the HIV life cycle. The current anti-HIV inhibitors fall into five major categories: fusion and entry inhibitors, nucleotide reverse transcriptase inhibitors, non-nucleotide reverse transcriptase inhibitors, protease inhibitors, and other inhibitors such as integrase inhibitors.
HIV gp41 is a glycoprotein involved in viral membrane fusion. Our laboratory is interested in developing inhibitors that target gp41 and prevent the fusion event. To this end, we have constructed and all-atom model of T20 bound to gp41 and validated the model with all-atom molecular dynamics simulations. Virtual screening projects have also been performed to identify small molecule leads that target the hydrophobic pocket of gp41. Our collaborators have experimentally tested and identified molecules which exhibit strong activity.
Strockbine, B.; Rizzo, R. C. Binding of Anti-Fusion Peptides with HIVgp41 from Molecular Dynamics Simulations: Quantitative Correlation with Experiment. Proteins: Struct. Func. Bioinformatics, 2007, 67, 630-642. WEB PMID 17335007
McGillick, B. E.; Balius, T.E.; Mukherjee, S.; Rizzo, R. C. Origins of Resistance to the HIVgp41 Viral Entry Inhibitor T20. Biochemistry, 2010, 49 (17), 3575-3592 doi:10.1021/bi901915g PMID: 20230061 WEB PMID 20230061
Holden, P. M.; Kaur, H.; Gochin, M.; Rizzo, R. C. Footprint-based identification of HIVgp41 inhibitors, Bioorg. Med. Chem. Lett., 2012, 22, 3011–3016 doi:10.1016/j.bmcl.2012.02.017 WEB PMID: 22425565
Allen, W. J.; Rizzo, R. C. Computer-Aided Approaches for Targeting HIVgp41, Biology, 2012, 1, 311-338. doi:10.3390/biology1020311 WEB
HIV gp41 N-terminal domain in complex with T20
The ErbB family members are drug targets for treating several types of cancers, including lung and breast cancers. ErbB family of receptor tyrosine kinases consists of EGFR (epidermal growth factor receptor), HER2, ErbB3, and ErbB4. Overexpression of EGFR is observed in 62% of NSCLC tumors (nonsmall cell lung cancer) and overexpression of EGFR and HER2 are important prognostic markers for breast cancer. Members of the ErbB family share a similar overall structural architecture comprising: (i) extracellular ligand binding domain, (ii) transmembrane domain, (iii) intracellular juxtamembrane domain, (iv) intracellular tyrosine kinase domain, and (v) C-terminal regulatory region where phosphorylation occurs. We are interested in targeting the tyrosine kinase domain (TKD). Approved small molecules of the TKD domain include erlotinib Tarceva, OSI Pharmaceuticals), gefitinib (Iressa, AstraZeneca), and lapatinib (Tykerb, Glaxo-SmithKline). A fourth compound called AEE788 (Novartis) is in development. Among them, erlotinib and gefitinib primarily target EGFR and lapatinib is a dual inhibitor of EGFR and ErbB2. Several cancer causing mutations or resistance mutations in EGFR and HER2 have been reported. We are interested in what is the driving force of binding and how these mutations affect binding. Through all-atom molecular dynamics simulations, water-mediated interactions seem to be especially important for understanding affinity and specificity for these systems.
Balius, T. E.; Rizzo, R. C. Quantitative Prediction of Fold Resistance for Inhibitors of EGFR. Biochemistry, 2009, 48, 8435-8448. WEB PMID: 19627157
Huang, Y.; Rizzo, R. C. A Water-Based Mechanism of Specificity and Resistance for Lapatinib with ErbB Family Kinases. Biochemistry, 2012, 51 (12), 2390–2406. WEB PMID: 22352796
Docking is a very useful tool in drug discovery efforts by predicting binding poses of molecules and by enriching databases in virtual screening applications. DOCK is the oldest widely used docking program. The Rizzo Group co-develops the DOCK program and contributed to the latest two releases. The release v6.4, greatly improved the sampling behavior with the inclusion of internal energy during growth and minimization. The release v6.5 includes a new scoring function termed Footprint similarity score described below. Our method development projects are motivated by the application projects pursued by group members.
Docking performs to tasks sampling and scoring. In pose reproduction experiments we ask can we generate the correct pose and can we rank it, among all the decoy poses, at the top of the list with our scoring function. To facilitate the development, in DOCK, of new scoring functions, sampling methods or improvement of current methods and docking protocols, our group has developed a large hand curated docking testset for pose reproduction termed SB2010. SB2010 consists of 780 protein-ligand systems processed from the pdb, this testset is partitioned in to subsets based on ligand flexibility and protein families. Family-based analysis and cross-docking experiments are facilitated by the inclusion of alined structure in the testset distribution. To obtain the testset visit Rizzo_Lab_Downloads.
Mukherjee, S.; Balius, T.E.; Rizzo, R. C. Docking Validation Resources: Protein Family and Ligand Flexibility Experiments. J. Chem. Inf. Model, 2010, 50, 1986-2000. WEB PMID: 21033739
Docking Testset
Chemical Sampling Method
De novo design algorithms are useful for both drug discovery and lead optimization. In de novo design, candidate molecules are assembled or grown from fragment libraries in the binding site of a protein target. Then, the affinity of the molecule can be predicted, typically through molecular mechanics-based scoring functions. Presumably, those molecules that are predicted to have higher affinity to the target protein would make better drug candidates. By building molecules from fragments in this way, one is not limited by the size of publicly-available virtual screening databases (ca. 10^6-10^7 molecules), which are exceedingly small when compared to the predicted size of actual chemical space (ca. 10^65 molecules). However, de novo design can suffer from challenging obstacles including the inadvertent assembly of un-physical molecules, a combinatorial explosion in chemical space, and poor convergence. We have developed a novel de novo drug design method integrated into the infrastructure of the docking program DOCK6 which will be made available to the community in a future release.
Chemical Sampling using de novo disign
Receptor flexibility is important for docking because biomolecules, including drug targets (receptors), are always in motion and docking to a static structure is a crude (but often sufficient) approximation. Currently DOCK accounts for receptor flexibility only in rescoring using AmberScore. In the Rizzo Group we are evaluating receptor flexibility using pregenerated ensembles from molecular dynamics simulations and from multiple Crystallographic entries from the pdb. We can then dock to multiple grids where each grid represent a alternative receptor conformation.
Balius, T.E.; Mukherjee, S.; Rizzo, R. C. Implementation and Evaluation of a Docking-Rescoring Method Using Molecular Footprint Comparisons. J. Comput. Chem., 2011, 32, 2273-2289. WEB PMID: 21541962
Balius, T. E.; Allen, W. J.; Mukherjee, S.; Rizzo, R. C. Grid-based Molecular Footprint Comparison Method for Docking and De Novo Design: Application to HIVgp41, J. Comput. Chem., 2013, 34, 1226-1240 WEB PMID: 23436713
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Women’s Olympic Ranking teams confirmed
China's Fan Wang/Yuan Yue claimed the 15th and final spot on the Women's Olympic Rankings
Hamburg, Germany, June 12, 2016 – The 15 women’s teams eligible to play in the 2016 Olympic Games Beach Volleyball competition have been confirmed - pending confirmation by their respective NOCs/NFs - following the completion of the 18-month Beach Volleyball Olympic qualification process via the FIVB Beach Volleyball World Tour on Saturday at the smart Major Hamburg.
The 15 highest ranked teams on the Olympic Ranking as of June 13, 2016 each earn one quota place for their NOC/NF to the Rio 2016 Olympic Games, respecting the maximum of two quota places per NOC/NF. With the women’s finals in Hamburg having taken place on Saturday, the women's list is complete. The men’s list is expected to be confirmed later today following their finals in Hamburg.
smart Major Hamburg
Women's Olympic Rankings
Rio 2016 Beach Volleyball
The requirements for a team to earn a quota spot are: 12 events as a team on the FIVB Beach Volleyball World Tour between January 1, 2015 and June 13, 2016; rank in the top 15 of the provisional Olympic rankings excluding Olympic host country Brazil and be one of the top two teams in your country that have satisfied the previous two requirements.
The top 15 on the provisional list exclude Brazilians as the South American country earned two berths in the Olympics when the women’s tandem of Agatha Bednarczuk/Barbara Seixas captured the 2015 FIVB World Championships last July in The Hague in addition to their host country vacancy, which went to Talita Antunes/Larissa Franca.
Here are the teams that qualified berths for their country for the Rio 2016 Olympic Games to be played August 6-18, pending official confirmation by their respective NOCs/NFs at the latest by June 27.
Women’s Olympic Ranking, Team, Country, Qualifying Events participated in, Points for best 12 finishes
Host Country, Talita Antunes/Larissa Franca, Brazil, 14, 7,700
World Champions, Agatha Bednarczuk/Barbara Seixas, Brazil, 16, 7,230
1, Kerri Walsh Jennings/April Ross, United States, 14, 6,670
2, Laura Ludwig/Kira Walkenhorst, Germany, 18, 6,500
3, Sarah Pavan/Heather Bansley, Canada, 15, 6,150
4, Madelein Meppelink/Marleen Van Iersel, Netherlands, 17, 5,920
5, Louise Bawden/Taliqua Clancy, Australia, 15, 5,470
6, Marta Menegatti/Viktoria Orsi Toth, Italy, 21, 5,300
7, Karla Borger/Britta Buthe, Germany, 19, 5,260
8, Liliana Fernandez/Elsa Baquerizo, Spain, 21, 4,830
9, Kinga Kolosinska/Monika Brzostek, Poland, 18, 4,800
10, Isabelle Forrer/Anouk Verge-Depre, Switzerland, 24, 4,640
11, Jamie Broder/Kristina Valjas, Canada, 20, 4,640
12, Joana Heidrich/Nadine Zumkehr, Switzerland, 23, 4,620
13, Lauren Fendrick/Brooke Sweat, United States, 19, 4,470
14, Ana Gallay/Georgina Klug, Argentina, 22, 4,220
15, Fan Wang/Yuan Yue, China, 21, 4,150
The total number of teams playing in Rio will be 24. The final seven spots will include five spots from the winners of the Continental Cup competition within the five FIVB confederations. Egypt have already won the African confederation women’s Rio berth. The Asian, European, NORCECA and South American Continental Cup playoffs will be at the end of June.
The second and third-place finishers from each of the confederations will advance to the Continental Cup Finals July 6-10 where the final two spots will be decided in Sochi, Russia. Countries earning spots from the African confederation in the Continental Cup Finals are Rwanda and Nigeria.
The Gstaad Major, the third of five events on the 2016 SWATCH Major Series calendar, will be the site for the drawing of lots for the Beach Volleyball competition at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games. The drawing of lots will take place on the evening of July 9 - a few hours after the completion of the women's medal matches in the Swiss Alps village.
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Syndicated hypocrisy CROSSROADS Jonathan De la Cruz 06/04/2012
Syndicated hypocrisy
Jonathan De la Cruz
Syndicated hypocrisy. This is all that we can say after the President’s men hemmed and hewed and mouthed all those evasive non-sequiturs when challenged by the press to do a Corona, i.e., fully disclose their SALns for the past five years and issue an unconditional waiver on the opening of their bank accounts for proper public scrutiny.
It is regrettable if not laughable that these honorable men and ladies should be issuing out almost the same arguments to evade the issue, leading some observers to note that just as they practiced syndicated relegation of the Rule of Law in their anti-Corona campaign they have now morphed into syndicated hypocrites unworthy of public servants.
“We are not the ones on trial here,” lead House prosecutor and Iloilo Rep. Niel Tupas Jr. said adding that anyway his Statement of Assets, Liabilities and Net worth (SALn) has been deposited with the House secretary general acting as custodian of all such documents for the members. When told that the secretariat needed his approval of such a disclosure he just walked away as if hearing nothing at all. Why, the guy even had the temerity to insist that he and his colleagues would not “dignify” Corona’s challenge and dismissed it as “grandstanding.” Is that not hypocrisy of the highest order? Which is precisely what his colleague, Kabataan party-list Rep. Raymond Palatino said after releasing his own SALn and signing an unconditional waiver on his bank records..... MORE
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Making and unmaking ethnicities in the Rwandan context: implication for gender-based violence, health, and wellbeing of women
Kubai, Anne
Uppsala University, Disciplinary Domain of Humanities and Social Sciences, Faculty of Arts, The Hugo Valentin Centre. Uppsala University, Disciplinary Domain of Humanities and Social Sciences, Faculty of Theology, Department of Theology, Church and Mission studies, Science of Mission.
Ahlberg, Beth Maina
Uppsala University, Disciplinary Domain of Medicine and Pharmacy, Faculty of Medicine, Department of Women's and Children's Health, International Maternal and Child Health (IMCH). (Internationell sexuell och reproduktiv hälsa/Larsson)
2013 (English)In: Ethnicity and Health, ISSN 1355-7858, E-ISSN 1465-3419, Vol. 18, no 5, p. 469-482Article in journal (Refereed) Published
To examine ethnicity and gender violence in Rwanda from cultural and historical perspectives and explore the encounters between cultural beliefs and practices and the new gender equality policy and programs and the implications of the particular encounters to the health of women.
The study is a qualitative drawing from the growing range of interactive approaches and methods within an ethnographic framework of the research design. Twenty individual interviews, six focus group discussions and two 'community mobilization' dialogs were conducted.
Violence has continued and there is a conflict between cultural tradition, the de-ethnicization, and gender equality policies. Some of the gender violence preventive programs are influenced by the ethos of the traditional norms, and therefore unwittingly perpetuate gender-based violence.
In spite of the progress that Rwanda has made in political empowerment of women, it still seems a long way before real gender equality is achieved. It seems that women's empowerment is not only just an opportunity for political participation but also this is important. It is also about the capacity to make effective choices and to translate them into desired actions and outcomes, unfettered by cultural sanctions. Universalised, top-down gender policy programs have not furnished all women with the necessary capacity to make decisions that affect their traditionally all important reproductive functions; to challenge the embedded gender imbalance; and to strive for a holistic wellbeing of their families, where they play a central role. Indeed, some of the policies could have negative implications to the health of women, in particular, with sexually transmitted infections, including HIV and AIDS.
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We aspire to be Asia’s most innovative and socially responsive school of management.
We create knowledge and influence practice by combining original research and thought, innovative pedagogy and proactive industry engagement.
How we add value to our stakeholders
Students: Our students become value-based leaders of tomorrow with a global mindset and social sensitivity. We do this through the creation of a collaborative and engaging two-way learning experience. Our student body is diverse - spanning adults at different career phases and from a multitude of sectors.
Corporates: Leading corporates and entrepreneurs see us as the preferred academic partner.
Alumni: Our alumni are our brand ambassadors. They are deeply engaged members of an extended community. Significant aspects of our strategy are co-created and executed in partnership with alumni.
Society at large: We develop leaders for the underserved sections of the society.
Faculty: We provide an enriching, flexible and challenging work environment which allows faculty members to pursue excellence in their chosen areas of interest.
Employees: We provide an enriching, flexible, and challenging environment for employees to learn and grow.
International partners: We are the preferred partner for leading international institutions which seek to partner with academia.
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Our mission is to Influence Practice and Promote Value-based Growth . Our students will recognise, understand, and uphold the social relevance of business decisions, including within the underserved sections of the society.
We uphold this mission because we recognise our twin roles – as a responsible member of the Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan and as a responsive member of the Indian society at large and look at ourselves in a wider context as a ‘Beyond MBA’ institution.
We will accomplish our mission through:
(a) learner-centric pedagogy that will emphasise attitudes, including spirituality and skills as much as knowledge;
(b) exposing students to value-based growth in underserved parts of our communities;
(c) synthesis of competition-based western efficiency and collaboration-centric eastern ethos in our intellectual contributions and curriculum; and
(d) intellectual contributions aimed at influencing practice.
In our students, we recognise a predisposition and willingness to be a doer first. We also emphasise sensitivity to the social footprint of business actions and the role of spirituality in a balanced approach to decision making.
In our faculty members, we recognise a commitment to delivering outstanding learner-centric pedagogy by taking advantage of the personal, residential nature of our programmes. We also require them to create and disseminate knowledge aimed at influencing practice.
As a community, we will realise these objectives through integrity, self-accountability, professional discipline, and hard work.
We value operational freedom and uphold an entrepreneurial, agile, flexible, and collaborative culture.
Our new brand identity echoes SPJIMR’s raison d'être and unique spirit. It is a representation of the courage to rise above.
The upward strokes are a reflection of SPJIMR’s innovative and progressive mindset that underpins its quest to rise above the norm. SPJIMR empowers its students with the courage to do the same, by pushing them to think differently and independently.
The five strokes in our logo represent the five personality attributes of the new SPJIMR brand – authentic, dynamic, grounded, innovative and socially sensitive.
Orange is an optimistic, energetic and uplifting colour that speaks to SPJIMR’s ‘heart’ and emphasises contribution. It also represents the institute’s determination to create value-based business leaders who balance profit with purpose.
Purple symbolises intellect and wisdom. This is a metaphor for SPJIMR’s knowledge and insight, which empowers us to challenge conventions and defend our convictions.
Our Guiding Philosophy
The philosophical pillars upon which rests the edifice of SPJIMR’s educational pedagogy and development are Influencing Practice and Promoting Value-based Growth.
Influencing Practice
The initiatives and innovations at SPJIMR aim to influence industry practices and participate in re-shaping the nation. The learning imbibed through a flexible and versatile curriculum develops in the students, not only a capacity for analysis and judgement, but also an innate ability to relate to social problems and then draw upon their own resources for understanding and action.
Promoting Value-based Growth
SPJIMR propounds that individuals need to build the right blend between concern for their own welfare and social good. The institute encourages development of a co-operative outlook that recognises the value of sharing and mutual respect. This is emphasised in the curriculum through practical experiential learning as well as by example. SPJIMR seeks to incorporate within its management curriculum strategies for innovative business practices and social value through the integration of corporate social responsibility programmes.
SPJIMR’s approach to innovation is influenced by its emphasis on the different stages in the Learning Process, its conviction with regard to the pedagogic method and the deployment of the KSA (Knowledge, Skills and Attitude) Matrix.
SPJIMR's underlying framework for innovations can be expressed by the following three fundamentals:
The learning experience must result in the enhancement of the capabilities of the individual for actual practice.
Professional ethics should stress on and also include social values and social responsiveness.
The seeker of knowledge should accept responsibility for continuous professional growth and development.
Trustees of the Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan
Members of Executive Committee
Governing Body of SPJIMR
Shri Surendralal G. Mehta
M/s. Jardine Henderson Ltd. Shri Harsh Vardhan Kanoria
Cheviot Company Ltd.
Shri Deepak S. Parekh
HDFC Ltd. Justice Shri B.N.Srikrishna
Smt. Shobhana Bhartia
Vice-Chairperson & Editorial Director,
Hindustan Times Ltd. Shri Avnish Mehta
M/s. Jardine Henderson Ltd
Shri I. R. Khandwala Shri Banwarilal Purohit
Shri Mukul A. Sonawala
(President & Trustee)
Shri H.N. Dastur
(Executive Secretary & Director General)
Justice Shri B.N. Srikrishna
(Vice President)
Shri Mukul Amratlal Sonawala
(Hon. Secretary)
Shri Kirtidev G. Munshi
Shri I. R. Khandwala
(Hon. Treasurer)
Shri Avnish Mehta
(Trustee & Member)
Shri Deepak Parekh
Smt. Anjanabehn Amratlal Sonawala
Shri Deepak Parekh - Chairman
Chairman, HDFC Shri H.N. Dastur - Member
Executive Secretary & Director General, Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan Shri Banwarilal Purohit - Member
Trustee, Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan
Dr. Srikant Datar - Academic thought leader / Educationist.
Arthur Lowes Dickinson Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School
Dr. Anitesh Barua - Academic thought leader / Educationist
Professor, Department of Information, Risk, and Operations Management, University of Texas Mr. Yogi Sriram - Corporate leader
Sr. VP Corporate HR, Larsen &Toubro
Mr. Rajesh Jejurikar - Alumni representative
CEO, Mahindra Tracto Mr. Ravi Venkatesan - Corporate leader
Former CEO, Microsoft India;
Chairman, Social Venture Partners Dr. Ranjan Banerjee - Secretary
Dean, SPJIMR
Prof. Om Narasimhan - Academic thought leader / Educationist.
Professor, London School of Economics Ms. Ireena Vittal - Corporate leader
Fomer Partner, McKinsey and Company;
Board member at several leading corporations
Dr. Vasant Sivaraman -Professor & Chairperson - PGDM Programme
Dr. Renuka Kamath - Faculty representative
Professor, SPJIMR Dr. R. Sesha Iyer - Faculty representative
Professor and Advisor to the Dean, SPJIMR Mr. R. Gopalakrishnan - SPJIMR Executive in Residence
Ms. Anjali Bansal - Founder, Avaana Capital. Former global Partner &
Managing Director with TPG Growth PE, Spencer Stuart India CEO, and strategy consultant with McKinsey and Co in New York and India.
Approvals and accreditations
All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE)
www.aicte-india.org
The AICTE has approved our two-year, full time, residential Post Graduate Diploma in Management (PGDM), the 15-month full time Post Graduate Programme in Management (PGPM) and full-time doctoral programme, Fellow Programme in Management (FPM).
AICTE approval letter 2019-20
Click here to see previous AICTE Approvals
National Board of Accreditation (NBA)
www.nbaind.org
The NBA has accredited our PGDM programme for five years with effect from July 01, 2016.
NBA Approval Letter 2016-2021
The Association of MBAs (AMBA), U.K
http://www.mbaworld.com/
AMBA, the UK-based global accreditation agency has accorded accreditation to our two-year, full time, residential Post Graduate Diploma in Management (PGDM); 15-month full-time Post Graduate Programme in Management (PGPM); 21-month modular Post Graduate Executive Management Programme (PGEMP); and the 18-month modular Post Graduate Programme in Family Managed Business (PGPFMB).
AACSB International-The Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business
http://www.aacsb.edu/about
SPJIMR joins the league of top global B-schools who are accredited by AACSB, International. AACSB Accreditation recognizes institutions that have demonstrated a focus on excellence in all areas, including teaching, research, curricula development, and student learning.
The PGDM programme at SPJIMR has consistently been ranked amongst the top 10 in the country.
B-School Survey Rankings
Mint - MBAUniverse
Youth Inc.
8th (in Asia)
52nd (in the world)
QS Global MBA Ranking 2018 +201 QS Top MBA
QS Global MBA Rankings by Specialisation
41 Strategy TopMBA.com - Strategy
39 Operations Management TopMBA.com- Operations Management
45 Finance TopMBA.com - Finance
42 Marketing TopMBA.com - Marketing
49 Entrepreneurship TopMBA.com- Entrepreneurship
MHRD - National Institute Ranking Framework (NIRF)
Ranked 16th in Management category for the year 2019
Click to view data submitted for NIRF 2017, NIRF 2018 and NIRF 2019 . For any feedback/comments on the data submitted you can write to us at spjimr.nirf@spjimr.org.
Event / Competition
July 30, 2015 SPJIMR's Abhyudaya Project wins Gold at the IMC Awards 2015 under the Theme "Innovations in Teaching Methodology"
IMC Award, instituted in 2013 to recognize excellence in management education, is India's most prestigious recognition of B-schools and Universities. In 2015, more than 75 entries from India's leading B-schools were received, of which 7 winners across 3 categories were decided by Jury lead by Dr Shekhar Chaudhuri.
September 5, 2015 HEF awards committee through the process of nomination / identification has selected Prof. Abbasali Gabula for a special award towards your outstanding contribution to academic corporate relationship.
HEF is the community of individuals & practitioners of higher education in India. The journey started a few years ago through Google group and today with more than 4,000 members, it is the largest such on-line community in India. The motto of the group is singular: to help development of an Indian higher education system that is world class in terms of quality & excellence. The forum has also been incorporated as a Public Charitable Trust.
February 2016 AACSB International (AACSB), the global accrediting body and membership association for business schools, recognised the S.P. Jain Institute of Management & Research (SPJIMR) among a sampling of 30 innovations that represent how business schools are innovating and diversifying the business education environment. SPJIMR is the only Indian B-School to be recognised by AACSB International for global ingenuity, innovation and creativity.
The recognition came for the the unique #IamSPJIMR campaign on Teachers' Day in 2015 which detailed a timed, zero-cost social media campaign around authenticity — the core of the Institute. This campaign was co-created with a group of senior alumni and faculty through an email group. The idea that emerged was that, on a voluntary basis, in a two-hour window, SPJIMR stakeholders (faculty, staff, students, alumni) would describe a way in which the Institute has touched their lives with the hashtag #iamspjimr. Emails were sent out to all internal stakeholders and alumni. Each alum who was part of the co-creating team reached out to his or her network. SPJIMR alumni included some of the top names in digital marketing, and the campaign strategy itself was completely co-created.
September 05, 2016 HEF awards committee through the process of nomination / identification has selected Dr. Renuka Kamath for the Best Teacher Award in Marketing.
February 8, 2017 SPJIMR was honoured at the Open Group global awards in Bengaluru on Wednesday 8 Feb, 2017. The citation and the award, received on behalf of SPJIMR by Professors Oscar D'Souza and AditiDivatia.
The award was given to SPJIMR by Open Group in recognition of the pioneering work done in "Competency Development" by the faculty of the Information Department in Enterprise Architecture and TOGAF.
August 4 2017 At the Indian management conclave held on August 4 & 5, 2017 at IIM Lucknow's Noida campus, our initiative on 'teaching With Simulations' received the first prize in the area of "Aligning Curriculum with Desired MBA competencies" This is a national level competition open to all business schools in India. (http://www.mbauniverse.com/imc2017/imc-awards.html)
August 09, 2017 Every year, AACSB runs a contest called 'Innovations That Inspire'. 'Innovations That Inspire' is an AACSB initiative to " recognise institutions that stand out as champions of change” and “to highlight the variety of ways that business schools are changing the face of business education.”
In 2017,AACSB received a pool of 315 submissions, spanning 33 countries and 188 institutions. We are happy to share that for the second year running, SPJIMR is the only Indian school to feature in the prestigious ‘Innovations That Inspire’ list. We received the award under the category 'Engaging a Diverse Community.'
The citation this year came to SPJIMR for its innovative academic initiative, the PGMPW, which launched its maiden batch of 20 women participants earlier in the year. The programme is designed to meet the needs of women leaders and managers who are ready to return to their careers after a break.
September 05, 2017 Dr. Sesha Iyer, one of the senior-most faculty members of SPJIMR was honoured at the 8th Teachers’ Day event of the Higher Education Forum (HEF), which is a large community of individuals and practitioners in the area of higher education in India.
Dr. Iyer was awarded for his outstanding contribution in the area of Operations Management. HEF celebrated Teachers’ Day last weekend(Sept 9) in the presence of more than 150 delegates, awardees and HEF members..
November 20, 2017 Turnitin Writing with Integrity Award winner for Asia! - Her story stood out among the hundreds of other nominations for the Turnitin Global Innovation Awards 2017 and based on her interview and recommendations from their international judging panel Dr. Haldar was selected as a winner. http://turnitin.com/en_us/community/award-winners/item/arunima-haldar
May 5, 2018 Mahindra Group won UN GCNI Award for Best Innovative Practices for Women at Workplace for successfully implementing a first of its kind Women Leaders Program (WLP) in collaboration with SPJIMR in March 2018.
June 8, 2018 SPJIMR bags the prestigious Innovative Practices Award 2018! SPJIMR was conferred the prestigious Innovative Practices Award 2018 by the United Nations Global Compact Network India during the 13th National Convocation of GCNI on June 8th at Shangri La in Bangalore. The award is for two of our initiatives, Abhyudaya and DoCC which address two SDGs, quality education and partnership for the goals. A total of 65 organisations across India, including public and private sector enterprises, multinationals, MSMEs (Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises), NGOs, Entrepreneurs and B-schools had submitted entries for the awards in the form of case studies to showcase their efforts, aligned with one or more of the 17 UN SDGs.
September 08, 2018 Dr Tulsi Jayakumar received the K C Malkani Award for Best Teacher in Economics at HEF teachers day celebration
February 04, 2019 SPJIMR's PGMPW program won the AMBA Innovation Award 2019, reflecting innovation in the way a business school responds to societal needs, cares to bring about a change and take risks to make it happen. The AMBA Excellence Awards celebrates the quality and achievements of post-graduate business education at the forefront of leadership excellence, recognizing the talents and contributions made by AMBA accredited business schools. The award was received by Dr. Ashita Aggarwal , Chairperson, PGMPW at the ceremony held in London, England on February 1, 2019.
March 2019 Dr. Sesha Iyer has been voted as the InsideIIM Professor of The Year2019 from SPJIMR, Mumbai.
InsideIIM presents an opportunity to students across MBA campuses in India to acknowledge and recognise the best professors who have contributed in creating leaders out of students.
May 2019 Global Compact Network India, the Indian arm of United Nations Global Compact, that aids in aligning business with #UN Goals #SustainableDevelopmentGoals held their annual convention on 31st May 2019 Grand Hyatt Mumbai SPJIMR won a certificate of merit for featuring in the Top 11 for #SDGs. Prof Vineeta Dwivedi hosted the event that featured 30+ renowned speakers. Prof Rukaiya Joshi, Prof Deepa Krishnan and Prof Chandrika Parmar attended the event. SPJIMR is an institutional member of United Nations Global Compact Network, India
August 2- 3, 2019 SPJIMR's PGPDM wins bronze award for ‘Excellence in Management Education’ at the Indian Management Conclave (IMC).
Chief Guest Hon’ble Former President of India, Shri Pranab Mukherjee presented the award at the 10th edition of the Indian Management Conclave, 2019 held in New Delhi on August 2 and 3, 2019. Chairperson of SPJIMR’s Post Graduate Programme in Development Management (PGPDM), Dr Rukaiya Joshi made a presentation about the recent innovations of the programme.
PGPDM is a specialised executive management programme for professionals in the social development sector (NGOs, Corporate CSRs and Social Enterprise) and is noted for innovations in new knowledge creation, innovation pedagogy and structured learning reflections.
Indian Management Conclave is India's definitive annual Management Education Conference & Awards Platform, organised by MBAUniverse.com in partnership with India’s top B-schools and knowledge organisations.
SPJIMR runs some its innovative initiatives and programmes through centres of excellence. These centres are mandated to grow the existing initiatives, explore newer opportunities in their respective areas, drive innovation in teaching and learning and to reach out to various sections of society, notably sections that are usually not served by modern day B-Schools. Over the years, the centres have been able to expand the reach of SPJIMR and help drive the SPJIMR mission of influencing practice and promoting value-based growth. The centres typically are lean teams noted for their superior execution skills and advanced knowledge of current practice in their respective areas. It is because of the efforts of these centres that the SPJIMR campus plays host to a wide and diverse range of participants - from entrepreneurs to NGOs to family businesses of varying scales and size.
The following are some of the centres of excellence at SPJIMR:
1. Centre for Entrepreneurship Development (CED)
Start Your Business (SYB)
Grow Your Business (GYB)
Start-Up Incubation Centre
2. Centre for Project Management
3. Centre for Development of Corporate Citizenship (CDOCC)
4. Centre for Education in Social Sector (CEdSS)
5. Centre for Family Managed Businesses (CFMB)
6. Centre for Financial Studies (CFS)
The SPJIMR Song
We learn, we share;
We teach, we care…
So begins the song that captures the essence of SPJIMR and the spirit of an institution that is known for carving its unique path in management education.
The song is written and sung by SPJIMR alumni Debajyoti Biswas and Abhimanyu Basu and the version presented here has been adopted as the official SPJIMR song.
Since it was released as a part of Teachers’ Day celebrations in 2016, the four minute music video has been played at many alumni meets. It helps bring alive the bond that alumni share with SPJIMR, an Institute that has grown in size and stature but has retained its authenticity and spirit of service.
“What we have here is a proud presentation of our talent and spirit,” said SPJIMR Dean Dr. Ranjan Banerjee.
The Official SPJIMR Song
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The Connoisseur, No.68, reprinted in the Gentleman's Magazine XXV, May 1755, pp.206-208.
The various seasons of the year produce not a greater alteration in the face of nature, than in the polite manner of passing our time. The diversions of winter and summer are as different as the dog-days and those at Christmas; nor do I know any genteel amusement, except gaming, that prevails during the whole year. As the long days are now coming on, the theatrical gentry, who contribute to dissipate the gloom of our winter evenings, begin to divide themselves into strolling companies, and are packing up their tragedy wardrobes, together with a sufficient quantity of thunder and lightning, for the delight and amazement of the country. In the mean time, the several public gardens near this metropolis are trimming their trees, levelling their walks, and burnishing their lamps, for our reception. At Vaux-hall (which is already opened) the artificial ruins are repaired; the cascade is made to spout with several additional streams of block-tin; and they have touched up all the pictures, which were damaged last season by the fingering of those curious Connoisseurs, who could not be satisfied without feeling whether the figures were alive. The magazine at Cuper's, I am told, is furnished with an extraordinary supply of gunpowder, to be shot off in squibs and sky-rockets, or whirled away in blazing suns and Catherine wheels. And it is not to be doubted, in case of a war, but that Neptune and all his Tritons will assist the British navy; and as we before took Porto-Bello and Cape Breton, we shall gain new victories over the French fleet every night upon that canal.
Happy are they, who can muster up sufficient, at least to hire tickets at the door, once or twice in a season! Not that these pleasures are confined to the rich and the great only; for the lower sort of people have their Ranelaghs and their Vauxhalls as well as the quality. Perrot's inimitable grotto may be seen for only calling for a pot of beer; and the royal diversion of duck-hunting may be had into the bargain, together with a decanter of Dorchester, for your six-pence at Jenny's Whim. Every skettle-alley half a mile out of town, is embellished with green arbours and shady retreats; where the company is generally entertained with the melodious scraping of a blind fiddler. And who can resist the luscious temptation of a fine juicy ham, or a delicious buttock of beef stuffed with parsley accompanied with a foaming decanter of sparkling home-brewed, which is so invitingly painted at the entrance of almost every village ale-house?
Our northern climate will not, indeed allow us to indulge ourselves in all those pleasures of a garden, which are so feelingly described by our poets. We dare not lay ourselves upon the damp ground in shady groves, or by the purling stream; but are obliged to fortify our insides against the cold by good substantial eating and drinking. For this reason the extreme costliness of provisions at our public gardens has been grievously complained of by those gentry, to whom a supper at these places is as necessary a part of the entertainment as the singing or the fireworks. Poor Mr John sees with an heavy heart the profits of a whole week's card-money devoured in tarts and cheese-cakes by Mrs Housekeeper, or Mrs Lady's own woman: and the substantial cit, who comes from behind the counter two or three evenings in the summer can never enough regret the thin wafer-like slices of beef and ham, that taste of nothing but the knife.
I was greatly diverted last Saturday evening at Vaux-hall with the shrewd remarks made on this very head by an honest citizen; whose wife and two daughters had, I found, prevailed on him to carry them to the garden. As I thought there was something curious in their behaviour, I went into the next box to them, where I had an opportunity of seeing and over-hearing every thing that past.
After some talk, —"Come, come, (said the old don) it is high time, I think, to go to supper." To this the ladies readily assented; and one of the misses said, "Do let us have a chick, papa." "Zounds (said the father) they are half a crown a piece, and no bigger than a sparrow." Here the old lady took him up —"You are so stingy, Mr Rose, there is no bearing you. When one is out upon a party of pleasure, I love to appear like somebody; and what signifies a few shillings once and away, when a body is about it." This reproof so effectually silenced the old gentleman, that the youngest miss had the courage to put in a word for some ham likewise: Accordingly the waiter was called, and dispatched by the old lady with an order for a chicken and a plate of ham. [p.207] When it was brought our honest cit twirled the dish about three or four times, and surveyed it with a very settled countenance; then taking up the slice of ham, and dangling it to and fro on the end of his fork, asked the waiter, "how much there was of it?" "A shilling's worth, sir," said the fellow, —"Prithee, said the don, how much dost think it weighs? —An ounce? —A shilling an ounce! that is sixteen shillings per pound! — A reasonable profit truly! —Let me see —suppose now the whole ham weighs thirty pounds: —at a shilling per ounce, that is sixteen shillings per pound, why your master makes exactly 24 pounds of every ham; and if he buys them at the best hand, and salts them and cures them himself, they don't stand him in ten shillings a piece."
The old lady bade him hold his nonsense, declared herself ashamed for him, and asked him, if people must not live: then taking a coloured handkerchief from her own neck, she tucked it into his shirt collar, whence it hung like a bib, and helped him to a leg of the chicken. The old gentleman, at every bit he put in his mouth, amused himself with saying, —"there goes two-pence, —there goes three-pence, —there goes a groat: —Zounds a man at these places should not have a swallow so wide as a tom-tit."
This scanty repast, we may imagine, was soon dispatched; and it was with much difficulty our citizen was prevailed on to suffer a plate of beef to be ordered. This too was no less admired, and underwent the same comments with the ham: at length, when only a very small bit was left, as they say, for manners in the dish, our don took a piece of an old news-paper out of his pocket, and gravely wrapping up the meat in it, placed it carefully in his letter-case. "I'll keep thee as a curiosity to my dying day; and I'll show thee to my neighbour Horseman, and ask him if he can make as much of his stakes." Then rubbing his hands, and shrugging up his shoulders —"Why now, says he, to-morrow night I may eat as much cold beef as I can stuff in any tavern in London, and pay nothing for it." A dish of tarts, cheesecakes, and custards next made their appearance at the request of the young ladies, who paid no sort of regard to the father's remonstrance, "that they were four times as dear as at the pastrycooks."
Supper being ended, madam put her spouse in mind to call for wine. —"We must have some wine, my dear, or we shall not be looked upon, you know." "Well, well, says the don, that's right enough. But do they sell their liquor too by the ounce? —Here, drawer, what wine have you got?" The fellow, who by this time began to smoke his guests, answered,— "We have exceeding good French wine of all sorts, and please your honour. Would your honour have a bottle of Champagne, or Burgundy, or Claret, or" —"No, no, none of your wishy-washy outlandish rot-gut for me:" interrupted the citizen. —"A tankard of the Alderman beats all the red claret wine in the French king's cellar. —But come, bring us a bottle of sound old port; and d'ye hear? let it be good."
While the waiter was gone, the good man sadly lamented, that he could not have his pipe; which his wife would by no means allow, "because (she said) it was ungenteel to smoke, where there were any ladies in company." When the wine came, our citizen gravely took up the bottle, and holding it above his head, "Aye, aye, said he, the bottom has had a good kick —and mind how confoundedly it is warped on the sides.— Not above five gills, I warrant. —An old soldier at the Jerusalem would beat two of them. —But let us see how it is brew'd." He then pour'd out a glass, and after holding it up before the candle, smelling to it, sipping it twice or thrice, and smacking with his lips, drank it off: but declaring that second tho'ts were best, he filled another bumper; and tossing that off, after some pause, with a very important air, ventured to pronounce it drinkable. The ladies, having also drank a glass round, affirmed it was very good, and felt warm in the stomach: and even the old gentleman relaxed into such good humour by the time the bottle was emptied, that out of his own free will and motion he most generously called for another pint, but charged the waiter "to pick out an honest one."
While the glass was thus circulating, the family amused themselves by making observations on the garden. The citizen expressed his wonder at the number of lamps, and said it must cost a great deal of money every night to light them all: The eldest miss declared, that for her part she liked the Dark Walk [p.208] best of all, because it was solentary: little miss thought the last song mighty pretty, and said she would buy it, if she could but remember the tune: and the old lady observed, that there was a great deal of good company indeed; but the gentlemen were so rude, that they perfectly put her out of countenance by staring at her thro' their spy-glasses. In a word, the tarts, the cheesecakes, the beef, the chicken, the ounce of ham, and every thing, seemed to have been quite forgot, till the dismal moment approached, that the reckoning was called for. —As this solemn business concerns only the gentleman, the ladies kept a profound silence; and when the terrible account was brought, they left the paymaster undisturbed to enjoy the misery by himself: only the old lady had the hardiness to squint at the sum total, and declared "it was pretty reasonable considering."
Our citizen bore his misfortunes with a tolerable degree of patience: he shook his head as he run over every article, and swore he would never buy meat by the ounce again. At length, when he had carefully summed up every figure, he bade the drawer bring him change for six-pence: then pulling out a leathern purse from a snug pocket in the inside of his waistcoat, he drew out slowly, piece by piece, thirteen shillings; which he regularly placed in two rows upon the table. When the change was brought, after counting it very carefully, he laid down four half-pence in the same exact order; then calling the waiter, —"there, says he, there's your damage—thirteen and two-pence—and hearkye, there's three-pence over for yourself." The remaining penny he put into his coat-pocket; and chinking it —"this, says he, will serve me to-morrow to buy a paper of tobacco."
The family now prepared themselves for going; and as there were some slight drops of rain, madam buttoned up the old gentleman's coat, that he might not spoil his lace waistcoat, and made him flap his hat, over which she tyed his pocket handkerchief, to save his wig: and as the coat itself, she said, had never been worn but three Sundays, she even parted with her own cardinal, and spread it the wrong side out over his shoulders. In these accoutrements he sallied forth, accompanied by his wife with her upper petticoat thrown over her head, and his daughters with the skirts of their gowns turned up, and their heads muffled up in coloured handkerchiefs. I followed them quite out of the garden; and as they were waiting for their hack to draw up, the youngest miss asked, "When shall we come again, papa? —"Come again! (said he) what a pox would you ruin me? Once in one's life is enough; and I think I have done very handsome. Why it would not have cost me above four-pence half-penny to have spent my evening at Sots Hole: and what with the cursed coach-hire, and all together, there's almost a pound gone, and nothing to show for it." "Fye, Mr Rose, I am quite ashamed for you, replies the old lady. "You are always grudging me and your girls the least bit of pleasure: and you cannot help grumbling, if we do but go to Little Hornsey to drink tea. I am sure, now they are women grown up, they ought to see a little of the world; —and they SHALL." The old don was not willing to pursue the argument any further and the coach coming up, he was glad to put an end to the dispute by saying "Come, come, let us make haste, wife; or we shall not get home time enough to have my best wig combed out again;— and to-morrow, you know, is Sunday."
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WAiS Newsletter | A Refreshed Website and Online Resources
A message from our CEO's
Life seems extremely busy for everyone as we all make the move across to the national NDIS, both with the transfers of people from WA NDIS to the national NDIS and the rest of WA progressively transitioning.
Our WAiS role continues to be to support people, families and providers understand, design, develop, and sustain individualised, self-directed supports and services, regardless of which system funding stems from. More so, we continue to provide information and guidance to people, families and providers across Western Australia, to support them in transitioning to the national NDIS.
WAiS is extremely proud to have recently launched a refreshed website and new online resources and learning courses to support people, families and service providers with Planning for a Good Life, to Be a Boss(Self Management), and Shared Management. Extensive work went into developing these hefty resources that include videos, audios, and downloadable written resources. We have thanked heartily, and thank again, all of the WAiS team, including people and families and providers, who contributed their expertise and experiences.
WAiS consistently provides strategic advice to contribute to continuous improvements to whichever system of funding and support is in existence. In recent times particular issues of concern in WA that WAiS is working to address, is how the NDIS will provide for and support individualised living arrangements, Shared Management arrangements, and self or share managers who hire their own workers under direct employment arrangements. NDIS has been proactively engaging and working with WAiS together with other individualised service providers in WA in seeking to address these issues.
We know that there will continue to be significant change ahead for everyone as Australia implements the NDIS. We hope that the NDIS, continues to be developed in a way that reflects what people want and need to live their life. Outside of the NDIS, we also hope that the WA State, in developing its State Disability Plan and implementing it, will continue to commit to ensuring all people in WA can live in an inclusive society and are adequately supported to do so.
Leanne Pearman and Su-Hsien Lee
What have we been up to?
Some of the WAiS team went to the ASID Conference in November 2018 on the Gold Coast. WAiS member Paul Jay and his support team, with WAiS team member Maggie, did a talk about communication, human rights and having a vision.
In December 2018, some of the WAiS team went to the National Indigenous NDIS Conference in Queensland. WAiS shared our new Aboriginal Planning book called ‘Shannon’s Story’. WAiS team members Evelyn and Susan did a talk about it, and Shannon shared his story. See Shannon's Story here.
Some of the WAiS team went to VALID’s Having a Say Conference in February 2019 in Geelong. WAiS team member Maggie did a talk about "Having a Say Forever". WAiS member Paul Jay and his support team also spoke about his own journey of "having a say". We also had a table to share our WAiS Resources. The team all volunteered to do hair and make-up to get everyone ready for the dinner dance.
A few members of the WAiS team went to Margaret River in April to go the Djeran Youth Week Festival. They celebrated our Shannon’s Story resource book.
Thanks to Undalup Association whose vision is to share the culture, traditions, knowledge and history of the Wadandi people and with an understanding of the importance of Boodja. https://www.undalup.com
We've had some updates to the WAiS team...
We said hello to
Michelle Donaldson (Individualised Services Advisor)
Jordyn Piggott (Events and Communications Coordinator)
And sadly said goodbye to
Eliza Rogers (Events and Communications Coordinator)
Individualised Living Options (ILO)
The NDIS does not have a way to properly cost individualised living arrangements. The Supported Independent Living (SIL) tool is a way to work out how to cost people living in grouped accommodation, or rostered 24/7 staff only. The Activities of Daily Living (ADL) tool is also not a good way to evaluate the reasonable and necessary support needs of people living in flexible individualised arrangements.
In 2018, WAiS (with other WA Service Providers and Self Managers) were involved in the WA Individual Living Options project, by NDIA in WA. This is a strategic NDIA project to provide a practical example of contemporary practice and innovation.
A series of workshops with experienced providers, participants and NDIA staff were held so that they could share ideas about an appropriate process and costing tool. WAiS has actively driven, participated and, contributed throughout the project from both a practical and legal perspective in terms of the design, delivery, managing and safeguarding of Individualised Living arrangements.
From the workshops the WA Individual Living Option template was created. This continues to be developed and trialled by providers and self-managers as a data collection process. This is critical to analysing the effectiveness and sustainability of these options within the Scheme. The NDIA project team will then seek approval of this process and quote tool. If this is approved, this would be used across Australia. WAiS is keen to see this project succeed across Australia and we hope to hear something soon from the NDIA.
Partnership with KPMG
WAiS continues to appreciate being able to work with KPMG on a range of matters that relate to the Australian Taxation Office. This is in support of people, families and providers who self-manage, or share manage. In recent months, KPMG have worked with WAiS to develop a resource for service providers to clarify tax considerations for payments to live-in supporters. This resource is on the WAiS website for download.
We are sad to share that Matthew Popham, Partner at KPMG with whom we have worked for many years has just left KPMG. We are extremely grateful for all his efforts and the total support he has provided to WAiS and to people, families and providers.
NDIA and Minister’s Transition Advisory Group
WAiS is a member of both the NDIA’s WA Transition Advisory Group, chaired by Nicole O’Keefe, and Minister Dawson’s Transition Advisory Group. These are valuable opportunities for WAiS to feedback to the NDIA and the Minister on transition issues that have been shared with us by people, families and service providers we meet and provide support to.
Disability Coalition
WAiS values being a part of the Disability Coalition. The Coalition is an informal gathering of advocacy, peak and representative organisations in WA who have committed to work together on common priorities in order to support better lives for people with disability, their families and carers. Recently, several Coalition members succeeded in obtaining system advocacy funding with the implementation of these grants being steered and supported by the Coalition.
The WAiS Team have been working on some resources that are free for you to see on the WAiS website. There are 3 sets of online resources. They are called "Be a Boss", "Planning for a Good Life" and "Shared Management". The resources have videos, workbooks and lots of extra information to make sure all your questions can be answered.
The Be a Boss Online Resource supports people to feel more confident and know more information when self or share managing and hiring their own workers and includes information about what you need to do legally, how to hire and then continue to manage your supports.
The Planning for a Good Life Online Resource supports people to think about who they are and what they want. This online resource is based on WAiS Preparing to Plan card sets.
The Shared Management Online Resource will support providers to understand what Shared Management is and what they need to do, as an organisation, to provide Shared Management so that it works successfully.
WAiS have made a planning activity book with and by Aboriginal people, called Shannon's Story. Shannon tells his story on a video and in the book about his life. He talks about the things that were important to him, who helped him to get to where he wanted to go and how he wanted to live his life. It is an activity book, that young people can write, draw, and put stickers in.
It is for Aboriginal young people and their families to help get them ready to plan in the National Disability Insurance Scheme. Click here for Shannon's Story video.
Here are some photos from the launch of our Online Resources
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It was marketed as a unique and safe alternative to smoking, a cool high tech gizmo with an assortment of flavors and colorful cartridges that easily popped into a slick dispenser, creating a flavorful vapor that one would inhale similar to someone smoking a traditional cigarette, however without the social stigma, odor and the deadly health risks associated with cigarettes.
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Patients reported similar symptoms, shortness of breath, chest pain, cough, and vomiting in some cases, and some were admitted to the intensive care unit (ICU).
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Although it’s illegal to sell e-cigarettes to minors, the staggering number of middle school student’s vaping in 2018 has increased to where 1 out of every 20 kids (4.9%) has used a vaping and or electronic cigarettes in the past 30 days.
Last year, the Surgeon General of the United States, Jerome Adams, declared vaping among American teens an “epidemic.”
“This is an unprecedented challenge,” Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar acknowledged.
Moreover with the “epidemic” comes a growing black-market for the growing dangerous product.
Recently CBS News went undercover in Los Angeles, the hypocenter of the illicit black-market manufacturing potentially dangerous and deadly THC vaping products that end up on America’s streets, and within high school bathrooms all over the country.
CBS News took hidden cameras to a warehouse 75 miles east of Los Angeles, where the marijuana black market was being produced.
There is, of course, no quality control, in that the various THC oils being used are unregulated. The buyer has no idea what’s inside those cartridges or how it could impact a user’s health, even though every seller claims his product is pure.
The underground warehouse like the one in LA produces large quantities of vaper products with enticing names like “strawberry bubble gum” and “dirty Sprite,” especially for customers who buy hundreds of vapes at a time, for the sole purpose of reselling them nationwide.
With flavors like “strawberry bubble gum” and “dirty Sprite,” people come to underground warehouses like the one in Los Angeles to buy hundreds of vapes at a time, just to resell them nationwide.
Mark Hoashi CEO and founder of Doja, an app that provides customer reviews of cannabis products, noticed awhile back before the vaper death outbreaks, that people he knew were suddenly getting sick. “They were getting headaches on this product and that product,” he said.
“The current black market comes with, you know, a cartridge that has a brand, that has a social media, that has websites,” Hoashi said. “It’s really hard to distinguish between what is a legal cannabis product and what is an illicit product.”
CBS News took the black market vapes to BelCosta Labs in Long Beach, California.
“What’s the worst thing you’ve ever found?” CBS News asked.
“I’d say predominately in the underground market, what we’re seeing is a slew of pesticides,” said BelCosta Labs CEO Myron Ronay.
Such was the case with the illicit vapes CBS News picked up. All 5 illicit vapes failed, worst yet all had deadly pesticides, including one called myclobutanil. “When you heat myclobutanil, you’re then getting hydrogen cyanide,” Ronay said.
“What’s the message here?” CBS News asked.
“Buy legal. If you’re in a state that doesn’t have legal cannabis, don’t buy it,” Ronay said.
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Out of Sight, On the Mine
by Lily Wan
A mountain top removal mining operation sprawls over Guyandotte Mountain, West Virginia. This mountain’s summit has been reformed and deformed, like that of Cook Mountain, just four miles away. Photos by Kent Kessinger and Appalachian Voices, flight courtesy of Southwings.
The Coal That’s Blowing Up Mountains and Wiping Communities Off the Map
Cook Mountain once towered two thousand feet over the small towns of Boone County, West Virginia. It’s hard to believe that it’s part of one of the world’s most biologically diverse communities; the moonscape the mountain has become tells an entirely different story.
Since the coal industry’s inception, Dustin White’s family had carried on generation after generation of miners up to his own father, who made White promise to never become a miner himself. White, born and raised at the foot of Cook Mountain in the heart of coal country, kept that promise; still, he spent the larger part of his life as a coal supporter.
That all changed one afternoon as he peered out an airplane window. Maria Gunnoe, a famous environmental activist and local West Virginian, arranged a flyover for White and his mother after they’d learned Cook Mountain was being blown up for coal. What White saw that day was not the forest he’d known as his backyard his whole life. Draglines and mines blanketed the mountaintop.
“They just looked like cancer on the land,” he said. “I could see all these little machines like parasites, just eating away.”
An island of trees stood out in the vast wasteland. White recognized it; it was his family’s cemetery. He peered down at the speck as he heard his mother sobbing through the crackles of the headset.
“When we got back on the ground, I was angry,” he said.
After researching mountaintop removal mining further, clearing his misconceptions that this form of strip mining was heavily regulated and sporadic, he realized “angry” wasn’t quite the right word.
“It took me a long time to think of a way to describe it to people,” White said. “Finally, it just came to me: it’s like identity theft. I recognize myself as a mountaineer, Appalachian, West Virginian, but when they’re blowing up the mountain and taking away part of your family history, your identity is being violated and part of who you are is being destroyed.”
White has since dedicated himself to the Ohio Valley Environmental Coalition to fight mountaintop removal mining in Appalachia.
Massacre on the Mountains
Mountaintop removal mining is a form of surface mining that uses explosives to clear 500 or more feet of mountain summit to expose buried coal seams.
The Sierra Club estimates this mining process will be responsible for destruction of 1.4 million acres come 2020 with mining waste already damaging over 2,000 miles of streams. The Clean Water and Air Act was created to defend vital water sources like these, but in 2002, the Bush administration created a fatal loophole. Mining overburden — containing arsenic, sulfate and mercury among other toxins — has since been permissible to dump in “navigable waters” as “fill material.”
Burying these critical headwater streams causes permanent ecosystem loss and threatens biodiversity. Runoff toxins trickle into the drinking water. The severed summits are left stripped to erode, despite coal companies being required to reclaim the land. Seedlings have difficulty growing in ravaged topsoil.
Driving along the perimeter of a site, you wouldn’t be able to spot a tree out of place.
“They do a really good job at trying to hide these sites, especially from the communities,” White said. “They leave what’s called a ‘beauty line,’ which is just a thick row of trees.”
Past these trees and deeper into the hollers, mountaintop mining operations are planted right above poorer valley villages.
For mining companies, the consequentially sinking property values marry favorably with the decreased quality of life for holler homeowners. Lindytown, once a humble holler just on the other side of Cook Mountain from White’s hometown, is now essentially a vacant lot, he said.
Massey Energy swooped in asking a couple thousand above what prices had been depreciated to and bought out almost the entire community.
After all, these are the people who experience mountaintop removal mining firsthand: mud, dust, flooding, noise pollution and “fly rock,” which is just what it sounds like. These are the people who, in the mine’s eye, are liabilities.
Valleys to Flatlands
The coal travels much farther than these hollers, though. Mountaintop removal is the most profitable method of coal mining and is widespread across Appalachia — namely Virginia, West Virginia, Kentucky and Tennessee. Eight-hundred-some miles away, this coal powers Gainesville.
Gainesville Regional Utilities’ Deerhaven Unit Two is a 251-MW coal-fired power plant. In 2012, GRU deemed another coal purchase contract for 2013 unnecessary based on falling natural gas prices and the biomass plant coming online. A heaping mound of coal remaining from the 2012 purchase still sits at Deerhaven awaiting incineration.
The 2012 purchase totaled 442,800 tons — a volume that would fill half the Empire State Building. The mix was sourced equally from three different suppliers. One-third was entirely deep-mined coal out of Lynch, Ky. Also out of Kentucky, a third of the supply was 40 percent deep mined, 60 percent strip mined. The final third was mined in West Virginia by Patriot Coal, a company hiding behind the marketing shield of the world’s largest coal company, Peabody Energy.
While the Kentucky coal is not mountaintop removal coal, Patriot’s extraction methods are murky.
Patriot’s supply contracts do not grant GRU authority to demand its environmental reports, according to John Stanton, assistant general manager of GRU’s energy supply division.
Despite Patriot’s vow to phase out mountaintop removal mining, the coal giant still has its fingers summit-deep throughout southern Appalachia.
Assuming the worst — that Patriot mines all its coal by mountaintop demolition — Gainesville is looking at just under 33 percent of its current coal supply with direct ties to mountaintop removal mining, according to Stanton.
This portion is down 60 percent from the purchase prior, but the drop isn’t due to a conscious policy change in the heart of GRU so much as falling coal prices.
A Cry to Cut Ties
GRU claims to have “never used a significant of mountaintop removal coal,” but what really is “significant”?
When Jason Fults, co-founder of the local advocacy group Gainesville Loves Mountains, asked GRU to provide its past five to 10 years of coal purchase source data, fuels staff professionals said resurrecting 10 years of fuel receipt records, identifying mines, and calculating deep versus surface and mountaintop removal coal would be labor intensive. They redirected Fults to a public records request.
Since Fults created Gainesville Loves Mountains in 2011, he has poured his every hour into pleading GRU to wipe its profile of mountaintop coal.
GRU admits Fults has put up a good fight. They’ve recognized GLM’s efforts have impacted their purchasing decisions and have said — in conversation — that if and when they have the option between deep-mined and surface-mined coal, they will buy the deep-mined coal if it’s the same price. Fults wants commitment.
GRU would even be willing to eliminate mountaintop removal coal from their profile; they know the switch is possible.
“If [our] Energy Supply [division] is directed by its City Commission and GRU Management to establish a system to exclude all mountain top removal coal, the system will be established in an effective and verifiable manner,” wrote the Utility’s Fuels Manager Thomas Foxx, Jr. in an email to GLM.
To move this along, GLM drafted up an ordinance to prohibit purchase of mountaintop removal coal by GRU.
The vast majority of the City Commission has publicly expressed support of the ordinance. Commissioners Thomas Hawkins, Yvonne Hinson-Rawls, Randy Wells, Susan Bottcher and Lauren Poe — who agreed to facilitate conversation between GLM and GRU — all agree they do not want mountaintop removal coal powering their city.
Commissioners Ed Braddy and Todd Chase have expressed sympathy, Fults said. Sympathy but only so much.
Even with the verbally confirmed support of the five of seven commissioners, dynamics shift in the meeting hall. GRU marches in and reminds the commission that adopting this ordinance would mean increased utility rates.
Though the actual figures have not yet been fully and accurately calculated, GRU Fuels roughly estimates “an increase of approximately 1 to 3 percent to the average rate payer.”
“The commissioners get anxious, pressured also by the current upheaval around GRU’s biomass plant,” said Fults, recalling his September meeting with GRU, Chase, Poe and Braddy.
“I cannot support anything that adds one cent more to utility bills,” Braddy said. Their meeting was the first official meeting discussing GLM’s proposed ordinance, and it won’t be the last.
Depending how politics play out, the ordinance looks promising. Poe is optimistic he can get the rest of the commission on board to pass it — or some version of it — before GRU makes its next coal purchase, which is expected to be in April 2014.
Foxx seems to think awareness and activism about mountaintop removal coal has reached its saturation point of influence in Gainesville. “All reasonable goals relative to market and local recognition of the issue have been achieved,” he said.
Perhaps GRU’s “reasonable” is as subjective as their “significant.” This gap between coal purchases has opened up a window of opportunity for the ordinance. “We can actually influence that coal purchase,” Fults said.
Gainesville has to understand why it loves mountains. Moreover, Gainesville has to understand how it’s destroying them.
Dustin White no longer lives at the foot of Cook Mountain; he lives in Charleston, West Virginia and says some people in Charleston, capital of “The Mountain State,” don’t even understand mountaintop removal mining. He visits his family’s mine-shrouded graveyard every two months, despite the mandatory escort, written request and safety training he must apply for each time. The escort monitors White’s visit its entire duration. White sits in silence at his seventh great grandfather’s grave, meters from the moonscape border separating the mines and the headstones.
“People need to know where their coal comes from and at what cost, because people are dying here in Appalachia just so they can turn on a light bulb.”
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F, #428791, b. 7 February 1944
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Janet MacDonald Gunn was born on 7 February 1944.1 She is the daughter of William Sinclair Gunn and Helena Gowans.2 She married unknown Davie.1
Her married name became Davie.1
unknown Davie1
unknown Davie married Janet MacDonald Gunn, daughter of William Sinclair Gunn and Helena Gowans.1
James Gunn1
M, #428793, b. 13 April 1899
James Gunn was born on 13 April 1899.1 He was the son of George Gunn and Mary Sinclair.2 He died, without issue.1
George Gunn1
M, #428794, b. 6 March 1901, d. 14 September 1901
George Gunn was born on 6 March 1901.1 He was the son of George Gunn and Mary Sinclair.2 He died on 14 September 1901, without issue.1
George Edward Gunn1
M, #428795, b. 4 July 1902, d. 1981
George Edward Gunn was born on 4 July 1902.1 He was the son of George Gunn and Mary Sinclair.2 He died in 1981 at Dutchess County, New York, U.S.A.G, without issue.1
Robert Gunn1
Robert Gunn was born on 25 June 1906.1 He is the son of George Gunn and Mary Sinclair.2
Edward Harper Gunn1
M, #428797, b. 1 April 1909
Edward Harper Gunn was born on 1 April 1909.1 He is the son of George Gunn and Mary Sinclair.2
Dr. John Anthony Randoll Blacking1
M, #428798, b. 22 October 1928, d. 24 January 1990
Dr. John Anthony Randoll Blacking was born on 22 October 1928.1 He was the son of William Henry Randoll Blacking.1 He died on 24 January 1990 at age 61.1
He was educated at Salisbury Cathedral School, Salisbury, Wiltshire, EnglandG.1 He was educated at King's College, Cambridge University, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, EnglandG.1 He graduated from Witwatersrand University, Johannesburg, Transvaal, South AfricaG, in 1965 with a Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.)2 In 1969 he was banished from South Africa for political activities.2 He was Professor Emeritus in Social Anthropology at Queen's University, Belfast, County Antrim, IrelandG.1 He wrote the book How Musical is Man?, published 1973.1
[S4698] Leila Blacking, "re: Blacking Family," e-mail message to Darryl Roger LUNDY (101053), 29 June 2010. Hereinafter cited as "re: Blacking Family."
Barbara Sinclair Gunn1
F, #428799, b. 24 May 1893
Barbara Sinclair Gunn was born on 24 May 1893.1 She was the daughter of George Gunn and Mary Sinclair.2 She married James Wallace Wood.1
Her married name became Wood.1
James Wallace Wood1
James Wallace Wood married Barbara Sinclair Gunn, daughter of George Gunn and Mary Sinclair.1
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By JOE McDONALD, BEIJING, Aug 2 (AP) — China on Friday threatened retaliation if U.S. President Donald Trump’s planned tariff hikes go ahead, while the renewed acrimony between the two biggest global economies sent stock markets tumbling.
China’s government accused Trump of violating his June agreement with President Xi Jinping to revive negotiations aimed at ending a costly fight over Beijing’s trade surplus and technology ambitions.
Trump rattled financial markets with Thursday’s surprise announcement of 10% tariffs on $300 billion of Chinese imports, effective Sept. 1. That would extend punitive duties to everything the United States buys from China.
If that goes ahead, “China will have to take necessary countermeasures to resolutely defend its core interests,” said a foreign ministry spokeswoman, Hua Chuying.
Chinese Vice Premier Liu He, center, poses with U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer, right, and Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, for photos before holding talks at the Xijiao Conference Center in Shanghai Wednesday, July 31, 2019. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan, Pool)
“We don’t want to fight, but we aren’t afraid to,” Hua said at a regular news briefing. She called on Washington to “abandon its illusions, correct mistakes, and return to consultations based on equality and mutual respect.”
Washington and Beijing are locked in a battle over complaints China steals or pressures companies to hand over technology. The Trump administration worries American industrial leadership might be threatened by Chinese plans for government-led creation of global competitors in robotics and other technologies. Europe and Japan echo U.S. complaints those plans violate Beijing’s market-opening commitments.
Washington earlier imposed 25% tariffs on $250 billion in Chinese products. Beijing has retaliated by raising import duties on $110 billion of U.S. goods.
Beijing is about to run out of American imports for retaliation due to their lopsided trade balance.
China imported U.S. goods worth about $160 billion last year. But regulators have extended retaliatory measures to include slowing down customs clearance for American companies and putting off issuing license in insurance and other fields.
Beijing also is threatening to release an “unreliable entities” blacklist of foreign companies that might face restrictions on doing business with China. Plans for that were announced after Washington imposed crippling restrictions in May on sales of U.S. technology to Chinese tech giant Huawei Technologies Ltd.
Trump’s announcement surprised investors after the White House said Beijing promised to buy more farm goods. It came as their latest trade talks ended in Shanghai with no sign of a deal. Officials said they would resume next month in Washington.
The announcement “is likely to put a comprehensive deal further out of reach,” said Fitch Solutions in a report.
Tokyo’s main stock market index fell 2.5% by midday and Hong Kong’s benchmark lost 2.3%. Markets in Shanghai, Sydney and Seoul also declined.
Earlier on Wall Street, the benchmark Standard & Poor’s 500 fell for a fourth day, losing 0.9% to 2,953.56.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average declined 1% to 26,583.42. The Nasdaq composite ended 0.8% lower at 8,111.12.
Also Friday, China’s yuan fell to its lowest level this year against the dollar after Trump’s tariff threat fueled concerns about slowing economic growth, coming close to breaking the politically sensitive level of seven to the U.S. currency.
The yuan tumbled to 6.9520 to the dollar, its weakest since December, but recovered slightly by midday.
Trump’s threat “will likely put more depreciation pressure” on the currency, said Tao Wang of UBS in a report. She said Beijing is likely to “tightly manage” the exchange rate “to avoid any significant depreciation.”
The currency’s weakness is helping to fuel Washington’s trade complaints. The U.S. Treasury Department declined in May to label China a currency manipulator but said it was closely watching Beijing.
The level of seven yuan to the dollar has no economic significance, but could revive U.S. attention to the exchange rate.
Trump’s earlier tariffs were intended to minimize the impact on ordinary Americans by focusing on industrial goods. But the new tariffs will hit a vast range of consumer products from cellphones to silk scarves.
China’s foreign minister criticized the move.
“Imposing tariffs is definitely not the right way to resolve trade frictions,” Wang Yi told reporters in Bangkok, where he was attending a meeting of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations.
Trump has long said he was preparing to tax the $300 billion in additional Chinese tariffs. But he had suspended the threat after meeting Xi at a gathering of the Group of 20 major economies in Osaka, Japan.
The president accused Beijing of failing to follow through on stopping the sale of fentanyl to the United States or on purchasing large quantities of farm goods such as soybeans. Speaking to reporters Thursday at the White House, Trump complained Xi is “not moving fast enough.”
Talks broke down in May after the United States accused the Chinese of reneging on earlier commitments.
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It's Official! A 'Friends' Reunion Special Is in the Works
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Nicole Pomarico November 14, 2019 at 10:21 AM
We've pretty much resigned ourselves to the fact that we're never going to see the cast of Friends back together on screen in our lifetime, but in the age of streaming, anything's possible. It seems a Friends reunion is actually in the works -- for real this time -- for HBO Max.
Now this is a TV revival we can get on board with.
Reportedly, all six of the show's stars are in talks to return for a special on HBO Max.
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This news comes from The Hollywood Reporter this week, and it sounds like not only would the six core cast members of Friends be involved in this unscripted special, but also the show's creators, Marta Kauffman and David Crane.
Before we get too excited, it's important to remember that this could still fall apart, and nothing's been confirmed by the studio itself just yet ... but for once, it actually sounds like this is happening.
Given that the cast has been spending a lot of time together lately, we've had a feeling something was up.
Of course, the 25th anniversary of the series is a big deal, but these six have been spotted together in some combination several times in recent months.
That, combined with the fact that over the summer, Jennifer Aniston said she's on board with a reunion and thinks the rest of the cast is too, is giving us a really good feeling about this!
Fans are already getting pumped at the possibility of more 'Friends.'
The excitement in these comments is palpable!
It's important to remember that this doesn't sound like we're actually getting new episodes of Friends. In fact, it sounds like the gang will just be getting back together, not in character. But at this point, we'll take what we can get!
In the meantime, we're keeping an eye on social media for clues.
Halfway there... #girlsnight #?
A post shared by Lisa Kudrow (@lisakudrow) on Jun 23, 2019 at 10:06pm PDT
Even if all of this does end up falling through, at least we know that the cast is still tight as they always were -- and hopefully, Jennifer and the rest of the cast will continue to post plenty of adorable photos of them all together when they hang out.
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Canadian Music Venues
Field Trip’s genesis story begins with Canadian independent music label Arts & Crafts, whose 10th anniversary celebrations in 2013 culminated in the first iteration of the festival. Originally a one-day event, the series began with a full bill of Arts & Crafts bands, co-headlined by a return from the label's founding signee Broken Social Scene alongside 2012 Polaris Music Prize and multiple-time Juno winner Feist. Field Trip now fills the historic Fort York and Garrison Common every year for two days in early June, with world-class musical lineups playing against a backdrop of the city skyline.
Catering to the music community, families and Toronto as a whole, Field Trip crosses genre and generations, reflecting the diversity of the city. Arts & Crafts friends and favourites Japandroids, Timber Timbre and Bernice have all played the festival, though they’ve roped in impressive international acts, too, including American hip-hop trio De La Soul, Swedish electro-pop maven Robyn and jazz bassist extraordinaire Thundercat.
This trip isn’t just for adults, either: the weekend offers children 12 and under free entry, with Field Trip Day Camp programming offering young talent the chance to shine on stage, along with kid-friendly sets from main stage performers, having featured special performances from Dan Mangan and Canadian children's music legends Sharon & Bram in previous years. Also present are a bouncy castle, a creative photo booth and carnival games to engage an intergenerational audience.
The festival also seeks to promote artists of all stripes. The green space of Fort York and Garrison Common is transformed over Field Trip weekend into a colourful retreat, with Toronto food trucks and installations from the city’s emergent visual creators and festival artists-in-residence showcased throughout. In 2015, the festival launched Laugh Barracks, an indoor comedy stage that has featured sets by Mark Little, Alice Wetterlund and Dave Merheje.
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Taking the Garrison Stage beneath a muted, overcast sky, Allie X brought a splash of colour to Field Trip on Sunday afternoon. It wasn't jus...
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Despite his fun-loving demeanour, Cuco (Omar Banos) seemingly couldn't catch a break on Sunday afternoon. Rain fell throughout the 19-year-o...
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Fantasies was an undeniable game-changer for Metric. Their previous three albums and dalliances with Broken Social Scene had all been slow-b...
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Bassist virtuoso Thundercat's Sunday (June 4) evening set was a highlight of the weekend-long Field Trip festival, though his time slot had...
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WEVA interview with wedding videographer Ilya Shvyrev from Voronezh, Russia
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Do you work alone or you have a team? Tell about yourself and your studio.
I work both alone and in a team that's called Reka Films. There are three of us, but my team mates are more in photography and I'm working entirely with video.
For how long do you work as a wedding videographer? Where do you work (office or Internet)?
I shot my first wedding film in 2016 when I was invited to my friend's wedding in Cyprus. Since then I've been working very passionately in this industry.
How there was an idea to become the wedding videographer?
Before I started working as a videographer I was a Spanish teacher and had many students so that I didn't think of changing my career so fast. But one day my twin-brother Max who at that time was quite a well-known wedding photographer in our city suggested I should help him make video. It wasn't until next year that I agreed. Max gave me his old Canon 5d mii camera and tought me a substantial photography course. Then I realised it was my new devotion.
What is your favourite part of work? What other directions of business do you develop except of video filming?
I like working with people, being in beautiful places. I like crafting pictures while editing process. But the most desirable part of my work is always the result. The whole process of making a video from start to end involves much patience and attention, but there's nothing more inspiring than seeing the final result and especially when you see people smile, laugh and cry watching your films. That's the best part of it, I think.
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The Army of Bane.
In Las Vegas, Greg looked up as the message hit his tattoo, smirking at the disgusted sounding person. "Go for it," he told her, shaking his head as he went back to his work.
"Greg, you've got a fuzzy thing with a paper for you," Warrick said as he walked in to grab some test results.
"Thanks." He walked out, going to Grissom's office. That's where they usually went. He blinked a few times at the cat. "Hello, Professor." He took the message, watching as she changed back. "Big problems?"
"No, I was over here talking with Mr. Boyle about poor Philip," she told him. "That was asked of me as a special favor since Xander won't walk in here."
"We like his friends," Grissom pointed out. "You can do that? Change like that?" She nodded. "Can all of you do that?"
She laughed. "Merlin, no. It's a difficult process and many are not interested. It's an exacting task that one of us sets out for ourselves. Even all those who try do not have the control and desire it enough."
Greg folded up the letter. "What's wrong with Ron now?"
"Ron and his girlfriend consummated their relationship after breakfast one morning because of all the panties he had received after being interviewed." Greg blinked. "Harry agreed to do a single one to set the record straight. The reporter asked to speak to Ron also since there have been some questions about him. Even though he stated he has a girlfriend, they were being sent to him all the time. Dawn finally snapped and dragged him out of breakfast, where things got a little more intense than they expected. They are officially engaged, though Ron hasn't picked out her ring yet.
"Dawn's got to be throwing fits over this," Greg pointed out. "Emilia should be at home."
"There wasn't anyone there. She's probably shopping or something," McGonagall said with a shrug. "So if you would please bring her back to talk to young Miss Summers? Xander made her promise not to do such things again until she had that talk with your wife."
Greg laughed. "I'm sure Ron's fond of that."
"I believe he's found other methods of stress relief with her," she said with a sly look.
"Probably," Greg agreed. "We'll try to get up soon. Maybe even this weekend. We're in a small slump and I'm not sure when I can get away." He looked at Grissom. "Purely a fun trip so I won't beg for time off."
"That's fine, Greg. Don't worry about it." Greg grinned and gave his teacher a hug before leaving. "Did you need some privacy to get home?"
"Where can I portkey back from? I know Greg's picked out a spot."
"Anywhere is fine. Some of us are used to Greg's quick trips to get something." She laughed and nodded, pulling a large envelope out of her pocket and zipping off. Grissom stood up and went to find Greg. "So, what is going on?"
Greg looked at him, then flicked the door closed. "Grissom, your hearing loss is getting noticeable," he said, looking directly at him. His boss nodded. "But, if you *really* wanna know. Ron, one of the young Banes, did a small interview."
"I got that from her."
"Emilia's been giving the kids their talks. She's really good at it and this girl now needs hers."
"Ah." He nodded. "I've heard those can be tough. Like you pointed out, we haven't had much work, and your weekend off is next weekend. If we don't have anything you can take that Friday off."
"That's fine, we can go then. Ron can hold off for another week and a half. I'm sure she's giving him other fun things to do."
Grissom tipped his head off to the side. "Why hasn't this Harry one gotten a lot of fan mail? You said he was famous."
"He is, but I'm guessing it's because he's him. He's still got a calling and some girls find that daunting." He shrugged. "Who knows with young women, huh?"
"True. Thank you, Greg. I'm trying to keep this out of the public eye."
"Grissom, we were standing not five feet from you and you didn't eavesdrop. Catherine's noticed it too. We're worried about you, big guy." He punched him on the arm and smiled. "After all, you could get really hurt out in the field."
"I know, Greg, and I appreciate that. Thank you."
"You're welcome." He handed over a sheet of paper. "For Nick if you should see wander-boy."
"I'll pass it on," he said with a nod of leave taking. He found Nick in the garage and waved the paper. "Nick?" Nick came over to retrieve it. "Anything new?"
"Nothing yet. We're working on it, Grissom."
"Do your best." He walked away, going back to his office. Maybe he should get a second opinion about his ears.
Philip looked up as the door to his room opened, smiling at the man standing there. "Nick," he said, hugging him. "Come to spring me?"
"Sure have." He walked Philip out and outside of the London Legacy house. "Do they think you were really that tainted?"
"I've had some unusual urges and they don't know what to think." He looked at his feet as they walked. "I'm not sure I should be a priest, Nick. The taint goes a long way."
"Philip, you were meant to be a priest. Your small taint isn't going to matter to the Church."
"It is, Nick. I can't bless water anymore." Nick stopped and stared at him. "I tried the other day before a mass I went to help with. It held none of the spark it usually did."
"Then what will you do?" Nick asked. "You've always been a priest."
"Yes, but sometimes life calls you to other fields," Philip said with a gentle smile. "There's been signs that I'm to be called to be a Knight."
"A holy warrior for the Church? But they're not as useful today as they had been," Nick pointed out, stepping closer. "I don't think you'd like the job, Philip."
"Some of us are used to guard things, Nick. I think that's my calling and I'm not sure I like it."
"I'd be damn mad."
Philip grinned at him. "You and your temper," he said fondly, giving him a hug. "This feels too good now," he said softly.
Nick pulled back. "Friends should be able to comfort and hug, Philip." He let him go and they started to walk through the park again. "So, what will you be guarding?"
"I don't know yet. I know there's a few artifacts around."
"Ask Xander, he could probably find them for you." He nudged Philip with his shoulder. "Maybe it'll be a book, then you can spend the whole time translating it."
Philip snorted. "I doubt I'm that lucky. Usually you get called to guard something that you don't understand. That way it can't be used."
"That does kinda leave the book out then, yeah," Nick agreed. Philip nudged him this time but they were smiling. He noticed Philip looking at the walls with longing. "Can't you go off property?"
"The last time I did, I had an overwhelming urge to harm someone. I nearly hexed him for hurting his child in the middle of the street."
"That sucks, but it is very you," Nick pointed out. "Or don't you remember that fake boxing lesson for your kids with one dad?" Philip hung his head, moaning a bit. "Sorry."
"No, I remember, I had a lot of penance to do for that one. The Bishop was not pleased."
"What happens if you leave?"
"I'll have to give up the house." Philip sighed. "I'll have to do a lot of paperwork, retrieve my box of possessions. Things like that."
"If you do, Derek said to tell you that you're more than welcome back at our house, no matter what London thinks."
"London thinks I'm dangerous?"
"I'd guess so since your door was locked," Nick offered. Philip nodded. "You could talk to Dumbledore. Maybe get on there as an assistant in Runes or Arithmancy." They started to walk again.
"Maybe," Philip agreed. "But should I take this taint near the kids?"
"Hell yes! You're great with kids, Philip. Never let them tell you otherwise. You're not a danger to them and the school could use you."
"Yeah, I guess." Philip gave him a hug and moved on. "We should try to get to a soccer match."
"I've got one better," Nick offered. "Gryffindor's playing Ravenclaw next Friday."
Philip's face lit up with his smile. "Done," he agreed. He and Nick shared a laugh, continuing to move around the gardens.
The people listening to them wondered what teams those were but supposed it was part of the oddness that Philip had been showing. Such a pity.
Tip Top looked up as the owl flew in the back door, smiling as the letter was dropped and owl went to rest in her cage. "Thank you and good morning to you too," she told it. She undid the seal, noticing that it was from Methos, then read his letter first. The enclosed one was explained. She slowly frowned, then opened the enclosed letter. Then she scowled. They would see about this!
She had very clear memories about Harry's past and she knew that they deserved a good caning more than anything. Especially that cousin of his. Too bad the boys were back at the shop. They'd already have ideas for her.
She paused. "When did the boys become my muses?" she asked herself. "I used to create on my own. My personal muses used to be strong enough to jump into other people's heads." She shook herself. "Marriage has wrecked you, Tipsy, and you knew it when they showed up on your doorstep." She went to her study, looking at all her ideas. A new one slowly filtered into her head. "Yeah, that's what I need," she told her muses. "Give me more of those." More ideas flooded into her mind and she cackled. "Oh, Harry's going to love that." She sat down to sketch out the idea. It'd have to be a single-use prank. She'd never be able to sell it, but what an idea!
The twins looked up as their shop was invaded. "Hello," George said, smiling at his associate. "What can we do for you today?"
"You can help me look over rings," Ron told him. "I want to know where to bring Dawn our next time off."
"Well," Fred said, coming out of the back room. "That's interesting. What happened?"
"Remember all those panties I joked out?" The twins nodded and he grinned. "She got jealous and jumped me in a closet. McGonagall said we're engaged now."
"Ah," the twins said together.
"Come along, let's go preview some rings. What sort does she like?"
"She said she really likes the nice ones, and she wants something delicate but sturdy. She wants something that's all her. I've got the galleons to do it, but I don't know what to get her."
"You could take her ring shopping," Fred pointed out.
"Yeah, but I want to take her to the store and look in one place, not go all over," Ron pointed out. "There's more jewelry stores than there are clothing places here."
"Good point." George looked at his twin. "We'll be right back. I'm going to show him our favorite shop." He led Ron out, taking him down to one dusty, older shop. "This is where we got Tipsy her earrings from us," he explained. "They look old, but like Ollivander's it's really neat inside." He let Ron walk in first.
"Whoa," Ron said, looking at all the shiny things. "This is really cool."
"Hello," an older woman said from behind a counter. She was the only thing that didn't sparkle. "What can I do for you?"
"I'm pre-looking for engagement rings," Ron explained.
She looked at George, then at Ron. "Aren't you already married?" she asked George. "I remember you buying a beautiful pair of Kenyan diamond solitaires. Four carats if I'm not mistaken?"
"We are, this is our little brother Ron." He patted Ron on the back. "Do you have a picture of Dawn?"
"Sure." He pulled out his wallet and pulled out his favorite six pictures, putting them onto the counter. "That's my girl."
She picked up one and examined it, then led him over to a small case, putting the picture on top of it. Three more went on that case and the other two went onto another case. "That's where you'll find her perfect ring."
Ron squatted down to look at the rings, then moved to the second case. In between he found a ring that just spoke to him. "Can I see that one?" he asked, pointing it out.
"I don't think you're a veela," she pointed out.
"Oh." He shrugged. "We're very open to them. Even dad's had some problems at work I think." He looked in the cases again. "Nothing in there really seems to say 'her' to me."
"Hmm." She looked around the store. "Of course, the best fit comes with the young lady being present, but I understand you wanting to narrow the field for her." She went into the back and came out with a small tray. "How about these?"
"How about something pink since she likes pink so much?" George offered.
"Or, hey, anything that would remind her of home?" Ron asked. "She used to live in Sunnydale."
The woman frowned, tapping her lip. "I have a bone ring somewhere but I doubt that's what you were thinking." She shrugged. "Bring your young woman back here and we shall see." She gathered up the pictures and handed them to him. "She will love whatever you pick."
"I know, but I want it to be something special," Ron pointed out. "I'm mushy that way." He waved and followed George back into the street. "Now where?"
"Well, there's one other place. We didn't have to go there, but since Dawn is so unusual I'm guessing they'd be perfect." He led the way toward Knockturn but took a small alley to the left right before the stairway down. He knocked twice on a door and it opened. "My brother's previewing engagement rings for his fiancé," he told the very handsome man standing there.
Ron looked at him. "You're an incubus," he pointed out.
"Ron!"
"He is."
"I am," the man agreed, "reformed of course." He smiled. "Come in. I will not hit on you. I only prey on those who are false." He watched as Ron walked across his boundary. "You have doubts?"
"She's so young, but we've agreed to make it a long engagement," Ron said firmly. "One year after her graduation. That way she can figure things out and tell me if I'm not what she wants."
"Wise of you. You have not embraced monogamy?"
"I try really hard, but I still look."
"As do most men," the incubus assured him. "Does that ease your doubts?"
"Mostly," Ron agreed with a grin. "You're good." He handed over the pictures and the man flipped through them before handing them back. He pointed at a case. Ron walked over and squatted down to look at the rings. A single ring shone out at him. "Wow. George, come see." He pointed it out and the incubus took it out of the case. "This is...wow."
"What is that?" George asked.
"Goblin gold and a very rare diamond. One almost never sees a diamond like that in nature but this one was found a few centuries back."
"Does it have a history?" Ron asked.
"No, it's been waiting for the right wearer. Strangely enough, my last sale flinched away from it."
"When was your last sale?" George asked.
"Narcissa Malfoy's wedding rings."
Ron grinned. "That's more than enough reason." He looked at George, then stood up. "I will be right back, even if I have to steal the girl from class."
"It will be here this weekend, young man."
"I can't wait," Ron told him. He hurried off, heading back to the school through the shop's floo. He found the Headmaster waiting on him. "I found it," he said happily. "It's the most precious thing and I adore it. Please? Just for an hour more?"
"If you do, you shall have detention tonight in the library."
"Okay," Ron agreed, heading out to go find his Dawn. Dawn was easily grabbed out of Transfiguration and carried off by Ron, back through the floos and out into the alleyway. "I've got something I want you to look at and think about," he told her. She nodded, smiling at him. He led her back into the shop and the shop owner pointed at the new case, giving him a smile and a nod.
Dawn looked at him. "I know you're demonic, what sort?"
"I am an incubus, sister of the former Slayer." He bowed. "I only feed on those who lie to their women. Your man has no need to fear me, even if you do end up with more of a cozy marriage than not."
Dawn nodded. "Thank you." She got down to look in the case, eyes going wide as she pointed at the ring. "That one?" she asked.
Ron looked where she was pointing. "I was thinking the rose colored one but if you wanted that one," he offered with a grin. "I was going to let you pick."
She looked around, finding the one he meant. It was back in it's old case and she squealed, jumping up and down. "I love it, Ron! I adore it and it's so me!" She hugged and kissed him, then George, then the incubus. "Please? May I try it on?"
"Of course." He pulled it out. "That is the one he picked out but seeing you I thought you might like something a bit more plain."
"Plain my ass, I want something that's just me," she said, smiling at him. She looked at the ring, then tried it on, feeling the weight. "It's really heavy."
"It should be. It's three carats. Goblin gold and a very unusual diamond. Very unique."
Dawn looked at it, then at Ron. "Can we afford it?"
"I've got money, Dawn. How much?" The tag was shown to him and his eyes went wide. "You weren't kidding," Ron told him. He looked at the look on Dawn's face, then sighed. "Do you do slips?"
"I had better. You'd never carry that much," the demon pointed out dryly.
"How much?" Dawn asked. Ron covered her eyes. "I can get something smaller, Ron, I won't mind. We can get me this for our anniversary or something."
"No, you deserve it and I'm still getting paychecks," Ron pointed out. He patted himself down. "Of course mum has the key to the vault still."
George laughed and moved to call her from the house. "Molly Weasley," he called into the floo. Her head quickly popped up and he noticed her hair was out of order. "You all right, mum?"
"Just fine, George." She looked behind him. "That looks suspiciously like a jewelry store, son."
"Ron just found Dawn the perfect ring and you've got his key."
"Give me a few minutes. Where are you?"
"You know that special jewelry store near Knockturn?" She nodded, lips pursing. "There. You can step through."
"The key's upstairs." Her head disappeared and the fire went out.
George stood up. "She said it'd be a minute." He lifted Dawn's hand up to look at the ring. "That does suit you," he told her. "Remember, if you harm Ron and make him cry the rest of us consider you fair game."
"You'll have to stand in line behind Xander," she said seriously.
"No, dear, he's our family, he has to stand in line behind us." He kissed her on the cheek. "With that said, even if you do end up like mum and dad, just really good friends who can finish each other's sentences, then I'm sure you'll be happy. Of course, the more carnal the relationship, the less mum has to nag us about having kids."
"Have you told your wife that mum wants grandkids already?"
"Yup, and Tipsy looked at her and pointed out that she wasn't a spring chicken. We could adopt when we were ready."
Dawn gave him a hug. "I'm sure you'll have wonderful kids, George." She smiled up at him. "I'm not babysitting through."
"Good," Ron told her. "They'd wreck any house we had." His mother walked in and he grinned at her. "Come see."
She looked at Dawn's hand, then at her face. She nodded and handed over the key. "If that's the one that moves her."
"I offered to get something smaller."
"But I want her to have that one, it made her squeal and bounce," Ron told her. "Just like I do."
Molly nodded. "I'm sure that's the one then." She smiled at the man behind the counter. "Was it a hard sell?"
"Not in the least. He found it right away."
"The second shop. The other he didn't like," George put in. "She did her wannabe Ollivander routine and Ron couldn't find anything he liked."
"Yeah, but this more than makes up for it," Ron assured him. He signed the slip, noticing the lesser amount.
The incubus shrugged. "I like you two. You're cute. Besides, now I have gossip for my brethren when they come up for a visit."
"Tell Xander's mommy I said hi," Dawn told him. "And if you see Anya, tell her I said hi and that I'm doing really well and I'm happy." She took Ron's hand and gave him a kiss on the cheek, making him blush as they walked back outside. "We should probably go back to class."
"Yeah, I've now got detention in the library tonight," Ron agreed. He smiled at his older brother. "Thank you, George."
"I always like to make people squeal in delight," he said, handing Ron back his key.
Ron looked at it then handed it back to his mother, who sighed. "Tough. I've got an investment coming open soon. I can live on my paychecks, this was just too important to make payments on." He kissed the back of Dawn's hand again, noticing her ring was off. "Where is it?"
She pulled it out of her pocket. "I didn't want it to get jacked."
"Sweetie, no one here would ever think about robbing you," George told her. "Besides, that's what sticking charms are for."
"Okay." She let Ron slide it back onto her finger and grinned again. "Sorry."
"Not a problem," he said, doing the sticking charm himself. "Now, let's go back to school. That way all the other Hufflepuffs can squeal and bounce in joy too." She laughed, following George back to his shop. She even resisted the urge to visit the candy shop. Ron winked at her and accepted the package from Fred. "Thanks. Yours?"
"Ours, the candy store, the routine stuff you usually beg us to buy you," Fred pointed out. He lifted Dawn's hand and looked at the ring, wincing as the light hit it. "That is impressive."
"Isn't it though?" Ron asked smugly. "And the nice incubus was very helpful. Thank you, George. You are such a great big brother. I can almost forgive you for making my life a living hell some days." He hugged them both and took Dawn back through the floo. This time McGonagall was waiting on them. He held up her hand with a shy grin. "I found it."
McGonagall let out a surprisingly girlish squeal as she looked at it, pulling Dawn closer to look at it better. "That is one very beautiful ring," she said, remembering herself. "Congratulations." She patted Dawn on the back as she walked out. "How much did that set you back?"
"He gave me a discount because he thought we were cute," Ron said, waiting until Dawn was long gone. "But I don't think the Burrow went for that much originally." Her eyes widened. "Yeah, that commission for the auction was very handy. And she offered to get something tinier but that was so her."
"It was. Enjoy it, Mr. Weasley." She gave him a short hug. "You have detention tonight with Madam Pince from eight on. Try to behave." He nodded, taking his bag of goodies with him. She went to gossip with Madam Pomfrey. Poppy shouldn't be busy today.
Greg walked his darling wife into the school, finding the Headmaster talking with Philip and Nick. "Ah, other gamers," he said happily. "Where are the happy couple?"
"Ron's playing today and Dawn is bouncing around the Great Hall," Nick told him, giving him a punch to the arm. "Ron bought her the Rock of Gibralter."
"Hell, I'd be bouncing too," Emilia pointed out. "She hasn't had any in weeks."
"Ron's probably found a way around that," Philip pointed out. The expression on his face could only be called a leer.
"Philip, I know it's been a while but Emilia promised to never make me share with another man," Greg said patiently. Philip looked stricken, going pale. Greg hugged him. "The taint?" Philip nodded. "I understand. I'll let you leer at her until you piss her off." He pulled back and hugged his wife. "Go find the future Mrs. Ron."
Emilia stepped up to Philip and kissed him on the cheek. "We'll see if we can take more of it off, Philip. Leave it as more of a desire than a compulsion." He nodded, giving her an extra squeeze. "So, Dawn, huh? They rhyme?" She walked toward the Great Hall. She'd seen pictures. She'd even seen the article in the paper, and the pictures that showed Dawn with her new ring as they went back to class that day. So she knew a lot about the girl, but the taint on her stunned her. "Holy mother of Gods," she hissed. She looked over the girl, barely noticing her cousin. Draco whispered in her ear and she relaxed. "She's in control?"
"Most of the time. She can do both though."
"Good." She walked over and tapped Dawn on the shoulder, smiling at her. "I'm Emilia."
"Finally!" Dawn said, jumping up and giving her a hug. "Oh, Goddess, I've been waiting for you. Xander made me promise not to touch Ron until you could talk to me." Her dog barked. "Can we do that now? Please?" she begged.
"Sure, kiddo." She smiled at the dog. "Good morning to you too. What's your name?"
"Midnight, this is Emilia. Would you like to have your chewtoy while we talk?" He barked again and Dawn gathered up everything, following her and Draco. She finally had to look at him. "Big brother? I don't want to discuss sex with you in the room."
"Fine," he said, smirking at her. He kissed her on the forehead. "I'll be around when you're done or find me after the game."
"Sure." She smiled, waving at his back. "Phew. That would have been an odd discussion." She looked at Emilia as she paced, then flicked her finger at the doorway, making it open. "There, faster," she said with a bright grin.
"You can harness it. I'm impressed." She let Dawn in first. "Oops. Sorry, I was having lusty thoughts about Greg," she said, noticing the handcuffs on the wall.
"No big, I lived with vampires." She settled herself on the couch, her dog laying beside her. "I know you can sense energy because Draco can. So can I. I'm not dangerous."
"I wasn't quite sure what you were but he told me you were an artifact brought to life," she pointed out.
"Something like that," Dawn agreed. "We don't tell hardly anyone."
"That's very wise of you. Even around here there are people who would use you." She sat across from the girl. "So, we've got to have the full talk?" Dawn nodded. "What did Alex make you promise?"
"Not to touch Ron sexually until I had a long and involved talk with you about all the nasty stuff that could happen. So we've been doing ourselves and letting the other watch."
"Good girl," Emilia said happily. "A woman who knows how to pleasure herself is a delight in bed for her mate because she can show him when he's lost." Dawn nodded. "Let's start with the basics. I know you've had some of this before, but it's a little different over here." Dawn leaned forward, listening like there might be a test on all this later.
Emilia walked up to where Methos was standing, tapping him on the shoulder. "Do you know?" He nodded, smiling at her as he pulled her in for a hug. "Am I broadcasting?"
"Summers often makes people giddy and your mate is foolishly not around." He suddenly jumped and patted his rear until the fire went out. "My mistake."
"Greg is very protective," she said with a grin. She patted him on the back. "Ron really loves her. It glows from them both."
"Good. It's nice to see...." He trailed off as she walked off, frowning when he saw where she was going. He hurried to catch up. Emilia could sense problems but Tip Top looked fine. He hoped she wasn't sick, he liked the wench too much to lose her like he had his Alexa. His frown eased when he saw the hand going to Tip Top's abdomen, then he smirked. "Really?" he asked as he joined them.
"Get off," Tip Top told her, pushing her away gently. She was frowning at her. "I am not. I had my cycle just...." She counted back. "Last month?"
"Uh-huh. You're going to the nurse right this moment," Emilia said firmly, grabbing her by the arm and dragging her up the stairs. Madam Pomfrey was waiting on them. "She's preggers."
"She is?" She smiled at Tip Top, who was scowling. "You're not happy?"
"It's not expected," Tip Top said firmly. She looked at the test strip that was placed against her stomach as it turned blue. "Boys?" Madam Pomfrey nodded. "Plural?"
"That I'm not sure about," Madam Pomfrey pointed out. "You are from a set of twins, as are your twins." She grinned. "We'll be able to figure that out soon enough."
"Oooh, the first baby in this generation! I call dibs on planning the party," Emilia said, rushing out to tell Greg. She bounded into him when she found where he was standing. "Tip Top's knocked up," she said happily.
"Holy fucking God," Nick said, eyes wide. "Tip Top Ramvette?" Emilia nodded, grinning at him. "Those kids are going to be horrible!"
"Yup," Emilia said happily. "And if they turn out like Percy we'll have to warp them." Greg and Philip both laughed at that. "I called dibs on the party."
"I don't want it," Nick and Philip assured her.
"Good." She smiled as Tip Top joined them. "See, they're happy."
"I can't tell the twins this! They're too young."
Philip looked at her. "Tell them or I will. In the most embarrassing way possible." She whimpered. "Fine." He turned into a black cat and stalked down the stairs, hurrying to the apparation barrier. He hadn't been able to use his animagus form since he had taken his novitiate vows, so it felt very good to be in this form. Once he was far enough away, he turned back and headed to Diagon. Two stops garnered him balloons and a big box of candy, both with 'congratulations' printed on them in blinking, large, bright yellow letters. He found Tip Top waiting in the doorway and smiled at her. "You or me, girl."
"Me," she said, then she glanced inside and whimpered. "Do I have to?"
He gently moved her out of the way and walked in, letting go of the balloon string. It let out a gale of trumpets as soon as it touched the ceiling. Both twins looked at him in shock, one of them whimpering. He handed over the box. "Your beloved wife chickened out," he said. He pulled his wand and charmed the balloons so they wouldn't leave the store but they would follow the twins around.
"Tipsy!" Fred called, albeit weakly. She stuck her head inside and he pointed at the balloons. "Really?"
George looked at the candy, then swallowed. "Can fathers get morning sickness?"
"It's not morning," Philip said smugly.
The kids in the store mobbed Tipsy and the twins to congratulate them and nearly bought the store bare in celebration. This meant the legacy would go on!
Philip smiled at the twins. "Emilia called party planning rights."
"Better her than us," Fred said, walking over and pulling his wife into his arms. "We'll love it even if it does turn out like Percy," he promised. She sniffled.
"Don't do that," George said, walking over to hug her as well. "You know you're our favorite treat and it was bound to happen with our luck anyway." He kissed the back of her neck since he had that side of her. "It'll just be more of you to love and the baby will be wonderful, just like the three of us."
"It might be babies," Philip said helpfully. "You're all from twins."
"Shut up," Tip Top told him, glaring at him. "I'm too old for this. Twins would make it worse." She looked at the boys, seeing their hurt looks. "This would be like your mother getting pregnant at her age, boys, it's very risky."
"So? We'll wait on you hand and foot."
"Or leg and arm," the other offered. "We'll even put on those tiny shorts and be your faithful servants."
"I think that's what got me into this mess," Tip Top pointed out. Fred kissed her and she went limp. "I'm happy, but I'm scared."
"Consider our feelings," Fred pointed out. "Our mother must have blessed us with kids like us."
"Or at least she tried very often," George added.
Tip Top started to laugh and cry. "Oh, Merlin, I'm messed up."
"Shh, you're our mess," George promised.
"And we love messes, look at all the ones we've caused," Fred added, making her hug them both. "We'll deal, lovie. We always do. And if it's babies, then we'll hire a sitter for our future litter."
"No, no, no, no more than two kids," she said quickly. "I can't handle more than twins."
"Then it's a good thing there weren't three of us," Fred joked.
She pinched him. "Your mother probably drowned one of them thinking he was going to be the horrible one."
"Which means he'd have been like Percy."
Philip slipped past them. "Your brother's playing today," he told George. He got a nod so he slipped back to the school and went back to the game. He and Nick high-fived and shared a laugh, then went back to watching the game, remembering the days they had played.
Alex brought in the last dish and sat down at his place. "Okay, someone call the meeting to order," he offered. "I'm hungry. Draco wouldn't let me nibble cookies earlier."
"You don't get that much exercise, you'll get fat," Draco reminded him. Everyone looked at him. "What? Like it's my fault he's noisy and the Headmaster and Severus forbid him from having sex in Slytherin ever again."
"Just because you kept them all up," Harry said dryly. Snape glared at him. "What?" he asked with a grin. "Holly, dear, would you please swat the gloomy bastard so we can move on to happier news?" He looked down at the head of the table. "It is happier news, correct?"
"It's much happier news," Tip Top agreed. She stood up and smiled at everyone. "Emilia figured out that I was pregnant." The table's occupants blinked. "It's at least one boy, we won't know how many for a few more weeks at least."
"And I get party planning rights," Emilia announced.
The crowd burst out into laughter and congratulating, those close enough even going so far as to risk patting her on the stomach. Xander broke into it by tapping on his glass. "Guys, we've got to do the cheesy blessing ceremony thing, like in Sleeping Beauty." Everyone looked at him. "My family did it for all the kids and look how I turned out."
Holly nodded. "We still do in my branch. Dad wanted me to be powerful."
"And you are," Ron agreed, grinning at her. Dawn stepped on his foot. "I'm not flirting."
"I know but smile at me," she told her. "We've got to go tell Cordy this afternoon." Ron shuddered so she kissed him on the cheek. "I flooed first and Cordy swore there shouldn't be a fight this time."
"Can I come?" Luna asked. Methos had tapped her to join the group since she was who she was. "Please? So I can see my pony and my mule?"
"Sure," Xander agreed. "We'll do the portkey as soon as lunch is over with, Luna. Just remember, you can't get me yelled at by your father."
"Okay." She smiled at him but Draco raised an eyebrow. "He's very nice."
"He's also very taken," Draco said firmly. "I am a jealous spouse."
Xander pounced him, kissing him hard. Draco moaned under him and pushed them onto the floor, getting down to roll with him. He didn't care who was in the room, they were having sex, now. Right this very instant. He had been celibate for *days*.
Tip Top coughed, then started to laugh. "It's good someone can still do that."
"You'll get some again soon," Dawn promised. "My mom said she couldn't stand my father for the first trimester and then she couldn't get enough of him for the next, and the last he was only good for backrubs and fetching things."
"I remember those days," Tip Top sighed. The twins kissed her, making her forget her ex. "What was I saying? Never mind, eat. Alex, let the poor boy eat."
"I am eating, wench, shut up," Draco ordered, panting hard before going back to his Xander snack.
Greg shrugged. "They'll be done soon. They're too desperate for more than a quickie." He handed Tip Top the roasted vegetable platter with a smile. "Here you are. The first of many I know."
The twins loaded her plate for her, making her groan in mock distress. "Guys!"
"Our son or sons will be healthy and strong," George said firmly, adding one last piece of cauliflower.
Fred looked at Emilia. "When are you two going to have one?"
"Um, probably next year," Emilia pointed out. Greg blinked a few times and then slowly slid out of his chair as he passed out. "Sorry, Greg. I wanted to tell you last night but you were just a bit too happy to have me in bed," she told him. "I'm not sure though."
"Dear God, it's starting over again, a whole new cycle," Methos pointed out.
Fred raised his glass. "Then Dumbledore had better watch out."
"The Bane Army will roll through that school and change it yet again."
The group laughed and lunch was officially on. At least until they had to clap for the orgasms.
Dawn peeked inside the Hyperion's main room. "Hello?" she called.
"Upstairs," Buffy yelled back. "Cordy's got a few cuts that need stitched."
"I'll wait," Dawn offered. Luna went hunting for her pony and mule while Dawn sat down with her boyfriend on the couch. Her mother's ring was on her first finger and her engagement ring was on her third. She was even dressed up a bit. Ron of course was being Ron and was in a pair of jeans and a sweater.
Fred trotted down the stairs, smiling at them. "Hi. How's school going?"
"Really well," Dawn said honestly. "I'm doing good, everything's going well. Some of Xander's other friends are preggers." She brushed a strand of hair off her face and Fred's squeal brought everyone running, with weapons.
"Oh, my God, that's a huge stone," Fred said, taking her hand to look at it. "That is, like, so humongous. Ron, that's a really nice job. Where'd you get it? Can you take me there when I need one because that is so perfectly Dawn and so pretty." She knew she was babbling, but this was worthy of it.
The LA group looked at Buffy and Tara for a translation.
"After many years of dealing with Willow-babble, Fred-babble is easy," Buffy told them. "I think she's really impressed by the rock my sister's wearing." She jogged down the stairs, seeing the big stone herself. "Wow." She took the hand to look at it, noticing it was changing colors. "Huh."
"It does that when people who might hurt her are around," Ron said. "We found that out when someone tried to jump her in Hogsmeade last weekend." He put his arm around Dawn's shoulders. "So?"
"I approve," Buffy told him.
Wesley shouted, "No, leave me alone!" at someone upstairs.
Spike cracked up, walking down the stairs carefully to avoid the sunlight. He looked at her ring and smiled at her. "Nibblet, you are lucky. He musta dropped some dosh on that."
"Oh, he did," Ron agreed. "But it suits her and she wanted that one."
"I offered to go with something smaller."
"No real husband would let you settle on something so important," Fred said firmly. "A woman should have a ring that thrills her." She sat down on Dawn's free side, not minding when Buffy moved her so Cordy could have that spot.
"May I?" Cordy asked. Dawn let her see it. "Unusual gold. Flawless diamond. Very unusual color." She nodded. "He's more than worth it if he's willing to go that far." She looked at Ron. "My warning about asskickings still stand."
"I wouldn't expect anything else," Ron agreed happily. "Come see. We've got an hour." Wesley shrieked but it didn't sound like he was in pain. "Luna, let the poor guy rest between," he called.
"You brought Luna with you?" Angel asked. Ron and Dawn nodded. "Oh, shit." He hurried up the stairs to keep her from killing Ethan, who had moved into Wesley's room without telling him beforehand. They made a reasonably cute couple once Wesley had gotten over being shocked. He found Luna between the two men and backed out, slamming the door shut. "Never mind. Wes, Dawn just showed up with her engagement ring."
"He'll see them when I'm done with him," Luna called back. "I'm saddle training."
Angel walked down the stairs wiping off his ears. "I didn't need to know that."
"What's with the horse references?" Fred asked. "I never pictured Wesley or Ethan as stallions."
"That's a mental picture I didn't need," Gunn pointed out.
"Apparently her mother once called her father a stallion and told her he had started out as a pony but she had trained him," Dawn said with a grin. "Now she wants her own pony. I'm not sure why she calls Ethan a mule though."
"Well, he is stubborn," Gunn pointed out. He looked at the ring. "That looks really expensive."
"There's a sticking charm," Ron told him. "She nearly took it off and hid it after we bought it because she thought someone might want to steal it so I stuck it onto her finger."
"That's a valid worry," Fred agreed. "I had a purse snatched not too long ago. Not that it had anything in it."
Ethan all-but did a Fred Astaire dance down the stairs. "Ah, my lovely little one." He kissed Dawn on the head. "And quite a rock," he said in appreciation. He looked at it but didn't pick it up. Dawn held her hand higher, giving him a patient look. "Luna said it was charmed and I don't want to interfere with that," he explained. "Simply magnificent. Your man has very nice taste."
"He picked it out and then stole me from class to see if that was the one I wanted," Dawn shared. The girls all sighed, smiling at her. "And the jeweler was a really nice incubus. Said he wouldn't go after Ron because he only touched the unfaithful."
"Good job," Buffy told her, ruffling her hair. She noticed Luna and Wesley coming down the stairs. "I think someone needs a juice box and a granola bar," she noted, nodding at them.
"Yes, I was going to do that," Ethan agreed, going to get them their needed nourishment. It was too bad they couldn't stay for longer. He and Wesley shared a kiss and Luna pulled out a small instrument. "What is that, Luna?"
"A time turner. It affects time in it's locality for those holding it." Ethan looked at it and Wesley tried to get it. She turned it and let him grab it but pulled Ethan's hand over before releasing the turning part. They sped backwards and snuck up the stairs the back way so they wouldn't run into themselves. "There, now I have four whole hours before I show up."
"What a very wicked idea you have, minx," Ethan said with a smirk.
"It's not good to play with time," Wesley pointed out.
"You have four extra hours too," Luna said smugly, letting Ethan hold her while she pulled Wesley down to give him another riding lesson, or to get one herself. Perhaps he was already a stallion and she only had to learn how to ride him to his fullest potential. She smiled up at Ethan. They had come to an agreement during the holidays the day before they did the ritual. She liked Wesley and she was relentless. He liked Wesley and he was nearly as relentless, but he could cut and run at a moment's notice. Therefore she was holding them both to her and they could struggle against their ropes all they wanted. Luna had discovered an unknown part of her that liked the hunt and the catching was always sweet each time she had to hunt down Wesley. She smirked at him and he moaned. "Good boy, my stallion," she cooed, patting him gently. "Now, let's use this four hours in a good way to teach me more."
"Definitely," Ethan agreed. He pointed at the bed. "If our boy would relent of course."
Wesley groaned. He didn't like it but Ethan knew he was weak and how to exploit that weakness. He did as he was told, being the subject for their next lesson in sex magic. Ethan was a very enthusiastic teacher of the subject.
Dawn and Ron landed back on the lawn at Hogwarts, Luna landing right behind them from her own trial of a portkey. They congratulated each other and headed inside to their respective houses. Her roommates were still sighing over her ring. Luna's housemates were giving her odd looks. Ron's roommates were still in the back-slapping phase.
The teachers, however, had piled on the homework. There was two months to tests and they were determined to finish out everything. Which is why Dawn had to head down to the dungeons for special lessons. From all the time she had missed, she had to make it up. She met Professor Snape at the doorway. "It went very well. Everyone was very impressed with the taste Ron showed," she shared.
"Wonderful." He closed and locked the door behind her. "Summers, have you any idea if the Headmaster now knows about you?"
"I don't know. I told Emilia but we were in the Room of Requirement at the time, sir. Why? Does he?" He nodded. "Am I in trouble?"
"He's a bit more wary. He thinks that had something to do with your status as a future wife." He looked down at her. "You might want to explain it to him."
She considered it. "How do I know he won't try to use me?"
"I cannot assure you of that," Snape told her. "I trust the man, but you should make that decision for yourself."
"Yeah, but I see something in him that shows some desperation. I'm not letting myself be used as a weapon, Professor Snape. I'm a nice, normal fifteen-year-old girl. No matter what else I am."
"I understand. He wishes to speak with you however."
"Then he can do it with Xander around and after someone finds some way to protect me," Dawn said, looking down at her ring. "It's been off color all day. Ever since we left."
Snape sat down. "He breached the subject with me shortly after you left," he admitted.
"Then he should know that I'm getting warning system feelings and I don't trust him. Not yet. Harry and Ron trust him with their lives, but I don't. Frankly, I've been attacked one too many times for that."
"I understand. I can call your older brother if you want."
"Please. I think I'll need it. Is Holly around?" He rolled his eyes. "Sorry, stupid question, is she free?"
"She is. She's also willing to sit in on this since she was told by Ethan."
"Good." Dawn bit her lip and sat down in her usual seat. "Then I guess we can tell him if we must. As long as I'm protected."
"I'll do my best, Summers." She nodded. "Headmaster? Holly? Malfoy, Dumass, Weasley, and Potter, appear," he called out. The paintings went to get the students, the others came at his call.
Dawn waited until Draco, who was the last one, showed up. "The headmaster has a question about which artifact touched me."
"No," Ron told her. "Not here. There's too much chance of being spied on." Snape looked amused. "I felt one of the portals like the Hufflepuffs put into our rooms in here, Professor, and I don't like it. I won't risk Dawn." He looked at Xander.
"Half the Banes are still at my house," Xander admitted. "Including Daryl and Simon."
"Can we ward a room against spying?" Holly asked. "I know I could do it at home but I'm not sure with so much magic around here."
Dumbledore raised his wand. The portraits were all covered with a heavy black cloth. "How is that?" He saw her look at Ron and Draco, who both nodded. "Now are you ready to tell me the whole truth?"
"I'm the Key," she told him. "That big ball of green energy. Some monks brought me to life to protect me from the person who my sister died to save me from." Dumbledore sucked in a breath. "I'm still just a fifteen-year-old girl, only I have some power built into my body."
"That's why you have the obsidian wand?"
Dawn looked at Xander. "I don't know, is it?"
"You're the one who picked it out."
"I picked it out because it felt right in my hand," she reminded him. "That and it was pretty." She looked at the headmaster. "That is why one of my wands has no core though. Why I can do both sorts of magic and why everyone is very sure I should learn both of them and offensive and defensive forms of each of them."
Dumbledore nodded. "You have put me into an awkward situation, young lady. Our school's charter said we will not admit magical creatures or beings."
"And I'm no longer one of those," Dawn said coolly. "They turned me into a human. I'm just as human as you are. If you don't believe me, get Madam Pomfrey to check me again."
"I'm not doubting that you are human, Miss Summers, simply that you should be here. You could put us into conflict with some other schools."
"They can take a flying leap," Xander told him. "There's no way I'm sending her to Drumstrang."
"What about Faieth?" Snape offered.
"Fucking hell no," Ron said firmly, glaring at him. "If Dawn leaves, I leave."
"And if Ron leaves, my life's in greater danger so I'd have to go too."
"Faieth isn't a real school, it's more a training academy and Dawn could probably finish most of it in a year," Holly offered. "I took six months there."
"I took about four and nearly killed an instructor," Xander told her. "They can be very firm about doing things their way, even when it's counter-intuitive to your natural one. I found myself backed up all the time there."
"Yes, but for those of us who have more control than you did at that time, it can be a great place. Plus, I know that Ethan would support me on this."
"I'm not leaving Ron," Dawn told her. "End of discussion."
"Faieth has classes specifically for cursebreakers who have extra strong gifts in sensing and affinities for hiding spots," Holly told her. "Ron could probably go, as could Harry. It might take a year, but it shouldn't be too long for you to go."
"We've only got one year of school left," Harry said tiredly. "Dawn has four." He looked at Xander. "Opinion?"
"Hate it," Xander said firmly. "Dawn and I have nearly similar main wands. I don't think she could work the way they want. Holly, do you have problems merging with her?"
Holly sighed. "I do," she admitted. "That could be a problem for her. I'll admit that. I still think some of the training could help her though."
"That's why I put Ethan and Wes onto her case," Xander pointed out.
"That is reasonable," Snape admitted. "Xander, we do have to worry about her staying safe. Since it appears that others know or can sense her."
"I can help her work on her shielding," Holly offered. "She is a bit open. I'm assuming that's why she was attacked."
"I was hoping so too," Dumbledore admitted. "Though she reads as tainted."
"Which she probably was, by the hellmouth," Xander pointed out. "So do I according to some people." He looked at Snape. "Any word on if *he* knows?"
Snape stood up. "I've been out of the loop for a bit now. I'm not sure if he knows or if he suspects."
"Then you're pulling out," Harry told him. "I may not like you, but you're too valuable to waste that way." He looked at Dumbledore, watching him stare at Dawn. "This is why we didn't want the information to get around."
"Why we told the two people who needed to know to protect her best," Xander added. "Then some others had to know and you twigged it."
"Yes, well, it has happened in the past," Dumbledore pointed out. "I have to ask, Miss Summers, are you dangerous?"
"Only to those who try to attack or use me," she reminded him. "Anyone who does has one hell of a surprise coming. I may be an airhead sometimes but not all the time." He nodded. "So, now you know."
He nodded. "I do. I wish I didn't. I cannot see how you could fail to be a danger to this school."
"The same way I'm not," Harry reminded him.
"You are," Snape told him. "We've had parents pulling their students out now for two years because you're still here, Potter." He looked at the Headmaster. "Even if she lost total control, the Dark Lord still can't use her."
"That's right. My use-by date as the key has expired for another millennium," Dawn agreed. She tipped her head off to the side. "That means I'm nothing more than a really strong witch." She smiled briefly at Ron. "So, can I stay or should I go shopping for a whole new wardrobe?"
"No, you may stay for now," Dumbledore told her. "This probably is the safest place for you." He looked at Xander. "You knew?"
"Since the day after Buffy found out. That would have been last year," Xander affirmed. "The monks made her of her sister to give her human form."
"Then she really is Buffy's sister?" Draco asked. Dawn nodded. "Wonderful." He smiled and blew a kiss. "Are we nearly done? I was helping find a hidden spot in Slytherin."
Harry looked at him. "Sit and shut it, Dumass." He looked at Dawn. "I've known and I don't care."
"I've known and I don't care either," Ron agreed. "Though if you ever get pregnant I'll probably be really scared that it'll hurt you somehow." He grinned at her.
"Your mother's getting her first grandchild soon enough, I'm sure she'll be too happy to nag," Xander offered, giving him a wink. He ruffled Draco's hair. "You behave. I put that hole there for a reason. Let anyone who wants to be a cursebreaker find it."
Draco shrugged. "Goyle says he can feel it but he can't find the lock."
"I put a special lock," Xander said smugly. "It's not a normal one."
"It's a drop switch," Harry told him. "It's in a snake's mouth, the lower jaw of one of the statues that can move. It's sent by magical currents."
"You remembered that from our second year?" Ron asked. "How?"
"Easy. I was taking a long look around," Harry told him.
"Why were you in my house in our second year?" Draco said, outraged. "I've never broken into Gryffindor!"
Ron gave him a smug little smile. "You invited us in, you nancy ponce." He looked at Dawn again. "Wanna go cuddle?"
"Sure." She looked at Snape, who raised a brow. "But I'm supposed to be catching up." She slumped down a bit. "Can't I be like Neville and just give up, Professor?"
"No. You may not give up until after your fifth year. Until then it is mandatory."
"Fine. Make me sweat a single grade. It's not like Buffy will care." She looked at Xander. "Can't you just ...put potions into my head or something?"
"Sorry, I don't know how to do that," Xander told her. "Ethan does, but he said it'd get most of the memories too."
Dumbledore looked around. "You're all taking this very lightly. She is in grave danger."
"Yay, what do you think she's been in?" Xander asked.
"Must be Tuesday, I'm in danger," Dawn quipped, cracking Harry and Ron up. "They only get into it on Thursday, that way you don't have it all at once."
Draco looked at her. "Now I know you belong with Weasley. He's infected you with his humor," he said with disgust. "Make better jokes around me."
"I've got one about the zebra-striped lesbian hunting lions in the Serengeti," Dawn offered facetiously.
Draco glared. "Don't you dare."
Ron and Harry, who had read the joke, groaned and shuddered. It was juvenile and horrible. "Honey," Ron said sweetly. "Do that to him and the twins promised you a new joke book."
"Okay," Dawn said, nodding and grinning. She adored the twins. Draco hid behind Xander. "Oh, come on."
"Sweetie, no," Xander said, shaking his head. "Please, not now." He looked at the headmaster, who was standing still and pulled his wand, taking Draco's hand in his.
"Don't do it," Dumbledore warned. He looked at him. "I'm mostly impervious to memory charms, even good ones, Mr. Dumass."
"You know I'd do anything to protect Dawn," Xander reminded him. He pulled Draco around to cuddle him. He seemed to think much more clearly with him in his arms. "So, now what?"
"Now I go back to my review, you guys go make Slytherin sing with groans, Ron and Harry either go play or wait for me outside while I'm trapped in this miasma of mediocrity in my performance. Or Professor Snape could be really generous then we could go make all my housemates groan with envy, Slytherin groan, and Harry can go play in the sunshine with everyone else and listen to Luna go over Ethan's next lesson for her."
"Miss Lovegood is taking lessons from him?" Snape asked.
Dawn looked over at him and nodded. "She seems to like his lessons. Said something about him being well broken for saddles and riding...." Snape spluttered. "Sorry, sir, though she has admitted that Wesley is more a placid stallion than a pony for her and she's the one who needs more breaking in."
"Out," Snape ordered, pointing at the door.
"Okay." She grinned at Ron. "Buffy sent me a catalog with Spike's handwriting on the letter. Wanna look at the handcuffs?"
Ron giggled nervously. "I don't really play that way, Dawn."
She shrugged and gave him a sexy grin. "But the pictures are fascinating." He shrugged and followed her out.
"See, I knew she was a Dumass," Xander said. "She's just like the rest of the clan. I bet if we looked, we could even find one of us in Buffy's family tree." He gave Draco a squeeze. "Come on, I'll show you the trip to that trigger." He winked at Harry as he walked his pookie bear out.
Harry held in his giggles until they were gone, then let loose. "Oh, they're so bad," he pointed out. He waved at Snape. "I'm going to go read my latest fanmail and answer more of it. Have fun worrying about our sanity, sirs."
The Headmaster looked at his teacher. "Are you confident that she is safe here?" he asked quietly.
"I am," Snape agreed. "Even if the Dark Lord attacks today, she has a plan in place to get out of the castle, taking as many people as possible with her. He can't use her anyway."
"If you're sure, then I will leave this in your hands, Severus."
"We had it handled, Headmaster. You wanted to know."
"Yes, I did, didn't I?" he asked, walking out. Some days he felt very old. The sound of laughter from further up the hall cheered him up some, but he still felt very old. He had remembered how long ago he had first heard about the Key. Now it was an engaging fifteen-year-old girl who was protected whether or not she needed it. He only hoped the school would survive her tenure.
Holly looked at Severus. "Up for a game of chess? Luna's too engrossed in her lessons to come help me."
"What is he teaching the girl?"
"Presently, sex magic," she said bluntly. He repeated the phrase without sound. "Power raising mostly." She took his arm to walk him down to her rooms. "I have some fascinating books from him on the subject. If you want, you can read them, Sev."
"I wouldn't mind, just in case she becomes a threat." He let her proceed him into the room and locked them in. That way no one could bother them. She was a very sweet woman who hadn't aided in the plan to marry him off. His great-aunt had very good taste. Though he was still fighting it.
Tip Top finished writing the professional letter and sprayed the special legal affixer to it. Then she rolled it up and handed it to her owl. "I know they're muggle," she said at the disgruntled feather ruffling. "They're threatening Harry. You like Harry. They were mean to him." The owl flew off without any more complaints. Tip Top leaned back in her chair and rubbed her stomach. "You hungry?" Of course it was too early so she wasn't kicked in response. "Come on, we'll go steal one of the twins to make us lunch." She heaved herself up, already feeling fat. As soon as she was up she started to feel dizzy and grabbed for the edge of the desk, but it wasn't going to help this time. She passed out, landing beside her chair.
Methos and Draco both lifted their heads, scowling. Then they looked at each other. "Go," Methos told him. "That was Ramvette." Draco nodded and left his things there, trusting someone to pick them up for him. He met Harry and Ron at the floo, sending themselves to the local house first.
Harry found her. "Ron! Call the twins, she's unconscious," Harry yelled, hurrying in to help her. He checked her pulse. Perfectly fine feeling, not weak in the least. "What happened?" he asked, starting to get really upset.
Draco called for his healers and went to help. "Calm yourself," he snapped. "Getting upset won't do her any good."
"Tipsy," one of the twins yelled as they ran in. They pushed the younger men out of the way and picked her up, laying her on the couch. "What happened? All we felt was a loss."
"I've called the healers," Draco told him.
"She was laying like she had passed out," Harry offered, standing up to come over and do what he could. This was one area he was deficient in. Ron gently moved him out of the way as someone else came rushing down the hall. It turned out to be a healer. "We think she passed out. She's pregnant."
"That's fine, step back a bit," the healer ordered.
"No way," George told her. "She's our wife." The healer shrugged and knelt beside the couch to examine her. He and Fred clutched at each other while they watched. The healer finally nodded and put a small patch onto her arm. "Is it serious?"
"Is it the baby?" Fred asked.
"Is she miscarrying? She has once," George offered.
"Or is it something worse? She said bad things could happen because of her age."
"Calm down," the healer said calmly, looking at them. Harry helped her to her feet. "She did pass out. She's a bit vitamin deficient and I've put some medicine on to help her with that." The twins nodded, looking eager. "Take her to her regular healer and have them give her the fullest workup possible. Even a muggle doctor would be fine. For now, let her finish her nap and have someone prepare her some soup or something light. Got it?" They nodded. "Good boys. I'm sure you'll spoil her until she screams but she needs it. She's in very good condition for her age and it should be fine." She looked at the younger ones, then nodded. "Go get sick," she offered. Harry ran out, going to do just that.
"You'd think he'd be the one to handle such things," Draco snorted.
"He's never seen anyone sick," Ron said quietly. He looked at the healer. Then at the twins. "One of you go back to the store and switch off until I can get mum here."
"What the hell is going on?" Juliette yelled as she walked down the hall. She slammed the door open. "I was in a meeting, what happened? Was she attacked?"
"Passed out," Ron told her, giving her a smile. "We're setting watch times."
Juliette nodded. "That's fine. Boys, go back to the shop for now. One of you can be here at a time." They looked hurt. "You can't afford to close for a whole day yet. Either one of you goes back or get some of your relatives to watch it for you."
Xander walked in, sweaty and dripping. "What's going on?"
"Tipsy passed out." She grimaced. "Eww."
"Sorry, I was moving heavy stuff." He looked at Tipsy. "My thing is not medical. I can only bandage. Is there a price list at the store?" The twins nodded. "Then I'll do that and see if I can spring Ginny." He took another look around. "Harry?"
"The one getting violently ill," Draco told him. "I'd kiss you but you're rather nasty."
"Shit happens when you do manual labor." He looked at the twins. "I'll go now, but bring a towel. Come back after she's awake." He headed through the floo to do that, calling the school for the kids. "Hey, it's me. Tip Top just passed out and every Bane felt it," he explained. "She'll be fine. Ron, Harry, and Draco will all be back shortly. Can I borrow Ginny though? The twins want to stick beside her and I know Ginny has a free class right about now."
"I'll send her over for that class only," McGonagall told him. "Keep me informed if anything changes."
He nodded and stood up, breaking the connection. Everyone in the store looked at him. "Their wife passed out." He pointed at the balloons. "She's fine but they're fussing over her. I'm Xander, a friend of theirs." He moved behind the counter.
"Why are you all sweaty?" one very young child asked, giving him an adoring look.
"Because I was moving really big boxes full of stuff," he said with a smile. "I had to because water was seeping in near them from the moat protecting it."
"Wow, do you live in a castle?" she asked.
He shook his head. "Not quite. But the moat now has a monster in it to protect the treasures." He grinned at her mother, who was rolling her eyes. "I'm a cursebreaker. It's my work space."
"No wonder you have a moat," the mother said, shaking her head. "Pay the nice man for your new toy," she said.
Xander took the toy and looked at the list. Then at the mother. "You do know this has little parts?" She frowned. "I'm all for safety warnings for little kids. I finished growing up in America. I always make sure of those sort of things when I'm helping out."
"That's fine, I'm sure she won't choke," the mother said tolerantly. She let her daughter pay for her toy and then left, dragging her out of the alley. Really, and he probably wasn't even a parent. Though she understood, he was a man and unaware of how much a mother knew about what her children were doing.
Xander gave the other parents his best 'little boy caught trying to be good' look. "Sorry, but I worry." They agreed it was thoughtful and that it was okay.
One girl looked at him. "Why don't the owners put the things for the littler kids on the bottoms shelves and the stuff for the older ones on the higher ones?"
Xander leaned on the counter to look down at her. "Because they pointed out that some kids are older than they seem and there are some people who are kinda short. But I tell you what, why don't you draw out your ideas and send it to them? They listen to customers more than anyone else because you guys keep them in business. So if you draw it out for them and explain it then it's likely to get done faster."
"Okay," she agreed, looking up at her mom.
"I'm sure they'll listen," her mother said patiently.
Xander shrugged. "They can be stubborn, but kids like yours do keep them in business and keeping the kids happy is what they like to do." He grinned. "Besides, they never listen to me. I'm only the one training Ron."
She gaped. "You're Alex Dumass?"
He nodded. "Alexander Dumass," he said, shaking her hand.
"Wow," the little girl said. "You really know *Ron*?'
He smiled and nodded. "Very well. I'm teaching Ron and Harry both how to do my job and Ron's girlfriend Dawn is taking the beginning lessons now."
"Wow," the little girl said again. "You are cool by default," she said, handing over her toys. "Mommy, pay the man so I can write out my ideas. That way I can slip in a nice note for Ron for his girlfriend." Her mother rolled her eyes and shared a smile with Xander but she did pay for everything.
Xander was quickly overwhelmed by the crowds, but he made sure the people who wanted to check out could do so first. Ginny came rolling out of the floo and came over to help, taking more of them while he chatted. He grinned at her and some of the younger kids went over to talk to her about Ron. She would know more after all, she was his little sister.
Harry walked down the streets in Diagon, looking for the shop.
"Oh, bloody hell, you're Harry Potter," some older woman said loudly, rushing up to him. She stopped when she noticed his panicked look. "Sorry." She smiled and held out a hand. "I'm Thelma Thurston, editor of Teen Witch Weekly."
Harry shook her hand and blushed. "Hi. Nice to, um, meet you." He glanced around, people were staring at him.
"Oh, you weren't acting," she said, pulling him closer to give him a hug. She could feel his blush through her clothes so she let him go. "Don't you worry, we've had more questions and I wanted to know if you'd consent to do a small follow up for us? Maybe answer written questions?"
He stammered a bit then finally nodded. "I've got to, um, aah, got to pick up stuff for Madam Pomfrey," he said, holding out the list. "Do you know where this one is?"
She gave him a motherly pat on the back and turned him around, pointing at the sign. "Right there, Harry." She gave him a gentle push and he gave her a grateful smile and a wave before trotting off just fast enough to seem like he was running away from her. "That poor dear, I thought that was all an act." She sighed and went back to her offices to note the encounter and write a short 'gossip point' about it. She made sure she pointed out that he blushed and stammered and looked very lost when she had called his name. Her girls would eat that up. It even fit into a blank spot they had from someone pulling out an ad. So it went into this month's issue.
Harry handed over the bag to the school nurse. "Here you go. Please, send Malfoy next time," he pleaded.
"Were you mobbed?" she teased, pinching him on the cheek.
"No, but the editor for Teen Witch Weekly cornered me and I stammered," he said, blushing in embarrassment this time. "She grabbed me and hugged me, Madam Pomfrey."
"I'm sure it'll be fine," she said patiently. "Why don't you go back to class? I'll be sure to find someone who's less popular next time." She waited until he was gone to cackle in laughter. That poor boy! If she hadn't known it wasn't an act, she wouldn't have believed him to be shy either.
Two weeks later, Harry looked up in shock as the owls started to hoot as they came in. There hadn't been this many in months. "Ron, your fanmail's here," he said, grinning at his friend. Most of owls did land on their table and he helpfully started to pull off letters and pile them up. Ron would hand him any that were his. One he knew was his because it said 'complimentary copy for Harry Potter' across the strap holding it down. He put that next to his plate and continued on, enjoying his friend getting all the attention. At least it wasn't for him. He noticed Ginny took his Teen Witch Weekly copy and let her, she probably wanted to look at the fashions. As soon as everything was gathered up, the owls flew off, a few more coming over to deposit more mail. Ron carefully stacked it and started to sort it out by which one of them got it. Ginny burst out in giggles. "What?" Harry asked her. "Something funny with Ron's picture?"
"No, you," she said, handing over the marked page. "When did you sneak off?"
"Madam Pomfrey sent me because I had a free period and I was going to get into trouble," he told her, frowning as he read the 'gossip point'. "Dirt." He handed it to Ron and looked at the piles. "Switching sides today?"
"No, most of them are yours," Ron told him, handing him his stack of mail. He read the point, then flipped through to see if he was mentioned again. He stopped at a small article, nudging Harry and handing it back. "At least we know why now." He shifted down on the bench, letting Harry have some room in case he exploded at someone.
"Cho!" Harry yelled. "That's really unfair!"
"It's true, Harry, and we both know it's true. If it wasn't for Hermione, you'd never be in the same room as a girl."
"That's right, if Hermione didn't try and make you see all girls weren't aliens, we'd never see you," Susan Bones pointed out.
"It's nice that you have a tamed girl to teach you about them," one of Dawn's housemates offered. "We're all really thankful that Hermione sees fit to put up with your shyness and makes you try to interact with girls."
Harry let the magazine drop from his hands. "That's not fair! I don't understand you guys!"
"And you probably never will," Dawn said wisely. "It is a rare man that understands women and most of them used to be women but opted for surgical fixing." The girls around her looked at her. "You guys don't have transexuals over here? They're really nice, just stuck in the wrong body. Wow, and Giles used to say that Britain was so much more liberal and tolerant."
Harry pouted at Ginny, who shrugged. "They asked, Harry. All I told them was that it wasn't an act. Girls make you sweaty and shivery."
Hermione dug through Harry's letters. "Here's one from Xander," she said, hoping it would take Harry's mind off the problem. She glared at Ginny. "You nearly drove him into seclusion," she hissed. "We'll never get him comfortable around women now."
Harry shot a glare at her, having heard that last part. But he opened the letter instead of retorting.
First thing, calm down.
It can get a lot worse. There are many worse things to be than shy, Harry. Trust me, I am famous and I know all. Really, being thought of as shy and confused is not a big problem. Lots of women like shy guys, as I'm sure you're going to find out soon by the increase in fanmail. Just remember, those girls don't really know the real you and you can be whatever you want, including the guy who waits for the right girl. There is nothing at all wrong with waiting for the sex stuff or even for the dating stuff. You need someone who makes you feel like Dawn makes Ron feel. I fully stand behind you waiting for her, Harry, and remember, it isn't as bad as you think. You can do a lot to help lots of shy people all over the world because you are.
So take a few deep breaths and forget about hunting the girls in your school down to torture them for saying those things. It won't do any good and your rep will only get worse, then you'll get the sickos who want you to hurt them.
Xander.
Harry was giving the paper a sappy grin when it was taken from his hand. "Xander telling me to calm down and not hurt the girls who said I was horrible around women," he explained. Snape looked down at him. "It's not my fault! All I did was run an errand for Madam Pomfrey. She cornered me and I didn't have time to react and think."
Hermione gave him a gentle smile. "Harry, you would have stammered and blushed anyway," she pointed out. "You're like that. We all understand, that's why we're keeping the hunting of you down to a minimum."
"Yeah, Hermione and I have been driving off the most aggressive women for years," Ginny agreed.
"Can you stop doing that now? Please?" Lavender Brown asked from further up the table. "Let Harry fend for himself for a bit."
Harry had this sudden picture of his picture on a wanted poster and the words underneath said 'open season'. He bolted from the room, going to hide in the Chamber of Secrets. He would come out when those scary things left school.
"Does anyone else know snake?" Ron asked. "Otherwise we'll never get him out of the Chamber."
A few girls took off running after him, hoping to catch and capture him before he made it down there. They heard more running feet and let the faster moving ones pass them. Harry was one fast little guy.
Harry was just about to duck down into the chamber when he felt himself be grabbed and carried off. "Let me down," he begged. "Please? I promise I won't run right this moment." He found himself carried into Slytherin and locked in one of the girls' dorm rooms. "Oh, come on," he said, pounding on the door. "Let me out! This isn't even my house, please let me out!" He patted himself down for his wand but it had been taken from him by all those grabbing hands. "Please!" he begged, trying for louder. "Let me out! I promise I'll even go to class and behave like a normal boy!"
After two classes with no return of Harry, McGonagall had all the girls called into the Great Hall and locked them in with Madam Sprout. "Now, where is my seeker?" she asked them. None of the girls said anything.
"We really are worried about the poor dear," Madam Sprout told them. "He didn't get to eat breakfast and he was obviously upset before you caught him."
"It's no fun hunting him if you've got him tied up," McGonagall said after a few more minutes of silence. The door cracked open and Draco Malfoy-Dumass walked in. "How did you unlock that?"
"Easy, I'm married to a cursebreaker who likes to break lock charms," Draco pointed out. He looked at the women. "Xander has said that if Potter doesn't reappear very quickly then he will pull the boy out of school for his own good." McGonagall groaned and had to be helped to a seat. "That means none of you will ever see him again because Xander can send him to Egypt and make sure his assignments are all there. Forever. After all, the cowed and fearful witches down there won't cause him problems and will gladly do *anything* to be married to him. Including wait on him hand and foot and do odd sexual things for his delight." He looked at the very guilty looking girls from his house. "He's in Slytherin somewhere," he told the teachers.
"We were going to give him back," Pansy whined. "Later."
Millicent nodded. "After we convinced him that he'd like us better than some froofy girly girls."
Draco sneered at them. "Just wait until Snape hears about you letting Gryffs into our tower. You thought he yelled at me?" They shuddered and clutched each other. "Where is he?"
"In the first year girl's dorm," Pansy sighed. "It's better hidden and they won't jump Harry." One of them laughed, making the older girls all glare at her. "They won't if they know what's good for them," Pansy pointed out coldly.
Draco rolled his eyes and left, going to tell Snape where he was. The male teachers were in the staff lounge. "He's in the first year girls' dorm in Slytherin courtesy of Pansy and Millicent," he told them. Snape looked at him. "They admitted that they put him there because it's hard to find and supposedly the girls wouldn't jump him."
"Has anyone given thought to the lock charm that must be in use?" Professor Flitwick asked. "Harry is quite good with locks."
"At least Dumass has probably been in that room too," Dumbledore pointed out.
"He'd never touch first years," Draco said coldly. "Not even as one." He looked at his head of house again. "He wanted to know if he was needed. He's presently waiting hand and foot on Tip Top since the boys are stocking today."
"We might be able to handle it," Snape told him, being very sarcastic as he nodded toward the door. "After you, Professor Flitwick?" They walked down there together, going to let the young man out. The hall down there was twisted and damp, and there was little light. Harry's wand wasn't lying anywhere that they could see so they assumed it was on him. Snape let the Charms teacher at the door first.
Flitwick looked at the door. "I've never seen such a charm before." He heard muffled pounding. "And a silencing charm, very ingenious. We shall have to see the perpetrators in my NEWT class." He pulled his wand and glared. "I demand you open!" he said, hitting it with a burst of power. It spit at him.
Snape left him to it, going to get Holly, just in case it had been Lovegood. She had joined in on the chase for some reason. They came back and found the Charms teacher still trying. Holly walked over to help, but together they were acting against each other. "Summers," Snape called, trusting the nearest portrait to find her. She was escorted in by the Headmaster a few minutes later. "Perhaps you can do something about this?"
"I don't know, but I'll try," Dawn promised. She tested the door, then grimaced. "There's a wall in front of it. I can't even see the lock."
"Would more light help?" Holly asked.
"No, it's perfectly clear, but it's like the door is totally solid and there's no handle, no lock, nothing on it. Just one thick panel of wood that goes into the bricks. We may need Xander for this."
"I've never heard of a charm that does that," Flitwick noted.
Dawn looked at him. "There are other apprentice cursebreakers, including a female in your house."
"Yes, I believe we should have them here as well," Dumbledore pointed out. "Severus, don't you have a safety latch? I know you do on the upper form's doors."
"I hadn't thought about them and I don't think it will work, but I will try," he offered. He walked over to a small portrait and whispered something to it. It made a clicking noise and opened, letting him inside. He walked back through the old spying paths to the hidden doorway inside the bathroom, pushing it out. He was pounced by a crying young man, one which clung to him in misery begging to be let go. "Stop that," he said coldly, trying to push the boy off. He felt someone slipping past him and then someone grabbed Harry, letting her cry on him. "Miss Summers. You were not to know about those."
"Tough noogies," Dawn said firmly, leading Harry away. "Come on, Harry, we'll get you settled into the infirmary. Those girls will touch you over my dead body."
"They've got my wand too," he said, starting to sniffle now. He wiped his face off. "Can I please go hide now?" he asked.
"Sure, come on. You can show me this chamber place after Madam Pomfrey checks you over," Dawn said, leading him out without anyone saying anything. The nurse tutted over him and then Dawn took him to the girl's bathroom. "You wait right here. I'm going to chew them a new one." Harry grabbed at her so she stayed with him, letting him take her down into the chamber. She called pillows and let him curl up under her robe while she watched him take an exhaustion nap. "What did those girls do to you?" she muttered.
In another part of the dungeons, Professor Snape was confiscating all the items in the room that had obviously upset the boy. The dolls that had been made of the boy, and made to do various disgusting things, were enough to make him want to cry too. He needed to speak to some of his females about their desire to rip things off and to change the owners. He found the shrine as well, and all the drawings and scrolls of stories seemingly offered in supplication to the big color photo of Harry leaning against his broom with a smile. His house photo for last year's yearbook. "Dumbledore," he called. The headmaster walked in a few minutes later, joining him looking at the shrine. He handed over one of the tied-up dolls, the most tame of the lot, and watched as the headmaster looked around. "I believe we need to have a discussion with a few of the young ladies." He saw the look at the box of things he had already confiscated and handed over another, clearly castrated, bound, and with a gag forced into it's mouth. Again, fairly tame compared to some of them.
"I believe you should call your entire house together and talk about this," Dumbledore agreed.
"And I should say what?"
"That the school does not condone acts of violence against other students." He handed the dolls back, letting him deal with this.
Upstairs, the talk was already beginning. Once the teachers had left, Hermione and Ginny had sealed the door. "Ladies," Hermione said. "Dawn sent me a short message. Did you know that some of the Slytherin first year had a thing for mutilation of their wanted man?" She stepped forward as the other girls turned on all the Slytherins. "Not only was Harry so upset he was crying, he clung to Professor Snape because of some of the things he found while he was trapped in their rooms." Someone pounded on the doors. "Go away! We're having a girl talk!" She turned to glare at the girls again. "I believe we should teach them better manners."
"Kidnaping is one thing, and I'm all for stealing Harry for a quiet moment or two," Ginny added. "Some of the things Dawn found were simply disgusting. Like cutting him into pieces disgusting."
"How dare you threaten our Harry!" One of the Hufflepuffs shouted, lunging at the younger girls. Of course, the other Hufflepuffs never let one go where twenty could go, so they joined in fairly quickly. They proved the old saying of never taking away a good child's toy because they will instantly become a bad child and start to wreck things to get it back.
By the time they were done, most of the house needed some salves and ice packs and the rest of the girls in the school felt much better. One of the Ravenclaw seventh years looked at Ginny. "Where is he now?"
"Dawn took him down into the chamber and is watching him," Ginny told her. "By the way, she said one of you has his wand. He will need it for classes." She unlocked the door and walked out. Everyone who hadn't been a victim followed.
Luna paused at the doorway. "You know, there are worse things. I know someone who can introduce you to them," she told them. Then she skipped off to class, humming a happy little song.
At the end of the week, Harry reluctantly let Dawn help him back up to the main school, surprising the guard the girls had put over the bathroom. "Hi," he said weakly.
The Hufflepuff of the pair hugged him. "It's all right, Harry, they're very sorry they did that to you," she promised.
"We still haven't found your wand though," the fifth year Gryffindor reported. "We're searching. All the good girls in the school are." She gave him a friendly pat and a nod at Dawn. "The Headmaster wants to see him after Madam Pomfrey checks on him." They left the room, going to their next class. Harry probably needed a few minutes to adjust himself.
Dawn smiled at Harry. "See, most of them aren't like the Slytherins." She took him by the arm. "Like I said, they get to you over my dead body," she promised. She walked him out and took the back way he knew up to the infirmary. "Madam Pomfrey, I got him out."
"Oh, Harry," she sighed, coming over to hug him. "You poor thing." She led him back into her private office to check him over and to talk with him. He probably needed some counseling. She had seen what those first years had been forced to destroy by Professor Snape. When she was sure he was better, she called a house elf and instructed it to get him some clothes from his trunk and to bring them back here before the Headmaster came down. Harry could stay in here today. That way none of those wretched beasts could get close to him.
Ron brought in the clothes and gave Harry a grin and a punch on the arm. "You okay there, Harry?"
"Better," Harry admitted. "I'm not having visions of me being mutilated anymore."
Ron nodded. "Good. I'd like to kick their asses myself but Ginny assured me that the girls took care of them for you. Apparently the Hufflepuffs and Gryff girls got really upset with what Dawn told them was found."
"How did she do that?" Madam Pomfrey asked. "She never left his side."
"I'm guessing she projected somehow," Ron said with a shrug. He let Harry into the bathroom after checking it for him, then stood guard over the door. "Dawn, how did you tell Hermione and Ginny."
"I got really pissed and wanted to tell them," she said with a shrug. "Not a clue otherwise. Harry was just in really bad shape and he was babbling about what some dolls and some pictures of him."
"Rest assured, Professor Snape had those girls destroy all those things," Madam Pomfrey told her. She grimaced as Draco walked in with a bag. "What do you want?"
"Xander sent this for Harry." He handed it to Ron. "The headmaster gave it a look over but I'm not sure what's in it." He looked at Dawn. "Did you like the chamber?"
"It was gross and slimy," she told him. "Just like some of your brethren."
He gave her a tolerant smile. "That is true, but not of the best of us." He looked over as Potter came out dressed in his jammies. "My consort sent you that," he announced, pointing at the bag.
"Is my wand in it?" Harry asked.
"No. Xander was still throwing a fit about that staying missing earlier," Draco admitted. He watched as the boy was put into bed and guarded by the cute couple. "Dawn, perhaps you should go shower and change as well," he suggested. "You look a bit...scruffy."
She shrugged. "Only if someone I trust comes up to watch with Ron. I'm not leaving him with only one guard and Madam Pomfrey has work to do," she said to ease the older woman's hard look at her.
"I'll find Lovegood," Draco sighed, going to do that. He found her dancing outside of Potions. "Are you mental?"
She smiled and held out the letter. "I finally got a real love letter from my stallions," she said happily.
"Good, go read it to Potter in the infirmary so Dawn can bathe and change." She nodded and hurried off.
"I was not aware you could dismiss students to do a task," Snape said from behind him.
Draco looked at him. "If I had been him, I wouldn't let go of Dawn either. She's a formidable witch. Unfortunately she's bathed in the Chamber for the last few days and is wearing the same outfit. Lovegood is decent enough and Potter probably trusts her. If not, Weasley is there and it stops her singing outside your classroom about her sexual partners and exploits." He raised a brow. "Who made those dolls?"
"One of the girls apparently has an older sister who took Alternative Magical Styles while it was taught here. They were voodoo dolls without any charming agents. He had right to be scared of them."
"Interesting." Draco strolled off, going back to Charms. He took his seat with a nod for the teacher.
"Is he out?" Professor Flitwick asked.
"And in the infirmary to make sure he's not hurt. That way he has time to calm down. Weasley, Lovegood, and Summers are watching over him now."
"That's fine, I'll release them from my class for today," Flitwick promised. He looked at the Ravenclaw/Slytherin class. "Since this incident, I thought it prudent to go over locking charms. Some of you know the basic 'Alohoamora' charm. Some of you do not. We will start there. In the practical room there are locks of all sizes. Someone please get them." They floated in and he didn't think anything of it. "Thank you, whomever did that. Each of you take a lock and work in pairs."
The Slytherins worked in groups. Each of them looked at their lock before doing anything. The boys-only pairs got theirs open with a bit of teaching by the ones who knew. The ones with boy-girl pairs had locks that gave off smoke. The girls all shifted uncomfortably when they saw images in the smoke, but the boys didn't seem to see anything. The girl-only pairs quickly started to scream and try to get away from their locks. Their smoke had shown them horrible things happening to them. The same sort of things they hand wanted to do to Potter. They started to cry, hiding behind the clueless boys. One of the girls tossed down a wand and ran from the room crying.
Draco looked back at the group, then shrugged at the look the teacher was giving him. "It wasn't me. It was probably one of Potter's ...fans," he finish smugly, noticing the Bane marking on one of the locks that the girl-only pairs had used. He opened his own lock and looked at the teacher. "Which one is next?"
Flitwick looked at him. "The freezing lock opener." Draco nodded and opened his book to read up on that one. "Settle down and get back to work," he ordered, picking up the thrown wand. Holly. Just the one the school had been looking for. He examined a lock and found the small marking himself, grimacing. "I remember teaching them that," he said fondly, going back to his pile of pillows. "Get back to work or I shall have to take off points," he demanded. The wand disappeared from his hand and Draco gave him a small incline of his head saying he had done that. "Thank you, Mr. Dumass. Five points to you. I'm sure Harry is curled up around it."
"Hopefully," he agreed. "He might need it." Draco went back to his reading while the teacher tried to calm down everyone else. What fun his new friends could come up with when challenged.
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Reviews : The doublefold dream of art
Posted by dnprossi on 2010/9/9 17:24:35 ( 9558 reads )
The doublefold dream of art 2RC - between the artist and the artificer by Achille Bonito Oliva
Whoever said that “life is a dream”? The person who made this assertion, whose name we wish to remain silent, evidently spoke while considering himself in a state of wakefulness. He pronounced the phrase as he stood on a threshold from which he observed the world: in a glaring state of sober-mindedness, something allowed him to think that he was outside this dream, in a sheltered place safe from any incursion, perhaps set on high, in a raised position above the mound of daily events which enlace and unravel beyond any woven warp of reasoning.
The chain of facts has fallen apart and they now occur without any consequential logic. So then it is necessary for the person who spoke to seek a remedy and find refuge, by means of a declaration that made life plunge headlong into the obscure funnel of the dream, from which there is no refuge but only the possibility of standing by, calmly or with anguish, without striking a blow, without interfering. The dream allows a surface representation, a stream of images which all flow in the direction of the cipher.
Art however shows us that this reckless statement is not possible, that language is not a tool of representation, but is itself representation. The person who creates is the artificer, the one who establishes the artifice, the god of the dream and the god who dreams. For artists, there cannot exist caesura, the closed door or the open door: the hinge turns on its pivots and artists are always left with their hand grasping the handle, not from caution but rather with wonder. They discover that their hand is itself the handle. It is not the artist who dreams, it is art itself which dreams, which moves not so much with the aim of aping the world, as that of simulating its movement and stoppage, its flight and suspension, in other words its language: it feels itself to be omnipotent and continually pursues its dream of potency. Naturally not all dreams are alike, many fly at an unreachable height and still others fly close to the ground or even underground. Dreams of inebriation and dreams of degradation, but all sublime. Not all dreams are within everyone’s grasp.
Some are exclusive and circulate from mouth to mouth only among artists, flying like a breath at mid-height among image dreamers who relate them to one another by looking in each other’s eyes, whispering them in the ear. Other dreams however may circulate freely even among the common people. They start with the images of art, classical Greek sculpture, and then veer to a more accessible height until they reach the mouths and ears and even eyes of ordinary people. These are perhaps divulged out loud, sometimes even with clamour, to excited and admiring circulation.
Sometimes it even happens that the dream dreams itself and then we find ourselves standing before the most indecipherable image, in that it desires no reading beyond its own, and wishes to sleep upon itself without ever being interrupted or brought to a state of wakefulness. And then there are dreams that take flight with the precise aim of being observed and these are the ones of art, which take on the clothing of visual language. These can stream and surge in an abstract and figural fashion through the profound state of people and beneath their feet. Since 1959, Valter and Eleonora Rossi have taken up the doublefold dream of art, purposefully in the Shakespearean awareness, indirectly in the mannerist one, “that we are a dream within a dream”.
Since then, in a constant feverish semi-waking state, the couple has become a collective subject, not simply artisans and faithful executors, but rather a fortunate label (2RC) which has accompanied the loyal and creative work of two subjects who have never robbed the artists of their role as creators. Artificers, who through their graphic realisation bring added value to the image matrix of the artist. The work of Valter and Eleonora Rossi, like a kind of car number plate, has travelled throughout the world, moving from Italy to America and Japan, always welcoming the protagonists and youthful hopes in art of the second half of the twentieth century.
Artificers, and not artisans – mere craftspeople of others’ creation – they have developed a cultural nomadism that has led them to encounter artists of abstractionism, informal, action painting, Pop Art, Arte Povera and Transavanguardia. Without even considering their foray into the creative milieu of various artists, both European and American, of the historic avant-garde movements.
While 2RC has strategically harboured and pursued the strategy of the doublefold dream, a graphic practice that has created a new skin on contemporary art, we will now go back to the first dream, that of art.
The artist has chosen to dream a dream of art which crosses many territories, those which unravel through strands of images and solar forms that are made up of fragments and sudden flares, of constant returns, then moving away and plunging down into a place which seems to belong to everyone. This magic territory is illuminated by an inner vision which blazes with its own light, strengthened by an eye which possesses the dual capacity of observing and being observed: Alechinsky.
The dream is spangled and sown with fragments that live at the crossroads of many heavens, that gravitate at different heights. The fragments are always fine, never full-bodied, their lightness allows them to roam rapidly and come to rest peacefully, without clutter or imbalance. There is no plunging or precipitation. The elements are arranged according to the dictates of compresence and epiphany, with a sense of illumination and sudden appearance: Calder.
The image is the outcome of a field of signs that are sown beyond any possible idea of a pathway and are always ready to return within themselves, to dream their own shadowy tenuousness. The dream does not consist of firm and peremptory images but of threads of images ready to be fragmented in the interweaving of many itineraries. This dream is made to be observed by an inner eye, in the mobility of its traces. Light traces which are at the same time enduring, rooted in the history of dreams which dazzle and have dazzled the history of mankind and the earth for thousands of years, immortality: Burri.
The shapes germinate directly in the dream of the work, trimmed to its frame, that frame whose edges are found within the confines of sculpture, which are anyway the borders of the dream itself. The germinating language of art gives rise to many flowers, even the oxymoron of the garden as a desert. It proliferates upon itself, flooding the surface of the painting with attentive disorder. The attention springs from a biological discipline of the language which is always arranged according to relations and ratios of instantaneousness: Victor Pasmore.
Even the colors are arranged in an open manner, either within the strands of the images or without, so as to distance the figures, to establish connections that then precipitate far off with echoes that fade at a great distance. Sometimes, they explode nearby with a roar that is forever silent, in that it always involves the eye, albeit the inner one. From here it then flows swiftly into the other organs of perception, which are never merely visual. In this way, the images return to where they came from, to the dim or absolutely radiant recesses of the profound garden before him: Bacon.
The profound is naturally not the space of the irrational, the pure disregarding of reason, but rather a repository which finds ever new life force and renewal from its very urge to remain below ground. A repository laid entirely on its side which is not fond of raising its head, which tends towards a leaning movement. The dream of art is what brings it out of its supine position, dragging it into the place of representation where it suffers no loss, but rather gains in further obscure splendour: Cucchi.
“Discipline in work to draw closer to form” (Miró). The painter’s assertion springs from the very nature of the language which always loves to lay itself beneath the observing eye in a courteous and compunctious fashion. Compunction certainly does not mean the loss of intensity, but rather its enhancement and greater concentration. The dream of art occurs by going beyond improvisation, by refining the image which calibrates its appearance in such a way as never to spill headlong from the repository which has held it until that moment: Julian Schnabel.
Withholding the image is the only way of preserving it from all caesura. The artist has the gift of not dispossessing the image of its depth, of its inner bonds. His art produces no lacerations, and forms and figures conserve their profound roots which embed them in the substance of the imaginary world. The imaginary world is not an abstract place, the abstract condition of fantasy, but rather the unbroken boundary around the repository of the profound. His language is the mechanism through which the profound initiates and produces its pollutions: Afro.
Vibration is the movement that the artist develops in order to approach the inner place. Nature is not far from this place, on the contrary it lives in unison on the same wavelength, consisting of expansion and contraction, of faint tremors which prevent great events but comprise the temporal, thus invisible, polarities through which the lesser events of birth and death occur: Clemente.
The simultaneousness of the image is not the result of speed but rather of patient calibrating whose tendency is not to deprive it of its initial intensity. Intensity is the temperature which measures the reality of the image, its way of remaining unaltered within the grid of language: Max Bill.
A slow and patient struggle occurs between the artist and his tools: at stake is his attempt to hinder the loss which may stem from a too agitated use of language. The artist is aware that language has a profound structure and that the profound is structured like a language with connections and passageways. Thus the artist, like an acrobat, walks slowly along the wire, in his attempt to cross an extremely narrow point into which he could plunge headlong: Fontana.
The artist has preserved sufficient roots to remain tightly anchored to the vibration which governs nature and also the dream of art. Here, geometry and organic signs ceaselessly interweave, establishing a harmony of appearances which conserve the intense phantasm of the whole within themselves and without. The whole is the circularity of everything and also the struggle to keep the initial vibration within the confines of a language that engenders a double meaning: the upward-rising one of refinement and the boundlessly downward-spiralling one of an infinite that can merely be surmised: Arnaldo Pomodoro.
For this reason, in his work the artist overturns the notion of nature into anti-nature by using classical materials like marble or technological prostheses. Through references to mutilation, cruelty and death, he constructs a whole series of oppositions to what may be considered the most common vitalistic notion of nature. Art responds to this with culture, the instrument of mankind’s perpetration as thought, and thus of immortality: Consagra.
The artist decides not to operate merely in simple pairs of opposites, but rather to practise a perversely polymorphous language. Positive and negative become polarities which find a place in her work where they can exercise their own values in terms of simultaneousness. Here, then, one discovers the specific nature of language which freezes vitality in an exemplary and definitive form. One discovers that the work is not only creation but also a reflection of the paradoxical longing for immortality which art nurtures within itself; and that the practice of a language, by its very nature a bearer of immobility and hence death, is indispensable: Nancy Graves.
In the graphics of his work, consisting of sculpture, drawing and installation, the artist programmatically raises to the level of a superior death the lesser death of the day-to-day: Nevelson.
Still-life is thus the essence of the language which leads to all creation. Here, by prompting the suspension of any hostility of time, a sort of apnoea is achieved, protected by form, which blocks biological breathing and holds the image on the threshold of our vision: Kounellis.
Nature and anti-nature converge in the work, reaching a truce between the catastrophe of time and our longing for duration. Art appears to be at the service of a dream of omnipotence, that dream of eternalising our present, cheerfully expelling all future hope in the hic et nunc of an oeuvre which, through contemplation, holds even the spectator on the fortunate threshold of the eternal present: Manzù.
Here even the memory of sculptures is amassed. Such sculptures use the golden characters of harmony, proportion and symmetry which underpin the identity of classical sculpture, particularly Greek sculpture which has come down to us by means of archaeological findings collected in museums. The Nike of Samothrace has reached us mutilated and deprived of some of her parts, and yet the nostalgia of this lack and the suspicion of a perfection embodied in the form allow us to enjoy the work by bringing our contemplative fantasy to bear. There is no need for all this in order to enjoy art. Here the mutilation is accepted right from the start, by the artist and the models themselves, and is portrayed by means of an economy of form which restores harmony and proportion: Chillida.
The use of marble, the reference to such a plastic material in the graphics, help the work to assume a sort of serenity which reverberates throughout the image. The artist offers exemplary definition, a dignified normalisation, to a bodily apparatus which exhibits its shortfalls head-on. Whereas sculpture generally celebrates the heroic gestures of characters who acquire visibility by distancing themselves from the mundane, now it is the mundane itself which demands no heroism but speaks by means of its very obviousness: Moore.
Art slays mutilation and the partiality of the mundane, using a language that expresses itself through the preference for a genre such as still-life. The artist has created the artifice of a natural, perennial paradise with the mingled presence of flowers, thorns and differing plants rendered eternal in the sudden beauty of full bloom blocked at its best moment: Sutherland.
Here too the technological prosthesis intervenes on the principle of organic nature as anti-nature. The artifice helps to sustain an ongoing revamping, an eternity presentified by a garden which demands, however, a space that is closed and simultaneously separate from our daily life: Sonia Delaunay.
Natura naturans and natura naturata confront each other in a dialectic process which eventually leads to the founding of a no-man’s land, the privilege of a place. We live on the threshold beyond which a spectacle, happily paralysed in its performance, is frozen for future memory. A borderline separates those of us who inhabit the lesser death of the mundane and the work of art which dwells wholly in the superior death of the eternal present: Man Ray.
The dream of art seems to flow at different heights, along flight lines that do not maintain their distance from the ground, but on the contrary appear to follow paths found at the dull level of the feet. The mirror, its composed consistency, the traces left by some memories of objects, the reflections which hint at solitary talks with the wall. The surface is a mirror, a horizon which flows firmly and stubbornly to block one’s vision. Here the dream of art occurs through incisive signs that have the strength of craquelure, a web of cracks as limited as a memory: Turcato.
Now everything becomes precarious and simultaneously definitive, traced within the sealed substance of a surface which receives and holds every sign in a lasting fashion. The dream of art has a long memory and does not lose its way among the voluble sequences of simple free associations. The images remain entangled in the denseness of a black and mirror-like matter, and yet all race to find refuge on the surface of the wall from which they cannot anyway flee far, off the wall onto the ground: Richter.
Time and space find an irreversible setting, an interlocking collocation offered up to future memory by the ability of the surface to understand how to build a wall against all instability. Leaving a trace means engraving, going into the matter with a steady hand or rapidly receiving and meeting the wall so as to hurriedly mark the cipher of one’s passage. Happenstance and decision, geometry and open forms, are laid in a horizontal position, firm and frozen, all images of a presence which finds no other witness beyond these indirect memories: Capogrossi.
Thus the partition, the wall belongs to everybody, but only the individuated and incisive gesture of the artist manages to affect the hard and dull resistance of its surface. Perhaps the wall belongs to everyone because everybody can observe it, patrimony of the social eye. Yet the dream of art has strength enough to let itself be seen, to appear even to those who are not artists, but only as representation: Vasarely.
Art brings its dream of art into contact with the body and feet, it brings the flight of its images down to the public gaze, onto a prop which, by definition, can be read by everyone: the mirror. Here time and space render their weavings concrete, fixing their encounters in the forms which befit and suit the nature of the prop. The signs are in fact almost always graffiti, small slashes and wounds that coagulate on the ground. The communal book which still speaks an obscure and peculiar language: Penck.
This is crossed by a visual writing, enduring yet precarious, consisting of mute signs, castings of objects and lost steps. As though they had fallen into a fresh substance which then entrapped them like cement, never again allowing them to escape. The downcast dream is dropped entirely in the day-to-day and does not cite winged or eccentric images, but is content to cite the immeasurable prose of small objects, the small accidents of shapes which meet the mirror, of signs which coagulate in the material, awakening an everlasting memory which would otherwise be impossible: Sam Francis.
The long memory of the wall is not a quality innate to the material but rather the transfiguring effect given by the dream of art, which gains strength from the artist’s individual fantasy of giving long life to what would otherwise perish. The artist is the creator of a long dream. Creation occurs through the surprise of juxtaposing and aggregating shapes and objects which normally live very far apart: George Segal.
2RC’s dream of art is that of creating new families of signs, new nucleuses of sense, through which one can always hope for further encounters and a perennial clashing of orders. Doubling back unceasingly to trace the surpassing of old arrangements of signs. But this is possible because the mirror-like matter already has within it the strength to support the mutation, a constant manipulation of its surface, a hard surface and yet simultaneously mellow and yielding.
Prints, casts, concave and convex, give rhythm to the surface with spatial accords and discordances which do not disturb the ability to support new interventions. The wall created is a work which responds to its own dream, which nurtures within itself the urgings of a fantasy free from any bondage to a definitive alphabet. Here there is no writing which repeats itself, nor writing which arrogantly claims the right to be repeated. The omnipotence of the unrepeatable and individual gesture accompanies and sustains the energy of the language.
The pace does not therefore suffer from nausea because there is no repetition, which is always the element that causes awareness of impossibility and setback. The dream of art is precisely that of bringing the day-to-day and its conventions onto the slippery sideways plane of the ground where everything is transformed into the opportunity for a sign.
Transfiguration is the outcome of interweaving between step and mirror, of the sign’s need to assume the flesh of matter, and of matter’s need to emerge from the constituent inertia of its own essence. 2RC’s dream of art is that of traversing the dull state of daily language, in the awareness that only the artist can manage to dig down into its opaque substance and bring to the surface a new energy, both material and moral.
2RC aspires to socialise the dream of art, setting it up metaphorically and metonymically for the possibility of an apparition which can be sensed by every eye, ready to be transformed into communication, even though by means of a visual and mental alphabet which knows full well the labyrinths within which language can hide itself. The dream is that of spreading the contagiousness of one of its aptitudes, which consists of bringing the day-to-day into a state of impossibility, where language spills over the embankments of the signified and slides towards other bearings.
All in all Valter and Eleonora Rossi, labelled 2RC, have travelled far and wide among the works of numerous artists. Practising a pellicular nomadism, a syntony between creator and creative, artist and artificer which has broadened the dream of art astride the 20th and 21st centuries, in a doublefold dream which has stamped a seal of even greater perpetuity on the immortality of art.
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Armenians Should Counteract Countless Congressional Trips to Turkey
The Turkish government, its lobbying firms, and Turkish-American organizations have spent millions of dollars to take members of Congress and their staffs on all-expenses-paid trips to Turkey with the intent of buying their allegiance.
This is standard practice for Washington’s influence peddlers. Understandably, Turkish power brokers would want to sway congressional decision-making, as long as the trips follow proper legal procedures. However, as investigative journalist Shane Goldmacher revealed last week in the National Journal, members of Congress and their paymasters often manipulate the nebulous rules to accomplish their self-serving interests.
Goldmacher begins his article, ‘How Lobbyists Still Fly Through Loopholes,’ by describing the globe-trotting adventures of a pair of political odd fellows chasing the almighty dollar: “Dennis Hastert and Dick Gephardt couldn't stand each other when they led Congress a decade ago. But now they've moved to K Street, where the flood of money tends to wash over such personal differences. These days, they work hand in hand as two of Turkey's top lobbyists, with their respective firms pocketing most of a $1.4 million annual lobbying contract.” Not surprisingly, Republican Hastert and Democrat Gephardt accompanied eight members of Congress on an “all-expenses-paid journey” to Turkey last April.
The National Journal article covers congressional trips to several countries, including Turkey, Azerbaijan, and Israel. Under the subtitle, ‘Turkey Exploits the Biggest Loophole,’ Goldmacher discloses the extensive preparations made by Hastert’s firm for the congressional trip to Turkey, even though lobbyists are prevented under the rules from planning or paying for lawmakers’ visits: “Lobbyists have been intimately involved in the months of planning for the trip, with dozens of back-and-forth emails, phone calls, and meetings on Capitol Hill. As the trip neared, one lobbyist at Hastert’s firm, Laurie McKay, held conference calls and emailed daily with the schedulers of the eight House members who participated: Republicans Virginia Foxx, George Holding, Adam Kinzinger, Todd Rokita, Lee Terry, and Ed Whitfield; and Democrats Sheila Jackson Lee and Chellie Pingree. McKay even escorted three of them to Washington Dulles International Airport and helped them check in with Turkish Airlines.”
Ignoring the ban on lobbyists accompanying members of Congress on overseas excursions, Hastert, Gephardt, Robert Mangas, Janice O’Connell, and an undisclosed lobbyist with the Caspian Group joined the congressional delegation in Turkey. Goldmacher explains that “the Turkey trip was sanctioned under a 1961 law, the Mutual Educational and Cultural Exchange Act, [MECEA] which allows foreign governments to shuttle members of Congress and their staffs abroad if the State Department has approved the destination nations for ‘cultural exchange’ trips. About 60 countries have such clearances.” Azerbaijan and Turkey are among the 60, Armenia is not! The Armenian government should make the necessary arrangements to include Armenia in the MECEA program.
The National Journal further reports: “A long list of nonprofits supportive of Turkey have paid for congressional travel there.” One such prominent group is the Turkish Coalition of America (TCA). Interestingly, besides running TCA as a nonprofit, its president, Lincoln McCurdy, “dishes out campaign cash to pro-Turkey politicians as treasurer of a political action committee.”
The National Journal’s revelations are reinforced by LegiStorm.com, a website that closely monitors congressional travel and finances. It discloses that 615 congressional visits were made to Turkey since 2000, at a cost of $3.5 million, paid by the following nonprofit organizations: American Friends of Turkey, Council of Turkic American Associations, Institute of Interfaith Dialogue for World Peace, Istanbul Center, Maryland Institute for Dialogue, Mid-Atlantic Federation of Turkic American Associations, Pacifica Institute, Rumi Forum for Interfaith Dialogue, Turkic American Alliance, Turkish-American Business Council, Turkish-American Business Forum Inc., Turkish American Federation of Midwest, Turkish Coalition of America, Turkish Confederation of Businessmen and Industrialists, Turkish Cultural Center NY, Turkish Foreign Economic Relations Board, and Turquoise Council of Americans and Eurasians.
In 2013 alone, 87 congressional visits were made to Turkey at a cost of $640,000, and 36 trips to Azerbaijan at a cost of $262,000. During that same period, no member of Congress was sponsored to visit Armenia. Only one trip was organized to Armenia and Artsakh (Karabagh) for California State Assemblymen and Los Angeles City Councilmen by the ANCA-Western Region, in collaboration with the Armenian Consulate.
Clearly, such trips make members of Congress more sympathetic toward their host country. Unless Armenian-Americans and Armenia begin sponsoring similar trips, members of Congress could become more favorable toward Turkey and Azerbaijan, and less supportive of Armenia and Artsakh.
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In incentive funding request, Zimbabwe prioritizes young people
Issue 266 28 May 2015
At first Global Fund partnership forum, a chance to hear Africa's voice
The Global Fund convened the first in a series of partnership forums in the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa. The goal of the forums is to help identify and prioritize the broad focus of the 2017-2021 strategy, addressing concerns from both donors and implementers about rights, gender, sustainability and community-level engagement.
From Africa, with one voice
In its first official meeting, the Global Fund Board's Africa Bureau committed to improving participation in decision-making by the two African constituencies to the governance body and set out seven key priorities for deliberations around the Fund's 2017-2021 strategy.
Mozambique's drive to control malaria puts collaboration at its core
Mozambique, where malaria is nationally endemic and still a major driver of mortality especially among children, is a good example of how collaboration between government, civil society and the private sector can contribute to an effective response to the disease.
Zimbabwe is looking for $40 million in incentive funding to cover interventions mainly targeting people under age 24 including improved diagnosis of pediatric HIV and more outreach and prevention to reach young people and adolescents: the fastest growing demographic group for new HIV infections.
From having a voice to being heard: the case for professionalizing key population representatives
In response to recent reports on the participation of key populations in CCMs, the authors call for a genuine effort to build the capacity of their representatives to fully engage in the governance of Global Fund grants. Giving them a voice, they argue, is only a first step. Training them in a formal and structured way as they make their first steps in the complexities of Global Fund is the necessary condition to achieve the vision of eliminating HIV, TB and malaria as public health threats by 2030.
Making Global Fund money work for young people in the HIV response
While the Global Fund has made young people a priority in its narrative, this has yet to translate into meaningful engagement at the country level.
Gemma Oberth
Most of the $40.2 million request focuses on people under age 24
New funding model early applicant Zimbabwe submitted a $40.2 million request for incentive funding on 18 May, seeking additional financial support for interventions that specifically target people under age 24: the fastest growing demographic group in sub-Saharan Africa for new HIV infections.
Zimbabwe will receive some $437.2 million from the Global Fund through 2016 for its HIV response; this incentive funding request -- which is not guaranteed -- will supplement that sum. A concept note submitted in April 2013 for the total $311.2 million also included a request for additional support with $274.4 million that was not fulfilled. Grant implementation began in January 2014, and continued throughout the year with interventions focusing on treatment monitoring, prevention of vertical transmission and recruitment and retention of health workers. An additional $126.1 million was awarded to Zimbabwe in 2015, after the Global Fund’s country allocation methodology was updated. This top-up went towards expanding existing Global Fund-supported interventions, especially HIV testing and counseling and storage capacity for medicines at facility level.
The additional incentive funding request is arranged along four strategic areas. Table 1 shows the financial breakdown of the additional request.
Table 1: Overview of Zimbabwe’s HIV Incentive Funding Request
Strategic Area
Amount Requested
Laboratory and Pharmaceuticals
Community and Key Populations
Grant Management
The additional money for laboratory and pharmaceuticals would specifically work to improve pediatric HIV diagnosis and care. In Zimbabwe, treatment coverage is much lower among children (46.1%) than it is among adults (76.9%), according to the country’s 2014 Global AIDS Response Progress Report.
The second strategic area is youth and adolescents, which includes activities such as girls' mentoring clubs, based on the UNFPA’s Sista2Sista program, and peer counselors, based on the success of the Zvandiri Model. Recent evidence from Zimbabwe (Mavhu et al.; Dunbar et al.) suggests that interventions that incorporate gender-focused HIV education, guidance counselling and integrated psychosocial support can reduce risky transactional sex, increase condom use, and improve treatment adherence among young people.
"The youth programs that ended up being part of the incentive funding proposal are programs that have already been rolled out, and have been documented to be impactful," said Definate Nhamo, an advocacy and evaluation specialist for adolescent sexual and reproductive health at Pangaea Global AIDS.
The third strategic area is community and key populations, with core activities such as community ART refill groups. These groups develop a rotating schedule for members to travel to facilities to collect prescriptions, a way to ensure adherence to the drug regimen and address some of the reasons people with HIV may default on treatment.
Activities envisioned in this area also include skills training for healthcare workers on how to respond to the particular needs of people with disabilities. A national disability survey revealed that people with disabilities are twice as likely to self-report having HIV compared to those without disabilities, and have lower levels of HIV knowledge.
The concept note also provides for an overarching emphasis on monitoring and evaluation. This area includes interventions to develop and launch a new HIV data warehouse, link community information systems with the HMIS, and conduct an in-depth assessment on adolescents.
With Zimbabwe’s current Global Fund grant cycle ending in 2016, the development of the country’s next HIV concept note is on the horizon for early next year. In light of this timeline, the CCM regards the incentive funding request as a forward-looking process. If priorities in the incentive funding concept note are not funded, they will likely be carried over into the next application.
Incentive funding
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ALASTAIR MCDONALD
Biography (Courtesy of the Artist�s site, 2005).
Alastair McDonald is firmly established as Scotland's leading musical minstrel. In addition to Television, Radio & stage appearances world wide, he is a prolific recording artiste & can be heard on a variety of labels, most notably CORBAN RECORDINGS, situated in his native Scotland. Alastair`s programme is selected from a vast repertoire of traditional, contemporary & original material. Born in Glasgow in 1941, Alastair emigrated to Australia with his family at the age of eight & growing up there, during a period in the outback, developed an interest in "home made" entertainment. Four years later he returned to Scotland just in time to be excited by the emerging pop scene & in particular, skiffle" music, a fusion of American folk song with overlaid jazz influences, spearheaded by Lonnie Donegan. With a variety of local groups, he played in hospitals, old folks` homes, Churches, ceilidhs & even back court concerts for political campaigns & for many of his young years was a leading banjo player in the jazz scene of the period (winner of the award for best banjo player Elgin Jazz Festival 1962). As the years passed, Alastair`s musical horizons extended & in 1973 he was invited to co-host a new TV show of Scottish music entitled "Songs of Scotland" in the company of baritone Peter Morrison, with whom he has maintained a working relationship to this day. After only a few screenings, the viewing public responded so positively that the series continued year upon year, taking Alastair`s music into variety shows, pantomimes & plays throughout Scotland - and the world. Alastair`s commitment has always been to entertain, but he has fought to do so on terms he believes to be valuable. "Give them what they want..." is a maxim that he finds quite unacceptable. He strives instead to offer that which he considers to be wholesome, helpful, uplifting, cautionary, loving & entertaining - "Filling time for an audience & not just passing it!", he says.
Alastair McDonald has been a performer on a full time basis since 1970 & has built up a successful career not only in his native Scotland, but on numerous occasions has been invited to take his own style of musical entertainment to locations as diverse as America, Canada, Germany, Denmark, Israel, Thailand, East Africa & the Arab Emirates. Never one to be easily tied down to pigeon-hole categories, he is probably best known as "...the folk singing jazz banjo-player from Scotland..." except for those areas in which he's known as "...the Scottish jazz banjo-playing folk singer..." ! Alastair`s radio & TV credits are too numerous to list here, likewise his record & tape releases, but even without these, the fact that he was invited twice within the space of three years to front a coast to coast touring show across Canada & the United States (every state except Hawaii & Alaska!) must surely speak for itself. His concert programme can vary from a Scottish historical ballad to a humorous music hall ditty - from a Gaelic lament to a hand clapping American Negro Gospel song - not mere versatility for its own sake, but rather a genuine desire to share some of the very best at an entertaining & contextual level. You will find Alastair McDonald equally at home in a jazz club, folk club, variety show, theatre, concert hall or Church - not because he tailors his performance to the venue of the moment, but rather, as a confessing Christian, believes that a solid, entertaining, wholesome, uncompromising, thought provoking repertoire should know no bounds or require an apology wherever it may be performed.
In his book, "One Singer - One Song", writer, singer & storyteller Ewan McVicar describes Alastair McDonald as having "...sung with the Scottish Radio Orchestra, played banjo in countless jazz bands, accompanied traditional Gaelic singers & performed as pantomime dame...". Ewan goes on to muse that perhaps it`s that very versatility that brings him under fire from self appointed purists that seem to have difficulty doing one thing well. Interesting thought, Ewan! Having enjoyed over the years the company & respect of established figures like Josh McRae, Dominic Behan, Morris Blythman, Matt McGinn, Billy Connelly, Hamish Imlach, The Stewarts of Blair et (practically) al, Alastair continues to perform mainly in Scotland, although through the `90s he made frequent appearances at jazz festivals in Denmark where his banjo & vocals have been received enthusiastically by Danes blissfully undiverted by dancing centipedes or Glencoe massacres (!) - speaking of which, it seems Alastair has the rare ability of lifting a song directly from the written page & into the hearts & minds of the listening public, as the repertoires of more than a few of his fellow performers will reveal. Festival appearances in the past have included Orkney, Aberfeldy, Glenfarg, Auchtermuchty, Newtonmore, Girvan, Edinburgh (Fringe and Jazz!) & Irvine's Marymass Festival. Also two tours of Canada & the United States as well as brief forays in the directions of Caernarfon, Wurtsburg, Nairobi & Bangkok! If you would like to consider Alastair for an appearance at your festival or concert, he can be contacted through Corban Records.
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Across a Stormy Ocean
A Rebels ' Ceilidh
The Peskyesky Chorale with Alastair McDonald
Beyond Mere Words
MORE THINGS… in Heaven & Earth
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Velvet & Steel
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For Freedom Alone - The Wars Of Independence
Various Artists - Traditional Song
River for Peace
Mirk & Melody
Ring Them Golden Bells
Life, Liberty & Laughter
Tam Lin & Other Celtic Legends
Battles & Ballads of Scotland
All Time Religion
Gretna to Glencoe
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Songs Around Scotland
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Best of Hands (Sings Gospel)
Oor Ally's Red Yoyo
Honest Poverty
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Sings Robert Burns
Scotland In Song
Alastair McDonald and Leo Maguire
Scotland In Music And Song
Various Artists - Scottish Popular
At The Jazz Band Ball
Bears Crows And Centipedes
Jeelie Piece Song
Songs of Scotland
Alastair McDonald & Peter Morrison
Old Scotia's Shores
Through Scotland In Song
Songs of the North
I Dearly Like the West
House of MacDonald
Scottish Laughlines
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Bessette/Pitney’s AMERICAN GOVERNMENT AND POLITICS: DELIBERATION, DEMOCRACY AND CITIZENSHIP reviews the idea of "deliberative democracy." Building on the book, this blog offers insights, analysis, and facts about recent events.
The Age Issue
If Hillary Clinton takes the oath of office on January 20, 2017 -- at age 69 -- she will be the second-oldest person to become president. (Reagan was a few months older in 1981). Her supporters say that her age should not be an issue. In 1996, however, the Clinton team did not hesitate to use the age issue against Bob Dole.
On May 5, 1996, The New York Times reported:
A new Democratic Party television commercial takes a not-too-subtle swipe at Senator Bob Dole, age 72. After a shot of him side-by-side with Speaker Newt Gingrich, the announcer warns (emphasis added): "Their old ways don't work. President Clinton's plan -- the new way."
Jack Quinn, the White House counsel, pointedly describes a recent Dole speech as "tired, old, worn-out rhetoric."
And Ann Lewis, deputy manager of the Clinton campaign, implies feebleness when she ridicules remarks by the Senator as "disconnected and dysfunctional."
Such coded partisan formulations aren't the half of it: the old-guy bashing of Mr. Dole in political cartoons and late-night comedy routines has reached an intensity that makes the jokes about Ronald Reagan in the 1980's seem like gentle kidding. Dole age jokes ("Dole is 96") are now as much a part of popular culture as gibes at Madonna's impending motherhood, and sometimes as mean-spirited.
In its May 19, 1996 edition, Newsweek reported: "Clinton aides refer to every Dole statement as `tired,' `old' or `grumpy.'"
On August 19, 1996, AP reported:
Presidential aides almost never comment on the ages of Dole and Kemp, and deny there is any concerted generational strategy.
But the images, intended or not, are unmistakable:
_Democratic ads fade to black-and-white when Dole is pictured, giving his face an ashen hue.
_During his Wyoming vacation, the president and his family took a rugged 8.5-mile hike through the wilds of Yellowstone National Park. He posed for pictures atop a horse and took a heart-pounding ride on the Snake River rapids.
_This spring, Clinton and Gore rolled up their sleeves in front of photographers and hoisted bulky logs as part of a cleanup project along the Potomac River.
_White House aides make frequent reference to Dole's ``old'' ideas or ``old'' solutions.
_Clinton surrogates are not above joking about Dole's age. Party chairman Sen. Christopher Dodd, D-Conn., told a union gathering Monday that pot smoking by politicians is not an issue. ``Actually most people wanted to know whether or not Bob Dole had experimented with beer during prohibition,'' he said.
Asked about the age issue Sunday, Clinton told CBS that it ``is no big deal.''
But senior political advisers, speaking on condition of anonymity, say age will be a factor in the election by feeding criticism that Dole offers little new to the public debate.
Reflecting that thinking, the president said Sunday, ``The main thing is whether the ideas are old.''
There's that word again.
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Fed does not have to play "show and tell!"
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Post subject: Fed does not have to play "show and tell!"
If the "Fed" was really "federal" they could be forced to disclose where the money went, but that only works if they "were" federal and under the Cons-gress "ways and means, or banking BUT they are not, "federal!"
Rumsfelt stated a week before 911 that duh pentagram er ah pent-a-gone mis-placed $2.3 TRILLION, but that was overlooked by the sleeping sheepy!
Before the "bail-out" is played its way out looting everything that they can steal, (they do the lusts of their farther the d-evil!) the extortion will be over 5 TRILLION stolen, or ah miss-placed!
"FAIR USE" only!
Fed Defies Transparency Aim in Refusal to Disclose (Update2)
By Mark Pittman, Bob Ivry and Alison Fitzgerald
Nov. 10 (Bloomberg) -- The Federal Reserve is refusing to identify the recipients of almost $2 trillion of emergency loans from American taxpayers or the troubled assets the central bank is accepting as collateral.
Fed Chairman Ben S. Bernanke and Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson said in September they would comply with congressional demands for transparency in a $700 billion bailout of the banking system. Two months later, as the Fed lends far more than that in separate rescue programs that didn't require approval by Congress, Americans have no idea where their money is going or what securities the banks are pledging in return.
``The collateral is not being adequately disclosed, and that's a big problem,'' said Dan Fuss, vice chairman of Boston- based Loomis Sayles & Co., where he co-manages $17 billion in bonds. ``In a liquid market, this wouldn't matter, but we're not. The market is very nervous and very thin.''
Bloomberg News has requested details of the Fed lending under the U.S. Freedom of Information Act and filed a federal lawsuit Nov. 7 seeking to force disclosure.
The Fed made the loans under terms of 11 programs, eight of them created in the past 15 months, in the midst of the biggest financial crisis since the Great Depression.
``It's your money; it's not the Fed's money,'' said billionaire Ted Forstmann, senior partner of Forstmann Little & Co. in New York. ``Of course there should be transparency.''
Treasury, Fed, Obama
Federal Reserve spokeswoman Michelle Smith declined to comment on the loans or the Bloomberg lawsuit. Treasury spokeswoman Michele Davis didn't respond to a phone call and an e-mail seeking comment.
President-elect Barack Obama's economic adviser, Jason Furman, also didn't respond to an e-mail and a phone call seeking comment from Obama. In a Sept. 22 campaign speech, Obama promised to ``make our government open and transparent so that anyone can ensure that our business is the people's business.''
The Fed's lending is significant because the central bank has stepped into a rescue role that was also the purpose of the $700 billion Troubled Asset Relief Program, or TARP, bailout plan -- without safeguards put into the TARP legislation by Congress.
Total Fed lending topped $2 trillion for the first time last week and has risen by 140 percent, or $1.172 trillion, in the seven weeks since Fed governors relaxed the collateral standards on Sept. 14. The difference includes a $788 billion increase in loans to banks through the Fed and $474 billion in other lending, mostly through the central bank's purchase of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac bonds.
Sept. 14 Decision
Before Sept. 14, the Fed accepted mostly top-rated government and asset-backed securities as collateral. After that date, the central bank widened standards to accept other kinds of securities, some with lower ratings. The Fed collects interest on all its loans.
The plan to purchase distressed securities through TARP called for buying at the ``lowest price that the secretary (of the Treasury) determines to be consistent with the purposes of this Act,'' according to the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008, the law that covers TARP.
The legislation didn't require any specific method for the purchases beyond saying mechanisms such as auctions or reverse auctions should be used ``when appropriate.'' In a reverse auction, bidders offer to sell securities at successively lower prices, helping to ensure that the Fed would pay less. The measure also included a five-member oversight board that includes Paulson and Bernanke.
At a Sept. 23 Senate Banking Committee hearing in Washington, Paulson called for transparency in the purchase of distressed assets under the TARP program.
`We Need Transparency'
``We need oversight,'' Paulson told lawmakers. ``We need protection. We need transparency. I want it. We all want it.''
At a joint House-Senate hearing the next day, Bernanke also stressed the importance of openness in the program. ``Transparency is a big issue,'' he said.
The Fed lent cash and government bonds to banks, which gave the Fed collateral in the form of equities and debt, including subprime and structured securities such as collateralized debt obligations, according to the Fed Web site. The borrowers have included the now-bankrupt Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc., Citigroup Inc. and JPMorgan Chase & Co.
Banks oppose any release of information because it might signal weakness and spur short-selling or a run by depositors, said Scott Talbott, senior vice president of government affairs for the Financial Services Roundtable, a Washington trade group.
Frank Backs Fed
``You have to balance the need for transparency with protecting the public interest,'' Talbott said. ``Taxpayers have a right to know where their tax dollars are going, but one piece of information standing alone could undermine public confidence in the system.''
The nation's biggest banks, Citigroup, Bank of America Corp., JPMorgan Chase, Wells Fargo & Co., Goldman Sachs Group Inc. and Morgan Stanley, declined to comment on whether they have borrowed money from the Fed. They received $120 billion in capital from the TARP, which was signed into law Oct. 3.
In an interview Nov. 6, House Financial Services Committee Chairman Barney Frank said the Fed's disclosure is sufficient and that the risk the central bank is taking on is appropriate in the current economic climate. Frank said he has discussed the program with Timothy F. Geithner, president and chief executive officer of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and a possible candidate to succeed Paulson as Treasury secretary.
``I talk to Geithner and he was pretty sure that they're OK,'' said Frank, a Massachusetts Democrat. ``If the risk is that the Fed takes a little bit of a haircut, well that's regrettable.'' Such losses would be acceptable, he said, if the program helps revive the economy.
`Unclog the Market'
Frank said the Fed shouldn't reveal the assets it holds or how it values them because of ``delicacy with respect to pricing.'' He said such disclosure would ``give people clues to what your pricing is and what they might be able to sell us and what your estimates are.'' He wouldn't say why he thought that information would be problematic.
Revealing how the Fed values collateral could help thaw frozen credit markets, said Ron D'Vari, chief executive officer of NewOak Capital LLC in New York and the former head of structured finance at BlackRock Inc.
``I'd love to hear the methodology, how the Fed priced the assets,'' D'Vari said. ``That would unclog the market very quickly.''
TARP's $700 billion so far is being used to buy preferred shares in banks to shore up their capital. The program was originally intended to hold banks' troubled assets while markets were frozen.
AIG Lending
The Bloomberg lawsuit argues that the collateral lists ``are central to understanding and assessing the government's response to the most cataclysmic financial crisis in America since the Great Depression.''
The Fed has lent at least $81 billion to American International Group Inc., the world's largest insurer, so that it can pay obligations to banks. AIG today said it received an expanded government rescue package valued at more than $150 billion.
The central bank is also responsible for losses on a $26.8 billion portfolio guaranteed after Bear Stearns Cos. was bought by JPMorgan.
``As a taxpayer, it is absolutely important that we know how they're lending money and who they're lending it to,'' said Lucy Dalglish, executive director of the Arlington, Virginia- based Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press.
Ratings Cuts
Ultimately, the Fed will have to remove some securities held as collateral from some programs because the central bank's rules call for instruments rated below investment grade to be taken back by the borrower and marked down in value. Losses on those assets could then be written off, partly through the capital recently injected into those banks by the Treasury.
Moody's Investors Service alone has cut its ratings on 926 mortgage-backed securities worth $42 billion to junk from investment grade since Sept. 14, making them ineligible for collateral on some Fed loans.
The Fed's collateral ``absolutely should be made public,'' said Mark Cuban, an activist investor, the owner of the Dallas Mavericks professional basketball team and the creator of the Web site BailoutSleuth.com, which focuses on the secrecy shrouding the Fed's moves.
The Bloomberg lawsuit is Bloomberg LP v. Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, 08-CV-9595, U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York (Manhattan).
To contact the reporters on this story: Mark Pittman in New York at mpittman@bloomberg.net; Bob Ivry in New York at bivry@bloomberg.net; Alison Fitzgerald in Washington at afitzgerald2@bloomberg.net.
Last Updated: November 10, 2008 15:08 EST
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“A dental career is not even a remote consideration for most American Indian young people. This is due, in part, to the fact that most have never even seen an American Indian dentist.”
Jessica Ann Rickert, first female American Indian dentist
BUFFALO, N.Y. — Jessica Ann Rickert, DDS, will visit the University at Buffalo to share her journey in becoming the first female American Indian dentist in the world.
During the event, “Change Perceptions… Go Beyond Expectations,” Rickert will also address the alarming shortage of American Indians in dental schools across the United States.
The program, which is sponsored by the UB School of Dental Medicine, is scheduled for Oct. 23 at 5 p.m. in the Harriman Hall ballroom. The event is free and open to the public. A map is available online.
“We at the University at Buffalo School of Dental Medicine are honored to have the first female American Indian dentist, Dr. Jessica Rickert, accept our invitation to speak at our dental school. All of our students, staff and faculty excitedly look forward to this historical event,” says Othman Shibly, DDS, clinical professor and assistant dean for diversity and inclusion in the UB School of Dental Medicine.
Nonexistent in dentistry
Nearly 10,500 students applied to attend dental school in the United States this fall. Just 16 of those students are American Indian, according to the American Dental Education Association.
The barriers to higher education for American Indian students are numerous: inadequate federal funding of secondary education programs on tribal lands, transportation challenges, a history of social injustices, cultural dissonance and a shortage of American Indian educators.
The result is that American Indians are largely nonexistent in dentistry.
Despite American Indians comprising 3% of the country’s population, they make up 0.2% of dentists, according to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). Indian Health Services, an HHS division that provides medical and health services to American Indian and Alaska Native communities, are also severely understaffed.
“I strongly feel that an ideal solution to the shortage of dentists in Indian country is to increase the number of American Indian dentists from federally recognized tribes,” said Rickert. “A dental career is not even a remote consideration for most American Indian young people. This is due, in part, to the fact that most have never even seen an American Indian dentist.
“I do not believe the American Indian dental dilemma is a hopeless situation. It simply requires all of us involved in the dental profession to step up and help. There are plenty of smart and capable American Indian students who could become marvelous dentists if they were guided in the right direction.”
About Jessica Ann Rickert
Rickert, a member of the Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation, made history when she became the first female American Indian dentist in the nation after graduating from the University of Michigan School of Dentistry in 1975.
In addition to establishing a private dental practice, Rickert has served as a dentist at many public health venues. She helped develop prevention and orthodontics programs for the dental clinic at the Children’s Aid Society in Detroit, and formed an intertribal dental clinic in Detroit.
Rickert has held leadership positions in the Michigan Dental Association and Society of American Indian Dentists. In 2001, she began a dental advice column that was syndicated by many prevalent American Indian newspapers across the nation. She is also the author of the book, “Exploring Careers in Dentistry.”
Her efforts have earned her induction into the Michigan Women’s Hall of Fame, and an American Dental Association Access Award.
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Manchester United’s manager, Jose Mourinho has stated that £200 million is not expensive for Neymar possibly because he has commercial values that can be leveraged upon and he is one of the best players in the world while adding that the problem is not only that the amount will dislocate the market as its consequences will cause problems for the football market and players’ pricing. To Arsene Wenger, the Arsenal manager, expectedly, the amount is "beyond calculations and rationality."
Mother Of 5 Arrested For Collecting Money From Old Men To Sexually Abuse Her 12- Year old daughter
A mother of five, Mrs Udoaka has been arrested alongside three other men for sexually abusing her 12-year-old daughter in Calabar, Cross River State.
Speaking to Vanguard, one of their neighbours confirmed the story stating that Mrs Udoaka who has five children with five different men collected money from men including a retired 78-year-old soldier, Effiom Okon and four other men, and allowed them touch her child. The neighbour accused her of collecting N15,000 from the soldier.
Watch The Moment Boat Carrying Dozens Of African Migrants Stormed A Spanish Beach In Front Of Shocked Tourists & Escaped Into The Country
On Wednesday, a boat carrying dozens of African migrants landed on a Spanish beach in front of shocked tourists who were on holiday.
The viral footage below shows the migrants jumping out of a black inflatable dinghy and dashing across the sand on beaches at Cadiz in southern Spain, after crossing the Strait of Gibraltar.
Carlos Sanz, who shot the video while on vacation in Cadiz, said the group quickly vanished into the country before the police arrived.
Nigerian Lady Kisses Oyinbo Man On The Streets Of Italy. Nigerians React
This is quite shameful. A Nigerian lady simply identified as Joy who is believed to be from Edo state has shared a footage of her kissing a white man "while on duty" on the streets of Italy. In the video footage which is currently trending online, the lady who was in an elated mood - was seen kissing and frolicking with the man publicly right on the streets as he excited himself by smooching her.
Man Beats Wife To Death In Lagos, Reports To The Police She Committed Suicide
Investigators at the homicide section of the State Criminal Investigations Department (SCID), Lagos Command, are working to unravel circumstances surrounding the death of a woman allegedly beaten to death by her 42-year-old husband, penultimate, at Oko-oba area of Lagos State.
The suspect, John Owobi, is currently being detained by detectives at the SCID, Panti, Yaba, for murder, after allegedly committing the act and forcing his three kids to tell neighbours that their mother died after drinking Snipper, a poisonous insecticide.
Police Rescue Young Man Kept in Chains By His Grandmother For One Year In Lagos
A young man named Bolaji Sholola of number 18 Damigoro street in Mushin area of Lagos State has been rescued by the police from incarceration.
The man was alleged to have been kept in chains for more than a year by his 85-year-old grandmother.
Nigerian Man Convicted In Elaborate Tax Fraud Scheme
A Nigerian man accused of obtaining more than 125,000 stolen taxpayer identities from across the United States has been convicted in federal court in Oregon on 19 counts of mail and wire fraud, aggravated identity theft and conspiracy to commit mail and wire fraud.
A jury in Medford returned the verdicts Friday against Emmanuel Oluwatosin Kazeem, 34, who lived most recently in Bowie, Maryland.
Prosecutors say Kazeem bought over 91,000 of the identities from a Vietnamese hacker who got into a database belonging to an Oregon company called CICS Employment Services. Most of the personal information belonged to people living in Oregon and Washington and were used to file fraudulent tax returns between 2012 and 2015.
Women Mould Their Breasts Into Hearts And Then Snap Selfies To Post Online
HUSBAND EXTERMINATES HIS WIFE AND HER LOVER DEAD AFTER CATCHING THEM HAVING SEX IN HIS HOUSE
An irate husband has shot dead his wife after he returned home and caught her having s*x with another man. Sandra Castellanos was shot alongside her lover after they were caught having sex by the husband
He has been charged with murder after shooting his naked wife and her lover dead when he caught the pair having sex. Juan Carlos Garcia, 42, is believed to have admitted to killing Sandra Castellanos, 39, and her boyfriend Noe Gomez, 35, at their family home in Atlantico, Colombia.
The security guard suspected his wife was having an affair while he was working night shifts and planned a trap to “catch her with her hands in the dough”, according to police. The couple’s three children were sleeping in the house when Garcia allegedly pulled a handgun on the couple, shooting them at around 9pm on August 4.
Lagos Speaker Mudashiru Obasa, Loses N9.2M To Facebook Hackers
Three men, accused of cyber crime and theft of N9.2million, property of Lagos State House Speaker, have been sent to Ikoyi Prison by a Federal High Court in Lagos, after they were docked today.
The men, Frank Nwokobia, 27, Ezeoke Kanayochukwu, 25, and Godwin Essien, 28, were charged by the State Criminal Investigation and Intelligence Department (SCIID), of the Lagos State Police Command, Panti-Yaba,of the Nigerian Police Force.
The police said the three men conspired to hack the Facebook account of the Speaker of Lagos State House of Assembly, Mudashiru Obasa, and also gained access to his account at Guaranty Trust Bank, where they stole his N9, 188,100.
Givers Embassy: Inside the Abuja Church Where Tithes, Offerings are Not Allowed Yet It Gives Houses, Cars
Givers Embassy, aka Home of Consular Generals, was formally established in the heart of Abuja at the conference hall of 3J’s Hotel last Sunday, 30th July, 2017.
What stands the church out is that it neither collects tithe nor offering from members. The church, according to the pastor, is dedicated to the service of humanity especially Nigerians who are mostly poor in the midst of plenty.
Givers Embassy has a football club called, “Givers Shooters FC (1Timothy 4:).” The players were selected from local football fields, it was gathered.
During the inauguration service, the church commenced with greetings and after a warm welcome address, an opening prayer ensued.
Photos: Omoluabi Governor Aregbesola Pictured Bowing To Ooni Of Ife
The Ooni has also gone to pay the Governor who just lost his mom a condolence visit and the Governor was pictured respectfully addressing him and in one bowing to him. See more photos from the visit below,
Plane Crash Survivor Kechi Okwuchi, In A New Performance, Gets Standing Ovation From All Judges On America's Got Talent 2017 (Video)
Kechi gave a beautiful live performance last night on the America's Got Talent 2017 stage.Hit play below...
Student Cultist Shot Dead Few Days To His Graduation, Buried Dressed In Cultist Regalia (Graphic Photos)
An alleged cultist, Osaji Charles who was shot dead few days to his graduation from Nwafor Orizu College of Education has been buried. His corpse was dressed up in a cultist regalia See the graphic photos after the cut...
Photo-News; Ekiti State Governor, Ayo Fayose Pictured In A Helicopter With His Political Rivals, Fayemi And Senator Ojudu
Ekiti state governor, Ayo Fayose pictured above in a helicopter with his political rivals, Minister of Solid Minerals, Kayode Fayemi and the Special Assistant on Politics to President Buhari, Senator Babafemi Ojudu. All of them are from Ekiti state. Fayemi, who is Fayose's predecessor, and Ojudu have over time joined forces to attack Fayose over the manner in which he governs the state. They are pictured on their way to Osun state to attend the 8th Fidau prayer for Osun state governor, Rauf Aregbesola's mother.
Housewife Docked For Allegedly Stealing Lover’s Money After Sex. Photo
A 33-year-old housewife accused of stealing her lover’s money while they were in a lodge will know her fate on August 30 when court delivers its verdict on the case. Ms Phiona Kyasimiire closed her defence on Tuesday before Grade One Magistrate, Ms Beatrice Khaiza. She is accused of stealing Shs6 million (over N600K) and an unspecified amount of dollars from a man with whom she had a one-night sexual affair in a lodge on June 17.
Young Nigerian Girl With Natural Blue Eyes In Nassarawa (Photos)
A young Nigerian girl with beautiful blue eyes have been spotted in Nassarawa!
Coming after Peace who sells Ugu at Mile 2 Lagos went viral for having beautiful eyes,and had a proper photoshoot yesterday, here are photos of the little girl as shared by a Twitter user.
According to her, she met her at the supermarket in Keffi, Nasarawa State on Monday. Photos below;
Woman Jailed For Pouring Boyfriend Hot Oil While He Was Asleep Because He Cheated On Her.
A woman who scalded her sleeping boyfriend’s face and body with hot oil after an argument over infidelity has been sentenced to 16 years in prison.
Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus R. Vance Jr. announced the sentencing of Myeshia Hawkins-Taylor on Tuesday after she pleaded guilty to attempted murder last month.
According to the Associated Press, the couple, who had been living together since August 2015, had a heated argument on Jan. 30, 2016. But there were problems and Adams was accused of being unfaithful. A verbal argument took place and Hawkins-Taylor demanded money because of his affairs. At some point, Adams left the room and went to sleep.
Sidechick Reports Husband To His Wife After He Cheated On Her With Her Friends
A wife sent screenshot of chats she had with her husband’s sidechick to relationship expert Joro Olumofin, and according to her, her husband’s sidechick reported her cheating husband after she got cheated on.
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Nigerian Soldiers Allegedly Force Lady To Pull Camouflage She Wore (Photo)
Nigerian soldiers reportedly forced a lady who wore a camouflage, to pull it off. According to those who witnessed the incident it happened in the Northern part of Nigeria.
Here’s the photo below;
Nigerian soldiers
Charly Boy Slumps After Police Fired Tear Gas at Nigerians Protesting Buhari's Continued Stay Abroad (Photos)
Policemen in Abuja have nearly snuffed life out of popular Nigerian musician, Charlyboy who fainted after they used teargas on him.
Charlyboy faints after police officers used teargas on him
Popular musician, Charles Oputa, a.k.a Charly Boy on Tuesday slumped after inhaling tear gas canisters shot at him and other protesters demanding that President Muhammadu Buhari resumes office or resigns if incapable of continuing his duties as president of Nigeria.
Funeral Of Aregbesola's Mother: Osinbajo, Okorocha, Fayose, Ajimobi, Ganduje Others Attend
Governors Ayo Fayose, Akinwunmi Ambode, Abiola Ajimobi, Rochas Okorocha, Umar Ganduje and Vice president, Yemi Osinbajo attended the Funeral ceremony of Governor Rauf Aregbesola's mother on Tuesday in Osogbo, Osun state.
Photos below;
After 9 Flings, A Sex Tape Leak And Family Feuds, Amir Khan’s Marriage Ends And Friends Claim It Was Doomed From The Start
Professional boxer Amir Khan's marriage to New York model Faryal Makhdoom was fraught with drama until it ended last week. In fact, the drama started even before they got married and now that they are separated, friends of the boxer are wondering how it even lasted this long and say they knew it was doomed from the start.
Amir was known as a playboy before he got married. Then in 2011, he met Faryal, when she was only 20 years through a mutual friend but he did not slow down with partying and flirting. In January 2012, Amir proposed to Faryal with a £100,000 diamond ring and they threw a lavish £150,000 engagement party. However, weeks later, Amir was seen frolicking with two women in one day in Marbella. One of them was solicitor Tanya Reid who was near-naked in a hot tub with the boxer and the other was promotions girl Natalie Kane.
Couple Buy A San Francisco Street with 38 Mansions On It For Just $90,000 After Its Board Didn't Pay $14-A-Year Property Tax
A savvy couple have snapped up the best property deal in San Francisco, buying a gated street with 38 mansions on it for a mere $90,000. Tina Lam and Michael Cheng now own the roads, sidewalk and other previously public areas of Presidio Terrace, a cul-de-sac that has played home to Nancy Pelosi, among other notable figures. That's come as a shock to the residents of the street - where homes cost an average of $5.1 million - who lost the property when the governing board failed to pay a $14-a-year property tax, SF Chronicle reported.
Ex President Obama's Second Daughter Sasha Passionately Kisses Handsome 'Stranger' in Photos Gone Viral
Sasha kissing the stranger
Photos surfaced of Ex President Obama's second daughter, 16-year-old Sasha, kissing a guy she allegedly just met over the weekend at the Lalapalooza concert.
Over the past weekend, the 16-year-old daugher of former U.S President, Sasha Obama, was spotted at Lollapalooza, a music festival that was held at Hutchinson Field in Chicago kissing a stranger.
This sighting was not especially surprising, as 16-year olds such as Sasha Obama are typically fans of socializing in this manner.
Nicki Minaj Shares Photo Chilling With Wizkid On Instagram
Nigeria’s hottest music act Wizkid spotted with American queen of rap Nicki Minaj.
Yeah, Wizkid is on a freaking roller coaster, the star boy is chilling with Nicki Minaj.
The “Picture Perfect” crooner was seen in a photo where Nicki Minaj didn’t hesitate to come closer to the star boy.
Kehinde Ogungbe Launches Radio Station Kennis 104.1 FM
The famous Kehinde Ogungbe popularly known as Kenny or KK of PrimeTime Music has floated his radio station Kennis 104.1 FM.
The CEO and Founder of Kennis Music has remained in the music industry long enough and is responsible for musical legends such as 2Face Idibia, Eedris Abdulkarem, Tony Tetuila, Sound Sultan and a couple others.
Obasanjo Reveals ‘Strategies’ He Used In ‘Ending’ Biafra War
Former President, Olusegun Obasanjo has revealed the strategy he used in leading his officers to victory during the Biafra civil war.
Obasanjo, who made the revelation in Lagos yesterday said he had to ensure that his orders were not disclosed to Biafran soldiers.
He alleged that his initial order was discovered by Biafran soldiers who hampered them during their move on the battle field.
Before And After; Toothless Man Gets Perfect Set Of Teeth
Badoo Strikes Again! Smashes Woman’s Head After Church Vigil
Suspected members of the Badoo cult disguised as worshippers on Saturday to attack the Cherubim and Seraphim Church, Okin Parish, Igbo Agbowa, Ibeshe, in the Ikorodu area of Lagos State.
PUNCH Metro learnt that a woman, who had attended a vigil in the church, was injured after her head was smashed with a stone.
It was gathered that three Badoo suspects had mingled with the congregation during the vigil, which ended around 3am on Saturday.
Proud Mum: Lovely Photo Of Bianca Ojukwu And Her Children
Bianca, former beauty queen, and widow to late Dim Emeka Odumegwu Ojukwu, turned a year older Saturday, August 5th.
See another photo of her children as kids...
Lagos Today; No Going Back On Relocation Of Computer Village, Says Lagos Government
The Lagos State Government yesterday said it would not reverse its decision to relocate the Computer Village from its present location at Otigba, Ikeja.
This, it stated, was in its commitment to achieving the objectives of the renewed Ikeja Model City Master Plan originally conceived to address infrastructure challenges in the city.
A statement by the Commissioner for Information and Strategy, Steve Ayorinde, said that Governor Akinwunmi Ambode was desirous of making Ikeja a model city and would leave no stone unturned in actualizing the relocation of the Computer Village to the new site in Katangowa, Agbado Oke-Odo Local Council Development Area in line with the new Master Plan.
Woman Contracts HIV Virus From Husband On Wedding Night [Photos+Video]
For ten years, Renee “LadyByrd” Burgess-Benson has been sharing her story of contracting the HIV virus from her husband on the night of their wedding at 24 years old.
While trying to bring awareness to those in denial of it happening to them, burgess Benson's recent post on her 10th-year (August 4) went viral, where she additionally shares how his mother attempted to warn her prior to their nuptials.
HIV/AIDS advocate, Ladybryd, is celebrating her 10th year of living with HIV after she getting infected by her ex-husband on their wedding night.Renee LadyByrd Burgess was born, raised, and currently resides in Jacksonville, Florida.
Pastor Adeboye Walks 7KM With Pastors Before The Kick Off Of 65th Convention (Photos)
Pastor Enoch Adeboye with tambourine in hand led pastors and ministers of the RCCG from across the world who have converged at the
Redemption Camp for the 65th RCCG Convention on a 7KM walk.
'God cares about your soul and your health also' he told the over 200,000 people who walked with him.
The RCCG 65th Annual Convention begins on Monday, 7th August 2017.
See more pictures below, as the crowd gathers.
President Muhammadu Buhari Has Cancer - Details Of The Difficult New Struggle To Bring Buhari Back To Nigeria
Despite recent high-profile visits to ailing President Muhammadu Buhari in the United Kingdom, where for close to 90 days he has been undergoing treatment for a grave illness, SaharaReporters has learned that the Nigerian president is not as healthy as has been portrayed by members of his inner circle. Mr. Buhari’s illness remains officially shrouded in secrecy, but sources close to his inmost associates had long told this website that the president was beset by cancer.
In recent weeks, the cabal around Mr. Buhari has used a flurry of well-orchestrated visits to the ailing president by political personages to sell a narrative of “miraculous recovery.” But such rosy impressions are belied by a palpable deterioration in President Buhari’s health, according to accounts offered by a few sources knowledgeable about the Nigerian leader’s condition.
Has Yemi Alade Broken Up With Famous Manager/Bestie Taiye Aliyu?
Reports allegedly indicates that Yemi Alade and Taiye Aliyu have parted ways.
According to gossip blogger, Aunty Bukky, the business partners who were often alleged to be a couple split up over allegations of jealousy and money issues. That has come as a surprise to many people who have followed the duo’s growth.
Pastor Tunde Bakare Prays For Couple Who Welcomed Twins After 25 Years
Joy knew no bounds at The Latter Rain Assembly as a Nigerian Couple welcomed twins after 25 years of waiting.
The Church Overseer, Tunde Bakare who was so elated, prayed for the couple, Mr and Mrs Dada and reminded his congregation that the waiting period is over and the testimony season is here.
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Twin Sisters, Khadijah and Khertima Taylor Die In Car Crash after Leaving Nightclub (Photos)
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Tonto Dike Came on Stage Totally Drunk & Fell On Stage.. SHE WAS BOOED! (Video+Photos)
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LEAKED VIDEO: Beautiful 300L Ghanaian Student Videos Herself SexinG A Popular Lecturer In Her University
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A Married Woman & Asylum Seeker In Nude Photos Scandal Leaked Online By Fraudstrer Lover - Graphic Images! [Viewers discretion strongly advised]
Breaking News: FBI To Partner With Nigerian Government To Shut Down MMM Come 14th Of December
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